Posts Tagged ‘Hate Speech’

Note: This excellent and timely article is cross-posted from the blog Silsila-e-Mah-o-Saal I have thought about it quite frequently since the attack on Ahmadi mosques in Lahore, but after the Data Darbar massacre it has taken even more concrete shape in my mind. Ishtiaq Ahmed has a role to play in the mindset that perpetuates such [...]

Update: Watch this man: Part 1 of this post Dr Shahid Qureshi aka Syed Adeeb aka International Professor is a dangerous man. He is a secret member of the Hizbut-Tahrir (writers cell of the Al-Qaeda), and has been seen spreading malicious propaganda and hate speech (inciting to violence) against certain ethnic and religious groups in Pakistan [...]

Related article: Zakir Naik: Muslim preacher of hate – by David Leppard The majority of Pakistani, Indian and other Muslims living in the UK have welcomed the UK government's ban on hate preacher Dr Zakir Naik's entry to the United Kingdom. تحریک انسداد متعصب ملا (تامم) کی جانب سے جہادی اور فرقہ [...]

Khariji mullahs threaten Nawaz Sharif with fatwa of kufr (apostasy) in retribution of his statement on Ahmadis; they also term Ahmadi massacre in Lahore as an Ahmadi conspiracy against Islam and Pakistan Pakistan's opposition leader and chief of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Group (PML-N) Nawaz Sharif has been censured by clerics of different [...]

Source: Pakistan Media Watch Reading Nadeem Paracha’s column yesterday, I was immediately reminded of a video clip from Shahid Masood’s TV programme that was recently posted on the blog Let Us Build Pakistan. The clip features a conversation between Shahid Masood and Zakir Naik, and purports, in Zakir’s way, to “prove [...]

Express, 29 May 2010

First of all I condemn the attack on two Ahemdi mosques in Lahore. What is more condemnable is the media reporting of the incident. The term "dehshatgard " which is usually used for terrorists  is changed with term "hamla-awar" (invaders).  Masjid /Mosque is changed with the term Ibadatgah (place of worship) . Ahmedi is changed with Qadyani. [...]

KARACHI: The portrayal of religious minorities in textbooks prescribed by state-funded textbook boards is a grave indicator of what the country’s young people are being taught in terms of tolerance and respect for other religions. According to a 2007 report titled ‘Producing Thinking Minds - A Report on Pakistan’s Secondary School [...]

Update: Target killing of Professor Nazima Talib Mehdi: Shame on BLA terrorists. Where are your Baloch traditions? The Punjabi scapegoat It is common practice in the (so called) leftist and progressive circles of Pakistan to blame Punjab for all failures of the country as a federation and also for the sufferings of ethnic and religious [...]

By Anas Abbas Syed Zaid Zaman Hamid, a darling of Pakistani elite, a motivator for Pakistan army officers, an absurdity for Pakistani liberals and an idol for Pakistani conspiracy theorists, has been in the headlines of Pakistani media for almost three years now. During this time, he has been popular because of his motivational and turbulent [...]

PART ONE Source: The News, September 18, 2008 This August 14 I was bored out of my mind late at night, and started scanning TV channels for fodder to feed my idleness. I came across a programme where a man was seated in an open air forum delivering a talk with many eager devotees listening. It seemed tame enough, until it started digressing [...]

Chief Justice of Lahore High Court, Justice Khawaja Sharif, has spoken once again, with the hate speech and prejudice which are his usual characteristics. Justice Sharif is notorious for his unflinching support for PML-N and Taliban and for his hostility towards liberal and secular sections of Pakistani society. His latest remarks against our [...]

The crazy Right and rump Pakistan I was to regale you with other stories to do with our security establishment’s tortured and seemingly futile hunt for the very elusive holy grail of strategic depth in Afghanistan (I ask you) this week, but the ever-increasing assault on our poor country and its innocent people by unlettered and brainwashed [...]

The creation of ignorance There can be no doubt that the past seven years, since private media channels went on air in late 2002, have created a kind of revolution in the country. Never before in the history of Pakistan have so many different opinions aired so openly on television channels. The majority are fiercely hostile to the [...]

Pashtunkhwa Peace Forum, a worldwide group of Pashtun students and professional, lauds students of Peshawar University and Pashtun Aman Committee for stopping Zaid Hamid from speaking at the Islamia College Campus. A belligerent hate monger, racist, chauvinist and thug, these are all the precise characteristics of a person known as Zaid Hamid. [...]

