From: sjayanth@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Satyanand V. Jayanthi)
Subject: Re: This is for the "Secularists"
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:56:30 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.194829.23290@news2.cis.umn.edu> prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu (Satya Prabhakar) writes:
>(The Purple Bleeder ) writes:
>>As for the mahatmas who abound on the net......please 
>>think how it hurts if u are a true Indian when u see
>>people loyal to Pakistan, chhering them openly, 
>
>Well, let us just say that Leander Paes of India gets
>to the US Open Tennis Finals and is slated to meet
>Andre Agassi. There is no question as to who I shall
>root for.
>
>How about you?
>
>If an Indian who has become an American citizen roots
>for Paes, is that treason?
>
>Satya Prabhakar
>--
>
What a comparison...its a question of how much you canm stretch yourselves
into justifying what is so obviously improper and unpatriotic.
This is not a fair comparison. First thing is US and India are not enemy
countries always at each other's throats. Next thing is that any sporting
event between india and US, I believe is never taken as some jihad...for
pakistan, any such event is so..I recall an interview by Zaheer abbas when
he was the captain saying so..Also , even if there were to be support from
the indian community here to an indian team, it is not along religious lines.
Even a christian of indian origin would support india. And when you compare
the condition of the indian community here, where in you can be assured that
you can have no political power (other that voting ofcourse ) and are 
permanently off the mainstream with the muslims in india, who have all the
political power and benifits in the world, you are not showing proper
discrimination. 

I presume you have some touch with hyderabad as i remember seeing you on
soc.culture.indian.telugu...

1. One thing which had occured quite recently and in a large scale was
   the celebration of *india's defeat* in englands hand in 1987. There were
   *large scale* celebrations in all the muslim districts of hyderabad..
   I felt sick watching the *deepavali* at vidya nagar. Now will the indian
   community
   here in US celebrate any defeat of US in the hands of some other country?
   
2. Finally..here is a revealing personal experience..After the loss of
   in one of those sharjah tournaments..the one in which miandad whacked a
   six of the last ball of chetan sharma...a muslim friend of mine comes and
   asks me.."evitandi mee vaallu allaa aadaaru?"..what about this Mr. Satya
   Prabhakar? 

3. Go and sit in an irani restaurent in hyderabad..during a sporting event
   in which india is not involved and only pakistan is...the involvement
   and the excitement in the crowds will be revealing..its as if "their"
   country is involved.

   To be honest, I have quite a few muslim friends who are otherwise. But there
   are lots of hyderabadis who share similar experiences as mine. To deny
   that certain sections of muslims feel more pakistani than indian is being
   dishonest. It is a different question as to what the solution for this
   could be..But atleast let us accept the existance of the problem..A section
    muslims feel closer to pakistan than india..atleast in hyderabad..reasons
   could be anything.. but please do not deny that..

   Narain.(from a friend's account)
   narain@bass.bu.edu


>My daughter has a pimple on her chin. She is unhappy.
>I have a pimple on my chine. I am happy.
>It is called perspective.			-Anon


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