Limits of Multiculturalism Re: # 224

DM

"Yes, the Hindus looked down upon marrying even outside their sub castes, never mind caste or religion."

What is 'Got' then? I had learnt that Hindus were avers to marrying with near blood relations within their 'got' unlike Muslims who usually marry their cousins.

I was told by a friend that when he had asked a Hindu friend why their wives are so 'developed' when ours are so skinny he had said "Our wives are real wives, which are used well by us while yours (Muslim's) are your sisters".

Regards

Limits of Multiculturalism Re: # 206

tahmed

"No doubt McCarthy would have had a heart attack if he had heard of Mazdakis. :-)"

I don't think so. What is 'group sex' after all? McCarthy must have been aware of it.

They say; one day when lights went on after a group-sex session a man cried out "Oh God! I have been fucking my own wife!"

Limits of Multiculturalism Re: # 186

arjun3

"From Him we come & to Him shall we all return."

Does it not nullify the concept of accountability or retribution to strike out the very bottom from under the dogmatism of Islam?

Limits of Multiculturalism Re: # 189

tahmed

"In egalitarianism, in mawakhaat, he is an ajmi"

Though I know little of Persian language I will translate the above stanza as under:

"This concept of egalitarianism and brotherhood is an Ajmi one (alien to Arab culture)"

Abujehl (For whom the prophet had prayed to God to make him his follower along with Umar Farooq) is accusing prophet of propagating foreign concepts (Persian communism of Mazdak) among Arabs under the influence of Salman Farsi. Was it not repeated in America in modern times in the shape of Mccarthyism.

Regards

Limits of Multiculturalism Re: # 163

tahmed

Thanks for your informative and thought provoking comments on egalitarianism in Arabs. I would like here to quote a couplet from Iqbal attributing a statement by Ummar-bin-Hishsham, alia, Abujehl, which I think is very much relevant to the topic:

"Ein massaawaat, ein mawaakhaat, Ajmi ast
Man khoob mi daanam Salman Mazdaki ast"

Abujehl had said egalitarianizm which was an alien Ajmy concept, was preached by the prophet due to the influence of Salman Farsi, who according to him was a follower of Mazdak, who was a contemporary of the prophet. This was refuted by Quran by saying that (I quote) "They say he is taught by a man but that man is Ajmy, i.e., he does not know the language of the Quran (?)".

Limits of Multiculturalism Re: # 136

tahmad

"And the concept of egalitarianism was introduced in exchange, which represents to my mind the finest contribution of Islam in the subcontinent."

But egalitarianism was a concept which Islam probably borrowed from Persian communist, Mazdak, through Salman Farsy, a Sahabi of the prophet who was accused of being a Mazdaki by anti-Islam Arabs.

Limits of Multiculturalism Re: # 116

zahid

"It's mostly not about the following of the Islamic teachings but a helpless act of defiance against the overbearing western society."

You may be right Zahid; they may be using their right of vote with burqa to defy, what you call, the 'overbearing western society' but why should they protest if the western society uses Islam to counteract their defying anti-west maneuvers.

Limits of Multiculturalism Re: # 109

harimau

"The Election Commissioner of Canada is an idiot.
If he had half the brains of a camel, he would have told women in burqas who refuse to show their faces that in Islam women don't have the right to vote and so they should just go back home and not try to vote in elections. And ordered a punishment of 40 lashes for attempting to contravene the Koran."

Well said! The E.C. should also have checked whether she came out to vote duly accompanied by a genuine 'Mehram' (a close relative with whom she cannot be married or someone with whom she has duly been married as ordained in Islam).

Limits of Multiculturalism Re: # 20

harimau

You are right. Talking of multiculturalism with reference to un-cultured (Taalibaani) Muslims is sheer non-sense. How can the people of the type who are the problem for the Muslim societies even more than the world at large be accommodated in the cultured societies of the global village in the name of multiculturalism? It is not a culture but a murderous cult which is defaming the very name of Islam. It is this fad of multiculturalism which has turned the free society of England a centre for terrorism in the name of Islam.

The Transformation of the Punjabi Man: Pashtunization or Militarization? Re: # 126

I also do so if it was 122 by zeemax.

As regards the quality of leadership in Pakistan generally the economic formula - 'bad money drives out good money'- is working today.

The Transformation of the Punjabi Man: Pashtunization or Militarization? Re: # 102

The Holy Quran says that the woman is one digree less than the man and that man is superior ('afzal') to woman.

My experience of dealing with the woman as a woman (apart from her familial relationships) also confirms this.

The Transformation of the Punjabi Man: Pashtunization or Militarization? Re: # 49

How can you say that? SA can never be a Punjabi, I bet?

The Transformation of the Punjabi Man: Pashtunization or Militarization? Re: # 76

Of course it is! What is incurable is the disease of feminism 'zan-mureedi'. The fact is the woman is a sub-human creature and the feminist who licks its uni worse than animals.

The Transformation of the Punjabi Man: Pashtunization or Militarization? Re: # 73

Today the nation seems to have realized that NS perhaps had come to know better about the mqm commando he had picked up as the c-in-c.

The Transformation of the Punjabi Man: Pashtunization or Militarization? Re: # 71

aquaris

Well done dear! Today it is the Matarua gardi at its worst. Just consider the statement made by the ex-commando in the Supreme Court yesterday. He will take off uniform only if he is elected as a president. Isn't it end of it all?

The Transformation of the Punjabi Man: Pashtunization or Militarization? Re: # 67

clifton

Why not turn all Pakistan into 'Heera Mandi' where every woman becomes a 'heera' (diamond)?