What Dr Aafia protests mean for Muslims
The US intends to cause havoc in the Muslim world by instigating them to come out on the streets and vent their anger by burning and breaking vehicles and property.
The conviction of Pakistani neuroscientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui should be seen through the prism of the dark plot hatched by certain elements in the West against Islam and its adherents. How else can one explain the 86-year sentence on seven counts that Dr Aafia received?
The West knows that the sentence given to Dr Aafia will cause massive disappointment in the Muslim world. There will be protests, there will be riots and much more ‘spice’ which the western media is looking for.
The US has saved itself from a universal insult and the tag of hypocrisy by sentencing Dr Aafia. Had the US freed her of all charges, the labels of ‘terrorists’ and ‘extremists’ would have had a huge, ripped hole in them.
The world, which believes the US to be right in its fight against terrorism, would have seen the real face of its hypocrisy and twisted facts.
The fact that Aafia was kept in jail for so long and eventually given this sentence clearly indicates what the US is intending to do. I fear it is trying to cause havoc in the Muslim world by instigating them to come out on the streets and vent their anger by burning and detroying vehicles and property. The rest is left to the western media to portray Muslims as aggressive, violent, intolerant and extreme.
To be honest, I wouldn’t be too surprised if I woke up one morning and heard that the 9/11 incident is repeating itself, with the same victims and the same planners.
The US plan is brilliant. Anyone with a brain can see the strategy behind it. A major terrorist attack happens and the Muslims would be blamed again – because they have every reason to be blamed. At least thats the story according to the according to the US and the biased western media.
Is it only me? Does someone out there thinks the same?
It took Muslims years to regain their dignity, to come out of the shell that was built around them after 9/11. Although we haven’t been able to break through completely, things aren’t as bad as they were right after 9/11.
We have managed to thin down the thick dust, which was literally thrown at us, but it could grow thick again. Muslims could be facing another strategic attack.
The views expressed by the writer and the reader comments do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of The Express Tribune.
Please tell me you are being sarcastic?Recommend
Its so easy to malign the Muslim world and finding reasons for another Afghanistan/Iraq styled war ….
We’re being played with …Recommend
It is so shocking abt Dr. Aafia that she got sentenced for 86 years. All her life will be ruined in the prison and what about the time since 2003. She has been mentally and physically tortured and even raped and now she has lost her mental balance and is not even physically fit.Recommend
And they (disbelievers) plotted, and Allah planned too. And Allah is the Best of the planners.
Surah Ale-Imran (54)Recommend
Sorry, my dear, it’s only you
http://www.nefafoundation.org/documents-legal-N_Z.html#aafia
Some claims against the mad Aafia SiddiquiRecommend
Also,
Sana Saleem: she was not rapedRecommend
This is by far the dumbest article written on Express Tribune. Its a pity that such things are allowed to be published online. Like Syed Nadir said… lets hope your being sarcastic.Recommend
Aren’t we a bunch of idiots who easily fall for every trap of USA, CIA, Mossad, RAW etc?Recommend
I think it makes sense, perfect sense. America really has saved itself. Otherwise if Afia was proven innocent, it would have been difficult for US to justify the reasons why she was kept in prison at the first place. And come on, 86 years of sentence, is that a joke? I don’t understand why nobody can see the strategy behind it. I can relate my own fears with this blog.Recommend
Alishba, that’s because they’re just fears. And America is everyone’s boogeyman these days.
