Ich bin ein Mussulman

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Is there a way to prevent writers from rating their own articles? The last 30 or so article and poems have so far all been rated 5 star. I know I am not that bright but it just doesn`t seem right.

Rehan,

Hope you reach the destination thats best for you :)

Call it coincidence or the `german connection` but last month a friend from berlin, reffered me to the project`s site after he suggested a possible link between the proposals made by the `project for the new american century` and the september eleventh incident.

The website address for those of you who might be interested is:

http://www.newamericancentury.org

Regards.

I think Mr Ansari and Ms Versey are made-for-each-other soulmates. No disrespect to them or other soulmates if any, but, going by what they write Mr Ansari is a trapped American Pakistani, who is too helpless to do anything except rue America and Ms Versey is a trapped Indian who is too helpless to do anything except rue India. Mr Ansari always feels a deep nameless hurt from nameless others wherever he goes and whatever he does, Ms Versey always feels a deep nameless hurt from nameless others whereever she goes and whatever she does.
In either case, I can never understand what is it they want from me :). Just imagine, if either ever accidentally had a good time(say they strayed into Disneyland by mistake :)), they would prob. get writers block.

great piece Mr.Ansari.. loved the title!

``50 years of US billions in Pakistan have made a home for soldiers, not philosophers``

How true & how sad!

But we have to blame ourselves also. The Americans never stopped us from spreading liberal arts and education.

It should be more like Washington and Nazi Berlin, twin cities.

``I can see the high romanticism of Berlin in places but most of the city feels like some power has cleaned up the place with acid and built an anaesthesised, functional city.``

Excellent. Really enjoyed reading this.

rehan:
Even I feel like saying ``ich bin ein Mussalmaan und Arab``, at least momentarily!
By a coincidence, I too was in the same neighbourhood (Wienn/Vienna) when Herr Bush launched his blitzkrieg in Baghdad.
A possible (?) minor correction: Allen Dulles was the Director of the FBI and not the Defense Secretary during the `50s and `60s.

sadna,

what`s wrong with criticizing the country in which you live?
are you supposed to blindly follow and nod ur head to the government and agree with everything it does?

were African Americans `ehsan faramosh` for marching against the policies of the United States?

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Interesting title but do you know that Kennedy got it wrong. ``Ich bin ein Berliner`` actually translates to ``I am a Jellybean``....

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I oppose the Iraq war and have done so all over these boards. Where were you? Nothing wrong in criticising one`s govt., I even posted on how Americans must exercise their own judgement as a constitutional duty.

The question is of taking responsibility, either as a Pakistani or as an American. Not doing so, being a perpertual victim, -one who wants to be an American would know thats not been the essence of being American, even an American immigrant.

As an American, would he have preferred the US not fight the Nazis and occupy Berlin? As a Pakistani, does he indeed think Pakistanis were mindless puppets that they helped bomb Kabul to rubble ? As a Muslim, he complains about the US treatment of Muslim immigrants, does he know Germany has a history of discrimination against 1-2 million German Turks (MUSLIMS!) including refusing many citizenship on flimsy grounds of `not knowing German language`? As an artist, how is he able to attend a festival in Berlin, does it have something to do with any US billions?

No more explanations for my post :)

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