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| Nuggets from the Urdu Press |
| 2004-04-30 |
| Declare America terrorist According to Nawa-e-Waqt, lawyer MD Tahir went to High Court with the writ that Israel and America be declared terrorists and that people be restrained from calling mujahideen terrorists because doing so would completely distort history in Pakistan. Judge proves his Islamic credentials According to daily Insaf, a Christian named Williams who worked in a hospital took home an unclaimed baby - whose mother had died - with the intention of bringing him up. A group of Muslims went to court protesting that a Christian could not bring up a Muslim child. To his great credit and blessing, the judge handed down the verdict that Williams should give the baby back to the hospital although the child was without parents. UK Muslims don’t study According to Jang, Pakistanis in the UK were the only community with a bad record in education. School-going children spent more time away from school when they should be attending classes. According to an official report, Pakistani children spent 40 percent of the school-term absenting themselves from school. This was put down to the parents taking them to Pakistan. After each vacation the children took time returning to school. Most of the Pakistani parents belonged to villages in Pakistan and put little value on education. Women released on blood-money According to Nawa-e-Waqt, two women in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail were released after payment of blood-money (Rs 2.7 lakh) from her own pocket by chief minister’s adviser Dr Faiza Asghar. Many women had completed their sentence but were not released because no one paid their blood money agreed between the accused and the family of the dead person. It was revealed that countless such cases were pending in jails and that there were 7,000 women in jails, 40 percent of them along with their children. Lincoln was a Muslim! Great columnist Haroonur Rashid stated in Jang that American president Abraham Lincoln was secretly a Muslim and was suspect in the eyes of many Americans. Lincoln was in the mould because he gave freedom to countless blacks in America. He was perhaps killed because he was a Muslim. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #9 A week without "nuggets from the Urdu press" is a week without sunshine...but no dhinga-mushti this week. Drat. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-08-16 2:26:30 PM |
| #8 That crazy Licoln was a Jew He held up the Emancipation Proclamation ten years, he is just like every other oppressor, and he was met with oppression. |
| Posted by: Anonymous6089 2004-08-16 2:08:53 PM |
| #7 Although was not a Muslim, Lincoln may very well have been a Melungeon, decendents of Turks shipwrecked in America in the 1600's who interbred with Indians and slaves and became hillbillies. Present day Melungeons claim him as one of them. Some known Melungeons are Elvis and Ava Gardner. If Lincoln was a Melungeon then our greatest president could have been 2 or 3 generations removed from Islam. |
| Posted by: Anonymous4694 2004-04-30 8:02:08 PM |
| #6 It happens BigEd. Better a black/hispanic orphan wait till he/she 17 and be on their own than to be adopted by tools of the system. He/she will then have more in common with their cohorts. HeyZeus is that stupid or what. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-04-30 4:46:14 PM |
| #5 Judge proves his Islamic credentials According to daily Insaf, a Christian named Williams who worked in a hospital took home an unclaimed baby - whose mother had died - with the intention of bringing him up. A group of Muslims went to court protesting that a Christian could not bring up a Muslim child. To his great credit and blessing, the judge handed down the verdict that Williams should give the baby back to the hospital although the child was without parents. But haven't I heard stories in this country about some organization called "The Association of African-American Social Workers" trying to do anything possible to prevent white parents from adopting a black kid, even if there are no available black parents? It seems to me there was a case where this group went way over the line, and a white couple won a law suit. Los Angeles County Social Services had to pay them $200,000 settlement for the interference, and the Judge also granted them the adoption of the black child they had fostered for 5 years. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-04-30 11:18:54 AM |
| #4 sadly, most of the American public will never hear about these types of things so that they can get a better grasp on what the WOT is really all about. We need to do a better job on the propaganda war at home. |
| Posted by: B 2004-04-30 10:06:02 AM |
| #3 Wow. Lol! From first to last: boggling. Methinks it's all about bubbles - and no, not the Liberace kind - the common life experience / paradigm kind. It is my habit to pose this question to myself: "How did he / she arrive at the place where this makes sense?" in order to formulate some semblance of a rational response. Whew, wotta collection! Putting one's self in the shoes of those who penned these nuggets, and who obviously did so without any sense of their impact or rationality outside of the bubble of the PakiWakiLand mindset, is frequently (to my chagrin) beyond my ken. Amazing stuff. In this case, the Venn diagram has no intersections. Reminds me of just how important the bubble we each inhabit really is in shaping our responses - and how we are constantly talking past each other, at cross-purposes, due to the lack of a common paradigm. Sigh. Thx, Paul! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-04-30 8:31:04 AM |
| #2 Clinton was also suspect because he didn't act monogamous. |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-04-30 6:36:00 AM |
| #1 rofl, I just luv the last one, I would never have guessed |
| Posted by: Igs 2004-04-30 3:59:44 AM |