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We have a deal!!!

Brown Pundits Archive · August 28, 2014 · Comments Off on We have a deal!!!
…..as per the proposed agreement, the armed forces
would control strategic policy areas, such as relations with the United
States, Afghanistan and India…promise of freedom for former president (retd) General Pervez Musharraf
and that Sharif’s government had secretly agreed to let Musharraf go
abroad after a symbolic indictment over treason……
……
When Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said we are here to stay he was actually trying to convey a message.

Poor Imran Khan, Sharif senior has reportedly managed to strike a deal with the Army after all. Actually that is not quite correct, the Army has used Khan to soften up the Sharif brothers. Ayesha Siddiqui calls this  a “soft coup” and that Nawaz will remain a Prime Minister in Name Only (PiMNO, our words). The chance of PTI riding the protest horse to the throne now appears remote.
…….
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is close to making a deal with the
Pakistan Army, in the backdrop of the political events that are
unfolding in the federal capital, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The
report suggests that as per the proposed agreement, the armed forces
would control strategic policy areas, such as relations with the United
States, Afghanistan and India.
…….
The military has extracted a
promise of freedom for former president (retd) General Pervez Musharraf
and that Sharif’s government had secretly agreed to let Musharraf go
abroad after a symbolic indictment over treason, which took place in
March.
The Wall Street Journal says the government went back on
the deal as a result of which trust had eroded between the military and
Sharif.

Government aides said the military has seized on Sharif’s
weakened status during the political crisis and are now seeking
guarantees from the prime minister that he will follow through on the
agreement, the report suggests.

It also says that for the rest of his term, Sharif will be a ceremonial prime minister.
“If
Nawaz Sharif survives, for the rest of his term, he will be a
ceremonial prime minister—the world will not take him seriously,” said
Ayesha Siddiqa, an analyst based in Islamabad. “A soft coup has already
taken place. The question is whether it will harden,” the report says.

Government aides said in the report that the administration was also
willing to let the prime minister’s brother, Shahbaz Sharif, step down
as chief minister of Punjab.

Thousands of protesters led by cleric
Tahir-ul-Qadri and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan have
camped outside the parliament building in Islamabad to demand the
resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The two-week showdown
at the heart of the capital has rattled the country and shaken Sharif’s
government just 15 months into a five-year mandate.

Imran Khan
has remained defiant and refused to end his sit-in protest, saying he
was seeking “independence or death” and would not rest until both Sharif
brothers quit.
Khan has alleged massive cheating in the May 2013 poll, though international observers said the vote was largely free and fair.

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Link: nawaz-close-to-reaching-deal-with-army

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regards

COPS. Oh America!

Brown Pundits Archive · August 28, 2014 · Comments Off on COPS. Oh America!

Another one. A producer of the show COPS is shot by….a trigger happy cop. 

 The rate at which cops kill unarmed people (mostly black people, but occasionally others as well, as in this case) is too damn high. In fact, the rate at which Black people get killed by cops is higher than the rate at which they were lynched by the klan in most years….. I avoid a lot of news stories because i have become irritable in my old age and for peace of mind I avoid news that tends to trigger elite left-lib bs, but even the paranoid can have real enemies and in this case the leftlibs have the right target…out of control copishness is an awful problem in this country. If someone could somehow dial that down and stop the war on drugs, this would be a great country. I wish I knew how to do it within my lifetime. On the other hand, I remain a man of faith….i think we will eventually get there. WHEN will we get there? that is the issue…probably not soon enough.

 Of course its not just cops. The fetishization of guns and the desire to shoot them extends well beyond militarized trigger-happy cops. 
If I was a hard hearted cynic, I might say this instructor had it coming, but imagine the burden this poor 9 year old girl will carry for the rest of her life. Her parents may be idiots for taking her to a gun range to shoot automatic weapons, but she is still a child and deserves sympathy…

Look at what police officer Sunil Dutta has to say about this topic...and weep.
btw, as some of the above links show, the libertarian magazine Reason has long had the right idea about the war on drugs, the prison mafia and militarized overbearing copishness in the land of the free…

Letter to India: what soldiers wrote in the first world war

Brown Pundits Archive · August 27, 2014 · Comments Off on Letter to India: what soldiers wrote in the first world war

A very interesting piece in caravan

http://caravanmagazine.in/vantage/what-indian-soldiers-first-world-war-wrote-home-about

To commemorate the centenary of India’s service in the First World War,
the British historian David Omissi collected the letters of Indian soldiers away
from home in Indian Voices of the Great War, published this year by
Penguin. These eloquent letters offer a poignant glimpse into the lives of these
Indian soldiers, whom history forgot.

