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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Fouzi</SPAN><?xml:namespace
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The point about sharing
this article was to try to tell that if you have the type of attitudes we have
in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region></st1:place> (in terms of education), you
end up producing Islamofascists. I guess I need not tell anyone what is
happening in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region> thanks
to educational policies funded and supported by the CIA and <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Saudi Arabia</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
That now the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region> will pose as a pious grandmother
preaching blessings of democracy and hatred for the likes of Al Qaeda is another
matter.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN
class=484163611-03052011>It may be the same case in some other Muslim countries
here the US has been spreading the light of democracy such as Saudi
Arabia.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Regards.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Abbas
Zaidi</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P><BR>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B>
lgpolicy-list-bounces+manoo=brunet.bn@groups.sas.upenn.edu
[mailto:lgpolicy-list-bounces+manoo=brunet.bn@groups.sas.upenn.edu] <B>On Behalf
Of </B>Fouzi Bellalem<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, April 30, 2011 11:05
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Language Policy List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [lg policy] Muslims
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<DIV>Abbas, what was the point of this article? As I don't have a great
background knowledge on Pakistan's education, can you please give me an
idea on the nature of conflict taking place and why such a discourse
is being used by the author and for which political interest? I let you
know my views once I have a full picture.</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards</DIV>
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<DIV>Fouzi</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>--- On <B>Thu, 28/4/11, Zaidi <I><manoo@brunet.bn></I></B>
wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From:
Zaidi <manoo@brunet.bn><BR>Subject: [lg policy] Muslims and
education<BR>To: "'Language Policy List'"
<lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu><BR>Date: Thursday, 28 April,
2011, 10:35<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Excerpt:<BR>"Muslims can't handle two things. They
can't cope with the task of thinking<BR>about a modern state and they
swoon into all kinds of unrealistic trances<BR>when it comes to thinking
about education. It is because of the fixity of<BR>their thinking and
their erroneous imitative mindset that they cannot<BR>imagine life as
'becoming' despite Allama Iqbal's insistence on it. Their<BR>utopia lies
in fixity and what they aspire to is utopian paralysis. It is<BR>almost
futile to ask Muslims to run a state intelligently or to
educate<BR>their masses. They will end up making the state inanely
ideological in the<BR>belief that purity is attained only through
stringency of ritual. And they<BR>will push education in the direction
of the madrassa where the mind is<BR>closed against doubt and
questioning.<BR><BR>Our scientists are Muslims and act in line with our
mindset, maybe to get<BR>themselves validated, barring people like
Hoodbhoy who wish obstinately to<BR>remain outside the pale. Dr Attaur
Rahman followed in the footsteps of the<BR>doyen of all Pakistani
scientists Sultan Bashiruddin - who wished to extract<BR>electricity for
the jinn - when he came on PTV to lecture on Islam. Needless<BR>to say,
he was out of his depth and false-sounding; it was simply not
his<BR>bailiwick. In the process, he subordinated himself to the
authority of the<BR>lowest cleric in Pakistan. Nuclear scientist Samar
Mubarakmand has also<BR>given proof of this fatal attraction by
narrating his cooking pot 'miracle'<BR>story after he had tested the
nuclear device in the Chaghai Hills of<BR>Balochistan in 1998."<BR><BR>I
have attched the entire article with this email.<BR>Regards.<BR>Abbas
Zaidi<BR></DIV><BR>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<BR><BR>
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