Return to reason without profanity

Ibn-e-Jafar #400, {"Godot sahib thanks for your advice to Salim bhai, it also touched me.
... But people do know that it was the anti-Muhahjir camp which started this ugly cycle of hate replies. ...Further more I hope that our young age will make these uncles think twice about their ridiculous behaviour. Even though I am not hoping them to apologize from us (after all it would be against their egos) but hopefully the tehzeeb and tamadun instilled by our Muhajir parents in us would teach them some lesson."}

Jafar Bhai,
Thanks to your post and Godot Sahib’s advice, I too feel sorry for the useless exchange of hateful posts. Like you, I want to apologize to anyone for some of my very racist and hurtful rebuttals. You are right about who started this cycle of hatred. Also, our legacy of tehzeeb, based on our Lucknowi Hindustani traditions, needs to guide our actions. You mentioned Bharatpur in one of your posts. I did pass through Bharatpur on my way from Jaipur to Achnera near Fatehpur Sikri on the way to Agra. My own grandfather’s ancestors had land holdings in southern UP which they lost in 1857, when they escaped to Jaipur from the British and their supporters.

I was only interested in helping the poor Pakistanis "stranded" in Bangladesh. Their plight and economically-driven conversion to Christianity has really touched many people, especially among the Mohajir diaspora in the west. I did not mean to start a Punjabi/Mohajir free for all. Frankly, I am appalled by the racism and bigotry exhibited by our so-called Muslim "brethren." On the one hand they talk about pan-Islamism and Muslim virtues, and then they expose their true nature by their heartless rhetoric against their own Sunni co-religionists. Both the victims and the perpetrators of the Darfur genocide and the "stranded" Pakistanis’ situation are Sunnis. In Iraq these Sunni extremists are blowing up Shia holy places and sending suicide-bombers to kill Shias in mosques and other public places. In Afghanistan, they have killed and raped Shias at will. In Baluchistan and Karachi, more of the same - killing of innocent Shias by extremist Wahabbi Sunnis. Even in Gligit and Baltistan, they are oppressing the native Shia population. This nonsense needs to be stopped.

Now, people are coming out of the woodwork calling MQM all sorts of names such as criminals, thugs, and terrorists. I offer a few facts as a rebuttal:

MQM has consistently won free democratic elections from Karachi. Some people harp on about democracy and yet when the people of Karachi vote for MQM, they want to ignore the will of the people. These are the same people who complain about the hypocrisy of the west in not recognizing the Hamas victory in the Palestinian elections.

MQM has effectively organized and conducted charitable donation campaigns to alleviate the suffering of the earthquake victims up north and the tsunami victims in the Indian Ocean. Several Chowkies, including some Punjabis, were praising the amount of relief donated by the citizens of Karachi with the donations organized by the MQM.

Maybe, our Punjabi "brethren" prefer the image of the docile Mohajir, willing to die and suffer at the hands of anyone. Thank God for MQM, killing Mohajirs is not considered routine. We can fight back and inflict a heavy punishment on those who dare to conduct genocide against us.

The "stranded" Pakistanis will Inshallah come to Karachi soon. It can happen earlier with the cooperation of the Pakistani Punjabis and Sindhis, or it can happen later with bribes that we will pay to four sets of border guards (BD, Indian, Indian, and Pakistani) as we get our people back the "other" way. This is money that could be used for humanitarian purposes. They need to think about it. Thank you for speaking up for the truth.