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Saddam - The Sacrificial Lion

Akber Choudhry January 2, 2007

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#104 Posted by ballukhan on January 2, 2007 4:58:46 pm
Re: # 103

``bs khan cannot hide his hatred of Islam even as he pretends to be a Muslim...and then invents straw men like a typical mirasi in order to rebut his opponents whose arguments are much beyond his tabla nawaz intellect...``

Abey, Choutiya you need to stop abusing other interactors and replying in ad hominems. Please tell us what is the Alif Laila ``freedom`` that Islamists like you have for those faithfuls who do not follow your moral codes- not to talk about the ``freedom`` for your dhimmi slaves???
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#103 Posted by masadi on January 2, 2007 4:45:50 pm
#102 bs khan cannot hide his hatred of Islam even as he pretends to be a Muslim...and then invents straw men like a typical mirasi in order to rebut his opponents whose arguments are much beyond his tabla nawaz intellect...
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#102 Posted by ballukhan on January 2, 2007 4:34:36 pm
Re: # 50
``I think the origin of this propaganda lies in the era of Cold War when Soviets protrayed a capitalist elite as the nemesis who was controlling masses in West. After the collapse of soviet union, the Goebles in Western propaganda machinery just keep perpetuating the myth, since it helps them play innocent at times. ``


Well stated . But the Goebblean propaganda is coming from those Islamists who are perpetuating the conspiracy theories and reformulating the concept of ``freedom`` as some sort of a Alif Laila mushy romantic story with some demon enslaving the heroine in the golden cage of modern liberal democracy.
These Islamist have rehashed the same old arguments and theses that the Marxists used to splash all over - except that instead of Marxism it is Islamism that would deliver the ``real`` democracy and ``freedom`` to the masses!!
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#101 Posted by mohar11 on January 2, 2007 4:24:24 pm
Re: # 86
[...we muslims need to be a bit more tolerant in our approach! ....]

No kidding? :))
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#100 Posted by jang on January 2, 2007 4:22:42 pm
#98 i suspect he was highly sedated with medications.
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#99 Posted by Naqshbandi on January 2, 2007 4:11:43 pm
Re: # 98

correction:

MARG aayad, tabassum bar lab e oost!

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#98 Posted by Naqshbandi on January 2, 2007 4:10:54 pm
even the biggest enemies of saddam--including the treacherous Rawafid--will have to admit he was noble and dignified and unafraid in facing Death. subhan Allah!

Iqbal wrote:

Nishan e mard e momin man ba tu goyam
Mard aayad, tabassum bar lab-e-oost!

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#97 Posted by anil on January 2, 2007 3:28:47 pm
Re: # 36

Salim sahib:

Thanks for the shia-sunni divide for dummies. From reading these, it looks Shia is quite capable of being a progressive and evolutionary among the Islamic beliefs.

``...Shias believe that the last Imam, Imam Mahdi, did not die and will return to spread justice just before the end of the world....``

Wouldn`t this be a little too late?


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#96 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on January 2, 2007 3:25:35 pm
#95, arjun2 {``... and a vasectomy doesn`t involve cutting off your tallywhacker...if that happened to you, the doctor used your ignorance to cover his malpractice``}

Arjun Bhayya,
I never said that vasectomy involves cutting off your tallywhacker. This is what I said:

{``All the free radios in the world couldn`t compensate a man for tying his tallywhacker. ``}

Anyway, thank you for enlightening us with your own personal experience. It does seem, from your own issues, that vasectomy does impact one`s eyesight. :) Why else would you read tying as cutting?
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#95 Posted by arjun2 on January 2, 2007 3:18:17 pm
#82 by Salim_Chauhan on January 2, 2007 2:21pm PT

that wasn`t the army

and a vasectomy doesn`t involve cutting off your tallywhacker...if that happened to you, the doctor used your ignorance to cover his malpractice..
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#94 Posted by Ophelia on January 2, 2007 3:14:52 pm
Salaam and Eid Mubarark to all..and ofcourse a very happy new year. The first I heard of Sadaam`s execution was whilst driving home for Eid with my friend who talked about her disgust for what had happened. She is South African and has grown up in a family of political activists who fought hard during Aparteid. In her mind there was no justifying capital punishment and especially not on Eid. I ventured that perhaps she would see things differently if it was a member(s) of her family who had suffered under Sadam. She pointed out that the anti aparteid struggle tried to be non violent..look at how much Mandela achieved peacefully.