Examples:

A wounded Sikh to his
father
[Gurmukhi]
Brighton Hospital
18th January 1915

Tell my mother not to go wandering madly because her son, my brother, is
dead. To be born and to die is God’s order. Some day we must die, sooner or
later, and if I die here, who will remember me? It is a fine thing to die far
from home. A saint said this, and, as he was a good man, it must be true.

Ram Prasad (Brahmin) to Manik Chand (c/o Sikander Ali, Bamba Debi
Bazar, Marwari Water Tank, Bombay)
[Hindi]
Kitchener’s
Indian Hospital, Brighton
2nd September 1915

And send me fourteen or fifteen tolas of charas, and
understand that you must send it so that no one may know. First fill a round tin
box full of pickles and then in the middle of that put a smaller round box
carefully closed, so that no trace of the pickles can enter. And send a letter
to me four days before you send the parcel off. [Letter withheld]

…

The “Great” is no more in Great Britain

Brown Pundits Archive · August 27, 2014 · Comments Off on The “Great” is no more in Great Britain
…..This week the British embassy in Washington decided to hark back to Blighty’s glory days….picture of a sparkler-bedecked cake “commemorating the 200th
anniversary of burning the White House”….embassy quickly retracted: “Apologies for earlier Tweet. We meant to mark an event in
history & celebrate our friendship today 
. Today UK-US
celebrate #specialrelationship”…..
…

…..
Whichever way the September 18th vote goes for Scottish independence, one thing is for sure:
after 112272 days (starting 01 May, 1707), Scotland will no longer count as a willing partner in
the Union. Truth be told, this breakdown started during the Thatcher
years triggered by the hated poll tax. However from what we read in the
papers and based on accounts by friends, even most of Northern England (Yorkshire and even the Midlands)
is in a different planet compared to London and the South-East England.

There is essentially a sense that London- a truly global city and home of the super-affluent – does not care much about the poor cousins “oop north” and imposes out of touch policies and unwanted migration on the rest of the country. 

Thus while the upstart (and popular) parties are polar opposites – Scottish National Party (SNP) is left-liberal and the UK Independence Party (UKIP) is libertarian-paleocon – they are in agreement that London is bad for the country and harmful for the future. In the words of the wag, there is no better-together (pro-union campaign slogan), only bitter together.

…
How should we feel about all this as Indians? We note that the article gives credit to the British for giving Indians the gift of democracy. There are other folks who would say that India would not even exist as a nation but for the British. Thing is, if you choose to take credit for the good things, you need to own up to  the bad things as well (the Victorian holocausts, the Bengal famine,…).

Also something which is almost never emphasized, it was the British-Indian army that helped maintain order in the far reaches of the empire and which also played a significant role in the World Wars and countless other wars. If Britain gave birth to a new India, the British empire was sustained through Indian blood, sweat and treasure. Not for nothing, India was known as the crown jewel of the empire. The moment Britain lost India, the empire gig was up.
…..
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Britain had dominion over so
many portions of the Earth it was said, famously, that “the sun never
set on the British Empire.” Since the end of World War II, however, that
sun has been steadily dipping toward the horizon. Today, sundown is
truly at hand.

…
On Sept. 18, the voters of Scotland will go to the polls to
determine whether their nation will declare independence from the United
Kingdom after 307 years of union with England. Polls over the last 18
months reported by the website What Scotland Thinks
show a gradually rising tide for independence even though advocates of
remaining in the U.K. still lead in the surveys. But many Scots have
said they are undecided—and thus they hold a key to the decision. 
…..
The
Economist magazine has suggested
that Scots voting with their heads will choose to stay with England,
while those voting with their hearts will opt for independence, but “it
is the nationalists who have fire in their bellies.”
….
The
undecided Scots also hold the key to the final dissolution of one of the
greatest empires in history. The British Empire brought profound
changes to the world—but in the decades since its rapid decline after
World War II it has become a kind of a historical joke, sometimes in
poor taste. 
….
This week the British embassy in Washington decided, for
reasons only known to itself, to hark back to Blighty’s glory days and
tweet a picture of a sparkler-bedecked cake “commemorating the 200th
anniversary of burning the White House” during the War of 1812. 
..
After
newspapers got wind of the tweet, the embassy quickly retracted it,
tweeting: “Apologies for earlier Tweet. We meant to mark an event in
history & celebrate our strong friendship today 
. Today UK-US
celebrate #specialrelationship & work together shoulder to shoulder
across the globe.”


