The Jews, Israel, and the Middle East we won!!!!!!

The Jews, Israel, and the Middle East This is most the aggarvatingly biased article I have seen for a long time and the dangerous mentality behind it mirrors that of the current aggressors fueled by their new con westerner backers. Pathetic, gutless and waste of webspace.....

Escalation of Hostilities in Middle East Israel has today wrecked any moderate support it had in Muslim world, The Western world with its overburdening complicity in the Nazi genocide has always supported the zionist as their own racist believes are fullfilled by these blue eyed so called semites.

I beleived ferverently in the fact that Israel should have the right to exist behind the 1967 boundaries and continue to prosper as a nation. It is worth noting that througout the last 2000 years the Jews found shelter in the east where they were persecuted until modern times by the western nations.

Now the children of holocaust are worst than their Nazi offenders, infact the state of Israel will make Hitler proud for its ethnic cleansing of the innocent palestinians. Now I give up any support for Israel to exist, I choose to side with Hamas and Hizbullah and look forward to the day when the Zionists are wiped off the face of the earth.

Finding My Feet in London Zahra

Let me attempt to answer the two questions you put forward.

1. What does a home mean to you?

A refuge in a literal sense of the word, some place where you enter and leave the world outside. But a home has to be more than the house you live in, it has to include the land you live in and for europe and england in specific it is still a hostile place where essentially after the BS is scraped off, I do not belong to. But then isnt it the catch 22 of the immigrant mentality that when you take step to move home, even temporarily, you have given up the right to belong to single place. Immigrants and specifically the first generation immigrants live in a parrallel world which is in contradiction with itself and therefore an immigrant and i refer exclusively to myself, does not belong anywhere except to a place in the past which does not exist.

2. What is that you would like to enjoy in the place called home?

To be safe and to be truly happy without any expectations.

Inzamam and Allah hilarious

Finding My Feet in London It is amazing how the reactions of people from a certain area, city or culture could be so different. Reading about your experiences sort of took me down memory lane and outlooks and initial observations are remarkably similar.

I came here a few years back much like yourself from Karachi, although I had just left school. My first reaction to the cold and dark city involved a lot of late night sobbing and breaking down everytime I heard my mother’s voice over the phone. It could have been Mars as far as I cared, it seemed like another world and absolute sense of loneliness enveloped everything. You will notice that the sadder you are the colder this city will feel. All those clean pavements, pebbled corners, windy bridges and that awful muddy thames river become almost hostile as you walk along them. I remember walking a lot, partially because college finished too early and the dorms were probably the saddest place I knew in the world. And so I walked till I got tired and then I remember rationalising the cost of food and found myself going on a diet that included a hell of a lot of milk, eggs and bread. As you would probably notice, eating omelletes two times a day does something to your dream pattern. I swear all my dreams involved Pakistani food, cooked by my mom in those days. And so I started to learn about my new abode, the city of many myths and a single truth, which I was yet to discover.

Things will move on, and this will truly test you and as a result you would get to know yourself a little better. You will be able to make friends which will make the whole experience worth the trouble. Although daunting at the start, I fell in love with London eventually. You will pride yourself on how well you know its corners and its pavements. My advice would only be to let things roll, take it a day at a time, and before you choose your final poison, give everything a try, some things you will hate and some you will know are made for you. Through the manic chaos of central London, there are still places of quiet contemplation.

The big question for me is how to make a city a home.

Sajjad Zahir: The Voice of the Common Man #7 I hate fascists of all colours and shades but I hate commies more than anything.

Urstruly

I am sure you are very satisfied by the polarized political climate of pakistan today, i think its time we see throught he whole commie bashing this. I am not a communist, but can identify with the broader leftist agenda. SO who do you support the Beards or the US proxies in brown?

Sajjad Zahir: The Voice of the Common Man HP

You stated some interesting facts that I wasnt aware off. But my question is this if as you say that the Jamaat had such support in the urban centres like karachi,and that senior army figures supported the Jamaat, how then did the pakistan army with the right religious outlook under zia helped create the MQM which basically countered and eroded the power that jamaat islami held in karachi and larger part of sind?

Sajjad Zahir: The Voice of the Common Man Hiren, Most importantly, congratulations on writing a great introduction for those of us who were not aware of Sajjad Zahir`s life and body of work. Thank you.

Secondly, This article reenforced a belief that I have on how the death of the left in pakistan (can`t speak about India) has been a further catalyst in the rise of the two Right winged extremes in pakistan. The Religous Right & the bureaucratic/militaristic Right.
Talking to my father, I sometimes try to understand the political mood post partition specially in the urban centres of our country. I rationalise with him the political leadership of the time and the left lead by the PWA was thoroughly present in political landscape. Some people say that the rawalpindi conspiracy case was a a suicide note for the left at the time. But it was more than that, it was the fatal reliance on a military solution albiet a leftist one to the problems of the pakistani leadership. The left made the same mistake that the civilian govt. made in terms of the hobnobbing with the military.

