Adil Najam
This picture is carried today by both Dawn and Daily Times. Dawn’s title is “Still Heroes” and the caption reads: “Bronze statues of Quaid-i-Azam, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Allama Iqbal put on display at the Science and Technology Expo-2007 being held at National Memorial Museum in Shakarparian in Islamabad.”
A visit to the Museum is on the top of my ‘To Do’ list when I return to Islamabad end of the month. I hope they are still there.
My first thought on looking at the picture was to note how both Jinnah and Iqbal are wearing suits here (this penchant of ours – me included – to dress up these guys in the garbs of our desires has been has been quite a remarkable historical see-saw!). My second thought was to wonder what the folks at Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa might have to say – or do – about this. I hope there is significant security against vandalism here.
But even more than that, I wonder what these three men are sitting there thinking about what is happening today in the country they helped conceive. Late at night when the museum is closed and the statues come alive and walk about, what is it that they sit together and talk about?
What a pitty!!!
I opened this link to read about the bronzed-sculptures of our leaders and I ended up reading the clashes in readers… I thought our politicians are best in doing it but, “Yahan tu away ka awaa hi bigra hoa hai”
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For the last time, Law was written to PREVENT PLAGIARISM OF ISLAM, the religion in the name of which Pakistan was created. What part of Islamic Republic of Pakistan do you not get? Qadianis can practice qadianiat all they want, just dont call it islam. It’s not islam. So did we declare, the group that you called zani and sharabi, were the most noted ulema of their time, and your parents perhaps (if you’re my age) voted for the Bhutto government which passed these laws. By the way, if you call pakistani majlis e shura of bhutto era zani and sharabi and deviant, I’ll be interested to know what you think of the men who drafted the Islamic Sharia during the Ummayad Dynasty.
Chiniot, my naive friend, is the main stronghold of Qadianis in Pakistan and perhaps the world. Hence my recommendation. :D
About this law’s being a definition of muslim and non muslim: There’s something we call precedence in law. Rulings and laws such as this become a reference guide in deriving the definition or building through negation a description of something. This law clearly defines the Qadiani religion as different from islam, consequentially Qadianis different from muslims.
Jabir. No, I don’t and don’t care for why the Washington Monument is the way it is. Please stick to the topic. We are talking about Pakistan.
And, pleeeeeese don’t offer sophmoric ‘Twilight Zone’ drivel about next asking why there is a pyramid on the US currency notes… the type of people who dream up these conspiracy theories are the same retards who see Muslims behind everything that goes wrong with the world… the mullahs of the west are no better than the mullahs of the east.. that is not evidence that is rumors and fear-mongering…. just because someone says it in a silly TV show does not make it evidence….
Now for real evidence… maybe official documents, copies for letters, photographs, taped conversations…. since you were so quick to demean and condemn someone, I assuem as a good Muslim you have REAL evidence … otherwise, what is the punishment for false accusations…. stoning, no?
Well said, mr. last post.
Mr. Nazir, please consult a lawyer some day. I am an L1 constitutional and corporate law major at Loyola, and let me state my reasoning again for you. There is no issue of humanity and human rights when it comes to faith-based plagiarism. Muslims in other countries wouldn’t practice islam and claim to be practicing Christianity, would they? and if they would, and this action of them would therefore alter the definition of Christianity or whatever the state religion is, then yes, I would agree for a ban on anyone who claims to amalgamate the two different religions.
For the last time, Law was written to PREVENT PLAGIARISM OF ISLAM, the religion in the name of which Pakistan was created. What part of Islamic Republic of Pakistan do you not get? Qadianis can practice qadianiat all they want, just dont call it islam. It’s not islam. So did we declare, the group that you called zani and sharabi, were the most noted ulema of their time, and your parents perhaps (if you’re my age) voted for the Bhutto government which passed these laws. By the way, if you call pakistani majlis e shura of bhutto era zani and sharabi and deviant, I’ll be interested to know what you think of the men who drafted the Islamic Sharia during the Ummayad Dynasty.
Chiniot, my naive friend, is the main stronghold of Qadianis in Pakistan and perhaps the world. Hence my recommendation. :D
About this law’s being a definition of muslim and non muslim: There’s something we call precedence in law. Rulings and laws such as this become a reference guide in deriving the definition or building through negation a description of something. This law clearly defines the Qadiani religion as different from islam, consequentially Qadianis different from muslims.
[quote]Visit Chiniot sometime, you might know what I am talking about. [/quote]
What is in chiniot that I need to see to know anything? We are talking about a law at national level here and not of a far flung place. You are not making any sense.