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Imran Khana Pakistani cricketer turned politician
Mr. Imran Khan: The underlying feeling here is clearly that the US only cares or acts when its own people are at risk. If these liberal, cosmopolitan women feel this way about America, how must those who do not benefit from the Western way of life feel?
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Red: Mr. Imran Khan are you accusing the US of taking care about its own people? And so what! What's wrong with that? The same goes for Pakistan! It should care for its own people the same way the US does. And if it doesn't, isn't the US fault!
Regarding how are feeling the liberal, cosmopolitan women: from my point of view they are too young to be so cosmopolitan. I do believe their perspective of the world it's too narrowed, due to their young age. And that's because that in all probability their opinions have been tainted by others.
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Mr. Imran Khan: In Peshawar, close to the border with Afghanistan, anti-war demonstrators fill the streets. They are driven by a sense of justice that is a fundamental aspect of the Koran. America may be the most powerful country in the world, but the feeling here is that this does not give them the right to act as judge, jury and executioner.
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Red: Justice is intrinsic to the Koran! Yes, you are right on this one Mr.Khan. Tell this unrealistic concept to those women from that video, tightly dressed in Islamic fashion. There is a justice for them too, or they are too low on the Muslim social status's world? I don't see any real justice especially for those women dressed in burkas! Or maybe I'm wrong? Maybe they enjoy walking around dressed like ghosts while some bearded Muslim cleric (in white pajamas) is maneuvering them, under the spectacle of the television cameras.
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Mr. Imran Khan: As far as the international press is concerned, there is a lot more mileage in stories emphasizing the extremes and differences between cultures, instead of what they have in common. The result is often a misunderstanding about the true nature of Islam. People in the United States tend to equate Islam with Fundamentalism, but, for many Pakistanis, Islam gives them a direction in life, helping them to come to terms with their harsh, often poverty-stricken reality.
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Red: Yeah, one more time you are on the spot Mr.Khan! This is a gift for the international press, these images are emphasizing the extremes and differences between cultures. I hope will never be a kind of society in the Western hemisphere, where the diverse of society and the women will be treated like second class citizens. Islam help Muslims with their harsh, poverty-stricken reality? Maybe if Islam wasn't in their reality, maybe these poor Muslims will have better chances in their lifetimes.
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Mr. Imran Khan: In this part of the world, the spectre of the IMF looms large. Even the poorest street traders in the country’s capital, Lahore, know what the IMF is, and who is at the helm. “The IMF is America. America tries to control our economy through the IMF,” comments one shopkeeper. Pressure from the IMF has forced the government to raise utility rates frequently, with devastating results. It is in the impoverished rural communities that the effects are most clearly perceived, with many unable to afford food and basic health care.
Extracted from wikipedia:
The number of IMF member countries has more than quadrupled from the 44 states involved in its establishment.
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Red: I don't get it! If the IMF (International Monetary Fund) is so bad for the people, why then more and more nations are joining it today? It's more like that nowadays every single nation is benefiting from this organization, except Pakistan!
“The IMF is America. America tries to control our economy through the IMF,” Wait a minute something is really wrong here, if the IMF is really America what the hell are doing all those 185 country in it?
Extracted from wikipedia:
The IMF describes itself as an organization of 185 countries (Montenegro being the 185th, as of January 18, 2007), working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty.
Maybe, those 185 nations enjoy been mastered by a single nation such as the United States. C'mon, be serious! How can one single nation even if it is so powerful like the United States, be the IMF all by itself.
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Mr. Imran Khan: As the state system crumbles under the pressure of its debts, the vacuum created has been filled by others. The poor are turning to the religious schools, or madrassas, which are often breeding grounds for a more intolerant version of Islam. Unsurprisingly, their influence is strongest where neglect and poverty are most pronounced.
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Red: How many version of Islam do exist in the world? Sometimes I got the impression that there is one of it, for every single season.
Anyway, I don't blame the poor for turning to the religious schools, or madrassas. But the point is, why then they turn their violence against the US, or any other Western nation? They should revolt against their own corrupt leaders. As a matter of fact, I know that a lots of money have been channeled into Pakistan by International Aid agencies, to help jump start the Pakistan's rural economy towards a more vibrant and modern economy.
If those in charge of Pakistan's destiny are corrupted, or incapable to manage the economy of their country it's their leaders fault, not the US, or the rest of the world's fault!
