When the Innocent are Deemed Guilty

 

Unfriend Me.......................................... (alternate title: You Might be a Jackass IF...)

Unfriend Me.......................................... (alternate title: You Might be a Jackass IF...)

 

I wish to lose thousands of Fakebook “friends”. If any of the following are true for you, please unfriend me. If you don’t understand what’s in this list, it clearly means you don’t know the difference between right and wrong, or don’t care about it. So unfriend me. Thanks.

 

 103 reasons to #unFriendMe 

 or

 You Might be a Jackass if...

 by Fazeel Chauhan (11-7-17 )

1) If you don’t respect other human beings 

2) If you’d rather be right, instead of: do the right thing

3) If you are a fan of Trumps

4) If you use excuses, lies and justifications to continue your bad behavior

5) If you like military rule in any part of the world

6) If you can not do justice

7) If you belong to the Republican party

8) If you like to ask people which country or neighborhood, or caste they are from so you can judge them

9) If you make stereotypes of Brown, Black, Native, Asian, White people or other groups

10) If you think saying anything against American policies is anti-American

11) If you don’t like poor people

12)  If you think personal corruption in a person’s character, is okay

13)  If you hate Muslims or Islam

14)   If you hate a group of people based on their religion or place of birth

15)  If you dehumanize and depersonalize other people

16)  If you think your religion has a monopoly on wisdom

17)  If you measure people based on how much money they have

18)  If you like to wave your flag to claim you are superior to others

19)  If you have Xenophobia, homophobia or Islamophobia

20)  If you support groups or people who are funded by the CIA

21)  If you like the policies of the American “Tea party”

22)  If you are a fan of the Bhutto politicians of Pakistan

23)  If you like to put other people down, or to make them fail

24)  If you are a supporter of the Sharif politicians of Pakistan

25)  If you are a bully, or humiliate, or make fun of other people

26)  If you are a fan of Altaf Hussain or MQM

27)  If you are a fan of “religious” politicians like Fazl-ur-Rahman

28)  If you think there is no corruption in America

29)  If you think racial profiling is good

30)  If you think you are superior to others just because of your color, religion, race, ethnicity, national origin

31)  If you think there is no corruption in Pakistan

32)  If you think that only your religion is true and others are false

33)  If you think only your religious sect is valid and other sects are fake / non-believers

34)  If you think there are no bad people among religious people

35)  If you think there are no good people among non-religious people

36)  If you blame the victim

37)  If you think that every person already has equal opportunities and there are no social factors working against individuals

38)  If you think it’s normal that there are 70 million dogs and cats in America

39)  If you think that free universal healthcare is not a human right

40)  If you think Muslims are terrorists

41)  If you believe Osama bin Laden was not created by the U.S.

42)  If you think the Mujahideen of Afghanistan were not created by the U.S. and their sons the Taliban were not trained by the U.S. 

43)  If you think Saudi Royals are holy and not corrupt

44)  If you think that Guantanamo is good

45)  If torture is okay with you

46)  If  you are against Black Lives Matter

47)  If you think sexual abuse is not common in your own community

48)  If you have a high tolerance for the misconduct of preachers

49)  If you don’t know the difference between teachers and preachers, and you support preachers more than teachers

50)  If you can not recognize fake preachers or are a fan of fake preachers like Aamir Liaqat, Nouman Ali Khan, etc

51)  If you’re a fan of Rahat Ali Khan

52)  If you like talking about fashion, and want to follow the latest fashions

53)  If you flash purses which are over $500

54)  If you don’t know the difference between right and wrong and find loop holes in the grey areas

55)  If you like to show off your money, your breasts, your status and your conquests

56)  If you use people for personal gain and then discard them

57)  If you are a poser

58)  If you think Saudi Arabia does not have social ills like rampant pornography

59)  If you don’t care about the people who are less fortunate. If you are callous

60)  If you don’t help people who are in need

61)  If you like to take selfies

62)  If you have low standards of behavior

63)  If you don’t like children

64)  If you are full of bullshit, meaning hypocrisy

65)  If you use double standards

66)  If you like to gossip about people who are not around to defend themselves

67)  If you like to kill time

68)  If you think it’s okay to spend billions on warfare instead of healthcare

69)  If you like Bollywood movies and their sexualized song and dance

70)  If you like Columbus

71)  If you think countries don’t engage in state sponsored terrorism

72)  If you like Disney movies and don’t think they brainwash children and turn them into consumers living in a fantasy land

73)  If you don’t like people’s accents

74)  If you take loans from friends but don’t give it back though you have the money

75)  If you listen to Fox News or right wing talk radio

76)  If you don’t like other languages, or don’t like people who speak other languages

77)  If you think war is good, and killing people makes you feel proud

78)  If you don’t want gun control

79)  If you think atomic bombs are good

80)  If you think there is no connection between the Ammo-sexual gun culture inside America to the war mongering policies and weapons sales outside America

