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V for Vendetta
Do you like the following? I do. I simply love the dialogues of this movie and the way “V” acts and talks…
Remember, remember the 5th of November
The gunpowder treason and plot
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot
But what of the man?
I know his name was Guy Fawkes…
and I know in 1605, he attempted to blow the Houses of Parliament.
But who was he really?
What was he like?
[b]We are told to remember the idea and not the man.
Because a man can fail.
He can be caught,
he can be killed and forgotten.
But 400 years later…
an idea can still change the world.[/b]
I have witnessed first hand the power of ideas.
I’ve seen people killed in the name of them…
and die defending them.
But you cannot kiss an idea…
cannot touch it or hold it.
Ideas do not bleed.
They do not feel pain.
They do not love.
And it is not an idea that I miss.
It is a man.
A man that made me remember the 5th of November.
A man that I will never forget.
Blow the houses of Parliament…Same goes for the ones sitting in the parliaments of Pakistan. The morons, the hypocrites, the lunatics, the tyrants, the murderers, the bloody looters, the idiots, those with beards but no respect for Islam just their bloody politics, the ones who rape, the ones who DRINK, the ones who spend billions on nothing except their own needs, the ones who suck the blood out of poors and their own people. Do they deserve to live? Hell NO! I am waiting for my “V”…Are you?
Long Time No See
So I see no body missed me. I am back khair se. Was having a bad throat and really did not feel like coming online and updating things. Got the following for our new home computer, the budget this time for our computer was higher than the last time (4 years ago), had saved some money. Spent it all here… :-D
* Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 1.83 Ghz
* 512 MB DDR2 533 Kingston RAM
* Western Digital 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache
* COOL CASING
* CD-ROM Drive (From old computer)
* SONY DVD-Writer
* XFX GeForce 6200 with Turbo Cache 128MB (Expandable to 256MB)
Waiting for the following to arrive.
* ASUS P5B Deluxe (From Shing Technologies Karachi)
* Philips 17 inch LCD Monitor
* Thermaltake Big Typhoon (Through a sweet friend in the US)
* RAM heatsinks (SAME AS ABOVE)
* Harddisk cooler – Heat sink sort of with 2 FANS (SAME AS ABOVE)
Already paid for the Motherboard to Shing Technologies. According to the person who talked to me from the day one. It has arrived but is in CUSTOM CLEARANCE at Karachi Airport. Only Allah knows if he’s true or not, trusting them anyways. Shing Technologies isn’t a SCAM. Oh & the problem now is for the POWER SUPPLY. The casing I bought in 1800 Rupees came with it’s 300 Watts power supply, that’s not enough for the usage. Was searching around the Internet when found a website which showed a motherboard melted because of a generic power supply.
The problem here is simple, it might be written even 550 Watts on the power supply but you can never be sure if that’s true or not. So I have started worrying about this too… *sigh* Don’t know what to do. The motherboard’s ATX connectors were melted above, the reasons for it were stated as either the ATX connector was not tight or the system was sucking up too much from power supply. Too much as in exceeding the power supply’s so called LABEL. Came across this OCZ 520 Watt power supply, am liking it but it’s costing 90 – 120 US$!!! Freakin too much plus I have nothing left to spend! PLUS, no OCZ in Pakistan :\. Hehe. So my birthday is coming up on 26th…LOL. Let me know if you want to gift it to me. I know everyone here is kanjoos :p. Hehe.
Oh & set this up so it could run Vista also insha’Allah! The 3D card is not a really good one. Waiting for DirectX 10 Compatible 3D cards to arrive in shelves! Plus, will upgrade RAM too gradually insha’Allah.
Muslim anger grows at Pope speech
SOURCE Check it out. Mr. Pope seems like a PIG. Muwahahaha. What? I am expressing my right for “FREEDOM OF SPEECH” ;-).
A statement from the Vatican has failed to quell criticism of Pope Benedict XVI from Muslim leaders, after he made a speech about the concept of holy war.
Speaking in Germany, the Pope quoted a 14th Century Christian emperor who said Muhammad had brought the world only “evil and inhuman” things.
The head of the Muslim Brotherhood said the Pope’s remarks “aroused the anger of the whole Islamic world”.
The Vatican said the Pope had not intended to offend Muslims.
