The Ghairat is Sufficient for Adil Najam – by Riaz Malik Hajjaji
Son of a Brigadier, Adil Najam – the Protector of LUMS Ghairat. (He is Brigadier Ka Beta – Waderay Kay Betay Ka Bhi Baap).
Related articles: Jamia Salafia Deobandia LUMS fires Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy
Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy’s letter to LUMS VC Adil Najam
“Verily we have brainwashed Mummy-Daddy crowd into Ghairatmands so that they may appreciate Mullah Omar. For Truly, there is nothing more cool than the support at LUMS for Taliban sympathizing Ghairatmands such as Hazrat Imran Khan (HIK) and Hazrat Iftikhar Chaudhry (HIC). For infusing LUMS with ghairat, we must be grateful to such glorious sons of brigadiers as LUMS VC Adil Najam. Do you not recognize the signs that when the Cock Croweth in the morn and Professor Hoodbhoy Croweth about such devilish things such as science and (gasp) gravity!
In this confusion arose Son of a Brigadier Adil Najam and using his Righteous Powers, he ensured that Hoodbhoy did not Croweth about science at Jamia Madrassat-ul-Uloom Al-LUMS. For surely, there is nothing more beautiful than the Golden teachings of Hamza Tzortzis and Farhat Hashmi. Verily such teachings must not be polluted by the art of the devil known as “Science”. Have you not read HIK and how he debunked Science and Professor Hoodhoy! Truly, for us, The Ghairat is Sufficient”, (Hujjaji Chronicles, Chapter 19, The Book of 420 – LUMS Edition)
These days the Beyghairats of BZP (Bhutto Zardari Party) and their sympathizers are running a campaign in support of CIA education Drone agent Melanie Josephine aka Malala Yousufzai. Therefore we must commend our glorious son of a Brigadier for making sure that Professor Hoodbhoy’s propaganda about science did not endure at LUMS.
Son of a Brigadier, Adil Najam has proven to be a Pious Patriotic Puttar who put the interests of ghairat before such perfidious things as science and that human rights and rationality mumbo-jumbo that Professor Hoodbhoy talks about. Ghairat icons like Adil Najam are not easy to construct – they take decades but finally the investment (of those who protect our ghairat frontiers) is paying off. You see, Adil Najam is not just any ordinary ghairatmand. He is a very sophisticated one.
For some years he ran the All Things Pakistan (Pakistaniat) website where he promoted safe causes that would not anger our oppressed and underfunded Pak Fauj. He catered to the whims of our glorious pro-Taliban Upper Middle class Mummy-Daddy brigade – he attacked BZP but was always soft with the Taliban and its political fronts such as patriotic puttar groups like Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (Imran Khan Group).
Unlike Beyghairats, let me point out that I am Bi-Ghairat and swing both ways – if PTI does not pan out till the elections, I have not burnt my bridges with the other Taliban group, the PML N. Most of us who are with Jamaat –e- Islami are Bi-Ghairats and in the end, we will end up supporting the agenda of both. But I digress.
All Ghairatmands, including Bi-Ghairats like me are deeply appreciative of this fearless act of courage by Son of a Brigadier Adil Najam. I still remember the heady days of the Lawyer’s Movement when Jamaat-e-Islami and PML N ordered massive amounts of black coats so that we could inflate the number of lawyers at various rallies. Jamaat-e-Islami and Sipah-e-Sahaba will never forget the support shown by LUMS Mummy-Daddy Brigade during the Lawyer’s Movement. Thanks to their support and this movement, patriots like Malik Ishaq and Hafiz Saeed are free and comrade Nawaz Sharif has been saved by His Holiness Highness Hazrat Iftikhar Chauhdry, Leader of the Supreme League of Justice Party (HHH SLOP).
SLOP saved comrade Nawaz Sharif on numerous occasions including the recently concluded Asghar Khan case where SLOP did an excellent job of confusion. SLOP proved that only those who give bribes are guilty – those who may have taken them don’t exist because the list was incomplete. Incomplete = absolution and thanks to SLOP, we will not have to see the ignominy of Nawaz Sharif, Javed Hashmi and other ghairatmands being declared guilty by their own courts.
