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My dear friend and a fellow buzzer Postman once asked, if I consider 'every person with a beard a Mullah?' 'No, because we know comrades also have beards', I responded. I also explained that Mullah is a person with specific mental state of shallowness and that it can exist in any person with or without a beard, can be a Muslim or a non-Muslim. A prominent non-Muslim Mullah without a beard is George Walker Bush. I also gave him examples of Muslim Mullahs that we know off and who does not have beards.

So how does one actually determine a Mullah? This is how I examine a person, if it is a Mullah:

To determine if a person is a Mullah we need to examine a peculiar behavior pattern in that individual.

• To start with, this person cannot have a logical debate for more then two to three posts and is therefore prone to get involved in cyclic arguments, repeating his/her statements over and again, going in circles. The primary cause of this phenomenon is rooted in fact that these guys have very shallow brains and limited knowledge of all subject matters, including Islam (religion).

• Once contradicted in a logical fashion, giving a well grounded counter argument to their silly assertions, they are quite prone to get aggressive and will instead of responding through a knowledgeable argument are likely to grow hostile towards people who have outsmart them.

• It is very typical of them to call people names. Starting with relatively simply ones like Abu Jahl, Abu Jandal, Abu Bakar, Abu from Sindhbad, finally raising the scale to next level calling names like Russi (Russian) agent, Umreki (America's) agent, Hindustani (India) agent, Yodi (Israeli) agent etc. On hight of their helplessness they may also label opponent as a Kafr (Infidal) and call for immediate elimination.

• Since now things have slightly changed i.e. relatively advanced. Luckily we can take them on from over the Internet, in safety of our homes and the maximum damage they will cause us, at hight of their frustration, is to blow themselves up at a school, a park or a Shai mosque. In their hay (early) days their rage instead of resulting in self destruction, used to result in assassination of the opponents. We have a number of evidences, small incidents, where a few opponents were abducted, tortured and assassinated in Punjab University hostels too the very large scale ones like massacre of Ahmadis, Bangalis, Shias at. al. Iraq occupation by US is a classic textbook example of a non-Muslim Mullah showing aggression at a large scale.

I hope that this will help my dear Postman and other buzzers to distinguish a Mullah (bearded or otherwise and Muslim or otherwise) from a none Mullah

Horse cart

Ever had an opportunity appearing in a district courts, especially after the time since judiciary has been set FREE?

Poor Shabir Tangaywala thought that FREE judiciary means he no longer will be required to pay Rs. 100 bribe at his each judicial hearing. He cancelled his school pick and drop service to participate in every Wukla (Lawyer) protests. Doing his cost and benefit analysis, he calculated his losses will finally be compensated under FREE judiciary, when no longer he will be asked to pay for the Chai Panni before entering through the old wooden door of court room no. 2 at Model Town Kachari.

Poor bugger, only now has he discovered that FREE judiciary means it would be FREE only at the Raiwand palaces. For the Tangawalas the bribe rate has been revised to Rs. 150 at each judicial hearing since the restoration of our dearest and FREE judges.

Long live FREE Judiciary.

Kepish!!!!

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There is web of myths being knitted in Mullah factories now a days. They are busy cooking all sorts of tales of innocent people being killed by army in Swat and FATA. The purpose is to put enough pressure on Pakistan armed forces, so the operation is ended prematurely and Taliban can find much needed breathing space.

A similar web of conspiracy theories was also knitted at the time of Lal Mosque operation, including the most bizarre one about some thousand kids killed at Lal mosque by the armed forces.

Any sane mind must at least inquire, for those thousand kids who were allegedly killed in Lal mosque operation, there should at least be 2000 parents, 4000 grandparents, a few thousand siblings, uncle and aunts. If there were those thousand kids actually killed in Lal mosque operation then where have these thousands of relatives disappeared? Shouldn't there be these 10 to 15 thousand relatives marching on the streets of Islamabad holding pictures of their kids (Palestine style) demanding for justice?

I remember another Mullah myth from early days. When I was young kid there was a myth about polio drops being birth control medicines fed to Pakistani children as part of Jewish conspiracy so Muslim population can be reduced and Jews can take over the world.