….
But even that assessment is somewhat self-delusional. Since the
beginning of the Cold War, America has done the lion’s share of the
shouldering. Britain, the colonizer of America, has become in some ways
the colony (or lapdog, as some self-deprecating British wags put it).
And now it’s about to get even smaller.
….
The downsizing process
has been long and hard. At its most extensive, the British Empire
comprised 57 colonies, dominions, territories or protectorates from
Australia, Canada and India to Fiji, Western Samoa and Tonga. From
London, the British ruled about 20 percent of world’s population and
governed nearly 25 percent of the world’s land mass, according to
calculations by British researcher Stephen Luscombe. 
….
The spread of
British influence, including the English language, gave birth to the
United States, the world’s only superpower; the world’s largest
democracy in India; and, perhaps inadvertently, disseminated British
concepts of freedom, democracy and common law around the globe. On the
negative side, Britain once corrupted an entire nation, China, with
opium purely to extract drug revenues, and its haughty, racist dominance
of subjected peoples left generations of rage in its wake in many
countries (not least of which are some of those closest to home, like
Ireland).
….
Today that empire has been reduced to 14 scattered
islands such as the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean and Pitcairn
Island in the South Pacific. The Commonwealth of Nations founded before
World War II and revived after the war comprises 54 former British
territories but is little more than a monument to the empire. Now the
wave of dissolution is lapping up against the shores of the British
Isles themselves.

….
Of course it’s been many years since Britain has acted like
an empire, though some former provinces still experience “colonial
cringe” at the sound of upper-crust British English. London’s imperial
might began to crumble during World War II after Japanese armies marched
to gates of India and the shores of Australia, breaking the back of
Western colonialism before Japan was defeated in 1945. A nationalistic
surge ended the colonial era, beginning with the withdrawal from India
and Pakistan in 1947.

….
Some would say the empire officially came
to an end in February of that year when—utterly drained by the two world
wars—the British cabled Washington that they no longer had the money or
troops to defend Greece or Turkey as the Soviet Union threatened to
extend its influence in the early Cold War. …
“The British are finished,”
Dean Acheson, soon to be Harry Truman’s secretary of state, was said to
have remarked when he read the cable. The United States quickly
displaced the United Kingdom as the main stabilizing power in the West.
….
The
decline of British power hasn’t come without a fight. In 1942, Winston
Churchill was famously quoted saying: “We mean to hold our own. I have
not become the king’s first minister in order to preside over the
liquidation of the British Empire.” 
….
But his successors have been
liquidating ever since. Over several decades, Britain withdrew from East
of Suez and from their possessions in Africa; Hong Kong, the city-state
that reverted to China in 1997, was among the last to go. There has
been one exception: In 1982, in a desperate effort to hold onto the
miniscule Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, the U.K. fought a
brief war with Argentina—which it won as a kind of imperial consolation
prize.
………

Link: politico.com/the-sad-end-of-the-british-empire

…..

regards

“We are here to stay”

Brown Pundits Archive · August 27, 2014 · Comments Off on “We are here to stay”
….”I
visited him (Imran Khan) in the hospital and he congratulated me….he will
play the role of a constructive opposition…Imran invited me to Bani
Gala…..assured me he is with the government in all steps taken in good
faith” ….. 

….
After a long, long wait….hopeful (wise) words for Pakistan (from Pakistan). We want to see a decisive leader, not a fire-breather, neither a passive observer.
…..
Amid mounting pressure
from protesters to quit as Pakistan’s Prime Minister, a defiant Nawaz Sharif on
Wednesday refused to resign saying the country has survived “difficult
times” and the current political crisis too shall pass.


“We have survived difficult times. In the 2008 elections, our hands were
tied. But we campaigned and participated, we did not cry about rigging — and it
would have been a legitimate cry,” he said in his first major speech since
the crisis erupted two weeks ago.

“Because at that time there was a dictator that controlled the government.
He held those elections…But we said if PPP has got more seats than us then we
will accept that right of the PPP” he said in his address to the National
Assembly.

