Jihad and Chicken Pox

Dear Khalid,

Waheed is a pretty common name for Jihadis, may be your Waheed is still alive and fighting. Don’t give up hope.

What saved your ass was not chicken pox, but your Dad. The minute you told him your plans of going for Jihad, he watched every single move of yours (like any responsible parent will do) until that hard thing between your thighs became tamed, and you stopped thinking with it. Thank your parents. Congratulations and good luck with raising a child.

bhattisahib, you seem to be an expert at missing the boat as well as planes.
god acts in mysterious ways, dont listen to kulharee..it was not your dad. but get your kid vaccinated against as many of these viruses anyways..its ironical that you came down with pox virus but were saved from the jihadi one.

Nice write up & easy flow of narrative. A bit of editing wud have helped.
U wudnt have gone anyway since u dont seem 2 have had the requisite passion.

Bhattisahib:
Good story.
Pardon my question; but did you get chickenpox on that hard part on your thighs also?

When I was in my tenth jamat I also got ChickenPox with all my cousins, and incidently that was after I ate Fried Fish from Jama Masjid area.

My Dhobi refused to take our clothes and I had to sleep in my room locked, as all our nauakrs ran off...I did scratch one pock and I still have a very small patch now hidden under my beard.....

Re: # 4

Yes brother. They were all over my body. I spent next two weeks in chaddi banyan only. But thank God, no permenant marks were left.

``I had met only one Rasheed, and I only know only one victim of his Jihadi Islam. God knows how many other Waheeds have paid with there lives, and are still paying? ``

This nonsense was a creation of General Zia and his mullahs. An entire generation of Pakistanis have been damaged psychologically and now Pakistan is suffering because of their tolerance of the occupying Army Jernails....................

It is time they did something to undo the damage!!

#1
dear kulharee,

He is dead, and not coming back. I am still in touch with his younger brother.

#2
Thanks


#3

Yes you are right. Editing would have helped a lot. Actually i wrote it this for my own consumption. While exploring chowk`s contribution page (I am still relatively new on chowk), I could not help myself and submitted this one without going through this. Nowadays, for me the time between committing a folly and realizing it has been reduced to 25 minutes from many hours in the past, so i realized after 25 minutes what i have done, but as they say `teer kaman say nikal chuka thaa`.

But yes you are right. It could have been much better.

I infer it was something that happened 13-15 years ago and by that account you are now in your late 20s or early thirtees. The happiness that lits up the face of your parents and her parentson the sight of your child is something snatched away by the Holy War Syndrome from so many: though its hardly a syndrome but more a trend that swept the youth of Pakistan in the 80s: when you were in D I Khan and where your Father was posted.

Your introduction has out of place spice: suffice to say you were growing up with your own ideas. Like all youngster, there was a rebel in you: if not for challenging but for exploring new things. Thank your stars that sickness led you away.

Many a family in Pakistan have lost young ones to this movement that has ended in nothingness. When the history of Pakistan and Kashmir is re written by nuetrals, this episode will appear a la Bay of Pigs. It was a useless, foolhardy and fruitless adventure pursued on the model of Afghan War, but by much lesser King Makers. It met the doom it deserved, but the aftershocks will continue to haunt world over.

The threat it poses is floating and transcends borders. The mood came from The Salafs and Wahabis and like an octopus, entangled the gutsy, idle, disillusioned and drifters. The end has yet to be seen.

Such contritions if not fabricated provide a good release of emotions about what happened.

Cheerios

Bhatti Sahib - I am surprised that a Rajput would trust and listen to a Pathan of all people. Despite your potential folly, you were fortunate that Mata took pity on you, in time.

ijaz_gul, ballukhan

Well, the question is often asked how one can effectively defeat jihadism since it has such obvious and enormous strengths as a strategy of total and endless war against the enemy, and is almost costless to initiate, manage, and sustain. The trick is to proactively help it self-destruct and destroy its own infrastructure. That is, to turn Jihad on its head.

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krbahtti sahib, if you are new here, you are truly a breath fo fresh air. The fear is that you too will soon end up ``hating the Indians`` more than ever and believing in the wisdom of sending young people to do jihad against them. Time spent on Chowk seems to have that effect. Either way, welcome and best wishes. :)

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[Bhatti Sahib - I am surprised that a Rajput would trust and listen to a Pathan of all people.]

Pathans were and still are among my best friends. I do not know what do you mean by this racial remark. Further, I do not beleive in races. Is there anyone who is pathan or rajput or jatt by his own choice. One cannot and should not claim any special place by the family in which one is born, because he/she does not have a say in this. Or are there any people who have written letter to their parents that they may be allowed to be born in their family.

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[krbahtti sahib, if you are new here, you are truly a breath fo fresh air. The fear is that you too will soon end up ``hating the Indians`` ...]

Dear kaalchakra,

I am an egalitarian. Don`t worry, if time comes, I will hate everyone with same vigour without any favourtism.

