When you violate someone, and have your way despite their refusal it is termed rape.
When you do the same to a nation, what is it? I call it RAPE too.
Please speak out....
Tell me what you think....
Banning the news and promulgating Martial law is wrong!
If the creators of our nation like the Quaid could speak up about injustice why won't we...
If we see wrong and cannot act against it, we must speak against it.
You may take away our freedom of democracy, you may ban the news, you may lock us behind your version of an iron curtain, but... Mr. Musharraf...
Can you stop us thinking?Can you stop us knowing what is right?
Can you stop us speaking up?
You may arrest us if we protest, you may threaten and by brute force, control.... but that still will not make you RIGHT!
All is takes is to refuse to be controlled.
And the controller has no control over you.
To thrive you need to be free.
Free the nation.
Restore democracy.
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I have been an avid reader of your blog ever since i found about it.
And this blog has given me the pleasure of reading which is so extinct now days.
I've chuckled at your experiences.some times i've laughed and mostly thought that hey that kinda describes me too
But your todays post has moistened my eyes,seeing that Pakistanis abroad are worried about our country as we are,seeing that they are so considerate about us,about our future.And most of all giving us the hope that we are not alone.
For it is in such crisis that we need to be united against the storm of oppression,that threatens to destroy our Nations's integrity.
Measures like banning the News channel,Even dish antennas ( which i am pleased to say that our pakistani brothers were quick in accumulating a fair stock ),won't get us blindfolded,they wont hide the truth,they wont make this act 'unavoidable'.No matter how much you put your machinery,your resources,your uniform to work on it.
It is by such acts that we know that days of oppression are numbered.
Our Nation has gone through great challenges...
Let it be one of so.
Keep up the good work
May God be with you.
May God be with all of Us
Love
Mannan
..when you violate someone who does not participate(granted!) but does not refuse either and just lays there and allows the same violation over and over, because a) they cannot be bothered b) out of self preservation; c)helplessness d) any or all of the above, is it still called "rape"?
"All is takes is to refuse to be controlled."
..thats all it takes - 100% agreed! but what it takes to refuse is another question altogether.
Thanks for speaking up though -
"If we see wrong and cannot act against it, we must speak against it."
Well said! and I speak thus not because I don't love my country but because I do.... and it hurts...
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/we-oppose-emergency-in-pakistan.html
Sign the petition to help the process....
I was touched by the sincerity in Mannan's post.This post is primarily aimed at you, mannan, and others in Pakistan and I am sharing an experience from this very morning.
I am a Pakistani living in Canada and my Grade 4 daughter's school had a Remembrance Day Assembly to honour Canadian Veterans.
All these bright and beautiful kids were singing a song "peace to the world" and in between they'd pause to single out places in turmoil in the world currently - so it would be like "to peace in Afghanistan! - to peace in Sudan!) and lo and behold the next one is "to peace in Pakistan!" I could not hold back the tears.
I think that this time around Pakistanis everywhere are hurt, indignant and wanting to speak out.
The kids ended with the famous Bob Dylan song "Blowing in the wind"...here are the lyrics:
How many roads must a man walk down
Before they call him a man
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand
How many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they are forever banned
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind
How many years must a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea
How many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free
How many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind
How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky
How many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry
How many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind
Thank you so much curious...
I know how much the hearts of our Pakistani brothers abroad ache when they see all this.
But believe me its more despairing to us here in Pakistan,because here we are sitting in the eye of the storm and can't do anything about it.
Our lips have been sealed,our rights snatched,our liberty plundered and most of all we have been left into chasms of hopelessness.
But my fellow students have stood up to the challenge,they've used every means available to them to shout out that THIS IS INJUSTICE.
Now at least everyone knows what he has lost,what he should struggle for,now every one can decide on his or her consciousness.
It is time we need the true support of every conscious soul on this planet.
Nation do not have the fate lines on their hands
Because People etch them with their own blood.
Dear s.
What it takes to refuse is courage. That and conviction. You must believe. I believe that my act of speaking up against this outrage will make a difference. I believe that if I blog about it, it makes a difference. I believe that all the articles that I have sent to the newspapers... and who have published them matter.
And my dear s. Most of all I believe that you believe too! And I believe that you care. And I am strengthened by it. Be strengthened by me too and do not give up. We may be brought down. But we will go down fighting.
Stay strong. For those who have no one... they have God. Though they may look like they stand alone... 'tis He who holds them up. I have always believed this and always will. My head never bows before anyone but God. What He wills will be, and before His will, will we surrender. Musharraf is but a man.
Mannan....
I am so proud of you! You have a quality about you of which greatness is made. You feel for your country. I am so moved by the comments that both you and s. have left. You echo my souls pain with your words.
I have never stood by and let injustice happen without doing something. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it did not. The point was I acted. And one action motivates another and another and another.... and soon where there was one speaking out there are 10, 100, 1000....
You and I are the 1. together we make the 10s.... and inshaallah the 100s and the 1000s.
The point is we are not simply accepting. We are acting. Every little bit counts, and every little bit makes you stronger to do a bit more than the first time. Never sit back and "just take it". Always do something...anything.... no matter how small. It always gets bigger!