“It is clear that the Holy Father’s intention is to cultivate a position of respect and dialogue towards other religions and cultures, and that clearly includes Islam,” said chief Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi in a statement.
But in spite of the statement, the pontiff returned to Rome to face a barrage of criticism from the Muslim world over the remarks, reports the BBC’s David Willey in Rome.
Violence and faith
In his speech at Regensburg University, the German-born Pope explored the historical and philosophical differences between Islam and Christianity, and the relationship between violence and faith.
Stressing that they were not his own words, he quoted Emperor Manual II Paleologos of the Byzantine Empire, the Orthodox Christian empire which had its capital in what is now the Turkish city of Istanbul.
The emperor’s words were, he said: “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”
Benedict said “I quote” twice to stress the words were not his and added that violence was “incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul”.
‘Angry and hurt’
The Pope’s “hostile” remarks drew a demand for an apology from a top religious official in Turkey – where he is due in November on his first papal visit to a Muslim country.
Ali Bardakoglu recalled atrocities committed by Roman Catholic Crusaders against Orthodox Christians and Jews, as well as Muslims, in the Middle Ages.
In Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood head Mohammed Mahdi Akef said the Pope’s words “do not express correct understanding of Islam and are merely wrong and distorted beliefs being repeated in the West”.
In a statement, he was “astonished that such remarks come from someone who sits on top of the Catholic church which has its influence on the public opinion in the West”.
Sheikh Youssef al-Qardawi, a prominent Muslim cleric in Qatar, rejected the Pope’s comments, in remarks reported by Reuters.
“Muslims have the right to be angry and hurt by these comments from the highest cleric in Christianity,” Mr Qardawi reportedly said.
“We ask the Pope to apologise to the Muslim nation for insulting its religion, its Prophet and its beliefs.”
The 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference also said it regretted the Pope’s remarks, and news agencies reported a furious reaction on Islamic websites.
“Amnesia” International
Do you now have idea what I am talking about? Seriously, they should name Amnesty International to something like Amnesia International. Came across a report by them today, it states, “Under fire: Hizbullah’s attacks on northern Israel”. Just go and read it. I hate it the most when such Organizations, calling themselves as working for HUMANITY issues such reports. A few points in this report:
According to the UN Mine Action Coordination Center, more than 400 areas targeted in Israeli attacks are now contaminated with as many as 100,000 unexploded bomblets. Israeli forces carried out 90 per cent of their cluster bombs strikes In the last 72 hours of the 34-day conflict – when a ceasefire was in sight – according to a senior UN official.
100,000 “unexploded” bomblets! 90 per cent of their cluster bombs strikes in the last 72 hours of the 34 day conflict? When a ceasefire was in sight? Is this less than Hezbullah’s reasons to be UNDER FIRE. Is it not a proof of Israel behaving bad in this war? and anyways. Israel was the one who started it. You don’t make it under fire but you do that for Hezbullah.
The Israeli Air Force launched more than 7,000 air attacks on about 7,000 targets in Lebanon between 12 July and 14 August, while the Navy conducted an additional 2,500 bombardments.(1) The attacks, though widespread, particularly concentrated on certain areas. In addition to the human toll – an estimated 1,183 fatalities, about one third of whom have been children(2), 4,054 people injured and 970,000Lebanese people displaced(3) – the civilian infrastructure was severely damaged. The Lebanese government estimates that 31 “vital points” (such as airports, ports, water and sewage treatment plants, electrical facilities) have been completely or partially destroyed, as have around 80 bridges and 94 roads.(4) More than 25 fuel stations(5) and around 900 commercial enterprises were hit. The number of residential properties, offices and shops completely destroyed exceeds 30,000.(6) Two government hospitals – in Bint Jbeil and in Meis al-Jebel – were completely destroyed in Israeli attacks and three others were seriously damaged.(7)
Which side lost the most in regards to “Humans” and “Civilans”? Lebanon…then why don’t you first pressurize Israel and talk later about Hezbullah. The reports also were sort of saying Israelis were in bomb shelters for a month and bla bla bla. They were atleast in “bomb shelters”! Where were the Lebanese hiding? Israelis I am sure, their military services or civil services were there during all this time because Hezbullah did not have the upper hand in “FIGHTER PLANES”. So Israelis were being provided food etc. properly by their Government. It was not Hezbullah issuing statements like, “Any vehicle on the move will be targetted”. It was Israel which said that. So it was not anywhere near possible for the Lebanese Government to assist their civilians during the conflict & inspite of all this, Hezbullah is blamed the most and Israeli civilians are said to be effected the most.
