The Talibans

June 4, 2009.

To call Talibans medieval is an outright insult to medieval ages, which produced literary and towering figures like Shirazi, Razi, Beruni, AveCina and poets like Amir Khusro. The Taliban are pushing the boundaries of Jahaliya upon us in the name of Islam. In the 1980s, the battle of soul became the battle of body-counts. Oil, radicalism, drugs, dollars and real-politicking enmeshed in the social structure and popular culture of Pakistan became so deeply rooted that now it has emerged as the evil spirit of domestic terrorism. Claiming to support the cause of Pashtun Nationalism, these war-monger maniacs are blotting out the heavenly regions of Pakistan’s northern areas with the stains of barbarism and havoc, tainting the very image of the peace loving and honorable Pashtuns at the same time.

The Taliban are a reality mirrored in Marriott bombings, the plight of the tribal areas and the destruction in Sawat. They portray themselves as the model for governance, an epitome to be followed and a dispenser for quick justice and here-and-now punishment. But their real act is the reduction of islam into a mere shadowy penal code. Their link towards the past is distorted, their present is unworkable and their future bleak. They are determined to fashion Pakistan on the lines of a cross between Saudi Arabia and FATA, sans the oil. Created out of warrior culture and poverty, they are prone to death and destruction with impunity, and are least concerned with human values of nobility, sympathy and concern for others. On the global front, they are against every secular invention, based on the fact that it is in use of those that they have clashes with. Therefore, their standard of conduct is double, rendering their moral rhetoric as absolutely hypocritical and contradictory.

The Taliban are our modern day savage marauders. They are anti-women, anti-aesthetic, anti-pleasure, anti-progress and anti-happiness. Their lives are devoid of smiles. Their way of life is shorn of beauty. Their social attitude is biased. They gather people not to alleviate their miseries, but to perpetuate their own narrow agendas. Their nucleus is divine law which is divisive and contentious for all purposes by misinterpretation. Their habit of attributing every discovery and invention by man intellect to a predestined divine code is fallacious.

Their method of employing violence, innocent blood, is instilling a terror everywhere – both psychological and social. Their motif is the social destabilization and structural disintegration of Pakistan and every country they set their lethal gaze upon. Their advances must be halted, their existence ceased, and their crimes prosecuted. The innocent and naive inhabitants of Pakistan’s northern and tribal areas, as well as those in Afghanistan should be made resourceful and aware to resist the bastion of this hideous disease of a movement. The Pakistani government and the elements within it, rogue or not, have both enjoyed enough of using the Talibans as a trump card to gain the gilded sympathies of the West. It is time to either crush them out of existence, or witness them inflict insurmountable and irreversible damages to our civilization and our national sovereignty.

So help us God.

Amen.

Work.

“Alright man, Ashland and Foster. Is this corner fine?”
“(British accent) Yes indeed. Hey thanks. What do I owe ya?”
“10.50.”
“Alright, here’s eleven. Keep the change! (The most patronizing grin+nod ever)”
“Keep the change? What the fuck do you mean keep the change? What 50 fucking cents? What am I a bum now and you’re bono fucking helping the poor? Yeah your 50 fucking cents would really help me climb the ladder from the box i sleep in to the palaces of Granada, prince william”
“…what you don’t like the tip I `GAAYAIVE` you?”
“Oh no, I love it, doesnt it show? 50 fucking cents? Here, here’s a dollar, (dollar bill thrown at sweet mouth’s face), go buy yourself something nice, and here’s your 50 cents (2 quarters thrown in addition)”
“??????????????”
“Have a nice evening, jackoff. Get the hell out of my cab.”

(Door closes)

“Kutti da bacha. Frekkin foreigners.”
(Radio playing) “97.1 FM the drive, here’s Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody.
“Mama…just killed a man…”
(Thunders rolling somewhere far off. Chicago winds. Another night at work.)

