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document.write( "            Testing at Racialicious! - the intersection of race and pop culture: " );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(Rob Schmidt):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Obama is planning to lower taxes on most people, of course. This isn’t some obscure detail in the fine print of his proposal; it’s the headline. Yet Republicans such as McCain are unable to process this fact. Either that or they’re lying outright about what they believe, which is always a good possibility.Here’s a good cartoon on the subject of the politics of fear:http://www.bluecorncomics.com/pics/bushfags.gifP.S. Emily Latella and I are in favor of clean (and sugar-free) cola too." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> My reaction as a Muslim immigrant who was born in Africa (and is a citizen of Pakistan) has been to ALWAYS refer to &quot;That One&quot; as &quot;My Brother Barack Hussein&quot;, whether I am supporting him or being critical of him for advocating a policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan that he says was stupid for Iraq because it doesn\'t address the whole situation." );
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document.write( "            <a href=\"http://kadnan.com/blog/2008/09/05/angoor-adda-raidwhy-adil-najam-is-quiet/\" class=\"article\" title=\"External link to article\">Angoor Adda Raid:Why Adil Najam is quiet?</a>" );
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document.write( "                <a class=\"author\" href=\"http://www.cocomment.com/comments/ifaqeer\">ifaqeer</a>" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Have you considered the fact that maybe BECAUSE people like Adil N. and I live in American, when we talk about things like Angoor Adda, we do it to Americans? I can\'t speak for Adil Saahab; you can check in on what he says when he\'s talking to Americans on, for example, National Public Radio (the US equivalent of the BBC, more or less):<br><br>http://www.npr.org/search.php?text=adil+najam<br><br>In fact, it is easy to scream and shout and play on Pakistani emotions when talking to Pakistanis, judging from the picture you draw up yourself, it would take more courage to speak of these things while living in the US and talking to &quot;Americans&quot;, no?<br><br>Personally, as you MIGHT have noticed, I haven\'t been writing/blogging/etc. much of late, but if you go through the archives of my blog, you will see that I haven\'t been jumping on emotional issues, but actually proactively talking about things like Sen. Obama\'s comments way before anyone was even taking him seriously as a candidate in the US:<br><br>http://blog.ifaqeer.com/2007/08/pakistan-and-us-not-just-open-letter-to.html<br><br>If one really wants to stand up for Pakistan and/or Muslims, it will take a lot more &quot;hikmat&quot; and &quot;door-andeshi&quot; than jumping up and down after the fact.<br><br>BTW, I AM working on a website that will take up these issues in ways that I think they should be handled. If you can interact in a less-than-angry way, in the spirit of &quot;La Taghdhab&quot; (http://www.islamworld.net/nawawi.html#hadith16), it would be great!" );
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document.write( "                <a class=\"author\" href=\"http://www.cocomment.com/comments/ifaqeer\">ifaqeer</a>" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Have you considered the fact that maybe BECAUSE people like Adil N. and I live in American, when we talk about things like Angoor Adda, we do it to Americans? I can\'t speak for Adil Saahab; you can check in on what he says when he\'s talking to Americans on, for example, National Public Radio (the US equivalent of the BBC, more or less):<br><br>http://www.npr.org/search.php?text=adil+najam<br><br>In fact, it is easy to scream and shout and play on Pakistani emotions when talking to Pakistanis, judging from the picture you draw up yourself, it would take more courage to speak of these things while living in the US and talking to &quot;Americans&quot;, no?<br><br>Personally, as you MIGHT have noticed, I haven\'t been writing/blogging/etc. much of late, but if you go through the archives of my blog, you will see that I haven\'t been jumping on emotional issues, but actually proactively talking about things like Sen. Obama\'s comments way before anyone was even taking him seriously as a candidate in the US:<br><br>http://blog.ifaqeer.com/2007/08/pakistan-and-us-not-just-open-letter-to.html<br><br>And I continue to tell both people in his campaign and others that the one thing most Pakistanis remember from this campaign is Sen. Obama saying he will bomb Pakistan.<br><br>If one really wants to stand up for Pakistan and/or Muslims, it will take a lot more &quot;hikmat&quot; and &quot;door-andeshi&quot; than jumping up and down after the fact.<br><br>BTW, I AM working on a website that will take up these issues in ways that I think they should be handled. If you can interact in a less-than-angry way, in the spirit of &quot;La Taghdhab&quot; (http://www.islamworld.net/nawawi.html#hadith16), it would be great!" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Adil Najam has to live in US, how can he do that?Do you want him to give-up his hard-earned-green-card and end up in Pakistan?Pakistaniat apnee jagaaa aur asaan-zindagee apnee jagaa.Jitney log blog likhtey hain unhain pata hai, unkee auqat aur unkee limits. Hip-hop glamour bohat achaa lagtaa hai, magar waqaee qaum kaa dard rakhney waley ‘kam-uz-kam’ aaj kal baree dardnaak zindagee guzartey hain. Adil Najam ko bhee Pakistan utnaa hee passand hai jitnaa unkee-zarooriat afford kar saktee hain." );
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document.write( "            <a href=\"http://journeyintoamerica.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/the-mother-mosque-cedar-rapids-iowa/\" class=\"article\" title=\"External link to article\">The Mother Mosque-Cedar Rapids, Iowa</a>" );
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document.write( "                <a class=\"author\" href=\"http://www.cocomment.com/comments/ifaqeer\">ifaqeer</a>" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> It is--at least in the absence of a competing claim--the oldest still-existing/active mosque in the US, though I doubt it was the first to be built here, given as documented Muslim history in what is now the United States starts with Columbus\'s navigator and goes through the slaves brought from Africa, at least half of whom were Muslims." );
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document.write( "            <a href=\"http://www.pakintel.com/2008/07/28/zardari-loses-this-round/\" class=\"article\" title=\"External link to article\">Zardari Loses this Round</a>" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> I don\'t understand the premise used itself. The ISI is a military organization. At best, it should report to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs\' office or the Defense Ministry. The Home Ministry has it\'s own intelligence agency, the IB.<br><br>What I\'d really like to see is, for starters, the department/wing of the ISI that carries out operations within Pakistan--what is it called? the &quot;Political Department&quot;?--shut down. That\'s appropriate." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> PS, does anyone have access to a copy of the original directive, with ZAB\'s signature, setting up that department?" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> This has proved how so called democratic party(PPP) is weak and doesn’t have the ability and courage to bring change in our motherland;the true ruler in Pakistan is military and its corrupt general.PPP lost the golden oppurtunity to put military out of politics .Now with every passing day,the party is getting weaker and weaker and has threat to its existance." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Nice piece, Shahed.<br><br>And I have to say, with the P word being such a lightning rod in the mainstream Muslim space--especially in North America, it\'s wonderful to see someone as visible as you being comfortable taking a position as part a/the &quot;Progressive Revival&quot;!" );
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