From puppets' to people’s century

[Salahuddin]

To the United States’ most favored Muslim dictators.

Dear little tyrants! You may not believe, but as your masters — the super tyrants — are rejoicing over the ultimate humiliation of one of your buddies, our hearts cry for you.

Our hearts cry, not because we will miss your repression after you are gone the same way your role model, Saddam, did. Our own hearts cry out against us for we could not help you see the writing on the wall for you.

We cry, not because our humiliation, death and destruction always precede your capture or a violent death. We cry because you are one of us. It matters little if opportunism makes you paint yourself as communists, Baathists or enlightened moderates.

The millions that are suffering under your inhuman rules know that you have ignored the very first thing you learnt as Muslims. Are not you supposed to ask and repeat several times a day: “Thee alone do we serve and Thee alone do we beseech for help” (Al-Qur’an 1:5)?

We know whom do you trust and who you look forward to for protection. Our hearts cry because we know that the days to your global humiliation after the Shah of Iran, Zia ul Haq, Osama bin Laden, Afghan Mujahideen and Saddam Hussein, are numbered.

Saddam outlived his utility after 40 years. Some of you are employed just a few years ago. Musharraf threw out Nawaz Sharif just in 1999 and became the most favored Muslim monster after 9/11. Karzai emerged under his shadow. You are too fresh to be considered international thugs and out laws.

On the other hand, your senior buddy, Saddam, first became member of a CIA-authorized six-man squad tasked with assassinating then Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-Karim Qasim in 1959. [1]

O’ the US imposed mini-masters of Muslim’s destiny! We see your faces in the humiliated face of Saddam. We are sorry for your fate because none of you have fought and killed as many Muslims in a neighboring Muslim country for the US as Saddam Hussein did for no less than 10 years.

Our hearts cry for you because when your protectors catch you like lambs, they will make their new employees your prosecutor and judges. We, the people, will still be helpless spectators.

Our hearts cry for you because besides prolonging our suffering, you are digging graves for yourself. Digging better holes, you know, will be of no use.

Tomorrow, when your masters humble you, the New York Times will forget the crimes of the monster-keepers — your owners and trainers, who unleash such monsters among us..

On your death or capture, the New York Times will write: “One indisputable fact …is that this man ranked with the world's most vicious dictators…His crimes were monstrous” [2]

Editors of the NY Times will forget, for example, that they have already written in favour of Musharraf on July 03, 2002, in an attempt to force the Americans to think that their “security would be gravely threatened” if Musharraf is not helped. The same editors presented “The Case for the General” on November 12, 1999.

The Washington Post and Boston Globe will ignore their support and your decades long services as US employees. They will equate you with “murderers who preceded [you], from Hitler to Pol Pot.” [3]

Now that you are busy committing crimes against us, no one cares. At the moment, freedom and democracy are reserved for Iraq. However, the moment you fell from grace in Washington, if it survived as we know it, Los Angeles Times will remember us and take the lead to demand: “He should be tried for his crimes against his people, which are legion and well document.” [4]

No one will ask the Los Angelis Times if its editors were sleeping for the last 40 years, or they were just waiting for your crimes to get “well documented.” You will, however, stand trial, if you survive, in tribunals established by your masters just a week before your staged capture.

Similarly, as you will reach your destiny one by one, so will democracy and liberation become unavoidable for Muslim countries one by one. At the moment, the US “mainstream” media feel no need to discuss the lack of freedom and democracy in the countries run by the most favored US-monsters.

O’ dear dictators of the Muslim world! Before the next one of you gets in line, we appeal you to leave the power to real representatives of the people and let them run these states according to the Qur’an and Sunnah.

Let’s move on from the century of puppets to the century of the people. It will take some time to put things in order but it will soon prove to the media-influenced Western public that this form of governance is neither a threat to their interests nor to anyone’s basic rights or global security.

Our hearts cry because with the writing for you on the wall, we also see what is in store for us. We know what happens to our homes and sons and daughters when your masters come to liberate us from your tyranny.

Dear dictators! You better leave before your masters come to get you — not for your disobedience, but for their finding better employees, able to offer more services.

http://icssa.org/buddies.htm

 

[Salahuddin]

Dear Musharraf! You better leave before your masters come to get you — not for your disobedience, but for their finding better employees, able to offer more services.

 

[Salahuddin]

Woe to him that accepts bounty from another's table
And lets his neck be bent with benefits!
He hath consumed himself with the lightning of the favours bestowed on him,
He hath sold his honour for a paltry coin,
Happy the man who thirsting in the sun
Does not crave of Khidhr a cup of water! (1)
His brow is not moist with the shame of beggary;
He is a man still, not a piece of clay…

Allama Iqbal (2)

In a wrap-up briefing to the Pakistani journalists in Washington General Musharraf cracked a joke of the century with his comment: "I actually feel ashamed to ask for more money."

These words are no joke. However, they become so when a dictator, who has surrendered almost everything for prolonging his rule, utters them just after some undisclosed deals with his sponsors. It becomes a joke when an autocrat, who played with the constitution of his country, says he is ashamed. It becomes a joke when we look at the past of a hypocrite who betrayed his closest friends; an egocentric, who set aside all principles of justice and assisted the greatest power of the time in killing thousands of Muslims and occupying a country without a shred of evidence in support of its allegations.

