The Psyche of Al-Qaeda

"Pakistan and Afghanistan are the battleground where in the next decade war between violent political Islam, peaceful spiritual Islam and Secular Humanism will be fought...."

Very true.

Now Obama is going to withdraw troops from Iraq and send them to Pakistan !!!

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In the diary of the Psycho from chukk:420, mauza Harrapa

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My own private Pheedaho

Epilogue


.....and now I can sense that they are mumbling & whispering about removing the life-support system from me. It is not that I am in coma all the time, it is just that they cannot tell that, and I do not tell them. I observe, I listen, but I cannot respond...,but only for sporadic minutes ,when no one is around. The prescriptions & proscriptions of the West & the East did me in!

It`ll be anyday, anytime,....sooner than later.


.........ahh!and memories! , in a rewind loop, now in focus, now in a blurr & blob from the deep deep recesses of my mind, never ever abandon me, never let go. It sure helps to be a shrink to interpret and bring into focus these repressed memories....

...the joyful days and nights when I was called Pheeda by everyone. Snot, rat-tail-like, peeking in and out of my dust-laden & dirt-ridden nostrils and occasionally wiped-ff by my left sleeve while looking askance at every passing elder who would shove-kick-slap-hit me--just for the heck of it . At least they recognised me that I existed. I belonged!


Here in US nobody gives a damn no matter how hard you try to prove that now you are one of them.So Oye Pheeday or Pheeda-ho it was, sometimes Freeda-ho, sometimes Freeday-ho but none seemed different. The landowners around Harrapa were too preoccupied & disinterested to worry about my heritage or what I truly aspired to be. I was simply a body, a serf, a kummee`s son, destined to be a kummee himself when old enough to plow their fields.

But I had ambitions. Secret designs of my own. Intrepid & Intrigue was important to overcome the caste, and the color barrier. I wanted to be like the Jat jagirdars son.., with the plastic clip-on tie & back-pack,..whose forefathers helped the british to rule over us. ``Salvation is in slavery``! this became my banner & beacon....to enable me to cross over to the other side & someday have my own private slaves.

`` I must redesign my heritage`` I heard myself say to myself aloud oneday. It must be sculpted by me to suit the occasion or event. I decided to interrupt others and correcte them that my name was Fareed. Everyone should take notice, I told them. I am Fareed--not Pheeda-ho. They all did, and shoved-kicked-slapped and ran me out of the chukk # 420 near to the mound-ruins where heritage is preserved. Preserved so well that it generates ample reveues for its progeny even after laying dormant for about 5000 years. The goraas discovered the mounds of the dead and educated the slaves; drilled into them how civilised they once were and how the slaves were once 5000-year civilised & now in the darkages due to their stupid reli.. (well-never mind)

...good that they hounded me out of the Chukk 420 near mauza Harrapa. In the city I became the real me, Fareed! and now diligently pursued the practised the Jaw-resetting language*(*urdu) to such perfection that that I was soon inducted into that inner-sanctum of those who prided themselves to announce themselves as The-Tongued-Ones: (ahle-zubaan)

Years passed and then I discovered that even this heritage is now under suspicion and is no longer respectable. The-Tongued-ones (ahle-zubaans) are being harrassed by those who are now refusing the get their jaws reset. So I decided to look for opportunities to create another new heritage for my nation`s posterior and my own posterity

I decided to emigrate to the fantasy-land of sex,drugs & faith-freedom and opportunity!

Here I learned that my name a big problem for me & the way I pronounce it is even a bigger problem for the immigration folk. They re-named me Freud, ( apt! I chucked then) entered that in the register, and officially I became Archie Freud . Archie is for Arshad , a name I had always liked and was given that as my `christain` name when the immigration guy, fat beet-red face one, insisted that Arshad was too foreign & a jawlocker for him.

Sixty long years seem now like the blink of an eye! Such a Psychiatric I was that, in serving science & humanism, I became a psycho myself and was committed to the proper places many a times during my shining career & gloomy disposition. Some alluded this to the genius in me and such a price is small for those like me to pay to serve humanity and reassert my Insaanyat in ways other than the mundane kind. I sometimes feel that it is my obssessive cynicism to keep a score on my insaanyat index that blew my brainfuse.

