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Child Camel Jockeys

Reza Malik October 25, 2004

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#26 Posted by jang on October 29, 2004 11:53:47 am
#25 urs

arabs dont deserve any dealing based on un etc. punishments prescribed in sharia are just dandy, and this problem is a perfect one to be solved under the OIC charter. if OIC does something about this, the whole world will get wah-wahs and maybe i will convert my brother in law to islam due to an impressive example.
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#25 Posted by Urstruly on October 29, 2004 7:53:34 am

Oh by the way, I think the Arabs who use smuggled children for this sport are sadist fucks and they must be dealt through the United Nations` anti-slavery and human smuggling charter. Had they used their own daughters and sons for this race I might have had some respect for them but this is absolutely unacceptable.
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#24 Posted by harish_hyd on October 28, 2004 9:44:44 pm
#22 by ya sh!tz

[Dont know hashish..you`re the one who brought it up.]

Just as you brought up Tendulkar`s tennis elbow?
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#23 Posted by jang on October 28, 2004 1:43:33 pm

``This stupid and useless knowledge about inertias, momentums, accelerations and stuff has made me a coward, even impotent, I would say.``

heh heh.. i thunks that its the camel ride which may have dried-up your juices.

however, i agree with vertu that the shame is on us and not the arabs. most of us (except a few) understand that the arabs are not paragons of virtue. they are just as ugly under the pristine white sheets as banias of bagirath-palace in chandni chowk going for bizziness junkets to bangcock thailand or swedes looking for nice kerala and ceylon boys on the beaches. so, out with arab reverence, camel or quick-nikah hydrabad style, but dont blame the arab. the problem is our that we cannot take care of our children, but keep bringing them in this world. we are the abusers, not the arab. so, if a poor guy makes kids which he cannot provide for, he should be booked under child-abuse laws before he makes more kids. (england did have such laws against poverty in 17-th century). i am sure islamic sharia has something like this.

if not the arab, it will be the swede (except in sweden if caught, he will be love-toy of a cellmate for 9 years) or the lecherous guy next door or mean carpet factory owner.
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#22 Posted by yasirz on October 28, 2004 12:21:36 pm
#21
Dont know hashish..you`re the one who brought it up.Please enlighten me.
Whoa! hold on a minute...Was Jemima suffering from Tennis elbow too?
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#21 Posted by harish_hyd on October 28, 2004 12:28:51 am
[#20 by yasirz]

[this obsessive compulsiveness hamidm2 talks about is shared by many of your countrymen.]

Something akin to the obsessive compulsiveness with which Pakis followed the Imran-Jemima breakup?
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#20 Posted by yasirz on October 27, 2004 8:07:24 pm
Veeresh,
this obsessive compulsiveness hamidm2 talks about is shared by many of your countrymen.For example Mr.Tendulkar had or has tennis elbow.After a gazillion articles and press coverage analyzing each and every detail and angle there could possibly be, he finally comes in to play. And what happens you ask? the bloody midget goes for 8 runs!
My point: Dont pin all your hopes on something that you believe in so strongly...only to be let down this miserably.
GO see a doctor before it gets worse.

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#19 Posted by Urstruly on October 27, 2004 5:18:19 am

Ok, that’s it, enough camel bashing for two days. What is wrong with you people? Why such low opinion about camels and camel riders? Camel is an elegant and beautiful animal and it has been useful to man since millennia. Though I have never raced a camel but I have ridden it while it cruised at those breakneck speeds, several times. At normal speeds I think it is a great vehicle for two, especially if you are a rear passenger. Well for some, being a front passenger is not bad either – to each his own. What I am trying to say is that it suits everybody. I think camel and horse are the rides worthy of a man, especially a horse. The sheer 0-60 power of a horse can beat the torque produced by the best machines on two or four wheels any day. But, I blame it on my Western education that I would not prefer to ride anything that does not have disk brakes but I still long for these animals. The white man`s evil education system has succumbed the simple joys of life. This stupid and useless knowledge about inertias, momentums, accelerations and stuff has made me a coward, even impotent, I would say. I used to enjoy roller coaster rides but now I know about how metals fracture, how stresses and strains work, loads, and dynamics and all that white man`s voodoo stuff. Compare this to traditional knowledge that our ancestors have conveyed to us. Before, I knew about science and engineering I knew about ``Shutr keena``, i.e. `the camel`s grudge`, which is an almost universal proverb in Urdu, Arabic, and Persian speaking world, but it never scared me. I knew that unlike dogs and horses, camel demands faithfulness from its owner and not the other way around. If you really upset a camel it comes after you, grabs you by your head, and keeps on shaking you until your neck snaps and then it stomps on you until you are made an example for other unfaithful and inconsiderate owners. I knew that but it never scared me. Camel racing is a fine sport. The child jockeys are like the peewee league or what they call the minor league of camel racing. What is wrong with that? It builds character of young men to be. And camels have sexy supermodel lips, which come as a bonus.
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#18 Posted by hamidm2 on October 26, 2004 8:10:02 pm
i apologize for summoning the evil spirits,

i didn`t really mean it when i said, ``at times like this i miss people like vereesh`` - it was just a figure of speech .... allah ki kasam!........ jantoo jalal tu ai bala ko taal !

.......maybe i will get to love vereesh like jay before him who spent his days (and nights) of his life poring through the letters to dawn`s editor to point out the timbers in paki eyes ! ............. sometimes i feel that i get a little carried away in my hatred and loathing for the mullah, but compared to vereesh`s obsessive compulsive behavior my condition is rather mild and innocuous ...........

