Zaffar Abbas, Dawn’s editor or chief of Shia Ghetto Police?
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In the last week, DAWN has published atleast 2 articles/editorials that dishonestly obscure the carnage faced by the Shia Muslims across the lenght and breadth of Pakistan.
Last month, Huma Yusuf’s dishonest and lazy articulation was deconstructed here. Similarly, just a few days ago, Naziha Syed Ali wrote similar rubbish which dishonestly presented the carnage against Shias as symmetric violence between Sunnis and Shias. Nothing is further from the truth and it is both disappointing and troubling to see media dishonesty on this topic.
Dawn’s editorial today is the latest article in Dawn’s drive to twist and misrepresent Shia genocide in Pakistan. Here is a relevant excerpt:
AS reported in this paper on Friday, police officials believe that in Karachi, gangs of four to five men usually carry out targeted sectarian killings without any planning or formal instructions from major sectarian outfits. The rise in this trend of communal vigilantism is cause for concern, especially considering the extent of sectarianism in this country. Police officials say that Sunni sectarian groups such as the Sipah-i-Sahaba/Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat and its deadly offshoot Lashkar-i-Jhangvi have begun to target ordinary members of the Shia community, whereas in earlier decades mostly Shia professionals and scholars were killed. Conversely, Shia militants, apparently working under the banner of Sipah-i-Muhammad, have concentrated their attacks on SSP activists. Until 2008, most victims of sectarian violence in Karachi were Shia; however, as the report notes, the past two years have witnessed an increasing number of SSP workers killed, indicating that Shia militants have begun to strike back. As the state has failed to punish sectarian killers, this is the natural outcome.
This dishonest drivel not only obscures the violence against Shias by ISI-backed Jihadist groups, it also obscures the role of these Jihadists in the massacre and oppresion of Ahmadis, Sunnis (Brehvis), Christians, Hindus, Pashtuns etc. It also attributes the Shia genocide to the majority of moderate Sunnis who have already rejected and dissociated from Pakistan army backed Jihadip-sectarian terrorists.
There is a common thread of dishonesty in the recent articles by DAWN:
1. Limiting the attention to Karachi and completely ignoring the large scale massacres of Shia Mulims over the rest of Pakistan;
2. Wiping out the role of an ISI-supported ethno-fascist party (MQM) which has actively prevented the Shias from mobilizing peaceful protests;
3. In most instances, obscuring the voice of the victims;
4. Obscuring the role of the pro-Jihadist Islamo-fascist judiciary which has released self-confessed mass murderers who boast about killing Shias;
5. Obscuring the fact that after every Shia massacre, it is Shia youth who are picked up by the law enforcement agencies;
6. Obscuring the fact that Shia lawyers who strive to prove the innocense of illegally detained Shia youth have themselves been targetted on several occassions.
Under Zafar Abbas, brother of ISPR General Athar Abbas, DAWN has continued its downward slide in terms of journalistic ethics and standards and today, barring the odd exception, it can be described as an ISPR mouthpiece.
Founded by the Shia Jinnah and owned by a Shia business family for much of its times, DAWN has printed the most anti-Shia articles in the recent past. For Pakistan’s varied Shia communities, a Shia sellout like Zaffar Abbas is no different from those few Jews who collaborated with Nazis in the genocide of their own people. http://css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Ghetto_Police
Shame on you DAWN. With a rag like yours, is it any wonder that a few Shia youth have taken to vigilantism to protect themselves from total destruction….
Jewish Ghetto Police also known as the Jewish Police Service and referred to by the Jews as the Jewish Police, were the auxiliary police units organized in the Jewish ghettos of Europe by local Judenrat councils under orders of occupying German Nazis.
Members of the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst did not have official uniforms, often wearing just an identifying armband and a badge, and were not allowed to carry firearms. They were used by the Germans primarily for securing the deportation of other Jews to the concentration camps.
Members of Shia Ghetto Police in Pakistani media:
Ejaz Haider
Zaffar Abbas
Azhar Abbas
Ather Abbas
Nasim Zehra
Mushahid Hussain
Feisal Naqvi
Irfan Hussain
Shakir Hussain
Abbas Nasir
etc
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Sectarian vigilantesFrom the Newspaper | Editorial | 20th March, 2012
AS reported in this paper on Friday, police officials believe that in Karachi, gangs of four to five men usually carry out targeted sectarian killings without any planning or formal instructions from major sectarian outfits. The rise in this trend of communal vigilantism is cause for concern, especially considering the extent of sectarianism in this country. Police officials say that Sunni sectarian groups such as the Sipah-i-Sahaba/Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat and its deadly offshoot Lashkar-i-Jhangvi have begun to target ordinary members of the Shia community, whereas in earlier decades mostly Shia professionals and scholars were killed. Conversely, Shia militants, apparently working under the banner of Sipah-i-Muhammad, have concentrated their attacks on SSP activists. Until 2008, most victims of sectarian violence in Karachi were Shia; however, as the report notes, the past two years have witnessed an increasing number of SSP workers killed, indicating that Shia militants have begun to strike back.