Despite all the laurels and dollars , I was still uneasy with this post-modernistic, humanistic heritage of mine. Hell, the kids, no longer kids by the way, were determined to manufacture their own heritage, as muslim, and were going out of the way to refuse to inherit anything at all from the mounds of Moenjo Dero or the hollows of Harrapaa . This really did me in. I mean with all the heritage that I accumulated and now here my own flesh and blood wanted to disinherit all that!

...So When I returned to the area I had left as Chukk 420 I tried to prove & convince the people running the heritage industry, primarily the Jaw-lockers--the Tongued-ones (ahli-Zubaan), but no one was interested anymore.They ahd outslaved me by a single U-turn. They were all trying to become a mirror image of the people from the land of bilk & money.

I learnt that behind my back they sneered at my attempt to speak in the Jawlock-way or the neo-Tongue-Ones way.

They were calling me Dr. Fraud.

I am a little surprised at this shallow analysis.
To start with the comment about Al-Ghazali is a little bit unfair. He has been heralded as the anti-rationality fellow, however the process by which he concluded this was very rational. He did not want to divest the spiritual from the scientific. Maybe that wasn't such a bad idea because un checked 'scientific progress' has led to immense plunder of the planet's resources. There is a lot more to this story than what has been covered in these brief paragraphs. There are questions here that haven't been asked e.g.,
Syed Qutb reads no different than many western writers such as Henry David Thoreau who were critical of the mindlessness of industrialization. Considering all of the above, it does not explain the violence of Al-Qaeda---violence is the 24million dollar question.

Saima writes "I am a little surprised at this shallow analysis."

No surprises here, we have come to expect "shallow analysis" from Sohail the shrink (did I forfeit my cup of tea and free palm reading?) and gill the plumber not to mention the fact that psychology as a field is devoid of any substance, it has not original material whatsoever, it depends on biology or sociology to explain what little it can muster, before the shrinks turn that into a prescription for Prozac and hook the nation to it....

Have a nice day and take it easy,

TNI Masadi

Now they will ban me for 24 hours and forget about my account for 48 more....

Yes, it is shallow. The article does not even address the psyche part of the story. Talking about Salafi, Has the learned author ever had a chance to read about Lutheran beliefs?

Most of the previous millennium's Islamic sects are derived from the several sects of Christianity. Salafi, Wahabi etc. can be traced to Christian revivalist movements.

Syed Qutb and later Maudoodi mostly copied from Christian Science monitors publications after the missionaries started working in India and in the ME. The RSS and its publications are copied from Christian Science monitors publications too.

These extremist and purification sects were part of the British game to control, divide and rule. These groups still are part of the ruling alliances in several countries.

Sohail is a painDu psychologist offering mid-wife homilies for an audience that he confuses for his pinD.

'The Psyche of Al-Qaeda'???

'world consciousness'???

What's next? The mindset of kaka's chappal? The smile of a nation?

This is a great article with references and quotes. Apart from Lenin's warfare, I also learned about the fight between good and bad people in Pakistan and that Sohail wishes that the good guys win. Great article overall.

Sohail sits on the editorial board of chowk and shameless copies my writing style:

Note this "(Ref 1)"

And then note how I quote my references. I challenge him to produce even one of his articles written before my blogs of this last month where he has used such referencing....and then the damn fool has the audacity to block my articles

brother masadi,

r u saying that sohail should reference your way of referencing when he references?

Brother, how r things in lahore? kaka is hearing, people r losing jobs.. do you still have yours or you didn't have to begin with?

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Dr. Sohail: There is no "Psyche of Al-Qaeda" discussed in this article. And the rest is an otiose potpourri of cliches bandied by the army of terrorist experts that was spontaneously created on 9/11 (this being the same process of creation that blessed us all with Masadi).

This article therefore represents conduct unbecoming the psychologist and the gentleman that you are.

Suckling co-workers' breasts and drinking urine

Voices of sanity from the Muslim world (read article)

http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=8043

...S R

SR sahib,

Maybe YRG and Sherry Rehman shud do what Al Azhar is suggesting and that too publicly to remove all ugly rumours.

Regards

Re: # 15; majumdar

these are not ugly rumours ... i recently presented Ibn-e-maja's reference (hadith quoted by ayesha ... who else!) advocating this ... allegedly the full script was not available since it was eaten by a goat!! ... with "editors" like that, who needs enemies! ... LOL!!