Muslim Graveyard to Good for Terrorist

When I first saw this piece from the UK Times Online I nearly dropped my jaw to the floor. Finally, we have a Muslim group that refuses to accept terrorism even post mortem after a terrorist attack. The local cemetery in Mumbai India is refusing to allow the terrorists in the horrible attack to be buried in their Muslim cemetery. Good for them!

Murder is not allowed in the Muslim faith just as it is not allowed in the Christian and Jewish faith’s. For that matter any religion or dare I say atheist thought process. And yet time and time again the faithful allow the monsters to be buried next to the devout followers of their faith simply because they do not recognize the ultimate sin after the killer has died. I’m all for pulling a middle ages tactic and draw and quarter the scumbags and scatter their remains to the four corners of the world. There is no honor in terrorism that is based on killing innocent people and there should be no respectful burial for terrorists. Over at the Times Online they have this on it…

Times Online
December 1, 2008
Muslim graveyard refuses to bury terrorists in Mumbai

Nico Hines, and Rhys Blakely in Mumbai

A Muslim graveyard in the heart of Mumbai has broken with Islamic tradition and refused to bury the bodies of nine terrorists who were killed during the attack on India's financial capital.

The influential Muslim Jama Masjid Trust, which runs the 7.5-acre Badakabrastan graveyard, said it would not bury the gunmen because they were not true followers of Islam.

Hanif Nalkhande, a spokesman for the trust, said: "People who committed this heinous crime cannot be called Muslim. Islam does not permit this sort of barbaric crime."

At least ten gunmen killed nearly 200 people in a series of coordinated attacks that began on Wednesday evening and swept south Mumbai. The strikes targeted two luxury hotels, the city's main train station, a hospital and a Jewish centre. - Times Online

My congrats to the faithful in Mumbai that have taken the strongest step possible in declaring terrorism an abomination of the Muslim faith. This madness has to end and if it begins in a faith hi-jacked by madmen then it must end with a declaration by good men and woman from that same faith.

I’m reminded of Jay Severin of 96.9 FM WTKK radio in Boston declaring that “If all Muslims are not terrorists why are all terrorists Muslim.” I had to paraphrase that because I thought it was race bating and religion bashing. But that is how Jay entertains his listeners.

It is up to the faithful in the Muslim faith to cast out the thought and idea that terrorism against their fellow man is the only answer. Innocent people died just because these people wanted to murder someone for some cause that had no bearing on the lives they destroyed. Extremists have taken over every faith to date in one form or another at one point in time. It is up to those that believe in the faith to put it back to where the original message stood firmly.

I thank the Muslim people in India for refusing to honorably bury these animals and monsters that killed innocent people just because they could. It’s a beginning.

Papamoka

Move your Ass Detroit!

In India they unveiled the cheapest car in the world. It’s God awful ugly but goes from point A to point B at 50 MPG. Don’t even think about looking for it on the streets in North America any time soon. It won’t pass the bicycle hitting the newspaper stand test. But it is innovative in an entrepreneurial kind of way of making brand new car ownership possible to millions of people in India.

This raises the question, why the hell can’t Detroit do this for the folks in the United States? Could it be that all the outsourcing of jobs to India has created the end of Detroit’s ownership on the world transportation needs? Either way you look at it, India has a compact super little car that fit’s the needs of their people and cuts emissions that can be bought for $2500 US dollars.

Tata unveils Nano, its $2,500 car

The long-awaited Indian 'People's Car' aims to replace the scooter in first-time buyers' hearts. Though you won't see it in the West anytime soon, it could signal a wave of lower-priced cars to come.

By MSN Money staff and wire reports

India's Tata Motors today unveiled the Nano, its much-anticipated $2,500 car, an ultracheap price tag that brings car ownership into the reach of tens of millions of people.
Company Chairman Ratan Tata, introducing the Nano during India's main auto show in New Delhi, drove onto a stage in a white version of the tiny four-door subcompact, his head nearly touching the roof.

With a snub nose and a sloping roof, the world's cheapest car can hold five people -- if they squeeze. And the basic version is spare: There's no radio, no air bags, no passenger-side mirror and only one windshield wiper. If you want air conditioning to cope with India's brutal summers, you need to get the deluxe version. - MSN MONEY

All is fair in love and war and American’s love cars. The current administration has proven that we will go to war over the go go juice that gets our people from point A to point B. With this little car we just might not have to go to war to protect our need for more go go juice.

Cheap cars are never pretty, remember the Yugo? That was a joke of a car but many people bought them and drove them till their Bic Lighter life ran out. Same thing goes for the Geo Metro, put me in the ownership column of Geo Metro lovers. I loved my little four door grasshopper. Filling the tank once every two weeks with a work commute of 19 miles each way fit my larger than life family.

Watch your back Detroit, India is knocking on the door and they are bringing savings to the driving consumers. It may not be pretty now but these cars will be on the streets of North America in less than ten years with some beefing up crash test passing results. The clock is ticking… tick, tock, tick, tock…

Papamoka

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