Ummahtic Update

Lots of developments, I don't know where to start.

RMW arranging a Shayk Habib Ali Jifri and Maulana Hasan Ali featured event on the life and dawa of Shah Jalal and his successors (us) @ the LMC?

Kuwaiti Amir plonking $100 million into a fund to help the developing countries with the prices through a Decent Living Fund?

King Abdullah 2 of Jordan's barnstorming speech at the WIEF? finger on the pulse or what ?!?

His wife, Queen Rania's contribution to the TIME 100 'influential' list, a feature on an Iraqi seamstress?

This guy and the slightly coupled phenomena of spontaneous organisation of random stand-up open mike nights?

Mufti Mustafa Ceric of Sarejevo (generally) and his nuancing interpretation of ummahtul wassata, as an integrative community. An active idea, not a passive acted upon integrated bungle?

Or the young writer who's upcoming novel will blast away the cobwebs and crud with a hefty chunk of deeni spirit?

The outpouring of unconditional solidarity from individual briton's, and asians, and others to the afflicted in myanmar?

The good achievements of the Late Tan Sri Nasimuddin Amin, an interesting Malaysian Industrialist?

Hearing that there are 1 million Muslims in Cambodia!

As imran jk would put it, Thank Allah it's Jumma

oo and one final gem. Somebody made the observation that Hizbut Tahrir and the so-called Quilliam Foundation are two sides of the same reversible jacket. Wheras HT thinks that making the Shariah use the state is the mission, the Quilliams take the opposite view, of letting the british government define Shariah and do whatever the hell they like to it.

Honumanutarian Bullsh!t

So international ... sorry white agencies are bitching about myanmar not letting them in to help the people.

so tens of thousands of people have passed on and many times more are having hard times... and all you can do is moan about not being given whiteboy angel treatment by a regime that your compatriots have spent a great deal of time villifying.

Disaster diplomacy my arse!

And brown sahibs are waxing characteristically stupidly about how democracy means that your people get releif and dont die, extrapolating some liberal commonsense from amartya sen and snorting on the angel dust of 'free' and 'open' society.

Aljazeera doesnt want to mention WHY the Myanmarese authorities dont trust western agencies know so much about their irrawardy delta. Maybe Aljazeera are too thick to realise this, after all they are. erm. doopi doopi doo. come on show some third worldist spine and convey the message. dont be scared of being labelled 'apologist for brutal regime'.

Malaysia sent in their peace corps MERCY, they'll know what to do.

Why dont Myanmar let more aid run in there from next door bangladesh? As a bengali muslim id like to beleive that the 'aid' is ours, but it isnt, its 'international aid lolly releif'. Its western political capital targetted at you when you are most hurt and in despair. We are drunk on that sh!t.

up your dukes old chap, let a hindustani manslave teach you a lesson.

There is no reason to let the beating keep you from your roots and the country that presently contains a lot of them. However, Tariq bin Ziad did burn his boats when he reached Al Andalus and created new roots, from which shoots, buds and blossoms.

That Our guy did not have his safety assured by the BD high commissioner and so couldn't be by his father's side for his last days is awful. However i have never been impressed by the Bdeshi diploclass and wouldn't even ask such a question. Bhai you could have just gone. 

That gruesome event stings for a number of reasons, stigmas and neuroses that can be adapted with our own hands. They cannot be changed with words and petitions and human rights bitching. The media can make money out it though.

Challenging the Bangladesh Air Force to an annual boxing tournament would achieve more than appealing to institutions and societies on the basis of an alien language of fake universalised virtue. I think the boxing tournament is a good thing to do, because our team might beat them. Not that i am offering my fistycuffs, but how else do you make martial forces respect than by challenging them in a field they actually recognise? In the 60s we had pilots and dogfighters of great repute. These chaps at the moment are untested, are far removed from that generation and belong to the weakest regional military of a country effemenised by foreign help.

I see no kudos there.

Those 4-5 air people did not wake up in the morning hoping to beat our bro. Something happened and escalated and there nonangelic side asserted itself. Why else would they treat someone like an enemy MiG29 invading their airspace? That he helped raise so much money that will house and enable cyclone victims recover and built more solid livelihoods is not a factor that occured to these people. They don't know us. They have some foggy idea of a prejudice nurtured in a negative environment. Thats not knowledge.

And the diplo-beaurocratic-political classes. They are not for us either, too busy playing funny games with themselves in the path of fake parochial kudos. Perhaps sometimes we remind them of how they should have turned out, maybe we remind them of the older values nurtured by their murrabis? Maybe we can remind them of wrong turnings taken over the years. 

The Wite british establishment has more influence over them than any of us. 'deradicalisation' is the game in town and there is a 'conditioned fear' of us becoming radically troublesome for desh, which probably means somebody is making economic or political capital.

