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N. Khan
Pakistan
24 August, 2005
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Mr Khokar are you sugesting Pew is biased against Pakistan?But its not biased against Turkey, Lebanon, Indonesia, Morocco and rest of the muslim world? Why the hell should it decide to get 'prejudiced' when it comes to Pakistan? Could it be that its findings are true? I think so. Just look at the articles on Paktribune, most are directed against the West.Many of writers seem to take pleasure in peeling the hypocracy of the West. OBL hardly gets any negative attention. Considering that Pakistan is in a mess, every day some innocent is tortured to death by Police but all our writers seem to be concerned about is death of Charles Mennez in London. We have a Mennenz happening in Pakistan every day, which of course non of our writers seem to think worth talking about.
How is the poor oppressed in Pakistan? Yet everybody is busy talking about Western oppression. The elite have the entire country intoxicated with the wrongs of West - After all that covers up whats being done to 10s of millions in Pakistan every day. Do we have justice in Pakistan? No, so should we not be sorting that out then babbling about whats happened in London or Washington, after all the millions of poor in our villages lead miserable lives which are not going to change one bit despite what happens in London or USA.
Rabid articles against the West are not going to change anything inside Pakistan. The principle inside Pakistan all poor and the weak know is 'Might is right' and then we have the galls to expect the West to drop its 'might is right'? |
ashah
Pakistan
29 August, 2005
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Interesting article
Washington, DC: Surprise has been expressed at the lack of reaction in the Muslim world at the impending demolition of the house of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) by the Saudi authorities.
An op-ed article in Toronto Star, Canada's widely-circulated daily, by Tarek Fatah, a Pakistani-Canadian Muslim activist and broadcaster, finds it incomprehensible that while the demolition of the Babri Mosque by Hindu zealots at Ayodhya continues to remain an emotive issue with Muslims, what the Saudi authorities plan to do has evoked no protest at all.
Fatah writes, “What makes this demolition worse is the fact that the home of the Prophet is to make way for a parking lot, two 50-storey hotel towers and seven 35-storey apartment blocks; a project known as the Jabal Omar Scheme, all within a stone's throw of the Grand Mosque. Yet despite this outrage, not a single Muslim country, no ayatollah, no mufti, no king, not even a Muslim Canadian imam has dared utter a word in protest. Such is the power of Saudi influence on the Muslim narrative.”
The writer wonders if the lack of a response is because Muslims have become so overwhelmed by the power of the Saudi riyal that they have lost all courage and self-respect. Or is it because they feel a need to cover up Muslim-on-Muslim violence, Muslim-on-Muslim terror or Muslim-on-Muslim oppression? He notes that one man who is standing up to the demolition plan is Saudi architect Dr Sami Angawi, who is leading “a one-man campaign.” to save the sacred and historic edifice. He told a London newspaper, “The house where the Prophet received the word of God is gone and nobody cares ... this is the end of history in Mecca and Medina and the end of their future.”
According to Fatah, “The cultural massacre of Islamic heritage sites is not a new phenomenon. It is said that in the last two decades, 95 per cent of Mecca's 1,000-year-old buildings have been demolished. In the early 1920s, the Saudis bulldozed and leveled a graveyard in Medina that housed the graves of the family and companions of Muhammad. Today, the religious zealots in Saudi Arabia are not alone.
”Commercial developers have joined hands with them and are making hundreds of millions in profits as they build ugly, but lucrative high-rises that are shadowing the Grand Mosque known as the Kaaba. Today Saudi petrodollars have the ability to silence even its most vocal critics, but when all is said and done, history will render a harsh judgment on those who try to wipe out its footprints and steal the heritage of all humanity.”
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sohail
Pakistan
29 December, 2005
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excellent |
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