An Iqbalian Vision for a New World
Friday, November 20, 2009
Here's a bit of Javidnama.
There is a world stil lost in our hearts,
A world that still waits for the call or 'Rise!'
A world without distinctions of blood and colour,
Where evening shines brighter
Than morning in the West;
A world purged of sultan and slave,
Boundless as a beleiver's heart;
A glorious world, which had its seed cast,
Into 'Umar's soul by a single look;
An eternal world, but one whose events are always new,
Ever new fruit of its master principles;
Within, it is not afflicted with change,
But outward change is occurring every moment.
See, that world is inside you!
I will tell you what its master principles are...
(Trans. Mustansir Mir)
posted by Fugstar @ Friday, November 20, 2009,
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EcoNaivety
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Probably a temporary state, but i feel that certain publics are being rendered thus by the lifeless technocracy that has set in following neoliberal appropriation of environmental values specifically in the mitigation of human induced Climate Change.
Can you hear it?
Mrs Jones please turn of the light to save the environment (money), I shall just build a coal power station over your mothers grave, ok?
New parkings charges are now in place in the university, we are letting a private company run the operation because we care about the environment.
Look at me, im an environmental consultancy sucking off the teat of local government funding streams, would you like a keyring.
I am an ecocrapitalist. I have decided to crade imaginary carbon in order to exploit the current policy space for every last grain of hope it might have left.
I can always hear it.
Maybe it was the Stern Report, maybe its just us, maybe its just the trappings of our times and powerlessness.
EcoNaivety is stuck in linearity and must get out. It builds a wall of carbon kajoosity around potentially creative relationships with each other. Dont get me wrong, accountancy has its place. Along with Family, Islah, Ummah and Baraka.
I suppose this was what we were getting at all those years ago with the banner
'Let's not let our postindustrial guilt suffocate our wanderlust'
Instead of regarding humankind as a permenant blight upon the face of the earth, we might conceive of ourselves as a potentially custodial, sympathetic constellation of forces. This is not a new revelation.
posted by Fugstar @ Tuesday, November 17, 2009,
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Why are you taking it out on BROWN, it was you son's choice and the evil Bliar's leadership wot got him killed.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
These days the British public are being force fed armed forces pride and trained against thought crimes. Every billboard tries to explain the virtues of wearing a poppy with a backdrop of
The most wise and courageous thing to do would be to withdraw the limp phallus of british state terror from the middle east and central asian areas. Its made things worse. You can't polish a turd, even when its made with the congealed blood of tens of thousands of Asians and a few hundred white people.
The Prime Minister writes a letter to the mother of a soldier killed recently. What does she go and do?.... scream straight to the tabloids over his spelling. Meanwhile the tabloids get their kicks out of playing up the Prime Minister's sight problems. What grace and class.
Blue washed right, left and center.
Pathetic really.
Get them out .
Bring them home.
Stop thinking that you are the solution, you're not.
posted by Fugstar @ Tuesday, November 10, 2009,
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Al Muhajirun Spinoff vs British Muslims for Secular Democracy Deathmatch this saturday
Monday, October 26, 2009
Deep inside the sellout ghetto.
"Yaar, what shall we do yaar? that unwashed anjem choudhury and droogs are trying to bring the Sharia to Britain by textspeak, look..."
cum 2 hour demo islam4u: Shariah in the UK of A. send ths txt to all your brothers and sisters in islam
please please pretty please x x x x x
"Whats new yaar? save for the appeal to the 12 year old stupid girl sector?"
"I'll tell you whats new, now that the BNP got chastised by the british middleocracy, its up to us, as spokespeople for the Mourgoisie, to reciprocate to increase our visibility"
"Yes i was looking to acquire some new stationary the other day, So what shall we do? I wanted to go shopping that day"
"I don't know yaar, but you know what I do whenever I dont know what to do?"
"Ah yes, imagine like we imagine a white person imagines"
"Easy, theres a website for this"
2 hourse later.
"So that was how you came up with our Acronym?"
"Yes yaar, would you like a beer?"
"So how comes all the white liberals i talk to laugh us off as if we are some sex toy vendor?"
PHONE RINGS
"So the quilliam chaps are on the line, some sleazy sounding fella. They'd want in on this, actually I bet they'll actually end up with the credit, press coverage because we are such fat losers boohoohoo."
10 hours later
"Wait a second MajEd, I hear you but fail to see how all this soas medieval BS is really going to play with middle england, I mean its ok for you, we actually have to make sense. No you cant use that in your thesis."
"Another long one ey?"