General Musharraf says he felt "ashamed" to ask for more money. This is nevertheless a hopeful joke. The is a sign that this pathological egocentric has some chances of rehabilitation, provided he is pricked a bit harder. We had actually given up hope on the sell-out, who put up everything on sale from our independence to his personal faith.

Such sell-outs typically experience overwhelming guilt. This guilt builds up over time and can continue even after their dictatorship has ended (it is another matter that few dictators have outlived their dictatorial rule). It seems that negation of all moral values and norms, and the result of lying and deceiving leave a permanent raw space within themselves that robs them of serenity and spiritual growth.

Such personalities, which are busy in silencing their conscience, also strive to hide their conduct from themselves while knowing deep down inside that they are guilty. Apparently, Musharraf used the word 'shame' for his asking more money from the US. In fact, it is the pathological guilt that builds and gets worse with all his deals behind the closed doors. Asking money just gave him the opportunity to express his guilt. In a blind effort to push his guilt behind him and into the background, he may need to surrender more to gain more recognition and applause abroad and to stay ahead of his own feelings.

Dictators feel badly for having lied. They feel angry because people are on their backs and keep reminding them about their bad behaviour. They feel fear for having written a bad cheque and the possibility of being discovered. They know that even their sponsors do not fully trust them for the reason that any one who can betray his own people can betray anyone.

Reporters are right when they report that Musharraf "sounded perturbed," or he added "bitterness to his tone," or when they say he "is not good at keeping his cool." Dictators really go through motions. When the anger subsides, depression replaces it. Depression only breaks when the anger resurfaces. These feelings become overpowering.

In response to the previous column, "The Reign of a Compulsive Gambler," one of our friends wrote back two lines, "You are a strange personality. Musharraf brought Pakistan a respect in the world." We need to come out of the superficial and a perfunctory analysis of current affairs and try to understand the meaning of respect and shame to understand what Musharraf says and does. However, before going into details of respect and shame, we need to keep in mind that a leader's attitude is considered a reflection of the national behaviour. Nawaz Sahrif handed over Aimal Kansi to the U.S., but his prosecutor believed and publicly stated that all Pakistanis would "sell their mothers for a few thousand dollars." Musharraf gambles but the world believes "Pakistan has clearly gambled and lost."(3)

As far respect is concerned, we may recourse to Ego (khudi) - a word used in a very wide sense. Its highest form is the creation of values and ideals and the endeavour to realise them. As upholding these values and ideals fortifies the Ego, asking (sua'l) weakens it." All that is achieved without personal effort comes under sua'l. The son of a rich man who inherits his father's wealth is an 'asker' (beggar); so is every one who thinks the thoughts of others and surrender his values to survive merely by serving others' interest. No one respects beggars, sell-outs and those who prostrate themselves merely for their survival. Allama Iqbal noted almost a century ago: Woe to him that accepts bounty from another's table/And lets his neck be bent with benefits!/He hath consumed himself with the lightning of the favours bestowed on him,/He hath sold his honour for a paltry coin.(4)

Musharraf is celebrating his $3 billion package, which is subject to congressional approval as well as strings that are yet to be designed. He is happy that we have been "compensated manifold for our total expenditures on war against terrorism." This is a negation of reality, total self-deception. This is what Allama Iqbal called "seeking water from the fountain of the sun." Joining an immoral, ill-defined, and unjust war with the expectation to be financially compensated make us lose our self. A few billion dollars is not the reward for the humiliation, death and destruction brought about by this war on innocent people, not only in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but also all over the world.

Not even thirty billion dollars from a lair of the century will restore respect to Musharraf, which he has lost with surrendering his Ego. We need not to go too far. Imagine if a few billion dollars can restore respect a family shown in pictures at http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3916.htm. Everyone knows that this is not the only family. It is a daily routine in Afghanistan, Iraq and even Pakistan for hundreds and thousands of families. Our collaboration in an unjust aggression in the name of war on terror has earned us this respect.


A glimpse from the broadening "war on terror" from Iraq
A few months later Pakistani troops will be doing this job


Musharraf is not a problem. He is a symptom of our collective affliction. In the words of Iqbal, when a mountain loses its self, it turns into sand and complains that the sea surges over it. We do not deserve to complain because most of us regard our humiliation our respect. We sully the honour of our pure religion for our personal interests. We seek out daily bread from the bounty of another and that too at the cost of surrendering our values and norms. Iqbal says: A whole ocean, if gained by begging is but a sea of fire; Sweet is a little dew gathered by one's own hand. /Be a man of honour, and like the bubble./Keep the cup inverted ever in the midst of the sea! (Israr-e-Khudi).

The friend, who believes Musharraf has given us respect, after going through views of Allama Iqbal relies: "All this stuff does not apply any more in this advance new world. Wake up and get all your respect from the world and get stronger and stronger." Of course, technologically the world has gone too far. However, man and his basic human nature remains the same. Anyone surrendering his ego (khudi) before cruise missiles is not going to get any respect and all the trillions gained in this bargain is but a sea of fire for those who understand what respect is all about.

