Zahir
Ebrahim | Project
Humanbeingsfirst.org
May
8, 2013
Response
to 'Dawn’s editor or chief of Shia Ghetto Police?'
An
op-ed on a small blog of Pakistan run by PPP aficionados
both in Pakistan and elsewhere (but not funded by PPP as per
their claim) called Let Us Build Pakistan, responded to an editorial
titled Sectarian
vigilantes
that appeared in Pakistan's largest English language news daily, The
Dawn, an establishment mouthpiece whose editor in chief is Mr. Zaffar
Abbas, ostensibly a Shia Muslim, with this valid critique which
surely resonates among the general Shia Muslim public of Pakistan:
“In
the last week, DAWN has published atleast 2 articles/editorials that
dishonestly obscure the carnage faced by the Shia Muslims across the
lenght and breadth of Pakistan. ... Dawn’s editorial today is
the latest article in Dawn’s drive to twist and misrepresent
Shia genocide in Pakistan. Here is a relevant excerpt:
'AS
reported in this paper on Friday, police officials believe that in
Karachi, gangs of four to five men usually carry out targeted
sectarian killings without any planning or formal instructions from
major sectarian outfits. The rise in this trend of communal
vigilantism is cause for concern, especially considering the extent
of sectarianism in this country. Police officials say that Sunni
sectarian groups such as the Sipah-i-Sahaba/Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat
and its deadly offshoot Lashkar-i-Jhangvi have begun to target
ordinary members of the Shia community, whereas in earlier decades
mostly Shia professionals and scholars were killed. Conversely, Shia
militants, apparently working under the banner of Sipah-i-Muhammad,
have concentrated their attacks on SSP activists. Until 2008, most
victims of sectarian violence in Karachi were Shia; however, as the
report notes, the past two years have witnessed an increasing number
of SSP workers killed, indicating that Shia militants have begun to
strike back. As the state has failed to punish sectarian killers,
this is the natural outcome. ...'
This
dishonest drivel not only obscures the violence against Shias by
ISI-backed Jihadist groups, it also obscures the role of these
Jihadists in the massacre and oppresion of Ahmadis, Sunnis (Brehvis),
Christians, Hindus, Pashtuns etc. It also attributes the Shia
genocide to the majority of moderate Sunnis who have already rejected
and dissociated from Pakistan army backed Jihadip-sectarian
terrorists. ...
Under
Zafar Abbas, brother of ISPR General Athar Abbas, DAWN has continued
its downward slide in terms of journalistic ethics and standards and
today, barring the odd exception, it can be described as an ISPR
mouthpiece.
Founded
by the Shia Jinnah and owned by a Shia business family for much of
its times, DAWN has printed the most anti-Shia articles in the recent
past. For Pakistan’s varied Shia communities, a Shia sellout
like Zaffar Abbas is no different from those few Jews who
collaborated with Nazis in the genocide of their own people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Ghetto_Police
Shame
on you DAWN. With a rag like yours, is it any wonder that a few Shia
youth have taken to vigilantism to protect themselves from total
destruction….”
Project
Humanbeingsfirst.org responded, a bit belatedly perhaps to this year
old editorial (March 20th, 2012), but still with immediate pertinence
to the deteriorating conditions in Pakistan
amidst the fantasy of the upcoming May 11, 2013 elections bringing
“change” to Pakistan. The manufactured euphoria
in Pakistan is evidently much the same vintage as witnessed in the
United States in its 2008 presidential elections on the “Change”
ticket which brought the incumbent President Obama
to power for two terms. The first term had commenced with the
incoming president immediately bombing Pakistan the day he took
office, and most recently his second term peaked in the direct
demonstration of America's military police-state prowess in Boston
just this past month. That sort of change any public can surely live
without but is the trajectory of all changes any time the word
“change” is mentioned. It is the harbinger for what's
coming to Pakistan.
Here
is Project Humanbeingsfirst's response to the notion of “Shia
Ghetto Police”.
I
would however prefer to re-title that outstanding punch line to
Muslim Ghetto Police. This police is worldwide. And especially
abundant among the Pakistani academia, thinktanks, NGOs, liberal
blogs, conservative blogs, ISI and intelligence run blogs, and the
general educated English enabled silent majority middle class, all
infected with the Plague of Occidentosis.
