Sunday Surkhi- Egyptian Example

  My wife always said Hosni Mubarak looka like a Firaun, but even without Moses he is being thrown out now.
 Remarkably these days such autocratic 'Firauns' flourish so well.
 People have demonstarted in Egypt that enough is enough
 Would other countries especially the Muslim countries take a lesson? That is a wide open question.
 Whatever the implications be with Israel-Egypt relationship and American-Egyptian relationship, would that be a wishful thinking on my part if I said that
American people also take to streets saying enough is enough. Israel is our ally but the cost is so  exorbitant and so consuming for us. We are paying in heavy dollars not only to Israel but also to others to keep their mouths shut against Israel and then we are paying in life of our soldiers all over the world.
 In the end we do not have credibility or credit and we command no respect anywhere in the world even though so many people would look up to us for everything. Should we not take to streets some day?

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Late Jum'ah Journal

 I am still not over my jet-lag, so it seems
 Trying to keep myself awake during early evening hours is so difficult. But the problem is I am getting up  at midnight and cant get back to sleep
 Well, "How sleep demolishes the resolutions of the day" (Ali RA) and again from this teacher (NahjulBalagha)
"Remember, the enjoyments pass while the consequences remain"
 What a remarkable man of intelligence he was, May Allah be pleased with him.

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Blesphamy Laws of Pakistan

"Several sections of Pakistan's Criminal Code comprise its blasphemy laws.^[3] § 295 forbids damaging or defiling a place of worship or a sacred object. § 295-A forbids outraging religious feelings. § 295-B forbids defiling the Quran. § 295-C forbids defaming the prophet Muhammad. Except for § 295-C, the provisions of § 295 require that an offence be a consequence of the accused's intent. Defiling the Quran merits imprisonment for life. Defaming Muhammad merits death with or without a fine. (See below Sharia.) If a charge is laid under § 295-C, the trial must take place in a Court of Session with a Muslim judge presiding.<sup>[4]"

The above I have a quote from the internet available statement out of this law</sup>


The law is present, was passed during the time of Zia and has been used much more often against the persons who dared say something against the prophet in Pakistan. (Why could the lawmakers at that time NOT see the consequences that are now so visible all over the world? Human rights existed then also etc. etc.) Once the law has been passed, however it should be respected and carries out according to its meanings. Previous to 1986 there were only two or three cases but after 1986 many cases ( I do not remember exactly how many) have been reported and the problems are that 
1. Muslims use it against the non-Muslims when there is no remark made against the prophet PBUH  and
2. No lawyer wants to defend such cases for fear of death and 
3. Muslims take up mob mentality and 'lynching' tactics with the police or 'Law' taking no notice of such activity.
 That is what resulted in Taseer's death and although Mumtaz qadri is accused but the lecture or the lecturer who infused such act into the man is not accounted for. I still remember the many houses of Christians were burnt in some village in Pakistan for alleged Qur'an majeed desecration which turned to be untrue, but AFTER the death of many persons and fire destruction of many houses.
 I cannot imagine anybody Muslim or nonMuslim saying anything against the prophet or Qur'an in Pakistan knowing that with or without the law of blesphamy he is doomed to die.
 The inactivity of the government against Taseer when he said the law was "black Law" led to his death
 Taseer should not have used such words against this law. Firstly no law of the country should be called "black' by an official- He was a Governer of the most important Province. Should that be taken as offence against the prophet? I am not sure at all but that is the way it happened. Moreover when a decision by your court has been made on such an important issue the governer should accept it and respect the decision even if it is not right in his thinking. Some say what he meant was that it is misused for grudge against the nonMuslim or Muslim person but that does not sound appropriate to me (I have a statement of an Urdu writer to that effect- whereas he is only a pro-PPP writer and Taseer was a satunch PPP man)
 There is no doubt however that what Mumtaz did was also wrong and the law should take rpoper action against him no matter how the fanatic Muslims take it
 But I doubt if such action would be taken. The govt. is weak, timid, and corrupt. Nobody has clean slate of character and therefore courage to defend the law. Law is not respected by lawmakers
چو کفر از کعبہ برخیزد کجا ماند مسلمانی
 


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Sunday Surkhi- Taseer and me

  Salman Taseer ,Governer of Panjab, (s/o Dr. M.D. Taseer   - Moahammad Din) addressing the gathering as chief guest of APPNA Dinner program on 28th Dec. 2010, in Lahore.
 It was in 1948 when I joined Islamia College, Lahore (Railway Road). I faced the Principal of the college in my interview none other than Dr. M. D. Taseer who smilingly gave his permission for admission.  Then after F.Sc. I had joined Government College Lahore. I was returning from Anarkali to my hostel when I saw Dr.  Taseer walking in search of  a Tonga. (He did not drive a car, I remember he came to College in Tonga). That must be the last day of November because I read news about his death the following day in the paper. he had had a heart attack.
 I took the above picture of his son knowing little that a week later he would be dead too, gunned down by an assasin, Mumtaz Qadri. (Coincidental? yes and no, but wait listen further.)
 I had landed in Islamabad/Rawalpindi on 26th Dec. 2007 and the following day an assasin killed Benazir Bhutto.
 I was visiting a friend that evening on 4th Jan 2011 just a few blocks away from the place where Salman Taseer was killed and I then apologized to my friend who I was supposed to visit that evening and stayed home with my friend as I felt unsafe going out that evening after Salman's death.
 1948 myclass was full of misbehaving boys and therefore one day the Principal himself came to teach us.  All I still remember him walking in my classroom back and forth obviously enjoying the explanation, the meanings of the verses of the famous poem
 "A red red rose" (by Robert Burns, pyblished first in 1794)
 "O my love's like a red red rose
   Thats newly sprung in June
   O my love's like the melodie
   Thats sweetly played in tune"
Not a single sound other than Dr. Taseer's was heard in the class while he was teaching as if all of us were stunned by the teacher's charisma and speech. He was reportedly the first Indian who received Ph.D. in English (Cambridge University). He was a poet himself and a litereary person who would create smiles and laughters in any gathering with his witty remarks and jovial nature. (I had mentioned about that in some other blog of mine before.)

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Jum'ah Journal

 Back home after travel. Tired and exhausted
 Would write more clearly by next Friday
 My aim is to find the real "295" in Pakistan- namoos risalat law that you have all heard about. I was just a few blocks away from that place where Salman Taseer was gunned down in Islamabad on 4th Jan.
 He was not my fav. either but he should not have been killed. My interest was his father Dr. M D Taseer who taught me in 1948-9, Will tell you more about it later.

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