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Home Front: Tech
An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State
Posted by: GK || 09/03/2005 16:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Excellent piece, GK - Thx!

The execrable hit piece in the Toronto Globe & Mail (link inside) completely tears it, for me. Fuck Kanada. Go to the UN or Power Corp for jobs - shut down the border. Let them eat snow. Yellow snow.

In the piece, this hit the spot and summed it up:

"What Hurricane Katrina exposed was the psychological consequences of the welfare state. What we consider "normal" behavior in an emergency is behavior that is normal for people who have values and take the responsibility to pursue and protect them. People with values respond to a disaster by fighting against it and doing whatever it takes to overcome the difficulties they face. They don't sit around and complain that the government hasn't taken care of them. They don't use the chaos of a disaster as an opportunity to prey on their fellow men."
Posted by: .com || 09/03/2005 20:07 Comments || Top||

#2  The welfare wards were a mass of sheep--on whom the incompetent administration of New Orleans unleashed a pack of wolves.

Eh... Mayor???
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/03/2005 20:48 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine
Jihad at Tel Aviv University
You will be interested in learning that Tel Aviv University now offers a course in one-sided, far-leftist Israel-bashing indoctrination, dressed up as a course in psychology. The course is entitled "The Psychology of the Occupation", course number 1071.3627.01, and is an on-campus political indoctrination. It is open to senior-year undergraduates in psychology and has been approved by the university authorities as a bona fide course.

The "course" purports to teach its students about the horrendous psychological damage done to Palestinians (and also to Israelis themselves) from Israel's long "occupation" of the "Palestinian territories". It examines the attitude of the "conquerors" to the "Other", analyzes "dialogues" between the conquerors and the conquered (the mandatory terms used in the course) and attitudes towards "suffering" (of Palestinian only, of course). Nothing in the course will examine the psychological damage done to Israelis by the endless mass atrocities of Palestinians, from a century of Arab aggression and war, from genocidal denunciations of Jews by Palestinian leaders, from suicide bombings, from plane hijackings, nor from firing of rockets, missiles, mortars and machine guns into the homes of Jews. Nothing will examine the trauma of New Yorkers on 9/11 either.

The course will be taught by one Uri Hadar, a far-leftist who is a regular signer of anti-Israel petitions, including one calling for international intervention to end Israeli sovereignty, as well as that notorious one informing the world that Israel was planning to commit nazi-like atrocities the moment the first American GI took a step inside Iraq. (Iraq was liberated long ago, yet not a tinkle of an apology from the learned professor.)

Hadar is also a supporter and fan of the jailed Jewish leftist terrorist Tali Fahima, now on trial for assisting her Jenin terrorist "lover" to plan mass murders of Jews. He has also called for a "complete commercial and economic boycott" of Israel by the world. He has called for the Palestinians to be granted an unlimited "right or return", so that, even after getting their own state, the Palestinians can destroy Israel. He is a regular contributor to anti-Israel and communist party magazines and journals.

Another psychology course that has been taught in the same department is devoted to suicide bombings, course number 1071.4661, taught by Prof. Ariel Marari.

The department chairman in psychology is Prof. Amiram Raviv, a guru of "peace education", which is often nothing more than leftist indoctrination. He believes the Arab-Israeli conflict may be resolved through sufficient doses of psychobabble.

To tell the president of Tel Aviv University what you think of these courses, call Prof. Itamar Rabinovich at +972-3-6412449 or fax +972-4-6422379, and email itamarr@tauex.tau.ac.il. His executive staff assistant is at ilondon@post.tau.ac.il. Better yet, contact the donors and supporters of Tel Aviv University, whose addresses and locations appear at http://www.tau.ac.il/friends-eng.html.

And while you are at it, visit www.israel-academia-monitor.com, which documents and exposes Israeli academic extremists and political misuse of the Israeli campus.
Posted by: Groluns Snoluter6338 || 09/03/2005 10:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
"Victims have Begun Eating Corpses" (Phenomenol hate-lies from Randall Robinson)
From Sweetness and Light also highlighted on Drudge.