[..I had met only one Rasheed, and I only know only one victim of his Jihadi Islam..]

Note that Rasheed did not put his own miserable neck on the line. Perhaps he is still recruiting from the comforts of his home.

I find it amazing that people with an iota of IQ fall for this crap. When I was young in Delhi, my interests were in getting into IIT, going to the US, making tons of money, partying and hopefully getting a girlfriend some day. Who the hell would want to waste their lives killing others or getting themselves killed, that too over something totaly absurd like religion? For me religion was nothing more than some occasional useless mumbo jumbo with a couple of festivals where I could ogle at the nicely dressed girls. I guess, this is the difference between India and Pakistan.

My Pak friends tell me that the upper classes in Pakistan are exactly like that as well. Its only the middle and lower class youngsters who are brainwashed into fighting over religion. I guess, it is natural selection at work!! There is too much population in our part of the world.

Re:krbhatti#11

[..I do not know what do you mean by this racial remark....]

Rajputs and Pathans are traditional adversaries. Everyone knows that. Nothing racial in that statement.

Also, just like we have Sikhs in India, you have Pathans in Pakistan - a group of people who have a militaristic streak and a reputation for foolish behavior. :-) Now please dont tell me you have never enjoyed a Sardar joke, racial as it may be!!

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Dear Ranjit,

[Note that Rasheed did not put his own miserable neck on the line. Perhaps he is still recruiting from the comforts of his home.]

He got killed also in final showdown in Khost. Khost was the last stronghold of Afghan Communist government that fell.

[I find it amazing that people with an iota of IQ fall for this crap.]

With all due respect such words are very easy to utter sitting on the sofas of your drawing room. But what if someone does not have any source of knowing what is going on, except the national television that starts with news of Jihad and closes its news program with the same. I bet if you are exposed to such constant stream of such exposure, you will think on the same lines that are fed into your mind. Ask north korean, what they think of capitalism. I have met some north korean government contractors in gulf, who provide labour here. They avoid such questions, even if pressed. But I bet they think on the same lines of thoughts that is fed by north korean media back home. Irony is that they do not seem to have any objection in providing a capitalist economy of gulf with their labour.

On the side note, you will forget the poverty of sub continent, if you see these north koreans. The payment of labour services go to contractors, who are working for north korean government, and the labour is again left dependent on contractor`s mercy. Once I asked one indian labour foreman to accompany me to the labour camp of koreans, and he refused to go their by telling me, `saab bohat ghaleez log hain`. The meaning of what he said dawned upon me when I entered their labour camp. Except that they were relatively healthy, they were filthy and i say this with sadness and without any prejudice.

Mr. Ranjit, when a human being is made to become like this mentally or physically, then I don`t think your normal criteria of judging others by so called IQ applies anymore.

Cheers

I Cannt Understand the idea behind your Article ..... what`s your message or what do you want to tell people ...... whether jihad is good under the circumstances which favour jihad or should it be done in every circumstances or any kind of circumstances doesn`t matter ..... people do help me to get to know what did he write ...... or wanted to write

Screw You A$$hole for making fun of Sikhs.

You are a disgusting, pathetic anti-Sikh lowlife for uttering such words.

Is this not Stereotyping or What?

Are all Sikhs Foolish?
Why are there Anti Sikh Jokes? Have you analysed that or researched this issue from your couch?

This Anti-Sikh tirade started happening in North India after Independence during Nehru`s rule. Sikhs who were in important positions were made to change their ways. Hindus needed to break the Sikhs resolve and this was one significant move.
Indian Muslims contributed to this singling out of Sikhs by venting their frustrations of Partition. Sikhs were known to have attacked Mughal Camps at high noon, where 5 Sikhs would attack hundreds of Mughals and embrace sure death, hence Muslims of Delhi started this tirade that at noon Sikhs go crazy(or dare devil) so run away from them at that time......

Was there any Anti-Sikh Joke prior to 1947, I have not heard of it. Howcome a community that is Fourth Largest Religion in the world(there are more Sikhs than there are Jews in the World) is branded foolish by the majority population of India.
Is there any objective analysis of this rhetoric?
Are MM Singh and JJ Singh also fools? Is India led by fools?
By the same logic, Jatt, Rajput population like Cheemas, Gills, Syals, Dhillons, Bhattis, Chauhans and zillion of other castes shared across border, are they all foolish?

If the answer would be that by becoming Sikhs these groups became Foolish, then you are attacking a religion and that makes you a bigot......

Frankly, in my life I have seen more foolish Non Sikhs than Sikhs. It is inbred hatred and desire to shoot from the couch at anything that does not fit in your scheme or is not aligned to what you think is wrong.

5 Lakh Sikhs have ruled 50 Lakh population of North India from the borders of Afghanistan to banks of Ganga. Your ancesstors must be really weak to fall for fools as rulers.

While I do not support Fundoo Pakistanis but you right winger Hindus are in the same league.