I thought about this for a few minutes..I am no expert on these topics and there are people out there much more knowledgeable.

So what did I feel about his execution? For me it stood as a symbol for the sad state of humanity today that we can ignore the reverence of Eid and kill someone. In terms of Sadam? I kinda chuckled...the man was executed on Eid with the words of the Quran on his lips...and no matter what I thought of him...I reckon Allah may just forgive some of his sins and if I was Sadam..I would be thinking is there a better way to go? On our holy day, the words of the Quran on my lips, a quick death....fantastic!!! Much better that rotting prison for the rest of one`s life!!!
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#93 Posted by Ophelia on January 2, 2007 3:14:35 pm
Salaam and Eid Mubarark to all..and ofcourse a very happy new year. The first I heard of Sadaam`s execution was whilst driving home for Eid with my friend who talked about her disgust for what had happened. She is South African and has grown up in a family of political activists who fought hard during Aparteid. In her mind there was no justifying capital punishment and especially not on Eid. I ventured that perhaps she would see things differently if it was a member(s) of her family who had suffered under Sadam. She pointed out that the anti aparteid struggle tried to be non violent..look at how much Mandela achieved peacefully.

I thought about this for a few minutes..I am no expert on these topics and there are people out there much more knowledgeable.

So what did I feel about his execution? For me it stood as a symbol for the sad state of humanity today that we can ignore the reverence of Eid and kill someone. In terms of Sadam? I kinda chuckled...the man was executed on Eid with the words of the Quran on his lips...and no matter what I thought of him...I reckon Allah may just forgive some of his sins and if I was Sadam..I would be thinking is there a better way to go? On our holy day, the words of the Quran on my lips, a quick death....fantastic!!! Much better that rotting prison for the rest of one`s life!!!
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#92 Posted by nasah on January 2, 2007 3:06:18 pm
sur daad nu daad dust dur dust-e yazid
huqqaa kay benaiy-e la illahust hussein
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#91 Posted by sadna on January 2, 2007 3:04:32 pm
hamidm2
You need to get over your sadna fixation soon because it won`t help when it occurs to the US taxpayer some time soon that if he was to pay billions of dollars to invade a nation and hang a dictator for state patronage of Al Qaeda, the 9/11 attacks and global jihad ideology which is still on the US taxpayers` tail, that nation was not Iraq and that dictator was not Saddam Hussein.
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#90 Posted by masadi on January 2, 2007 3:03:25 pm
chingari writes <<< ...... a leader is supposed to gather the whole nation and guide them into the future... not kill one segment of the population and side with the other..... we muslims need to be a bit more tolerant in our approach! That goes for both people like Saddam and the rest of the community! >>>

When they colonials have haphazardly divided up the world for the purpose of control and play one side against the other, be it on nonsense, like how many angels can dance on the tip of a pin, you will get people like Saddam on both sides. The ``cause`` is such colonial interference so that the people can never come together and get their institutions and society in order, it is patchwork and survival, one coup after another....In this atmosphere one cannot talk of ``leaders`` and what they can and cannot do.
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#89 Posted by masadi on January 2, 2007 2:58:30 pm
Soysauce writes <<< now people simply choose from the short list.>>>>

A ``short list`` that was developed inspite of them, over which there was no debate, considered half the population non-existant and the colored less than human. A list circumscribed by wealth and the wealthy, protecting its interests and the slaves have resigned to it. Why don`t you go ``dance in the street`` to celebrate this ``democracy`` with your friend Jang, to him dancing is the ultimate criteria of representation no matter the size of the random sample he picked to generalize that into acceptance of the dictator by Pakistanis
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