(Download
and read this book for it truly captures the Pakistani liberated
public mind today even though it was written to capture the Iran’s
liberated public mind of the 1950s and 1960s — thanks to the
one Pakistani blogger I am distinctly aware of who is not infected by
this virus, nota at fkpolitics.wordpress.com, who many years ago
pointed out this seminal study By JALAL AL-I AHMAD, Translated by R
Campbell, Introduction by Hamid Algar, written 1961 in Iran and
banned until published after the Iranian Revolution. Mizan Press
1984; it can also be downloaded from my website
http://tinyurl.com/Occidentosis-pdf
).
But
first, really thank you for this apt reminder [of the Jewish Ghetto
Police] with the above caveat:
“Jewish
Ghetto Police also known as the Jewish Police Service and referred to
by the Jews as the Jewish Police, were the auxiliary police units
organized in the Jewish ghettos of Europe by local Judenrat councils
under orders of occupying German Nazis. Jewish Ghetto Police also
known as the Jewish Police Service and referred to by the Jews as the
Jewish Police, were the auxiliary police units organized in the
Jewish ghettos of Europe by local Judenrat councils under orders of
occupying German Nazis. Members of the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst
did not have official uniforms, often wearing just an identifying
armband and a badge, and were not allowed to carry firearms. They
were used by the Germans primarily for securing the deportation of
other Jews to the concentration camps. Members of Shia Ghetto Police
in Pakistani media: …”
The
mindset of these people, the Muslim Ghetto Police, has hitherto been
classified as House Niggers for their self-serving subservient
psychology to the massa class (
http://tinyurl.com/THE-NIGGERS-OF-PAKISTAN
) , and I think perhaps the above additional classification captures
the actual behavior of this liberated class exhibiting that
underlying pernicious psychology most aptly!
This
brand of psychology, the house nigger, unfortunately exists among all
peoples — the house nigger is ubiquitous today among the
Asiatics. So it is only to be expected that every ethnicity, sect,
tribe, caste and creed among every people in every nation will have
their own sub-chapter of this breed.
They
all presuppose in their common and uncommon narrations the massa’s
core axioms, the white man’s core truths, as self-evident and
beyond question. The house nigger is psychologically unable to come
out of that mindset, and therefore their narrow articulation of views
particular to their local situation continually carries that often
unstated axiom as their presupposition.
Any
and all narratives emanating from their pen, their mind, and their
speech, are built upon those massa’s core axioms.
Shias
are only the latest deadly casualty of imperial carnage conducted by
empire’s proxy assets, the pirates, and this beleaguered
peoples obviously gravitate to lamenting their own dead as per any
socialization and tribal binding, while strictly kept in check as to
their publicly proclaimed narratives by their own ethnic Ghetto
Police – for such thought-policing has the most impact. The
house niggers intuitively understand their own respective field
nigger brethren’s psychology all too well — even if they
don’t their own — especially if they are the super
learned kind, and therefore, can most capably articulate psy-ops and
propaganda handed to them by the Mighty Wurlitzer often times
remaining quite innocently unaware of their own psychology that moves
them to this calumny. This is not mere pop psychology rubbish. See
full analysis in my paper http://tinyurl.com/MightyWurlitzer.
Sunnis
are the same. One can easily make a list of the Sunni thought police,
their Ghetto Police which keeps them in line.
Mullahs
in both sects also serve that function.
And
the atheists are no different, nor are the secular humanist.
Among
all of them are many of my own friends and colleagues, even co-alums
who have studied in America’s best Ivy Leagues — just
more “likkha parrha jahils”, economic and science widgets
at best, working directly for the massa in the worst, but mostly as
useful idiots. Not one of them can rise to debate a single field
nigger who is beyond their social and thought control.
I
think one has to transcend the Shia–Sunni discourse which has
been crafted deliberately, and focus on the core axioms which are the
presumed gospel truths in these narratives.
Who
is the enemy?
I
don’t think Pakistanis should be thinking of themselves as
shias and sunnis — [especially] at this time, but as Muslims
first, and Pakistanis, with a common psychology which only varies
with socialization and religiosity only minimally, and having common
enemies.
To
understand that, I take a leaf out of the American website
salem-news’ iconic activist-author Ken O’Keefe’s
book: truth, justice, and peace —- in that order.