Randall Robinson

It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive. Four days after the storm, thousands of blacks in New Orleans are dying like dogs.
By whom is this reported? The Klansman blog? White Power News? StormFront? Whether or not they are the source, they are no doubt delighted to hear it.
No-one has come to help them.
A transparent lie, and many of those who came to help were shot at
I am a sixty-four year old African-American.
Conceivably true, but given Robinson's track-record, he could just as well be 85. It might explain a lot.
New Orleans marks the end of the America I strove for.
Another lie, he hopes it is the beginning of all he has worked for, a ruthless, racist, elitist dictatorship of media beasts and race-baiting charlatans.
I am hopeless. I am sad. I am angry against my country for doing nothing when it mattered. Four lies in sixteen words. This is how scum like Robinson have gotten rich, so naturally he is good at it.
This is what we have come to. This defining watershed moment in America’s racial history. For all the world to witness. For those who’ve been caused to listen for a lifetime to America’s ceaseless hollow bleats about democracy. For Christians, Jews and Muslims at home and abroad. For rich and poor. For African-American soldiers fighting in Iraq. For African-Americans inside the halls of officialdom and out.

My hand shakes with anger as I write. I, the formerly un-jaundiced human rights advocate, have finally come to see my country for what it really is. A monstrous fraud.
No, Randall, you are the monstrous fraud, and you are inciting hatred and violence purely to enrich yourself, just as you supported Soviet colonialism in Africa 30 years ago.
But what can I do but write about how I feel. How millions, black like me, must feel at this, the lowest moment in my country’s story.
Worse than Fort Sumter? Ok. Let it be written, let it be done.
Lots of events could mark the lowest moment in America for black Americans. The Klan. The race riots and lynchings of the 1920s. Being brought over in chains. Sold on an auction block. But no, for Randall the lowest moment is a 3 day delay in getting the National Guard into New Orleans, and that delay the result, in large part, of the incompetence of local officials.

Randall Robinson is a social justice advocate and author whose works include "The Debt –What America Owes to Randall Robinson Blacks"
He owes African-Americans an abject apology for invoking the crudist of anti-black smears, cannibalism, in the hope of extorting yet more millions from corporate cowards and Moonbat foundations.

Randall Robinson is a lying demogogue in the same mold as Goebbels and Streicher, though even less concerned with the plausibility of his claims. People who do not regularly practice cannibalism will not resort to it in just four days, it has never happened in all history.
This story is being heavily reported by Pacifica Radio, the left blogs, Indymedia and the rest of the enemy propaganda machine. They are testing their power: "just how much can we get away with in our war of extortion against the civilized world?" They have declared war with their insane response to Katrina. Let them now take the consequences. The debate is over, the left-devils are beyond all reason, persuasion or compromise. This is Fort Sumter, let the issue now be decided in the streets. Roast in hell, left-liars, happy extinction and good riddance.

This is not Fort Sumter. This is a moment to laugh at idiots like Mr. Robinson. This is a moment to thank the Guard, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the young man who drove the bus filled with people to Houston, the construction workers trying to fix the broken levees, and all the good people who've been out there cleaning up. That's what today is.

This gentleman makes Huffington' fave, Mother Sheehan, seem almost well-balanced.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 09/03/2005 05:57 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  New Orleans marks the end of the America I strove for.

Does he mean an an America with a crime rate quadruple the average?
Posted by: Ms Sheenan || 09/03/2005 7:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Being a Moonbat makes the World so much simpler...
BadGoodProlly Bad

Bush & Cheney
 (Hitler & Halliburton)
Kofi & The UN
(DhimmiDaddy & MultiCultiMommy)

Corporations
(Profit is Evil!)
Greenies
(Gaia! Back to the trees or die!)

War
(Oil & Dead Puppies!)
Peace
(Shari'a / Dhimmitude / Collective)

Individualism
(Free Thought is dangerous!)
IslamoSocioCommiFascisticTools
(GroupThink is GoodThink!)

White People
(Ice Caves. Brrrr!)
Black & Brown People
(Sun People. Warm!)
Yellow People
(Blow the Bell Curve.)

Christians & Jews
(Self Improvement - Bah!)
Muzzies & Paleos
(Blame Game!)
Hindus, Buddhists, Etc.
(Suspiciously Artistic & Dilligent!)

