BY JAVED ZAHEER, FREE EXPRESSION AWARD WINNER

TORONTO: Because of the guidance, blessings and protection by The Almighty I am alive and whatever I have—contentment, peace, respect and success—and am today— professional journalist.
My passion, commitment and love for writing and to serve humanity gave me the tremendous strength to remain part of the journalism profession since 1974, despite extremely difficult times and tough challenges including attempts on my life. They only increased my determination to face them more strongly and fiercely.
The writing for living was just a part but mainly it was for a cause since the beginning. The sacred cause is to serve humanity in whatever ways possible. Even fear of death in worst health conditions and challenging situations could not scare and stop me from writing and serving. I just enjoy my professional and humanity work and derive great satisfaction from them. These become the best parts of my life.
In Canada, I am writing since my arrival in 1999. My position remains the same—honorary basis and freelance journalist. I am serving the people worldwide through many electronic and print media platforms. The Almighty has blessed me with great success and respect.
In Canada also, if I was not working on Honorary Basis, I would have been FIRED from my job and STOPPED from using many media platforms. Such was the intense pressure on people managing English Weekly Pakistan Abroad, where I am serving as Honorary Editor.
The team of `Pakistan Abroad’ is very much intact and more determined to serve the people and promote love, peace, awareness, understanding, good people and true leadership. Adventures, threats and dangers are part of our lives and professional duties and responsibilities.
The bitter truth of parties and leaders brought before the readers are meant to expose those playing with the lives, fate and hard earned money of the people. We are for real democracy and not evil demoncracy. This is the simple difference between us and others. As Canadians, we cannot allow any harm to the people, system or Canada. This is what we try to do.
It is hoped that all leaders and parties will understand and appreciate our policies and performance and support us in practically serving the people, Canada and the country of origin—our Pakistan and of all others.
When we write about our country of origin, we try to help the people and country. We have nothing against the land and the people. We very much love both of them and get disturbed when see them in hardship, difficulty, danger, pain and trouble.
Our struggle and fight is against all those harming the people and the country—corrupt ones and traitors. We are not helpless and just cannot see people suffering and dying whether in Pakistan, Canada or anywhere. No threats or dangers can scare or stop us from helping, supporting, protecting and serving the people.
I do receive `suggestions’ from Pakistan as well not to write openly and fiercely about the situation and happenings in Pakistan. Thanks to the freedom of expression in Canada that I am able to serve in the best possible ways through writing. Canada gave me the best opportunities and rights and I am fully benefiting and enjoying them.
If I was in Pakistan, I too would have been brutally tortured and mercilessly killed either by the extremists or agencies. This is because I cannot stop myself from writing for the people, country and humanity. This has become a crime in Pakistan. The corrupt ones and traitors cannot tolerate this. This is against their vested interests.
People know very well that some journalists in Pakistan are on the payroll of the foreign agencies including CIA, Mossad and RAW and are working against the people and Pakistan. They are busy collecting secrets and passing them to their foreign masters. The military and civil agencies keep monitoring them. When they become a real threat, they are stopped or eliminated. This is done in the interest of Pakistan and the people.
But the scaring and killing of all journalists busy in performance of their professional duties and responsibilities should be condemned in the strongest words. Nobody is above the law and all those involved in such heinous crimes must be exposed, stopped and severely punished whether they are extremists or agencies.
We must fully support the journalist community in Pakistan so that they can be protected and allowed to perform their duties fearlessly and professionally.
The black sheep in the journalist community and their partners and supporters, who are on payrolls and involved in espionage and harm to the people and Pakistan, must be exposed and punished.
This cannot be allowed at any cost. We cannot allow any harm to the people and land whether it is Pakistan or Canada. Both the countries and their people are very much dear to us.
—Javed Zaheer (JAZA/JAYZEE/JZEE), Free Expression Award Winner, Desi Idol Recognition Award Winner, Member/Honorary Director of NEPMCC, Veteran Active Member (VAM) of Toronto Press Club, Ex-Member of The National Club and The Ontario Club, Honorary Editor of English Weekly `Pakistan Abroad’, ex-Chief Editor (Honorary) of English Weekly `The Ambassador’, ex-Senior Sub-Editor of English Daily DAWN, Pakistan, Chairman, CANOPI, and Director, Canpak Camber of Commerce, is contributing purely on Voluntary and Honorary Basis in order to serve all people and communities. Contact: (416)696-0981/ javedz@hotmail.com.
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BEST REGARDS: JAVED ZAHEER, CANADIAN OF PAKISTANI ORIGIN.
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BY JAVED ZAHEER, FREE EXPRESSION AWARD WINNER

