Changing Muslim Hearts [Muslim children often find themselves having to sustain two frames of mind: one at home for the appeasement of parents who can`t seem to let go of the good old days back in the home country, and another out in the world to gain acceptance from their American peers. My guess is that oftentimes it is this dichotomy that plays into a young man`s decision to seal his sense of identity through a terrible act of violence.]

True perhaps....but could anybody be held responsible for it? Neither the `inhouse` society nor the one that prevails outside would be willing to, or could impelled to change....the rule of thumb? Children, can`t but help fall victims to this nauseous clash of socail environment. But this does not necessarily mean they only resort could be acts of voilence and terrorism..the reasons are more far-fetched than this.

Changing Muslim Hearts Re: # 21 No, they`ll change if all the mitars shave their heads and chins off! Take?

Light at the End of the Tunnel How is a dream any different from an NDE and vice versa? I see remarkable resemblance between the two. Don`t people have almost all these experiences in a dream too? Both NDEs and dreams are a consequence of a state of unconsciousness, then what possibly could be the reason of deliberately distinguishing one from the other?
Also I guess this authenticates the Islamic concept of sleep being a half-death.
Indeed....an aura of enigma surrounds the whole life, the entire existance.....these mysteries of mind!
Interesting read, nevertheless.
regards

The Buddha is Smiling huh? so the suffering of that one-man`s wife outcastes that of the thousands who fall victim to his tyranny?
The narrations starts in a very articulate and informative way, but the analogy that it sums up in sort of ruins all that up. An anology between suicide bombers, fighting for a self-proclaimed saintly but in actual malicious cause, and the epitomes of righteousness...makes no sense whatsoever.
And no, these suicide bombers are not esteemed as `HEROES` by even 10% of the ummah, that`s a ludicrous stereotype!

Jab Mr. Singh Ko Gussa Charta Hai You gotta be kidding man! What else do you expect Mr Manmohan to ang about amidst all that British elite...the notorious Lagaan? Mr Manmohan may well be a statesman, and a seasoned one at that, but the global politics has little if not no space for right out statesmanship.

All Goods Foreign It`s indeed an irony how even the poorest quality stuff from China and Taiwan, far worse than even the locally made one, is drooled at in our countries, on account of merely bearing the tag `imported`.

Dear Allah Re: # 45 Perhaps He is more prone to `sign` language, and may be I tend to have an ardour to decipher the same...

raw #46 here`s a return thanks, for being sane enuf to add `i figure`....;)
peace

Dear Allah Re: # 42 Kaal, luckily `our` God is not scared of spreading his private number around. ;)
peace

Dear Allah Re: # 40 Thanks for the clarification, I indeed have lost quite a few senses over the last few years. :)

[someone should have pointed out to mr. t. that the god he claims to believe in doesn`t need rambling emails either]
what if that God Himself is humble enough to invite Mr T to ask and even to complain...in verb or in black and white? What ailes us....?
on that `a` bit, I thought `han, bolo, kia hai` served the purpose better....afterall...it`s hard to distinguish on the basis of merely one out of the 26 alphabets. No?
peace

Dear Allah Re: # 36 [the writer of this piece and more than a few pakistanis drowning in denial must needs be the bearers of goodness and truth.]
does that need rephrasing/reviewing, or have I lost my sense of apprehension??
p.s If raw_dust is not confused, the God he belives/disbelieves in, surely is. ;)
p.p.s technically and rationally speaking, an `n` and an `a` would take approximately the same amount of time, or perhaps even lesser, in typing down as would a `.` :)
regards

Dear Allah Re: # 29 sure unkil T, banda-i-nacheez hazir hai, here u go..

ik aur dariyaa kaa saamnaa thaa Munir mujh ko
maiN aik dariyaa ke paar utraa to maiN ne dekhaa

:)

Dear Allah hehe, I found this bit really funny as well as profound...
[…can you fix these bloodying muslims? please? i mean yes your world is overpopulated and your muslim followers look at condoms with suspicion…]

and this one is quite poignant...
[…in qur`an you explicitly gave men and women rights…rights some 500 years before magna carta…deemed by many to be the corner stone of constitutional law…]

and for this part...
[* have trouble sleeping at nights...then watch cable news, get more disturbed…come to chowk and write bad poetry...(it is late a night right now)]
all I have, rather Ghalib has, to say
maut ka aik din mu`ay`yan hai
neend kyuN raat bhar nahiN aati
sab umr-i-rafta ka qusoor hai unkil T, jawani tau bey-maya beeT gayee ;)

lve and regards

Einstein’s Love Life I won`t agree on one thing though..
[Probably highly creative persons need all their time and minds for their creative work and marriage and steady relationships are only a bothersome appendage; that probably was the reason that Newton remained unmarried all his life]
Not necessarily! Sir Isaac Newton was a member of UK parliament twice, and i don`t think politics is any lesser trubulent and distracting a business than marriage.
One thing that probably best distinguishes an ordinary person form a genius or a `highly creative` person, is that while an average person would be either a jack of all or a master of one, a genius or a consummator would excell in every skill he cherishes and get as close as possible to mastering in all that he engages himslef into. Marriage is a differnet business altogether, it`s more about emotions than genius/intelligence.

Einstein’s Love Life An interesting article for a change Dr Gill, thumbs up. Good to know two of the most significant historical figures of the 20th century, associated particualrly with the WW2, a la Hitler and Einstein, had an almost equally disrupted and inconsistant love life, a coincidence?
regards

Far from the Maddening Crowd Quite an old theme, yet amusing. Good work, keep writing.

Trunk Thank you Kauray (for making some sense at least for once in your life ;) ), Cayenne, Raka, Malik99, Ijaz and Aimie for your feedback and comments.
#6 Ozer I am absolutely speechless! That is awesome indeed! Thanka lot for your kind effort.
#10 Unkil T, I can keep secrets, and I thought you did too1 ;)
#9 Beejay, I am afraid you, somehow, have missed on the real essence of the story. It was simply his one big dream that had kept him surviving through all his mental and physical afflictions. When, in the end, he achieved it, he lost it one way or the other, and hence, nothing was left to live for or live by. He didn`t give in, and it wasn`t a shock of triumph that he lost to, a fighter that he were. It was the power of his dream that made him confront and turn down the call of fate and the ultimate, when he lost it, he lost his crutch. As Emma Goldman would say
``When we cannot dream any longer, we die.``
regards