America
(Freedom is dangerous!)
Europe & Africa
(With proper UN oversight.)
Asia
(Crowded with pork eaters!)

When in doubt, just check the table.
Posted by: .com || 09/03/2005 7:57 Comments || Top||

#3  .com - HEH HEH HEH
Good find... You are always a resource!
Posted by: BigEd || 09/03/2005 8:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Purdy impressive display of on-the-fly html skillz.
Posted by: Mona Gorilla || 09/03/2005 9:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Heh, Big Ed - I didn't find it, AC's story and commentary, an evisceration really, inspired me to create it, lol. AC always hits the spot, y'know?
Posted by: .com || 09/03/2005 9:59 Comments || Top||

#6  .com I now fell wel enough to try and get through the rest of the day without killing someone. I am not kidding.
Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom || 09/03/2005 14:58 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm having trouble with the table. I fall into so many categories on the left .... but I HATE being on the Left. Sigh.
Posted by: Omerens Omaigum2983 || 09/03/2005 15:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Well, Fred, we can certainly think about the heroism and kindness we have witnessed, and be thankful for it. As usual, such deeds have not received enough coverage.
Even so, we also need to consider the reckless campaign of lies and and hate that characterize the left's response.
Robinson's screed is only the craziest of many crazy pronouncements, it differs from the norm only in the degree of its recklessness.
Unlike the Confederates at Fort Sumter, they may only be blowing themselves up, but I really believe that this is a turning point.
Something has to give.
The left's virulent attempt to exploit this tragedy cannot be concealed by their side or ignored by ours.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 09/03/2005 15:22 Comments || Top||

#9  Robinson is a well known communist and racist who has been able to mask his racism as black determination. One of his proudest achievements was the installation and continued friendship of Mugabe. Robinson writes choice racist quotes in his book "Defending the Spirit"
Posted by: ed || 09/03/2005 16:08 Comments || Top||

#10  Actaully all the black corpose have been sold to Haliburton for fertilizer feed stock and to jump start the refrineries.
Posted by: Mona Gorilla || 09/03/2005 17:35 Comments || Top||

#11  Just now, I swear, Nagin told a CNN interviewer that "the CIA might take me out" for yelling at President Bush about the relief plans.
This is getting completely out of control.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 09/03/2005 17:58 Comments || Top||

#12  Mmmmm, tastes like chicken.
Posted by: Gramble Pheretle8777 || 09/03/2005 18:29 Comments || Top||

#13  bad chicken.....jeebus
Posted by: Frank G || 09/03/2005 19:02 Comments || Top||

#14  BINGO!

From the Sheehan-supporting peace activists at Storm Front: "Cannibalism in New Orleans, reported by a Black." with 37 comments from the neo-nazi gangsters who inhabit that cesspool.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 09/03/2005 19:19 Comments || Top||

#15  People if you don't already have them get firearms and learn how to use them. These people are going to start a civil war. Don't be their victims. You can clearly see the results of their governance and policies.
Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom || 09/03/2005 20:25 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks & Islam
Why didn't the Indians do it?
Unlike the Arab-Islamic world, other colonised peoples have reacted to oppression by looking forward, not backward, writes Abdel-Moneim Said

I hope the reader will bear with me as I continue to discuss the problem of terrorism in Arab and Islamic countries. I stress, here, that I am speaking of Muslim human beings, not Islam. I am also speaking of all people who have fallen victim to terrorism everywhere in the world, whether in Islamic or non-Islamic countries. So if I bring up the London underground bombings, for example, that is not to attribute any greater value to that tragedy than those that struck Sharm El-Sheikh, Riyadh, Bali, Casablanca, Baghdad or anywhere else that has experienced mass murder and ritual executions perpetrated in the name of Islam. Our ultimate purpose is to find a remedy to the terrorist phenomenon and such a remedy will remain out of reach until we identify the causes. Specifically, we must determine whether the phenomenon is a product of a sense of injustice and persecution felt by some Muslims in response to certain events and circumstances in the Arab and Islamic world, or whether it is a manifestation of a specific ideology that sanctions killing as part of its mission to establish a system of rule and social organisation that achieves deliverance in this world and the next.

