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Islam and the Age of Globalization

Bina Shah June 18, 2006

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#97 Posted by hamidm2 on June 20, 2006 12:31:41 pm
Re: # 87

bj,

.... you really are fixated on jinnah, arn`t you ? ........... fixated :to attach (oneself) to a person or thing in an immature or neurotic fashion

............ my suggestion : build a bridge and get over it because we pakis are not going to reunite with madrasis, karnatikans, tamilians and other odd people who eat off banana leaves, put coconut milk in their curry and worship steak on the hoof ........... no siree, haldiram !....... to be fair, unlike manto and you, i don`t know much about jinnah but everytime i look at a picture of him and gandhi, i say to myself, ``now, which man would i have over for dinner ?`` ...... and the answer is always - you guessed it - ``jinnah!``............. so really, it is all about aesthetics
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#98 Posted by Folio on June 20, 2006 12:35:10 pm
Is it true that Jinnah had an affair with Liaqat`s wife and later xxx Fatima?
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#99 Posted by wiseguyin on June 20, 2006 12:36:02 pm
Re: # 92

> saffron loving rss hyenas are loose on the peaceful prairie..

Here comes 786 in his true form - a katlu telling us that, but for RSS, the land was a ``peaceful prairie``.

> no tolerance, no empathy, no peace ...
no country safe from Islam - & this katlu preaches bout peace. LOL :D

> so popular was bhappu, he was killed by his own creation...the marauding fascists...rss..
This should show a glimpse of puki history. RSS created by Gandhi. Indeed !!!

> they can never forget or forgive muslas for being their masters .....
I told u. That chut*ya PrithviRaj made a mistake.....

> thanku jinnah for leaving these morons whining for the rest of their miserable
> existence.....
Yeah but will u leave us ? ... oooooh pleeeeaaase do so.



The problem was not partition. The problem was that it was left midway.
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#100 Posted by shishapa on June 20, 2006 12:39:01 pm
Re: # 97

Hamidmji,

Invite Jinnah (or is it spelled Zinnah border kay uss par?) for dinner by all means but may
I suggest only after you marry your daughter(s) off!
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#101 Posted by rf786 on June 20, 2006 12:43:44 pm
Re: # 96
and your diatribe makes complete sense? there is plenty of brainwashing of different colors, some green, some yellow fact is there r no innocent parties here, like a wise man once said ``no one owns the truth``, try getting that thru your thick skull.

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#102 Posted by bjk on June 20, 2006 12:48:58 pm

#91 by VRV

[India would have been like Yugoslavia by now(disappeared) but thanks to the Person we are some how peaceful in India.]

Ama yaar, relax! India is not going away and breaking into splinters – Pakistani ISI designs or not! In fact, its track record of defying dire predictions is rather comprehensive.

That haramee Jinnah did nobody any favors. He certainly did India no good and even more – in fact the people who were most damaged – are the people of the present-day Pakistan! If their cowardly intelligentsia is too chicken to face the facts – that is their problem! (Even though I can understand some of their fears – given the present climate there.)

And I disagree that there would have been a Taleban like growth in the country.

Of course, no one can predict the future of the would-have-been past, but it is the absence of minorities that seems to have done the present-day Pakistanis in! Like a fire, blind hatred and prejudice grow the fastest when there is nothing to vocally oppose them – to say, “Hey wait – that ain’t right!”

The morons needed the Hindus and others more than they realized and are paying the requisite price now! They got rid of a few human beings – their very own genes, in fact – and lost a LOT of their soul!

So here they are now, paying instalment after instalment – and so will they keep paying into the foreseeable future – because they are too chicken to address the issue of the “principal”!


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#103 Posted by rf786 on June 20, 2006 12:51:50 pm
Re: # 98
I guess your mom told u about Jinnah rite?
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#104 Posted by Folio on June 20, 2006 12:56:46 pm
RSS was founded (1920) as a reaction to Muslim League (1905-06). ML catapulted with series of communal riots but RSS could never become such force. They hold their party by the communal name but accuse others in similar way to pre-empt others from saying this communal thing to them. RSS was born & grew bcos of Muslim communalism. BJP came to power due to anti-India rants of Pakistan rulers.

ML is a communal body. I think BJK and others should look at the poison(ous people). Dont touch them and b influenced by them. They are the rotten people and rotten country.
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#105 Posted by Folio on June 20, 2006 1:00:19 pm
Re: # 103

My father told about a child rf786 born out of chance encounter with your mom. I hope u r fine.

I think your (not biological) father told u about Nehru.

Right?
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#106 Posted by bjk on June 20, 2006 1:01:46 pm

#97 by hamidm2

Ama yaar, at least you are openly admitting that your observations are based on the superficial. The truth is I don’t know much about the man Jinnah and observing his deeds – nor do I care to. But the more I think of what that shaitan did – and the mess that he left behind him, the less I like the man. There is no reason to compare Gandhi to him – they were about different things and only one of them was about bringing hearts of people together. People are welcome to make their own choices and have their own preferences – the choices show more about the choosers than the objects.

And like you said yourself - putting lipsticks on pigs does not work. That`s why I am highly suspicious of individuals like the ole Prof. covered in this article.