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Imran Khan Niazi (born in Pakistani on November 25, 1952)
Why do so many Muslims hate the United States? What has America done to alienate so many people in the Muslim world? These are the questions that former Pakistani cricketer turned politician, Imran Khan, tries to answer in this latest offering of the Unreported World series.
Accidentally I found this blog "Rise of Pakistan" while I was looking for something else, and as stated in the blog's header it is:
An independent, alternative news and information channel: A humble effort to wake up Pakistan through personal and borrowed thoughts. (This blog is maintained by the students and alumni of LUMS)
The following video I got it from Rise of Pakistan's blog. It starts with a dramatic musical introduction while the first images are shown with a group of what appear to be Muslim Pakistanis torching a puppet, and right after Imran Khan starts talking in English with a Pakistan's accent.
Why do so many Muslims hate the United States? What has America done to alienate so many people in the Muslim world? These are the questions that former Pakistani cricketer turned politician, Imran Khan, tries to answer in this latest offering of the Unreported World series.
After I have read the post and watched the video reportage , I wanted to answer personally to Mr.Imran Khan's questions, but I couldn't really do that for obvious reasons, which were: I didn't know how and where I could have contacted him. So that the only possible alternative I had left was, to write this post with the hope that he could one day read it.
I start it with saying this to Mr. Imran Khan: Do you really believe in everything that you are telling in this video reportage of yours?
Mr. Imran Khan, what about this other questions: why so many peace loving people all over the world are hating Islam, and what Islam has done to alienate so many free minded people? Can you answers them?
Honestly Mr.Khan, I do believe your reportage is biased to disgrace America and its own people.
Mr. Imran Khan, you seem to me a nice and intelligent person, and because of politics I do believe you had to play a role in this reportage. Now I wanted to ask you if deep down in some corners of your subconsciousness, you had ever wondered if Islam is really that good towards all the world-wide faithful Muslims, and if you believe that Islam really is, a religion of peace and tolerance. And finally that there aren't second class citizens such as the diverse, or the women in the Muslim societies because of Islam?
Now I will continue with this post like I've had an imaginary conversation with Mr.Imran Khan's, while using his video transcript from the blog, "Rise of Pakistan".
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Mr. Imran Khan: At Islamabad’s Women’s College, a concert for peace is taking Place. The students are mainly from privileged, middle-class backgrounds. If you were looking for Muslims that sympathised with the West, this would be the first Place you would go. But even here, amongst the more liberal, “Westernised” Pakistanis, anti-American feeling is riding high.
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Red: Except this video where a few young people are having some fun with music at Islamabad’s Women’s College, I haven't seen any single real Muslim's manifestation against the many terrorist attacks, or any Muslim in a march for peace and understanding between the cultures of the West and the Middle East.
In the other hand, what I have witnessed in the past years are the many violent protests against Western nations by Muslim radicals. And by the way, if that young lady from the video which is saying that she hasn't seen in practical life any Christian, or Jew manifest for peace and tolerance, then, she hasn't see the world at all.
My dear young lady you better wake up, you probably don't see it but you live in a constrained and obscured world. You probably are living in a very tight perimeter, and I bet you wont go outside the world you well know, or even outside Islamabad where are living Muslim men with long beards and ideas in how a woman should do behave and dress.
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Mr. Imran Khan: “It’s as if one white life was far more important than thousands of black or brown lives,” comments one young, educated, middle-class woman. “They feel they can basically come in, use as they please, and then, when they want, they can just walk across the border, go somewhere else, and do exactly as they please there,” complains another.
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Red: This is a nice way to incite hatred between white and any other human race. For sure, this young lady has never been in the United States. The United States has the most heterogeneous groups of peoples living on its soil, than any other Wester nation. And besides that, there is racism in any form and shape in any part of the world, even among whites. So that isn't a valid excuse for her reasoning.
I don't know if this young lady when she was saying “They feel they can basically come in, use as they please, and then..." she was referring to the Americans of when they had invaded Iraq, and some Iraqis had suffered brutal acts by the hands of some sick minded American soldier. If this is the case, then I'm condemning those atrocious acts, as well any other criminal acts committed on civilians by any other army during a wartime.
But in any case, if we compare the American invasion in Iraq with any other invading forces taken from the past history of all humanity, then we will realize that it's almost a standard during a wartime to commit indecent acts against defenseless populations, and because of the quantity and the ferocity perpetrated by these invaders from the past against civilians, you will see that the Americans have had very few incidents of this nature during a war.
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