Re: I am a Muslim (http://youtube.com/watch?v=JQXh20OuhIc)

Umm, nice effort man, but umm, the early ottoman and Spanish Muslim empires in all fairness, did NOT live in harmony with other people. I duno if you’ve ever heard those little bitty events called the crusades. Besides, why are you so conscious of people labeling you of being what majority of us ARE, back where we came from. Why don’t we see Jewish kids raging until their neck veins pop out trying to say “I AM NOT CONSPIRING TO OWN THE WORLD, AND I AM NOT CHEAP OR BUY STUFF ONLY IN SALES, AND NEITHER AM I REALLY GOOD AT FINANCES AND I DON’T TELL JOKES ALL THE DAMN TIME. I LOVE ISRAEL AND THERE’S NO SHAME ABOUT IT, AND I WEAR A SKULL CAP WITHOUT THINKING WHAT PEOPLE WILL SAY ABOUT IT, AND I AM A JEW!!”

 Think about it.

In addition, Muslims don’t drive taxis or work at gas stations because their faith says so, but because they are new immigrants and on the lower wings of the economies in most of the modern western world. You are a Muslim and you do all those cool, non-traditional, non-obnoxious things because of your American upbringing, not because anywhere in Islam it is mandatory to do or to refrain from doing those things. Since you dug up all those facts from history, did you also see how new immigrants in Muslim renaissance era states lived? I’ll tell you how they lived. In our sharia laws, non Muslims, called Dhimmis, are third class citizens. They can’t own land; they can’t marry among Muslims or preach their religion. They sure can practice it but nowhere near where Muslims do. In fact, in Pakistan where I grew up, eating and drinking with Christians is taboo because they’re considered dirty, or as we say, Napaak. But again, that’s Sharia law, and not Quran, and that’s Pakistani custom, not Islamic custom.

All I am saying is, stop being pissed off about petty things, and do something to better educate your brethren so they don’t make fools out of themselves.

p.s. The guy who said Taj Mahal was not built by Muslims, The chief architect’s name was Eissa, and he was a Muslim guy from Multan.

Chuck Norris V. Gerard Butler – The Showdown of Hollywood Facial Hair

We’ve all heard of Chuck Norris’ being the ultimate super-powerish macho being. But as Zack Snyder’s movie 300 rocks the theaters around the globe with its copper-sepia-ish appearance, uber macho testosterone filled action scenes, all characters in the best physical conditions a human could ever be, I the die hard chuck norris fan stop and think – Gerard Butler Vs. Chuck Norris? Could …could it …could it be?

The very thought of a Beard on Beard uber-macho collision, an unprecedented event in the history of worshiping media-icons, and a comparison of the bests both thrilled and enticed me into writing something about it. So here it is, the first writing dedicated to-

            The 2007 Beard on Beard Fiasco, featuring Chuck Norris and Gerard Butler. 

The idea is to have on board as much chuck norris fans as we can, and then gathering some gerard butler fans if there are any, and see what happens. And as a neutral observer, here are my odes to both bearded saviors of manly honor,  recklessness, and of course an undying drive to leave a long lasting impression on the ladies, Chuck “freggin” Norris and Gerard the 8-pack Butler -

Chuck Norris was the reason Persians never invaded the Americas. (I know its lame, but thats what u get at 2.49 am in the name of ingenuity).

Gerad Butler’s abs make Leonidas go: Dayum, I wish I was a greek and whatever ensues…

Hello world!

As I lay here in my bed after finishing my cereal and getting ready for school, I want to write something, but I don’t know what to write about. The worst nightmare of any writer, or anyone involved in creation of any sort – running out of material. There’s so much out there to write about. So much to opine about, but hardly anything inspires me anymore. Algeria bombed by the Al Qaida in Islamic West, 26 dead. Democratic congress pushing for embryonic stem cell research bill, Bush threatening to veto, Sanjaya still in the american idol, Sunni Tehreek v. Ehl e Hadees setting new standards of sectarian violence in an already unstable Pakistan – So much, yet so little.

