If you ask me for opinion, I would definitely have a negative opinion. No public row is expected, no violent protests against the current regime, no guillotine will be invented to behead the corrupt, the fraudulent and looters, no social reforms are expected, no new leadership is expected to rise and no mob led rallies are expected to over throw government.

The life in Pakistan will be same as ever. The corrupts are likely to reign turn by turn, haves of the society will keep having more, have-nots will keep have nothing, tax evaders will have something more to evade, everyone including the President and cheap justices of this unfortunate land of pure will honoring their friends, politicians will keep on acquire more (fake) degrees.

It will never have an impact on Pakistan in any sort except one. The nomenclature of Gaddafi Stadium Lahore will be changed to “Mohtarma Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Stadium” and that too ironically in the name of (sham) democracy and that is all going to happen in Pakistan if Gaddafi leaves.

Originally Posted @ I’m No Superman!

For those who don’t know, Salman Taseer was an avid critic of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, and he thought Asia Bibi should be pardoned for blaspheming about the Prophet Muhammad (may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). He was killed by his own guard Mumtaz Qadri in the name of Allah, for advocating a blasphemer. I could go on about how this whole issue was fabricated to be about blashphemy and minority rights when in fact it was a property feud, but I won’t because the fact of the matter is that whatever happened, happened because of what was believed by the public (Mumtaz Qadri) and what was brought to light by the media, NOT what really happened and whether it really even happened at all or not.

In one sentence: What happened to Salman Taseer was wrong. Period. It’s human life and it was taken away by someone other than Allah. This is haram.
All those arguments about killing people in the name of God, well, as fellow blogger and friend Mehreen Kasana said, “God does not need human protection.” And God sure as hell does not want you to take someone’s life because that is not what Islam preaches. How many times do we have to whip out the Hadith saying whoever kills a man has killed all of humanity.

I’m not going to go into details, because there are several other bloggers out there who do a much better job than me to provide you with all the evidence.

All I have to say is this: Mumtaz Qadri was not a hero, and Salman Taseer was no hero either. Salman Taseer was corrupt like all other politicians, and Mumtaz Qadri was a bigot like all uneducated, brainwashed humans. But Salman Taseer did not deserve to die like that, just like Aafia Siddiqui did not deserve to be treated that way, or the hundreds of other innocent civillians who didn’t deserve to die in drone attacks.
None of these humans deserved to die. Human life is not cheap, and it is NOT so worthless that we kill it because of our xenophobic tendencies.

Salman Taseer might have been wrong to advocate Aasia Bibi’s pardoning in a state that is run on Sharia Law, but that is precisely what Pakistan is not: run on Shariah Law. We don’t follow Shariah Law in any of our courts, we fight for democracy but whip Shariah out when it comes to blasphemy. Why don’t we follow Shariah for all those years of murders, for robbery, for theft? And what appalls me are the large number of people belonging to s0-called globalized, civilized population who advocate this downright ridiculous ’cause and are celebrating this murder as ‘Aashiq-e-Rasul’. It’s like one minute they were out there singing along to Munni and comparing her with Sheila Ki Jawani, and all of a sudden this is about protecting Islam and fighting against blashphemy.

As for Aasia Bibi, how do we really know for sure whether she committed blasphemy or not? Do we have evidence? And this is precisely where Qadri is wrong; to have killed without even knowing really for sure, without concrete evidence. To have killed at all.

I don’t support Salman Taseer, no. I don’t support any of the involved parties. Where was justice when it came to Aafia Siddiqui? Why didn’t Taseer sit next to her and address the media? Why didn’t Mr. Lion-of-Punjab be all fierce and heroic when Aafia Siddiqui was kept in a male prison? But I am against him being killed for voicing what he believed in. I will start believing in blasphemy laws when Pakistan starts applying them. Islam is not a pick and choose religion and I’m SICK of this twisted interpretation of a religion that spread a revolution solely through love, unity and good character. When the disbelievers cursed the prophet, not once did he curse them back, but kept showing mercy and love. He did not go around killing every single disbeliever who blasphemed. He corrected them through dialogue, through rationality and character.

