Veni, Vidi, Abiit

Veni, vidi, vici is a Latin sentence reportedly written by Julius Caesar in 47 BC as a comment on his short war with Pharnaces II of Pontus in the city of Zela (currently known as Zile, in Turkey). Veni, vidi, and vici are first person perfect forms of the three Latin verbs venire, videre, and vincere. [Wikipedia]

Later this sentence got famous and people began to use it a symbol of thumping victory in any sort of jubilation. From individuals to corporation this sentence has a particular significance. One of Tobacco giants, Philip Morris International use it is their slogan on cigarette packs of Marlboro. The best cigarette brand till today. This, for some knowledge about the sentence many of you may have wondered what this sentence is all about but as you can see I have done some alteration in the this historical sentence.

Tahir Ul Padri - Why are you creating a fuss?

A Canadian national and a hypocrite. Does nothing for five years about government corruption and suddenly shows up near elections. You are nothing but a distrustful stranger hiding your motives behind beard, exploiting and manipulating an ignorant segment of Pakistan who could easily be misguided by appearance and words of sympathy with 'awam'. This man did not even bother to record his protest against blasphemous film just because he knew his bad ass will be thrown out from Canada and he did not want it. Shame on you!

Taken 2

Done watching Taken 2. It was not level par with the 1st one. I found it an anti Islamic and production of islamophobic mindset. Either way it was crafted very badly and two scenes were just bogus. The first one when Mills [Neeson] is about to be taken he talks to her daughter for about 30 seconds on the phone. Now which abductor in his right mind would allow the abducted to talk to someone on the phone? Second, why former CIA agent was not being thoroughly searched? He is able to talk to her daughter again on the phone. This is just bogus.

Now why I said that it is an anti Islamic movie. Not because it depicted Muslims with disgusting businesses and all. But because the fact if you have watched the movie carefully you would know what I am talking about. Whenever there is a beginning of violent scene there is an Azan [calling for prayer] just before that. They [Hollywood] deploy their dirty games in many ways and this is very subtle one; the subliminal messages. Another movie Body of Lies was reminiscent to this one.

Why this is dangerous? You see a Moae'zan calls for Azan 5 times a day. And this happens all day long around the globe. Muslims listen to it and go to mosques for prayer offerings because they are familiar to it very well. But propaganda movies like above mentioned create a violent image of Azan and Islam at the back of their head [subconscious mind] and these violent images activate whenever a non Muslim hears/listens to Azan. Hollywood in general and media in particular are perpetuating emotionally charged stereotypes against Islam. We have many antisemitic laws I think that its time to introduce an Islamophobe law.

Please do not accept everything they throw at you. You are better than that. Learn to say NO. "Don't think you are, know you are". Morphius.

- Usman Saeed 

You Worship Your Lords I Worship Mine

It was one of the best Football Club in Islamabad. This Football club used to see players come later than other Football grounds mainly because in this ground all the business professionals and executives used to play after office timings. Practice used to carry on much later after dusk i.e. Maghrib prayers. The team was a fine amalgamation of youngsters and oldies. Age ranging from 16 to 50. 

There was a guy who was an excellent footballer and a human being. Most of the time he was silent on the pitch and all his attention remain on his game. He was lightening fast and an emphatic finisher. But he had the habit of sneaking out approximately 5 minutes before calling for prayer (Azan) to a nearby mosque and after offering Namaz resume training. The club management was upset about this fact and was weighing up their options to confront him one day.

On the very next day as soon as he was about to leave the ground; game halted, players gathered, and coaches accompanied by senior players questioned his commitment about the game. He said that we could start the game much earlier tomorrow and finish it before Namaz. This argument upset the management and they said we cannot do this as our office timings demand this tight schedule to follow and quite frankly we are not changing timing just because of you. And if you do not abide by the timing fully you're welcome to leave the club. Just leave the ground today and you may never come back to play again for this club. What do you say? And folks his response was legendary, "You worship your lords at the offices I worship mine in the mosque". He said this with such calm that everybody went dead silent and he hurriedly walked towards mosque.

Indo-Pak Cricket Series Boycott

Tough call for many but yes I am doing it. Frankly speaking every Pakistani should do a boycott of this series in context to what happened with Pakistani Blind Cricket Team captain in India. As the moment I am writing I feel so free, so buoyant, and so ecstatic that words cannot define this feeling and also I am out of words but this feeling is incontestably supreme that I have not felt in years. This is the feeling of breaking free of these unseen chain of viewership. I did not watch the game and believe me nothing bad happened to me. Everything is working as normal as routine. I did not get nerve attack which I am certain to get after watching out team play in past. I would have been watching as enthusiastically as I did each time for this particular fixture had it not been the case of vicious attack on our captain a few week ago. So it is not like I do not watch Cricket. Even Ehsan Mani said, "Pakistan should not tour India."

"I think the PCB is wrong to have agreed to this. If it is a political decision, then the PCB should have asked the politicians to make sure that India reciprocated by coming and playing against Pakistan even if it was at a neutral venue," Mani said in an interview on 'Pakpassion.net' website.

I believe that if all of us decide to stand up against this false system we can overcome the facades of this system. Unity of people can bring down any system. But as depicted in Matrix we are so inert so hopelessly dependent on the system that we would fight anything that is helping us to get out of this vicious system.

Today is 25th December and I lay my humblest tribute to Jinnah. May God be pleased with him. I have not much to say seriously but I have got nothing but utmost respect for the great man who gave us this wonderful country than and now mere pieces of lands. He famously said, "failure is a word unknown to me". I bet that he expected not all but many of us to be like him but we collectively failed him. Sorry Mr. Jinnah!

- Usman Saeed