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The New Jews

Bina Shah March 8, 2003

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#157 Posted by Tipu on March 12, 2003 8:39:04 pm
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#156 Posted by harish_hyd on March 12, 2003 8:39:04 pm
#150 by tahmed32 on March 12, 2003 6:48am PT

[You are so-o-o-o clever in choosing the pig to insult me, knowing I am a muslim. I am so deeply insulted that I am at a loss for words.]

tahmed, you shouldn`t be complaining since you were the one who began it by calling Jay`s ancestors monkeys. However, I apologize if I had indeed hurt your sentiments. It was an inadvertent slip and not an intentional attempt to hit you below-the-belt.

Thanks.
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#155 Posted by tenaliramanna on March 12, 2003 10:11:08 am
ref #142 Bhitai

My intent was to comment on the rest(not Prophet). But the sentence doesn`t come out that way and needless to say it`s offended the followers. I apologise.

By the same token, how about being sensitive to my feelings ? My(our)Gods ? My religion ? My culture ? The other guys(Taimur, Ghazni etc) are no more than mere Bastar*s and yes there seems to be an air of reverene when some Pakistani speak of them. It`s only a psycho who will be proud of a Taimur ancestry - what do you call those Germans who worship Hitler ? No wonder Pervert Musharraf clearly said in an interview(wish I had the link) that our heroes are your villains and our villains are your heroes.

My post touched you somewhere to stir you up and react - hope the actions / words of your other co-religionoists or country men also stir you into action. Where there is a Allah, there can be Ram and Krishna and Buddha. An average Indian always is tolerant as compared to an average muslim who`s not influenced by other cultures(western, hinduism etc.,). Naipaul sure hit the nail on it`s head when he said Islam makes one reject their past. Sorry for digressing though.

In the partition, it`s a Hindu who lost most. It`s an Indian who lost most. The wounds are ours more than anybodyelse`s. Pakistan`s claim to Indian territory in the name of Islam is a cruel Joke.

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#154 Posted by arjun_m on March 12, 2003 8:34:14 am
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#153 Posted by nasah on March 12, 2003 6:48:21 am
looks like the lap dog Blair is about to jump off the master Bush`s Titanic --

question is where will he land -- there is no land nearby -- on a Labor iceberg? --

Blair is doomed anyway -- ``nuh paaye maNdan nu jaaye ruftun`` -- trnslated in shudh vernacular -- dhobi ka kutta nu ghar ka nuh ghaat ka -

- should seve him well ...
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#152 Posted by jay on March 12, 2003 6:48:12 am
Yousefkhan 130,

That is a pathetic apologistic post about abdus salam. If any of you have any respect for abdus salam, why cant you do something about it isted of mentioning it in a post on chowk.

Whay not the pakistanis ask the ``university avenue`` on chowk to be renamed salam avenue, why cant the pak associations in the US form a fund to give scholarship to a pakistani and call it abdus slam award, why cant a pakistani write an article on the birth anniverasary of abdus salam.

Finally why cant you accept that if any of you dared to do any of the things mentioned above, the iSI will see to it that you will not see another sunrise. Why cant you say that you could be charged under the blasphemy laws.

At least why cant you give a reason why no one dares to mention abdus salam in public.
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#151 Posted by sadna on March 12, 2003 6:48:12 am
ahmadzai #145
``When the extremists in Indian Government keep war pressure on Pakistan externally and pressure on their Muslim population internally, fundamentalists in Pakistan do gain ground.So a little bit of sensibility on India`s part would have enabled us to focus on the issue.``

That fundamentalists gain ground with Musharraf is believable. When Musharraf has spent a large part of his career associated with the strategically important Afghan and Kashmir jihads, it has to be a personal setback to him if the returns on both fronts is zero. I suspect the pressure on Musharraf to comes from within his own corp commander circle with similar long associations.

