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KamilArif
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 Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 5:24 am Post subject: Miracles in Subcontinent |
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PAKISTAN: MIRACLES, WARS, AND POLITICS
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Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy
The author teaches at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad and is the editor of “Education And The State – Fifty Years of Pakistan”, published by Oxford University Press in 1997.
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Articles/hoodbhoy/miracles.htm
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Scott
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Another excellent article.
See those numbers of the ignorance in America?
S C A R Y
Hear kerry and bush invoke god all the time?
S C A R Y
etc.
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TheOtherWhiteMeat
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| ...and the Americans cannot survive without alcohol and women. |
Damn! He knows our secret! LOL Actually, we can survive, by why would you want to?
Great article. Scary, indeed.
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KamilArif
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 5:55 am Post subject: |
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| Scott wrote: |
| Another excellent article |
Its really a great article!
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people like Pervez Hoodbhoy should enter in to the politics., they will do better service to the country like Pakisthan instead of teaching college Physics to the fellow who chant Allaha hoooooooooo Akbar and send the teachers to Gallows with Blasphemy complain..
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KamilArif
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I have seen Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy on Pakistani satellite channels and government owned channels and his articles in the Pakistani newspaper.Infact he is a political analyst as well.His remarks in newspaper and TV channel are very liberal on political, social and religious issues. I am not very sure how his remarks are taken in Pakistan.I have also read his article in Mukto-mona.com free thinkers site on various issues.
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aelius valerius
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| Next year – instead of building dams, lining canals, embarking on water conservancy strategies, or doing something to control Pakistan’s exploding population – the government will presumably put the pressure on God again by summoning the masses. |
That silly man. Of course ALLAH will listen to their prayers. Then HE will send western engineers and development experts with our tax money to do the job.
 Thank ALLAH for development aid!
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KamilArif
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| Dr Parvez HoodBhoy wrote: |
| This primitivism is starkly evident in George Bush’s America which promotes Creationism and Christian notions of the human foetus. According to the National Science Foundation's biennial report (April 2002) on the state of science understanding: 30% of adult Americans believe that UFOs are space vehicles from other civilizations; 60% believe in ESP; 40% think that astrology is scientific; 32% believe in lucky numbers; 70% accept magnetic therapy as scientific; and 88% accept alternative medicine. This vast base of ignorance allows for the rise of American neoconservatism and the blueprint for the New American Century; preparations for Armageddon; and for General Boykin in Somalia to say “my God is bigger than theirs”. |
Dr Pervez said in his article.Any comments?
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Dr Parvez HoodBhoy wrote:
This primitivism is starkly evident in George Bush’s America which promotes Creationism and Christian notions of the human foetus. According to the National Science Foundation's biennial report (April 2002) on the state of science understanding: 30% of adult Americans believe that UFOs are space vehicles from other civilizations; 60% believe in ESP; 40% think that astrology is scientific; 32% believe in lucky numbers; 70% accept magnetic therapy as scientific; and 88% accept alternative medicine. This vast base of ignorance allows for the rise of American neoconservatism and the blueprint for the New American Century; preparations for Armageddon; and for General Boykin in Somalia to say “my God is bigger than theirs”. |
Dr Pervez said in his article.Any comments? |
It just shows that religion and lack of education can have the same stultifying effect everywhere, though the results may vary.
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| 30% of adult Americans believe that UFOs are space vehicles from other civilizations; 60% believe in ESP; 40% think that astrology is scientific; 32% believe in lucky numbers; 70% accept magnetic therapy as scientific; and 88% accept alternative medicine |
Well this is the state of affairs in USA, I wonder what is the situation in other countries?
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