India should offer the Maldives statehood within our Union, says M P Anil

[Kazhugu]

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You are just making things up- Brain farts- a little bit research on them will say some thing else-

Original Post By JonAsad

how many maldivians have u talked too....my opinion is based on first hand experience coupled with internet material...and the behaviour of them in kerala is another source...so clearly its u who doesnt know what ur talking about...

[rockstar]

a big NO. thanks..

[FairAndUnbiased]

Manifest Destiny?

Brown Man's Burden?

Shining India from Sea to Shining Sea?

[SpArK]

a big NO. thanks..

Original Post By rockstar

If at all it happens Kerala will be the one affecting... so a BiG NO from us.



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Manifest Destiny?

Brown Man's Burden?

Shining India from Sea to Shining Sea?

Original Post By FairAndUnbiased

Blah blah blah.... racist AH..

[harpoon]

They havent radicalised much but there are elements inside.

They cant afford to get radicalised as their main source of revenue is from tourism .

The issue is a cultural one.. the Islanders trying their own version of things which is of a dangerous threat.

Original Post By SpArK

There was a whole thread here about the rising radicalization in Maldives. Recently religious nut jobs there damaged statues belonging to SAARC countries including that of India & Pakistan.

Intolerance grows in the Maldives

[takeiteasy]

is this true?

a Maldivian connection to the Mumbai attack. One, possibly two, of the ten terrorists who spew mayhem was from the Maldives. In its zeal to nail Pakistan, did India ignore leads on the mysterious Maldivian.

Forty-eight hours before 26/11, a family in the Maldives got a phone call. A familiar voice said, “I have good news for you.” It was their son, calling from Pakistan. He said he was “bound for heaven… in two days’ time.”
The full import of his words did not dawn on the family then. But they got a vague scent of his looming participation in something sinister—which turned out to be the terror attack in Mumbai on November 26, 2008. The family later claimed that he was among the nine slain terrorists.
Investigations by THE WEEK revealed that the claim had made the Maldivian government institute an “in-house” investigation. But the probe hit a stonewall thanks to India’s lack of interest in exploring any latent Maldivian links in 26/11 (This report by Anupam Dasgupta, Principal Correspondent appears in the issue of THE WEEK; Jan. 16 – The Week | More skeletons tumble out of the 26/11 closet )

Indian foreign policy, a hostage to the The Pakistan Fixation, cannot see a problem, after they are told. Mohammed Nasheed gave this interview last year.

26/11 – The Maldives connection « Quick Take – As It Happens

[SpArK]

There was a whole thread here about the rising radicalization in Maldives. Recently religious nut jobs there damaged statues belonging to SAARC countries including that of India & Pakistan.

Intolerance grows in the Maldives

Original Post By harpoon

The agreement with Maldives to permit its residents to stay on in India without a visa for 90 days has been proving to be a headache for investigating agencies especially in Kerala.They usually leave India on the 89th day, only to return the next day for another round. Many of them may be misusing the provision for clandestine operations including drugs, smuggling of goods or even spreading their hardline ideology. Its an alarming situation and here people are talking about including them in union.

[JonAsad]

They havent radicalised much but there are elements inside.

They cant afford to get radicalised as their main source of revenue is from tourism .

The issue is a cultural one.. the Islanders trying their own version of things which is of a dangerous threat.

Original Post By SpArK

The Wicker Man (2006)

[JonAsad]

how many maldivians have u talked too....my opinion is based on first hand experience coupled with internet material...and the behaviour of them in kerala is another source...so clearly its u who doesnt know what ur talking about...

Original Post By Kazhugu

Funny- i personally know 2 Maldivians- I live in the source of Arabization Saudi Arabia :hello:- :knock::knock:-
wanna measure more?-

[Zabaniya]

What about Sri Lanka?

[JonAsad]

What about Sri Lanka?

Original Post By Zabaniya

what about it?-

[Zabaniya]

what about it?-

Original Post By JonAsad

I mean, they can migrate there?

[Skyline]

I mean, they can migrate there?

Original Post By Zabaniya

we don't want another extremist group!

[takeiteasy]

Maldivian are Sinhalese people having no connections with India.

Sri Lanka must closely observe what’s happening in the Maldives. Many Sri Lankans do not know that majority of the Maldivian people are Sinhalese, and they speak corrupt version of old Sinhala language. Their ancestral relationship with Sri Lanka was maintained up until recent times through traditional Maldivian customs of payments of various annual taxes although they were not being abided by any law of both lands. They paid these taxes voluntarily though their envoy visits as fulfillment of age old traditions to keep up their ancient blood relationship with Sri Lanka. In other words, it was more like fulfilling an age old Sinhalese tradition of “Nagam yama”; because Maldives must have been a principality of Sri Lanka in pre modern times. Their presence in Sri Lanka was a common spectacle up until recent times. I personally have seen Maldivian vendors selling ‘Bondi Aluwa’ in Colombo streets in my childhood. Until recent times Maldivian children were educated in Sri Lanka. Our relationship is older than we can conceive through conventional knowledge derived from western version of our history.

This close relationship attests to the fact that, larger amount of Buddhist archeological evidences had been found in Maldives next to India and Sri Lanka in Indian Ocean region in south Asia.

LankaWeb – Quo vadis Maldives?

[Holmes]

i think we should take it if the Maldive's people want to join Indian Union.