Interestingly, both me and my wife took those drops when young and are proud parents to a beautiful 4 year old girl today. Those who refused must be lumping around somewhere cursing themselves and the Mullahs for their follies. 

Moral of the story: Use your brains to think and let the nuts be nuts.

Queen Rania

Various news reports from Pakistan brought to my attention these self appointed moral policemen walking up to women in Karachi telling them to cover up their heads, which according to them is being required of women in Quran. Of course and why not? They are doing the job assigned to them by Allah and our divine text, a noble task indeed. I decided to support and contribute in this holy task by forcing my own mom, sister, wife and daughter to cover up using Burkas.

This however will require me some research. I will need help in order to convince my winging wife, first and foremost, let alone my sister and mom, who treat me as a complete idiot. But while googling over the internet, instead I discovered this individual, Queen Rania of Jordan, who calls herself a devout Muslim, offers prayers five times a day and yet wear sleeve less shirts and knee high skirts. I thought, isn't it a contradiction, calling herself a devout Muslim, offering all prayers and yet wearing skirts, showing off her legs, arms, shoulders and even abdomen at times? Shouldn't she at least wear a Hijab to cover up her head, if not a complete Burka, in order to call herself a devout Muslim? How can she be a devout Muslim, while she is violating Quran on its basic famine dress code?

Outraged with her hypocrisies, I extending my research, deciding to contradict Rania through direct quotes from Quran on women dress code and then post a webcast on her youtube channel, exposing her to the entire world.

Using indexes, I could only find one such verse stating dressing requirements for Muslim women as follow:

24.31 “Enjoin believing women to turn their eyes away from temptation and to preserve their chastity; not to display their adornments; to draw their veils over their bosoms and not to display their finery except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' father, their sons, their step-sons, their slave-girls; male attendants lacking in natural vigor, and children who have no carnal knowledge of women. And let them not stamp feet when walking so as to reveal their hidden trinkets”

As a standard exercise for my better understanding of Quran, I broke Surah into smaller more manageable portions and used an English dictionary to aid myself in developing better understanding of it. The results however did not help and instead pointed in completely opposite direction:

“Enjoin believing women to turn their eyes away from temptation and to preserve their chastity.”

Turning eyes away from temptation (and not men, let alone locking behind closed doors) and preserve chastity (chastity means purity or virginity). Common knowledge tells that wearing skirts and short sleeves does not results in loss of virginity. If I can think of this then so can my wife, mom and sissy, so no help here.

“not to display their adornments; to draw their veils over their bosoms and not to display their finery”

Adornments means ornaments, jewelry or other accessories, drawing veils over bosoms means covering their breasts (not head, not arms, not legs, not shoulders or abdomen but only BREASTS) and not to display their finery, meaning fine or fancy clothing. Damn! Again nothing to help me convince mom, sissy or the master winger.

“except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' father, their sons, their step-sons, their slave-girls; male attendants lacking in natural vigor, and children who have no carnal knowledge of women.”

These are the exceptions where women can actually show off their jewelry or fancy clothings. To all other individuals, they can't show off . I thought, 'hmm! interesting, if applied smartly, can help me at least save some shopping expenses.'

“And let them not stamp feet when walking so as to reveal their hidden trinkets”

To stamp feet when walking so as to reveal their hidden trinket (trinkets meaning small ornaments or small pieces of jewelry).

So all help I could get from Quran was that they must not wear jewelry and fancy clothings while leaving home but still don't have to cover head, putting a Burka or to stay indoors. Even worse, they now have complete legitimacy to wear clothings showing off arms, legs and even abdomen. Grrrr....

Ashamed and outraged, I decided to turn my guns towards so called Muslim “Ulmaz”, who have somehow managed to deceive me and many others into believing in this complete absurd concept of forcing women into head to toe Burka as being Quranic.

What I could not understand after all this exercise was that how this rather straight forward Surah was translated into something that resulted in locking up our women indoors, asking them to cover up head to toe and bar them from talking to men etc.? And that, if for a while we assume our women are actually violating Islamic dress code, where in Quran did it state that we guys can self-appoint ourselves as moral policemen and walk up to women asking them to cover up?

Didn't Quran tell “Enjoin believing men to turn their eyes away from temptation and to restrain their carnal desire” instead of appointing themselves as moral policemen and walking up to these perfectly rightful women and telling them what they are required to wear? Isn't this in itself a gross violation of Quran?

