Oh my Golden Rebel
you pointless twisted brat
how long will you keep walking?
now that the nation's flat.
You think you have a right to lead
because your clique is strong,
you bleed the landscape of delight
and ooze a deadly pong.
Your symbols are decripid
built on sentiments supine,
neither musalman nor hindustan
characterise your mind.
When will you stop your moaning
and vanish from the land?
We hate your face, we hate your race
we wish you were a man.
Can you not find a corner
in which to go and rot?
repent and leave forever
with all that you begot.
You venerate the rebel
romanticise the land
Pretend that you are cultured
causing discord with your hand
Intoxicate the students
Distract the pious men
Divide elites by factions
Empower wrong women
Well done you Golden Rebel
I think you have done well
please die and sink into the sand
and burn and toast in Hell.
30.5.08
28.5.08
Maqasidi Financing
purpose: to mark wise investments in His path and help us discriminate against the dodjy, technocratic 'casting your fishing nets out before the sabbath' type behaviour. It misses the point.
Maqasid al shariah, the higher objective of The Way, is a theory derived from analysis of the scriptures that tries to understand the intentions of the Lawgiver. Protection and promotion of deen, life, intellect, dignity, lineage and property form its value core.
A lot of peeps take the halal to haram spectrum and leave it at that. Its an awful shame though.... almost secular?!? Maqasidi would imply that root public interests are addressed, not just permissibilities. Hopefully this would bring on Gross Ummahtic Dignification.
Financing, as in monetary enablement. Not just for dunya return, though thats not out of the question. Sticking your money where your beleif is, into that social institution, into initiatives, products and services that hit the spot.
So stick your sukuk where the sun doesn't shine and do something morally imaginative with your dosh you fat chumps!
Maqasid al shariah, the higher objective of The Way, is a theory derived from analysis of the scriptures that tries to understand the intentions of the Lawgiver. Protection and promotion of deen, life, intellect, dignity, lineage and property form its value core.
A lot of peeps take the halal to haram spectrum and leave it at that. Its an awful shame though.... almost secular?!? Maqasidi would imply that root public interests are addressed, not just permissibilities. Hopefully this would bring on Gross Ummahtic Dignification.
Financing, as in monetary enablement. Not just for dunya return, though thats not out of the question. Sticking your money where your beleif is, into that social institution, into initiatives, products and services that hit the spot.
So stick your sukuk where the sun doesn't shine and do something morally imaginative with your dosh you fat chumps!
Slap'n'Hug
A technology for improving/disciplining dylinquent members of Ummahood (term coined by the Late Ismail Raji al Faruqi).
Slap because they are being silly and making a mess.
Hug because we lov'em, others who really haven't grasped the idea of brotherhood and fellowship and nasiyha wouldn't really understand why, but we do.
So folks, slap and hug, and be prepared to be slapped and hugged.
(maybe there is a Tango advert in there somewhere...)
Slap because they are being silly and making a mess.
Hug because we lov'em, others who really haven't grasped the idea of brotherhood and fellowship and nasiyha wouldn't really understand why, but we do.
So folks, slap and hug, and be prepared to be slapped and hugged.
(maybe there is a Tango advert in there somewhere...)
27.5.08
Is this really how it [agricultural technological discovery] has to be?
My favourite caretaker advisor, CS Karim (agriculture + water resources) has fixed up something significant in the path of developing deshi agritechno mojo.
according to the daily ondokar, the World Bank are putting up 438 crore, IFAD 135 crore and the govt a piddly 48 crore. LESS THAN 10%!!!! very participatory indeed. bleurgh.
Akhtar Hameed Khan regretted the large amount of foreign finance behind the comilla project. I only hope that people of his stature and disciplinary blending continue to exist in that vital sector.... CS karim doing anything represents a good dollop of scientific capital... so maybe he'll stick around.
*Intermission*
I really would like to be in a fly on the wall of a room where he and hussain zillur rahman just jam together. They are two interesting advisors who in default moronarchic conditions would have less right to be heard. There is a dark side to the present setup, but these folks, along with a lot of others are the silver lining.
*End of intermission*
The goal is to improve agricultural research and extention for food security. and the onus is on researchers to come up with the goods. power duas for that.
Only where does farmer end and researcher begin these days? What is it that makes farmer joynal abedin more daring and creative with his organising forces? How does one go about raising the social status of agri production diversity? and what is it that causes a good practice to be recognised, actively internalised and refined further?
