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The Passion of The Pacifist

Farzana Versey December 20, 2001

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#6 Posted by Trillium on December 21, 2001 12:52:04 pm
Hamzad Afaqui

Engineer makes sense. You do not. The Holy Quran

and Islam flourish today, not through misguided `watchdogs`(screaming blasphemy) like your yapping buddy, Qazi Shaikh Abbas Borhany, but because it protects itself. Butt out. You`re both `bad for business`.



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#5 Posted by Prem on December 21, 2001 12:52:04 pm
Farzana,

Marvellous...

AAE is what many of us strive to be, although that is a very difficult challenge for the lesser mortals like us.

Thank you, F, for bringing this interview to us.



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#4 Posted by soundmeister on December 21, 2001 12:52:04 pm
hamzad#2:

What exactly is wrong in being a ``pacifist``? If secular humanism is as repugnant to you as witch doctoring, maybe you ought to take a closer look at yourself. As for ``enlightened`` maulvis, please.... and let`s not even START on ``Islamic science`` and extracting energy from jinns...

Always had this impression of Bohras being the bright happy face of Islam.... If the Bohras can excommunicate one of their own for ``daring`` to oppose the Syedna, it reflects badly on them and their alleged liberal-ness.



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#3 Posted by Urstruly on December 21, 2001 8:29:49 am
Can`t comment because I have absolutely no idea who Engineer Sahib is. Farzana, please write a note in the reply section, as to who this person is-and if possible paste some cut`n`paste links to his work.

THank you

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#2 Posted by AAmir on December 21, 2001 3:08:19 am
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#1 Posted by hamzadafaqui on December 21, 2001 1:17:29 am
Bufoons like Asghar Ali Engineer are a dime a dozen.These are the unqualified,uneducated,street people who are mistaken for having acquired some learning simply because they are making every effort to mould themselves into western norms & practices.

Like the Roman Catholic church they are constantly trying to convince others that given enough gallup-polling the church will fine-tune itself to the Satanic religion of Secular Humanism.

These witch doctors want to practice medicine & insist that the rules of the medical establishment are too rigid to be accomodate these innovative methods.If Asghar Ali Engineer wants to acquire some learning he must enrol at some reputable madrassah & sit at the feet(very humbly,mind you)of some maulana [they speak read & write better english,french,german--can explain science better than hawkins AND know more than any Harvard/Cambridge type).In case the poor fellow is deluded that most people who follow Maulana Tahir Saifuddin are stupid or ``common folk``,he is sadly mistaken.It is just that they write him off even when they take a look at such secularistic bimbaas.

Such as his kind appeal to a dwindling ``uneducated`` contituency which for one reason or another want legitimacy of a fatwa for letting their kids drink,date,fornicate,appear foreign at home,be homos,spurn eastern superior values for inferior western ones & not adopt superior western values.

If they get rejected & ostracised by their community community it does not mean that because of this persecution complex he is right----so many illegals get deported from US but they themselves have to be blamed.ASghar Ali(& his ilk) must be treated with the same contempt as that for an illegal alien.



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