Adil Najam has played his cards beautifully. Today, LUMS, like Jamia Uloom Haqqania, Jamia Binoria and Lal Masjid is another bastion of PTI-Chaudhry supporting ghairatmands and has finally been cleansed of such polluting influences such as science and logic and rationality. I propose the following names should be considered for LUMS faculty:
- Mullah Omar as Head of Law Department (with Farhat Hashmi as adjunct/assistant)
- Comrade Nawaz Sharif as Head of Economics department (with Mian Azhar, Saifur Rehman, Asad Omar as assistants)
- Malik Ishaq as Head of Humanities Department
- Hamid Mir as Head of science department with Ansar Abbasi as Assistant
- Najam Sethi as head of Media and Equivocation Studies
- Maulana Ludhianvi and Kamran Shahid as Head of Interfaith Studies
- Reprieve and Foundation for Fundemental Rights as Joint Heads of Mathematics and Statistics
- Talat Hussain as Head of (Social Re-) Engineering Studies
- Jehangir Tareen on Small Business Development and Finally
- His Holiness Highness Hazrat Iftikhar Chaudhry as Head of Ethics and Morality
A Beautiful Vision of what the Faculty at LUMS could look like in 5 years
This is a winning formula which I am sharing with my like-minded fellow ghairatmand Son of a Brigadier Adil Najam. This is not the time for half measures. Half measures would not have succeeded when Jamaat-e-Islami and PTI swung into action to expose Melanie Josephine for the CIA Education drone that she is. Similarly Adil Najam has taken a brave step and ghairatmands must now rally behind him and fulfil the agenda of the overhaul, as outlined above, of LUMS, Jazakallah!
Syed Riaz Bin Al-Malik Hujjaji
Keeper of The Two Nation Theory and the Patron Saint of Ghairat
Links to Hajjaji’s pearls of wisdom:
http://pakistanblogzine.wordpress.com/tag/riaz-malik-hajjaji/
Finally a good article in defence of Dr. Adil Najam, a total gentleman who is also a big PTI supporter. I just wish Hujjaji had added Ejaz Haider to the list of recommended faculty. E is one cool European liberal who would have fitted in with Ludhianvi.
This Adil Najam character is a total phony. Like many other pseudo liberals of Pakistan, his is a facade of being a liberal to hide his true establishment colours. LUMS does not deserve PH.
Comrades: this entire Ghairat peddling is sheer projection on the enemy’s part. The chant of the PSF lads comes back to one from the Ziarassic era; the printed word cannot do it justice; it carries its full meaning best in a Sindhi accent: YEH VARDI VALAY BEGAIRAT! YEH GENERAL COLONEL BEGAIRAT!
Topping post though. Arise, Sir Riaz, I dub you the Jihadists’ Bane. Asma bint Marwan.
As Sir Pervez was at QAU before where he was using department forum and resources in areas not related to physics at all such as running movies, launching ceremony poetry books, debates on political and religious issues etc
Also he used to spend a lot of time on talk shows on politics and religion.
You can also check his articles in last 5 years to see how many he has written in his research area and how many on politics
To me its fine but an employer may not want to pay a person for a professor position in physics who spends most of his time writing on politics
So, I think there are genuine reasons by LUMS
They dont want to hire a person on a heavy amount who spends most of his time on something else
At the end why is so much drama created on his termination ..Why is he so special that BBC has to write on it?…..I think every employer is free to extend or terminate the contract and an employ use these pressure tactics to blackmail the employer
This article is a display of the same bigotry and high-handedness which is typical of a religious fanatic, socially outcast from the society. You are as bigoted and as self-conceited as any misguided religious zealot. The pseudo-intellectual writer (Riaz Malik) has just gone for some publicity stunt.
Always seeing things in binary terms; religious/secular or liberal/fanatic context. Grow up Riaz Malik and show us you are educated. there is much more to life than this nonsense.