Its mid-April, and still snowing here in Chicago. This is one weird year. It will be my first El Nino, and I am so not looking forward to that. I’ve got to admit I don’t work well with summers. Anything above 80 F is so not cool. Blah now I sound like a suburban housewife. Maybe thats what happens when you attempt to procreate at the heights or your infertility.

Sorry to disappoint you, dear few readers. Come summer, the semester will be over, andI I’ll definitly have time to read much more, and I promise I’ll do my best to be inspired, and to churn out something useful.

Peace.

While I was gone…

Shameful results in a sport causes a nation faced with debt, poverty, internal instability, rising aids related death rate, and a potential massive shortage of wheat to unite about assassinating the team members.

The leader of the infidels up in Jerusalem calls for peace talks the leader of Saudi Arabia – King’s too busy with camel races, falcon rearing, and artificially inflating oil prices so the exports of the west to the “muslim nations” could be raised in prices for transportation rates hikes.

Frenzied, under privileged, illiterate perhaps, and having nothing better to do fucked up brains take up God’s task on earth. Hurray! Now we’ve really figured it out people – Girls shouldn’t be educated along with guys, and shouldnt at all be educated beyond the basic read and write skills, neither can they be the leaders of the nation or do anything along with the divinely gifted male gender, BUT, my friends… they sure kick butt at, well kicking evil’s butt! They can militarize themselves, threaten the social stability and peace of their own nation and to kill their own fellow countrymen and take their own lives which was declared haram by the Prophet, God, and if it satisfies you motherfuckers, the Imam of Ka’aba in June 1998.

So, the way I see it, anything that aides us men fuck things up for everyone but ourselves, women are allowed to do that. Anything that defines humanity, civilization, intellectual development, personal progress and advancement, and soul enrichment, women should be kept away from them. Way to go, pigs! Not those who took over a mosque and burned down businesses and threated to kill school children, but all of those who watch in a stagnant amazement. Not even one person who’s video store was burned down or the namazies of Lal Masjid or residents of abpara, not one of those perverts was fucking man enough to bitch slap those… bitches?

You wealthy, employed, new cell fone using, soccer loving, basant celebrating Pakistanis put to shame the malnourished, diseased, poverty stricken tamils, asamis, Ugandans, Zimbabwean, and even Fijians who wouldn’t compromise national stability, peace and social order for anything. You dumbfucks know damn well how to raise hell when a government official blatantly bashing his government is neutralized for your own damn sake, you know damn well to never pay the taxes and blame the government for not doing enough welfare work, but you dont know shit about how to control your own filthiest portions of the populace.

As usual, I stand proud of my country, disgusted by its people. Pakistan Zindabad.

Support of Jihad – Personal choice?

Friday, December 08, 2006

It’s not a matter of personal choice anymore. It’s the question of the future of the 1.3 billion Muslims of the world AND DAMMIT ITS MORE THAN PERSONAL TO ME. I AM ONE OF THEM, I AM ONE OF YOU AND BY GOD IT’S A SHAME TO SEE ALL OF YOU SIDE WITH THE IGNORANCE AND THE DEFIANCE OF THE FACT AND THE PROPOGATION OF HATRED.

You support the Palestinians. Just for once tell me what should they do. Elaborate on it. Do you agree with hamas’ decision of not to disarm itself and therefore losing all the international aid Palestine was receiving and was practically thriving upon it? Do you even know that most of the government officials in Palestine have not been paid since hamas took over? Do you even know how many kids are dying in the hospitals not due to Israeli bombardments but by hamas’ stubbornness and its ego?

Those crazy war hungry maniacs are killing not Israeli soldiers, pagan, or us Islam-hating, devil-controlled forces. And even if Israelis were so bad, even if they are so evil, wouldn’t it help if those who aren’t considered evil and those who are considered the heroes would do anything different than the evil itself?