Conspiracy theories and theorists Conspiracy theories and their authors become a cause for concern when they begin to hallucinate and can no longer distinguish between their own flights of imagination and the world around them. When they hijack a whole nation or community into another world, then they ought to be held accountable These are [...]

Activists of the JuD hold aloft weapons during an anti-India protest rally in Lahore on Friday

First published on Khawer's blog Here are some important events that we need to use to understand Hamidism. This is a work in progress. Im sharing it for feedback. 1903: "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", a known forgery, is published in Russia. Alleges that Jews want to take over the world. This work is based on satirical work that no one [...]

PTV is no shining example of stellar journalism. Its no BBC, heck its no where near even an American network. While legally speaking it is supposed to be a public channel, PTV has often functioned as little more than a government mouthpiece. In the days before the electronic media bubble it was the only game in town and governments exploited [...]

“Sindhi Cap Day” celebrated with excitement HYDERABAD, Dec 6 (APP/Dawn News/Aaj TV): Enthusiastic response was accorded on the call of “Sindhi Topi Day” here by the people of Karachi, Hyderabad and other towns and cities on Sunday. In Hyderabad, hundreds of thousand people of all languages wearing “Sindhi Topi and Ajrak” came out [...]

World Sindhi Topi, Ajrak Day today Samaa TV. Upadated on: 06 Dec 09 01:47 PM By Arbab Chandio KARACHI: The first World Sindi Topi {cap} Day is being observed on Sunday (today) throughout the world including Pakistan. Various political parties, civil societies and organizations have supported the first ever day. The Muttaheda Qaumi [...]

Al Qaeda was using sophisticated Web sites and sleeper cells across the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia to enlist young fighters who are less patient or inclined to plan and carry out far-reaching global attacks and who have instead redirected their energies on more (more...)

Update: Part 2 of this post: IP trail of Dr Shahid Qureshi "Dr. Shahid Qureshi" is probably another alias of the notorious cyberspace terrorist who calls himself "Earthman, International Professor". Syed Adeeb is another of his many aliases. Most probably another nick name used by the international cyberspace terrorist Abidullah Jan, the [...]

The so called dictatorship watch is run by two shoddy characters: the front man is a yellow journalist, a sympathizer and promoter of the Taliban and Al Qaeda; his name is Abidullah Jan who is based in Ottawa, Canada. The other man (most probably a nickname of Abidullah Jan) calls himself as "International Professor" or "Earthman". Both of them [...]

PTA orders blockade of political webpages, discussion forumsFriday, January 02, 2009By Urooj ZiaKarachiThe Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) issued directives in the last week of December to Internet Service Providers (ISPs), ordering them to block a list of six webpages on the grounds that they were “harmful for the integrity of the [...]

Dumb questions invite dumb answers Tuesday, December 23, 2008 Aziz Akhmad The Mumbai attacks had not even ended yet, when a TV reporter of a Pakistani channel, armed with a microphone and a camera [...]

As the world worries about India and Pakistan going to war over the Mumbai attack of November 26, 2008, Pakistan is all set to take on India if it attacks. Defence ministry officials in Islamabad, responding to an intelligence report saying India had prepared for a war with Pakistan, were quoted by the press Saturday as saying “Pakistan is not [...]

Let us not isolate PakistanPresident Asif Ali Zardari has told an American talk-show host that if there is “concrete evidence” against any Pakistanis for the Mumbai attack, the suspects would not be handed over to India but tried in Pakistan. He insisted that the state of Pakistan was in no way responsible for the attack as it was the work of [...]

A turning point — Asma JahangirThe recent Mumbai terror attacks should be the turning point. Governments of the region are challenged to support an open and transparent investigation in order to identify and prosecute the masterminds behind such carnage. They must have the moral courage to face the truthThe recent carnage in Mumbai is [...]

Abid Ullah Jan. Is he using the alias of Earthman,International Professor, to spread hate speech? Or is he only facilitating hate speech by publishing and spreading pro-terrorism, hate-speech based articles?Internet Crime Watch Alert (more...)

Supporters of Sipah Sahaba, Taliban and other extremist groups in Pakistani media and blogsphere are currently busy in crafting and spreading hate speech against Zaid Hamid. While we may agree or disagree with Zaid Hamid's political ideology, we respect his right to speak, and we believe that any disagreement with his opinion must not lead [...]

Tuesday, September 30, 2008by Tariq AqilThe month of September witnessed the brutal and senseless murder of three Ahmedis in Pakistan. This gruesome tragedy happened in the aftermath of a popular TV programme in which Ahmedis were blamed for everything under the sun. It appears as if some of our TV channels have been taken over by the dark and [...]