Even the guys in the UN have the same problem. You had to ask Israel to stop their attacks, not Hezbullah. Hezbullah was not the one who advanced into Israeli territory, it was Israel which advanced into Lebanon. Any country have a little shame will resist such a thing.
Iran & the Ayat*****
I used to be a big fan of Iran. Loved the Government and Supreme Council or whatever it is. But I am finding it hard to do that now. I took it as a country, which is being overlooked by someone who is supposed to have alot of knowledge and is NAEB-E-IMAM MEHDI (AS). I used to take everything I would watch on TV about Iranian Government’s restrictions on press and all that as propaganda. It was upto some extent but not fully. I used to believe because of someone so high watching over a country, the Government too would be acting good and they won’t even dare doing any unjustice with the people of Iran but looks like I was wrong. I really was wrong. No matter how high anyone is, they are just usual human beings who can commit mistakes, who can be as mean as any one else. They are not MAASOOMEEN after all. If something wrong is happening out there in Iran, why is the person up above so high not talking about it? Why is he not asking the Government to stop such a thing from happening? WHY? If that person is not doing it then something is wrong, seriously wrong.
Let me tell everyone that I am not the kind who disses Ayatollahs for their fatwas like Non-Syed Man can marry Syed woman. I am someone who believes in Ijtihad. I do not find my self able enough to find the Islamic rulings on my own and so I follow them accordingly. I am just a fallible human being my self. Perhaps I am labelled as “GONE ASTRAY” from the path for what I think about all this. Perhaps I am said to have been impressed by the Western Propaganda. I believe I will be, I will be asked by some to shut up and not talk about matters like these. I will be asked by some perhaps to stop spreading the “FITNA”. But why not? Truth should never remain hidden. I cannot live with something like this in my brain, I feel suffocated if I do. I will talk perhaps in detail about all this later. I was here to tell about someone…
Zahra Kazemi 
Zahra “Ziba” Kazemi-Ahmadabadi was an Iranian freelance photographer, residing in Montreal (Canada), who died in the custody of Iranian officials following her arrest.
Although Iran’s regime insists that her death was accidental, Shahram Azam, a former military staff physician who left Iran and sought asylum in Canada in 2004, has stated that he examined Kazemi’s body and observed evidence of rape and torture, including a skull fracture, broken nose, crushed toe, broken fingers, and severe abdominal bruising. The Canadian government, as well as Kazemi’s supporters, consider her death to be a murder.
Freelance photographer, died in the custody of Iranian officials following her arrest? WTH! & Shahram Azam, former military staff physician saying he observed evidence of rape and torture, skull fracture, broken nose, crushed toe, broken fingers and abdominal bruising. Don’t you think that is too much for a “WOMAN”. Let’s say there was no rape. There is still enough torture left there! Happening in I R A N ??? I thought they hang in public such people who do this.
Travelling back to her birth country using her Iranian passport, Kazemi was allowed into Iran to take photographs of the possible demonstrations that were expected to take place in Tehran in July, 2003. However, on June 23, 2003, she was arrested in front of the Evin prison where photography is prohibited. The Evin prison staff, who the Kazemi family’s lawyers consider a party in the beatings that led to Kazemi’s death, say that she had been in a sensitive area, photographing parts of the prison, even though she insisted that she had not photographed any part of the prison, but only the street and the demonstrators, who were family members of activist students jailed in the prison.
It’s funny when I hear in today’s world that taking photographs of a place are forbidden. Funny because there are many more ways to SPY a place if someone wants to. You cannot hide from a Satellite at all, then what is the point of placing such prohibition? Ok. May be it does matter but why not just take the camera and take the role then have a fair trial against the person who take such photographs or just take the role and damage it? But no… She appears like a SPY? What was so special in that prison? Even if she was a SPY, they should have made her appear in court don’t you think? Or may be incharge of the said prison was a lonely guy? May be his wife was not around for quite sometime? So he decides to have fun? Or may be something else?