Political stalemate has continued for the last two weeks with Imran Khan-led
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri’s Pakistan Awami
Tehreek (PAT) refusing to budge from their demand of the Prime Minister’s
resignation over allegations of rigging in last year’s general election and
killing of 14 PAT supporters in Lahore on June 17.

Sharif expressed hope that this phase will pass and Pakistan will be steered
towards prosperity.

The Prime Minister in his address indicated in no uncertain terms that his
government and the present Parliament are here to stay, Dawn News reported.

“We are not going to be diverted by these things. The journey for the
supremacy of Constitution and law in Pakistan will continue with full
determination and God willing there will not be any interruption in it,”
he said.

Sharif said today would be remembered in the nation’s history as a great day
for democracy.

“This great display of strength will always be remembered. It makes me
happy to think that this is the voice of the 200 million people of the
country,” the premier said. Sharif said his PML-N for five years worked with the Pakistan People’s Party
government and supported it to complete its term.

“I visited him (Imran Khan) in the hospital when he was injured and he
congratulated me on winning the polls and said he will play the role of a
constructive opposition,” Sharif told the House. “Imran’s claims were published in the papers as well,” he said,
adding that PTI had reservations but accepted the results of the elections.  “Later, when Imran invited me to Bani Gala, I went and we had a pleasant
discussion. He assured me he is with the government in all steps taken in good
faith,” Sharif said.

The crisis escalated in the last week with thousands of supporters of Khan and
Qadri camping outside the Parliament, demanding the Prime Minister’s
resignation.

Sharif said “if today, we correct ourselves for the way forward, that will
be positive for Pakistan.”

He pointed out that a committee had already been constituted for electoral
reforms and all political forces should sit together and give their opinions.

“This is the triumph of a vision…which is not about
individuals…governments come and go, prime ministers come and go but focusing
on the principle of democracy and Constitution is a victory of the system, of
democracy,” he said.

“I haven’t seen a similar example in the country’s history,” Sharif
told the House, adding that the fact that nine of out ten parties voted for the
resolution supporting democracy was a historic moment for Pakistan.

He also referred to the government’s developmental ventures in his address.

“Our energies should be directed towards Pakistan’s development instead of
what we have witnessed in the recent days,” Sharif said.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered PTI and PAT protesters to
clear the Constitution Avenue which also includes a road in front of the apex
court and the Parliament by Thursday.

A five-judge larger bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice
Nasir-ul-Mulk, was hearing a set of identical petitions filed by bar
associations across the country against the PAT and PTI’s sit-ins on
Islamabad’s Constitution Avenue.

According to petitioners, protesters were breaching the rights of the common
citizen which ensure freedom of movement and right of assembly.

After making several observations, the court ordered PAT and PTI protesters to
clear the way in front of the Parliament by Thursday.

The protesters have been sitting in front of the Parliament House and the
Supreme Court building since August 19, making the road impassable for government
employees.

The order came as the clock ticked on a 48-hour ultimatum given by Qadri on
Monday for the Prime Minister to step down.

Back channel efforts to broker a settlement between the government and
protesters were on.

…..

Link: Pakistan-survived-difficult-times-this-too-shall-pass-Nawaz-Sharif

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regards

Where are all the good men?

Brown Pundits Archive · August 27, 2014 · Comments Off on Where are all the good men?
…imagine the talk among Asians in
Rotherham…..Good people will feel shame….. Lots instead will blame the victims…..girls
from disadvantaged backgrounds…..lured with cheap gifts and
false affection….children seen as trash, by rapists as well as the authorities, including the police.…..
….
It seems all our societies are struggling to deal with angry young men. Earlier there used to be epidemics, wars, and famines that helped in “mowing the lawn,” to reduce the burden of young men who have nothing to live their lives for, nothing to look for in the future. Simultaneously, women are now coming out of the shadows and they are also less willing to tolerate nonsense. Hence the men are facing a crisis situation: you may still take out your frustrations at work by beating up the lady at home, but society (not just the law) is much less forgiving these days.

We have never thought much about the love jihad narrative, but the role of society in trampling the wishes of men over women must not be under-estimated. Why should men (all communities) today get social sanction for multiple marriages?

