Lost Soul: The reason I drag mothers, daughters and sisters in my post is that these in our culture are considered the most noblest, venerated, respected and loved object a man possesses.
A Muslim can die to protect the sanctity of their honor, while the west treats them as objects to be looked at and admired, and no ‘westernized’ person cares whether their mother walks upon the beach in front of a million people half naked or if they sleep around.
It was meant as an example to bring to light the fact that while we consider these decadent and immoral acts, yet some desis believe that the west is the height of chivalry and courtesy because someone opens a door and says thank you. Rub the veneer a little and out pops the real westerner, a brazen and vile animal…
Maulana Maududi described this act as the west showing the Muslim a mirror and telling the Muslim how horrible you look. The Muslim being as naive as they are believed him and started to think of himself as an ugly creature. The mirror is merely a reference to how the Muslim is portrayed in the western culture, a sword wielding, loud mouthed horde of people bent on destruction.
How ironic that in the last 50 years alone, it has been the west that has harboured the most hatred for Muslims and has contributed to more death and destruction than the world has ever seen in history, all at a time when it claims to have achieved the highest level of correctness and civility.
The westerners have always remained this way forever, from the time of crusades, the Spanish inquisition, the colonization of the Americas, World War I and II to today…This creature seeks nothing more than death and destruction and is a master of disguise.
Fraudiya: From what I have read up on satires is that they tend to pick up on social, cultural or any other aspect of a society which directly or indirectly affects us, but I have yet to see a well written satire based on individuals, unless it happens to be a tabloid and you know the kind of people that tend to read them. Anyways, satires are meant to entertain and bring to light the lighter side of things, not complain about how someone looks or dresses or talks, otherwise it becomes nothing more than your own personal bias against…
Now I am ready for your detailed post in which you argue that black is white and white is black…
Matsui: My breakdown of the stats in this matter, in case you haven’t picked up on it, is based merely on my personally meeting and talking with these people and is strictly limited to my own experience.
Your very Indian-style response to my post brings about another fact quite relevant to the issue at hand. The fact being in how you addressed me personally, where on one hand you could have asked me straight out from where I got results of my findings, resort to argument ad hominem.
One redeeming quality about the westerners is their ability to argue and discuss a point without getting personal. Leave aside the fact of how much hatred festers inside them, they will always talk the issue, not the speaker. You, having been educated, grown up, been in constant contact with the Americans should know how to present an argument and counter one. But you, getting crass and personal with me, is not your own fault. It’s what you are and will remain because it’s in your genes and I don’t hold you responsible.
Your response reminds me of an old Argentinian saying, which too, is very relevant to the issue at hand: In Argentina, a Campesino is a pig herder. In Argentinian society, a Campesino is the worst creature ever created. He is worse than a dog, he is worse than a germ in fact there is nothing more pathetic and woeful than a Campesino. He is very much the equivalent of what in your culture would be considered the Achhoot or the untouchable.
According to the Argentinian saying, it goes on to say, that no matter how educated, how refined, how wealthy or how well dressed a Campesino becomes, a piece of pig sh1t is always stuck to his heels.
The pig sh1t of course is proverbial and so is the heel, but of course they can become very apparent in instant, whether by how someone talks or acts…
Mama: Mr. Lajawab sees dead people… and sees goras…They are everywhere, and from what I hear and see around me, on TVs, in magazines and not to mention I hear them on radio…Can I help it? I live amongst them, you think I am not going to compare my way of life with theirs?
OK. Just asnwer this simple question. Do the men of any average household in America no know about their daughter or sister sleeping around? Last I heard prostitution was a profession very looked down upon, and that too pro bono…
I am sorry if it sounds so personal to you, but to me it’s also very personal when one desi who thinks that he’s all that can smirk at another desi because the guy can’t pronounce mayonnaise correctly…
The funniest thing is, this guy I know, who works 2 jobs, can hardly support his family and make ends meet but can speak English with a real American accent…Now this guy makes fun a Muslim gujju and his English because the guy pronounces Bristol as ‘Bristaul’ and Pepto-Bismol as ‘Paipto-Bismaul’ all the while working privately and for the government as a CPA and making a huge six figure income…Who has the last laugh now? 
Now, if the first guy, thinks that the second guy is giving a bad impression of desis because he can’t pronounce his words correctly or wears T-shirts that are two sizes too small in front of people who have no qualms in being naked, that ticks me off rather fierce…
Cheegum: Saying that Indians suck is like saying that cows give milk.. But seriously, my closest friends in Illinois were Indians…But they were Indians, not Hindians…It’s true though…We have the best of what India has to offer and look at his reply above…
Sabah: I understand what you’re getting at, but you should know there is a difference between modernization and westernization.
During a discussion and great friend of mine gave this wonderful example to illustrate the difference between the two:
Modernization: You hire people in Pakistan to work for you in a heavy machine factory and your workers wear turbans to protect themselves from the swinging, circling and rotating machinery. One of the worker’s turbans becomes unraveled, is caught on a rotating machinery, he becomes entwined in it, is pulled towards the machine and is killed.
Your company takes the initiative and orders hard-hats for your employees, that’s modernization and I am all for it.
Westernization: You want to wear low rise jeans because Britney Spears looks good in them.
I believe in adapting, not adopting the things that we come across…
Oh, and Sabah, when the Holy Quran mentions man being a garment for woman and woman being a garment, isn’t garment an object?
I once mentioned in a post that Muslim women are hard to get objects like diamonds and Ferraris…Some girls on this board harangued me so badly I was shy to post for a week…Come on, don’t be so literal all the time, try to understand what is being hinted at…
) like us. Now its not their fault that they have grown up in the West or spent the chunck of their lives in a western country. I have even seen people who go and spend a month somewhere in a western country and boom .. you 'll see they have changed…but I for one never fret abt such things…
