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Pakistans Permanent Revolution

Yasser Latif Hamdani March 28, 2007

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#198 Posted by bjkumar on April 1, 2007 6:22:36 am


That Mushy is such a fool!

Mian Mushy, if you are reading this – kaan khol kar sun lo!

Don’t make a further fool of yourself! Even you ought to know that it is impossible to fight people who use Gandhiji’s techniques!

Stop trying to pull a Zia on us – you ain’t no Zia – thankfully, there won’t be another!

Give the press back its freedom and trust the judgement of your compatriots,

And fire the coterie members who got you into the present mess!

Pronto!

Show some balls, for a change!!


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#197 Posted by anil on April 1, 2007 5:44:01 am
Re: # 195

Zeemax sahib:

Islam, as a non-muslim, I see has one great ability to create ``mini-institutions``, unfortunately all recently created institutions are by militant Islam, may be except for Edhi Foundation. Ahmednijad is a product of democracy (an institution) in Iran. Sooner or later the west will have to accept it. Islamic intellectuals should take a lead and form moderate institutions, instead wait for the pendulum to swing. New means to communicate are available to all in this global village we now live, and just for the pictures of hate of beheaings etc. These two, communication and ease to create mini-institutions, can be pwoerful to bring sanity to the currently madness.
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#196 Posted by masadi on April 1, 2007 5:17:38 am
okhla writes <<< Otherwise the US college would not have rejected all your pleadings and kicked you out in favour of someone who was actually literate >>>

Utterly and completely ignorant fool. There is nothing in your arsenal of arguments except ad hominem, and even then, you have to invent nonsense against me. No US university rejected me, and no pleading was involved in my relationship with US institutions. I came to Pakistan of my own volition and was ``laid off`` by a feudal who has set up a priviate MBA school with a non original name to train peons for the West.

I decided to give up staying in the US so that the hold of peons like yourself on the psyche of the Pakistan is challenged and defeated, one person at a time......Stay away from people who can look through your dimwit mentality, or you end up making a damn fool of yourself...
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#195 Posted by zeemax on April 1, 2007 1:03:38 am
#194 by anil,

What is your basis to say this, and why it is not delusional? Time is against institutionalized relgions, not just Islam. Please study this from this angle more. I know you can.

Anil,

I think kaalchakra has put it more clearly in a gem of a post on UP than I ever could. It is a phenomenon which goes deep into the Muslim psyche, and history provides plenty of proof as to how Islamic empires develop, then fall, and then rise again and again, even with different religious interpretations of the same Quran and Sunnah. This time around, the clear course is Back to the Basics regardless of where time goes.

There is a reason for it. Muslims have never been in a crisis like this since the events of mid 7th century, when only the basic codes provided the single-mindedness to overcome all odds and to remove enemies both from their midst as well as distant borders in a span of barely a decade. Once this was done, milder forms of Islam emerged beginning from Usman`s caliphate and extending into the Umayyads and later the Abbasids and the Ottomans (named after Usman) who promoted soft skills and soft sciences for an entire millenium instead of the art of confrontation. It was because they were not under threat of complete elimination and dominance forever. Muslims today are under such a threat.

Thus, it is back to the basics, which was quite simply `Jihad` and a strict moral code. You can see this recourse clearly everywhere in militant Islam beginning with Usama Bin Laden, to Taliban, to the Iraqi resistance, to Hazballah, to Ahmedinijad, to the Jamia Hafsa. This tide will not stop till it has achieved its goals. And then, Islam will again become soft till it is threatened again and so on ... This is how it works.

I quote kaalchakra:

``IMHO, we are falling in the same error that non-Muslim liberals make. In their cultural indifference and studied ignorance, they seem to think of Islam as at best woolly fiction of no real consequence, one that can`t impact any lives since it is open to and tolerant of free-ranging interpretions allowing everyone (Mulims and nonMusli) do as they want. (This is what they believe of all religions).

I think that is very disrespectful to this potent force which significantly alters any human landscape it takes over.

Here is what I suspect happens. True, like all else, Islam can be interpreted in a number of ways. That allows (limited) variation from time to time and place to place. But ONCE a particular intepretation has been broadly reached AT A GIVEN TIME AND PLACE, then that prevalent interpretation becomes an exceedingly powerful force against any EXTERNAL object/entity/rival idea everytime the two differ.``


Emphasis is mine.

Regards.
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#194 Posted by anil on April 1, 2007 12:09:13 am
Re: # 193

Zeemax Sahib:

``... the next change in Pakistan is going to be no other than Islamic (and not the moderate enlightened kind), and Munafiqs will be rendered stateless ... ``

What is your basis to say this, and why it is not delusional?