Still glad though that we guys have this option of Googling over the Internet now a days and to save ourselves of embarrassment of being outsmart by women.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

Political Compass

This is where I fall.

^$%*%#& More liberal then Gandhi hmmm... People should write books about me ;)

What clothing item do you wish could be banned?
Submitted by Mike E.

Why would I ban anything? Its a free world

This is my response to the blog posted at the following weblink:

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/yoursay/index.php/theaustralian/comments/religion_is_the_root_cause

The analysis in the article ignored the elements of culture and history of those countries from where the Islamic terrorism is being exported. I am from Pakistan and have a strong belief that what we see as terrorism today is a hybrid of “misinterpretation of a faith” and “a warlord style culture of the land”.

The year 2002 killings of approximately thousand Muslims in Gujarat (India) by Hindu extremists is evidence that violent expression is not exclusive to Muslims alone. There are many other low profile incidents like such, where innocent lives were lost in this region due to the rifts and not all involved Muslims. My understanding is that people in Pakistan are not much different from our neighbors living in India and other countries of the region. Some of us are extremists in our reaction due to the culture we belong to and not due to our faiths.

Another very important element to consider in this regard is the formulization of the extremist ideology by creating and funding of organizations for Soviet Jihad. This was one huge mistake and we are all equally responsible.

The reason to share my thoughts with fellow readers is based on fear that by jumping to conclusion without getting the understanding of the core problem, we are more likely to repeat mistakes that we have made in past. We must tackle terrorism wisely. Tackling terrorism is like treating cancer, first you isolate them and then you remove them. The aggressive confrontation will only spread terrorism. 

Bob Woolmer can truly be called the first causality for the cause of cricket. I blame the entire Pakistani nation and all of us who have only added to the misery of our heros. These heros put their hearts and soul for the success of the country and what we do is sit and criticize. We curse them, even when they are putting their best.

Shame on so called gurus including Imran Khan who sits and criticize the team. For him, the world cup which we won was not for the pride of country but for the satisfaction of his own ego. This was reflected in his winning speech too. He has gained more from the world cup title then what Pakistan has gained from him. I refuse to treat him as a hero and instead feel that Bob Woolmer is the real hero of Pakistani cricket.

I remember when Bob came as coach, the camp was in a terrible state. Waqar and Waseem were forced out of the game and Javaid M’dad clumsy dancing was taking its toll. He is the man who coached the team to become one of the strongest middle-order batting side of the world. The team which was always known for its bawling power was handicapped without the big-guns. Bob shifted the tide and worked on the bat and bowl simultaneously.

Inzi talent as a batsman was God gifted but his ability as captain was Bob’s efforts. Bob should also be given credit for improved performance of Yousaf and Younas. They improved their batting standards to new high under Bob’s coaching. He is the man who discovered talents like Malik, Asif and Gul, who are now true hope for the future of Pakistani cricket. He also gave a huge pool of openers to the team to work with but unfortunately fell short of his desired goal. Weakness in opening department is due to the lower standards of domestic pitches, which Bob had no influence on.

I salute a great coach and even a greater man, Bob Woolmer. Today is a dark day for Pakistani cricket and it has been a bad year for my cricket freak nation.

Melbourne

The first most major lifestyle difference that I felt after arriving in Melbourne was that an average person walks at least ten times more here. People have jeeps, cars, motor bikes and bicycles but mostly they park them back home and walk to the nearest bus, train or tram station to get to work. Each morning you will observe people walking, almost all of them in same direction.

The second most major difference is that number of people that you see on streets, markets, bus stops, train stations, airports etc. are significantly lower then the quantity which you see on the streets, markets, bus stops, train stations and airports of Pakistan. On this side of globe the world doesn’t seem that populated. This is not really a big deal but it got me freaked out a bit in the start. The shops close at five and an already desserted city goes to total sleep. The streets get empty and you won’t find a person, after seven o clock, for miles.

People here are though less in number but are pretty friendly. They are pretty helping and are extra courteous to each other. But you won’t find strangers having conversation very often. They have obsession for sports and exercise. Footy (local name for Rugby) is there favorite sports. You would find many talking about footy here.