India offers a prime example of a country with a history steeped in colonialist oppression, economic subjugation, colonialist settlement expansion and geographic partition. Nevertheless, not a single Indian is to be found among the groups that bombed London, New York or Madrid, among the ranks of the "resistance" in Iraq or Chechnya, or anywhere else in the known arenas of the "jihad".

Since Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1498 and headed to India, the history of that country would be inexorably altered. European adventurers, pirates and evangelists began flocking to its shores, commencing the systematic plundering of the subcontinent that would continue over subsequent centuries. In the 17th century, the British began to dominate the field and used their infamous "divide and conquer" tactics to play off the various ethnic and religious groups against one another. By the mid-19th century, Britain controlled 60 per cent of Indian territories, and in 1877 Queen Victoria declared herself Empress of India. At no point before or afterwards did Britain cease its exploitation of the wealth of that country to the detriment of the Indian people. During the course of 100 years, between the mid-19th and mid-20th century, India suffered the ravages of 25 major famines, claiming between 30 and 40 million lives. Between three and four million Indians died in the last of these famines alone, which occurred in 1943-44.

Mahatma Gandhi famously said, "poverty is the worst form of violence." He could not have more succinctly encapsulated the Indian condition and its affect on all sectors of the population: Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and others. Yet -- and here comes the surprise -- his response was to launch a campaign of pacifist resistance, not to kill people in London or elsewhere. And when some Indians did commit acts of violence against the British, who themselves had perpetrated horrendous massacres, Gandhi's response was to condemn these acts in no uncertain terms and to regard them as having tainted the Indian national movement as a whole.

British colonial oppression was both economic and demographic. Large segments of the British populace settled in India, where they carved out colonies and urban quarters governed by laws that set Westerners above all indigenous peoples in terms of rights and obligations. In 1857, groups of Indian Muslims and Hindus learned that the British used rendered pork and beef fat to grease the new Lee Enfield rifle. The discovery triggered mutiny, which the British did not hesitate to suppress with excessive force and violence, just as they had mercilessly crushed all resistance forces irrespective of religious or sectarian affiliation. Ultimately, the British only left India after that country was severed into India and Pakistan, creating a gaping wound in the Indian subcontinent, the volatile repercussions of which can still be felt today in the flare-ups between the two states over Kashmir.

However, the partition of India has also yielded a most interesting and perplexing phenomenon. While Pakistan backed the extremist- fundamentalist Taliban movement in Afghanistan and was among the countries to feed Al-Qaeda with manpower, and while persons of Pakistani origin perpetrated the London bombings of 7 July, the Muslims of India (with 150 million Muslims, India has a larger Muslim population than any other country) went another direction entirely. They gave India its current president and several speakers of the Senate. Moreover, not only in the past did they give India many of its great national independence leaders, today they are supplying many of the intellectual and political pioneers in India's project for the future.

The Indian response to the injustices and tragedies of the past was to build a modern democratic state that commands the respect of all nations, large and small. After a half century of independence, India became a nuclear power. It produces its own satellites, its own military and commercial ships, some of its aircraft, a lot of steel, not to mention the computer software and hardware that have made it a major player in the third industrial revolution. After a period of flirting with socialist economic policies that yielded an average growth rate of 3.6 per cent between 1950 and 1979, India shifted course, as a result of which it has attained annual growth rates that, today, range between seven and eight per cent, or almost as high as those of China. The Indian solution to its historical problems was to work to create a universal consensus that India should not only be accepted as a member of the nuclear club -- and it had to fight staunch resistance and penalties from the US and the West to win this membership -- but also as a permanent member of the Security Council.

The Indian response was not that different from the response of China to the historical injustices visited upon it, or from the response of the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America to the successive waves of European encroachment and colonisation, or to South East Asia where colonial armies trampled the peoples underfoot, partitioned their nations and spread colonies and settlements and even -- as was the case with Japan -- dropped atomic bombs on them. In all these cases, the solution was to build a multi-faceted economic, political, technological and academic project for the future that would enable them to compete with the Western project and interact constructively with the world. In none of these nations do we find that morbid sense of isolation and that destructive desire to be rid of the world, which has long inflicted pain on other human groups, both Muslim and Christian.

