July 2010
honeymanifesto asked: I just died from laughter... So wrong... yet so true... :D
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9:28 pm // Selling Secularism and Liberalism to...
I have no qualms in admitting openly that I am sympathetic to Secularism and Liberalism, but I just have some issues over exactly which version of it is right for the “East” or even more generally “Muslim world”?
Human beings are generally oriented for overall goodness, no matter if we follow a religion or not; we are hoping to be “good”, “nice”,...
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Sage Francis -The Best of Times
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9:48 pm // Imran Khan's photos are going to hit...
I am in process of uploading the photos from Imran Khan’s Glasgow Jalsa (public gathering) on my Flickr account. And since my flickr is linked with Tumblr you will be able to see them here.
Just giving heads up to his Cricket and political fans!
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12:07 am // Karaoke, Asian Wedding, my brother,...
So (yesterday now) I went to Darren’s birthday at a local Chinese Restaurant where they have these Karaoke booths - we were really having fun, of course Darren was drunk and we were enjoying his performance but I had to leave early for another function. Our very good Scottish-Pakistani family friends had a wedding, so went to Hampden Park for that. It was great reconnecting with all of them,...
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11:12 am // Covering Imran Khan's public meeting...
So yesterday Imran Khan came to Glasgow and spoke to Scottish-Pakistani community at the Tramway (news item: ‘War makes UK streets less safe’). Public response was overwhelming, we had to even stop people from getting in after there was no space left inside.
I was asked to cover the event as a photographer and provide support on video. Overall was a wonderful experience.
There are...
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Murder Mystery - Change My Mind
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WatchThe controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who’s reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED’s Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished — and what drives him. The interview includes graphic footage of a recent US airstrike in Baghdad.
About Julian Assange
Internet...
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WatchImran Khan speaking at Tramway, Glasgow today. Video will go silent for few seconds in the start (something wrong with QIK today!). Was there covering the event on video and photo.
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WatchPreparing for the event at Tramway, Glasgow. Imran Khan came and spoke to Scottish-Pakistani community. Here I was fixing this camera and checking the audio levels. Please excuse the absence of sound, there was something funny with QIK today.
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Florida church plans to burn Qurans on 9/11... →
robot-heart-politics:
the-autonomist:
This only further proves my point that Christians are some of the most egotistical, xenophobic, and blatantly ignorant fuckers on the face of the goddamn planet.
This pisses me off.
WWJD, right?
I just saw their Facebook fan page and honestly I was so glad to see people who do not even profess Islam taking a stand against this display of bigotry and...
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“A man has been convicted of rape by deception. Let’s leave aside the specifics...”
– Rape by deception? (via azspot)
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Arab guilty of rape after consensual sex with Jew... →
(via yams-yams-yams, hman)
I have a feeling this is going to be one of my favorite, most incredible stories of 2010.
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9:28 pm // what in the hell...
…do we all want, but don’t have and might never have but yet we all still wish could somehow have it for our own selves even though it is never be going to be the way we wanted it but rather some what very different from what we ever perceived, which might be even beautiful but we do not wish to take risk of waiting?
p.s. I just wanted to write a self-contradicting line without using...
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NYT: Tax-Free Living in Pakistan →
So few of the Pakistani rich pay taxes that one neighborhood hired transgender tax collectors to embarrass residents into paying. Adam B. Ellick follows them a week before the tax deadline.
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See, that is why I think Pakistan is one of the best place to live in if you just got the money!
Interesting video story but few problems:
Eunuchs didn’t dare go to the “big...
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Islamophobia and the Muslim center at Ground Zero... →
via robot-heart-politics:
In June 2010, a Tennessee Republican candidate, Lou Ann Zelenik, opposed the Muslim community’s proposal to build a mosque in Murfreesboro, charging the Muslim center was not part of a religious movement, but a political one “designed to fracture the moral and political foundation of Middle Tennessee.”
She warned, “Until the American Muslim community find it in...
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3:46pm // typealyzer: What personality is that...
I just ran a query for my this blog and this is what I got:
The analysis indicates that the author of http://log.umalik.com is of the type:
INTP - The Thinkers
The logical and analytical type. They are especially attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding subtle connections between things and...
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WatchChristopher “moot” Poole (Founder 4Chan.com): Not one of the smartest people up on the podium but yes he has certainly left a major mark on the face of the internet. And I wish they could have pushed him more on the “paedophile” content available on 4chan!
dominickbrady:
I never thought I’d see the creator of 4chan on TED.
via TED.com:
The founder of 4chan, a...
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Documentary: Final Solution (Gujrat Massacre) -... →
The Final Solution is a 2003 documentary directed by Rakesh Sharma about the 2002 communal Gujarat Riots. The movie was initially banned in India for about a year, till early 2005 for fears that massive communalism and radicalism would be ignited by its extremely inflammatory content. The Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF), had denied the movie from being screened.
A pilot movement to...
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Ratatat - Loud Pipes (Album: Classics / 1997)
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10:02 pm // I am a Pakistani and we are great in...
So this is how it goes, I have been trying to make sense of things for last 48 hours now.
Apparently Fox News gets hold of the one of the most important news of the decade and it is about Pakistani internet users. This news has since made to main pages of several European right-inclining newspapers and some major newspapers in the countries who hated us anyway. Yes the “land of the...
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“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
– Aristotle (via azspot)
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WatchUber-exciting news clip: ‘Virtual human’ Milo comes out to play at TED in Oxford
I haven’t seriously been able to get excited on a technological news item this year until I saw this! Come on people, stop hating Microsoft.
Oh yes apart from all the praises for the technology, the social ramifications of this sort of virtual reality game (or rather life) just seem pretty dark...
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"Reza Kahlili," self-proclaimed ex-CIA spy, makes... →
(via thedaytheytriedtokillme)
Western obsession with Iran continues to defy my senses - and here I am not even a remote fan of the present Iranian political system. I am somehow hopeful that after Kahlili stunt, he won’t be able to stir a war - but come on giving him so much protocol to tell his amateur-fiction in a respected place…really?!!
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David Guetta ft. Kid Cudi - Memories
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7:15 pm // over the last few days
Finally I made it back to the gym. It has been nearly an year since I last stepped inside the gym thanks to both my schedule and lazy self. Hopefully I will be able to continue with it properly this since I will have company of some wonderful friends this time with me.
Even with an ipod plugged into your ears, going to gym all alone can be extremely boring for me at least me. There are only two...
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Jewish musicians unite for Palestine (by Sahar... →
Since a wide majority of Muslims are still looking for “reasons” as of to why not to “stereotype” all Jews - I share with you another interesting news item.
The most interesting part of the article was this:
The CD has already made an impression in the US. Florida’s main Jewish radio station, Shalom South Florida, has responded to “Klezmer Musicians Against the Wall” by...
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Washington's I.T. Guy →
(via azspot)
I believe if instead of promoting “Western democracy” to the whole world and inviting chaos, only if Open-Source Governance is preached; even a dictatorship can turn into something useful for the populous.
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Jack Kerouac's Letter to his Ex-Wife
I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don’t worry. It’s all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that...