Remember that extremely resourceful kid at school? the one who would play about with whatever it was and come out with the goods, again and again and again. The human Nuron antenna. For example the chap who came up with the idea of mounting a shallow diesel engine on a bunch of wheels to give us the Boot-bootie, possibly the craziest public transporter of people known to man. I hear he was from somewhere near Bogra.
Maybe there are people out there, not necessarily particularly poor, who need encouragement and seed dosh and other kinds of support thrown at them. wind blown into their sails. Not too much to blow them off course and promote them to incompetance. enough so they recognise their own value and can explore it. The World Bank blows a foul smelling wind. All i need to imagine is their staff's credentials and social identities to cry into my dal at why they are repeatedly given such power by the brown man.
26.5.08
Things that make otherwise less irrational people go nuts.
Sometimes its arabs, or its jews, maybe its kurds, it has been Bengalis, other times its shias, Sunnis or migrant workers. You know, that madness you invoke on mentioning a a demon group to a random 'angel'.
With Bangladeshis of a certain political programming it is Jamaat Islami. The programmers achieved a lot with this particular module, very clever of them because their carrier agents do not even recognise the source code. Raising such an issue generates the coded response 'Genocide Denier'. It is not just about the actions of the participants during a national disintegration and reformation process, and no, it is not about justice. It could never be so temperate. It is a mandatory part of the national mythology, without which the corrupt fools couldn't rule.
I do wish this malady would just go away and stop jacking up the people in the stepfatherland. But its got currency and is still used to guilt trip good people into being materialise arses.
I hear that some shia practices have the cursing of certain figures in early islamic history down to a 'T'. A similar culture exists with those Bangladeshis to whom certain figures in jamat are the Representatives of shaytan ar rajeem. It is the (counter) religious certainty, the yakeen, that is most disturbing, from people who were not even part of the action scenario and who have only come to know echoes... and echoes from a dodjy isnad. It is Jionijom.
The purpose of the 'Jamati Cursing Culture', is to dehumanise Muslims with a bit of Islam about them. Understand this much and the self-serving narratives spun around Bangladeshi liberation unravel. Of course its a bit much to expect already indoctrinated to change their ideological investment portfolios at the moment, but its important that buyers know whats inside before purchasing in any case. It doubly important that people build their societies of firm ground, where the cost of a large foundational lie will not cause their world to implode. It is triply important that people identify the values of these Jionists throught the behaviour of Jionijom and reject it.
There is no need to buy. It is not necessary to purchase. Your money and belief can be invested in alternative ways. THAT PORTFOLIO CONTAINS POISON DESIGNED AND INTENDED FOR SOMEONE ELSE, DROP THE CASE, WASH YOUR HANDS AND COME BACK TO THE CAR DEAR.
This is not necessarily the view of a non aligned islamic forces type. I observe it is the basis of a wider consensus, but not a particularly confident one. Such a consensus is easier to share outside, as the malevolence and poison of the portfolios in the market are clearer.
The Awami partisans, the team that built the Temple of Zion like to claim a monopoly on suffering and pain. Apparently they own it, this understanding is only due to their general shamelessness, and their is no need to ape it. They have capitalised on this well, taking advantage of bad numeracy, sentiment and drama. But, it's really quite ugly down there inside the political vernacular. Far away from the slightly more polite international PR, humiliation, loss, misguidance and bitterness intertwine to create other social shrapnel. 2 example groups are the children of the rape and the eastward mohajers (the biharis).
"an entire generation of war bastards, children of pakistani rape, are effing up our country."
"Collaborator Biharis, no we didnt abuse them or treat them like animals during our glorious struggle, whatever they got , they deserved.... oooh look i moved into one of their houses, what tasteful furniture.. hmmm lucky me... if only i had acquired their industry."
As well as social groups, religious, intellectual and emotional maturity is prevented, and important parts of policy space are affected. That is another post, possibly called The Practical Consequence of National Secularisation and Lying.
With Bangladeshis of a certain political programming it is Jamaat Islami. The programmers achieved a lot with this particular module, very clever of them because their carrier agents do not even recognise the source code. Raising such an issue generates the coded response 'Genocide Denier'. It is not just about the actions of the participants during a national disintegration and reformation process, and no, it is not about justice. It could never be so temperate. It is a mandatory part of the national mythology, without which the corrupt fools couldn't rule.