.......... but going back to the child camel jockeys, it is a shame that some folks in pakistan are involved in this hideous practice and others don`t see anything wrong ..............
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#17 Posted by veeresh on October 26, 2004 8:06:23 pm
hamidm2/13 - I don`t have cataract nor do I have any prejudices.

It seems you may be referring to my reportage on Lahore Railway Station, which has been taken amiss by some gentle folk.

To tell you the truth, I do like to sleep in late, 96% of the time, which is why I missed the sight of Charles ``Omar`` Bron-da-son on the harmoonium representing the Pakistani media singing old cultured Lahoree bhajans in dulcet tones from around voluntary chanda boxes while accompanied by hordes of Lahoree women rapturously displaying cleavage to a toothless bear just retruned from the dog-bear fights in the border districts called Bahut ``Chota`` Rajput-wannabe-Salim all except Yasser ``Hudood`` Manto-would-Cry who was dressed in a daring tutu with can-can bra for a role in the daily Basant Pageant daintily to background music from Swan Lake, flitting from wall to wall like Spiderman, tearing down anti-everything posters from the world award winning Allama Iqbal Airport Extension which used to be known as Lahore Railway Station.

Urstruly is a Nau-gaz kaa Saint, in comparision to 96% of your fellow countrymen.
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#16 Posted by oppressed on October 26, 2004 7:45:18 pm
I do not think urstruly is blinded by faith. He has left no doubt that he is certifiably mad
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#15 Posted by veeresh on October 26, 2004 7:02:22 pm
Misuse in the Arab countries of young boys (and girls), and the illegal trades therein, is something that has been going on, aided and abetted by people from the sub-Continent, for a long time. At one time it was open season, but of late India and Bangladesh have been able to control quite a bit of this trade. It still flows from Pakistan and Afghanistan, unfortunately, and probably because of some amount of complicity as well as blind eye.

Ah, the blind eye. Doing well in Pakistan lately, 96% of the time.

How do I know this? Well, I still have my contacts amongst the dhow operators who sail the waters of the Arabian Sea with impunity and freedom, and they tell me how the boats still sail out of Karachi and small ports North of it with cargoes of human misery in small sizes.

Leave alone camel riders, the reports on human organ farming and blood collection are still untold. But then, blindness suits them, the educated middle class in Pakistan, as they go into defending flags and ``national pride``.

After all, the same blind eyes can spot ``bh***ee```` colonies in Dadar which nobody else can see, can re-define jehad boxes as voluntary chanda collection centres (for bhajans?) and the same blind eyes can suddenly see emancipated women out on the streets of Lahore in full liberty. Those blind eyes can not ride a train for a few kilometres to Wagah Station, however, since the dust will really blind them. They can talk about fancy airports as benchmarks while 99% of their fellow citizens are riding trains.

But they are blind to the truth and the ills of their own society.

I mean, voluntary donation boxes for poorer mosques at Lahore RS? We may be `orrible `Indoos, but even we are not that daft. What next, thin cucumbur sandwiches and tea for all multi-faith visitors at Binari in Karachi?

I agree, here in India too we have religious entities masquerading as fronts for everything under the sun, (including receiving payments for release of kidnapped rich people by demand draft payable to tax-free trusts when cash is difficult in these days of Income Tax computerisation), and we have filthy railway stations and we have parts of the country where women are treated terribly to say the least, but we try not to be blind about it. The very fact that photographs can be sourced openly on the Internet of these ills within India, and are not challenged, are signs of some sort of acceptance of truth.

What I am wondering is, however, that the writer has the same surname as me but is not accused by our heroic interactors of being a Paki-basher anti-Pakistani . . . oh wait, this child abuse and export does not exist in Pakistan, export of little chiuldren does not take place from pakistan, it is actually for the benefit of orphans in Pakistan that they are sent to high-class boarding schools in the desert.
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#14 Posted by Atheist on October 26, 2004 2:53:31 pm
urstruly,

I thought you had little bit of intelligence!!!…………..If you think little malnourished kid riding a camel is a sports then public stoning should be legal and you should be stoned for writing such a rubbish………..
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#13 Posted by hamidm2 on October 26, 2004 10:45:26 am
urstruly,

``Since when camel riding has become a crime against humanity.``...... spoken like the true defender of a faith which condones (or refuses to condemn) slavery ............ next thing we know, you will be defending concubines and public stonings ...........

............ at times like this i miss people like vereesh, who might be suffering from cataracts caused by extreme prejudice, but are not totally blinded by faith ............
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#12 Posted by harish_hyd on October 26, 2004 6:00:41 am
Reza,

Thanks for bringing to light the plight of these poor young children. Obviously, the Paki govt. cares two hoots for these children. When grown-up young men can be sent as cannon-fodder to Afghanistan or Kashmir to die uncared for, what chance do these innocent kids stand?
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#11 Posted by vertex on October 25, 2004 8:05:23 pm
Oh puh-leaze. As IF young boys aren`t abused at home in Pakistan in far worse conditions...chained to a stick forced to make shit-bricks day in day out.

Stop that crap in your own backyard then, God willing, you`ll have the spine to stop it abroad.

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    #25 Urstruly
    #24 harish_hyd
    #23 jang
    #22 yasirz
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    #20 yasirz
    #19 Urstruly
    #18 hamidm2
    #17 veeresh
    #16 oppressed
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    #14 Atheist
    #13 hamidm2
    #12 harish_hyd
    #11 vertex
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