And why the hell is it okay for you cheap/juvenile idiots to drag in some revered religious leaders in this low-class debate.. Not all people associated with religion in Pakistan are angels but who gives uneducated and misinformed idiots like you the right to comment on some public figures.
Nothing can be more illogical than to bring in some outstanding religious leaders in a debate on a VC- educated in USA and who has taught in Boston for more than two decades.
LUMS student, thanks for standing up to the powerful LUBP lobby just like you guys stood up to Musharaf and with Kiyani. Adil Najam is a true liberal and cannot be doubted. He is not just a Boston Brahmin but a Brahmin in Pakistan too because of his excellent connections with the army. These people at LUMS are uneducated idiots and not refined liberals like us. Ignore them
” The Ghairat is Sufficient for Adil Najam – by Riaz Malik ” sarcasm 😛
“To see Ghairat brigade existence, plz Visit LUBP ”
23 author’s names shining on the right mid of the every page.
all are IMAM E HUSSAIN R.A lovers except 1, 2 . but unfortunately the situations and bad incidents made them Secular from head to toe .
Sympathies . .
btw Adil Najam’s secularism is more open than all authors of LUBP 🙂
Brigadier Ka Beta (Brigadier’s son) Adil Najam is hurt due to Dr Hoodbhoy’s accusations of malice or ill-intent
Vice Chancellor Dr Adil Najam, who is currently in Austria, told The Express Tribune via email and on the phone that the administration was “deeply hurt” by the allegations.
“Dr Hoodbhoy, whose intellect and contributions are admirable, was on a contract which ends in December,” said the VC. “Dr Hoodbhoy is not being expelled, terminated or fired.”
Dr Najam said that a similar review procedure was adopted for all visiting faculty members at the institute.
The vice chancellor also denied Dr Hoodbhoy’s allegations that the course he had recently offered had resulted in ‘ideological differences’, “The decision not to renew the contract was not influenced by his choice of courses. The university encourages and welcomes new courses.”
“Such decisions are often not easy because they concern our colleagues who we care for,” said Dr Najam, “Anyone can agree or disagree with the decision but accusations of malice or ill-intent are incorrect and hurtful.”
Brigadier Ka Beta: meray samnay tum sab ho fail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWgPfW9IT5o
A word about the letting-go of Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy by LUMS for several reasons that can be found on the Internet, all of them glaringly spurious. Whilst I have immense respect for the founders of LUMS, particularly Syed Babar Ali who also set up the once-upon-a-time well-considered Ali Institute. I have an observation to make. If the Ali Institute could lose the most well-respected Dr AH Nayyar, why can’t LUMS lose Dr Hoodbhoy?
Kamran Shafi
http://tribune.com.pk/story/456797/divorce-for-all-the-right-reasons-/
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LoneLiberalPK:
The problem is not that they did not provide Hoodbhoy a reason for not renewing the contract. They did provide grounds for the refusal.
The issue is that these make absolutely no sense. Yes, saying that Hoodbhoy has a “primary mission to fix the world” is a ludicrous excuse. This leave us with the impression that they’re hiding the real reason out of fear of a negative reaction.
The administration of LUMS is, and has always been, very conservative. It’s by striking a balance with the more liberal faculty members, that we find the cultural diversity and social freedom that the campus is famous for.
This balance is what’s endangered. It’s ultimately the loss of LUMS itself, because a professor such Pervez Hoodbhoy is quite simply irreplaceable.
ET blogs
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The 20th century:
The fact is that Dr. Hoodbhoy has been teaching at LUMS for a fraction of the salary he could command elsewhere … and without the job security–i.e. tenure–that many universities outside of Pakistan would be only too happy to offer. His only conceivable motive is love of country and a sincere desire to help his countrymen.