I do wish this malady would just go away and stop jacking up the people in the stepfatherland. But its got currency and is still used to guilt trip good people into being materialise arses.
I hear that some shia practices have the cursing of certain figures in early islamic history down to a 'T'. A similar culture exists with those Bangladeshis to whom certain figures in jamat are the Representatives of shaytan ar rajeem. It is the (counter) religious certainty, the yakeen, that is most disturbing, from people who were not even part of the action scenario and who have only come to know echoes... and echoes from a dodjy isnad. It is Jionijom.
The purpose of the 'Jamati Cursing Culture', is to dehumanise Muslims with a bit of Islam about them. Understand this much and the self-serving narratives spun around Bangladeshi liberation unravel. Of course its a bit much to expect already indoctrinated to change their ideological investment portfolios at the moment, but its important that buyers know whats inside before purchasing in any case. It doubly important that people build their societies of firm ground, where the cost of a large foundational lie will not cause their world to implode. It is triply important that people identify the values of these Jionists throught the behaviour of Jionijom and reject it.
There is no need to buy. It is not necessary to purchase. Your money and belief can be invested in alternative ways. THAT PORTFOLIO CONTAINS POISON DESIGNED AND INTENDED FOR SOMEONE ELSE, DROP THE CASE, WASH YOUR HANDS AND COME BACK TO THE CAR DEAR.
This is not necessarily the view of a non aligned islamic forces type. I observe it is the basis of a wider consensus, but not a particularly confident one. Such a consensus is easier to share outside, as the malevolence and poison of the portfolios in the market are clearer.
The Awami partisans, the team that built the Temple of Zion like to claim a monopoly on suffering and pain. Apparently they own it, this understanding is only due to their general shamelessness, and their is no need to ape it. They have capitalised on this well, taking advantage of bad numeracy, sentiment and drama. But, it's really quite ugly down there inside the political vernacular. Far away from the slightly more polite international PR, humiliation, loss, misguidance and bitterness intertwine to create other social shrapnel. 2 example groups are the children of the rape and the eastward mohajers (the biharis).
"an entire generation of war bastards, children of pakistani rape, are effing up our country."
"Collaborator Biharis, no we didnt abuse them or treat them like animals during our glorious struggle, whatever they got , they deserved.... oooh look i moved into one of their houses, what tasteful furniture.. hmmm lucky me... if only i had acquired their industry."
As well as social groups, religious, intellectual and emotional maturity is prevented, and important parts of policy space are affected. That is another post, possibly called The Practical Consequence of National Secularisation and Lying.
24.5.08
modelling the physics of rice
I'd like to know if anybody has modelled the price of rice, for say a country like bangladesh, with both deterministic and non deterministic considerations, with both game theory and maim theory embedded.
Non-deterministic process need to be understood because the world doesn't move in straight lines according to objective rules, especially when human actors with different values are involved. Maim Theory is where participants in an action theory actually have no idea of what their interests are or obey any norms because of a messed up habitus. Extreme Maim Theory describes the situation when escalation/exacerbation is the dominant modus operandi of at least one of the participants.
It would need a lot of reliable empirical data to run historical training type grooves on, like they do to train Climate models...would need a helluva lot of spatial info about how stuff grows. It wouldn't suit a craponomist in a Kafir Development Bank, nor a self pleasuring physicist in some Terry Pratchettesque Unseen University setup, nor their bastard spawn.
transportation (oil link)
spatial ripening fluxes
mobile communications habits(complicated feedback thing)
micro, meso and mass storage hubs
wholesale to retail relations
the proportions of the different varieties
political polarity of human participants
irrigation type (oil link)
fertiliser type (gas link)
consumer link
hype link (media-political link)
seasonality
shock events
foreign flux (yes the outward pumps in chapainawabganj AND the inward 'aid' pumps)
ok, I'm scared now.
Non-deterministic process need to be understood because the world doesn't move in straight lines according to objective rules, especially when human actors with different values are involved. Maim Theory is where participants in an action theory actually have no idea of what their interests are or obey any norms because of a messed up habitus. Extreme Maim Theory describes the situation when escalation/exacerbation is the dominant modus operandi of at least one of the participants.
