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Little Pakistan: Brooklyn’s Coney Island Avenue

Feroz Qutabshahi April 21, 2008

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#145 Posted by arjun_5 on April 24, 2008 10:42:50 am
#134 Posted by Urstruly on April 24, 2008 7:44:02 am


So why the onus is only on Muslims in this kind of environment to assimilate.


When african-americans don't assimilate, you get rap music..

when muslims don't assimilate, you get bombs on subways...

it's more important for muslims to assimilate than any other group....
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#146 Posted by tahmed32 on April 24, 2008 12:48:58 pm
masadi: i understand that when in the US you were forced to take the last seat in the bus. but..that was simply because the bus driver thought you would be able to think more profoundly.

and you were refused service at mcdonalds .. but that was only because the staff knew the cholestrol could diminish the quality of that incredible brain of yours

and that mob that ran after you that you thought was going to lynch you..that was your fan club that recognized you and was merely hoping you would say a few words to them..and you ran with your feet on your head (to translate from urdu).

so..you missed out on your chance of greatness when you were in the US. and you have only yourself to blame for that!!
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#147 Posted by Ras on April 24, 2008 7:25:09 pm

Some of the best Pakistani food can be found in Brooklyn.

Many buildings are still owned by Jews and are occupied

mainly by Pakistanis in the area.
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#148 Posted by masadi on April 24, 2008 10:14:05 pm
tahmed writes "so..you missed out on your chance of greatness when you were in the US. and you have only yourself to blame for that!!"

It is not that I missed on "greatness", it is that I attained greatness by learning firsthand the sickness of the US elite and how they dominate the world and keep their own people in a moronic fashion. That "greatness" has nothing to do with selfish success based on criteria that are themselves externally determined. I did witness firsthand not only personally but otherwise as well, the inhumanity and racism that exists in that society, across the US in benefits and access to "success" that are offered. The society you live in is a diseased society and the US elite are the virus that has killed the humanity in the mass among the American people...I have myself to blame just as the 99% of colored folk that are disallowed access by implicit polite means have themselves to blame- only an idiot would conclude with personal blame to the victim, it is the system that is producing such patterns...
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#149 Posted by US-elite on April 24, 2008 11:17:25 pm
Re: # 148

Masadi,

If you can hear us above all the other voices in your head, can you stop blaming us for your pathetic country's problems.

We have nothing to do with you or your country or its problems. We don't even know which country you are talking about and exactly where it is?

Half the time we don't know where our own country is you fool.

The US Elite
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#150 Posted by masadi on April 26, 2008 12:54:59 am
I received this threatning message in my chowk mail, just wanted to make it public knowledge:

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From: US-elite
Date: Apr 19 02:38 am
Subject:
We are going to take care of you masadi.

the US elite

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#151 Posted by masadi on April 26, 2008 12:55:33 am
my reply to them was : Go F yourself
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#152 Posted by masadi on April 26, 2008 3:17:06 am
From the other thread:

A current day example of the lynchings (and the acquittal of the guilty) by new york pigs,they pumped 50 bullets into an unarmed man for no reason and are let off free...

--NPR---

The Bryant Park Project, April 25, 2008 · Three undercover detectives were found not guilty Friday in the 2006 police shooting of Sean Bell, a New York case that made national headlines.

Delores Jones-Brown of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice says the case has drawn attention because it's part of a larger pattern of police shooting unarmed suspects.

Jones-Brown, a former prosecutor, directs the college's Center on Race, Crime and Justice. She cites a string of acquittals of police officers around the nation who killed civilians while on duty. In the Bell case, detectives fired 50 bullets at Bell and his friends outside a strip club in the predawn hours. Bell, who was unarmed, was to be married later that day.

The professor says the sheer number of bullets matters, in this case and in past ones, like the police killing of Amadou Diallo in New York in 1999. The unarmed Diallo died in his apartment doorway after officers fired 41 bullets at him

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89933890
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#153 Posted by masadi on April 26, 2008 3:20:56 am
The wannabes writes "can you stop blaming us for your pathetic country's problems."

When you close down shop in Islamabad, and pull all your agents out, take the Pakistan Army back to washington with you and go F yourself, and not interfere in our affairs or try to choke us thorugh your proxies, then and only then will I not blame your pathetic country regarding harming our land of freedom and humanity (Pakistan) made dirty by your agents of the Pak Army and the peons of the West................
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#154 Posted by masadi on April 26, 2008 3:22:07 am
All US embassies are military headquarters of neo-colonial domination, and the size of them tells how much interference they plan in the country they are located and the surrounding regions..........
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#155 Posted by masadi on April 26, 2008 3:23:50 am
All US embassies in the developing world
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#156 Posted by masadi on April 26, 2008 3:39:26 am
Kulharee writes "Chinese students are getting admissions into elite programs in numbers larger than ever."

Unfortunately for you, you need more research which would show you that those are foreign or recent immigrant Chinese and not indigeneous Chinese who just like indigeneous Indians (beyond the 2nd generation, don't forget that only relatively advantaged people migrate to the US from China and India) are still underrepresented compared to their population percent. The Chinese Exclusion Act was merely cited by me to show the historical trend, the law might have gone but the mindset that passed those laws is very much alive and kicking, the farcial case against Wen Ho Lee was part of the same mindset...
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#157 Posted by masadi on April 26, 2008 3:40:49 am
Anil, unfortunately I do not have time to read long irrelevant posts from a business 101 book that do not apply to the rise and fall of empires, and that also when they are written in Hindlish and not english.
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#158 Posted by tahmed32 on April 26, 2008 5:26:07 am
good morning masadi. the nurse tells me you fell of your bed again last night. this will never do!!!
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#159 Posted by masadi on April 26, 2008 6:19:07 am
tahmed writes "good morning masadi.."

That is one less morning that you're going to see in your life....which I guess makes it quite "good".....
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#160 Posted by Kulharee on April 26, 2008 1:19:54 pm
#156 Masadi al Baghdadi, what difference does it make if they are recent or ancient Chinese? Don’t they all look the same? The point is that the reason they are moving up the ladder is that they are not hung up celebrating or crying victimhood, a point some Desis need to accept, if they wish to move forward, and from what I see, people of little Pakistan are on their way to realize that, by unwelcoming the garbage that has plagued other Muslim Pakistani neighborhoods elsewhere. So yes, long live Little Pakistan.

Good afternoon, I just came back from a track meet, now off to see my favorite Muslim musician, Ustad Zakir Hussain.
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