Through servitude even a virtuous man goes astray
His branches are shorne of leaves even when there is no autumn.
Devoid of good taste, he takes the evil for the good,
He is dead without death and carries his corpse on his shoulders.
He has staked away the very honour of life,
And like asses is content with hay and barley.(5)


If Bush could not bring any respect to the US with all the money, missiles and might, it would be another joke of the century to believe that Musharraf has brought respect to Pakistan as a sepoy and surrogate of Bush with a couple of billion dollars. He is rightly ashamed. Let us be so as well.



http://icssa.org/joke_of_the_century.htm

 

[Sid]

Enough of the ranting already. Musharraf is doing what is in the best interests of Pakistan. If Pakistan was not on the US' good side, we would certainly face a bleak future given the isolationist and exclusivist agenda of fanatics like you.

People like you do not believe in the notion, 'live and let live' which is why it is hypocritical on your part to bad mouth the US or any other power. Tell me, do you praise Osama and what his gang of thugs does to innocent people? Do you praise the acts of Taliban; one example, destruction of Bamiyan statues? I would not be surprised if you do.

 

[Salahuddin]

Enough of the ranting already. Musharraf is doing what is in the best interests of Pakistan. If Pakistan was not on the US' good side, we would certainly face a bleak future given the isolationist and exclusivist agenda of fanatics like you.

People like you do not believe in the notion, 'live and let live' which is why it is hypocritical on your part to bad mouth the US or any other power. Tell me, do you praise Osama and what his gang of thugs does to innocent people? Do you praise the acts of Taliban; one example, destruction of Bamiyan statues? I would not be surprised if you do.

The question is what wisdom did Musharraf show by granting our neighbourhood to our enemy? What military strategy is this to allow opening of FBI offices and granting airbases to the enemy inside the country?

What country has ever humiliated its top scientist due to pressures from other country?

Was that in the intrest of Pakistan?

Even with open assistance from Musharraf, the US continues to arm India favourably, and has allowed the pro-Israeli elements to inspect all the nuclear assets of Pakistan. Such information inexorably will end up with the Israeli intelligence (Mossad), and eventually with the Indian intelligence. Musharraf has excelled in showing subservience to the US, he promised the US that the nuclear weapons are guarded. Such is the absurdity of the situation, instead of using the nuclear weapons to protect the country; the country is protecting the nuclear weapons. Nuclear deterrence has become a nuclear burden for Pakistan!


It is not that Musharraf does not know the above realities and he is only blinded by self-interest.

We know that Pakistan is not what it was envisaged by Muslims before 1947. There must not be any doubt that Pakistan will cease to exist if the same timidity, hypocrisy, selfishness and greed remain part of the agenda of its self-appointed leader.

 

[sigatoka]

1.If Pakistan was not on the US' good side, we would certainly face a bleak future given the isolationist and exclusivist agenda of fanatics like you.

2. People like you do not believe in the notion, 'live and let live' which is why it is hypocritical on your part to bad mouth the US or any other power.

3. Tell me, do you praise Osama and what his gang of thugs does to innocent people?

1. This argument never fails to amuse or amaze. The U.S. suddenly has a veto over every nations future and prosperity, this is totally false. The enemy of the U.S. China doens't bow down to U.S. and its economy is the fastest growing in the world and its per capita income has blasted past Pakistan and India's no thanks to the U.S. The prosperity, strength and greatness of Pakistan lies solely with the people of Pakistan, not some far away mythically powerful god like nation.

2. live and let live is a notion that the U.S. and other great colonial power of Britian do not subscribe by.

3. This is a desperate deflectionary argument that you use, no one is praising Osama or the Taliban.

The number of innocent civilians killed in the war on terror has exceeded 600,000 of which only 3,500 are formed by western civilians.

As to the Taliban, their extreme domestic policies aside they are fighting within their nation to remove an invading occupying army.

It was not the Taliban who destroyed the towers, a cave dwelling militia that has trouble driving cars have no chance of piloting planes.

 

[Salahuddin]

1. This argument never fails to amuse or amaze. The U.S. suddenly has a veto over every nations future and prosperity, this is totally false. The enemy of the U.S. China doens't bow down to U.S. and its economy is the fastest growing in the world and its per capita income has blasted past Pakistan and India's no thanks to the U.S. The prosperity, strength and greatness of Pakistan lies solely with the people of Pakistan, not some far away mythically powerful god like nation.

2. live and let live is a notion that the U.S. and other great colonial power of Britian do not subscribe by.

3. This is a desperate deflectionary argument that you use, no one is praising Osama or the Taliban.

The number of innocent civilians killed in the war on terror has exceeded 600,000 of which only 3,500 are formed by western civilians.

As to the Taliban, their extreme domestic policies aside they are fighting within their nation to remove an invading occupying army.

It was not the Taliban who destroyed the towers, a cave dwelling militia that has trouble driving cars have no chance of piloting planes.

Allhumdolilah someone with brains and without defeated mentality Exist
here ! :army: :army: