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Idrees

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  • 'Addicted to empire... potential quagmire' -- Walt
  • Nonviolence and the struggle for Palestinian-Israeli equality
    • Muhammad Idrees Ahmad July 6, 2010 at 2:04 pm

      While the Salt Satyagraha did not “succeed” in its short-term, situational objective – the salt laws were not repealed – it worked on a deeper level. British public opinion was deeply affected by the Dharasana nonviolent moment, which shockingly revealed the violence inherent in the British colonial system. Ultimately, this led to India’s independence in 1947.

      Taylor, did you actually write that? So India got its independence in August 1947 because 'British public opinion was deeply affected' by a protest that had happened in May 1930! And you are here telling Palestinians what the kosher method is for resisting a brutal occupation!

      Word of advice: Hollywood is no substitute for history. Get an education before you pontificate.

  • Khalidi and Cohen scheduled to win debate February 9 at NYU
    • Idrees December 11, 2009 at 11:06 pm with 2 replies

      Can't say I'm a big fan of Rashid Khalidi. In the Cooper Union debate he spent half the time arguing against his own side. I remember the bemused expression on Mearsheimer's face. Also, I am not particularly impressed with his scholarship. His book Resurrecting Empire was a work of tepid political analysis with a single original insight. And, of course, he repeats the Chomskyian fables about Israel being the 'strategic asset' keeping an eye over Arab assets for America.

  • 'Surfing on Islamophobia' (Idrees Ahmad responds to McConnell)
    • Idrees September 2, 2009 at 1:50 pm

      Name calling and lying? Are you sure you are posting in the right thread. Which is the lie and what name did I call you?

    • Idrees September 2, 2009 at 1:09 pm

      So apart from being xenophobic you also don't read too well. McConnell had put US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on par with Muslim immigration to EU, as you did. Now that you are weasling out, you are going to blame that on the 'immigrant' too? Americans (i.e., the natives of America, not the European invading genocidaires) might also have thought that your ancestors best stayed in Europe. But they didn't, listen, now did they? Except, unlike them, the asian immigrants to europe come bearing medicine, not small pox blankets.

    • Idrees September 1, 2009 at 6:13 pm

      And you are suggesting the unemployment has to do with immigrants?

      The US was wrong to invade Iraq and Afghanistan (at the behest of the Zionists), and European governments were and are wrong to flood their own countries with immigrants.

      So, the invasion and murder of more than a million foreigners is the same as the arrival of a Pakistani doctor whose skills and taxes the British state benefits from without having invested a penny in his education and training?

    • Idrees September 1, 2009 at 5:06 pm with 7 replies

      Are you suggesting that Europe is now represented by the BNP? Europeans have no problem with me, or the doctors. Scotland in fact welcomes us, for its own benefit. Its underfunded universities would be long out of businesses were it not for the mass of Asian students who pay the exorbitant international fees, ensuring employment in its otherwise decrepit education system. But I digress. Europe has as much right to control its borders as Iraq or Afghanistan. Except, unlike the Europeans few of the Muslim emigres -- and they are few -- arrive riding tanks. Unlike the 60s most of the people coming into UK today are either extremely wealthy, or highly skilled (ever seen the point-based visa requirements?). At the risk of repeating myself, let me offer you the same advice that I did McConnell: get your facts right.

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