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Jehad and The Curriculum
Posted by hamzaad May 7, 2005 12:47 am
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Jehad and The Curriculum
Posted by hamzaad May 7, 2005 12:37 am
Jehad and The Curriculum
Posted by hamzaad May 7, 2005 12:36 am
Soapbox Sania
Posted by hamzaad Apr 25, 2005 01:59 am
Versey is getting pretty good in hitting below the belt. Constructing strawman arguments etc. You have to read her ilogs, where she `innocently` asks why she is condemned for being so sensitive and `baysharam` by Mr. Strawman.

Most of her angst must stem from the minority mindset that Indian Muslims are forever scarred with. They hit back below the belt with impunity using a very African-American justification of guiltless narcissism. She probably also needs to produce articles for a living, thus the quality is consistently chowkish.
Punch Drunk Love
Posted by hamzaad Apr 24, 2005 07:30 pm
Re: # 29

Rahul,

As usual, you have no clue what is going on in kaka`s post. When you have an aggrieved party (ACTOR) looking for options, YOU AND YOUR KIND HAVE THE TENDENCY to advertise your concern for your own agendas WHICH ARE UTTERLY IRRELEVANT TO THE PROBLEM AT HAND. Of course, kaka can debrief the responsibilities of the man, the children, the in-laws, Allah and Pervez Musharraf to sort this situation come to a fantastic `equitable` end, BUT THE A C T O R in this episode remains to be that woman. For all kaka knows, the man is quite happy with the situation and DOES NOT WANT TO ACT (counselling) to change any of it. And here is Rahul Saheb `making dumb and irrelvant judgements such as `the man is insensitive etc` (which maybe true but gives a fuck?) or `equitable solution is the only way to go etc`.

If you look at kaka`s first post about the actions the woman can take, they are pretty solid education towards maturity and good advice altogether. AND IT TAKES CARE OF INACTION on the part of the hubby, Allah and other characters. kaka calls them compromises because WHY SHOULD THE WOMAN HAVE TO GO THROUGH these HOOPS after the contract of `letting his babies born out of her uterus in return for emotional and other securities` implicit in this context.
Punch Drunk Love
Posted by hamzaad Apr 23, 2005 11:07 pm
Re: # 18

`This is neither necessarily true (hence) nor necessarily desirable.`

When kaka says `compromises`, it includes things like looking around for a job and investment. Some people might even call them proactive steps..

Of course, they might not be necessary (desirable kaka doesn`t care). Inaction may turn the hubby around in some sort of Lifetime movie moment. Prayers combined with inaction does also have a statistical significance of a decimal. So necessary? kaka won`t insist on it!
Punch Drunk Love
Posted by hamzaad Apr 23, 2005 07:44 pm
Re: # 16

`this is not an equitable solution to the issue, if indeed this is the solution.`

Whoopdi doo!

`We can discuss on why the solution needs to be equitable.`

You can run circles around the alter of equity for your own sanity. Be it the Islamic, Marxist or the Feminist requirements, kaka does not have to discuss what model of equity you have conjured up.

You see, when you have a one-sided narrative of a problem with a built-in context of relationships and expectations, you cannot barge in with a solution cooked up in Shelter for Battered Women. You have to ask the ACTOR (Ms. Abbasi`s friend) to make compromises (yes there`s no other word for it) if she is eager to change her circumstances. In the meantime kaka will strongly criticise all attempts by idiots and ZahraJs to misdirect the poor woman from bettering her own circumstances to their pathological need to see being equity being worshipped.
Punch Drunk Love
Posted by hamzaad Apr 23, 2005 02:57 pm
Re: # 10

The misdirection of `double standards` will always be a hallmark of idiots and ZahraJs. Think about this: even if there are double standards (or triple ones for that matter), what does it matter to the problem at hand?

In the task of problem solving, the narrower agendas of `double standards`, `world hunger` and `middle east violence` etc need to be shelved. In the context of these alleged `double standards`, what is the best this woman can do? For that, look up kaka`s post #1 which BTW is not about `ideal society` BUT WHAT SHOULD PEOPLE DO GIVEN THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
Punch Drunk Love
Posted by hamzaad Apr 22, 2005 02:22 pm
Let kaka delineate circumstances which should make everyone happy: this will allow the actors to bring their conditions closer to an acceptable situation with all the necassary compromises etc.

First, the man should be living and drinking in a country where there are not too many risks involved with drinking. A compromise would be the man taking an acknowledged risk counteracted by caution, connections and a back-up plan (for all victims involved).

The woman should educate herself about the joys of getting drunk and how attractive it is. This will also help her overlook the pathetic conditions of the drunk coming home. The children should be taught to learn a lesson and not think too highly of their father to keep their sanity. A common disease in desi households is the demand of respecting parents even when there little reason for it.

Coming to tems with the need to drink will also help the woman not to demand `dryness` and be fooled into false promises and , most terribly, be lied to.