Nineteen days later, she died in Iranian custody in Baghiyyatollah al-Azam Military Hospital. It is widely believed she was beaten to death; after initial denials, Iranian government sources (including Mohammad Ali Abtahi, the Vice President of Legal Affairs and Masoud Pezeshkian, the Minister of Health and Medical Education) later admitted that she had died of a fractured skull as a result of being hit in the head. Abtahi claims that he was under a lot of pressure to take back the acknowlegement, but he resisted it.
If you were thinking this was all propaganda and lies. You should change your mind now. You have Iranian Officials confirming her death was nothing natural. Abtahi claiming that he was under a lot of pressure to take back the acknowlegement? This case should have come in front of the Supreme Council filled with all supremes? THEN WHY DID THEY NOT DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT?
One of the two Iranian intelligence agents charged with her death was acquitted in September, 2003. The other agent, Mohammed Reza Aghdam-Ahmadi was charged with “semi-intentional murder” and his trial opened in Tehran in October, 2003. In the same month, the Iranian parliament condemned Saeed Mortazavi, a Tehran prosecutor, for announcing that Kazemi had died of a stroke. On July 25, 2004, Aghdam-Ahmadi was acquitted.
ACQUITTED? Why? Or am I not aware of a SPECIAL and TOP SECRET “fatwa” which perhaps states raping a woman, breaking her skull, her fingers, her nose, her toes, her ribs, tearing her apart is fully allowed if she photographs a prison? or a “sensitive” area?
Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer and former judge who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, was the main representative of Kazemi’s family at the trial, and has represented them at the second and third sessions of Aghdam-Ahmadi’s trial, which took place on July 17 and July 18, 2004. In the court, Kazemi’s mother mentioned that she wanted the real murderer to be prosecuted. She also mentioned that she saw Kazemi’s body before the burial, upon which there were signs of torture.
Hats down for the woman who has the courage to stand up against all this. Shirin Ebadi in her book mentioned a secret list, the list contained names of people, who were killed by the Iranian Intelligence. Why? They were causing “TROUBLE” for the current regime. She says next name on the list was hers. But she had already won the case in court about it, by which Iranian Government accepted existence of a SECRET LIST.
Ebadi and the other lawyers of the family insisted in the court that they know that Kazemi was not killed by Aghdam-Ahmadi, and they need witnesses to be brought to the court in order to find the real murderer, who they guessed may be Mohammad Bakhshi, a high officer of the Evin prison. The list of witnesses they requested included Saeed Mortazavi, the general prosecutor of Tehran Mohsen Armin, reformist member of the previous parliament Hossein Ansari-Rad, Jamileh Kadivar, and Mohsen Mirdamadi, Minister of Intelligence Ali Younesi, the Vice President of Legal Affairs Mohammad Ali Abtahi, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ahmad Masjedjamei, the five judges who were present during Kazemi’s interrogation, a few employees of the Evin prison, the president of the Baghiyyatollah hospital, and all of the medical staff who had signed her file. Judge Farahani denied all of the requests. The lawyers also quoted the official report of death that various of parts of Kazemi’s body had been damaged and her clothes were torn and bloody, which proves that she had been tortured.
Judge Farahani denied all of the requests for the witnesses they wanted to come and testify in court? WHY? Why is the Supreme Council not taking notice of this? Or is it the Supreme Council asking FARAHANI to deny the requests? Mohammad Bakhshi, see… I told you. Someone’s wife was not around for a long time!!!
On July 24, Judge Farahani issued his judgement, clearing Aghdam-Ahmadi of the charges. He also mentioned that since the murderer has not been found, according to the Islamic sources the blood money should be paid by the government to the family. The lawyers of Kazemi’s family announced that they will definitely appeal the case, asking for a criminal court to be established to reconsider the whole case, or completing the numerous incompletenesses of the file. The end of July saw Iran’s judiciary adding “accidental fall” and “hunger strike” to the list of alleged causes for Kazemi’s death. They claimed that Kazemi had gone on a hunger strike voluntarily, developed low blood pressure that made her dizzy, fallen, and hit her head. Detractors point out that this story does not explain her broken bones, genital injuries or skin lacerations.
WOW! I did not know these guys can be bad scientists and Doctors. She hit her head and fractured her skull. Perhaps in the mean time she also squeezed her self somehow and broke her nose, toes, ribs, also made bruises on her body and also made on her self some “brutal” genital injuries.
Source of the quoted parts is Zahra Kazemi’s page on Wikipedia. I know I sound bitter up above, just something I could not help. Sorry! Think for your self and comment.
