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| Kashmiri boy loves cricket, separatist mother says no |
| 2009-02-23 |
| Srinagar, Feb 23 (IANS) Mohammed bin Qasim, a 15-year-old son of a Kashmiri couple, wanted to play cricket but he had to sacrifice his passion as his mother wants him to live for Islam. Youth is always so rebellious ... Bin Qasim was selected for the Jammu and Kashmir Under-16 team to play in the national-level Vijay Merchant Trophy tournament 2009. The team won their first game against Haryana last month but Bin Qasim had a shock when his maternal uncle asked him to pack up mid-way through the tournament amd return home - because his mother thinks that the boy should live for a "bigger cause". And there's no bigger cause than jihad, unless it's a test match against the Australians ... His mother is Asiya Andrabi, chief of the hawkish Dukhataran-e-Millat (Daughters of Faith). "We are not born for bat and ball or, for that matter, to mint money," said Andrabi, who is known for her moral policing drives in Kashmir. "I told my son to live his life for a bigger cause," Andrabi told IANS here Sunday. "I want him to blow himself up in a crowd of infidels!" Andrabi, who fights for setting up an Islamic theocracy in Jammu and Kashmir, its secession from India and merger with Pakistan, said: "Cricket is too small a profession. Cricket can of course give you name, fame and money. But that is not what we are for in this world." Yeah, if you really want to make it big learn how to throw the split-finger fastball and come to America ... "We have to work for Islam. Propagate the message of the holy Quran and the prophet in its true sense, not the way the world looks at it," she said. The way the world looks at it seems to be more accurate, Mumsy ... How did the boy react to her decision? "Ah jeez, Mom, not that shit again!" "My son got emotional. He thought his dreams are shattered. But I told him that you can play cricket as a hobby but don't dedicate your life for it," she said. "He is too young to understand this now. But, Alhamdulillah (all praises are for god), he will appreciate the decision when he grows up," she said. "I coulda been a contendah, Mom! I coulda been big!" His father Mohammed Qasim Fuktoo, a militant commander, has been in prison since 1994 and is currently lodged in the Srinagar Central Jail. I'm beginning to understand why Mom is nuts ... Andrabi wants to send Mohammed, a Class 12 student of science stream, to an Islamic seminary for higher studies. So that he can spend all day memorizing the Quran in Arabic and hitting his head on the floor. There's the life, I tells ya ... "I want him to be an Islamic scholar... Islam needs a second Mohammed bin Qasim. I don't want him to waste his life," said Andrabi, herself a science graduate. Not until he blows himself up in a crowd of infidels, anyways ... She was referring to Mohammed bin Qasim bin Yusuf Althaqafi, an Arab Muslim general who conquered the Sindh and Punjab regions - now part of Pakistan - along the Indus river in the eighth century. "We have named our son after the Muslim general and we wish he turns out to be like him," she said. Dead? Incidentally, Mohammed's father Qasim had also played national-level cricket before joining the separatist movement in Kashmir in the early 1990s. And now he's in prison for the rest of his life. Way to go Pops ... |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #3 She was referring to Mohammed bin Qasim bin Yusuf Althaqafi, an Arab Muslim general who conquered the Sindh and Punjab regions - now part of Pakistan - along the Indus river in the eighth century. Been a long losing streak, eh, moms? And I doubt Junior's gonna get them off the snide... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-02-23 20:16 |
| #2 A Bollywood director is making a movie about Asiya. He got a starlet to play her. She is apparently not amused. Asiya and her acid bottle may be paying both a visit soon. |
| Posted by: john frum 2009-02-23 16:19 |
| #1 A little splash of acid in the eyes oughta cure him of this unIslamic little pecadillo, mom. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-02-23 13:13 |