PHONE RINGS
"Its Peter Tatchell"
posted by Fugstar @ Monday, October 26, 2009,
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Awami Monkeys ban HT
Saturday, October 24, 2009
The Bangladesh Awami League are the most idiotic excuse for a political party and a crying shame on the face of their captive Bangladeshis. They should be finally, and permanently, discredited, and abandoned.
Why the angst?
Well they have just banned Hizbut Tahrir. Why?
For campus-centric non-violent, non-criminal political activity.
To be a political actor worthy of a future in Bangladesh you must sign up to some bastardised political mythology, kill people, beg from foreigners, promote your minions wherever they might be, lie about your history and have a rather poor crude aesthetic.
I think the secularist problem was that as soon as a few people with a little status and education from the west, who had thought for a while about political Islam came to the country without political baggage, their house of cards fell down. It should be interpreted as a shot in the arm for nonsecular political forces.
You see its mainly the children of the 71ers who get into HTism. Their political heritages have been bloodwashed.
posted by Fugstar @ Saturday, October 24, 2009,
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We are not waving, we're drowning.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
A sad scenario for you tonight, I heard two tales of great similitude.
Imagine.
A British Council in Bangladesh which seeks to exploit perceptions of education to earn money by promoting bad education in the UK.
Brave, even foolhardy young people in Bangladesh who see the UK education option favourably to others, and write off warnings as 'jealousy'.
Thousands of 'kids' from desh in the UK this year who are unemployed and cannot afford to continue or return home.
Some of whom have died.
:-(
posted by Fugstar @ Thursday, October 22, 2009,
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Just build the blumin road you slow coaches!
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
I just read aNewAge story about an ADB study over the costs and benefits of Bangladesh joining the Asian Highway. Here are some incomplete thoughts.
As if a linearly imprisoned, deterministic and economistic donor-driven study will ever do anything for national mojo? The BNP government sat on this and wasted it. The Awami league are going around with a begging bowl.
Lets talk about the 'wealthy and middle class bangladeshis' who stand to immediately and tangiably gain most from this.
Our national birthing occured in two steps, each one more parochialising and provincialising than the previous one. Appeals to Muslim and Bengal identity weren't really culturally productive, but political postures. Yet today with immigration, colonised curriculums and remittance, the Deshi wanna-bourgioise is better connecting to serving the technocratic interests of Anglosaxonia and the least interesting bits of Arabistan. It is also trapped by the Indian nation state and cowers to it on some important issues. Lets add some other countries to the mix. Let us have some partners.
Making it easy to reach other places by road would allow roots to grow into asia and broaden the outlook of this class of people. Perhaps.
posted by Fugstar @ Tuesday, September 29, 2009,
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The Real Iranian Question
Why has not Iran souped up its oil refining capacity in the many years that it has had to do so?
Given so many years of sanctions, the imbalance between overseas mojo projection and internal custodianship of key internal challenges is more stark than ever. It seems very irresponsible from my armchair. Semi-autonomous technological development in the majority world is difficult at the best of times, you need long term political support, financial allies and technical expertise. Will, skill and the ability to foot the bill. Yet look at the technological direction.
Though of course, I don't know even have a smidgeon of the full picture in front of me. Perhaps its easier to make longish range surface to surface missiles of questionable accuracy than the surface to air variety that might have protected Iraq and Afghanistan. Perhaps pre-existing sanctions, and nefarious skullduggery that has complemented them, have indeed thwarted Iranian refinery making attempts.
But come on guys. WILL. Who battled so hard against drugs coming in through Afghanistan for so long? Who united Islamic and Leftist Mojo? albeit so breifly. Who has resisted the economic patsy urge to sell out for so long?
There is another question that I have. Are the US and EU still powerful enough to bribe, convince and scare the rest of the world, the majority world, to make Iran suffer for the security of Israel?
posted by Fugstar @ Tuesday, September 29, 2009,
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Flashmob Iftaris erupting throughout the land this week
Monday, September 07, 2009
Wherever you are, share your iftar.
HERE is the website.
7 so far.
Not counting the others who have run with the idea as part of their own activities.
Neat. Fraternal. Good natured. Tawhesive
posted by Fugstar @ Monday, September 07, 2009,
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Neoliberalisation of Muslim reproduction
Sunday, September 06, 2009
I pray for you
a fug smugly inclined
I'm feeling your juggling's
been stealing our time
Neoliberalised reproduction
of culture and race
May our Maker award us
good fortune and grace.
PVE has nothing
on this mad distraction,
from challenging falsehood
with revolutionary action
Litter the ummah
with exes declined
and see our new culture
run jilted and blind
posted by Fugstar @ Sunday, September 06, 2009,
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