Signs that a Muslim Guy wants to get M@$$!£d and cultural J

i found this video quite amusing. I hope you do too.



Maniac Muslim sometimes approaches the levels of Imran jk (creator of "Thank Allah it's Jumma" and "Who wants to be an MSA President?") in the field of Cultural J through internet multimedia and similar jive. They both have very different personalities and it comes through in their product. I think JK cares less for preaching at his audience and has developed more subtletly and grace. The maniac is new to film and developed from an amusing set of articles embedded in that rather inbred of environments, the muslim students organisation. Check his website for genius ideas like the online nikah. The JK is more of a standup/ muso type and his general demeanour reminds me of an old friend of mine.

Both come from north america, sorry Occupied north america and i love their product much more than Ummahfilms, who is even more preachy than who I think does violence to the word Ummah. I have dreamed out loud about the Islamic Car in the past but we must develop some taste and stop messing with sacred terms as marketting fodder.

there is a great deal of product out there, and people peddle it. the best stuff doesnt need government money to enable it, or large production values. The UK Millat is less productive, it would seem, than those in Canadia and the US. Whether is it charismatic black and brown and white speakers or homogenous MSA variants of cultural J or the Taqwacore, i reckon we have received more than we have given.

What we Muslim 'BrAsians' seem to produce, and reproduce, is a taste for the mediocre. The folks in amreeka are also guilty in parts but my problem is here. Nurturing is most important of course. But I want to rant about the Wrong Reception, and the power of 'da people' to mess up the field of cultural production with their deculturalised silliness.

We the migrated millats are like the creatures of Hazrat Nuhs (pbuh) boat, from all over the place. We are kinda amorphous at the moment but becoming more crystaline with time. Care must be taken to avoid simplistic castration of creative performance and expression by opting for a monocrystalline structure ahead of a polycrystalline set up. This goes to the beloved TJs and Salafis who all have an idea of the superman, and the adorable Ikhwanis and Jamatis who have there own blueprints for the ideal islamic worker in the modern age. (Pfft!)

If fame and recognition can make people drunk and dumb. Fame in closed environments, away from a good old kick in the shins, leads to people getting drunk and blinded on ribena. Its important not to succumb to flattery and people who are manipulators. Im talking fi-sabilil-quality-product here. It can warp our minds and rob our dignity. Recently I met somebody operating in efnic media who had created a facebook group for their 'friends'. Hello?!?!? All I can plead is that we make ourselves resistent to the smoke blown up our arses and refrain from blowing smoke up the arses of others.

Fans must learn to accord their fanaticism sparingly and with the best discretion and discernment. If this fails, and say for example a bunch of hijabis who know nothing and are stupid come to define what is 'cool', all is lost and we must slash our wrists.

Discernment in the millat.

"Nasheeds are crap. well at least the english ones. they are just nursury rhymes, you used to listen to hip hop then got 'practicing' didnt you?"

"No bro, that guy just talked ring. you didnt understand what he was saying and why, but it just sounded good to you.... no please don't invite him again next year.. puurlease"

aaaargh Boris!

mayor livingstone was mr london for me, now he has been disempowered by that ever-wise technique of temporary leadership change evolved in the west. Why?

'Its cos dose clumsy ishlamishts buggered themselves.'
'BNP second preference votes'
'Pragmato marxists being anti ken because he was interesting and broadminded'
'Socialist workers splitting from respect galloway and pursueing the left list thing, effectively removing talented campaigners from the ken side'
'London drivers fed up with congestion charging'
'Establishment dissaprocal of Uncle Hugo Chavez's visit here'
'Tory campaign getting out their suburban vote, Labour vote prefering not to turn up.'
'The Evening Standard playing extremely dirty with information and the london electorate'

well its over now.

so london has somehow figured that livingstone was surplass to their requirements and that johnson will be better. the BNP (british) gained a seat in the greater london assembly, and the horizon of possibility has changed somewhat.

Or maybe it hasnt? Politicians and media do sculpt a lot of things, this is one of the reasons why they are the scum of the earth. I am me independant of who sits on a chair. gloomy times ahead though.

As of a few days ago, I feel less welcome in The Bollock (the GLA building that sits just on the south west corner of tower bridge). I feel that the no.25 bus will no longer be.... bendy. Generally we need to buckle down and just get on with things... mentally prepared for the rise of the blue tories.

In some ways its better, tories will pretty much always hate us, look down and denigrate... but at least they are less obviously two faced about it.

aaaaargh.
Tory London Mayor... am as yet unable to get my head around this.

Please don't beat me black and blue

I heard it through the ganjvine,
a gentle man, quite trim and fine
didnt have the best of times,
in an airport of that land of mine.