That fundamentalists gain ground with Pakistani public is IMO, only a convenient argument, not a true one. The electoral success of MMA in Balochistan and NWFP and the sympathy in these regions for Taliban and Al Qaeda has nothing to do with India. And its hard for anyone to believe that the populace of NWFP is, for instance giving up music because of India.
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#150 Posted by tahmed32 on March 12, 2003 6:48:12 am
harish: Great comeback, my two year old gentleman. You are so-o-o-o clever in choosing the pig to insult me, knowing I am a muslim. I am so deeply insulted that I am at a loss for words. ;-)
What do they feed you people anyway? Cant be the pill of eternal youth, since you and jay are I think grown up men. Must be the pill of eternal childishness.
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#149 Posted by arjun_m on March 12, 2003 6:48:12 am
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#148 Posted by arjun_m on March 12, 2003 6:48:12 am
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#147 Posted by temporal on March 12, 2003 6:48:11 am
sadna#146:


“General point about Iraq`s WMD..”

:)

you know the answer!…


the coming holocaust is a naked grab…bush and company are mirror fundos to obl and am types...beards notwithstanding!

rgds,

...t
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#146 Posted by Ahmadzai on March 11, 2003 9:17:12 pm
Sadna @ # 143:
Ÿou wrote:
``Good post, thanks. One person or the actions of India cannot rid you of fundamentalists, it will happen only through the Pakistani public`s own consensus. If Musharraf had not made a point out of excluding his political rivals who could rally public consensus unlike him, he wouldnot be in this predicament. ``

My response:

When the extremists in Indian Government keep war pressure on Pakistan externally and pressure on their Muslim population internally, fundamentalists in Pakistan do gain ground. So a little bit of sensibility on India`s part would have enabled us to focus on the issue. But hen Indian has its own internal compulsions.

Secondly, we could not have allowed the two corrupt leaders living outside of their own accord to come back and participate in elections. Do remember that almost all the Nawaz supporters are in PML Q now. Since elections in our constituencies are won by the powerful people belonging to those constituencies, even the presence of Nawaz and Benazir could not have helped.

In fact I believe that the presence of Nawaz or Benazir would have made it very difficult to address the problem under their populist agenda and need to win and retain public support in the two MMA provinces. For example, look what Imran Khan has done. He started with his own agenda, but joined hands with Islamists to keep going.

I think, Musharraf and the current Government under PML Q will be able to effectively tackle the problem.
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#145 Posted by sadna on March 11, 2003 9:17:12 pm
General point about Iraq`s WMD. If the US knows where Iraq`s WMDs are, why don`t they tell the UN inspectors so that Saddam and Iraq can be disarmed?

If the US doesnot know where Iraq`s WMDs are, how will waging war on Iraq reveal them? Its more likely in the event of a war that remanants of the losing Iraqi regime will sell off the WMDs to interested parties like the Chechen rebels or Bin Laden sympathisers, and take the profits when they escape into exile(remember the Nazis who fled to S. America ).

So toppling a regime which has hidden WMDs where you donot know is more dangerous than not toppling the regime, esp in Iraq which can quite easily pass through a period of anarchy by splitting into 3 hostile pieces.

So celebrating Olympics in Baghdad may change into celebrating nuclear winter somewhere.
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#144 Posted by harish_hyd on March 11, 2003 8:57:52 pm
#141 by tahmed32 on March 11, 2003 6:17pm PT

And what were your ancestors? Pigs?
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#143 Posted by sadna on March 11, 2003 8:22:12 pm
ahmadzai #118
Good post, thanks. One person or the actions of India cannot rid you of fundamentalists, it will happen only through the Pakistani public`s own consensus.

If Musharraf had not made a point out of excluding his political rivals who could rally public consensus unlike him, he wouldnot be in this predicament.
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#142 Posted by tahmed32 on March 11, 2003 6:17:27 pm
Saminasha #131 you write ``Hey...I thougth only my ma`s side came from Genghis Khan... ``
Great great great grand Uncle Genghis chased Jay`s monkey ancestors all the way to the southern tip of the India. What do you say, eh distant cousin?
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