You make me believe all over again!
The thing is,even if my actions don't
have any effect on anything,I'd still have satisfied my conscience.
At least i did something,i wasn't among the silent majority that lets everything happen to them because they think their calm lives are not stirred in the least...
At least after 10-11 years if my children ask me what i did in all that,i wont be speechless.
And the credit goes to you Shahnaz for rekindling our spirit.
All is not lost......
Manan,
...1 to 10 to 100....
You stood by me and more will stand by you.
You honor me greatly and I hope I may deserve it one day.
"The thing is,even if my actions don't have any effect on anything, I'd still have satisfied my conscience"
....love you for that, Mannan!
Quaid-e-Azam is reported to have said: when I meet my Creator I want Him to say: "Well done! Mr. Jinnah"
Call it Jinnah's morals or Iqbal's Khuddi or Gandhi's lifelong stand against inaction: it all boils down to what you are saying: we have to be true to our "inner voice"....the hell with the rest!
Yes,conscience is everything.
when dictators rule,it the foremost of their priorities to quell down the people's conscience.They try to make them realize that the Government
affairs are too tedious for our tiny little minds.
It'd have been successful 20 years ago but now thanks to the media revolution every person knows what is happening now.
And thank you Shahnaaz and curious,The credit goes to you.
Not because I'm one of your top notch fans but you (all the pakistanis abroad) people had made me realize that if you people;sitting thousands of miles away from Pakistan;living a (comparably) comfortable life;totally americanized ( from a layman's point of view ),if you can shout out for your country,plan rallies,sign petitions and protest on the calamity that has befallen us then what right do we have here to keep our couches warm,pretending not to hear,or think,or listen to what is happening right on our doorsteps...
It is that what has moved me so much because technically your rights haven't been usurped,your freedom of speech is not snatched.
You are still free to do what ever you want to.You still have an excuse to do nothing,you can easily turn your backs on us,humming to your own tunes,but still...
You are worrying and protesting for us.You people still haven't broken the bond that connects all of us into a single body....
I am Proud of Pakistan and I'm proud of its people.
Thank you to everyone whose hearts still beat with Pakistan,who share its joys and feel its pain.
We have always been in a turmoil, be it pre-independence period or post-independence. We didnt respected time and were not respected by time consequently.
Its high time for our nation as a whole to identify the root cause of accidents we face every now and then. Why are we so weak and vulnerable that people like Mush entrap us in the name of religion & "Pakistan first"? Our only issue can be summed up as:
fools are always sure of themselves and wiser ones are always full of doubts.
Why are we always optimistic? Each regime gains power by uprooting the previous one. We welcome them warmly expecting them to be our savior. History gets repeated and soon we start hating them. Then someone else, of their sort, replaces them. This recursion goes on. We must put this cycle to an end. The need of the hour is just to start thinking the way a patriot should. This shall automatically make us active and our homeland shall be safe in no time.
Sure our country is in turmoil whether it was military regimes or the latest rape of democracy in the shape of the assassination of BB. I was so much in the favour of her transition towards democracy it wasn't perfect but that's how it works here. Because we must not beat the drum of western principles of democracy in our country. We need to handle things differently according to the socio-politcal environment of the state and its citizens. Its time to get realistic about our needs and the way we need to govern ourself and I think election is the best way to look ahead and its best for us to revalueate our foreign and domestic policies if we need to put this country back on right track.
What we lack presently is the balance between 4 pillars of State (insituations) and our establishment. We need proper assessment and long term affects of our decisions which takes place in Islamabad and GHQ. And only blaming military for things done in the past or in the future won't help as well.
Sure our country is in turmoil whether it was military regimes or the latest rape of democracy in the shape of the assassination of BB. I was so much in the favour of her transition towards democracy it wasn't perfect but that's how it works here. Because we must not beat the drum of western principles of democracy in our country. We need to handle things differently according to the socio-politcal environment of the state and its citizens. Its time to get realistic about our needs and the way we need to govern ourself and I think election is the best way to look ahead and its best for us to revalueate our foreign and domestic policies if we need to put this country back on right track. What we lack presently is the balance between 4 pillars of State (insituations) and our establishment. We need proper assessment and long term affects of our decisions which takes place in Islamabad and GHQ. And only blaming military for things done in the past or in the future won't help as well.
I have been reading your blog now for almost a week, and I must say you really feel and honestly care about Pakistan, as all our youth do too. But you got a really nice way of expressing your feelings in your blog.
"Rape of Pakistan" truly represent all our feeling, but don't you feel anything about our democratic system now, what you feel the way our democratic setup run these days, same old corrupt people are in...is this kind of democracy we deserve or dream of.
keep on writing ... tc
i love my country and never under any circumstances want it to be broken. But what do you guys say about the situation after the so called DEMOCRACY has been restored?
of all your work.. maybe the first time i just couldnt read it through till the end.. n i guess you would know why.. ahem ahem.. drum roll... yes i am a musharraf supporter.. haha
And it can be paraphrased?
Amazing website! Continue the useful posts.
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Why speechless?
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