Media Infidelity at Its Best – Exposing The News International

The News asks insultingly, “Do we have the moral legitimacy to demand the accession of Kashmir to Pakistan?” In the News’ view human conditions in Pakistan are not good enough for the Kashmiris to join it. Equating Pakistan with India on the Kashmir issue is equally sinister.

Would Someone Stop Them…????

by Tarik Jan

The danger of freedom is deliquescence; the danger of strict order is petrifaction.

All civilization have had trouble managing the passion escaping their disruptive consequences and harnessing them to useful and approved activity.

                                                     Peter Grey in his 2-vol the Enlightenment:
                                                     An Interpretation.

Every day that passes convinces us that by misusing freedom our media, exceptions allowed, is guilty of delinquescence – committing crimes against the Pakistani state and the value system of its people. The media crime is, however, far worst than other crimes because of the continual war it is waging against Pakistan – the land that shades them.

• Nation-state is bad and so is patriotism
• Nationalism is parochial and narrow
• Pakistan is a failed state; a worst country in the world
• Pakistan’s Islamic character (even in name) is communal and frightening
• Pakistan has no future
• Confederation with India
• SAARC as a template for pre-independence British India
• The corporate Muslim identity is medieval and bad. For them, either it is South Asian or nothing
• Rewriting history: Pakistanis are Indians.

Besides, the English media has become a fortified bunker for Islam-haters who are continually shelling at the social and moral values of the Pakistani people. The themes run as under:

• Being a Muslim is not a good identity
• Regulating human conduct is reprehensible
• Ghayrat (the idea that no body has the right to (i) dehumanize me nor I should let myself (ii) betray my self-respect) is contemptible.
• Free, irresponsible sex is a “joy of passion” – “moments of divinity” (focus on divinity)

The English press is read by a small section of the people, but it is the most influential section of our society (that is: armed forces, civil servants, corporate managers, judiciary and academia). Would they make right decisions for our nation and state after being subjected to the daily meltdown named English press? Would they stand up for the national agenda stated in our consensual document – the constitution.

That is the question!

Gripping About Prayers! – Anees Jilani Spews Out Hatred

by Tarik Jan

Anees Jilani’s article “Keep religion out of sports” March 2, 1999 really beats me: it is full of brash judgments, wise cracks, and untruths. Added to this, he comes up with three major themes in a 9 x 8 inch space starting from cosmology of his impressive recent “astrophysicists conference in the United State” to inconsequential prayers, and religious wars. For sure, humbleness does not stick in his case.

I tried my best to find linkage between his three themes, but it left me cheerless. If there is a string running through them, it is hate-for-religion. And that is pathetic.

His use of the “new-found” cosmology is problematic. First, the Western science uses it in support of the view that if the universe is ever expanding, then it is timeless. This runs into serious problem: it will conflict with the second law of thermodynamics which says, among others, if entropy is always increasing, time must be finite. Modern data allow us to assume that the solar system in years to come may loose its light leaving the earth in complete darkness. A denouement of the secularists’ everlasting world!

Second, there is no Creator behind this cosmology for the creation is self-propelling, self-creating. But Jilani like the politicians (e.g. Benazir for one), whom he rightly hates, puts God into it which is a contradiction in such kind of cosmology.

Third, his view of our humanity as “tiny, scrawny” is again the product of a Godless cosmology which implies that humans do not matter in the vast expanse of the universe — they are on their own with none to listen to them. Cruel it may be but this is a crafted message he is giving to the readers.

This may be a news to him but for us Muslims, the “worst off in the world”—Jilani’s words — the concept of an ever-expanding universe is not new. The Qur’an said it through the mouth of the illiterate Prophet:

The heaven, We have built is with power.
Surely, We are expanding it.
                                                         Sura 51:47

But unlike his secular metaphysics based on the astrophysicists’ cosmology, the same Qur’an also says that the world will be wrapped up one day:

When the heaven is cleft asunder,
when the planets are dispersed,
when the seas are poured forth,
And the sepulchers are over turned,
A soul will know what it has sent
before (it) and what left behind.
                                                         Sura 82: 1-5

Obviously his article is another example of double speak. His God, as opposed to the compassionate God of Islam who listens (sura 16: 30), won’t respond to our prayers because if He does, Indians will be at the bad end of the bargain.

Jilani also brings up the issue of bloodletting religious wars because he has to support his not-so-hidden-thesis of discrediting religion. Pathetic it may be, he ignores the fact that more people have been killed in non-religious wars than other’s. The two World Wars took a toll of 102 million people for territories and consumer markets. Racial hate cost the lives of more than 5.8 million Jews in Nazi Germany alone during the 1940s. Class conflict and the resultant reason-based scientific socialism gave a killing rate of 15 million people in former Soviet Union. Besides, was it a religious fanatic who threw nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? In two days alone, Americans killed 200,000 people in Hiroshima and 74,800 in Nagasaki. And who was this religious-driven monster who carried out 109,876 sorties on Iraq and droppend 88,000 tons of bomb on its armless people during the Gulf war?

Maybe what prompted him to write was the “wrong message” that our cricketers unwittingly gave to the youth. What could be a greater affront to a secular mind than the sight of the sajdah-making role-modelers — the modern-day icons of a secular society—giving religious expression to their win. Yes, it is a terrible waste of the secular yak-yak that our press pours out daily. Prayers in sports is an awful symbolism, a dated concept that disturbs the secularists’ comfort.

To cure his likes, one may suggest they watch the video clipping of Chaghi’s May 28, 1998 nuclear explosion and hear the chants of Allahu Akbar (Allah is Great) from the mouths of our modern educated nuclear scientists. A terrible waste of all the scientific education — isn’t it? But this is the way it will be.

Eat your heart out, Jilani!!!

Dr. Mubarak Ali Goes Against Pakistan’s Independence

Source: Jang (Urdu)

FAULTLINES EXPOSED!

Dr. Mubarak Ali, the famous secular historian (Sindh University) and an anti-Pakistan tirade has really come out of the box this time to voice his hatred against Pakistan. He represents the atheist and secular community in Pakistan and is a collaborative partner with the ‘esteemed’ Jang group to brainwash readers against Pakistan and to create disharmony against various cultures. The above article is a masterpiece which implies

 

·         Quaid e Azam was wrong!

·         Allama Iqbal was also wrong! (because they both wanted partition, but Dr. Mubarak Ali who is more qualified than these two gentleman thinks otherwise!)

·         If Pakistan was not formed the Muslims would have reaped the benefits of secular government of India

·         Muslims have a wrong perception about their own history (which according to Mubarak Ali is not good!)

 

It is a shame that we as Pakistani citizens are tolerating such newspapers within our own country that deliberately select Anti Pakistan nut jobs and publish their interviews on a periodic basis to continuously hit at Pakistan’s ideology!