To
learn the truth, one minimally has to become cognizant of one’s
own socialization and political biases, one’s own psychology,
all of which create the subversive presuppositions upon which our
worldviews are unwittingly based, and which consequently inhibit us
from reaching and unraveling the core truths which come wrapped in
layers and layers of deceptive and self-serving, often self-deluding
narratives.
A
great example is the lame article on LUBP: A review of PPP
government’s 5-year performance in Pakistan 2008-2013 –
by Abdul Nishapuri ( http://criticalppp.com/archives/262489
), quoting from PPP public relations glossy brochures to brazenly
deny in the best mold of partisan incestuous self-reinforcement, what
every Pakistani knows and feels every fcking day they come back home
alive, and there too amidst constant load shedding, water shortage,
gas shortage, and armed guards at the gate: that we as a Pakistani
people are more fcked today in our nation run by two-bit house nigger
elites than we ever were in our nation's
sexagenarian history, and regardless of which asshole comes to power,
we will stay on the same curve of descent.
This
election fervor and hoopla — the
natural entertainment and opiate of the elite and laity alike to give
them the illusion of self-empowerment — being witnessed among
the learned is a travesty in this day and age. It continually blinds
us to reality.
These
psychological cataracts, as MLK put it, have to be overcome —
and is clearly visible in the lame article referenced above, and in
many more like that written by useful idiots who in essence have
become the voice of the co-opted house nigger class in Pakistan who
don’t get to have a say in the mainstream. A class which
transcends economic, racial, ethnic, and sectarian barriers.
How
much more self-deluded can people become?
Is
it possible to break out of that mindset?
Here
is how Malcolm X described that mindset:
‘Today’s
Uncle Tom doesn’t wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern,
twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He’s
usually well-dressed and well-educated. He’s often the
personification of culture and refinement. The twentieth-century
Uncle Thomas sometimes speaks with a Yale or Harvard accent.
Sometimes he is known as Professor, Doctor, Judge, and Reverend, even
Right Reverend Doctor. This twentieth-century Uncle Thomas is a
professional Negro … by that I mean his profession is being a
Negro for the white man.’ — (Malcolm X, The Autobiography
of Malcolm X, 1964, 1999 hardcover edition, Chapter Black Muslims,
page 265)
And
this is how MLK Jr. captured it:
‘The
white establishment is skilled in flattering and cultivating emerging
leaders. It presses its own image on them and finally, from imitation
of manners, dress, and style of living, a deeper strain of corruption
develops. This kind of Negro leader acquires the white man’s
contempt for the ordinary Negro. He is often more at home with the
middle-class white than he is among his own people. His language
changes, his location changes, his income changes, and ultimately he
changes from the representative of the Negro to the white man into
the white man’s representative to the Negro. The tragedy is
that too often he does not recognize what has happened to him.’
— (Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope, page 307)
We,
as the Pakistani people, continually look to America, and to the
West, for the solutions to our problem. Democracy after all, is their
panacea inflicted upon the world in the name of self-empowerment —
while they manufacture and choose the power-nexus from which we are
obliged to choose the front faces. But we strangely also remain
steadfast in not learning from their contribution to social sciences
and humanities, to political theory and the Machiavellian mechanisms
for inducing the very same psychological cataracts which their own
civil rights leaders finally broke through.
No
— that is way too much intellectual vitamins to swallow for the
colonized mind — we will just quote from the massa’s
thinktanks and the New York Times.
We
will just mirror their narratives.
We
will just echo their axioms.
And
the range of our divergence from the mainstream narratives and our
own thought police, our respective Ghetto police, will remain bounded
by the axioms of the white man’s burden (
http://humanbeingsfirst.wordpress.com/white-mans-burden/
)
I
say — let’s stop carrying that fcking burden on our own
backs.
Begin
by breaking that language barrier inflicted upon us.
No
more Shia and Sunni — Muslim issues, and Pakistan issues, and
the common issues being inflicted upon all of us as the
untermenschen!
Thank
you.
Zahir
Ebrahim
Project
Humanbeingsfirst.org
May
8, 2013
Response
to article: Zaffar Abbas, Dawn’s editor or chief of Shia Ghetto
Police? http://criticalppp.com/archives/74499#comment-501929
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No More
Shia-Sunni - Only The Ubiquitous Muslim Ghetto Police By Zahir
Ebrahim