Boycotting social media websites and internet, protesting around the city, suicide bombing, killing blasphemers and murdering their advocates is NOT in support of Islam. It will not implement Shariah in Pakistan, if that’s what you really even what. People seriously need to remove their brains from their buttholes and understand what the beautiful religion of Islam preaches.

STOP shattering the image of Islam and Pakistan. This is not who we are. This is not who we were and this is NOT what we were taught.

Allow me to shed light on the absurdity of your actions which highlight your imbecile and chauvinistic character. Your pathetic vacuous pride and disgusting intolerance and racism is a disgrace to me being part Turkish, and to the rest of the Turks who do not share your idiotic and cockamamy ideology. You can keep on trying to hack MEY and particularly the Alliance for Kurdish Rights website, but that will not stop MEY’s staff and certainly not me from highlighting the discrimination and persecution that Kurds go through.

You are nothing, your actions are insignificant and pitiful. I have to pity a person like you who indulges themselves in feelings of senseless hatred towards people who are no less of a human than you are, that is… if I can call you a human.

You are no different from Zionists who oppress Palestinians, no different from Imperialists who wage war on Iraqis and Afghans. No different from neo-Nazis & white supremacists; you’re probably no different from a Turk who thought it was okay to kill all those Armenians all those years ago.

To me, you come somewhere in between a dried cockroach’s carcass and the white stuff that accumulates at the corner of your mouth when you’re really thirsty. Simply to be eliminated and washed off and forgotten, or perhaps become a laughing material in our daily conversations and perhaps even posts on this website THEN fade, like a petty memory.

You enjoy being anonymous because it is a release from the normal world: no anonymous has an identity, no anonymous is a preening fabulous person. An anonymous realizes he is just a jack-off fucking around on the internet. Anonymous knows others of his kind enjoy this fact too. You despise the furfabulous person, the gaiafabulous person for one reason; you act like the internet is the real world, a place where actions actually have social consequences and where there needs to be a pecking order.

A pale, pimple faced, skinny (or most probably fat) dude who would most likely burn up if he came into contact with natural sunlight. Spends all of his time attacking people over the internet to compensate for his lack of a life and hatred of humanity for not accepting him.

Needless to say, you suck… Asshole.

So keep em coming “tough” guy. You will fail… and we’ll be here to watch.

Everything is politics in this damn “holy” land and the roots of this monstrous fire go deep back in history even earlier than 1930s, before the zionists occupied Haifa and the Carmel Reserve and evacuate the natives.

Out of the 61,000 Palestinian Arabs who used to call Haifa home, only 3,566 Palestinians were allowed to stay. The remaining population were in constant fear on their lives and properties, and many of them witnessed the looting of their homes and possessions by the Zionists.

In 1901, the Jewish National Fund JNF was established to facilitate the establishment of the zionist state on the rubbles of Palestine, and this is precisely what happened during the following 27 years. In the Early 1930s the JNF with the help of the British occupation, started its “ambitious” project of foresting the (Amiri) Governmental land that was taken from the Ottoman empire and they introduced a new kind of trees that is alien to Palestine which is the European oriented pine tree. In the early 1930s some 1,6 million pine trees were planted in the Palestinian Crmel hills. Pursuant to occupying Palestine and and over the past 60 years, some 65 million pine trees were planted on the Palestinian stolen land. This “ambitious” project of foresting was to cover the demolished villages and to change the topographic and historic features of Palestine to suit the zionist reenvention of history and lie of “the land without people to the people without land”. Some 61 villages were completely demolished in the Carmel only and to cover the zionist crimes, a huge foresting project was needed to cover the rubbles of the devastated native villages. No matter if the trees suit the Palestinian climate or not, the most important is to uproot the original vineyards and olive trees, to omit the original Palestine completely. However, a semi-desert land can’t stand European-style trees and 60% of the trees didnt survive which turned them into a typical fire trap.