Weather is as important topic of discussion as cricket or politics in Pakistan. Not just that people read about the weather forecast at least once a day but also that they talk about it with anyone that they meet. The most amusing thing regarding weather forecast is that it is actually true more than ninety percent of times. The amusing thing about the weather of Australia is that at times you see all the four seasons in a single day.

Sky is little steeper at horizons, this is also a major difference that the sky near horizons is suddenly falling towards the ground. I guess this is because we are closer to the pole. At equator the earth is not as round as it is here. This property actually creates a very beautiful backdrop for landscape photograph on a cloudy day.

To conclude, I would say that it is not what we expected it to be but it is not bad either.

In a single test series Muhammad Yousaf broke two cricket records. First he scored his eighth test century to break record for highest number of 100s in a calendar year and then in the very next inning, he scored another century, while also breaking the record of highest test runs scored in a calendar year. Previously both these records were held by West Indian all time star Vivian Richards.

In his interview following the test series, he dedicated the records to his family and told that he is glad to win these two titles for his country. He further informed that his conversion to Islam helped him in improving his performance. Pakistan cricket team was going through a turmoil phase and desperately required a booster; this booster was provided to them by Muhammad Yousaf.

While his marvelous achievements thrilled me, they also made me think that had he be a Christian, when he broke the records, would he be a big hero for us, as he is now? The amount of appreciation he got, would it be same then? There are several non-Muslim heroes Pakistan has produced in past, none of them got due respect and recognition, would he be any different if he haven’t had converted to Islam?

There are many institutional and non-institutional discriminations against the minorites in Pakistan. The major institutional discriminations include the remission of six months for Muslim prisoners in their sentence on learning Holy Quran by heart, while no such remission is offer to minorities. Educational institutions under government of Punjab discriminates against minority students as part of their policy. Last year, Qandeel Benjamin, Dawood Diwan and another female Christian candidate were denied admission in Medical college as three Muslim students scoring lower marks were granted 20 extra marks on learning Quran by heart and were offered those seats.

According to an estimate there are 2.1 million Christians, 2.8 million Hindus, 90,000 Parsis, Buddhists, Baha'is and Sikhs living in Pakistan. These minorities are subjected to hundreds of human rights violations each year. Following are few such events published in Human Rights Monitor 2006 by National Commission for Justice and Peace in March 2006:

• The Hindu community of Chak 61G. B (110 Hindu families) district Yazman was allegedly devoid of basic facilities of health and education. In 1990, the government constructed a school for boys in the village. Three years later, a building for despensary was also constructed. Since then, neither the school nor the medical staff was deputed for Hindu families and many villagers reportedly died owning non-availability of basic health amenities.

• On November 11, 2005 Yousaf Masih, a Christain of Sangla Hill was accused of burning a few pages of Quran in a room known as Quran Mehal. Yousaf was charged under section 295 of Pakistan Penal Court and arrested by police. The next day a hostile mob of Muslims burnt three churches, a convent, a girl hostel, a school building and several houses belonging to Christians. Later on it was found that Yousaf Musih was not guilty and was aquitted by the court on February 23, 2006.

• Shahbaz Sarwar a twenty six year old Christian was a tractor driver for a local Muslim landlord. On March 02, 2005, Shahbaz and friends decided to dine togather. One of the freind refused to share meal with Shahbaz. He asked Shahbaz to embrace Islam so that they could eat togather. Shahbaz refused and a month later the same man accomponied by six others took Shahbaz from his house and  physically tortured him to the point that they thought that he has died. Shahbaz servived with both his legs badly fractured.

• A 13 year old girl Mashu converted to Islam after her abduction in Mirpur Khas. She was named Mariam by the abductor cum hasband. Sapna, a Hindu girl was kidnapped to a contract marriage with a Muslim man and Koshalia another Hindu girl was kidnapped by two motorcyclist in Dehirki (Sindh) and later converted to Islam.

All of the above and many other events that I have read make me wonder that does the Pakistani flag with 75% green and 25% white truely represents Pakistan or shall we turn the whole flag green and forget about the vision of our founders. I know that Quran teachs tolerance and protection of the rights of fellow human beings regardless of their color, clan or religion.

I hope some day a more effective legislation is passed to punish crimes against minorities in our National Assemblies.