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Ready for a Modern Pakistan?

Yasser Latif Hamdani January 30, 2006

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#531 Posted by hania_awan on January 29, 2007 10:02:32 am
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#530 Posted by MantoLives on February 27, 2006 2:18:19 am

``keep digging, fool``

A brilliant counter argument sir. I salute you.

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#529 Posted by fmk on February 26, 2006 10:55:29 pm
Re: # 526

Keep digging, fool!

Farrukh
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#528 Posted by MantoLives on February 23, 2006 4:00:04 am
Sir Humanoid,

Your entire post was nothing but nonsense. Too many assumptions.

Islam is not the name of a set of rituals and dietary laws. It is a truly liberationist force of equality, fraternity and justice.

Please feel free to read my previous article ``Looking for a new fiqh`` on how to reform Islam.
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#527 Posted by SirHumanoid on February 21, 2006 9:15:29 pm
How has understading of Islam has gone haywire again?

Sure...Women jiggling alongside men in ill-fitting bras and an American maraasi singing are considered red-letter days for you...Wah!

Then I guess opening of liquor stores and brothels would be days which should be honoured with holidays, right?

I see you have a very deep understanding of Islam, more so than those who spend their lives studying its fine fabric of wisdom.

It`s not for me to ask whether you even pray 5 times a day without which a person ceases to be a Muslim, but I am sure you must know the importance of guests in Islam, right?

So when these Taleeghi Jamaat people, after having left their studies or business or anything important to come to you for your own benefit to `bother` you about Islam, no doubt you must have entertained them with refreshments.

Which reminds me of this guy in the US who doesn`t pray at all but considers all bearded guys as ignorant Mullahs and considers himself an utmost authority on Islam. When visited by Tableeghis, he would resort to this absolutely haughty behaviour as if he is looking down at some vermin. He would harrass them, stop them mid sentence, questioning their motives, and when the Tableeghis started to leave, didn`t even see them to the door. He is, the most ardent Muslim according to his own words and has the world`s greatest ideas on how to reform Islam. Number one being, beards should be outlawed.

What can we say but admire such Muslims for their wonderful and devoted study of their faith and their intentions to keep it pure.

This same gentleman once got visited by a gora from his office. I saw the mountain of a lion that confronted the ignorant Tableeghis become a piece of lint in front of this gora. The only thing left for him to do was spread himself on the floor so that the gora`s feet didn`t touch the floor.

I have great admiration for such people. It shows how truly knowledgable, upright and proud these Muslims are of their legacy of Islam. It shows me how Islam truly will become the beacon of light and wisdom in hearts of the people of the world resting on the shoulders of such wise and prudent men.

YLH sahib...I salute you and your knowledge of Islam.

P.S. The reason I keep referring to daily prayers as a testament to Islamic faith, is that because it is the most irrefutable, unarguable and uncompromising tenet of Islam. Anyone, in my view, who does not pray is outrightly denying the commands of the Creator and that alone is enough for me to gauge the extent of his knowledge, devotion and faith in Islam.
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#526 Posted by MantoLives on February 20, 2006 11:58:07 pm
So from Kazim to Karl Marx... Interesting.

I don`t have the last word for you- I just hope you can be more original ... ever.
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#525 Posted by fmk on February 20, 2006 8:47:45 am
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I have read the article once again, Sir. But I have to confess such profound pearls of wisdom are going at least a kilometre above the head of this simple soul. I really have to get back to my ``copying from others``` work business. May be some other time.

Go on have the last word. As Karl Marx once said: ``Last word is for the fools who haven`t said enough``.

Humbly yours,
Farrukh M Khan
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#524 Posted by MantoLives on February 19, 2006 9:35:53 pm
Mr Khan,

Read the article again.

