Please read this article..I got to know some important aspects :

My grandfather and my father were born in Lahore. My grandfather fled Pakistan from the wrath of Muslims in 19747 with his family, his shirt on his back and my father in his arms. But he always had fond memories of Lahore. Today I ask Pakistanis to look deeply inside their society and come to the only rational conclusion. Such acts of murder are the direct result of the teachings of Islam and the example that the founder of Islam, Muhammad set. Please read Sirat Rasulallah and the killing of the poetess Asma bint Marwan on the orders of Muhammad. Or the killing of all the adult males of the Jewish tribe, Banu Qurayza, by Muhammad and his men. Even boys as young as 12 were beheaded because they had sprouted pubic hair. That will give Pakistanis a clue as to why some very devout Muslims behave the way they do.

Here are some ways Muslim can reform Islam:

1) Acknowledge that Islam is man made and that it was meant for 7th century Arabia and is no longer applicable, especially in Pakistan. That Islam is deeply flawed.

2) Ban all evil practices that the Quran and the hadiths allow such as wife beating( 4:34) marriage of old men to young female children ( Muhammad and the children (such as Aisha, Saffiya and Juwariyah), the talaaq procedure, unequal property rights for women, unequal testimonial rights for women and much more. By treating 50% of the population, the Muslim women, as chattels, Pakistani society cannot ever be egalitarian. It is a myth that Islam gives equal rights to women.

3) Muslims should also carry out some symbolic acts. They should refuse to do the hajj until Saudi Arabia allows complete freedom of religion including the building of and worship in non-Muslim places of worship in all parts of Saudi Arabia including Mecca and Medina. Muslims have built mosques in Rome, why not let Christians build churches in Mecca. I am not saying that a church or a temple should be built inside the kaabaa but Mecca is a big city and has room for non-Muslims and their places of worship.

The wrong question is always being asked : What can non-Muslims do to win the hearts and minds of Muslims?

The right question is: What can Muslims do to win the hearts and minds of non-Muslims.

The truth of the matter is non-Muslims are extremely alienated from Muslims. In fact the average non-Muslim is very afraid of the average Muslim. I have seen women in the west walking with their children cross to the other side of the street when they see a Muslim women coming in the opposite direction towards them.

If someone were to be afraid of me I would be terribly ashamed because the fault and the blame would be mine.

Please read again the Quran , the six Sahih hadith collections, including Muwatta by Imam Malik, and the first and most authentic biography of Muhammad by Ibn Ishaq available in a redacted form from the Oxford Press of Pakistan. The Quran and hadiths are available on the internet and in hard copies. I am not making this up. It is all in books that Muslims consider to be sacred. The enemy is not outside Pakistan, it is in Pakistan and the enemy is inspired by Islam.

That Islam completely degrades women and men is illustrated by this real life incident.

After Muslims attacked the United States on 9/11/2001 I began to study Islam, took a course in comparative religion, read the Quran in many different versions, read the Sirat Rasulallah. At that time only partial translation of the sahih hadiths and of Muwatta by Imam Malik were available on the internet. So I went into a store that sold Islamic books to buy hard copies. The woman behind the counter wore the Muslim gown including the hijab but part of her face was uncovered. She was from Iraq and friendly enough and started a conversation . Then to my surprise she asked me what faith I belonged to. I told her that I was a Hindu. I generally never discuss religion.

She then said ” why don’t you accept Islam and tread the RIGHT PATH.”

I said I cannot accept a faith that was founded by a man who had sex with children( Aisha, Saffiyah, Rayhana, Maria, Juwariyaah. Maria and Rayhana were Muhammad’s concubines) and I cannot accept as the word of God a command for men to beat up their wives for disobedience.( verse or ayat 4;34).

She challenged me on the ayat and opened the Quran in her store to read the ayat. She was very fair skinned and I could see her face turn beet red when she saw what she read. She had evidently never read the ayat.

Then she made an about face and said that she would fully accept getting beaten up by her husband if she disobeyed him as that was the will of Allah.

That was very sad for me to witness and hear. here was an educated woman that accept physical abuse commanded by Allah.

/S

Two tickets for..which movie? hmm…Slumdog Millionaire, had heard bout the hoopla in some circles about Slumdog Millionaire, lets go for it..”Good Choice” says the woman at the ticket window,  

Jamal .. Dev Patel .. was someone we liked at the first sight, but wait as the movie went to the grimy lanes , raunchy toilets of Dharavi..I wondered what am I trying to achieve by watching this slaughtering of my dear Mumbai.  I hated the RAM avatar part of the story , the potrait of Taj Mahal from the dirtiest part of Yamuna, but yes from the story telling point, it was wonderful , and everyone loves a feel good ending . Kudos for the BAFTAs..Way to go!! Will try to be there to cheer at the Kodak.

Winning your love reminds me of getting hold of my love , the Away Jersey of the Gunners..FABREGAS..4..It was a dream come true, and brought a smile to my face even when the free flowing Arsene is unable to induce a single goal into the 7 draws in the past 11 games…Arshavin is a good attacking midfielder but I dearly thought Arsene had the same arsenal already in stock and would have gone for a defensive midfielder. Anyways “am a gunner, always a gunner”.. In the meantime, I will try to update this blog with the jersey snap.

Starting to write a blog unheralds thoughts..provocates hidden feelings…So I am remembering those days ..awesome they were , those panipuris , the crowded smoky apartment, that Brazil-Argentina soccer match, that 94 cc motorbike and my friends..but yes  nothing is lost, everythings the same..I have options here too..the salsas, the quiet cosy apartment , the squash courts,  the online movies , and offcourse my dear friends..

Life goes on , Sarnab will be back with a new day thought till then some words from my  stable summarising my thoughts..

A man doesn’t have time in his life
to have time for everything.
He doesn’t have seasons enough to have
a season for every purpose. Sages
Were wrong about that.

A man needs to love and to hate at the same moment,
to laugh and cry with the same eyes,
with the same hands to throw stones and to gather them,
to make love in war and war in love.
And to hate and forgive and remember and forget,
to arrange and confuse, to eat and to digest
what history
takes years and years to do.

A man doesn’t have time.
When he loses he seeks, when he finds
he forgets, when he forgets he loves, when he loves
he begins to forget.

And his soul is seasoned, his soul
is very professional.
Only his body remains forever
an amateur. It tries and it misses,
gets muddled, doesn’t learn a thing,
drunk and blind in its pleasures
and its pains.

He will die as figs die in autumn,
Shriveled and full of himself and sweet,
the leaves growing dry on the ground,
the bare branches pointing to the place
where there’s time for everything.

———– /S

I am living a life out of the blue doing nothing worthwhile yet earning the dollars, REMITting them back home and and and.. I keep myself posted on most things happening back there..Being a self declared admirer of communism(though I am still a student of it), I read the articles on Nandigram very closely and am amazed to find the writers who never been there, never seen that compare the situation with Cambodia, Vietnam..Yes I too havent been there, but Yes I was not born when INDIRA GANDHI killed humanity in 1975 , but I know what happened then was for the cause of common people, and whats happening now is detrimental to common people…I think we the so called experts “http://rajeev2007.wordpress.com/2007/03/26/nandigram-communism-as-fascism/ “ should leave it to the common people of Nandigram to decide whether Communism is fascism,

I was hurt to an extent that today .. May 16th I start writing this blog, and surely keep myself updated with evrything..Yes I did watch HAZAARON KHWAISHEIN AISI  for the upteenth time and still get energy to keep petrol to uphold my dream, Yes I will be part of that India which likes to live for the common not for Ambanis,IT and DISCO..

Bye..tc..