A Lovers’ Quarrel with Airport Profiling Just as terrorism is all about scaring innocents- counter terrorism and security also works on scaring the potential terrorists. It is all right till they get their profiling in proper place so that they do not unnecessarily create inconvenience or affront to me.

In the Line of Fire, A Review ``book but it is written nicely and Musharraf`s sense of humor is excellent. ``

LOL, MMai`s rape remark shows the standard of his sense of humor!!!

Stop this boot licking!!!

I, Consumer The dark/light , black/white, impure/pure , dirty/clean polarities are polarities that mould the collective conciousness of all the great religions and civilizations.
In the black world the white man was a devil. A white man looks like a ghost to those whose collective sensibilities reverse the value attached to the polarity of black/white to white/black and attach approbative sense to the polarity of blackness.
As I said , White or Islamist, Hence Beautiful!!!
There is no conection!!

Let us do away with Kashmir Take away the Kashmir?? After encouraging and spreading the Jehadi tentacles within Pakistan Mush is now trying to tone down his OWN rhetoric when he finds that Kashmir has become a part of the global Jehadi agenda.

Remember, Mush was the key guy whose rant of ``centrality`` of Kashmir problem was behind spurring the jehadi Islamists into greater action. Now that these Islamists are trying to get out of his control he is forced to mull down the ``centrality`` thesis in order to show that he is an innocent ``moderate``.
Nonsense!!! All Indians know that Mush`s army has been training, cultivating and have been neck deep in the Jehadi group`s operations. Now that most of these groups have become independent and aligned themselves with the Al-Qaeda brand of global Jehadism he is only trying to distance himself from them. But Indians know that Mush is neck deep into the mess that his army has created in creating the Jehadi monsters in the name of ``avenging for Bangladesh`` and completing the ``unfinished business of partition``.

I, Consumer Fair skinned , tall and HENCE handsome!! Isn`t this is the seed of apartheid that is implicit in the attitude of most of the Paki and Indi idiots!!!

Making a Martyr of Saddam ``It wasn’t a crime to fit the description of ‘a crime against humanity.’ ``

Paki Islamists trying to incite the Ummah by ``proving`` how the Iraqi court was wrong, how the judge was biased and pass their verdict declaring SH as an innocent ``martyr`` in the light of the global conspiracy and Crusades by the christian west .

Saddam - The Sacrificial Lion ``I think Shias should have been magnaminous and commuted his sentence to life improsonment and sent to Saudi Arabia as Musharaff did to NS. ``

How can we compare SH ,a dictator and a genocidal maniac, with NS or BB who were democratically elected by Pakistani population??? This is all confused thinking and a propaganda being spread by the Islamists. SH met his fate. He deserved it all. Like many other rascal psychopaths who show no sign of resentment, he smiled mockingly at the manhood of those who were could not stop him from butchering all those people he had killed. Remember SH claimed to have sounded every one about the American and Persian conspiracy before he faced the gallows. There have been many such criminals before who claimed innocence even when they confront death and we would see more of them again when such criminals would shout and claim martrydom when they face the gallows spouting conspiracy theories in order to ``prove`` their innocence!!

Saddam - The Sacrificial Lion Arsadi. This news would gladden your heart. This is the real evidence to your brand of conspiracy theory of western capitalism spreading war and diseases world wide so that they can sell more.

http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=2286

CIA and Mossad caught deliberately spreading AIDS




Five members of a sinister international network have been sentenced to death in Libya for deliberately and systematically infecting people in Muslim areas with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

A doctor from Palestine confessed to being an agent working for the Israeli regime. According to the Libyan government, ``Some say that it was the CIA, others say it was Mossad.`` AIDS is now a global pandemic, and there have been countless incidents in which large numbers of people have been ``accidently`` infected, often in mysterious circumstances and with evidence of a cover-up by officials.

The origin of the AIDS virus is uncertain, but there have been widespread allegations that it was developed at an American biological weapons laboratory by genetic modifications of based SIV, a virus found naturally in monkeys. The man who ``discovered`` HIV personally testified as an expert witness for the defense, claiming that the gang members were all innocent. Expanding on the Israeli connection, conspiracy theorists have noted that, as a demographic group, Jews are naturally resistant to AIDS for medical reasons, and circumcision is known to confer a high level of immunity.

Drugs corporations generate revenues from the sale of AIDS drugs to victims in wealthy countries.