Obviously with your limited comprehension skills, you are unable to process the information.
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#523 Posted by fmk on February 14, 2006 3:50:26 am
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Mr. Hamadani:

Bravo!! Bryan Adams bringing enlightened moderation to the land of the pure!? What wishful thinking, epitomized in the last two paragraphs of the recent piece of rubbish that has spewed forth from the sewer you must mistakenly be calling your mind. You should have been here today (on the Mall Road, Lahore) to see the destruction that your ``new, modern and confident Pakistanis`` were inflicting upon the life and property of ordinary people who had come to make a living. Triggered no doubt by love songs of a haggard old rock singer and your marathon running liberals, who drink whiskey in the evening and go to mosque in the day. What pray does Islam have in common with drinking alcohol? At least have the courage to come out of your ideological rat-hole and see things for what they really are.

If you were to stop living in your ivory towers to come out in real life and concentrate to improve your own thinking instead of going out of your way to spread slanderous remarks about others, I think it will do you a lot of good. By making these perfidious and rhetorical comments without any proof, instead of harming me, you are only accentuating your own pathetic existence. If Raza Kazim read what I have written, he would probably disown me forever rather than owning to be the author of ideas you are insisting to have been copied from his work.

As I said before, it not only bespeaks of your basic ignorance of Mr. Kazim’s work (and the level of my association with it) but also betrays a small mind whose narrowness is compounded by pompousness that comes almost naturally to those few Pakistanis who get to spend some time at a foreign university and have the comfort of living off their parents money. In Punjabi we have a proverb that quite aptly describes your mental state – khoti thaney ton ho aaeei hai (the she-ass has been to the police station).

Those who have read the intellectual humbug you keep spreading on Chowk.com, can well understand how appropriately this proverb applies to you. I wonder what a big farce of a life you must be living. I feel sorry for you.

Here is my phone number 0300-4604229. If you have even an iota of courage or substance to what you are yapping about, give me a call and talk to me in person instead of hiding behind these stupid nick names.

Good day to you,
Farrukh Mehboob Khan
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#522 Posted by MantoLives on February 12, 2006 9:05:28 pm
rsridhar...

Spoken like a true Gandhian indeed.

And to imagine that you are more than 40 years old...

You are a loser.
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#521 Posted by rsridhar on February 10, 2006 8:37:41 pm
re:#512 by ahmedmadani
Madani sahib,
Thanks for the info.
May be India should send 100 bottles of whisky or scotch to your dictator!
Sridhar
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#520 Posted by rsridhar on February 10, 2006 8:35:13 pm
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#519 Posted by Behram1 on February 10, 2006 8:24:36 am
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Mantolives:

{Rsridhar...

Look at yourself in the mirror... and ask yourself: Why am I, Rsridhar, a petty Hindutvist freak and why do I act the way I do? }

And he is scared at what he sees. He is ugly, he is cross eyed, and he is a sperm eater.
That is what these fanatics do, everday squatting on railroad tracks.

He is a disgrace to his chosen profession.



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#518 Posted by Behram1 on February 10, 2006 8:20:22 am
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{inbred retard: when they deport your sorry rear back to pakiland, shouldn`t you be worried about someone in your family being ``voluntarily`` converted to Islam and married off the the local mullah.. }

Bipolar factoid junkie, before that happens a sperm eartre hindoo has to worry about his next meal.

{How would a 50+ year old retard like you deal with it?} You just worry about yourself. Where you would get your next meal of sperms?



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#517 Posted by Behram1 on February 10, 2006 8:14:21 am
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ahmedmadani sahib: well said.

Actually this is what happens to bipolar code coolies

{Investigators believe Entwistle originally planned to kill himself after he shot his wife and daughter because he could not cope with financial troubles stemming from several failed Internet business ventures.}

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/LegalCenter/story?id=1602285

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#516 Posted by MantoLives on February 10, 2006 1:04:39 am

Rsridhar...

Look at yourself in the mirror... and ask yourself: Why am I, Rsridhar, a petty Hindutvist freak and why do I act the way I do?

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