This is not to suggest that other nations, ethnic groups and religions do not have their fanatics and even terrorists and suicidal martyrs among them. However, their anger is directed against their own countries and no one in those countries celebrates them or even tries to excuse or justify their actions. The difference between this part of the world and elsewhere is not just that we have projects that our trapped in the past whereas others have projects that look to the future, but also that we have organised political groups who dictate that our future resides in a return to the past. Perhaps this is where the problem really lies.

* The writer is director of Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies.
Posted by: john || 09/03/2005 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One of these things is not like the other, one of these things does not belong...

1. Britain essentially partitioned Pakistan and India.
2. Japan was colonized? By the people that dropped the Atomic bomb? :) (Whiteface bastards!)

Beware the fruits of kooky revisionism.
Posted by: Omolusing Glurong4284 || 09/03/2005 1:43 Comments || Top||

#2  But,he made he came to some solid,logical conclusions.
Posted by: raptor || 09/03/2005 9:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Good points, but there is a minor thing that bugs me...
I'm a bum, so don't expect historical precision from me, but doesn't the writer forget something about India's colonization...?

Namely the bloody colonization and subjugation by the muslims, way before the relatively short and benign british era?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_invasion_of_India

It is a very selective view of what is colonization : apparently, only whitey can be an imperialist, with his "adventurers", "pirates" and (of course) "evangelists".

The pious, peace-loving arab muslims, who essentially killed 80 millions hindus or wiped out entire north african berbers* civilizations, killing hundred of thousands and replacing them with arab tribes, are NOT colonists nor imperialists... no, they were just spreading the One True Religion, that's entirely different.
Too bad the identity, history and culture of whole people were erased in the process, but I guess that's the price to pay for being revealed the Master Religion...

*the original, absolutely non-arab, inhabitants of "Maghreb" (which means "western Arabia" by the way), now second class citizens in their own lands, especially if they didn't convert, like the egyptian copts. So many people in the garbage can of History... and a good preview of the future of Europe.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 09/03/2005 11:33 Comments || Top||

#4  The author and Nobel Laureate VS Naipaul in his book "among the belivers: travel amongst the converted peoples" makes the point that history books recall the "arrival of the muslims" in the Indian subcontinent. He asks if they "arrived" on a tour bus since that is the connotation of this word. Most history books gloss over the invasion and slaughter and forced conversion to Islam of millions of the Indian subcontinent's peoples, the wiping out of Buddhism from the land of its birth (how many people erroneosly think that Buddha was a fat Chinese guy rather than the historical Indian Prince Siddhartha).

The most chilling thing in the Naipaul book is a fact of archeology. When excavations were made at the site of the oldest mosque in the Indian subcontinent (in what is presently Sindh, Pakistan) it was found that a layer of human bones covers the site.

The oldest islamic place of worship in India is built on top of the bones of the slaughtered inhabitants.
Posted by: john || 09/03/2005 15:16 Comments || Top||


How I produce my suicide bombers
Who produces the suicide-bomber? The answer is all of us. Let me tell you how I do my bit in this industry. I sit with the youngsters in Zaman Park and tell them about the atrocities being committed in Afghanistan and Iraq. I tell them that the world was opposed to these American invasions. Then I give them the background of the 'neocon' Administration in the United States under President Bush. I tell them that the coterie of men inciting President Bush to aggression are connected with America's oil industry. Then I launch into the American grand plan to grab all the oil resources of the world.

The youth in Zaman Park look at me aghast. They marvel at my knowledge of the United States and global politics. They ask me what the Muslims could do about it. I then give them a bird's-eye view of the Muslim world. In recent history, the West has been targeting the Muslims. The reason is the potential of Islam to challenge Christianity and Western civilisation. I go through the history of injustice to the Muslims. I begin with the Palestine and give them the facts from the books of America's own writers, Edward Said and Noam Chomsky.

