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Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State

Tahir Qazi May 19, 2008

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#1 Posted by parthaab on May 21, 2008 12:35:45 am
Divorces in India are no easy affair for the male. Gender-biased laws have been made since recently by Renuka, a notoriously feminist minister. When a woman is angry at a man and wants a divorce, she usually lies, and makes false charges to have him and his family jailed, without appeal or bail. Domestic Violence is hyped by feminist groups internationally, but this too is not borne out by studies, which attribute equal violence to the female too. Blackmail is norm - alongwith the emotional trauma of undergoing a divorce. In a corrupt system like India , that means a pot of money, and social ostracisation too – mind you, for a young, growing, citizen of the country. Divorces should surely be made easier and simpler than this?

Alimony causes even more financial commitment on the young male – whatever for? For the ‘crime' of divorcing? Some say that alimony could be an invitation for a female to divorce – and even marry in the first place! Alimony is surely a thing for the past generation of divorces?

A word on feminism here may be in order. Feminists take media sympathy from ‘facts’ that are controversial really. For eg., let us take female feticide. In reality, four times more adult men actually commit than women! Is it because women cannot bear to see their daughters grow up anything short of a princess? And the gender ratios that are quoted in India , cannot explain the widespreadedness of feticide, because in some countries, the proportion of males is actually less! And yet, feminists continue to use the media to gain sympathy – sometimes using genuine reasons ( like minority female literacy for eg.), to get unreasonable gains.

To counter the menace of feminism, we hardly have a Male Right Movement going in India yet. In addition, it is not fashionable to the media yet. Male Rights in western countries have gained some momentum in the past few years, though.

www.498a.org
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#2 Posted by nkg on May 21, 2008 1:54:22 am
You have something called OIC. What more you want?
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#3 Posted by akcheema on May 21, 2008 2:00:06 am
I think I have already said all this in MY words on this site; maybe I should write a book about it now...seems the logical next step..no?

Parthab mian,

just what the hell is wrong with you???
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#4 Posted by parthaab on May 21, 2008 4:06:16 am
Re: # 3
Oops! Wrong post!
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#5 Posted by nasah on May 21, 2008 4:16:00 am
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"Parthab mian,

just what the hell is wrong with you???"

good question -- why he sounds so crushed so miserable? -- want a cheap divorce come to Vegas.
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#6 Posted by nb on May 21, 2008 5:15:02 am
Parthaab mian appears on every Indian site complaining about Indian women, occasionally claiming Russian and Chinese women are better...etc etc. He has now merely expanded his horizons to South Asia. He is not on chowk to read any articles but to post these anti-women posts. Now that I've told you, please go back to ignoring him. Thanks.
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#7 Posted by tahir on May 21, 2008 7:56:59 am
Tarek Fatah of MMC !!!

January 29, 2008

So-called Sharia Mortgages are a Deception: MCC asks CMHC to drop $100,000 study to introduce Islamic banking in Canada

TORONTO - The Muslim Canadian Congress (MCC) has asked the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) to abandon its $100,000 study to introduce so-called Islamic Banking in Canada, saying there should be no room in Canada for Saudi inspired Islamist political doctrines dressed up as innocuous religious requirements.

In a letter to Karen Kinsley, Chief Executive Officer of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the president of the Muslim Canadian Congress Farzana Hassan said, "Islamic Banking is nothing more than an attempt by Islamists, with backing from Middle Eastern Financial Institutions and their Western partners, to scare Muslim Canadians into believing that they should pay more to the banks and demand less in return as an act of religiosity. "

Read all at http://www.muslimcanadiancongress.org/20080129.html

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#8 Posted by tahir on May 21, 2008 8:00:07 am
Don't we all laaaahve Taslima Nasrin??
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August 14, 2007
Criminalize Allegations of Apostasy

MCC condemns attack on Bangladeshi writer, Taslima Nasrin
TORONTO - The Muslim Canadian Congress has reiterated its demand that the Canadian government consider criminalizing accusations of apostasy and blasphemy often levelled by Islamists against their Muslim critics.

The MCC was reacting to the attack on Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin by Islamist Indian legislators last week. The exiled Bangladeshi writer was physically attacked at a press conference and later accused of being an apostate and thus worthy of death.

Akbar Hussain, a director of the MCC said, "This behaviour is unacceptable. The Indian authorities must exercise tighter control to prevent such mob politics from threatening or causing bodily harm to people who hold divergent views. This is against the principle of freedom of expression which a secular democracy like India must uphold."