As the state has failed to punish sectarian killers, this is the natural outcome. Sectarian demagogues — often with blood on their hands — have been set free by the courts due to ‘lack of evidence’. This perhaps results from the fear of consequences of convicting a terrorist, as well as shoddy investigation methods. The state — particularly the law-enforcement and intelligence apparatus — is squarely responsible for letting the situation reach such alarming proportions. Justice has not been done, which has opened the door for sectarian operators who are often more radical than organised sectarian outfits. Perhaps there is still a small window of opportunity for the state to shake off its slumber and clamp down on sectarian groups by demolishing their infrastructure, cutting off their funding and prosecuting and punishing sectarian killers. The million-dollar question, of course, is whether the state has the courage and will to do this.
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/20/sectarian-vigilantes.html
Long live, false neutrality
Dishonest article on LUBP as usual.
There is no Shiite genocide in Pakistan. Why don’t you write on thousands of Sunnis (Sunni Baloch, Sunni Punjabis, Sunni Ahmadis etc) being killed by RAW-CIA?
Good piece.Also read this article:
The untold story of Shia Muslims in Pakistan: http://theterrorland.blogspot.com/2011/12/untold-story-of-shia-muslims-in.html
I fully agree with the viewes expressed by the writer in this article. he right;y points out the two articles bu Huma Yousaf. and Nazieh Ali in the Dawn that they contained rubbish. Th e standard of the newspaper has declined in the recent years. The mateial published in the paper is usually sub- standard. I do not know how this sort of material gets published.is it done rtp encorage new writers.
The editorial board hasfailed to moderate the content of these articles.
efese are not wotyh the effort to publish them and tax tge readers to actually read them.
JAVAID BASHIR
LAHORE
The articles contain poison againsyt Shiia Community. These article are simply RUBBISH and disposed off in waste basket kept underneath the desk of the editor. Not every other article published by them. The commemts go through beeline to be moderated and then either rejected or published in the Dawn paper.
I think we should apply the same yard stick to these letters too.
The editorial board is under no ob;igation to fit in all sorts of material. I would recommend strict srutiny before publishing such material in the newspaper.
Javaid Bashir
LAHORE
I would however prefer to re-title that outstanding punch line to Muslim Ghetto Police. This police is worldwide. And especially abundant among the Pakistani academia, thinktanks, NGOs, liberal blogs, conservative blogs, ISI and intelligence run blogs, and the general educated English enabled silent majority middle class, all infected with the Plague of Occidentosis.
(Download and read this book for it truly captures the Pakistani liberated public mind today even though it was written to capture the Iran’s liberated public mind of the 1950s and 1960s — thanks to the one Pakistani blogger I am distinctly aware of who is not infected by this virus, nota at fkpolitics.wordpress.com, who many years ago pointed out this seminal study By JALAL AL-I AHMAD, Translated by R Campbell, Introduction by Hamid Algar, written 1961 in Iran and banned until published after the Iranian Revolution. Mizan Press 1984; it can also be downloaded from my website tinyurl.com/Occidentosis-pdf ).
But first, really thank you for this apt reminder with the above caveat: “Jewish Ghetto Police also known as the Jewish Police Service and referred to by the Jews as the Jewish Police, were the auxiliary police units organized in the Jewish ghettos of Europe by local Judenrat councils under orders of occupying German Nazis. Jewish Ghetto Police also known as the Jewish Police Service and referred to by the Jews as the Jewish Police, were the auxiliary police units organized in the Jewish ghettos of Europe by local Judenrat councils under orders of occupying German Nazis. Members of the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst did not have official uniforms, often wearing just an identifying armband and a badge, and were not allowed to carry firearms. They were used by the Germans primarily for securing the deportation of other Jews to the concentration camps. Members of Shia Ghetto Police in Pakistani media: …”
The mindset of these people, the Muslim Ghetto Police, has hitherto been classified as House Niggers for their self-serving subservient psychology to the massa class ( tinyurl.com/THE-NIGGERS-OF-PAKISTAN ) , and I think perhaps the above additional classification captures the actual behavior of this liberated class exhibiting that underlying pernicious psychology most aptly!
This brand of psychology, the house nigger, unfortunately exists among all peoples — the house nigger is ubiquitous today among the Asiatics. So it is only to be expected that every ethnicity, sect, tribe, caste and creed among every people in every nation will have their own sub-chapter of this breed.
They all presuppose in their common and uncommon narrations the massa’s core axioms, the white man’s core truths, as self-evident and beyond question. The house nigger is psychologically unable to come out of that mindset, and therefore their narrow articulation of views particular to their local situation continually carries that often unstated axiom as their presupposition.
Any and all narratives emanating from their pen, their mind, and their speech, are built upon those massa’s core axioms.