Saddam - The Sacrificial Lion The cut and paste artist is a paradigm of what Gadamar calls as the ``fusion of horizons``- this time it is the Islamist mating with the Marxists. It is very easy to churn out such Islamists conspiritorial propaganda- just cut and paste the marxist propaganda against America and replace the word ``Marxism`` with the word ``Islamism`` where ever it occurs- and lo and behold you have another lulu.com publication ready from the Masadi`s propaganda factory!!!

Saddam - The Sacrificial Lion Re: # 103

``bs khan cannot hide his hatred of Islam even as he pretends to be a Muslim...and then invents straw men like a typical mirasi in order to rebut his opponents whose arguments are much beyond his tabla nawaz intellect...``

Abey, Choutiya you need to stop abusing other interactors and replying in ad hominems. Please tell us what is the Alif Laila ``freedom`` that Islamists like you have for those faithfuls who do not follow your moral codes- not to talk about the ``freedom`` for your dhimmi slaves???

Saddam - The Sacrificial Lion Re: # 50
``I think the origin of this propaganda lies in the era of Cold War when Soviets protrayed a capitalist elite as the nemesis who was controlling masses in West. After the collapse of soviet union, the Goebles in Western propaganda machinery just keep perpetuating the myth, since it helps them play innocent at times. ``


Well stated . But the Goebblean propaganda is coming from those Islamists who are perpetuating the conspiracy theories and reformulating the concept of ``freedom`` as some sort of a Alif Laila mushy romantic story with some demon enslaving the heroine in the golden cage of modern liberal democracy.
These Islamist have rehashed the same old arguments and theses that the Marxists used to splash all over - except that instead of Marxism it is Islamism that would deliver the ``real`` democracy and ``freedom`` to the masses!!

Saddam - The Sacrificial Lion Saddam Hussein`s regime has carried out frequent summary executions, including:

4,000 prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in 1984;
3,000 prisoners at the Mahjar prison from 1993-1998;
2,500 prisoners were executed between 1997-1999 in a ``prison cleansing campaign;``
122 political prisoners were executed at Abu Ghraib prison in February/March 2000;
23 political prisoners were executed at Abu Ghraib prison in October 2001; and
At least 130 Iraqi women were beheaded between June 2000 and April 2001.

http://fdd.typepad.com/fdd/2006/01/alert_saddams_c.html

As the trial of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein resumes, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies is posting 4 videos of actual torture and murder that took place under Saddam Hussein’s regime.

FDD President Cliff May notes: “Television news, understandably, will not broadcast such videos. But they are, nevertheless, an important record of Saddam Hussein’s crimes against humanity that should be available to the public as his trial resumes.”

WARNING: This material is extremely shocking and graphic in nature. It should not be viewed by children. Also, it may be necessary to turn the volume down before watching the 4 separate chapters.

Please note, each chapter may take several minutes to download.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Saddam - The Sacrificial Lion This is the real ``public lynching`` of those falsely tried and sentenced under the Islamist`s antiquated Shariat courts:

Saddam - The Sacrificial Lion Much of the analyses that tries to elevate SH as martyr is unfounded and reeks of propaganda.

Under Shariat laws of the Islamists much of the executions are infact the real ``mob lynching`` in the public.

Does that turn every other criminal who stands sentenced to death under the antiquated Shariat courts and gets executed in public under the Islamist`s rule turns into a martyr because he faced the lynching with dignity knowing that the antiquated trial proceedings would not stand any where in the modern judicial system ???

Saddam - The Sacrificial Lion
Nonsense.

It is like calling Bush , if he meets the same fate, as a Crusader Lion, a representative of devout Christian struggles.

Sorry, every other dictator, mafia don, terrorist, thug and thief who calls himself a Mujahid in order to provide a cover and justification for his crimes and make it look respectable is a slur and an abuse to my faith.

Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations: The Choice Between Alliance and Acrimony POSTCARD USA: Ah! the Pakistani mindset! —Khalid Hasan

Conspiracy as a cause of events is a constant in Pakistan. The theory is packaged in a paradigm that can be slapped on any situation. In other societies conspiracy theories are marginal; in Pakistan they are mainstream

Finally, somebody has worked out as to what ails Pakistanis. The Columbus of this effort is Mohammad Abdul Qadeer, professor emeritus at the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Queen’ University, Kingston, Canada. He lives in Toronto. I suppose you need to be physically at a distance from what you are observing to get its contours right. When you are close, you can’t see the wood for the trees.

Qadeer, who once wrote a book on Lahore from a sociologist’s and urban planner’s point of view, when told that Pakistan had won a hard-fought Security Council seat, beating India, observed, “What Pakistan needs is not a seat on the Security Council but more public toilets in Lahore.” He has just published a book in London on Pakistan and what our social strengths and foibles are. He has devoted a section of the work to the Pakistani mindset and he seems to have got it right.