Click here to read the full statement.
http://www.muslimcanadiancongress.org/20070811.html

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#9 Posted by tahir on May 21, 2008 8:06:04 am
"To fight extremism, Muslim leaders must emphasize the seperation of religion and politics," says Salma Siddiqui of MMC!

There goes Allama Iqbal out of the window...
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#10 Posted by tahir on May 21, 2008 8:08:24 am
One may as well allow these satans to utter anything in the name of art and freedom of speech! I have read the Satanic Verses and know what filth it is. These rats must live scared like rats; no need to issue fatwas! Allah will deal with them...
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Britain isn't worthy of Rushdie
Tarek Fatah
National Post, Toronto

Sunday, Oct. 1, 1989 was a typically chilly morning in London. That did not dampen the enthusiasm of thousands of angry British Muslims who were heading toward the Royal Albert Hall to hear a South African orator, Ahmed Deedat, rip into Salman Rushdie for writing The Satanic Verses.

Nearly 6,000 men, some bussed in from as far as Birmingham, jammed the hall. What happened at the start of the event tells us a lot about the Rushdie saga, which it seems, will not die until the man they now call Sir Salman is sent to his death.

The first speaker read a piece from Rushdie¹s Satanic Verses and asked The audience how many were familiar with that passage or had read the book. Only one person raised his hand. One man out of 6,000! They had come to demand the banning of The Satanic Verses, but had not read the book.

That has been the story of the Rushdie affair for the last 18 years. If Rushdie had intended to defame Islam, his naysayers have helped him do so.

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#11 Posted by tahir on May 21, 2008 8:15:15 am
One may as well shut down all mosques! These lunatics have no idea what multi-purpose buildings the mosques of the Prophet's time were!
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Keep politics out of our mosques: Muslims cannot sit still while a fascist cult of Islamic supremacy takes over places of worship
by Tarek Fatah

Three years ago when Kuwaiti Islamist scholar Tareq Al Suwaidian told a Toronto crowd that "Western civilization is rotten from within and nearing collapse ... it (the West) will continue to grow until an outside force hits it and you will be surprised at how quickly it falls," he was lustily cheered by the nearly 2,000 young Muslim men and women.

I was deeply offended by the hostile remark, but the thunderous approving applause of the young audience simply stunned me. All I could do was muster the courage and stage a polite walkout.

That day I resolved to fight this hostility toward the modern nation-state and Western civilization that was engulfing a section of Canadian Muslim youth; one that was being fanned by the leadership of the traditional Muslim organizations and Islamic radicals who took inspiration from the ruling elites of Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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#12 Posted by tahir on May 21, 2008 8:22:23 am
"Tarek Fatah’s book is a good attempt to start dialogue in the ideological world. It is also a dream for a better world that is free of friction among various ideologies."

Who ARE you (really) my namesake? And why are you promoting the MMC?

As long as there are human beings on the planet, to think that poverty will end or there will remain no friction is living in a fool's paradise. The TEST is to remain steadfast, oppose evil and promote what Allah commands us.

Clear?
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#13 Posted by tahir on May 21, 2008 8:44:36 am
What are all these liberated educated HUMANISTS doing in Canada? Listen to how Tarek goes against Qur'anic teachings!
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Tare k Fatah stated that "The issue that has resulted in all the threats and allegations against us is our support for same-sex marriage. It's the central point on which the Muslim Canadian Congress and I have faced outright hostility, verging on violence. There is near unanimity in any religious group that this is the ultimate sin and, for them, this amounts to the ultimate betrayal." Regarding Islam and homosexuality, Fatah stated that "Our human rights cannot revolve around religion. It's not about our rights, it's about human rights.'
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#14 Posted by tahir on May 21, 2008 8:45:02 am
What are all these liberated educated HUMANISTS doing in Canada? Listen to how Tarek goes against Qur'anic teachings!
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Tare k Fatah stated that "The issue that has resulted in all the threats and allegations against us is our support for same-sex marriage. It's the central point on which the Muslim Canadian Congress and I have faced outright hostility, verging on violence. There is near unanimity in any religious group that this is the ultimate sin and, for them, this amounts to the ultimate betrayal." Regarding Islam and homosexuality, Fatah stated that "Our human rights cannot revolve around religion. It's not about our rights, it's about human rights.'
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#15 Posted by Kamath on May 21, 2008 8:46:21 am
Re: # 2
What is OIC? Is it OH, I, See.."

Kamath
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#16 Posted by Kamath on May 21, 2008 8:46:21 am
Re: # 2
What is OIC? Is it OH, I, See.."

Kamath
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