TORONTO: I read a very interesting and informative article by renowned journalist Gordon Duff titled `Who is Rupert Murdoch?’
Gordon Duff is a Marine Vietnam veteran. A 100% disabled vet. He has been a featured commentator on TV and radio, including Al Jazeera, and his articles have been carried by news services around the world.
Gordon has been a UN Diplomat, defence contractor and is a widely published expert on military and defence issues. Duff is Senior Editor at one of the most widely read Veterans Online publications `Veterans Today’
I was attracted by the specific mention and description of ultra-nationalists in the article. Gordon Duff first asked: “Who are Ultra-nationalists?” and then went on to describe: “Ultra-nationalists are known to support wars, plan terrorist acts, manipulate populations into strife and racism, foster fear and panic, even financial ruin.”
In short, known to be committed enemy of mankind and a potential threat to global peace, world and humanity, they are considered extremely dangerous and deadly. Credit for the massive death and destruction all over the world and suffering of the people goes to them. This was never a secret.
They pose as Good Human Beings, lovers, followers and believers of The Almighty and the people, but in reality they are worse than the most dreaded beasts, criminals and cannibals found in any part of the universe. Their cunningness, cruel nature and evil character just cannot be described in words.
I appreciate the efforts of Gordon Duff and would like to invite him and all Veterans to consult and study the Holy Quran and other original holy books as well in order to understand the true definition and description of ultra-nationalists. This will help a lot in the analyses and writings. This way Gordon can create proper awareness and understanding and contribute tremendously. He will help in bringing a real change.
The holy books are the best sources to understand and expose the non-believers, ultra-nationalists, terrorists and all people of bad and harmful nature.
The Almighty has clearly, openly and strongly condemned and angrily cursed them in the original holy books including Bible, Quran and the scriptures. The Wrath of God did destroy some of them and both the history and holy books tell us about this.
People are warned not to follow them. Yet it happens and most of the people become their prey. Only those who read carefully, understand sensibly, believe and follow truly the holy books, wise and good people do not become their victim. The Almighty says that they cannot be harmed because they enjoy His special blessings and protection.
Unfortunately, most of us despite aware of the facts fail to read, understand and follow the holy messages and the signs told to us repeatedly in the holy books.
The Almighty in the original holy books including Bible, Quran and scriptures through narrations and commands tells and warns us about the stubbornness, cunningness, cruel nature and bad character of the dangerous people.
They knowingly and deliberately work against The Almighty, His holy books and true believers. The Almighty says that He Himself will deal with them because they belong to the category and army of the devil and will never reform and become good. Those who follow them will automatically become part of the group and face similar consequences. This is very serious.
We must understand this and remain fully alert. Unfortunately, most of us know these common messages and signs and also love and respect The Almighty but don’t fear, follow and worship Him in the true sense.
The Almighty openly, clearly and proudly says in the holy books that His true lovers, followers and believers will never ever worship any other god or follow any other message than La Ilaaha Illallah (There is no deity except Allah). All prophets, saints and true believers of The Almighty believed in and promoted this common message.
The distraction, differences and hatred among the people were created through distortions of the holy messages, dirty propaganda and conspiracies by these very cunning and evil character people—The Devils and Demons.
They are extremely powerful and influential. They control the economy, governments, media, institutions, leaders and important people. This is how they make the people, belonging to any religion, and all under their control and influence helpless and their slaves. This is how they promote and protect their vested interests and cause massive deaths and destruction.
It is rightly said that Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers. Since over 1400 years, most Muslims have proved this right. This is one of the main reasons of their sufferings, defeat and downfall. Numerically their number is very high and it is almost impossible to convert even the most uneducated and least sensible Muslim.
Most Muslims keep strongly condemning, criticizing and pointing finger towards others but what they don’t understand and realize is that they are committing a Grave Sin by knowingly acting against the commands and messages of The Almighty.
They blindly follow the fake, fraud and anal-sex-crazy Mullahs posing as wise men, pious persons and saints. Just look around and you will find hundreds, thousands and millions.
The enemies of mankind mentioned in the original holy books could not succeed in distorting the messages of The Almighty in the holy Quran. They then found other ways to distract and harm the Muslims. One of the best was posing as Mullahs. For this they formed Munafiq Mafia (Hypocrites Mafia).
The Munafiq Mafia started building madressas (Religious institutions) and mosques and from there started confusing and distracting people and creating hatred, differences and divisions. The innocent people listening to them were trapped and started following them. They started giving more importance to such fake, fraud and anal-sex-crazy Mullahs than The Almighty. They lost touch with The Almighty.
Imagine some Muslims saying: “In Islam there is least use of brain, mind and common sense.” With such thinking where would one head—definitely darkness and disaster.
In order to understand properly messages and commands of The Almighty, we need to read or listen, understand and then follow or act accordingly. For all this we need to use brain, mind and common sense. Unfortunately, many Muslims, even educated ones, don’t agree and don’t want to understand this fact? This is happening because of influence of Munafiqs (hypocrites) posing as Mullahs and exploiting the people.