Time is against institutionalized relgions, not just Islam. Please study this from this angle more. I know you can.
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#193 Posted by zeemax on March 31, 2007 11:40:45 pm
People like those of #186/189/190 know very well that they have lost, and have no other recourse but to abuse and trivialize Islam in a `khasiani billi` fashion. People like these are lucky to be abroad (if at all they are) because the next change in Pakistan is going to be no other than Islamic (and not the moderate enlightened kind), and Munafiqs will be rendered stateless ...

They should work harder at their jobs as peons of the west (copyright masadi) so that they can remain there as far as possible.
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#192 Posted by dullabhatti on March 31, 2007 11:12:28 pm
:-) You got a point there. but why is it even under discussion till today by some people ...that was my point. (yes it is debated on the internet even today)
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#191 Posted by bulleya on March 31, 2007 10:02:49 pm
dullahbhatti #190: ``and you are no closer to deciding whether one should really wash his ass with left hand or right after so many centuries..``

I think this statement is a clear indication of your lack of knowledge of the subject, under discussion........Everyone knows, as it was decided a long time ago, that it is the left hand......
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#190 Posted by dullabhatti on March 31, 2007 9:43:00 pm
Establish Nizam-e-Mustafa by Friday, March 9, or Else



Even if you accept them to be on the right path and Mushy to be on the wrong one....are these guys out of their minds to suggest a half-kafir like Musharraf could establish a true Sharia/Mustafa system in a week even if he wanted to do so?..dudes you guys have been trying to establish that mustafa and sharia thingie for last 1400 years with all those millions of ghazis and shaheed gone on the way and you are no closer to deciding whether one should really wash his ass with left hand or right after so many centuries......and now Musharraf is going to establish mustafa for you in a week?
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#189 Posted by okhla99 on March 31, 2007 9:07:42 pm
Utterly & completely respected Masadi,

Most kindly refer to your idiotic post #170.

Why do you fail to see that you are no longer accepted even as a ``peon`` in the west. Otherwise the US college would not have rejected all your pleadings and kicked you out in favour of someone who was actually literate. Now that you are back in Pakistan, stop cursing your erstwhile Gora masters who discovered your ``true colours``(you are coloured, are you not??). Try to work hard at whatever college you are in, else you will be kicked out once again, probably to a place where you really belong.


BTW, How is everyone in Lululand????

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#188 Posted by zeemax on March 31, 2007 8:07:37 pm
#177 by eastmwest

Are you aware of the fact that John Walker Lindh, the convert associated witht he 7/7 bombing.

Haha ... ROTFL ...

(www.google.com)
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#187 Posted by KaalChakra on March 31, 2007 4:41:02 pm
gazankahn # 180

Apparently, you neither really believe in any divine message (outside of your own mind) nor do you wish to lead your life according to any such message. You would rather make things along as you need them.

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#186 Posted by einsteinwallah on March 31, 2007 3:57:53 pm
Pakistan will always remain like this a millenium from now. Anyone who thinks that this or that may do the trick of improving the situation or bring ``true`` democracy or modernize in ``true`` sense etc etc is deluding himself. Fundamental to ills of Pakistan is Islam and value system that has originated from it. Sau Baat Kee Ek Baat.
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#185 Posted by arjun2 on March 31, 2007 3:40:05 pm

#184 by Urstruly on March 31, 2007 3:06pm PT

Establish Nizam-e-Mustafa by Friday, March 9, or Else



mmmkay...
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#184 Posted by Urstruly on March 31, 2007 3:06:56 pm

Establish Nizam-e-Mustafa by Friday, March 9, or Else

- Moulana Abdul Aziz of Lal Masjid Islamabad

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#183 Posted by Urstruly on March 31, 2007 2:32:24 pm
Re: # 164 bulleya

I firmly believe that what ails pakistan cannot be cured with democracy or through education and ``Talqeen``. The time has passed for that. The corrupt ruling elite had time for a magna carta but now that time is lost and they know that too. Second time in the history of Pakistan the oppressive corrupt class has crossed the limit and now they have no regard for a life of Pakistani citizen. Even schoolchildren are not spared and are masacared through laser guided missiles. First time the got away with the genocide of East Pakistanis and lost half the country with impunity and this time they shouldn`t. Enough is enough. Lets accept the fact that Pakistan is a failed state and by supporting oppressive corrupt class we are only prolonging our own missery. State apparatus has failed; institutions have failed; and society is on the verge of collapse. I personally do not like anarchy such that of students of Jamia Hafsa, but what they did was not the disease but a symptom of larger malfeasance in society. But I would rather support the doers and rebels rather than those who deliver surmons to protect status quo.
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