This is not cricket

As the English left a pillaged country, divided, ignorant and ready to fight for nothing, they did leave something of interest. As Rice remarked when she landed in Delhi a decade ago, if she could figure out the funny game, she could move the countries forward. And as the Khan of cricket brings the two religions to the precipice of nuclear war, it is clear that humanity has not learned from their mistakes. What he did not learn in England is that religion adds no value to humanity, it just props up ego. As the Vatican disburses crocodile tears and as the religious fanatic in India, the second largest Muslim country in the world, tries to put everything other than Hinduism down, and the cricket player in Pakistan attempts to shoot down aircrafts, one has to wonder if the golden haired idiot, visiting Hanoi is any better.

This is not cricket. Religion is the existential threat to humanity, for it makes the followers of these concepts utterly ignorant and ready to fight with anybody else who does not believe in their ideas. The Indian subcontinent has always been problematic. It is full of engineers who have figured out how to make nuclear weapons but they have little understanding of how the world works. To their credit, they never elected a nincompoop but then what they have done is to put religious fanatics into powerful positions. We are certainly suffering in the US but it is going to be worse for the sub-continent.

This is not cricket. If the Khan can turn back time and make the subcontinent work again, he could move the largest population in the world forward. And if the guy on the other side of the fence can understand that being friends with Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Adobe does nothing for the populace he is responsible for, we can get better.

This is certainly not cricket.