In the Carmel Heights, the zionists built the beautiful colony of Little-Switzerland on the rubbles of the Palestinian village of Balad-Elsheikh and millions of “Swiss” pine trees were imported to ommit the massacre of Balad-Elsheikh to be resulted in Little-Switzerland, however, Little-Switzerland is burning now to reveal the rubbles of Palestine…. After the fire, the pine-tree dies and cant grow again, but the Olive trees are deep rooted that no matter how much you burn them, still there are interns to split the soil and cpome again like the phoenix.
Every summer (unlike the countries of the region) there is a series of wildfires in the occupied Palestine starting from Bir-Sheva in the South up to the Upper Galilee Heights in the north, and all of these are in the invented zionist forsts. Little-Swizerland has been burnt in the current wildfire that no Switerland cant stand the Palestinian middle eastern climate, and likewise, the Middle East will not stand zionist Russian or Etheopean colonizers !!!

A Palestinian Myth ( which is a kind of prophesy) says that Palestine will be invaded by the huge army of Yajouj -a kind of the Armageddonists myths- This army would drink all of the Sea of Galilee (which is Taiberias Lake)…. and it seems that this prophesy has come true:

The “green” zionists, at the time they pretend to be “environment lovers” and as they repeat their lies of “making the desert bloom”, they are actually devastating Palestine and drying the area; The invaders have drained and dried up the Hula lake completely through which tens of rare animals, insects and plants have become instinct. The zionists lied that they would “turn the swamp into a paradise” but they were actually concerned about clearing the border area and probably to invest in the “firtile” land of the lake. Foury years later, the zionist government admited finally that their “ambitious” project was a total failure and desasterious to the ecological balance.

The zionists are depleting The Lake of Tiberias (the Sea of Galilee) gradually as it is more than 5 meters below its regional level and tens of meters back off its shores. To save the loss, the zionists had cut off the River Jordan from feeding the Dead Sea, and accordingly the Dead Sea is dying and dried to shrink rapidly into smaller and smaller area !!!

To quench their thirst for water, the zionists (Yajouj) draw 80% of the Palestinian underground water in the occupied West Bank (against the international law, if there is any international law) … as the zionist settler consumes at least 7 times of water than the native Palestinian !!

In its recent report, the World Bank said Israel and Jewish settlers consume up to 90 percent of the water resource in the West Bank while the Palestinians consume the remaining part.

The per capita share of water in the Jewish settlements ranges between 640 and 1,480 cubic meters annually while the Palestinian per capita does not exceed 156 cubic meters, the report said.

In addition to draining the water of the Golan Heights and depriving the natives from using even the rain water, the “green” zionists have (drank) depleted Lake Ram completely this year.

Does Yajouj sound like Yehud = jew? The prophesy of drying the region has become true !!

Do you still believe the zionist  “greens” ???

Sami, the bedouin.

Education has always been high on the priority list to the guerrilla movement SPLM in southern Sudan. Education and knowledge of history and culture of Southern Sudan is important to understand what the guerrillas are doing.

When the current President Omar al-Bashir took power in 1989 he undertook a national education reform based on Islamic values, even math books were quranic verses. Arabic became the language of instruction, and virtually all the history and culture of Southern Sudan was removed.

Ministry of Education was an important goal for Bashir and his party NCPs (National Congress Party) ,The cities in the south which was occupied by the Northern Sudan was now Bashir Islamic education. The opposition was great.

One of the reasons that young people in the south took to arms against the Bashir regime was that they were deprived of educational opportunities.

Education is often cited as an engine for peace and reconciliation, but education can also accelerate a conflict. And that is precisely what has happened in Sudan.

- Today it is hard to imagine that education can work nation-building in Sudan. Here, education is more an engine for the division between south and north, precisely because the ideological differences are so great,

Together group of European scientists, launches activity to present a history of southern Sudan, called A Concise History of South Sudan, before the crucial referendum to be held in January 2011.

It should – as the peace agreement of 2005 prescribes – is decided whether it will remain one or split into two. But the regime in northern Sudan has already threatened to delay.

If the referendum is not held as stipulated in the peace agreement, f it ends with a new civil war in the country that has been ravaged by conflict and war for over 50 years.