For heaven’s sake. The Afia verdict may be another example of the Islamophobia that is supposedly riot in the west these days, I’m not arguing against that. But a piece in the puzzle of the great American Conspiracy (That is so secret but apparently you know about)? You’ve got to be joking.Recommend
Ha! The fact that someone would hope I’m being sarcastic is what I find rather hilarious. No, I’m not being sarcastic. I’m being fearful. Is that a dumb thing?Recommend
Hina Baig saheba…Which ‘muslims’? Sunnis? Shias? Dewbandis? Barelvis? Wahabis? Ahl-e-sunnat? Ahl-e-Hadith? keep counting…Who are ‘WE‘? You say, ‘The West knows that the sentence given to Dr Aafia will cause massive disappointment in the Muslim world’. What is the ‘West’? Do you mean The United States of America is THE WEST? Isn’t it called NORTH AMERICA? You might say Glasgow where you are studying is the WEST. So has she been sentenced by some court in Glasgow? Hmm so is it the US PLAN again? Which plan? And how do you know about it? And is there anyone without a ‘brain’? I can’t imagine a living humanbeing without a ‘brain’. Or do you mean a certain level of IQ? Conspiracy theories are out of time and place for now. Its the right time for some deep introspection by ‘WE’.Recommend
^ Shehrabo Taseer? Aren’t you the daughter of Punjab governor Mr Salman Taseer??Recommend
I am so happy that finally someone has the sense and the courage to write a piece like this, Good on you Hina and yes we are a bunch of people who are stupid to fall under their prey but lets examine why is that, the biggest reason is that we have scattered into different casts and sects which is definitely against the deen itself. ” Oh you Muslims, Hold to the rope of Allah and be not divided” Surah Al Imran
But before we are muslims we are Sunni, shia and whatnot, The second reason is we are all away from real education, there can be no prosperity and life without education!! but i agree to what Hina has written we can expect more as long as we are too indulged in our own lifestyle which sadly is going away from deen and also worldly success.Recommend
@Shumaila – I never claimed to be ‘the’ only one to know about it. Anything coming from US for or against muslims has a in-depth strategy behind it. It’s a bit too obvious to deny I think.
After the Burka ban in France, the news has it that there have been some suicide bomb attack threats, nobody knows whether there really have been threats or not. But the France newspaper claims that there have been. Imagine there something like this does happen, who would be blamed? Muslims, because they’re trying to scare the government. But would the world really find out whether it’s an inside job or actually a Muslim attack? Aren’t we all being manipulated by what we see in media?Recommend
What does the Muslim protests for Dr. Aafia’s conviction means to the Muslim world? It means that Muslims and the U.S. have become deadly enemies. And Dr. Aafia’s “life in prison” conviction -just “for alleged intention to kill Americans” – brings this U.S. message to Muslims: “I am a superpower, and I can kill you by sticking a label of terrorist to you, or by calling you an Al Qaeda supporter. But if you ‘think’ to kill
any of our forces who hunt you, you will be grabbed, and thrown in a prison cell to rot until your death. And you don’t have to commit a crime
to be locked up for life; just ‘thinking’ is good enough. We are not a superpower for nothing!” Rome was not a superpower for nothing either. Its Emperors fed their enemies to lions and tigers in a stadium for entertainment, and nobody could stop them! The adage “power corrupts” has been true since the medieval times, and the Siddiqui story proves it today.
There are many suspicions around the globe that Aafia Siddiqui has been railroaded fo being related to Sheik Mo hammed , the 9/11 mastermind.
The Chinese newspaper Hinhua reports today that she was first charge for “being a suicide bomber!” Then, there was the charge that she had a bag
of powder poison! How do you feed that to your enemies? Then, her effort to shoot FBI agents. There is no precedent that when the U.S. interrogates terrorists place loaded M-4s or AK-47s within their reach – except in Siddiqui’s case. The incident, and the charges, therefore, seem to be false – as many Pakistani newspapers claim.
Human Rights groups have already criticized Judge Richard Berman sentencing as unwarranted, and the Pakistani group Tehrik-e-Taliban called Siddiqui’s sentence “a barbaric act,” and vowed “the American will pay.” (The Nation, Pakistan, Sept. 25, 2010) The case, therefore, has ballooned into an international incident, and it will certainly worsen the already mistrustful relations between the U.S. and Pakistan.
We are bogged down in a war in Afghanistan, and Pakistan is our main conduit and ally. And Pakistanis, who hated us for bombing their villages with Predator drones and killing innocent civilians, now hate us more! And the Siddiqui “life in prison sentence” turned Pakistan
into a boiling anti-American cauldron that somehow is going to spill over and burn the U.S, interests! There is, therefore, no doubt that there will be revenge attacks against the U.S. for Siddiqui’s conviction. And the Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) that is famously anti-American would probably increase help and funding to Taliban’s Haggani network. The ancient adage: “If you stab someone in the back, you should expect to be stabbed at the back” is probably set in motion now against us in Pakistan and Afghanistan. And Siddiqui no doubt will be happy to rot in prison as a Muslim heroin, and be regarded as a “martyr” upon her death in prison. That is the Muslim valor.