Because such Muslims are acting as brainless therefore others easily make them emotional, fool and exploit them. They easily fall into traps and become victims. This way it becomes easier to harm and kill them.
The Fake, Fraud and Anal-Sex-Crazy Mullahs hook and trap them easily and keep playing with them. They keep dancing on their tunes, thinking and considering them as supreme. They would not listen to anybody including The Almighty but would only obey and follow the Munafiqs posing as Mullahs.
Because of thousands of Munafiqs posing as Mullahs, the Muslim community is facing a tough time and challenge. It is a clash between Allah-Waley and Mullah-Waley. The Allah-Waley are true believers and very few but protected by The Almighty. The Mullah-Waley are in millions and making millions through their followers. Their main interest is in making money by any means including donations and appeals.
The Munafiq Mafia (hypocrites Mafia) dominates and manages the affairs of madressas (Religious institutions) and mosques so that they can harm the Muslims and defame Islam. They are bringing bad name to Islam and real Mullahs or good Muslims.
The Allah-Waley (True believers and good Muslims) want to build the character of Muslims and help them through proper teaching and make them really powerful through proper resources but the Munafiq mafia does not allow them to work properly and keeps troubling them in one way or the other.
It is time to check and control the Munafiq Mafia and free Muslims, mosques and madressas from their dangerous and dirty influence and control. They must not be allowed to exploit and play with the good and true Muslims and any people.
Illiteracy, an important tool used and promoted by the Munafiq Mafia and ultra-nationalists, is another main reason and enemy of the Muslims and other people. It is causing tremendous harm to the Muslim community and humanity.
There are hundreds of shocking examples. Taboos and un-Islamic social, cultural and religious traditions have destroyed the Muslims and made their lives miserable.
The ultra-nationalists, the Munafiqs (hypocrites) and their likes are all Human Beasts. They have badly gripped the people, harming and killing them mercilessly. When are the people going to wake up, stand up and challenge the Human Beasts and free the helpless people from their claws, clutches and grips?
The solution is very simple. Instead of becoming follower of the devil, become friend of The Almighty, His believers and all good people. He fulfils His promise of protection. Nobody can deny this. Conscience is the voice of God and good. So make conscience our guide and listen to what it says. Whisper is the magical voice of the devil and can only harm and destroy us. So avoid listening to it and stop obeying it.
I was presented a book titled `Way to Happiness’ by Nicole Crellin, scientologist, community outreach coordinator for Youth for Human Rights International, and Human Rights Director of the Church of Scientology of Toronto. Email: ncrellin@sympatico.ca.
I am also a human rights activist and strongly support the cause. I found the book interesting. The human rights content of the book matches the message of the holy books. So I was not surprised. As regards Human Rights, it was a very informative book.
I told her: “Most of the human rights contents match the holy books. If you read the holy books than you can see and understand the similarity. Amazingly, this book is being promoted as good for all but the holy book Quran is labelled as promoting terrorism. How can the same message be looked so differently?”
We need to accept everything good but at the same time remain very protective. We never know about the hidden agendas and intentions. If there is anything doubtful we can always withdraw and say NO.
I always keep promoting and supporting the messages and effort of Nicole Crellin with good intentions. Our understanding is based completely on awareness, understanding and promotion of Human Rights.
In short, we are promoting Human Rights to help the people understand and fight the Human Beasts like Ultra-nationalists and other committed enemies of mankind.
I told Nicole to change her approach if she wants to work with the Muslim community. Firstly, she will have to convince that the Human Rights contents do match that of the Holy Quran and holy books. She will have to prove this to win the trust and confidence of the Muslim community. Secondly, that her intentions are good and does not in any manner aimed to harm or convert Muslims.
Nicole says that she is associated with the Church of Scientology but the Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) project is a totally different thing. This is meant to help people of all communities. Those who have doubts can visit the websites including of Church of Scientology, which promotes the works of Ron L. Hubbard.
If people have doubts of any kind and evidences of any type which prove that she is working against the people and certain community like Muslim then they can always expose her.
Finally, if we want to make the world a safe place to live in and serve humanity with in the real sense, then we need to change our thinking, attitude, approach and character according to what The Almighty commands and wants.
We need to show courage, determination and unity for this. It seems but is definitely not difficult and impossible. We have to impress and convince the people in order to win their trust, confidence and support. Remember conscience is your best friend and guide and whisper your destroyer and worst enemy.
—Javed Zaheer (JAZA/JAYZEE/JZEE), Free Expression Award Winner, Desi Idol Recognition Award Winner, Member/Honorary Director of NEPMCC, Veteran Active Member (VAM) of Toronto Press Club, Ex-Member of The National Club and The Ontario Club, Honorary Editor of English Weekly `Pakistan Abroad’, ex-Chief Editor (Honorary) of English Weekly `The Ambassador’, ex-Senior Sub-Editor of English Daily DAWN, Pakistan, Chairman, CANOPI, and Director, Canpak Camber of Commerce, is contributing purely on Voluntary and Honorary Basis in order to serve all people and communities. Contact: (416)696-0981/newsviews@hotmail.com. .
To read more JZ’s exclusive articles, please visit the following websites: http://www.letstree.com (Pressing needs section), nepmcc.ca and nationalethnicpress.com (Home Pages & Editorial Sections. Scan years from 2004 to 2011).