Lastly, the woman should not make many moves until there is some financial security in terms of a job or investment. A lot of doors open after a person in economically independent.. a goal which could be achieved while seeing a man cming home totally wasted while the woman is hustling around making herself financially secure.
Desperately Seeking Dictators and Dissenters
Posted by hamzaad Feb 17, 2005 08:11 am
kaka wishes, kaka had more time to debunk Versey`s idiotic statements. Sometimes kaka wonders if its the Indian education in `arts` which should be blamed for its role in discouraging critical thinking. Or are women generally encouraged to be this stupid and `opinionated`, just so that the system can take credit for atleast providing them with some vent?

The statements below are some of many random declarations that Versey sprinkles all over, hoping to get atleast one of them right and thus be credited with an incredible insight.

1. This is double-talk and extremely dangerous.

No reason given as to why it is dangerous, nevermind the extremeness that it also poses.

2. America is the largest dictatorship in the world today.

HP maeri jaan, explain the `unconventional wisdom` in this dumb statement..

3. There is greater racism there than there was in South Africa.

Typical stupidity intended to be `controversial`. Versey probabaly has no idea what kind of racism South Africa had/has. She just wanted to compare things with the worst possible racism that her little heart desired.

4. The West Asia peace talks were a great photo-op for which the American tax-payer forked out money. But the United States administration continues to have a strong Jewish lobby and it takes great pleasure in creating rifts among the Arab states, and its friends are those with money power or ones who make for convenient sitting ducks.

Note the use of the segue `but`: one of the many stupid transitions that Versey routinely inserts between idiotic declarations. The preceding statement has no relation (or the relevant negation relation) with the one following it. Examples like these abound in Versey`s rantings in everything she writes.

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The rest of the essay has some of the dumbest logic espoused by anyone kaka has ever seen (and kaka has seen a lot of dumb shit). A lot of her support comes from Pakistani nationalist who still haven`t learnt their lessons in scounderal-ism, given their prior support of Salim et al.
Two Score and Ten
Posted by hamzaad Feb 13, 2005 04:44 pm
Ali,

kaka must inform you that ZahraJ averaged over teen thappaR per day until she moved out of her dad`s house. She is looking to regain her average by barging into threads that might just bring back memories of DaddyJ.. with misty eyes.
The Idea of Chowk
Posted by hamzaad Jan 26, 2005 04:04 pm
Godot,

Your points (1) and (2)... MNI was right about you being a chutya..

Can you see that Saima was not talking about throwing verbal abusers in prisons? She was drawing an analogy that just as the criminals are quarantined, so should the verbal abusers be too..
The Idea of Chowk
Posted by hamzaad Jan 25, 2005 05:10 pm
#179 by Saminasha on January 25, 2005 4:30pm PT Score=2

1. she wishes you actually had to spend at least three days as a woman, gay, progressive, person of color, or intelligent person so that you`d have something to REALLY complain about

2. aint no free market gonna liberate your tired, terrorist ass, it`ll be one of those crunchy granola pc lawyers Depends Sahib is constantly expectorating about...

3. diaper bud would outlaw The Very Second he was made Ayatollah,

Saminah jaan ki TukRi,

Why are you talking in third person like kaka? But kaka likey..

1. You got distracted by kaka`s repression in real life where he cannot express his crazed ideas without cost to his body, position and livelihood. In cyberspace, kaka has some fascination with cannabilism, polygamy, mutah, bombing kaabaah, even dabbling in porn. Where should kaka test these crazy and provocotive ideas if not in cyberspace.

Merrily sliding the slippery slope, kaka likes to attack people who are truly idiotic. Take Farzana. She has truly nothing to say. Such incoherent bakvaas masked under feigned anguish mostly construed from strawman `contradictions`. On occasions like that, there is no idea which can be idiotic; it is the person who is an idiot. So kaka attacks her and kaka wants freedom of expression for such attacks. Farzana can use the ignore button, but kaka`s fans can enjoy and do wah-wah.

On the other hand, take sadna. So anti-pakistani, so partisan but with great argument laying. kaka recognizes her partisanship but she does it with intelligence.

2. Saminah, there is a very good reason you are called an idiot by well-meaning people. You got distracted into irrelevant bakwaas. Why sweetie, why?!! kaka weeps for you. In real life, of course a PC lawyer will save kaka`s cute ass BUT JUST BECAUSE OF THAT KAKA SHOULD BE NICE TO PC PEOPLE? What are you saying, sweet-pea? kaka is weeping haye haye..

3. saminah, bungling islamist with kaka is liking mixing alcohol with aab-e-zamzam. Its hard to say if its your intellectual dishonesty or you are really that chutya that you would make kaka and Brother Echoboom buddies. You know that he would cut kaka`s head the first time he meets kaka, right? Let`s not be facetious here.
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