Comments on: Pakistan: Behind the Latest Protests (Updated) http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/15/pakistan_behind/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: dr amonymous http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/15/pakistan_behind/comment-page-3/#comment-234622 dr amonymous Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:30:04 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5684#comment-234622 <p><u>The two cows of Sepia Mutiny, a story in five parts:</u></p> <p>Hindutva commenters: "The cows are not cows, but were originally a mandir which was torn down by the ISI. Also, in case anyone wants to talk about anythiing else: 'pseudosecular" "double standards' 'that textbook is biased' '(we will repeat this as many times as necessary until we win on volume rather than merit of argument)"</p> <p>Valiant socialists and liberals: No, no, you're all wrong about the cows. You see, they're cows, not mandirs or hindus or muslims. What? No, I didn't say anything about the genocide in Bangladesh? What? no that's not what I said. No, all I was saying is that they were cows. What? No, will you stop interrupting me - I'm just saying they're f"£king cows. Oh f"£k off - you're just trolling and hijacking conversations!</p> <p>Secular liberals: Please give one cow to the Hindutvadis and the other one to everyone else. That way we can respect EVERYONE'S free speech rights, regardless of how incredibly aggravating their commments are, how much they violate the comments policy, or how much their way of speaking prevents anyone else from actually being able to conduct a conversation about something other than what the Hindutva trolls are interested in talking about. But no abusive commments please.</p> <p>Everyone else: Please just stfu. f"£k this - I'll just go to another thread where people won't talk about politics and we can talk about movies and books.</p> <p>Hindutva commenters: You see what doublestandards the pseudoseculars use! They don't even answer our questions directly! Just like Nehru and Aurengzeb and Manmohan Singh. Anyway, let's go give some money to VHP now and hope that someone stumbles across our idiotic comments and thinks they actually make sense because they've had no exposure to any South Asian history, politics, or other information.</p> <p>:)</p> <p>The moral: That, my friends, is how you hijack a blog. f"£k this - I'll just go to another thread where we can talk about movies and books...just hope they're not about Pakistan...</p> The two cows of Sepia Mutiny, a story in five parts:

Hindutva commenters: “The cows are not cows, but were originally a mandir which was torn down by the ISI. Also, in case anyone wants to talk about anythiing else: ‘pseudosecular” “double standards’ ‘that textbook is biased’ ‘(we will repeat this as many times as necessary until we win on volume rather than merit of argument)”

Valiant socialists and liberals: No, no, you’re all wrong about the cows. You see, they’re cows, not mandirs or hindus or muslims. What? No, I didn’t say anything about the genocide in Bangladesh? What? no that’s not what I said. No, all I was saying is that they were cows. What? No, will you stop interrupting me – I’m just saying they’re f”£king cows. Oh f”£k off – you’re just trolling and hijacking conversations!

Secular liberals: Please give one cow to the Hindutvadis and the other one to everyone else. That way we can respect EVERYONE’S free speech rights, regardless of how incredibly aggravating their commments are, how much they violate the comments policy, or how much their way of speaking prevents anyone else from actually being able to conduct a conversation about something other than what the Hindutva trolls are interested in talking about. But no abusive commments please.

Everyone else: Please just stfu. f”£k this – I’ll just go to another thread where people won’t talk about politics and we can talk about movies and books.

Hindutva commenters: You see what doublestandards the pseudoseculars use! They don’t even answer our questions directly! Just like Nehru and Aurengzeb and Manmohan Singh. Anyway, let’s go give some money to VHP now and hope that someone stumbles across our idiotic comments and thinks they actually make sense because they’ve had no exposure to any South Asian history, politics, or other information.

:)

The moral: That, my friends, is how you hijack a blog. f”£k this – I’ll just go to another thread where we can talk about movies and books…just hope they’re not about Pakistan…

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By: Saadia http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/15/pakistan_behind/comment-page-3/#comment-234621 Saadia Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:29:06 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5684#comment-234621 <p>sepia mutiny should really just change its name to saffron mutiny. i've been quite amused to see the soft hindutva nationalist rhetoric that parades for commentary on this site. in any case, we should not be surprised at the anti-Muslim, anti-Pakistan flavour of this site - after all, India is one of the Democracies Against Terror, that lovely confluence of neo-con, zionist and hindutva interests. and for those of you who need to know my religious affiliation so that you can jump down my throat, i'm a communist. but then the new global indian elite hates them some commies, too. that's cool - just don't pretend that you're on the side of righteousness.</p> sepia mutiny should really just change its name to saffron mutiny. i’ve been quite amused to see the soft hindutva nationalist rhetoric that parades for commentary on this site. in any case, we should not be surprised at the anti-Muslim, anti-Pakistan flavour of this site – after all, India is one of the Democracies Against Terror, that lovely confluence of neo-con, zionist and hindutva interests. and for those of you who need to know my religious affiliation so that you can jump down my throat, i’m a communist. but then the new global indian elite hates them some commies, too. that’s cool – just don’t pretend that you’re on the side of righteousness.

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By: Pagal_Aadmi_for_debauchery http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/15/pakistan_behind/comment-page-3/#comment-234620 Pagal_Aadmi_for_debauchery Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:23:10 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5684#comment-234620 <p><i>If that was to happen the people who would suffer from the backlash the most are my sikh uncles.</i></p> <p>But why would you feel sympathy for them? They are Punjabis after all. I mean, hello, they are PUNJABIS! They are probably misogynistic, not assimilated, beat up their kids, engage in vile cultural practices and other unspeakable things Punjabis like to engage in. I would have thought you would have said something like 'right on!'</p> If that was to happen the people who would suffer from the backlash the most are my sikh uncles.

