Narendra Modi Quotes
Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions.
Modi, Narendra. "Address to the Nation on Independence Day." PMIndia, Government of India, 15 Aug. 2014.
The British wanted to turn over control of India to Nehru's Congress Party and make India independent. However, there had been sectarian rioting and murder between Muslims and all the other religions of India—Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Christians. Wavell was not confident that Nehru and Congress could control the situation and huge massacres would result. Gandhi, who normally did everything to avoid violence, this time placed Indian independence first and demanded continuation of the complete transition process including the police and military powers. This is one of the very few occasions on which non-violence was not pre-eminent for Gandhi.
The report was praised by some of the intellectuals of Pakistan and most of the non-Islamic world. However, Pakistan the discussion of each of the cleavages, instigated the public passion of the cleavage and nothing significant was done.
In Burundi, family land is divided among the male children of a family. The average Burundian woman has 6.3 children at that time, nearly triple the international fertility rate. With this population growth rate, the plots of land for each person inevitably get smaller and smaller over time. At 10,745 square miles, Burundi is slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Maryland, but it holds nearly twice as many people: about 10 million. The small plots of land are inefficient to farm and provide subsistence. So the nation was in a crises as there was little industrialization and land was essential for existence for most Burundians. See {35807} and {35809}." Andre Florian Nbasimana
6th Baron Byron
Indeed the Arabs did invite the Russians in but neither India nor Pakistan did.
Most of the massacres in Iraq were the other way around: Sunni perpetrators and Shiite Victims, but there was plenty of retaliation. The ‘crusaders’ are the derogatory term for Christians who invaded the Middle East the way they did 1000 years ago. ‘Rafidites’ is a slang, insulting and derogatory term for Shiite Muslims. The Sunnis have been hating and battling the Shiites as long as they have the Christians. In that sense, there is always an element of religious civil war in countries that have both Shiite and Sunni Muslim populations. This internecine conflict has a parallel to that of the Protestants and the Catholics during the Reformation.
At the time the term “race” referred to different ethnicities such as Germans, Slavs, Anglo Saxons, Japanese, Nubians, Egyptians, Jews, Chinese, etc.
Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its National Democratic Alliance (NDA). He is also a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister born after India's independence, the second non-Congress one to win two consecutive terms after Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the first from outside the Congress to win both terms with a majority in the Lok Sabha.
