akbar

There was a huge variety in quality of governance from Akbar to Aurangzeb.

I believe Admiral Akbar might have some advice for this CEO.

Like Europe, India has at times been divided and other times united as a single polity (first under asoka ~300bc, then akbar ~1500ad and finally the Raj ~1850ad until independence).

But if you yell 'fire' in a theatre with 500 people and 1 small exit, or 'allahu akbar' in a TSA line, you deserve to get sued and punished for that.

What I objected to was (what sounded like) your position that helping pro-democracy agitators we like is OK, but those we do not like (your mention of Allah Akbar was telling), we should not support.

If each of those 23000 members thought that there was even a 1% chance they would apply to YC someday, I'm sure they would think twice about posting that Admiral Akbar ascii and a funny quote in a comment on HN when they probably do it all the time on Digg and Reddit.

Listen to them frantically shouting "allahu akbar" and think about what's going on.

I bet if you put "Allahu Akbar" tape on a package it'd fair much worse.

The only reason the Iraqi flag had "Allahu Akbar" on it is because he wanted to gain the sympathy from his neighbors during the Gulf War.

Allahu akbar." Pretty sure that trips a few flags.

Steve's not going to convince Akbar, and Akbar's not going to convince Omkar.

Akbar in India, Kublai Khan of Mongolia, etc.

I think it depends on the tone of the Allahu Akbar.