When Nasrullah came out after Beirut was half obliterated and said, “I would’ve returned the soldiers if I knew Israel would attack,” I just wished I could hack that bastard’s head off. Israel gave a 14-day warning, and that imbecile didn’t know Israel would attack. Look at what they are doing to you and them, my fellow Muslims. They, for their own ego and their own popularity and fame use us. 7000 civilians died in that fucking war, only 250 Hezbollah fighters. You see what happened here?

It was Hezbollah’s war not the civilians or Lebanon’s war. They why the hell did Hezbollah hide between the civilians and not face the enemy in the face. And they still have the guts to call it Jihad. This is not jihad; this is cowardice in its purest form. The same thing is being done in Palestine. A suicide bomber who no one even knows blows up some people in Israel, and then civilians who want no piece of it get bombed. Kudos for hamas, shit for Palestine, shit for Lebanon.

If you don’t like what they do in Gaza and west bank, then let me ask you this: How do you think they can be stopped from doing so? By blowing up buses and their children and other things of that nature? By chanting Allah Akbar and following Ibn e Wahhab’s theory of killing all those who differ from you? By giving up all the lessons of tolerance, patience and forgiveness preached to you by your Prophet PBUH? I would disagree with that kind of solution.

Do we have another alternative? Can we overcome them by doing the above things or the like? I seriously don’t think so. Precedence denies it, and so does reason. How else do we stop them from bulldozing our houses?

OH, OH. MAYBE, MAYBE WE’LL STOP BLOWING THEM UP? EH? MAYBE WE’LL STOP DRESSING OUR KIDS AS SUICIDE BOMBERS, AS MANIACAL DEATHLOVERS?

Maybe we can appear to be less threatening, and maybe we can assure them that hey, living with us Muslims isn’t that bad after all. We can be tolerant too. We too can sometimes view the prophet’s forgiving of the people who threw garbage at him. We too can remember the pardon of Mecca, and we too can remember Hazrat Ali’s pardoning his own murderer even after being a caliph and in all power to avenge. Maybe we can show that Usama bin Ladin is not our idol after all, and maybe we do value life as Allah’s gift, which is to be preserved, and neither should be attempted to confiscate nor denied by us humans. Maybe Jordanians can open up their borders for the Palestinians. After all, they were the ones who promised to give the British a right to Israel after the first world war in return of a kingdom for themselves and Hashemite family’s protection from Sauds.

Maybe Syrians can host some Palestinians? But no, they wont. They would send their kids to “jihad” in Palestine and Iraq but they wont let the Palestinians live in their countries. What is the purpose? Betterment of Palestinians? Or just sticking it to the Jews and west? Prosperity of Muslims or avenging the colonial rule from the west?

Do you have an answer, O the only true fair and just people in the entire human history?

Muslim Passiveness over Jewish atrocities :P

“We just sit quiet and watch Israeli bulldozers running over Palestinians homes” – A disgruntled friend, over the so-called helplessness of Palestinian Muslims.
Response:
Do we ever sit quiet my friend? Do we ever? We attacked Israel just after a few months of its creation to punish it for its independence. Israel didn’t bulldoze any of our homes at that time did it? But we attacked anyways. Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon. All at once, without any provocation or any reason. Even the OIC and the Arab League were pissed at that (as if they ever matter).

I don’t have any personal grudges against Palestinians, and neither am I a Zionist planted conspirer as many have labeled me earlier. I want their betterment, which is embedded only in the emancipation from their own created bondage of dearth (illiteracy, ignorance, violence and a refusal to give up ego). You cannot watch them bulldoze Palestinian houses well then in the same way could you watch their civilians being blown up if the government does something to punish some others in the defense of that nation?