Today our socio-political moral standing has to be either engulfed in purely nationalist or religious ideologies or be part of the pro military infrastructure. We as a nation have seen a multitude of civilian govt. f*ckups followed by the danda bashing khakis, playing politics of the barracks and trying to do something that they have proven 4 times in our short history to be totally useless at, which is namely leading pakistan.

There is no proof that the left could have succeded in any of its endeavours, it is however the most important balancing act in a nation`s political hemisphere, the lack of which result in the democratic casualities which is headed by the current politics of the US.

Anyways, great article , you should write more on this website which has over the years turned more juvenille at best.

Echoes This seems to be a mini ipod version of the unplugged.

Withdrawing from Iraq: A Disaster Waiting to Happen? This article is just an example of the numbed, illogical and thoroughly illinformed view of the desi americans who are as ``dumbed`` up as the rest of the the US.

The Evils that are purported and the boogeyman aka US style listed out in this article are just on the verge of being benign albeit with a deadly rancour. So here is the ``EXPERT`` first world assessment as preached by Mr Hamid. We got in there, oops, but now we musnt get out as the boogeyman from the three sides will just make this area more susceptible to ``TERRORIZM`` the z would be the new US spelling of the word offcourse. This was a disaster long before the US got into the Iraq, this was a disaster when Saddam came into power backed by the CIA, this was a disaster when the US planted the Shah which eventually resulted in the frency full iranian revolution.

And now when the US is in there, it still remains to be a disaster, the most important thing to the US forces is there own security. Saddam was a monster many times over, but he was also a coward and divided and ruled iraq with full support of the western ``well meaning`` folk. So now it doesnt matter whether the US forces stay or leave, civil war is on the way, the ghost of islamic orthodoxy has been released because unfortunately we muslims tend to only find refuge in the most right of our islamic ``inspired`` idealogies. So I assure you Mr Hamid, your First worldly comfort levels with white men with guns ruling the unruly Arabs as being the only solution, was never a solution to begin with.

The only heroes in this case and the sole victims of this war by the west upon their former puppet dictators are the people of iraq. Who with all the onslaught still live on and manage to continue their existence in some shape and form. They did it before at the time of the Mad dictator, they will somehow manage to go through the rest of the their days.

And they most certainly not as worked up about the white men with guns staying in order to have ``DEMOKRAZY`` as Bush keeps invoking the now redundant word in Iraq. Democracy is not a invocation that you can wish for another people and another place, it is an organic growth of a society which emerges in some ways from perilous times. However the West specially ensures that the Peril continues. Irar today, Iran tommorow and maybe Syria the day after.

flying kites, playing flutes T bhai

I can read and feel the anger that you have tried to manifest in your work. However we are using basant as an excuse. They had basant when that woman was gang raped a few years ago because her brother was hanging out with an upper caste ``Muslim`` family. The point is not that its basant and a few very rich people get together in a town and fly kites, giving ample livelehood to the kite makers and also keeping the heera mandi revenues up. The point is that that we have as a nation become desentised enough to not feel anything. We are all complicit in that rape in the simplification of non action. We blame the Army Autocrats, the baloch feudals, the intoxicated upper classes as much as we want, but it is our inaction and inability to do anything about it that is the most ironic thing of all. Writing a poem on a board full of expats may stroke our ego, no bounds, but what did any of us do about it, that is the question we need to ask.

Hearing Dr Shazia`s account of her ordeal in Balochistan breaks one down. The question is not whether we would have felt the pain if it was our wife or sister there , the question is that we didnt feel anything except a passing disgust or a moment of sadness, all over by a shake of the head. The Politicians, the Balochi Separatists are all trying to make political capital out of this. Soon this will be forgotten, Shazia will either live in some remote corner hiding from everything and everyone or hang herself to death. This is the fate of wretched in our land. And we will forget pretty soon and will be celebrating next basant soon enough.

Remembering Maqbool Butt stuka calm down dude, or your visa will be revoked :P ;)

Thanksgiving III T Bhai

I have never really understood the concept of thankgiving, I mean its like the Pak Army giving free guided tours of the future hawkesbay Subarbs to the original baluch inhabitants who inhabited the villages in and around the now Pak Army occupied area, but than thats me. Also when the original pilgrims halaled those turkey`s in front of the indians, did the indians recognise any of their pet turkey at the time and uttered its name. I guess these little details have been forgotten and the world is suppose to accept thanksgiving as a universally accepted celebration, explain that to the fallujans.

Anyways, love the urdu bits, a lot of potential in your Urdu poetry i think, need to see some more of it.

rgds

Syed Ali

Ranchor Line ka Firangi soy, stuka, tintin, malik

Thank you for your kind words which means a lot to me.

Warm Regards

Syed

Fallujah: A Human Crime in the Making #6
Tahmed your post is pathetic and unfortunately you will never understand why...

Ahmed Naeem, You are one of the many in this world angered yet bounded beyond belief to ever react to these murderours imperial onslaughts. A valid article at a terrible time.