Judge Richard Berman sentencing was a message to anti-American Muslims around the world “to fall on their knees and cry uncle” when the U.S. gives them its hegemonic orders. The U.S. is engaged in a worldwide campaign to snare any anti-American Muslims and take them out of circulation. But that raises the anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world and create more enemies against America. And when this war against the Muslims comes to an end some day – because it cannot go on forever, we are going to realize how foolish we were. Because hatred breeds more hatred, and hatred breeds more conflict and wars – not peace. And, to add insult to injury, Obama still claims that he wants peace in Afghanistan! Nikos Retsos, retired professorRecommend
@Ilyas – Your comment doesn’t make any sense to me. Too many irrelevent questions and too much of confusion. Elaborate a bit.
As far as the concept of ‘we’ is concerned, the difference between a Sunni, a shia or whoever doesn’t make a ‘we’. The ‘joint’ effort by anyone from any sector or class makes a ‘we’.Recommend
What it means to the ‘Muslim world’? I’d say nothing. Your title should have rather been ‘What Dr Aafia protests mean for Pakistanis.’Recommend
Hina, how did you have the guts to write this up? A little poorly written but you do have very strong points. There’s every possibility for something like this to happen sometime in future, just like it is expected to happen in France. I agree with this post because you have a points which most of choose to ignore because we think who would have the time to make such plans, but what we don’t realise is this is only the tip of the iceberg. There’s much more to come.Recommend
The West knows that the sentence given to Dr Aafia will cause massive disappointment in the Muslim world. There will be protests, there will be riots and much more ‘spice’ which the western media is looking for
If the ‘West’ is actually looking for ways to incite the ‘Muslim world’ into ‘rioting’, would not ‘Quran burning’ as proposed by the mad pastor be a surer bet for achieving this objective? Wonder why the ‘West’ went overboard in preventing that?
May be Hina of ‘brains’, can throw some light on the conspiracy behind this.Recommend
@Vikas – Like I mentioned above in one of my comments, anything and everything coming from US or Islamphobes in west, whether it’s in favour of Muslims or against them, always has some sort of strategy in it. Didn’t the Draw Muhammad caused a big chaos, the ban of YouTube and facebook? And so did the whole stupid idea of ‘Quran Burning’, I don’t know if you caught up with the news or not, but from most of Muslims in and outside Pakistan, the ‘Burning of Bible’ was suggested and even fully planned only to come to an halt when the ‘Quran burning’ was stopped by the US government which I found rather more ironic because Pastor backed off a day or on the exact day. Can’t you see the irony here? The last day cancellations, the last day call offs, and all that time there’s nothing being done except for letting the Islamphobes inciting muslims as much as they can. In some cities, some people even burnt the US flags. Are you on hibernate mode these days that you’re not keeping track of the world around you?Recommend
So you think that the presidents of all Western nations, India and Isreal sat together and planned a conspiracy to malign the muslim countries by sentencing Dr Aafia (who is married to nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad) to 86 years prison? Do you think they have time to think about such petty issues.Recommend
This paper should have some basic standards for its editorial writers. Being a “student interested in writing” is not a qualification to comment on law/foreign policy. This young lady has not mustered a single fact or legal argument. She conveniently does not address a single shred of evidence the court used. She doesn’t ask what Dr. Aafia was doing in Afghanistan…what she was doing before being arrested and certainly doesn’t address Dr. Aafia’s own husband’s charges that his wife was a radical with ties to terrorist groups. Instead, the writer goes with the standard victimization of Muslims conspiracy theory. While entertaining, writing like this has little place in a publication that aspires to intelligent discourse.Recommend
@Faraz – Lol. The fact that you think I think this way shows that you’re only seeing the surface of things. I did not, anywhere, say that they had some sort of a conference to decide this, and where did India come from? Dr Afia’a case was not a petty thing, had it been something as petty as you think it is, she would not have had the 86 years sentence. As someone mentioned above, it’s just a tip of the iceberg. My point is pretty clear, if you fail to understand it then you need to have an open approach. Don’t just come and criticise thinking you just can. Have your justification ready for whatever you’re saying.Recommend
@Hina: Really Hina? Dont make any sense? Think over every question I put again and after a while they the should start making sense. ‘IRRELEVANCE’ is always bound in time, space and perspective. There are dots to join and connections to find. Sometimes its good to see the thing upside down. A straight look is not the only way to understand every phenomenon. There are realities behind the shadows in the Platonic cave and so we have to peep behind those.