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#107 Posted by rf786 on June 20, 2006 1:10:35 pm
Re: # 105
your father? told u so? I doubt that very much....truth hurts doesnt it....
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#108 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on June 20, 2006 1:11:10 pm
hamidm2 #74 {``salim,
{``...... are you suggesting that al-qaeda and maulana fazloo should take a summer vacation ? ....... it is not a bad idea, but where would they go since club gitmo is being shut down ? ``}

Hamidm2 Sahib,
Why just a summer vacation? I would hope that they would take a permanent vacation and hook up with their 72 hags, give or take a few. :) There are plenty of other islands besides Cooba - may I suggest one of those Indonesian islands with a big volcano and man-eating kodomo dragons? That way they can be among momins, get a blow job from Krakatoa, and be circumcized by the dragons.


{``....... the problem, as i see it, is that muslims are just too full of themselves .......... islam is a bad religion in the sense that it doesn`t give you a break - constantly calling for allah to intervene in mundane day to day tasks, praying five times a day, fasting for a whole month, mouthing arabic inanities and so on ............ i have always maintained that namaz tamam buriyon ki jar hai so let`s start by banning public prayers and reviving disco ..........``}

I agree with you more or less - there needs to be a break from constant mominassity. We need to question whether what we are doing is worth the effort and what the resultant consequences will be. If prayers resulted in the improvement among Muslims, I would advocate 50 prayers a day for even faster results. Unfortunately, the more Muslims pray the more pissed off the Big Guy gets and lets us have it. I suggest cutting down the prayer frequency to one a day - just like the good vitamins. As for fasting, that is an individual concern. I think that too many people are obese anyway - let them eat no cake for a while.
Nothing wrong with Arabic, other than the fact that it should be forbidden to for females along with German, Punjabi, Vietnamese, and Pashto. Nothing is a greater turnoff than to hear these harsh sounds coming from the fairer sex. All women should be required to speak Japanese or Farsi - the most graceful languages. Ban the prayers or not, use of loudspeakers for azan and all night tarawi should be punishable by capital means.
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#109 Posted by Folio on June 20, 2006 1:15:19 pm
Re: # 107

He became a Muslim to marry 4 times and also told that he can do it 7 rimes apart form the flings (one with your mum).

As for you rprob pl buy some aphrodisiac. Dont worry, it happens (ED) not just to u.
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#110 Posted by bharath on June 20, 2006 1:16:54 pm
BJK,

Here is an interesting letter from Dawn.
A Paki from Karachi pretty much agreeing with you:-)


http://www.dawn.com/2006/06/18/letted.htm#5


‘Fundamentalist challenge’



MR Asaf Ali Shah (June 13) is right. I was imprecise in quoting the Quaid, although the inference drawn from the quote, that Mr Jinnah was a secularist at heart, is perhaps not altogether wrong. The exact words used by Mr Jinnah in his Constituent Assembly speech, as quoted in Stanley Wolpert’s book on the leader, are as follows: “You may belong to any religion or caste or creed — that has nothing to do with the business of the State”.



>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>..

The correspondent also recalls Mr Jinnah’s March 22, 1940 address to the Lahore session of the Muslim League and quotes the Quaid as saying: “COME FORWARD AS SERVANTS OF ISLAM, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically.” Then Mr Shah comments: “A ‘secularist servant of Islam’ sounds like an oxymoron.” <<<<<<<<<<<



That, alas, is one of the many contradictions that we have had to live with. No leader of the Pakistan Movement, however, secular, was above exploiting religion to mobilise public opinion.

That’s why in the article in question the quotation (or misquotation) from Mr Jinnah’s speech was preceded by the remark that he rose to speak in the Constituent Assembly after much damage had already been done to the communal fabric of the subcontinent.

TAHIR MIRZA
Karachi
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#111 Posted by rf786 on June 20, 2006 1:29:24 pm
Re: # 109
he became muslim by bending over and blowing jinnah`s trumpet....thus this incessant hatred and deep desire to be like the father....
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#112 Posted by malik99 on June 20, 2006 1:45:23 pm
Salim_Chauhan #73 writes ``Islam came into being for the unbelievers, the weak, the destitute, the orphans, the widows, the poor, the enslaved, and the oppressed. It was never meant to become a prevailing, dominating, suffocating, oppressing, exclusive, and enslaving monster that Muslim leaders, Muslim extremists, wahabbists, separatists, and racists have transformed it into. The next time a Muslim extremist tells you how great his religion is, remind him to stop usurping the faith that is intended more for you than for him ``


Salim sahib, too often we get carried away in the powerful waves of our oratory and let loose of the reality. Your argument, while powerfully constructed, contains zero reasoning. Islam did not just come for the unbelievers. It is for believers too. But at the end of the day, like all other religions of the world, Islam is a belief system. It is too easy to deconstruct a belief system and find flaws in it. It can just as easily be done with Islam as with any other religion. Those who spend hours and hours focusing on just one of the religion are showing limited intellect.

Also, one should be enlighetend and balanced enough to separate the fact from the fiction. When you always attach the word ``extremist`` to adherents of one particular religion, it not only shows deviance from reality, it also shows a mind which is enslaved to the dictates of prevailing media. By any measure, US evangelists are more extremists than any extremists from any religion of the world today. The evangelists backed government has killed hundreds of thousands more innocent civilians than any other ideology alive today. But at the end of the day, it mostly boils down to economics. Had there been oil in hindu India, had part of the hindu land been carved out to make an state populated by european jews, and had hindus shown an assertiveness to take their natural wealth in their own hands rather than be exploited by international powers, we would today be talking about the ills of hinduism and its resultant threats to humanity.

So one needs to have a perspective in debating. Unless we are debating just for the sake of killing time in our offices :)
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