The New Jews

#172 Posted by Foxbat on December 1, 2005 6:32:40 am

SCREW THIS SUBJECT, LETS WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT LAHORE!

#171 Posted by mehnazhyder on November 2, 2005 12:04:05 pm

Excellent article, Bina, very well written. I can identify with it so much. As an American born woman of both Pakistani and Indian origin, and having lived as an American expat in Saudi, this pretty much describes my experiences as well. What am I? What am I not? I am everything and nothing, and yet, I am accountable for it all. Beautiful.

#170 Posted by Kulharee on March 18, 2005 5:30:22 pm

Bina, could it be that they are just interested in knowing what you really are? I think it is not very healthy reading more into it than it’s worth. As you yourself mentioned that you have been asked this question since you were a little girl, so why worry now? People are curious, and are now curious more than ever. Look at the bright side; more Americans now know where Pakistan is located on the map than they did on Sep 10, 2001. I am so impressed that Americans can be such quick learners. My colleagues in New York now know what part of Pakistan Dari is spoken and what happened to Mukhtaran Mai. There’s no such thing as bad publicity.

#169 Posted by Tipu on March 13, 2003 5:49:33 pm

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#168 Posted by tahmed32 on March 13, 2003 2:19:54 pm

Saminasha #167 you write ``Aaaaiiiieeeee!!!!!!!!! ``.

s-s-h-hhhhh, please no. The monkeys on chowk will run away howling and shrieking. And the pigs will develop wings and fly away.

#167 Posted by arjun_m on March 13, 2003 8:20:14 am

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#166 Posted by Saminasha on March 13, 2003 8:20:14 am

Tahmed and Harji,

re``...Great great great grand Uncle Genghis chased Jay`s monkey ancestors all the way to the southern tip of the India. What do you say, eh distant cousin?...``

1. That my maternal ancestor was not very nice
2. Some of his personality traits work for me as a teacher

Aaaaiiiieeeee!!!!!!!!!

#165 Posted by Tipu on March 13, 2003 7:37:13 am

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#164 Posted by Ralph on March 13, 2003 6:44:32 am

Kashmir Bus Blast Kills Four, Hurts 20
Associated Press

The new jews...killing and complaining.

#163 Posted by Ralph on March 13, 2003 6:44:32 am

Studebaker #159

India was the second-most corrupt country among the 12 countries that are deemed to follow ethical behavior

The twelve countries are -

Indonesia
India
Vietnam
China
Phillipines
Thailand
Malaysia
South Korea
Taiwan
Japan
Hongkong
Singapore

Some of the other countries such as Sri Lanka are considered to be less ocrrupt. Others - many whose names you would know - are beyond the pale. Such surveys are not conducted there.

#162 Posted by rsaxena on March 13, 2003 6:44:32 am

...abey 12-head, that survey doesn`t include pakistan, and still treats hong kong as separate from china...some credibility it has...about as much as your bhungee behind....

#161 Posted by arjun_m on March 13, 2003 6:44:31 am

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#160 Posted by tahmed32 on March 13, 2003 6:44:31 am

harish #158 I accept your apologies, even though I did not ask for them nor indeed did your reference to pigs in my ancestry bother me one bit, as I hope should be clear from my post. I did find your knee-jerk reference to the pig funny, since it shows you really think that because I am a muslim I would be insulted. Rest assured that I would not be on chowk if personal insults by anonymous writers bothered me. As for Jay, I think the man is beneath ridicule - his single-minded hatred for muslims in particular borders on the criminal in my view, and is totally unacceptable from a financially well off, educated individual that he is.

Trouble with so many individuals on chowk is that you see hindus and muslims and pakistanis and indians (and from your posts, I dont see you doing anything different). You people need to start seeing other posters as human beings first and last, and to respect the feelings they are bound to have for the community (hindu or muslim) that they grew up in. Then you can have some intelligent discussion, otherwise all you get is spitting contests between grown up men.
I am sorry if my posts hurt your feelings, but if I am ready to accept personal insults then I have a right to express my views freely as well.

#159 Posted by Tipu on March 12, 2003 11:23:37 pm

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#158 Posted by sadna on March 12, 2003 8:39:04 pm

temporal #147
``bush and company are mirror fundos to obl and am types``

Well I can`t make that comparison. Would you like to live in a country next to a country where obl was in power? Thats Canada according to this comparison..

Today Brian Lehrer on npr talked to one of the Iraqi Kurd province`s Prime Minister.
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/current

A level headed man, (for example when asked whether Kurds split between 3 countries deserve a separate nation-state, he said something like `history and geography have been cruel to the Kurdish people. But intead of leading Kurds into a course of action of which the outcome is wholly uncertain, we should accept this harsh fact of history and concentrate on developing our Kurdish society and culture as part of the federal republic of Iraq` (Approximate sense of what he said)).

This man when asked said that Saddam has killed 2 million people in 35 years. (Even if 1 million of those died in I-Iraq war, thats still 1 million people killed among a present population of 19 million?). He also said Saddam would never leave on his own.

My point is lets see all sides of the issue and have a proper perspective here.