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The Irreverent Hero Islam Forgot

William Dalrymple March 19, 2008

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#81 Posted by bubba on March 23, 2008 9:20:31 am
Hamid,

Is there something like a born-again muslim? Maybe you should avail that opportunity.
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#82 Posted by zeemax on March 23, 2008 9:28:46 am
#66 Posted by hamidm2,

While it's true Nawaz emerged on the scene during zina-ul-fuck's time, he was elected with sheer landslides numerous times afterwards including this time, despite having been in exile for 8 years and his party split, and being allowed back just a 'single' day before final nominations date. If his survival was dependant on anyone else other than the people of Pakistan (military dictatorships), he would now be another Ch. Shujaat.

How many elections has that hero of yours kawasjee won?
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#83 Posted by tahir on March 23, 2008 9:29:26 am
Re: # 76
When he habitually spells Muslim using lower-case 'm' (for which I corrected him!), why do you think he spells Qur'an as Koran?

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#84 Posted by hamidm2 on March 23, 2008 9:32:44 am
Re: # 81

bubba,

.... i have actually thought about it, but since you can play this card only once i am saving it for when i am on the jihadi's death row waiting for an open guillotine ....
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#85 Posted by zeemax on March 23, 2008 9:35:13 am
#77 Posted by hamidm2,

....... and how come you never asked me to spell koran the way you would like it spelled ? ........ i feel jilted - am i a smaller murtid-muslim than cheema-come-lately ?

I'll give an honest answer to this.

Hamidm, you never forgot your Burqa wearing grand mom, or your mom, or your father, and you revere them.

If you ever have a chance, read the little signs pointing the streets in Gulshan-e-Iqbal and what is written underneath them.

In the meantime, you may have your fun :)
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#86 Posted by hamidm2 on March 23, 2008 9:44:45 am
Re: # 82

zeemax,

.... are you comparing cowasjee to nawaz sharif? .... cowasjee is not a politician and i don't think he has ever run for any office ..... he is just a cranky old man with a lot of money who is always complaining about something or the other .... agree with him or not, he speaks his mind ...... that his why bhutto threw him in jail ......and he has done quite a bit of good with the cowasjee foundation, tcf and his crusade against corruption .....

actually, i cannot stand to read his rambling 'columns' which are all over the place ...... he does make a good case for euthanasia .......
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#87 Posted by hamidm2 on March 23, 2008 9:56:03 am
Re: # 85

zeemax,

.... so ancestor worship is okay with you?

.... since you are being so nice, i will let you in on a little secret if you promise not to laugh ...... i actually believe that when you die you will meet up with your mother and father and other ancestors - it has something to do with the source of energy and the theory of relativity which is too convoluted to explain ..... a simpler explanation: have you seen the film 'contact'? ..... when i saw that movie, i jumped up and said, 'that's it! that is what i believe in' ......and trust me, jodie foster had nothing to do with it even though she gives me arrhythmia .....
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#88 Posted by zeemax on March 23, 2008 10:06:23 am
#83 Posted by tahir,

Yes I noticed your intervention.

These people, I don't know what to call them, have no basic 'respect' and they're supposed to be liberals.
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#89 Posted by zeemax on March 23, 2008 10:09:41 am
#86 Posted by hamidm2,

Why did this cowasjee join zina-ul-fuck's federal cabinet? You still haven't answered this.
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#90 Posted by zeemax on March 23, 2008 10:17:49 am
#87 Posted by hamidm2,

No, you won't meet your ancestors. That's only in the movie you saw. You'll meet something else, and that's 'eternity' with 'God' somewhere around, but you still won't find Him.

That's my little secret I just let you in.

(P.S. You can meet your ancestors though, but you don't have to die for that ... and that's a secret I'm not going to let you in)
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#91 Posted by hamidm2 on March 23, 2008 10:18:31 am
Re: # 89

zeemax,

.... i don't know - he also joined bhutto's cabinet who then threw him in jail ..... i guess he joined zia for the same reason as nawaz sharif, yousaf gilani and many others - power, wealth, fame .... the usual reasons ....... what's the difference ?
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#92 Posted by zeemax on March 23, 2008 10:27:30 am
#91 Posted by hamidm2,

He joined Bhutto's cabinet? When?
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#93 Posted by zeemax on March 23, 2008 10:28:53 am
... I mean cowasjee ... when was he in ZAB's cabinet?
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#94 Posted by hamidm2 on March 23, 2008 10:42:48 am


zeemax,

... he was the miister of tourism - the man is somewhat of a gadfly but he hasen't spared anyone including bhutto, zia, benazir or musharraf ......

http://micropakistan.org/blog/2008/02/15/article-on-cowasjee-pakistan- columnist-doesnt-know-the-meaning-of-fear-la-times/
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#95 Posted by tahmed32 on March 23, 2008 10:59:19 am
hamidm: when your ancestors meet you, they'll ask you why you gave their islam a pass and proclaimed urstruly to be the righteously guided one..
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#96 Posted by zeemax on March 23, 2008 10:59:57 am
#94 Posted by hamidm2,

So from all your googling, that's what you could come up with. LA Times as quoted by some micropakistan.org/blog.

In 1976, while serving as tourism chief, he was jailed for 72 days by Benazir Bhutto’s father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Bhai, cowasjee was never in the federal cabinet of ZAB. He may have been some gofer in some Tourism Development Authority or something. Raja Tridev Roy was ZAB's Tourism Federal Minister.

But, he sure as hell was the Federal Minister for Shipping in zina-ul-fuck's cabinet.

Now google that for confirmation.
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