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Pakistani Twist to “Aliens in America” TV Series

Ras Siddiqui September 27, 2007

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#26 Posted by scout_new on October 2, 2007 7:27:29 am
Re: # 25

the difference is, middle pakistan or middle india, don't pretend to be the theykedaars of this world
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#25 Posted by hamidm2 on October 2, 2007 7:03:29 am
Re: # 23

middle america is no more stupid than middle pakistan or middle india ..... there are people on this forum who believe that 9/11 is a jewish conspiracy and that the american elite are responsible for the filth in the streets of lahore ...... why, there are even people who believe that indians are good looking and that idlee is real food! ....... go figure
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#24 Posted by hamidm2 on October 2, 2007 6:57:32 am
Re: # 21

exactly my thoughts! ..... it is hard to breed out the bad genes ........
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#23 Posted by scout_new on October 2, 2007 6:50:21 am
i thought the show was good, especially the classroom scene where the teacher says 'this is a live pakistani' and when some bimbo says pakistanis blew up the two towers, the kid tries to rectify, and the teacher says 'in this country we raise our hand to answer'

some critic said the show is derogatory to Americans, it portrays them as stupid, but it's true, middle america is stupid
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#22 Posted by Ras on October 2, 2007 6:07:57 am

Please visit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeURLmj3ceU

to access the music video with PJ & Salman Ahmad.

I thought that the pilot episode was well done.

It made its point AND it was funny.

The two boys performing prayers towards Mecca together

almost had me in tears...
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#21 Posted by amansandhu on October 2, 2007 5:57:18 am
hamid,
what hapenned to the pak cricket players, most of them are kala kaluta, no babar blood in them!!!!
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#20 Posted by hamidm2 on October 2, 2007 5:51:39 am
Re: # 19

agreed ..... the kid in the show is definitely a madrasi - i see it as a jewish-hindoo-cia conspiracy to defame pakistan .... why coudn't they pick a fair skinned madrassa kid from bannu or mardan? ...... and don't tell me all of them are busy practicing to be suicide bombers ! ..... regardless of freaks of nature like aishwariya rai, it is a fact that the land of hinudustan south and east of attock has the highest per square inch quotient of ugliness - a fact that my ancestor babar endlessly laments in his memoirs ...

....... anyway, the show was funny .... some of the humor reminds me of my favourite show 'married with children' ........ it is worth watching ...... i am sure folks like zeemax and masadi will find it decadent and take comfort in the fact that it is yet another sign of the demise of america ........... fools !
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#19 Posted by amansandhu on October 2, 2007 5:19:31 am
the kid shown in the picture is dark, will the pakistanis accept that, after all there are no dark Pakistanis, they are all gora chittas like the angrez, so they let us believe
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#18 Posted by arjun3 on October 2, 2007 3:29:26 am
#16 Posted by aslam644 on October 2, 2007 1:33:34 am


the bastards are giving the pak-brit community bad name.


The pimps are giving the brit-pakis a bad name? What about the whole london/sirline/disco bombing thing?

If anything, the pimps are raising the average income for your sorry little community...
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#17 Posted by ferozk on October 2, 2007 1:44:27 am
re: Ras

I hope that the humor of the show is not watered down and that it shakes people out of their comfort zones. I remember a sitcom called "All In The Family" and its jokes were rude and racist, but they made a point!

The show must not be politically correct and cater to the whimpy tradition of the networks, but must plough new paths. People will be upset, but that is to be expected, but if the situational humor of the show is accepted, it will lead to a larger acceptance of the differences that exist within the communities.

Humor and laughing at something is always the first step towards accepting it.

It is hoped that character development by the show's creators is done intelligently and with deftness and the characters are not allowed to remain one dimensional.

The nuances in the cultural traits of the characters must be defined more sharply and brought into focus to show that there are differences in the similarities of the characters similarities in their differences. (A phrase borrowed from Rogoff).

The show must not be timid, because the potential is too great to be wasted by playing safe to the gallery.