But why would you feel sympathy for them? They are Punjabis after all. I mean, hello, they are PUNJABIS! They are probably misogynistic, not assimilated, beat up their kids, engage in vile cultural practices and other unspeakable things Punjabis like to engage in. I would have thought you would have said something like ‘right on!’

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By: Suki Dillon http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/15/pakistan_behind/comment-page-3/#comment-234619 Suki Dillon Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:15:54 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5684#comment-234619 <p><i>and there will be dark echoes for the Pakistani diaspora too, and in as much as British boys of Pakistani origin blowing themselves up and murdering innocent people in the name of the 'ummah' affects any of us with brown skin,</i></p> <p>The sad thing is there many young british pakistani men ready to do a repeat of the 7/7 London bombings and there actions will effect all of us. Even scary is that many of them could use there British passport and come to America and do something here. If that was to happen the people who would suffer from the backlash the most are my sikh uncles.</p> and there will be dark echoes for the Pakistani diaspora too, and in as much as British boys of Pakistani origin blowing themselves up and murdering innocent people in the name of the ‘ummah’ affects any of us with brown skin,

The sad thing is there many young british pakistani men ready to do a repeat of the 7/7 London bombings and there actions will effect all of us. Even scary is that many of them could use there British passport and come to America and do something here. If that was to happen the people who would suffer from the backlash the most are my sikh uncles.

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By: Sameer http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/15/pakistan_behind/comment-page-3/#comment-234618 Sameer Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:14:45 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5684#comment-234618 <p>Jammu and Kashmir documents - read for yourself: http://www.jammu-kashmir.com/documents/documents.html</p> <p>-Maharaja Hari Singh's Letter to Mountbatten -Accession Of Jammu And Kashmir State To India -Text of India's Indian Complaint to the Security Council, 1st January 1948 -Sheikh Abdullah's speech to the UN -U.N.RESOLUTION August 13, 1948 -Resolution on Assurances adopted by U.N. Commission for India and Pakistan(UNCIP) 1948 -Article 370 of the Indian Constitution -Excerpts from Sheikh Abdullah's Opening Address to the J&K Constituent Assembly -The Tashkent declaration 10th February 1966 -The Kashmir Accord 13 Nov 1974 -Simla Agreement, 2 July 1972</p> Jammu and Kashmir documents – read for yourself: http://www.jammu-kashmir.com/documents/documents.html

-Maharaja Hari Singh’s Letter to Mountbatten -Accession Of Jammu And Kashmir State To India -Text of India’s Indian Complaint to the Security Council, 1st January 1948 -Sheikh Abdullah’s speech to the UN -U.N.RESOLUTION August 13, 1948 -Resolution on Assurances adopted by U.N. Commission for India and Pakistan(UNCIP) 1948 -Article 370 of the Indian Constitution -Excerpts from Sheikh Abdullah’s Opening Address to the J&K Constituent Assembly -The Tashkent declaration 10th February 1966 -The Kashmir Accord 13 Nov 1974 -Simla Agreement, 2 July 1972

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By: rob http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/15/pakistan_behind/comment-page-3/#comment-234617 rob Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:11:42 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5684#comment-234617 <blockquote>137 · Suki Dillon</blockquote> <p>Suki--you seriously should make a blog for yourself--I would read it (and I'm sure I'm not the only one)! I felt really icky after going to Vancouver--you could help me get over that!!</p> 137 · Suki Dillon

Suki–you seriously should make a blog for yourself–I would read it (and I’m sure I’m not the only one)! I felt really icky after going to Vancouver–you could help me get over that!!

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By: suresh http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/15/pakistan_behind/comment-page-3/#comment-234616 suresh Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:07:25 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5684#comment-234616 <p>Paging SM Intern - please close this thread and spare us. It appears that just the word "Pakistan" ["India"] is sufficient to trigger a Pavlov-like response (complete with the saliva) in some Indian [Pakistani] bloggers...</p> Paging SM Intern – please close this thread and spare us. It appears that just the word “Pakistan” ["India"] is sufficient to trigger a Pavlov-like response (complete with the saliva) in some Indian [Pakistani] bloggers…

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By: rob http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/15/pakistan_behind/comment-page-3/#comment-234613 rob Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:03:35 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5684#comment-234613 <blockquote>134 · mouth breather</blockquote> <p>Why do you need a new handle for each post? And, by being smug for not being a "mouth breather" you, uhh--reveal all too much about your cramped, sorry and small little ambitions.</p> <p>Gilani's reinstatement of Chaudhry was nimble--will be interesting to see how long he can keep up the balancing act!!</p> 134 · mouth breather

Why do you need a new handle for each post? And, by being smug for not being a “mouth breather” you, uhh–reveal all too much about your cramped, sorry and small little ambitions.

Gilani’s reinstatement of Chaudhry was nimble–will be interesting to see how long he can keep up the balancing act!!

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By: Suki Dillon http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/15/pakistan_behind/comment-page-3/#comment-234611 Suki Dillon Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:59:24 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5684#comment-234611 <p><i>or if they are really lucky and hit the jackpot and get an arranged marriage to a girl cousin settled in the UK.</i></p> <p>For some reason, I don't think that these young pakistani girls in the UK feel the same way.</p> or if they are really lucky and hit the jackpot and get an arranged marriage to a girl cousin settled in the UK.

For some reason, I don’t think that these young pakistani girls in the UK feel the same way.

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By: Brown http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/03/15/pakistan_behind/comment-page-3/#comment-234610 Brown Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:58:01 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5684#comment-234610 <blockquote>So Canada should accede to the US, the two Koreas should join Japan, and Taiwan should join mainland China too?</blockquote> <p>Why not?</p> <p>One Love One World</p> So Canada should accede to the US, the two Koreas should join Japan, and Taiwan should join mainland China too?

Why not?

One Love One World

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