Now as far as making (or not making) SENSE is concerned. Its again is subjective. That’s why this sentence from you doesn’t make SENSE to me: ”
As far as the concept of ‘we’ is concerned, the difference between a Sunni, a shia or whoever doesn’t make a ‘we’. The ‘joint’ effort by anyone from any sector or class makes a ‘we’“. By the way do ‘joint’ effort and ‘anyone’ go together?Recommend
@Arief Baig – No ‘you’ and no ‘I’ can decide who’s to be blamed for what. This world is a web where any can get lost in any trap. I don’t know whether she was really guilty or not, no one can say what she really was. You’re talking about her husband’s statements against her, he was her ex-husband, why they got divorced, no one knows. Maybe he gave these statements out of revenge. My point is not to prove Afia right or wrong. I’m not even going to go down that road. Like I said, we are all being manipulated by what we’re being shown. Afia’s lawyer gave statement that the allegations against her weren’t even proved, hence she might get a short sentence. Is 86 years sentence short? Since you’re here telling me to consult the foreign policies and all sorts, can you explain why her children were also kept hostage for God knows how long? I’d understand about her, but why her children? What did they do?
We’re so naive. We think and believe anything we see and hear. I can go and give a statement against you, what are you gonna do to me? I can take money from higher authorities to speak vile about you to damage your reputation, what can you do to protect yourself when you have government like US paying me to testify against you? I’m not saying this is what actually happened, no. But there could be any kind of possibility. We ‘don’t’ what the truth is until we’re trapped in the false web. Many real criminals are roaming around free because there were never enough evidences to prove them guilty, and many innocents are suffering in jail because the evidences proved them guilty. Many examples like this can be seen.
However, I’m not against western world. I’m not a westphobe. Like I provided a link to show how the media plays with the news, it can be clearly seen that when it comes to Muslims, everything has some sort of editing in it.Recommend
@ Hina ..I am so fearful for you .. Don’t stay in Glasgow any longer. I urge you to please return from the evil West back into the safety and protection of the Hadood ordinance! Come home, o dear daughter of the nation. Come to help the protectors of this nation condone the burying of women alive. Come to help the morality brigade celebrate the women being paraded naked on the streets. Come to protest against any one speaking up for the Pakistani women languishing in the jails for some crime unknown to them. Come home to promote self glorification. Come share your genius with the world’s greatest Think Tank and give the world more grand conspiracy theories. Help the nation to continue to engage in struggle against self-criticism to pint fingers else where! The nation is waiting to honor its daughters like you!Recommend
@Ilyas – what’s with the Sunni Shia or my being living in glasgow got to do anything with this? Can you explain?
Do you know the meaning of ‘difference’? I made it pretty clear dear fellow that ‘difference’ can not make a ‘we’. A ‘joint’ effort for a same cause makes ‘we’. When people from anywhere and everywhere come together to fight for one thing, that makes a ‘we’. I fail to understand how you can’t understand this. I don’t think you realize that what you believe you understood is not what I actually mean. You’re taking this into sectarian debate, we can have a debate about on a separate level, if you’re really that interested in it.
My point here is not go on a personal attack mission, neither am I trying to convince anyone about my fear/theory. But nobody can say it with complete gaurantee that there’s no possibility of it. France has already started playing it’s cards, maybe US will do the same. I personally hope I’m proven wrong.Recommend
please check out http://www.islamicsolutions.com/if-it-is-extreme-it-is-not-islam/Recommend
@Why am I not surprised!:
Do you personally know me somehow? :-/Recommend
This is a court verdict,we have to be very carefull,due respect be given to judges,if any one any where commits wrong or against the country ,must be ready to face the trial,Dr. aafia trials has nothing to do with islamic country or those who believe islam in real sense and true sprit.does our religin permit to commits such crimes being citizen of that country?this is a rule of thumb that you have to be loyal of the country and respect all laws even a trafic law.I do not know why people making agitation.yes you can appeall to USA prsident that considering a women she should be given some edge having three children on purly on humanitatrian ground.this is a govt. to govt.Recommend
Hina you are right, will it really matter. I don’t know how much any of the readers overhere or the writer herself has gone through history from 1800 till now.
I have been reading the Islamic history on my own, and seeing the strategy of the whole world.
From Russia in the Balkan in 1815 to capture the then Muslim states to British empire in the Sub – continent in the same era to the downfall of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East.
If we go to the history, this all has been happening in one form or the other, only the characters has changed or the story itself but the context has always been the same throughout this time.