Even worse, why should men be allowed to get away with abusing women for decades as the men in charge look the other way? Why did the courageous few fathers who attempted to rescue their daughters get arrested instead? Why did the victims themselves get arrested for drinking problems? Why did it take four reports over ten years for the police to acknowledge serious problems? Why was there no community outreach to the women (whites as well as minorities)?
.
Given powerful evidence of industrial scale sexual abuse, why are there still no public naming and shaming of the responsible officials? Why does it have to be women such as Prof Alexis Jay and Yasmin Alibhai Brown (see below) to stand up for other (all) women?
…………

There have been a few heroes such as Andrew Norfolk of the Times who blew the whistle on the piss-poor performance of the Rotherham police and the child services. We wish there were more folks like him.

Society needs more good men who will lead the youngsters to a path filled with hope, instead of anger. Perhaps an institute for developing male leaders in the new age? Less of the old, my way or the highway boss, more of the enlightened leader-servant. Else we will be on a fast-track to a broken society….as the men fall down, they will also drag the women along with them.
…………………….. 

…..report on child sexual
abuse in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, between 1997 and 2013: About 1,400 children
were sexually exploited in Rotherham over a 16-year period, although no
one knows the true scale of exploitation over the years. In more than a
third of these cases the youngsters were already known to child protection agencies.

Written by Prof Alexis Jay, a former chief
inspector of social work, the investigation concluded that the council
knew as far back as 2005 of sexual exploitation being committed on a
wide scale by mostly Asian men, yet failed to act.

….
This is the
fourth report clearly identifying the problem of CSE in Rotherham. The
first, commissioned by the Home Office back in 2002, contained “severe
criticisms” of the police and local council for their indifference to
what was happening under their noses.
……
But instead of tackling the issue,
senior police and council officers claimed the data in the report had
been “fabricated or exaggerated”, and subjected the report’s author to
“personal hostility,” leading to “suspicions of collusion and cover up”,
said Jay.
…..
Council and other officials sometimes thought youth
workers were exaggerating the exploitation problem. Sometimes they were
afraid of being accused of racism if they talked openly about the
perpetrators in the town mostly being Pakistani taxi drivers.
….
Roger
Stone, Rotherham’s Labour council leader since 2003, said that he had
stepped down with immediate effect following the publication of the Jay
inquiry. “I believe it is only right that I, as leader, take
responsibility on behalf of the council for the historic failings that
are described so clearly in the report and it is my intention to do so,”
he said.
…..
Jahangir Akhtar, the former deputy leader of the
council, is accused in the report of naivety and potentially “ignoring a
politically inconvenient truth” by insisting there was not a
deep-rooted problem of Pakistani-heritage perpetrators targeting young
white girls. Police told the inquiry that some influential Pakistani
councillors in Rotherham acted as barriers to communication on grooming
issues.
…..
On a number of occasions, victims of sexual abuse were
criminalised – arrested for being drunk – while their abusers continued
to act with impunity. Vital evidence was ignored, Jay said, with police
apparently trying to manipulate their figures for child sexual
exploitation by removing from their monitoring process girls who were
pregnant or had given birth, plus all looked after children in care.
…..
Jay
concluded that from 1997-2013, Rotherham’s most vulnerable girls, some
as young as 11, were raped by large numbers of men. Others were
trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted,
beaten, and intimidated, with some children doused in petrol and
threatened with being set alight if they told anyone what had happened.
…..
No
case involving Rotherham men came to court until November 2010 when
five “sexual predators” were convicted of grooming three girls, two aged
13 and one 15, all under children’s social care
supervision, before using them for sex. In the past 12 months, 15
people have been prosecuted or charged with child sexual exploitation
offences in Rotherham.
…..
The victims were offered gifts, rides in
cars, cigarettes, alcohol and cannabis. Sex took place in cars, bushes
and the play areas of parks.
…..
A mortgage adviser who drove a BMW
and owned several properties promised to treat a 13-year old “like a
princess”. Another man pulled the hair of a 13-year old and called her a
“white bitch” when she tried to reject his attempt to strip her.
……
Keith
Vaz, chair of the home affairs select committee, which interviewed
Rotherham council officials during its own inquiry, said: “When we took
evidence, Rotherham council were in denial and Stone is right to step
down. Others responsible should also be held to account.
…..
In
summer 2013 Vaz’s select committee published its own report, which
criticised the council and the police in Rotherham, particularly for the
lack of prosecutions over a number of years. That report was prompted
in part by an investigation by the Times reporter Andrew Norfolk, which
alleged that Rotherham police and council had deliberately covered up
CSE. 
……
Jay’s report is particularly critical of the authorities’ failure
to engage properly with the 8,000-strong members of Rotherham’s
Pakistani-heritage community. Akhtar, deputy leader until he lost his
seat in May, told Jay he had not understood the scale of the child
exploitation problem in Rotherham until 2013. 

