60 Years of American DogHood This was very poorly written - some editing wudve helped w/ the language but the incoherence cud 1ly be fixed w/ a complete rewrite.
Prolly no1 picked up on this coz prolly no1 has bothered 2 read it..

Lal Masjid: Lessons Learnt ajeya u r tilting @ the windmill & r exercised over trivial things - again, gender equality, equality of all humans b4 the law, equal rights r universal values - we in the west have discovered them a little ahead of traditional societies - that doesnt make them western values

Lal Masjid: Lessons Learnt ajeya
lemme offer an outsider's perspective - there r indeed universal values that we all r moving towards - the west got there 1st doesnt make them western values

What Lies Beneath: Dispatch from the Frontlines of the Burqa Brigades #38 dude masadi is too complex 4 u understand - leave him outta this - zeemax the wannabe zeehadi otoh..

Complex Problems can have Simple Solutions Indeed its not uncommon 2 c flat roofed concrete houses w/ white paint in africa & parts of asia. Its common sense.
U`d do even better if u used some insulation, something even as simple as a cavity/an air gap in walls and roofs of concrete bldgs & build houses w/ better air circulation instead of the box style thats common in colder climes like the us & europe.

Satanic Verses masadi u r 1 complicated dude

#36 hamidm is there no end 2 ur mischiefmaking

Allama Iqbal- Is he still relevant? Considering as Naqshi says the majority is satisfied with food, clothing & shelter & would be happy to be left alone, democracy doesnt have that much to recommend it (except for the alternative!) Heard a guy recently who has studied the wisdom of the collective on the internet & came to the conclusion that the collective is generally stupid.
Its not elitism to note this just realism.
Democracy certainly does not confer some magical moral authority on a people as many have come to believe.

Carl Friedrich Gauss engineers love gaussian distribution coz its fourier transform also is gaussian - makes for ez estimation of moments, etc.

Shopping with Perveen Chris Seuss Cork!

Daughters of Hajar thats it from me - i have nothing more 2 add

Daughters of Hajar kal how else shud ur pronoucements re: islam be interpreted
U luv zeemax (or filosofer`s) oppressive version coz it suits ur agenda
masadi has seen thru it & u stand exposed
theres nothing logical abt picking & choosing
an outsider has no business passing judgements on what shud & shud not be acceptable
id like 2 call that silly but ill call it for what it is - deceptive & dangerous

Daughters of Hajar 236 GT
i havent been following this board - happened upon this thru some discussion or the other on UP
speaking of kal, he has an agenda that escapes a lot of ppl - he caricatures islam as a rigid oppressive system that simply wud not brook discussion dissemination fresh ideas & so on - this is the view of those who simply hate islam from their own religious pov
any variants of islam he labels as not islam much like islamists do. hes an islamist w/o being a muslim - the daniel pipes type

What Next After Karachi’s Carnage? mr filosofer age of puberty 4 american girls is around 10 years - so u think a 4th or 5th grader shud be free 2 marry?

What Next After Karachi’s Carnage? philosopher has an uncanny resemblance to masadi

Liberation of a Monster kul we r way past the nazi era - now habeaus corpus is practically suspended on acc. of the wot - why mollycoddle others` terrorists - what wud u say if venezuela gave asylum 2 al zawahiri?

Reflections on the Virginia Tech School Tragedy from today`s paper-
CARY, Ill. -- A high school senior was arrested after writing that ``it would be funny`` to dream about opening fire in a building and having sex with the dead victims, authorities said.

Another passage in the essay advised his teacher at Cary-Grove High School: ``don`t be surprised on inspiring the first CG shooting,`` according to a criminal complaint filed this week.

Allen Lee, 18, faces two disorderly conduct charges over the creative-writing assignment, which he was given on Monday in English class at the northern Illinois school.

Students were told to ``write whatever comes to your mind. Do not judge or censor what you are writing,`` according to a copy of the assignment.

According to the complaint, Lee`s essay reads in part, ``Blood, sex and booze. Drugs, drugs, drugs are fun. Stab, stab, stab, stab, stab, s...t...a...b...puke. So I had this dream last night where I went into a building, pulled out two P90s and started shooting everyone, then had sex with the dead bodies. Well, not really, but it would be funny if I did.``

Officials described the essay as disturbing and inappropriate.

Lee said he was just following the directions.

``In creative writing, you`re told to exaggerate,`` Lee said. ``It was supposed to be just junk. ... There definitely is violent content, but they`re taking it out of context and making it something it isn`t.``

Lee was moved to an off-campus learning program, and the district was evaluating a punishment, schools spokesman Jeff Puma said.

``It wasn`t just violent or foul language,`` Puma said. ``It went beyond that.``

The teenager`s father, Albert Lee, has defended his son as a straight-A student who was just following instructions and contends the school overreacted. But he has also said he understands that the situation arose in the week after a Virginia Tech student gunned down 32 people before committing suicide.

Defense attorney Dane Loizzo said Allen Lee has never been disciplined in school and signed Marine enlistment papers last week.

A conviction could bring up to 30 days in jail and a maximum $1,500 fine.