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2007-05-26 India-Pakistan

Lal Masjid declares jihad on electronic entertainment

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Posted by ryuge 2007-05-26 00:08|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 If the deadline passed last month and the shops are still open, then it means that Lal Masjid's local Mafia must be earning the protection money it receives from those shops.

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2007-05-26 04:14|| 2007-05-26 04:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Meanwhile, across the border, a muslim couple embraces the electronic world...

Visakhapatnam, May 24: The wife of a poor pani puri vendor has become a software engineer in Infosys, thanks to her husbands support. Sheik Salar, 26, a street hawker, used every rupee he earned to help his wife Fatima Bibi Sheik, 21, achieve her academic ambitions. And it was not in vain. Fatima completed her course at Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering with high marks and was given a plum posting by the software giant in a campus selection.

In fact, she is the first student from the college to get into Infosys. Fatima and Salar stay in a slum at Rajendranagar. While Fatima went to college, Salar roamed around the city with a pushcart selling puffed rice, corn, chilli bhajjis and pani puri, earning Rs 150 per day. When she was married off to her distant relation Salar by her parents in 2001, Fatima was just 15 and felt that she would never achieve her dream of being a software engineer.

I did not want to marry since I wanted to study further and achieve something, she said. She was crestfallen since Salar merely nodded when she told him about her dreams. But his nod meant a lot and he started saving money to help her study. By living frugally, Salar somehow got together Rs 60,000 to pay Fatimas fee for the first and second year of her engineering course.

The Andhra Pradesh State Minorities Finance Corporation helped the couple pay the rest of the fee. At the time of our marriage I was not sure how serious Fatima was about her studies, said Salar. But when I realised that she got 536 marks in her SSC exams and stood first in her school, I decided to help her study. The pani puri vendor was adamant that her future should not get spoilt because she married him.

A junior college in the city provided her free intermediate education. She secured a decent rank in the Eamcet exam and opted to join the electronics and electrical engineering branch in college. We decided not to have kids till she got a good job, said Salar. For this, I took much criticism from my parents. Fatimas eyes moisten when she talks about her husband. You cant imagine the hardships he suffered to help me, she said. In the last six years, he was my strength. He sacrificed all his joys for me.

Fatima was always first in our class, said Asha Kanthi, her classmate. We did not know her story then. Now she is our inspiration. Though happy at the turn of events, the couple is a bit sad when thinking about their being apart for three months, when Fatima would go to the Infosys campus in Mysore for training. Have they ever quarrelled? When we have issues, we sit together and discuss and sort it out, said Fatima. She plans to take her husband along with her when she gets her posting. Salar too is proud, for he has proved that behind every successful woman there is a man.

Posted by John Frum 2007-05-26 12:31|| 2007-05-26 12:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, the story of the street-vender putting his wife through college/tech training is terribly sweet, and reassuring. Not all Moslem males are threatened by an intelligent, ambitions woman! Thanks for another side of the story, John.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-05-26 13:30|| www.ncobrief.com]">[www.ncobrief.com] 2007-05-26 13:30|| Front Page Top

#4 The Neanderthal nature of Islam is its own reward. As each non-Muslim holiday sees a peak in terrorist attacks and all forms of entertainment are banned by these sanctimonious Islamic cretins, the world gains further insight into the sterile and mute vistas that await us should a global caliphate be put in place.

This world must come to understand the tremendous loss of culture and artistic patrimony that Islamic ascendancy would precipitate. Bamiyan's giant Buddahs are only the iceberg's tip when it comes to what would be lost for all time. The dour and humorless world of Islam is exactly what Muslims deserve for their troubles. Few are more deserving of such a dull and monotonous existence.

As to the story in post #2: Salar sounds like a very decent chap. How sad that he is an anomally as opposed to being a typical specimen of Muslim manhood. It is rather heartwarming that his devotion to Fatima will now result in the vast improvement of their lives together, which is as it should be.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-26 15:14|| 2007-05-26 15:14|| Front Page Top

#5 "..and issued notices, signed by slain Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah," Hey, it's just an 'X', but in a couple of years it should bring at least Rs 15 on E-bay!

Posted by Andy Snoluper3315 2007-05-26 15:44|| 2007-05-26 15:44|| Front Page Top

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