It would need a lot of reliable empirical data to run historical training type grooves on, like they do to train Climate models...would need a helluva lot of spatial info about how stuff grows. It wouldn't suit a craponomist in a Kafir Development Bank, nor a self pleasuring physicist in some Terry Pratchettesque Unseen University setup, nor their bastard spawn.
transportation (oil link)
spatial ripening fluxes
mobile communications habits(complicated feedback thing)
micro, meso and mass storage hubs
wholesale to retail relations
the proportions of the different varieties
political polarity of human participants
irrigation type (oil link)
fertiliser type (gas link)
consumer link
hype link (media-political link)
seasonality
shock events
foreign flux (yes the outward pumps in chapainawabganj AND the inward 'aid' pumps)
ok, I'm scared now.
23.5.08
This here Giraffe
I dont write about headlining stuff, so i'll talk in code. One of the most socially advanced towns in the south west is undergoing trial and investigation at the moment, one that I hope and pray that the participants perform well in. And then in the most ummahtic restaurant one can imagine, where the entire world is represented...
No doubt the partial glaring eyes will be upon all of those thought to have played a role in a young, simple, white revert's adoption of Islam and how the idea of causing such public harm came so close to being actualised. The usual suspects will score political capital, because thats all these events mean to them, they dont actually care. Better people will try to understand what happened and make the required corrections
- Did some f@ckwit manipulate this fellow?
- Will idiots ever stop 'doing' 'dawah'?
- Why is this stuff still happening?
- Why do peopls still make money misleading government over this stuff?
- Where are the people without axes to grind?
- Was it just some random madness caught from the internet?
- Was it just one of those random increasing probability events?
- Why did he travel to a different town?
- What happened to him in his own one?
- Who is going to get the sharp end of the blamestorm, especially now that it has been established that he is not a person of discernment?
- Who is responsible for this kind of thing?
- What will be the ramifications on the revert community?
- How is the established millat failing them, which section's aloofness and selfishness enables this?
- If we are all responsible, what are we supposed to do?
- Are a bunch of parochial stupid old men going to be publically humiliated for something they knew nothing about?
- Are a group of open, more intelligent young men going to be targetted for something they knew nothing about?
- Are the chav/racists from the town of the fellows origin going to run amock?
- Will the madani people of the affected madina show us how its done?
22.5.08
"Muslim women can be superficial too"
said Shatranj, coining a genre for a very sad disappointing set of fodder material that consitutes fabricated female empoweredness.
Its like the late, old school awami leaguer of Sirajganj told me about what westerners mean when to slip democracy into your milk. He had figured this out over time.'Eyte, democracy nau, shundor shundor meyer shathe ghumau.'
Whether you are a stupid film producer, or a desi media outfit, scraping the bottom of the barrel for content to flog to your imagined demographic, you really should know that what you do is wrong. You should let that kind of material sink to the bottom of the pond. By amplifying it you may be encouraging others to think that that kind of expression is indeed on the path of cultural J.
Its like the late, old school awami leaguer of Sirajganj told me about what westerners mean when to slip democracy into your milk. He had figured this out over time.'Eyte, democracy nau, shundor shundor meyer shathe ghumau.'
Whether you are a stupid film producer, or a desi media outfit, scraping the bottom of the barrel for content to flog to your imagined demographic, you really should know that what you do is wrong. You should let that kind of material sink to the bottom of the pond. By amplifying it you may be encouraging others to think that that kind of expression is indeed on the path of cultural J.
21.5.08
Kaki King (again)
Makes a guitar do things you wouldn't imagine. Tours through interesting places, including Istanbul. Makes use of more electronic gadgetry than you will find on most modern aircraft. Really plays with a guitar in the childlike wonder sense of the term. Doesn't like to sing very much. Joins the Foo Fighters on stage occasionally. Audience has included Jimmy Page. Not ashamed to bust out a cover of Justin Timberlake or Neil Morrisey when the opportunity presents itself. Methinks Elrond and the elves of Rivendell would be proud of what she does as would folks in the 22nd century. Accompanied live by some other talented chap with a blowy synthesiser the noises that arise are positively otherworldly. Releasing a new album 'Dreaming of Revenge' on 30th June (UK). Yes this is post-rock.
check this.
20.5.08
Symbolic powers
So the amir of jamaat e islami has been put in jail, accused of corruption. Before departing he indicated that his party was in safe hands without him. Afterwards, his party declared a 4 day fast. Later the awami league seem to open up to the idea of going to polls without their own leader, 'they will let the grass roots decide', and organise a 6 hour hunger strike. Thats some transfer of political technology.