Shias are only the latest deadly casualty of imperial carnage conducted by empire’s proxy assets, the pirates, and this beleaguered peoples obviously gravitate to lamenting their own dead as per any socialization and tribal binding, while strictly kept in check as to their publicly proclaimed narratives by their own ethnic Ghetto Police – for such though-policing has the most impact. The house niggers intuitively understand their own respective field nigger brethren’s psychology all too well — even if they don’t their own — especially if they are the super learned kind, and therefore, can most capably articulate psy-ops and propaganda handed to them by the Mighty Wurlitzer often times remaining quite innocently unaware of their own psychology that moves them to this calumny. This is not mere pop psychology rubbish. See full analysis in my paper tinyurl.com/MightyWurlitzer
Sunnis are the same. One can easily make a list of the Sunni thought police, their Ghetto Police which keeps them in line.
Mullahs in both sects also serve that function.
And the atheists are no different, nor are the secular humanist.
Among all of them are many of my own friends and colleagues, even co-alums who have studied in America’s best Ivy Leagues — just more “likkha parrha jahils”, economic and science widgets at best, working directly for the massa in the worst, but mostly as useful idiots. Not one of them can rise to debate a single field nigger who is beyond their social and thought control.
I think one has to transcend the shia – sunni discourse which has been crafted deliberately, and focus on the core axioms which are the presumed gospel truths in these narratives.
Who is the enemy?
I don’t think Pakistanis should be thinking of themselves as shias and sunnis — at this time, but as Muslims first, and Pakistanis, with common psychology which only varies with socialization and religiosity only minimally, and having common enemies.
To understand that, I take a leaf out of salem-news’ iconic activist author Ken O’Keefe’s book: truth, justice, and peace —- in that order.
To learn the truth, one minimally has to become cognizant of one’s own socialization and political biases, one’s own psychology, all of which create the subversive presuppositions upon which our worldviews are unwittingly based, and which consequently inhibit us from reaching and unraveling the core truths which come wrapped in layers and layers of deceptive and self-serving, often self-deluding narratives.
A great example is the lame article on LUBP: A review of PPP government’s 5-year performance in Pakistan 2008-2013 – by Abdul Nishapuri ( criticalppp.com/archives/262489 ), quoting from PPP public relations glossy brochures to brazenbly deny in the best mold of partisan incestuous self-reinforcement, what every Pakistani knows and feels every fcking day they come back home alive, and there too amidst constant load shedding, water shortage, gas shortage, and armed guards at the gate: that we as a Pakistani people are more fcked today in our nation run by two-bit house nigger elites than we ever were in our naiton’s sexagenarian history, and regardless of which asshole comes to power, we will stay on the same curve of descent.
This election ferver and hoopla — the natural entertainment and opiate of the elite and laity alike to give them the illusion of self-empowerment — being witnessed among the learned is a travesty in this day and age. It continually blinds us to reality.
These psychological cataracts, as MLK put it, have to be overcome — and is clearly visible in the lame article referenced above , and in many more like that written by useful idiots who in essence have become the voice of the co-opted house nigger class in Pakistan who don’t get to have a say in the mainstream. A class which transcends economic, racial, ethnic, and sectarian barriers.
How much more self-deluded can people become?
Is it possible to break out of that mindset?
Here is how Malcolm X described that mindset:
‘Today’s Uncle Tom doesn’t wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He’s usually well-dressed and well-educated. He’s often the personification of culture and refinement. The twentieth-century Uncle Thomas sometimes speaks with a Yale or Harvard accent. Sometimes he is known as Professor, Doctor, Judge, and Reverend, even Right Reverend Doctor. This twentieth-century Uncle Thomas is a professional Negro … by that I mean his profession is being a Negro for the white man.’ — (Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1964, 1999 hardcover edition, Chapter Black Muslims, page 265)
and this is how MLK Jr. captured it:
‘The white establishment is skilled in flattering and cultivating emerging leaders. It presses its own image on them and finally, from imitation of manners, dress, and style of living, a deeper strain of corruption develops. This kind of Negro leader acquires the white man’s contempt for the ordinary Negro. He is often more at home with the middle-class white than he is among his own people. His language changes, his location changes, his income changes, and ultimately he changes from the representative of the Negro to the white man into the white man’s representative to the Negro. The tragedy is that too often he does not recognize what has happened to him.’ — (Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope, page 307)
We, as the Pakistani people, continually look to America, and to the West, for the solutions to our problem. Democracy after all, is their panacea inflicted upon the world in the name of self-empowerment — while they manufacture and choose the power-nexus from which we are obliged to choose the front faces. But we strangely also remain steadfast in not learning from their contribution to social sciences and humanities, to political theory and the Machiavellian mechanisms for inducing the very same psychological cataracts which their own civil rights leaders finally broke through.
No — that is way too much intellectual vitamins to swallow for the colonized mind — we will just quote from the massa’s thinktanks and the New York Times.
We will just mirror their narratives.
We will just echo their axioms.
And the range of our divergence from the mainstream narratives and our own thought police, our respective Ghetto police, will remain bounded by the axioms of the white man’s burden ( humanbeingsfirst.wordpress.com/white-mans-burden/ )
I say — let’s stop carrying that fcking burden on our own backs.
Begin by breaking that language barrier inflicted upon us.
No more shia and sunni — Muslim issues, and Pakistan issues, and the common issues being inflicted upon us as the untermenschen!
Thank you.
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Zaffar Abbas, Dawn’s editor or chief of Shia Ghetto Police?
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