Remember whenever the enemies of Islam wanted to do something big, they always stage something before as a test to see the reaction on our side, what they are going to do so that amendment can be made accordingly.
You will see the same situation, in the future in this regard, they did it in my books for 2 reasons:
First make the fear of them, in our heart so that educated people of our society won’t think a 2nd time to do a change. Atleast who were thinking.
Second, to see the reaction, so that if tomorrow, something big comes out, they knew what to do and what not to do.
There is a context of a hadith, When the days of the judgement is near, the Muslims will be tear apart by the non-muslim, The followers of the Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him said, will we be few in numbers? Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him said, No, we will be much more in number, only we don’t have faith in Islam.Recommend
I think Hina is absolutely right. There could be any such chances for a bigger conspiracy behind it. And I totally agree where you’ve mentioned about America saving itself from universal insult. This thing had gone too far to be left innocent, America had no other option to sentence her. I think people need to have a deeper sense to actually figure out what’s happening around the world. The Muslims all around the world think she’s innocent and did not deserve to be treated like this, that’s why there’s every chance that they will come out on streets to protest against it. Some people on facebook are already planning protests, and blaming the government for this whole thing. It definitely has caused some chaos in muslims.Recommend
At first I thought the author was being Sarcastic.
I believe in the US judicial system which might not be perfect but it certainly is one of the best, needless to say pretty awesome compared to Pakistan’s. As all courts of law, the punishment is given when there is absolute certainty of the guilt. If the court has found her guilty then I believe it. In this case of attempted murder, the evidence has to be really strong for her to be punished.Recommend
You guys, you make Everything into a case of “us” against “them”. For heaven’s sake, what are you trying to prove? The so-called West incites muslims into doing stupid things like suicide bombings? But apparently those suicide bombings are staged by the West themselves? Which gives them an excuse to malign muslims more? And cause them to do more terrorist attacks that aren’t really done by them? So what are you saying?
Why would the West be out to malign muslims? Why would they do such a thing?
Are they scared of Islam? Why would they be? Muslims aren’t doing much – they’re not on the forefront of the sciences or arts or weaponry or anything else.
Are they out to crush muslims? But then why the long road via Afialand?
Do they want all muslims to suffer from perpetual high blood pressure because of pent-up anger and eventually die of heart disease? Or do they want us to kill ourselves out of sheer anti american anger? If that last is the case, then wouldn’t it be a middle finger to them if we just go on with our lives and not make such a hullabaloo out of everything?
If you’re a little clearer on what ‘they’ want and why ‘they’ want it, maybe I can understand you. Otherwise stop being a journalistic Sybil Trelawney. Theres enough in the world to worry about.Recommend
In twelve hours you already have 30 comments. You’r well on your way to equal Samirs 102 comments and he used Musharraf as a prop for this. Well done.
Oh ! the article was totally inane.Recommend
They are all male
Perhaps the problem is universal male aggression
And illiteracy
You are westophobic – most westerners are highly critical of their governments and hate this stupid war. We marched against it – did that not get reported? I have Muslim friends who are much happier here in the ” evil West”Recommend
I read your whole blog and I felt as if I was talking to some layman living in interior sindh. Everyone in Pakistan talks like that. A good, healthy conspiracy theory is always being hatched against them in every aspect of life. I am not ruling out the potential of conspiracy but at least you should have provide some evidence with references and poignant arguments keeping in view the gravity of issue.Sorry to say that if you do not have something good to blog about, please don’t do it as your wrong action would mislead people.Recommend
@Hina
The 86 years sentence that you are mentioning again and again as a proof of a grand design is according to their constitution. Last month, a man was given a 100 year sentence for fraud!
