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Tagsby Zahir Ebrahim
Dear PH: The following is my [latest] work which has [once again] challenged the world view of which you are a part. Your contribution to that world view is captured in the following paragraph in item-1:
And that contribution of yours is validated, as well as shown in its proper relative bit position in reference cited in item-2.
Let me know where I might be wrong. I'd like to be wrong - because otherwise the conclusion is rather bleak for you despite your backing from empire and your untouchability at this time.
You know you are their shill playing noora-kushti. I know it. Looking in the mirror you can't escape it. Since this is unsettling for me for someone of your stature, even if not for you, I hope I have only mis-perceived. Since you and your published detractors have carved out the WWF forum to stage their own main-event, I have no venue to offer my views publicly - which suits you just fine apparently. I'd say that's intellectual cowardice, hiding behind the skirt of empire which has entirely book-ended the discourse space including its dissent. Just like Chomsky had himself put it, and which he subsequently himself employed to his own advantage, just as you are doing:
and
You are, after all, a Chomsky student, or confrere. You claim the mantle of an intellectual. Yet you shy away from debate outsite the "debate" spectrum. Don't you think you are greater than that? Be a teacher Pervez - teach me. As Socrates may perhaps have asked of his own teacher, just as he asked of the people about to administer him the Hemlock:
And I cc a few who apparently hold you in very high esteem. They share with you one thing - their silence on modernity.
Best Regards,
Zahir Ebrahim
only a plebe
Dear PH: The following is my [latest] work which has [once again] challenged the world view of which you are a part. Your contribution to that world view is captured in the following paragraph in item-1:
Why do pious people continually make “World War IV”
out to be about Islam and Muslims? They either see it as being a war on
Islam and apologetically argue that Islam is benign and that “The detractors of Islam fail to see all this” as Ramzy Baroud does in 'Muslims Must Not Pay Price for Europe’s Identity Crisis'; or see it as there being something inherently
wrong with an antediluvian Islam which needs to be overhauled to bring
it in line with modernity as Daniel Pipes and Bernard Lewis et. al. do
in their doctrinal craftsmanship such as 'Crisis of Islam – Holy War
and Unholy Terror' and in propagandist statements like it's “Not a Clash of Civilizations, It's a Clash between the Civilized World and Barbarians”;
or see it as something wrong with the Muslims who need a reformation
from their Dark Age as Pakistani native informant par excellence,
Pervez Hoodbhoy does in his atheistic zealotry to reform the Muslim
mind. In all cases, they calculatingly distract attention from the
blatant fact of the matter that hectoring hegemons are engaging in demonization and false-flag operations to “goosestep the Herrenvolk across international frontiers” in their age old quest for Lebensraum, euphemistically called Global Governance.
Let me know where I might be wrong. I'd like to be wrong - because otherwise the conclusion is rather bleak for you despite your backing from empire and your untouchability at this time.
You know you are their shill playing noora-kushti. I know it. Looking in the mirror you can't escape it. Since this is unsettling for me for someone of your stature, even if not for you, I hope I have only mis-perceived. Since you and your published detractors have carved out the WWF forum to stage their own main-event, I have no venue to offer my views publicly - which suits you just fine apparently. I'd say that's intellectual cowardice, hiding behind the skirt of empire which has entirely book-ended the discourse space including its dissent. Just like Chomsky had himself put it, and which he subsequently himself employed to his own advantage, just as you are doing:
'This "debate" is a typical illustration of a primary principle of
sophisticated propaganda. In crude and brutal societies, the Party Line
is publicly proclaimed and must be obeyed -- or else. What you actually
believe is your own business and of far less concern. In societies
where the state has lost the capacity to control by force, the Party
Line is simply presupposed; then, vigorous debate is encouraged within
the limits imposed by unstated doctrinal orthodoxy. The cruder of the
two systems leads, naturally enough, to disbelief; the sophisticated
variant gives an impression of openness and freedom, and so far more
effectively serves to instill the Party Line. It becomes beyond
question, beyond thought itself, like the air we breathe.'
and
'Democratic
societies use a different method: they don't articulate the party line.
That's a mistake. What they do is presuppose it, then encourage
vigorous debate within the framework of the party line. This serves two
purposes. For one thing it gives the impression of a free and open
society because, after all, we have lively debate. It also instills a
propaganda line that becomes something you presuppose, like the air you
breathe.'
and'The smart way to
keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of
acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum -
even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people
the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the
presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on
the range of the debate.'
You are, after all, a Chomsky student, or confrere. You claim the mantle of an intellectual. Yet you shy away from debate outsite the "debate" spectrum. Don't you think you are greater than that? Be a teacher Pervez - teach me. As Socrates may perhaps have asked of his own teacher, just as he asked of the people about to administer him the Hemlock:
'Agree with me if I seem to you to
speak the truth; or, if not, withstand me might and main that I may not
deceive you as well as myself in my desire, and like the bee leave my
sting in you before I die. And now let us proceed.'
And I cc a few who apparently hold you in very high esteem. They share with you one thing - their silence on modernity.
Best Regards,
Zahir Ebrahim
only a plebe
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