Allowing this man’s contract to expire is yet another example of the general tendency in Pakistan to bite off one’s nose to spite one’s face. It is ludicrous to think that any respectable educational institution in the developed world would treat an academic of his stature in such a manner. Regardless of whatever post hoc rationalization LUMS serves up, I’m certain that Dr. Hoodbhoy will be in receipt of many lucrative offers and will get an opportunity to teach in an environment where he’ll be properly appreciated.
The loss will be to LUMS, its students and to Pakistan.
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Foqia Sadiq:
The truth of the matter is that the LUMS management does not have an adequate response to the questions being asked. The reason behind the public outcry at what is being called a procedural matter is that Pervez Hoodbhoy is known for his outstanding service to promote rational thought, enlightenment and peace and has been an unremitting fighter. “The only real education,” Andre Gide said, “comes from what goes counter to you.”
http://www.thefridaytimes.com/beta3/tft/article.php?issue=20121026&page=8.1
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Pakistan has an unfortunate track record of hounding dissenters from Dr Fatima Ali Jinnahbhoy to Dr Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy.
The distinguished physicist Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy recently found his contract as visiting faculty not renewed by the Lahore Institute of Management Sciences (LUMS). The litany of reasons apparently given by LUMS for not renewing/extending Dr Hoodbhoy’s contract include: “You (Pervez Hoodbhoy) have ‘too much on your plate’ and your primary mission ‘seems to be to fix the world’.” Never mind that Dr Hoodbhoy is the only Pakistani scientist named by the Foreign Policy magazine in its 100 most influential global thinkers list as he was also told that he is above 60 years of age. Interestingly, the man, whose personal and academic integrity is beyond reproach, was hired when he was already over 60 — an irony that an institution that claims to have restored the honour due the Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam decided to can the scientist whose book bears a foreword by none other than Dr Salam. The perception now is that Dr Hoodbhoy was terminated not because of any academic issues but for being an outspoken critic of the national security paradigm.
But given LUMS’ webpage (http://bit.ly/zjtWHy) about the Prof Abdus Salam Chair it had announced, asking for clarity may be a bit too much. The world knows that Dr Salam was persecuted in Pakistan for his Ahmadi Muslim religious beliefs. The webpage mentions Dr Salam not as the first Muslim scientist to receive the Nobel Prize but only as the first Pakistani. A matter of perspective perhaps but where scientists of Dr Salam and Dr Hoodbhoy’s calibre are hounded as a routine, LUMS certainly has to come clean in both matters.
PS: The harassment of veteran columnist, dearest friend and straight shooter Kamran Shafi by a land-grabbing mafia under official patronage in Lahore is another case in point.
Dr. Taqi
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012%5C10%5C25%5Cstory_25-10-2012_pg3_2
Lacking profoundness.
Riaz Malik is to LUBP what NFP is to Pakistan’s fake liberals. His satire is biting and funny. Mr Malik should ignore the usual pack of idiots who hate LUBP but still consider it necessary to spit their vitriol on its posts.
Mr Hoodbhoy’s dismissal is condemnable. It shows that even an esteemed intellectual like him can only express his opinion up to a certain limit, beyond which he becomes expendable. One blessing in disguise has been the coming out of LUMS and its VC as a conservative institution and shepherd, respectively.
Hahaha “I am Bi-Ghairat and swing both ways.” A new term!
The military establishment will now hire guyz that are fed on burger and pepsi and will insahllah protect pakistan from enemies. What a mess up through guyz like Adil najam spreading intellectual hypocriciez, wow great LUMS is doing a great job by posting itself as a rented institute of the military establishment.
Qais paida hoon teeri mehfil main yeh mumkin Nahi, ———————————Tang hai sehra teera, mehmal hai bey Laila teeri.—————————————Pakistani People still have to learn to tolerate diversity with patience. I knew exactly what will happen to Adil Najam and that’s what transpired. And Poor Hoodbhai with all his philosophical bearings is stranded in no man’s land. With all his good intentions he is left to ponder what ,why’ve and where’s his place.——————————————————————————————————-Aaftab taza maderay geeti sey paida hua,————————————————Aasman doobay Huay taroon ka matam kab tilk. Iqbal —————————