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[beenasarwar]

What I've learned from Noam Chomsky

As news of Noam Chomsky's failing health makes the rounds, I share some learnings from my interactions with a trailblazing public intellectual whose moral compass has impacted the world

As news of Noam Chomsky’s failing health makes the rounds, I share some learnings from my interactions with a trailblazing public intellectual whose moral compass has impacted the world PERSONAL POLITICALBy Beena Sarwar Noam Chomsky in Pakistan, 2001. Screenshot from VPRO news report by Beena Sarwar. I once asked Noam Chomsky how he manages to remember so many facts and figures and hold…

[razia-thinks]

Why Abdus Salam Isn't Celebrated As Pakistan's Hero Ft. Pervez Hoodbhoy ...

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Turning nukes on their head https://questlation.com/little-things/turningnukesontheirhead/?feed_id=56517&_unique_id=643e4b0b2abd6

[andrewtheprophet]

The Dread of the First Nuclear War: Revelation 8

The Dread of the First Nuclear War: Revelation 8

President Ayub Khan looking at the glow of the nuclear reactor at Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology through a special viewer in a water pool in the mid-1960s. | Ayub Khan Archives/ Tahir Ayub Why the state of science in Pakistan is so dreadful From defence technology to space programme, the country has hardly made any progress. Pervez Hoodbhoy, Dawn.com Science matters.…

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(  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h_T6c-35V8 . #Hoodboy, #PervezHoodbhoy, #Education, #Academia, #EducationalInstitutions, #Universities,  #Pakistan,  #Albakisthan,  #Religions,  #Islams,  #Religiosities,  #Languages,  #Linguistics,  #Politics,  #Societies,  #Miscellaneous,  #Etc.  )

[mypakistan]

Chief Jusitice Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Retirement by Orya Maqbool Jan

Chief Jusitice Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Retirement by Orya Maqbool Jan

[risingpakistan]

Chief Jusitice Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Retirement by Orya Maqbool Jan

Chief Jusitice Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Retirement by Orya Maqbool Jan

[ullunetwork]

No, it Wasn’t a Surrender By Pervez Hoodbhoy

No, it Wasn’t a Surrender By Pervez Hoodbhoy

Read Pervez Hoodbhoy Column Published in Daily Dawn Newspaper THE hottest news in town: the PTI government says it wanted force used against violent Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) protesters but the Pakistan Army did not agree. Well, perhaps that’s true — or perhaps not. What we do know is that much property was destroyed and much blood spilled — that of at least eight dead policemen. Some…

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Apostasy Day

Statement

August 22nd: Apostasy Day

Thoughtcrime today earns death in more than ten countries, each of them Islamic. Blasphemy is punished by another twenty-five.

With the establishment of Apostasy Day, we stand to combat this injustice.

Alejandro Jodorowsky once wrote, “Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.” But today, millions of free-thinkers in the Muslim world are taking flight despite the ever-present threat of religious violence.

Khaled Diab, a journalist, reports about a girl in Saudi Arabia in June:‎

. . . Maya decided to jettison her faith, but the change was only internal to begin with. “At first, I was still a hijabi while being a non-believer, but after a year I made the decision: I’m no longer allowing this whole society I live in to choose what I wear.” . . . atheists in Saudi Arabia must live in cloistered secrecy, which can be a very lonely existence. “I’m as closeted as ever,” reflects Maya. “It makes me feel anxious and I struggle with myself.”

But it gets far worse. Last month, 48 Shiites were brutalized in Lebanese riots for “insulting Aisha”, and a man accused of blasphemy was shot in a Pakistani court, awaiting what may have been the death penalty anyways.

Under Islamic governments in the last 50 years, thousands have been executed, many more imprisoned, and unknown millions psychologically agonized for crimes of the mind. Disbelief in, disrespect toward, or disagreement with the Prophet Muhammad all constitute blasphemy, and hence apostasy, according to every school of Islamic law. The prescribed punishment – they all agree – is death.

Only a frail, feeble, and fragile god would demand the execution of those who deny him attention, and a similarly insecure prophet who would advise such inhuman violence.