Ciao
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#16 Posted by aslam644 on October 2, 2007 1:33:34 am
Hamidm
We don’t want assimilation of this sort, unfortunately majority of men invovlved in the sex trade in UK are pakistani, you should see the cars they drive, they have expensive villas in spain where they take these girls for holidays, the bastards are giving the pak-brit community bad name.

“Pimping is lucrative. According to the Metropolitan Police Vice Squad, a pimp can make £300,000 to £400,000 a year selling a 16-year-old girl. There is, appallingly, no shortage of men who wish to buy them. The criminals often use the girls themselves to recruit their neighbours and school friends into the gangs. One mother, who used to drive around the town looking for her daughter when she went missing, says she once saw an older teenage girl apply make-up to two young girls in the street, while older Asian men, whom she recognised as pimps, waited by their BMWs. “The girls then were told to perform a ‘sexy dance’ for them,” says Jean. “But they were so young! I had watched them skipping earlier.”
Despite evidence from rigorous research by organisations such as Crop that the gangs are largely made up of men from the Pakistani Muslim communities, many are determined to downplay this. “What we’re dealing with is gross criminality,” says Kosaraju. “That should be confronted whatever the race of the perpetrator.”
Mike Cunningham, an assistant chief constable with Lancashire police, says he is aware that several recent cases reported to police in Lancashire have involved Asian men, but that the issue of sexual grooming of young girls is not based solely on race or culture.
“Offenders can and do come from a variety of cultural backgrounds,” says Cunningham, “and we deal with each case on its own individual merit.” He says he is not aware of “any accusations of racism from the accused or their respective communities”.
Historically, many of Britain’s pimps have come from immigrant communities – Jews in the early 20th century, Jamaicans and Maltese in the 1950s and ’60s. White, British-born pimps have tended to operate as individuals, rather than within criminal gangs. In recent years, however, young Asian men have been operating in formal, organised networks in the north of England, particularly in the impoverished towns with high unemployment and racial disharmony. “
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2538090.ece
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#15 Posted by Ras on October 1, 2007 2:23:00 pm

All I can say is, let us discuss the program AFTER it is

shown.

I have seen the preview. It has a number of jokes based

on teenage hormonal topics that do go somewhat overboard

but the Pakistani kid comes out looking really good.

Bhai Arjun may have a fit, but the actor is Hindu so he

just might lighten up.


The Song for the show is done by Salman Ahmad & one local

singer whom I am not yet familiar with.


Parents are cautioned about the humor in this pilot

of the series. I hope they can tone it down a bit later.

Ras
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#14 Posted by tahmed32 on October 1, 2007 12:47:31 pm
#12 aslam: the man can either build up an airlines, or he can blow up airplanes and buses. he cant do both, unless he has more than 24 hours in a day and is the world's most screwed up psychopath.

as for being a fundo, that is his personal business as long as he does not use religion as an excuse to commit crimes. from what you describe, he is clearly a role model at least with respect to business enterprise. But this is the opposite of what madani had in mind, the one whose "identity" is so fragile they need to protect it every day by living in a prison of their own making.
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#13 Posted by aslam644 on October 1, 2007 8:52:34 am
Re: # 11
Hamidm

That’s to be expected from people who are from rural background, gradual change is better than revolutionary change, its more organic and longer lasting.
I thing UK government will soon put an end to the importation of brides and bridegrooms.
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#12 Posted by aslam644 on October 1, 2007 8:43:21 am
Re: # 10
Tahmed

I don’t know about the assimilated part this guy is a real fundo, I think the reason he’s been successful so far is because he’s a hard worker, he used to drive big lorry full of carpets from Belgium into UK.
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#11 Posted by hamidm2 on October 1, 2007 5:39:55 am
Re: # 8

aslam,

......... i am sorry, but i have not seen anything good come out of pakis in the uk even though half my ancestral village lives in bradford, manchester and london ...... sir anwar and his bestway group is the only notable exception ..... the rest seem to be all incorrigible country bumpkins gin ka vilyat nay kuch nahin begara ....... the sad part is that their next generation seems to be equally isolated and cluless about the society they live in - brides and bridegrooms imported from mirpur and choa khalsa have ensured this rot ..........
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