A conflict that has claimed two million lives and driven hundreds of thousands to flee.

- Unfortunately little faith that a continued union between North and South is possible, the ideological differences are very large. many fear South Sudan’s secession from the north is the only realistic option.

- many people want at least separation, and international observers say the same. Can South Sudan the opportunity to choose, they go for separation,

There are two fundamentally different worldviews colliding against each other. A fundamentalist Islamic ideology and to the north, and a more Christian and at the same time secular Western-oriented ideology within the liberation movement in the south, the SPLM.

- The fundamentalist Islamic value set in the north do not communicate well with the value set in the south,A fundamental problem is that both sides attach to (attribute) the other negative attributes that are considered more or less immutable or innate.

- It makes it difficult to communicate with the other party, because neither side seems to trust that seemingly positive rumblings from the other side is frankly intended, but often interpreted as a coincidence that does not mean a fundamental change for the better.

People in southern Sudan looking at the actions of people in the north as the result of an aggressive ideology. They have little faith that North Sudan will change its ideology.

They are convinced the ruling party in the north will have sovereignty over the Africans and that they will put obstacles in the way of referendum.
the same attitudes in the South among both old and young, men and women, people with and without education. The negative perceptions will continue from generation to generation.

Meanwhile, skepticism towards both the people and culture of Southern Sudan more numerous in the north, not least within the ruling party.

Muslim politicians have stated that South Sudan is in the way of Islam’s spread in Africa.

Although the ruling party of President Bashir has wrapped up the rhetoric in a more diplomatic language, skepticism shines through.

t it is difficult to build a nation when a large proportion of the population did not support the value of one vision. And then, when two different sets of values must come together, it becomes almost impossible.

Waleed Khalid Hasayen is a 26 year old blogger who was arrested in the West Bank city of Qalqilya by the Palestinian authorities on the grounds of religious contempt and promoting atheism. On his blog “Nour Al Akl” or The enlightened Mind, he refuted all religious arguments – specially Islam – and he wrote long detailed posts on the fallacy of religions. In the beginning of Summer 2010, a Facebook page titled “Allah” was created by an anonymous user. The creator of the page used his excellent command of the Arabic language and composed poetic stanzas that mimic Qura’anic verses. The page attracted many fans; there were those who liked the creativity of the author, those who were offended and joined to defend their religion, and those who were merely curious.

There were many speculations about the identity of the page creator until earlier this week when Waleed got arrested. A Facebook group dedicated to his defence has been created; the admins of the group are reaching out to the international community and human rights activists. They also created a petition demanding the freedom of the detained blogger.

On his profile on blogger, Waleed wrote the following:

يا أعزائي انا أحاول أن أكتشف الحقيقة, لا أن أحرف الحقيقة لكي تكون في صالحي, علينا أن نكون صريحين مع أنفسنا قبل أن نجاوب على تلك الأسئلة, نحن لسنا في حرب ولسنا طرفين يتنازعان والبقاء للأقوى.. اذا استطاع احد ما أن يبين أن منهجي خاطئ فلن أحاول ان اكذبه بأساليب تافهة, ولن أحاول أن اتلاعب بالكلمات لكي اثبت وجهة نظري, ففي النهاية نحن نسعى وراء نفس الهدف انا لست عدواً للمسلمين ولا للإسلام, ولكني في عبارة أصح, لست أعز صديق لهم, هجومي على الإسلام لا يعني انني حاقد عليه, ولكني ببساطة اصابني اليأس من رؤية العالم ينهار بسبب الأديان, والمفارقة العجيبة انه عندما تسأل شيخاً مسلماً عن اسباب انهيار اوضاعنا سيجيبك وبكل ثقة : انه بسبب البعد عن الله يا بني لذلك عزيزي المؤمن, عليك بإستخدام عقلك وعدم الإتكال على من يحرف لك المعاني ليرضيك, ولا أعتقد انك سترضى بحقيقة مشوهة ومحرفة تحريفاً واضحاً, واتمنى ان تكون من النوعية التي تبحث عن الحق, ولست من النوعية التي تبحث فقط عما يؤيد ما تعتقد انه الحق