81)  If you like to criticize other people but can’t praise them when they do something good

82)  If you have prejudices against in-laws or automatically hate them

83)  If you harm others and think you’re doing them a favor

84)  If you justify the 800 military bases of the American empire, in 70 countries

85)  If you don’t give credit where credit is due

86)  If you think society has no responsibility in creating crime and poverty

87)  If you can’t survive without maids and servants and use them to show status

88)  If you praise the tall buildings, clock towers and luxury lifestyles of the elite and ruling class of Muslim countries

89)  If you think it’s okay for religious “leaders” to make big money from selling religious items or religious knowledge

90)  If you are being oppressive toward other people

91)  If you think you have automatic entitlement to get favors from people just because you were pampered by your parents

92)  If you are 100% sure you are going to heaven

93)  If you can not tolerate a difference of opinion which disturbs your comfort zone

94)  If you are cruel to other people

95) If you think it’s okay for new age gurus to make big money from selling spiritual items or knowledge

96)  If you make other people fight with each other

97)  If you are a taker and not a giver. Or if you hoard knowledge and don’t share it

98)  If you are closed minded, stubborn and not open to learning

99)  If you are a menace to society, what Robert Bly calls a “savage” man 

100)  If you are rude, obnoxious, negative or nasty, by default

101)  If you love brand names and use them to cover your insecurities

102)  If you can’t practice: live and let live

103) If you use the veil of religiosity to hide your hypocrisy 

Thanks, Rodney

by Fazeel Chauhan

(Published in Pakistan Link  ~  5-12-93)

The whole country watched the brutal beating of Rodney King by four cops. Their guilt was documented on a video, yet the jury found the policemen not guilty. I asked Jameel about his thoughts and feelings about the case and the riots that followed.
"I don't blame the people for rioting", he said. "You have to look at the history of this country. You have to objectively see the tremendous problems with the social, economic and political systems of this country. A closer look shows that fairness isn't equally likely for minorities and the less privileged. Police beatings and unjust verdicts occur every day. We just don't see it... until it happens to us. Only then do we usually try to do something about it.
"To fix a problem, first we have to acknowledge that it exists. But usually, Americans choose to not see things that may upset the status quo. If the sleeping masses wake up and see what the U. S. is doing to their own people, as well as to other countries, then they would become very upset and will do something to change it. This is what people were attempting to do through rioting. The Rodney King verdict woke up some people with a big jolt. Some took to the streets and expressed themselves violently. The destruction is seen as sad and scary by most people, but in the bigger picture of things, it is not a big deal. About fifty people died and there were about a thousand fires. Compared to the 300,000 plus human beings killed in Iraq and the total destruction of cities and industries there, the L. A. riots are minuscule. Why didn't the American people riot then? They didn't identify the death of Iraqis as a problem.
Problems are usually allowed to get out of hand before they are noticed. Consider for example the millions of deaths in Africa due to hunger and disease, lack of human rights around the world, the population explosion which is suffocating the Earth, the cutting down of the South American Rainforest at a rate of one acre per second and ozone depletion, the conquering of the Native Americans and the deletion of their history, slavery of blacks and ongoing racism, teachers who don't get paid enough, daily gang shootings in L. A., assassinations and government overthrows of sovereign nations by the CIA, enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world sixty times over, the two-party political system in the U.S., both of which are two sides of the same coin, the ever growing multi-trillion dollar U. S. deficit and the violence and tension in the Middle East, Kashmir and the new Soviet republics. These are massive, sad, scary and upsetting problems about which most American have not done much. These are the things that people really need to protest and correct. If the people lead, the leaders will follow. But for most people, if it's N.I.M.B.Y. (Not In My Back Yard), they don't care and they remain asleep. People started "caring" when their back yards were on fire.
"Politically, the American people are very naive. They will have to open their eyes to the identify problems such as the Rodney King case, and become involved to correct them. Not budging from the status quo and the comfort zone create numbness. On the other hand, each change is a chance for progress and learning. The last riot in L. A. was twenty five years ago. That means the people have been asleep for many years because as I said, there are far more important issues to protest about than a police beating. Hopefully this protest has paved the way for people to get actively involved in trying to correct other problems.
There has been destruction but the positive aspects have far out-weighed the negatives. The violence may not have been an appropriate means, but at least the people did something to get the attention of the powers-that-be. Maybe they were also tired of peaceful demonstrations, which nobody seems to care about. In a numb society, outcries of injustice can be very healthy because they can wake people up. Thanks to Rodney's verdict, the people attempted to take things into their own hands. Their methods may have been wrong, but at least they tried. They attempted to change things, to correct wrongs and to make progress. The roots of the problems are in the overall economic, political and social systems. Those are the areas that always need to be actively evaluated and corrected. As a first step, we must have equality for all human beings"