You say that its not our intolerance but the West’s dark plot which brings us on the streets. Firstly, these protests are led by right wing political parties, and for them it is just a political stunt. Secondly, these so called honour concious people wont come on the streets when it comes to human rights voilation inside the country. You wont see any protest for the release of 100 Baloch women who have been allegedly kidnapped by agencies. These protests just expose the hipocrisy of the society. Thirdly, our Government and agencies were also involved in this grand plot. US marines didnt kidnap her from Karachi through a commando operation. We handed her over to US. And i am sure, some low level CIA officer might have asked about her and some low level Pakistani officer would have handed her over to them. Fourthly, foreign policy is not guided by religious ideology. Perhaps you forgot that these extremist elements were nurtured by CIA. Those who are protesting in the streets today, got billions from US during cold war. Fifthly, nobody in the west gives a damn about what people in pakistan think about them. Our bankrupt state poses no threat to them. There is no purpose of staging such childish dramas. Rightly or wrongly, during the GWOT thousands got killed, injured or arrested and one of those individuals was Dr, Aafia. Musharaf and Bush didnt have a property dispute with her that they had her arrested. And we should focus on our own intolerant society rather than controlling their policies. Shouldnt we correct ourselves rather than blaming others? As for providing spice for Western media is concerned, we already have enough to offer like suicide blasts, death fatwas, videos of floggings and slaughter, Shia sunni killings, Ahmadi killings, burning of Christian villages, forced conversions, killings of female teachers etc. 700 blown up schools are more than enough to shock any sane individual, living either in west or east. Videos of stoning to death by taliban are also very “spicy”, do watch them.Recommend
The case can always be appealed to the US Court of Appeals and if necessary, pushed all the way to the US Supreme Court. The trial happened in the United States in a civilian American court and not on some military jurisdiction in Cuba or even in Afghanistan and this makes a major difference because it was held under American constitutional due process of the law gurantees and not under US military law. This means that constitutional legal issues of due process of the law can be raised and arguments made that the trial and the manner in which it was conducted was prejudicial towards Dr. Aafia Siddique and thus, the due process of the law was denied to her.
Shouting and screaming is not going achieve anything. My advice is appeal the case and the government of Pakistan should pay for the legal fees of Dr. Aafia Siddique’s legal team and the costs of appealing the case. This is the best it can do in the matter, because otherwise it is seriously fooling itself if thinks it can reverse the verdict by encouraging the burning of American flags! .Recommend
@ Hina Baig
The details of the case and Aafia’s life span are available at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui
The actions, life span and her family’s testimonies suggest involvement, incoherence and some mental imbalance. However, the evidences are quite elaborative. The episode also suggests that the action is with tacit approval and support of Pak establishment.
The reported mental state of the lady is suggestive that her release may not be in favor of society at large. Wherever kept, she requires confinement and rehabilitation. We do not know about future but chances of improvement are grim. I am not aware of any other side of the story, if somebody may elaborate further … ? The details on Wikipedia at above link are quite elaborative.Recommend
She wrote truth and according to inventor of War on Terror, it is crusade against Islam, Muslims and Muslim states. Terrorism in Pakistan is engineered to destablize Pakistan and appoint an Hosni Mubarak on Pakistan.
Story is not going to finish with Taliban or Al Kaeda it is long term war of interests. Dr. Aafia case is created to harass Muslims. Any one if feels that he or she would be safe in side jaws is naive. Further expansion of war would not see Shia, Sunni or US apologists, drones like attack would kill anyone. And all killed would be terrorists.Recommend
Cruel decision.Recommend
I agree the verdict is unfair and according to my knowledge, has not even been given to real murderers or other terrorists who are roaming around freely. But (a) the ambiguity remains so there is no proof of her being completely innocent either. (b) You say: “The West knows that the sentence given to Dr Aafia will cause massive disappointment in the Muslim world. There will be protests, there will be riots and much more ‘spice’ which the western media is looking for.”
You can never blame somebody else for your own actions. Even in daily life there are many people who will provoke you and give you wrong advice, but once you act or react, YOU have made the decision to react in a certain manner. Nobody is forcing you to go on the street and burn US flags. May be you should have found a better way of raising your voice instead of blocking streets and creating trouble for your own people.
(c) The so-called West comprises many nations apart from the US. These nations, the US included, are home to many Muslims as well, who may or may not agree with you.Recommend
@Hina
1.I don’t know whether she was really guilty or not, no one can say what she really was.
2. You’re talking about her husband’s statements against her, he was her ex-husband, why they got divorced, no one knows.
3. *But nobody can say it with complete gaurantee that there’s no possibility of it.*
OK so no one can be certain of anything or guarantee any thing including whether shape shifters live or not, or whether we exist or it is all only a dream, or whether the rest of world was created only to persecute Muslims, or whether Muslims were created so the rest could prosecute them. Only Hina is authorised to speak with certainty.