Bizarre prestige imcompatibility,
Sylatian stallion versus military,
Red passport versus authority,
The event unfolded painfully.

How dare you lay your hands on him,
Did he really pull your grenade pin?
Dont piss away our hopes for you,
Dont get wound up for its not you

Who drove the hordes away from desh,
Every governmental change or ulta pesh,
To other lands to rebuild their lives,
While they spoiled themselves and spoiled their wives.

If you're the future then please behave,
Adab, Shomman are all we crave,
Neither of us should be enslaved,
to the other, isnt that what we've prayed?

If I should irk or get you wrong,
Put out the fire and dont be long,
Tell my murrabis they'll make me true
but please don't beat me black and blue.

Turkish Malaysian seminar on 'Islam and Freedom'

Turkish writer and thinker Mustafa Akyol speaks to Malaysian Students in Ireland, there is some co-learning going on. Thank you to whoever took the decision to organise and youtube this vital and unique content. There are five parts to the programme. I am just putting the first up and you can navigate through the others as you like.

C'est tres ummatique.

Go Musti! Go Musti! Go Musti!

thoughts on this country, kooky stories from desh and habitus.

This country used to be able to take over sh!t
Then it used to be able to make sh!t
Now all it can do is talk sh!t
- on seeing a very dissapointing, characterless and spanking new jaguar, (probably built around a ford mondeo)

In bangladesh, General Saab is trying to promote potato eating in a rice habituated society at a time of bumper potato harvest and messed up rice prices. For some unfortunate reason he deems the newspaper editors appropriate intercessors between him and the people and feeds them...

The menu included potato soup, French fries, potato corn curry, potato kopta
curry, potato roller gravy, potato with spinach, potato malai curry, potato
navaratna, potato pudina and potato pulse. Besides, rice, ruhi fish and fresh
salad were served.

Another story has a daft GMG Airlines (best private airline, no best airline company period in desh) hostess freaking out at a 'mentally disturbed' man cutting an apple with a knife on a plane from Dhaka to KL, causing it to be grounded. What molly coddled flight attendant schooling did she go to? I mean, I suppose quelling needless panic and counter escalation is not one of the modules.

But grounding the flight? Pilot saab get a grip, the dude had a blade (which he shouldn't have) but I'm sure some sane person on the aircraft could easily have detooled him, and cut/peeled his apple with a plastic spoon or something. Even in the midst of the Dhaka Uni riots this summer i always saw a few toweringly sensible people, enveloped in a cloud of cool, solving public problems and oozing safety generally. That nobody in the cabin could sort it out and the pilot had to make an emergency landing in Thailand reminds me of the sad national political picture. I wonder what the repercussions of this humiliating surrender to fear will be on Bangladesh on Air.

Now airports are going to be even more of a hassle and some metal detectorwallah at an airport in bangladesh might get 'reassigned'. I think part of the solution is for less dainty little stewardesses and more strong men in GMG cabin staff. I knew those lovely blue and orange saris were going to get them into trouble.

Someone somewhere will milk this event for a 'security' agenda, but i tell them 'we don't do airborne violence, we are bangladeshis, we are a lot more grounded'. However, I'm more interested in another lesson from this incident, about people behaving 'strangely' and being labelled as crazies.

So he (the dude with the knife) was mentally disturbed?

A little while back there was a story about a murrabi (elder) from Wales who ate a swan for iftari (bless). His defence counsel pleaded mental instability. But something is not quite right here, something else is going on. People do some funny/strange/cute/scary things, but it might not be because they are nutjobs. It probably has something to do with habitus, a sociological idea used to describe "a set of acquired patterns of thought, practice and taste".

Jordan, by Bellowhead

Are journalists the scum of the earth?

spreading waswasas and mischief in the land.
messing with the symbolic field.
poisoning relations.
robbing their brothers of their dignity.
misleading the people.
carving out undue status for themselves with commonsensical self serving arguments.
harrassing the innocent.
invading privacy.
imagining they have a right to speak about what they do not know.

Some years back people were encouraging muslim believers to go into the media and .. erm... 'represent' or something. I think its a mistake and a corrupting profession to be in. The 'Muslim' media is infantile and the 'Mainstream' is just crass and evil. I feel that efforts are better channeled into organic social relations and wisdom attainment. The kind of nuronic realisation that cannot be adulterated by the noisy, superficial and malicious.

Finally, the 'freedom of speech' element can make me laugh. Journalists hold this dearly above everything else, especially the more immature ones. This is despite no earth shattering concept ever being created by members of said profession. Perhaps the oldest profession in the world. We are asked to beleive that it is only because of this freedom of speech ethic that 'speech' is 'allowed', that folks did not come up with objectionable lyrics pre-White Power, that it is a sacred blessing and civilisational development is contingent upon it.