Happy 15 Shaaban
I know I am late, few reasons for that. In village right now, last now and even till now you can hear the fireworks, crackers etc. I did not hear any AK-47’s firing in air and that too heard this morning just an hour ago. I do not understand the reason for them doing this. Ofcourse I know the explanation which they provide for it, perhaps it is true too. For me it’s not. Not because first we should make ourselves better in all regards and once we are, we will not be doing fireworks on this day but praying to Allah, doing aa’maal, not hurting people. The fireworks continued till late night, and happened whole night actually after sometime. It was not good of them to do that in the middle of the night like say at 2:00 am. People get disturbed because of it…
So, they will be gone by now in groups for sending letters to our Imam (as). I got the thought of writing one too but then I did not, I could not. I am not saying any thing against sending words to our Imam (as). All I want to say is we are living among hypocrites and I don’t want to join those. There’s a scholar, who feels shame in walking from his home to the Imam Bargah. How else do you explain it with? His home is only 5-10 mins walk to the Imam Bargah but he will not come if you don’t send a vehicle to him. I understand if it’s late night but why can’t you do that in the day light?
I can claim that we are living among people, the kind of people who won’t be able to see you even eat anything. If they get a chance, they will snatch every single bit of what you are eating.
They are jealous of what you are. They cannot see of what you are. They always look forward for a chance where they can take everything away from you. They forget it’s Allah All Mighty who blesses a person with everything, then why do they hold bad about a person blessed by Allah with everything. It’s no baseless allegation, it has happed enough with our family. Will Imam (as) listen to such people, whose hearts are black and full with filth.
Pakistan…Our country, I don’t know what will become of it, if it continous to go like this. I had to go through such a pain when all I wanted to send was send a few Dollars to a friend in the US. There was no one who said they will do it for me except this one company. I will not name them,
all I will say is there office is in front of Rescue 15 office in my city. Please don’t go to them ever.
First the Manager says the amount you are sending will disappear in the way. He joked about how much it was. I said it’s enough. He after sometimes says he can’t do it because it’s not much. He asked me to go and do it in another city where they have got their main branch. I said give me number of that main branch, I want to ask them if I can send it from your office or not. He says, “What do you mean? I told you I will not send, so I will not send. Now even if someone from America calls me, I will not send the money.” I was really pis*** off to hear this. In other words, he could have easily sent the money for me. But he did not want to go through all the hastle & you know what. I caught him lying to his friend, his friend because he was being nice nice with him while talking, he would have not listened to him in the first place if he was not his friend. So this young guy comes and asks him to send a fax to Dubai for him. The Manager says he can’t do it because the main branch have locked his fax and he cannot send the fax to anywhere outside Pakistan. The young guy was not much literate I think. He insisted the Manager, Manager says ok, give me the number. You know what he did. He pressed all the numbers and clicked SP (Speaker Phone) button so the number dials. We all sitting there heard a noise, well, if you have used Dial-Up, you will hear a screeching noise when you are connected and you pick up the telephone. It was that noise! The Manager did this once more and said to the guy. See, I told you, it’s locked and I cannot send the fax. If you want to send the fax anywhere in Pakistan, let me know. He lied to his friend so greatly. The young fella ofcourse did not know what happened. He did not know what the noise was about. I understand, perhaps the Manager was not allowed by his office to use the fax for personal things BUT he could have just told that to his friend instead of making such a plot and fooling him.
I was already in a bad mood when we happened to visit this Bank and meet a friend there. He mentioned a guy whose name starts with, “Mohammad”. His money has been jammed. I think the money was transferred from some foreign country. The money was jammed because of his name. He said it will be first investigated and then the money issued. I was so so so much disappointed and got in a very very bad mood for the rest of the day. You can see the reason your self. I don’t know where else is this happening. But it is happening in PAKISTAN, a country meant to be for muslims! ALAS… A muslim country and it’s so called politicians and Generals are not even able to defend the name of their Prophet Mohammad (SAWW). I can call this blasphemy against our Prophet (SAWW). They took the world on their heads when a few cartoons of our Prophet (SAWW) were printed. Is this matter any different? They are making you suspect people who happen to have same name as the Prophet (SAWW). They are making you say guys with names of your Prophet (SAWW) can be terrorists…or in other words. NAUZUBILLAH…………………..