Which reads:

My dear visitors, I am seeking the truth. In my writings, I am not trying to twist facts to the favor of my arguments. I am just posing questions that many of us do not dare to ask and I urge you to be honest with yourselves while attempting to find the answers. We are not two parties at war against one another. We will not be dragged into a futile attempt to prove who is the fittest by discrediting each other. If someone can refute my arguments and prove the fallacy of my logic, I will listen and respond rationally. I will not mock his opinions or manipulate words to prove my points. I am not an enemy of Islam or Muslims; after all, we are all seeking the same thing – the truth. To be more precise, I know I am not the Muslim’s best friend. I am not against Islam in particular, I am just a human being who is tired of watching the world collapse around us because of religions and religious strifes. It is ironic how Islamic scholars contribute such wars and destruction to the lack of faith. My dear believer, I urge you to use the brains you were given to seek your own truth instead of lazily relying on the misleading pacifying translations and interpretations of others. I have faith in you! I know you will not settle for fake half truths that were clearly manipulated to serve the best interest of those who promote them. I hope you are a truth seeker not just someone who is looking for a validation for what he believes to be the truth.

Back to Waleed’s “crime.” Yes, Waleed is an atheist! Yes, Waleed promotes his ideas on his blog! Yes, Waleed created a facebook page speaking in the name of God! Yes, Waleed posted Qura’an-like verses on his page! But wait! let me remind you how facebook pages work. First of all, you have to “LIKE” a page to be able to join it. Second, links and posts from the pages you “LIKE” do not automatically appear on your news feed; you have to frequent this page several times a day for a long period of time to see its feed regularly on you home page. As for the blog, you have to type the blog address in your browser to be directed to its pages, or you have to search for it – or for a related topic – to have it pop up in your search results.

My point is: YOU go to the blog! YOU go to the Facebook page! YOU choose to read! YOU choose to join! YOU choose to expose yourself to what Waleed has to say!

Waleed did not record his ideas on tapes and force you to listen to them in public transportation! Waleed did not buy himself dedicated segments on TV and force you to hear him out! Waleed did not eavesdrop on a conversation you were having with a friend and barge in with his ideologies. Waleed did not stop you in the street for wearing a veil or for having a beard and force-feed you his arguments. Waleed did not harass you at home or on the streets because you are different! Waleed did not get on a pulpit and preach violence against you! Waleed just sat in front of a computer screen and jotted down his thoughts. He is a thinker not a criminal!

Why are you afraid of him? Is your faith that fragile? Are your religious beliefs that vulnerable? Are you that weak? Who are you to censor another human being’s thoughts? He is free to think and write just as much as you are free to adopt different ideologies. Like you, Waleed was born with a right to choose! Like you, Waleed was born with the right to freedom of expression! God – the God you believe in – gave us all the right to choose and He is the only one to judge us! I am sure that God is ashamed of his own creation! It’s a tale as old as time … the allegorical story of Cain and Abel! Man judging Man! Man killing Man! Man censoring Man! Man muzzling Man! Man silencing Man!

I met Waleed in person once or twice and there was nothing offensive or criminal about his attitude. We talked about his beliefs and I respect his rationale and his questioning mind. I deleted him from Facebook and did not join any of his pages because I chose not to. Today I am writing in his defence as a human being who has the right to adopt different thoughts and beliefs than mine or yours! Until when will Arabs continue to reenact the farcical dramas of the Middle Ages inquisition courts? Until when will Arabs fear thinkers? Until when will we have people playing God in the name of Hisbah, promotion of virtue, prevention of vice, protecting public morality, or law and order keepers? Free Waleed! Free thinkers! Free your minds from those rusty shackles – and get a life!

* Marwa Rakha official website.

False: He is the head

Question: At this visible attempt of deceit one wonders if anything in the Egyptian media is not made to suit the ruling Pharaoh?

* Screen shots of the second foto published on Al Ahram website and the printed version