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Monday, September 24, 2012

Re: [mukto-mona] Greetings from Pakistan on World Peace Day!!!



While like most members in this forum, I am AGAINST any violence in the name of Islam (Related to the u-tube clip production). Having said that, I felt the whole world ALSO took note, how a pure "Hate-speech" was considered as "Free speech" some western countries.

For the west, it was an easy sell to tell the "World" Iraq war was a "Mistake" [ Which destroyed a country who did NOTHING against America and murdered at least 5,00,000 innocent civilians] but it is hard to imagine some tiny faction of global Muslim population reacted disproportionately against a slander produced by an US criminal. US authorities do have many excuses (For the scams he ran and for running a hate-filled campaign) to detain this person but "Allowed" this home made amateur clip to surface despite plea by global Muslim population.

Such double standard is against "American spirit and laws" of the U.S.A. Free speech is protected but hate speech is NOT.

While I blame on angry mob for any violence they caused, it would be unfair not to mention the protection given to this "hate filled movie". From start to end, it was a hit piece against Muslims and links to US election (To put the sitting president in an awkward situation) is beginning to  surface.

I am glad that, recent polls indicated this "Plot" did not pay off against president Obama. As I said, prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was a good man full of mercy for all of humanity. Few comments or clip is not likely to do much damage to him.

Shalom!


-----Original Message-----
From: Shah Deeldar <shahdeeldar@yahoo.com>
To: mukto-mona <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mon, Sep 24, 2012 6:15 am
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Greetings from Pakistan on World Peace Day!!!

 
I was rather sarcastic with my comment. However, the whole world has been watching these self mutilation and making up their mind about Islam and it's violent followers even they are a 'tiny' minority.
-SD
 
"All great truths begin as blasphemies." GBS

From: qar <qrahman@netscape.net>
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Greetings from Pakistan on World Peace Day!!!

 
Setting fire in your own houses has become the norm of any Islamic protests? The filmmaker is an a-hole but he has proven the point beyond any ambiguity.
-SD

>>>>>>>>>>> Setting fire on house in our country has NOTHING "Islamic" in it. However I felt you asked a very valid question here.

We can go a little deeper on the issue here. In our sub-continent this has been a way to "Protest" when we were a colony of the "British Raj". Unfortunately our political leaders (Islamic, communists, BAL, BNP etc) practice destruction to "Protest" on behalf of our people!!

I honestly don't know beside political leaders who else get benefit out of this. I have a friend who is atheist and today unfortunately one brick broke parts of his car. I don't think it will be easy for him to look positively on Islam as he was a victim of some overenthusiastic supporter of "Hartal".

This type of hartal in the name of Islam does NOTHING to promote Islam rather validates complaints AGAINST Islam. Islam is not a fragile faith neither is reputation of the last messenger of Allah Muhammad bin Abdallah (PBUH). So let the envious people speak evil but the truth will prevail at the end.

The only hopeful sign I have seen is a lot of Muslims including leaders (Grand imams) of many countries asked Muslims to stay away from violence and to protest "Peacefully". Muslims are passionate about our faith and our last messenger Muhammad (PBUH) but we HAVE to learn to express our feelings non-violently.  

Going back to the original question, this has been norm of every "Political" protest in Bangladesh. Just look up at Newspapers and you will see. NO matter which political party are in power, the opposition and sitting party are too quick to use their gangs against people and protesters. This colonial mind set is the real barrier.

Shalom!



-----Original Message-----
From: Shah Deeldar <shahdeeldar@yahoo.com>
To: mukto-mona <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: bangladesh-progressives <bangladesh-progressives@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sat, Sep 22, 2012 11:43 pm
Subject: [mukto-mona] Greetings from Pakistan on World Peace Day!!!

 
Setting fire in your own houses has become the norm of any Islamic protests? The filmmaker is an a-hole but he has proven the point beyond any ambiguity.
-SD



Greetings from Pakistan on World Peace Day
Shyema Sajjad | 24 hours ago
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Greetings from Pakistan on World Peace Day. We have a lot of events and activities planned for today; unfortunately none of them will be sending across the message of peace. Our children, through whom we could portray a peaceful message using crayons and doves, are at home today and could not go to school. Those who don't go to school anyway are being coerced by their adult relatives to spend the day out on the streets with them to burn tyres.
Our parks and other public locations where we could have held some nice peace rallies and shown off our creative skills through artistic placards have all been sealed shut due to violent protests which we are currently being conducted to show our love for our Holy Prophet. Sounds complicated? Shouldn't be – almost everyone is catching up to our unique Pakistani mentality now.
No peace concerts planned here either because music wouldn't be an appropriate indulgence on this day and also because we may get killed on our way there by a stray bullet. Sorry, to explain this better: yes, our policemen are firing stray shots right now to ensure there is peace in the cities.
While expressing love for our Holy Prophet some people in Peshawar got carried away and set fire to some cinemas, so the families planning to go to the movies on this peaceful day can do so no more as the seats will be charred and the screens burnt.
Moreover, our leaders cannot come out to address the public on World Peace Day because there is too much violence on the streets so they have instead given the adventurers of Pakistan a field day so that they can do whatever they want. This freedom given by the government today is being enjoyed by thousands who have taken the country hostage because they are angry at the foreign filmmaker who disrespected the Holy Prophet and portrayed Muslims as violent people.
Burning candles and having vigils is too modest a gesture to share with the world so instead you will see my countrymen setting their own property on fire because this will teach the horrid filmmaker a lesson never to mess with us again. We are capable of setting this whole country on fire and so what if it only damages and destroys our own assets – at least the whole world will know that peace can not be taken for granted.
Speaking of peace, most crowds seem to be thronging towards the US Consulates today. This may be because the US President had been the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and what better activity on World Peace Day than to pay respects to the peace prize winner – but then again, this could also be because of the horrid filmmaker who has given us another reason to say 'Go America Go' (note: this may sound contradictory but this slogan is actually not chanted in a complimentary way).
Our children are missing school day after day, our businesses are suffering losses worth billions, our healthcare is in shambles and our security situation is deteriorating every hour, but our faith remains strong – turn on your television and you'll be able to see that not even a distraction like World Peace Day can turn us away from our first and foremost duty – although, I do believe Pakistan playing a cricket match today would have altered the situation quite a lot … unless the cricketers would decide to wear black armbands in protest and hence inspire the crowds watching to react Pakistani style.
Alas, all is not lost for tucked away from the madness of the country I imagine our president releasing a dove or two of his own … you know, just to emphasise his agenda for peace.
 
 

The writer is the Deputy Editor at Dawn.com


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