I have, since childhood, been hearing about an invisible thing called the Israeli conspiracy.

It is always said that Israel did this and Israel did that. What is worse is when I hear that Israel is planning to do that. So, if we already know what Israel is planning to do, then why not either stop it or avoid it. The biggest conspiracy I heard regarding the Arabs and the Israelis is the humiliating defeat of June 1967. The Egyptians blamed everybody but themselves for the defeat. They insisted on speaking about why some planes came from the north and not from the east. They insisted that they were American Navy planes attacking Egypt. Did not the military analysts hear about evasive maneuvers, or did they expect the air force to fly like commercial airlines by taking the shortest and direct routes.

It turned out that the Egyptian forces were commanded by Gamal Abdel Nasser who only held the rank of major. Hours before the Israeli attack, all air defense sites were told to be on hold because Field Marshal Abdulhakim Amer’s plane was in the air. So, it was not an Israeli conspiracy that defeated the Egyptians, it was the poor planning and having a tired army coming back from Yemen tasked to go to a war that even Nasser did not know how to manage.

That was Egypt in 1967, but what about the Egyptian uprising of 2011? Was it the Egyptians or outside forces? The Egyptian leadership used to call Al Jazeera the match box. The channel’s media center in Qatar is so small that people used to wonder why regional leaders were worried about such a small media building, one that is small as a match box. It turned out that the Egyptian authorities had Al Jazeera on the top list of places to close. There was also no Israeli media center and Israel has no interest in seeing an unstable Egypt. Thomas Friedman once said that Al Jazeera should have been established in Egypt, not Qatar.

Egypt is a country whose media should have been at the front of providing information. However, Egyptians living inside the country and abroad are glued to foreign news outlets. Let us not doubt the Egyptians in their sincere request for change. We cannot accuse 80 million Egyptians of being toys in foreign hands.

To this day, I see Arabs blaming Israelis for young Arab drug addicts, their poor education, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, bad roads, corruption, lack of democracy, unemployment, 9/11, the division of Sudan, the upheaval in Tunisia and the unrest in Egypt. If Israel can do all these things, then the Israelis are either super humans or we simply enjoy blaming others for our failings.

The books of history indicate that the Arabs would have been able to get back the Golan Heights, Sinai, the West Bank and all the 1967 boundaries if Gamal Abdel Nasser made just one phone call to Israel and admitted defeat two days after the June 1967 war. And fewer Palestinians would have been scattered all over. But, we the Arabs never admit defeat.

The Arab world is in a state of unrest nowadays. Egypt is the largest country in the Arab world with 82 million people. If it shakes, then the whole Arab world will shake. It is not time to point fingers at either the West or Israel. Each country has an agenda to benefit its people. Arabs must think what is best for their people, not their leaders. Israel did not open a European bank account for Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. He did, and where did the money come from? Israel did not hide the billions of dollars in Iraq used by Saddam Hussein while the Iraqis were starving. Saddam did.

You can agree or disagree, Israel is a country that has the best education system in the Middle East and a per capita income of more than $28,000.

The Arabs and Muslims must get rid of the notion that the whole world is conspiring to destroy them. The Arab world is rich in raw materials, rivers, fertile land, wealth and educated people. We must concentrate on education, health care, infrastructure, transparency and open channels between the rulers and the ruled. It is very sad to see Iraq, one of the richest countries in mineral resources, water and educated people, having millions struggle like refugees. It is also sad to see Yemen wasting 40 percent of its water resources to grow qat, just as it is sad to see a country like Lebanon that has the potential to be an attractive tourist spot being fractured because of vested interests, not national interests. Why have we failed to solve the flood problem in Jeddah with all the time and money our government has allocated for the city?

Linda Heard wrote an article in Arab News on Nov. 8, 2010, titled “Israel is digging its own grave.” Yes, the Israelis are digging a grave. But for whom is the grave being dug for? I am sure it is not for the Israelis.