I compare the Indian oppression of the Kashmiris to the Palestine issue, and recount how the West has tilted in favour of India instead of making it relent in Kashmir. On the other hand, when the West had to rescue the Christians of East Timor the UN moved quickly to dispossess Muslim Indonesia of its territory. Then I move to the present. Muslims were being decimated in Afghanistan and Iraq. They were being killed like flies in Chechnya by Russia, winked at by the West. Before Chechnya, Muslims were massacred in Bosnia and Kosovo while Europe and America watched. America and the UK were together in the latest plan to reduce the power of the Islamic world further. The United States was preparing to attack Iran in the near future and Pakistan may be used as the launching pad for this American invasion.

The young men of Zaman Park ask me what could the Muslim world do' I say the Muslim world was weak because it was disunited. It was disunited because it had governments who preferred to betray their own people and cooperate with the enemy of Islam. I give the example of Pakistan where Pervez Musharraf had sold himself to George Bush and deprived the nation of all honour. I give the example of Saudi Arabia where kingship had violated the cardinal Islamic principle of rejection of mulukiyat (monarchy). I also give the example other Islamic states, mostly those where Pakistani expatriate communities are located. I tell them that Islamic world was therefore weak in spite of its possession of the most powerful resource of today: the oil. The Muslim rulers sold it to the West, then kept the money thus earned in American banks. The world of Islam was impotent.

By this time the youth of Zaman Park is greatly upset. I can see the change coming over them. They are not like me. They are young, full of enthusiasm and a willingness to take action against things they don't like. They keep asking me how I proposed to get the Islamic world out of this horrible situation. I tell them it is not possible, given the present circumstances. They become more upset. They want from me a radical solution that would put an end to an almost cosmic injustice. I can at time see that they don't like me too much because I give them no solutions. They see me as a comforter who actually gives them more pain. They can't seem to reconcile to the idea that the Americans were committing all the atrocities against the wishes of the world, but the much-wronged Muslim world was too weak to do anything about it.

I have more to tell them. The weakness of Islam springs from the Muslims' general unwillingness to acquire knowledge. The West in general and the United States in particular had done what was enjoined originally upon the Muslims: acquire modern knowledge whose roots were embedded in the holy Quran. Then I tell them about medieval Baghdad and its renaissance of knowledge and how Europe had appropriated it. The moment I arrive at this theme, I start focusing on the education system in Pakistan. I tell them that it is meant only for the elite whose children learn everything in English as a preparation to rule Pakistan. There were three or four separate streams of education in Pakistan, based on the class system. I explain why I was opposed to English: because it kept me away from my own language which alone could be the medium of true knowledge. I give the example of Japan and China.

The boys of Zaman Park are greatly upset. They are angry at me too at some level. They ask me, surely there must be something we could do to end the state of injustice in the Islamic world? I tell them nothing could be done because the Muslim governments were not willing to put their heads and resources together. I launch into a diatribe on the efforts so far made by the Muslim world. I denounce the Arab League because it is ethno-centric and denounce the OIC and call it khassi (gelded) because it was unable to take action like NATO to save the Muslims from being slaughtered. My discourse is gradually undermining two institutions among the Muslims of the world: the state and the pan-Islamic idea of umma solidarity. What is happening unbeknownst to me is this: apart from their hatred of the West in general and the United States in particular, they begin to be disenchanted with the nation-state.

My discourse is usually couched in military terms. When I talk of Islamic dominance I explain the military conquests of the great Muslim rulers of the past. I couch the weakness of Islam also in military terms and compare it with the military might of the United States. Because I present no alternative to military action, the boys start thinking in military terms too. Since the state is already rejected by them, they start looking at individual action. Once again I supply them with more data. I say Palestinian youths who do suicide bombing against Israel cannot be accused of terrorism. I object to the definition of terrorism being used by the West. I think if the Americans can spill innocent blood in Afghanistan and Iraq, Muslim suicide-bombers too can inflict 'collateral damage' of their own. By the end of this discussion the boys of Zaman Park are convinced that the United States could be opposed by individual action.