Jay writes: “He was one of
the elected members who said they thought the criminal convictions in
2010 were ‘a one-off, isolated case’, and not an example of a more
deep-rooted problem of Pakistani-heritage perpetrators targeting young
white girls. This was at best naive, and at worst ignoring a politically
inconvenient truth.”
……
She found that attempts by senior people in
the council and the police to downplay the ethnic dimensions of CSE in
Rotherham were ill judged. There was also a failure to engage with women
in the Pakistani community, she said, writing: “There was too much
reliance by agencies on traditional community leaders such as elected
members and imams as being the primary conduit of communication with the
Pakistani-heritage community.”
……
Other than two meetings in 2011,
there had been no direct engagement with either men or woman from the
Pakistani community about CSE over the past 15 years, she added.

The
issue of race, regardless of ethnic group, should be tackled as an
absolute priority if it is known to be a significant factor in the
criminal activity of organised abuse in any local community, wrote Jay. 

She suggested councillors can play an effective role in this,
“especially those representing the communities in question, but only if
they act as facilitators of communication rather than barriers to it.
One senior officer suggested that some influential Pakistani-heritage
councillors in Rotherham had acted as barriers.”

…………………..
The report by Professor Alexis Jay into child sexual exploitation in
Rotherham is both appalling and yet strangely reassuring. Professor Jay,
who is clearly committed to justice and equality for all, has produced
her findings without fear or favour. This is new and rare, and I welcome
it. Most of the perpetrators were described as “Asian” by the young
victims, some only 11 years old.



…
White experts and officers have for too long been reluctant to
confront serious offences committed by black and Asian people. Such
extreme tolerance is the result of specious morality, that credo that
says investigating such crimes would encourage racism or enrage
community activists and leaders, or, worse, make the professionals
appear racist. 

So, instead of saving children who were being gang raped,
drugged, assaulted, threatened and terrorised, they chose to protect
rapists, abusers, traffickers and drug dealers. And themselves.

I can imagine what the talk will be among Asians in
Rotherham today. Good people of course will feel shame. Lots, however,
will not, and instead will blame the system or the victims – young girls
from disadvantaged backgrounds who were lured with cheap gifts and
false affection. Such children are seen as trash, low life, by their
rapists as well as the authorities, including the police.

The
perpetrators are not paedophiles in the normal sense of the word. Racial
and cultural odium as much as ugly lust and power drives them to abuse.
Most of them are also irreversibly misogynist. It is a lethal mix, this
sexist psychopathy.

I partly blame their families and
communities. Too many Asian mothers spoil their boys, undervalue their
girls, and demean their daughters-in-law. Within some British Asian
circles, the West is considered degenerate and immoral. So it’s OK to
take their girls and ruin them further. Some of the most fierce rows I
have ever had have been with Asian women who hold these disgusting
views.

I ask them to think what they would feel if gangs of white
men took out their girls, gave them presents, took them places, and then
seduced, beat and passed them around. The men might say they were
rescuing the girls from oppression, showing them a good time, saving
them from a life of forced marriage and all that.

Yes,
racists will have further ammunition after this report. Blame those who
did what they did, not those who are brave and just enough to expose
them. I will always fight for the rights of minorities. But I will not
defend the indefensible.
…….

Link (1): theguardian.com/rotherham-abuse-report-finds-1400-children-were-victims

Link (2): independent.co.uk/rotherham-child-abuse-scandal-apologists-misogyny-and-double-standards

Link (3): rotherham-sexual-abuse-children
…….

regards

Pakistan as a spoil of war

Brown Pundits Archive · August 26, 2014 · Comments Off on Pakistan as a spoil of war

So the PTI, an urban Punjab party, marched from the heart of the Punjab, Lahore, to the north of the Punjab, Islamabad, to demand power from PML-N, a rural-industrial Punjab party while the Punjabi dominated Army looks on. Where does Pakistan actually come into this highly entertaining Punjabi spectacle?

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