The Jihad of a Humanist

Ref godot #46

[A complete silence to my post 36 leads me to believe that I may have spoken the truth and may have struck a chord among many...how tragic for Chowk.]

Turn in an article on the greatness of Jinnah/Mohammad Ghaznavi/Ibn Sina/... (add any number of Muslim names here and take your pick) and it will get published pronto! You have used this trick before and so has that dear boy Yasser Latif Hamdani.

Re: Veeresh, #48

Yes. Separating hits for an article versus its interacts would help gauge the interest in an article, and may help weed out bad writings (although it cannot prevent the author or his/her ``friends`` to keep clicking on the article to make it ``appear`` as if it is being read...but that`s besides the point).

Further, Chowk`s selection process of an article needs to be re-assessed, re-evaluated, and overhauled. The re-packaging of Chowk has done diddly to improve the quality of articles it chooses to publish. It`s not any different than fixing the dents and repainting an old car with shiny new paint and ignoring its engine. The engine remains cantankerous and dreadful.

godot #49 if it makes you feel better, chowk never published two of my articles.

the first article i had written before 9/11 (thats how long I have been on chowk) after visiting pakistan. since i had been keeping an eye on a large madrassah for a few years, and had noticed this time that the maulvis being groomed in the madrassah were more aggressive than past years. i could almost sense the pot coming to a boil. in my article i had predicted that we were headed for a civil war within pakistan. events turned out a bit differently of course, and instead of a civil war where the maulvis tried to take over pakistan as i had feared we had the terrorist attack of 9/11 that resulted in the war on terror with the US taking the lead and musharaff jumping in line. so, in a way i think that was a prescient article anyway, since it correctly noted that the pot was reaching a boiling point. mullahs, being mullahs, overestimated their own capacity and instead of taking on pakistani society alone (where they may well have managed to take over) the idiots took on the US. so we got lucky. and that prescient article got rejected...damn!

the second article i wrote more recently on Ancient Pakistan - properly researched and everything with some new stuff that people are not generally aware off. maybe this one will get published. who knows.

hope this makes you feel better.

PS: urstruly is not responding to my posts. hope he is not offended by my poking a bit of fun at him. maybe he is. hope you are not offended at being compared to a tonga horse. maybe you are.

oh well. c`est le chowk interacts. and c`est le chowk articles...

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Urstruly #27

Indian govt. has nothing to do with Canadian case. It is the Canadian govt pursuing it. They believe more in the rule of law than Indian govt does.

If Pakistan can use nukes to prevent its disintegration so can India. You cannnot be so stupid.

I see Kashmiris, Sikhs and Sindhis at logger heads with Punjabi Muslims over water rights. It is the future.

#1 temporal,
we need more sankurathris in this world``
then world would be better place to live in.constructive way to over come grief.