Its like several months ago, when the BNP would ape the awami leagues moves, but just a bit more retardedly. To cast it ritually, AL wali Motia Choudhury would say "samiAllahu liman hamida", and BNP wali Selima Hussain would say "rabbana wa lakal hamd".
A fast is an act of worship directed as God, supererogatory worship is common in Muslim societies, once you've covered the mandatory ones. But this is also politically messed up. Major niyyat purity issues batman. However the symbolic power of it was enough for the awami league to launch what looks like a secularised, purely human attention seeking copycat attack. I wonder if the 6 hour strike will be followed by self congratulatory secular feasting.
The daily Ondokar (darkness) chimes in with a very gloaty hurrah for the leader's incarceration. They are very interested is saying what history is or isnt. As well as the usual stuff and the mandatory lack of finger-on-the-trigger detail, they add a spurned BNP minister's accusation that the leader was a patron of a contemporary terrorist organisation. At a time when the security agenda is being vigorously pursued from within and without. Classy.
Usefully, the Ondokar points out that jamaat rules read that after 6 months of a leader's absence the amir post becomes vacant. Well its mid may now and elections are at the end of the year.... hmmm. Consider this with the symbolic baggage above...
Resolution of the 71 baggage issue, fairly or unfairly, with all the facts to hand is unlikely to be allowed because of its symbolic power. Bangladeshis who believe the standard few variants of the national mythology do not want to know anything new, or complete their view. Major political parties, and desacralising forces capitalise on the symbolism all of the time.
In this scenario, Jamaat could do something creative, or something conservative. It is hard for such old organisations to move towards the former but leaving the political field might be an interesting experiment. I wonder how long it would take the remaining political groups to mobilise around the symbolic value of the deen. They can't really compete now, but if Ji didnt exist any more i do wonder what would happen, how long would it take for the gaping hole to be felt.... would there actually be one?
I hope this organisation reforms, or/and a better organisation forms, building on whats good in previous ones, but also drawing on Abul Hashem's rendering so long ago of Khilafatur Rabbani. Linking with all those talented people that awami drunk deshis wrote out of history and tainted with their jahil, poisoned tongues. Taking and deciphering lessons from contemporary Indonesia, Malaysia and Turkey, Muslim countries of positive integer value.
Its like several months ago, when the BNP would ape the awami leagues moves, but just a bit more retardedly. To cast it ritually, AL wali Motia Choudhury would say "samiAllahu liman hamida", and BNP wali Selima Hussain would say "rabbana wa lakal hamd".
A fast is an act of worship directed as God, supererogatory worship is common in Muslim societies, once you've covered the mandatory ones. But this is also politically messed up. Major niyyat purity issues batman. However the symbolic power of it was enough for the awami league to launch what looks like a secularised, purely human attention seeking copycat attack. I wonder if the 6 hour strike will be followed by self congratulatory secular feasting.
The daily Ondokar (darkness) chimes in with a very gloaty hurrah for the leader's incarceration. They are very interested is saying what history is or isnt. As well as the usual stuff and the mandatory lack of finger-on-the-trigger detail, they add a spurned BNP minister's accusation that the leader was a patron of a contemporary terrorist organisation. At a time when the security agenda is being vigorously pursued from within and without. Classy.
Usefully, the Ondokar points out that jamaat rules read that after 6 months of a leader's absence the amir post becomes vacant. Well its mid may now and elections are at the end of the year.... hmmm. Consider this with the symbolic baggage above...
Resolution of the 71 baggage issue, fairly or unfairly, with all the facts to hand is unlikely to be allowed because of its symbolic power. Bangladeshis who believe the standard few variants of the national mythology do not want to know anything new, or complete their view. Major political parties, and desacralising forces capitalise on the symbolism all of the time.
In this scenario, Jamaat could do something creative, or something conservative. It is hard for such old organisations to move towards the former but leaving the political field might be an interesting experiment. I wonder how long it would take the remaining political groups to mobilise around the symbolic value of the deen. They can't really compete now, but if Ji didnt exist any more i do wonder what would happen, how long would it take for the gaping hole to be felt.... would there actually be one?
I hope this organisation reforms, or/and a better organisation forms, building on whats good in previous ones, but also drawing on Abul Hashem's rendering so long ago of Khilafatur Rabbani. Linking with all those talented people that awami drunk deshis wrote out of history and tainted with their jahil, poisoned tongues. Taking and deciphering lessons from contemporary Indonesia, Malaysia and Turkey, Muslim countries of positive integer value.
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