guilt complex

The "secular" governments' hesitation must have stemmed from their unwillingness to interfere in the affairs of a community that suffered from a guilt complex from the country's partition -- a "sin" for which they were accused of being unpatriotic, especially by the Hindu Right.

You are just suffering from a guilt complex. No doubt, people will come flocking back.

Recalling the 23rdMarch dream one regretfully notes that whatever its founding fathers wanted Pakistan to be it has been further waylaid and is under threat of being converted into a theocratic state if the mainstreaming of extremists is allowedWhat has added religious overtones to Pakistan's post partition politics is the guilt complex of the Punjabi elite who are aware of the despicable role of their pro-British forefathers in helping the British with troops to quash Revolt of 1857 and to oppose the creation of Pakistan until the last minute.

This could be attributed to the guilt complex of Cypriots.

Is it time for Israel to stop exploiting our collective guilt complex about the Holocaust and allow free speech about Israel, Zionism, anti-semitism without knee-jerk accusations of Jew hatred.

Though, as the Yale historian Timothy Snyder points out, collaborators in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow often supported the Nazis' crimes, these societies lack Germany's guilt complex.

"In fact, it was eye-opening to me as I didn't even realise I was writing that much about it until we put the album together and I was like, 'Man, there are a lot of songs on this record about my guilt complex'.

We have to draw the line somewhere, get rid of this guilt complex and stop blaming ourselves for everything that has gone wrong in the Middle East.

If I interpret our visitor correctly she does not ask for a, figuratively speaking, lifelong guilt complex retrospectively forced upon our forefathers; what she suggests is to confront the past, nothing more and nothing less.

Through wars -- of brutal violence and also wars of words -- Israel has attempted to wipe away the Palestinian people, just as the Nazis tried to wipe away the Jews, an atrocity whose legacy left much of Europe with a guilt complex so deep that it believed the creation of Israel in a land already inhabited by another people was legitimate.

"The Syrians are brushing aside all the talk arising from an inferiority complex of some and the guilt complex of others.

In 1910 at the Edinburgh World Missionary Conference the plea from Indian bishop Azariah was "send us friends." Bakker has blessed us with a resource to respond to that admonition and move beyond the Western guilt complex noted by Lamin Sartneh in 1987 in the Christian Century.