I'm actually surprised the BG picked this report up.... until I read it and recognized -- ONCE AGAIN -- the inherent bias of the Muslim-hating Jew Press!
"Muslims mount protest in Kashmir; Converge on UN offices" by Aijaz Hussain, Associated Press | August 19, 2008
SRINAGAR, India - Tens of thousands of Muslims waving green and black protest flags and chanting militant slogans marched to the United Nations offices in Indian Kashmir's main city yesterday to press their demands that India give up its claim to the region.
Hundreds of trucks and buses overflowing with protesters - some sitting on roofs and hanging out of windows - made their way across the Himalayan region to Srinagar for the protest, which separatist leaders said was the largest in two months of unrest.
Demonstrators tore down barbed wire barricades that authorities had erected on roads leading to the UN offices and chanted "Down with India." Thousands of police and paramilitary forces in riot gear guarded the streets, but no violence was reported.
While the latest unrest has been led by Kashmir's peaceful separatist groups, thousands of protesters yesterday chanted the name of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, one of the most violent Islamic militant groups fighting to wrest the predominantly Muslim region from Hindu-majority India.
Yeah, so when the BARBARIANS ask for "rights," the west can deny them!!!!
Can't give in to the DEMOCRATIC DEMANDS of "terrorists."
"Lashkar has arrived. It is your death, India. Lashkar has come," the crowd chanted as they passed Indian security forces. Apart from its activities in Kashmir, the Pakistan-based group also has been blamed for deadly terror bombings across India in recent years.
Yesterday, activists delivered a petition to the UN offices in Srinagar, citing human rights violations by Indian authorities and requesting UN intervention, said Nazir Ahmed Ronga, a leading lawyer in the city.
Syed Ali Shah Geelani, a prominent leader, told the crowd to demand "the UN, the US, Britain, and international community to come and see what people want here."
What, come see a MUSLIM DEMOCRACY?
Ask the PALESTINIANS about that one!!!!
"This is a struggle for right to self-determination," he said. "The UN should send its peacekeepers to Jammu as well as Kashmir." Jammu is the region's only Hindu-majority city.
They should, but for the fact that they are a TOOL of WESTERN OPPRESSION!!!
I wouldn't want the U.N. in my town or village.
Such talk is bound to irk Indian officials, who see the problems in Kashmir as an internal matter. India's Foreign Ministry last week tartly dismissed statements from Pakistan encouraging the protests.
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To prove my point on the Muslim-hating Jew York Times, they found this item worthy of a BRIEF!!
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Thousands of Muslims marched on Monday to the United Nations office in Srinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir, to request intervention on behalf of Muslims in the region. Separatist leaders said it was the largest demonstration since protests began in June, when the government said it would transfer land to a group that runs a Hindu shrine."