The boys I talk to are not altogether happy with me. They think I am too passive in the face of so much injustice. They are put off also by the totally negative picture I paint of the Islamic world. As a secular person I stop short of reaching out to religion for final solutions. They want an activism I cannot provide because I belong to the 'passive majority' that does nothing. In any case, I am not the only person they have discussions with. They go to the mosque and listen to the imam. They meet those among their peers who attend religious gatherings. They come back to me and tell me how satisfying their experience has been with a purely Islamic discourse. There is also the possibility of activism. You can leave home and go with the seminarians, even take military training. They ask me about places where such training was being imparted. I tell them I know nothing about it. I am telling the truth. That is one detail of my society that I have either avoided or denied the existence of.

I am jaded and without hope, but the young people of Zaman Park are not. They want to do something while I despair of even thinking about it. But I have done my job of providing them with the data-base of injustice from which they can draw when they need to justify their actions. I look at myself at times and try to decipher what I am doing. I become acutely aware of the nihilism I have embraced. I wonder why the boys take to me in the beginning when I am explaining the problem but break off at the point where I am supposed to give them solutions. Yet I feel good about giving them the 'factual' background of the injustice (zulm) of the United States and the causes of the weakness (mazloom) of the Islamic world. My sources are authentic and everyone in the Urdu and English press is writing about it. If I was alone doing it, I would perhaps feel unsure.

However I am greatly upset when any one of the boys who used to hear me hold forth turns up at one of the training camps. I have great sympathy with the parents who then run about trying to find which camp he is training in. I help them locate the boy through my contacts in the establishment. I have no urge to get to know about the network of training camps; I simply want to get to the boy and get him back home. I find that no one has real authority over those who run the camps. I approach the great religious leader under whom jihad is being organised and beg him to release the boy out of pity for his parents who had thought that he had gone out only for tabligh. After the boy is formally released, there is much relief in the home of his parents. But the boy has changed. He has become tough through physical training.

He is less tolerant of the speeches I give on the injustice of the United States and the victimhood of the Muslims. In fact, he now holds a parallel discussion with the boys. He tells them about actual plans to eliminate injustice against the Muslims. His compass of reference is beyond my comprehension. He refers to personalities unknown to me. He talks of regions where I have never been. The boys look at him with admiration because he has provided them with a solution whereas I was simply spreading my nihilism around. It seems I was good at setting the stage for radical action but was unable to define what that radical action should be.

But I have my strong points. I am not a defeatist, meaning that I am not one of those who recommend 'flexibility' in the face of adversity. The truth of what is really happening to the Muslims of the world is stronger than the facts produced by the hostile Western media. I am without self-doubt. People say self-doubt produces the will to self-correction and reform: modification of behaviour to suit the circumstances. I call that defeatism. It is a legacy of imperialism when British-protected thinkers like Sir Syed Ahmad Khan sought the causes of decline within the Muslim psyche. I believe in the opposite course more befitting for the Muslim and in line with their great legacy. Remove the self-doubt injected into us by some intellectuals and you will no longer be under obligation to achieve compatibility with environment. Ours is the obligation to forcibly change the environment and make it compatible with our behaviour.
Posted by: john || 09/03/2005 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This person is a problem that calls for a 230 grain solution.
Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom || 09/03/2005 1:14 Comments || Top||

#2  230 grain solution as in 45 cal?
Posted by: John Q. Citizen || 09/03/2005 8:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Actually the author is criticising those intellectuals who whip up the youngsters into becoming terrorists, but he has chosen to write it in a first person perspective to illustrate how those inciters to violence justify their actions.

Incidently, the author is the same man who scours the Urdu press for weekly nuggets.
Posted by: Paul Moloney || 09/03/2005 10:06 Comments || Top||

#4  :>
Posted by: Mona Gorilla || 09/03/2005 10:20 Comments || Top||

#5  the author is the same man who scours the Urdu press for weekly nuggets.

I could tell that same twisted person was involved!
Posted by: Frank G || 09/03/2005 11:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Thanks for telling us that the first person perspective was simply writerly technique instead of reality. When I read the article the first time I felt sick. Skimming it a second time -- hours later -- and even knowing it isn't quite so immediate ... I feel no better. Because it isn't any less true, dammit! I wish I could believe in Hell, so I could believe there was a special place in the deepest depths for such people.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/03/2005 21:24 Comments || Top||



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