You wouldn’t like to see innocent people being killed on either side. And I appreciate that. Now lets keep that sentiment of yours and try to build something on it. You said you don’t like what they are doing in Gaza or west bank. I spent about 2 months in west bank, about 2 weeks in Gaza. What they do in Gaza or west bank is a reaction, always, and I can swear upon my life for that. We pose a threat to their security; they try to eliminate that threat.

Israel, as I see it, is undoubtedly the most nationalist nation in the world right now. They are committed to show the world that they are strong enough now to exist in the most hostile of the situations and can still prosper. An example of that was the recent war. Just after a week the war was over, Israeli economy had fully recovered and stable, and was increasing progress by the second week. Lebanon, on the other hand, thanks to Hezbollah, suffered a 13-year setback to its economy. Way to go Mr. Sheikh Scumbag Nasrullah!

Jews-Arabs of Palestine v Muslims-Hindus of Subcontinental Indo-Pak

Hindus and Muslims in Subcontinent: 1206-1707=501 years. Muslims and Jews in Palestine: 638-1917=1297 years. Jews and Muslims coexisted much longer than the Muslims and Hindus. If Muslims as a minority could not stand the Hindu majority ruling upon them with a different set of faiths and beliefs and an inherent disagreement and denial of their faith for any longer than 501 years, then lets ask my other Muslim brothers and sisters that how do they expect Jews to tolerate us as a majority government over them for 1300 years, when we openly proclaim to slaughter them all at once after the British left?

Ode to Sectarianism

Sunday, September 17, 2006

“Hayia Alassalaat! Hayia Al Alfalaah!”
(Come, towards prayer, Come, towards the peace)
Ma!
I don’t want to go to the masjid
Ma!
I am scared. My friends are too
2 weeks ago
It was the same Azaan for Asr (prayer)
The same, smoggy, silent afternoon
2 weeks ago, on this same, smoggy, silent afternoon,
I wasn’t scared -
Or maybe, I just did not know
Death
Blood
2 weeks ago Ma!
I hadn’t seen someone die
Never heard the rattling of Kalashnikovs,
Or the hellish blasts of grenades,
Mixed with the frenzied chants of veiled young men with glaring red eyes
“Allah Hu Akbar! Die Shia Die, Shia Murdabad!”
And the cries of the victims (of their own faith)
“Help me, I am shot!” “My God, My God, Someone look at my legs, I can’t move them…Aah!”
“I can’t see! I can’t see!”
2 weeks ago Ma! I never saw blood coming out of Nasir’s eyes
Molvi sahib said, Children of my age go to heaven if they die,
But Ma, my dear Ma!
Is heaven reached only after tossing, turning, struggling in one’s own pool of blood?
Or by making others do that?
2 weeks ago Ma!
I wasn’t scared of going to Heaven -

I love Allah, Ma!
I love my Allah, Him, my creator, I adore and worship and submit to
He, the Lord and giver of everything I have
My toys, you and Baba, my friends, the rain, water and chocolate
I don’t know what is Shia, Ma!
And if I am one, as Nasir was,
Then,
SHALL I BE SLAIN TOO?
WOULD I BE BLINDED WITH MY OWN BLOOD TOO?
ON MY WAY TO MASJID, MY FAVORITE PLACE TO BE NEAR MY ALLAH, MY CREATOR?
WILL I YELL AND CHANT FOR YOU TOO?
“MA, I AM HURT, HELP ME!”
“MA, I BLEED, PICK ME UP”
“HOLD ME…”
“MA, WATER…MA! … MA!”
WOULD YOU GO INSANTE TOO?
LIKE NASIR’S MA?
“MY CHILD, MY CHILD, MERA BACHA, MY LAAL”?
MA, MY DEAR, DEAR MA!
I AM SCARED
I don’t want to be a Shia, or…
Anything
I want to stay home,
Ma, I am scared…
Please tell Allah
Dearest, Greatest Allah
Can I go to pray, and do so without being a shia? A sunni?
A dead child?