Bombay Mix

If it really is all about Kashmir, then those demanding an ethnically pure yet also fiercely Islamic secession from a multiethnic democracy should simply declare UDI. After all, that was what Kosovo did.

How come there was not a word when the Mumbai Jumbais killed any number of Muslims in Gujarat, or even now as they are killing any number of Christians in Orissa? On the contrary, the BJP is being treated as an honoured participant in the current hand-wringing.

But then, we now have to treat as such Sinn Fein, the UDP (the UDA gone Marxist in prison, after the prison tutors’ own Marxism had become cultural rather than economic), the PUP (the UVF gone Marxist in prison, after the prison tutors’ own Marxism had become cultural rather than economic), Respect (Trots and Islamists gathered around an Old Labour Catholic who must wonder what on earth he has got himself into), and doubtless also the BNP once it has the Strasbourg seats that it will be picking up in June. Incidentally, no such high threshold was imposed before the UDP and the PUP were admitted to polite society; Sinn Fein and Respect, I admit, have representation at Westminster.

How long before a Hindutva party is picking up council seats here (the Tories are openly recruiting Labour members and supporters of Indian extraction of that basis, and the Lib Dems are probably also doing so), and presuming to rename Leicester as it has already renamed Bombay, Calcutta and Madras?

Or, indeed, a Khalistan party? Seeing Manmohan Singh on television reminded me of the missed opportunity that was the recent refusal, at the insistence of the Equality Commission, to create a proposed Sikh Regiment of the British Army, a scheme which had the very strong support of the Sikh community. That community has been very pointedly rebuffed. That rebuff will not be forgotten.

And if the Bombay attacks turn out not to have been motivated by Islam after all (although by then we will already have bombed to smithereens Pakistan, and probably also Iran as if she could have anything more to do with a Salafi or Deobandi group than Ba’athist Iraq could have had to do with a Wahhabi group), then they will turn out to have been motivated by some or other form of Marxism, probably Maoism, and in that case specifically the Naxalites.

Well, we were all supposed to have been delighted when a long-running Maoist insurrection finally overthrew the King of Nepal. So are we then going to invade Nepal? And what of the President of the European Commission, who has never said that his own Maoist insurrection in Portugal was wrong at the time?