Monday, January 22, 2024

San Francisco Bay Area Community Leader Hasan Jahangir Hamdani remembered

 


 

 

In a book introduction program held on January 21, 2024 at the Chandni Restaurant in Newark, California, San Francisco Bay Area South Asian community leader Syed Hasan Jahangir Hamdani was remembered and eulogized.  The promoted book was Hamdani’s ‘Dasht e Junoon’, a posthumous collection of his mainly Urdu and some Persian poetry. Hamdani’s family members as well as Bay Area connoisseurs of literature including Tashie Zaheer, Professor Abdul Jabbar, and Javed Ellahie spoke at the event.

 


 

Emcee, Ahsan Jahangir Hamdani


                                         
Poetess Mehnaz Naqvi







                                                    Mrs. Sahab Hamdani
 


 
Singer Almas Shabvani
 


                                                Attorney Javed Ellahie


                                                    Professor Abdul Jabbar


 
Journalist Abdus Sattar Ghazali

 

 
Urdu Poet and Community Leader, Tashie Zaheer



                                                Dr. Anshuman Chandra




Saturday, January 20, 2024

Miranda warning/rights of a different kind

Miranda warning/rights of a different kind:

You have a right to remain stupid.

You have a right to remain ignorant.

 

Saturday, January 06, 2024

Israel is the most civilized country in the Middle East

 


 

Let’s be clear about what we mean by civilization. We’re not talking about grandiose architecture, or marvels of literature, or the masterpieces of visual arts. We are talking about civilization as it concerns a man on the street—i.e., YOU. In that respect, a society bound by laws is a civilized society.

I am sure many of you have been to Israel. Once you clear immigration at the Ben-Gurion Airport, you are equal to everybody else present there. Your ethnicity, socioeconomic background, the language you speak, or the beliefs you hold do not matter. That is the kind of civilized society all of us want to live in. A society bound by laws is a predictable place. When there are no laws, or the laws are not uniformly applied to all, you are on your guard all the time because anything can happen anytime.

A civilized society is run by laws that apply to everyone, including the lawmakers. There are laws and procedures in place that decide how a citizen can become a lawmaker. In uncivilized societies, a strongman comes to power by pushing weaker people aside; once in power, he puts in laws that apply to all the citizens but not to himself and a chosen few.

When Saddam Hussein appeared in court, and the charges under the Iraqi laws he was being tried for were read to him, he yelled, ‘You are going to try me under the laws that I made?’ And that is the mentality of the rulers/lawmakers in many countries. Save for Turkey, or to some extent Iran, the countries in the Middle East are not civilized at all.

Back in 1998, I was flying out of Jeddah, and the plane was scheduled to leave on time. But something happened, and the plane stopped taxiing to the runway. We thought it was a temporary thing, and the pilot was waiting for the runway to be clear, but then the wait time kept stretching. We wanted to know what was going on. ‘There are some issues with the runway,’ we were told. After waiting for over an hour, we were cleared to take off. We later found out we could not leave at the scheduled time because someone from the royal family had decided to fly, and they had preference over us.

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 Let's be clear: Israel wants the world to see the Palestinian freedom movement as Islamic terrorism.

Let’s be clear: Israel wants anti colonial protests to be seen as antisemitism.

Let’s be clear: Every act of Palestinian resistance is an opportunity for Israel to steal more land.

Let’s be clear: Outside of its treatment of the Palestinians, Israel is the most civilized country in the Middle East.





Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Israel has a right to defend itself--the real meaning

 

Israel has a right to defend itself= Israel has a right to indiscriminately kill the Palestinians

 

How can a criticism of Israel be called "antisemitism" when in the current conflict both warring parties are Semitic?