Can anyone suggest a good shrink please.Recommend
@Hina
Siddiqui’s maternal uncle, Shams ul-Hassan Faruqi, said that on January 22, 2008, she visited him in Islamabad.[18][22] He said that she told him she had been held by Pakistani agencies, and asked for his help in order to cross into Afghanistan, where she thought she would be safe in the hands of the Taliban.[18][22] He had worked in Afghanistan, and made contact with the Taliban in 1999, but told her he was no longer in touch with them. He notified his sister, Siddiqui’s mother, who came the next day to see her daughter. He said that Siddiqui stayed with them for two days.[67] Her uncle has signed an affidavit swearing to these facts.
Ofcourse Mamujan was/is on the payroll of the Americans, and since Dr Afia’s mother also has not denied the statement, the same can be infered about her too.
Well since I tend to believe Mamu so I must also be on the take.Recommend
All those people commenting above who think Hina is some sort of a psycho are so naive. It makes me laugh to see how you’re all trying to make her look the dumb one but actually in reality you guys are being dumb. She hasn’t suggested or confirmed any theory, it is the reality she’s speaking. How many of you have actually had the chance to figure out whats happening with Muslims all around the world? We’re all being targeted. Any one of us can be a victim of such trap. No mamo’s statement and no husband’s statement can prove Afia right or wrong, when you have a government like US behind you, anything is a possibility.
You’re absolutely correct Hina. Some of these people are gonna look back and say ‘oh that Hina was absolutely right.’ However, I think it hasn’t started yet, there’s much more to come. Its going take a few more Afias to wake us and fight for our sisters and mothers. Hats off to you for writing this on such a public platform. May Allah keep you protected. Recommend
@Hina.: I am ready for any debate on any level. That is no problem.Recommend
@ All: A big disaster is on its way, and many Aafia’s and Faisal’s will be used as tools. People and specially Muslims need to understand this. Ok, you can criticize the writer, then what? Will you get the answers which are popping in your head. Think from every angle and every side. Don’t you think America doesn’t know about the sensitivity of Aafia’s case, they do and yet she is sentenced. They are playing with a Bee hive or in there case may be they have found out the Achilles heal. 9/11, 7/7 do you think things like this happen because they were meant to be. No, incident like these happen because we let them plan it for us. Aafia got what she deserved or she didn’t deserve is something not at my disposal, but i can at-least talk about it what i, personally think about this case. I ask only one question from all the supporters of Aafia, how far will you go to save or even become another Aafia or Faisal?Recommend
a big chunk of the energies of so called west,where you happen to study, are spent now a days in bringing the nations like pakistan out of political and economical quagmire.becoz they know very deep in their hear that if they dont do this nations like pakistan will touch the abyss,taking many of them with it.you are accusing them of opposite is quiet hilarious…it seems as if pakistan is the upcoming superpower and the whole world is hell bent on stopping her from achieving this status.
your bio-data suggests you are studying psychology but it seems you are unable to read the writing on the wall.Recommend
and btw only thing to destroy pakistan would be to just leave her alone…Recommend
enough of ”doughter of pakistan”….spare some thought for sons like faisal shehzad and azmal kasab who are being victimized by foreign courts…er ..powersRecommend
@Lalit – Pakistan has never been more of a mess than now since every other country thinks they can interfere in Pakistan’s business and hence there’s so much corruption and mess. All these energies spent on Pakistan are not being spent for free, we are paying a price for that by letting them build their stations on our land, by letting them buy our politicians to make use of their own agendas. And these economical and political disasters are nothing but a manipulation and corruption by people living in and outside Pakistan.
Have your facts checked before you go and give your speech.Recommend
I think this is what the writer is trying to tell us, if you scroll down the page you’ll see some news on the reactions after Afia’s sentence
http://express.com.pk/epaper/Recommend
@ Malik,
Ha Ha Ha ….. the entire country is hell bound to interfere in the internal affairs of USA? It is a punishment by US court to a US citizen. What a nice business …. !!!Recommend
@Hina.:
No and no such desire either . Regards.Recommend
The psychology dept. at Glasgow should take this article as a case study for “How paranoid minds think”.Recommend
i m 100% sure that muslim world sleeping and no body is reading ur blog or any literature that is being published every day, we are useless or in other words i would say we r toys for western world bcz we dnt have knowledge , vision , above all we have not self esteem.
our leaders,commanders, scientist ,teacher sports person even though our beloved law is free for sale whosoever wishes to get any milestone of pakistan should only make a good bid.
pakistan is country where law fights for its survival,how can it challenge unlawful act of america.Recommend