Qadeer writes that the Pakistani way of perceiving and apprehending reality has been forged in the crucible of an agrarian economy and caste-clan relations. While being an evolving structure of many different parts, the Pakistani mindset is marked by a set of persistent assumptions. We tend to personalise the impersonal. Whether the event to be explained is a flood, poverty, a child’s truancy or marital unhappiness, it is attributed to someone else’s manipulation, malevolent intentions — and when it is something positive — to outside goodwill. The prime mover of every event is believed to be a person. Social or economic processes and even physical forces play a secondary role in the standard Pakistani narrative.

The popular explanation, Qadeer writes, for the break-up of Pakistan in 1971 is Yahya’s, Mujib’s and/or Bhutto’s treachery. A more institutional explanation ends up blaming the Bengalis, India and/or the United States. Pakistanis studying at American universities have a standard explanation if they fail a course. “My professor was prejudiced because I am a Muslim or because I was a person of colour.” And if the student scores a success, it is attributed to his unassailable intellectual and academic superiority. In Pakistan, every occurrence has to have a human agent behind it. Over time, this has been reinforced by the corruption, nepotism and capriciousness of the state. Everyday life is based on ad hoc decisions and personalised dealings. This manifests itself in blaming others and weaving conspiracy theories.

Blaming others, Qadeer argues, has been burnished into a philosophy. He offers examples. The Pakistan Engineers Association blamed foreign consultants and the WAPDA chief for the Tarbela Dam’s cracks. Zionists and Hindus were blamed for breaking up Pakistan, ‘the citadel of Islam’. Terrorism and violence when it first occurred in Karachi was seen as the work of ‘the hidden hand’. NGOs are viewed as engaged in corrupting Pakistani women. If an employee fails to get promoted, it is attributed to the stronger connections of the person who did get promoted. It can also be the boss’s ethnic prejudice.

Qadeer writes that “from blaming others to believing in active plotting by enemies, imagined or real, is a short step. The Pakistani mindset is predisposed to presume conspiracy as the driving force of many events.” The roster of conspiring agents varies with the ideological disposition of the proponent and with the political or social tenor of times. In the 1960s, it was India, the communists and the CIA who were the plotters. The Jews and Israelis were added to the list after the 1967 war. Bhutto in his waning days proclaimed that the Americans had conspired to punish him for his friendship with China and for his fathering of the ‘Islamic’ bomb.

In the 1980s with the Soviets in Afghanistan, they were seen as primarily responsible for the turmoil in Pakistan. The Afghan ‘jihad’ spun out a new strain of conspiracy theories that have morphed into the militant Islamist creed of America, “the perpetrator of the clash of civilisations” and the leader of the infidels. The Ahmadis were blamed for most of the problems in Pakistan’s early days. Rival sects of Deobandis and Barelvis have blamed each other for Pakistan’s sectarian strife.

Qadeer points out that one person’s conspirator is the victim for the other side. Conspiracy as a cause of events is a constant. The theory is packaged in a paradigm that can be slapped on any situation. In other societies conspiracy theories are marginal; in Pakistan they are mainstream. Responsible people propound them and school textbooks offer them as historical truths. Then there is the Pakistani doublethink. The West is portrayed as immoral and yet almost everyone wishes to migrate to the West.

Road traffic in Pakistan is another example of doublethink. Drivers curse others for breaking the rules, yet routinely run red lights, drive on the wrong side of the road or tailgate. The archetype of the Mard-e-Mujahid or the Holy Warrior is embedded in the Pakistani psyche. Pakistanis also believe that given the right connections, anything can be fixed. The pursuit of the ‘fix’ feeds back on the state, making it all the more arbitrary. The ‘Dubai challo’ culture is strong and underscores Pakistani enterprise and the desire to pursue success and advancement in life. The Pakistani diaspora continues to grow.

Pakistanis, Qadeer notes, are verbose. Most people make speeches rather than ask questions. He ends by quoting that superb intellectual Eqbal Ahmed who wrote on the 50th anniversary of Pakistan’s independence, “The most striking feature of our national life has been the equanimity with which our elite has experienced disasters. We are consumed by appetites of life and devoid of moral instincts.”

And it will be a bold man indeed who will speak after Eqbal Ahmed has spoken.

Khalid Hasan is Daily Times’ US-based correspondent. His e-mail is khasan2@cox.net

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