Apostasy and blasphemy laws demand self-censorship and enable violent mania against those who fail to comply, all while crippling reform, canceling individual quests for truth, freezing public discourse, and shattering families. The Qur’an [9:23] reads, “Oh you who believe, do not take your fathers and brothers to be your friends, if they prefer unbelief to belief; whosoever of you takes them for friends, they are the evildoers.”

The implications extend well beyond the popular and personal spheres, however. Earlier this year, Pervez Hoodbhoy announced that Pakistan’s “only well-known mathematician [has] left for the Western world”, citing the nation’s “perverted values”. Hoodbhoy is himself a preeminent Pakistani physicist who was dismissed from his faculty position in 2012 for expressing views critical of religion. Artists are in danger as well –  just two weeks ago, a Nigerian singer was sentenced to death for blasphemy.

Lovers of freedom and progress should unconditionally condemn this state of affairs. Apostasy and blasphemy laws guarantee the continued suffocation of cultural, intellectual, and political life in the Muslim-majority countries they possess a chokehold over.

On Apostasy Day, we stand against the muzzling of minds, the ostracization of the unorthodox, those who respond to ridicule with death, all “honor” which is defended with violence, and all “respect” that is extorted rather than earned.

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https://fatwa.islamweb.org/en/fatwa/17316/

If a Muslim commits blasphemy against the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, this is an act of disbelief which takes him out of the fold of Islam. Allaah Says (what means): {Make no excuse; you have disbelieved [i.e. rejected faith] after your belief. If We pardon one faction of you—We will punish another faction because they were criminals.}[Quran 9:66] If joking is considered as an act of apostasy, then it is more confirmed for one who is saying it intentionally.

If the blasphemer does not repent, he should be killed for his apostasy. However, if he sincerely repents to Allaah, Allaah will accept his repentance.

https://quranx.com/9.66

Make no excuse; you have disbelieved after your belief. If We pardon one faction of you - We will punish another faction because they were criminals.

Blasphemy is the same as apostasy. You must agree with everything.

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August 22 is Apostasy Day.

[the-only-mainstream]

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[meetdheeraj]

This campaign of personal vilification against Nehru is, in fact, a proxy war against the concept of India as a secular entity. Of course, here in Pakistan we never for a moment believed Nehru when he declared India’s intent to become a pluralistic, liberal, syncretic state whose strength would lie in diversity. For us, all these were just fine words justifying Hindu majoritarianism under the cloak of democracy. Only now that the BJP controls India with a viciously communal agenda have some Pakistanis realised what loss of secularism, even imperfect secularism, actually means.

- Pervez Hoodbhoy in Dawn, Pakistani daily

"What India owes to Nehru"

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The Indian ExpressTurning nukes on t... https://questlation.com/politics/turningnukesontheirhead/?feed_id=4459&_unique_id=63ac3d9e53812

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“Para pemimpin komunitas Muslim di Amerika Serikat, dan bahkan Presiden Bush, telah secara rutin menyatakan bahwa Islam adalah agama damai yang dibajak oleh para fanatik pada 11 September. Kedua pernyataan ini sama sekali tidak benar.Pertama, Islam - seperti Kristen, Yahudi, Hindu, atau agama lain - bukan tentang perdamaian. Juga bukan tentang perang. Setiap agama adalah tentang kepercayaan absolut pada keunggulannya sendiri dan hak ilahi untuk memaksakan versi kebenarannya kepada orang lain. ”

Dr. Pervez Amir Ali Hoodbhoy

American Humanist Association

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[mypakistan]

Garmai Bazar Tu Tum Khod Peda Kertae Hu By Orya Maqbool Jan

Garmai Bazar Tu Tum Khod Peda Kertae Hu By Orya Maqbool Jan

[risingpakistan]

Garmai Bazar Tu Tum Khod Peda Kertae Hu By Orya Maqbool Jan

Garmai Bazar Tu Tum Khod Peda Kertae Hu By Orya Maqbool Jan