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Kindly Keep Your Cameras Away!!
Raza Habib Raja
Right now I am feeling like holding a video camera which can live telecast to the entire country and follow Ms Maya Khan constantly. Not only that I would like to give nasty spins to her even “harmless” routine conversations with men (such as the grocery store keeper) and project these as sinful affairs. The feeling of being constantly hounded, misinterpretation of completely normal conversations on the national electronic media and the resulting embarrassment will perhaps instil some sense into her otherwise dumb and attention seeking mediocre third class brain.
Frankly I have become quite used to non-sense which our electronic media utters. During the past decade it has spewed hatred, spread cheap sensationalism, knitted mind boggling conspiracy theories and has reinforced delusional hyper patriotism. However, what I have witnessed today on the net ( a snap shot of Ms Maya Khan’s third class program) was even way beyond all the third class non sense electronic media has been uttering so far.
Ladies and Gentlemen, for those of you who have not seen it, I am posting the link
Now what the hell were those DHA version of Jamia Hafza brigade were trying to do is frankly beyond my comprehension. Hounding people and trying to embarrass them on national TV and yet claiming that their purpose is to show “proper path” to young impressionable girls and save them from being “exploited” from the wolves, is inherently contradictory and borders on third class cheap moralistic hypocrisy.
Now I understand that every society has some generally prevalent norms with regard to mixing of opposite genders. Pakistan by and large is a conservative society where meeting with the opposite gender particularly if it has romantic undertones, is considered socially unacceptable in most of the segments of the society. Parents, since they are afraid of the negative public backlash often try to restrict their daughters with respect to dating or even meeting the members of opposite sex. In case if a girl is “caught” while dating the negative backlash is huge for most of the families and the poor girl is branded for life.
Now due to this huge social stigma around dating, there is a real chance of reputational harm for a girl who chooses to break the taboos. From that social angle (irrespective of whether in absolute sense dating is moral or “immoral’) there are some unfortunately real concerns. It is perhaps somewhat understandable-strictly from “practical” angle- to highlight those concerns and advise young girls to be careful ( though even then there is considerable room for argument as to whether such “advice” merely reinforces the existing negativity surrounding the mixing of sexes). However, what Ms Maya Khan was doing was to ensure that girls were deeply humiliated and their privacy completely violated. And all of it was being done supposedly to “protect” the respect of their parents. Now how so called respect of parents could be protected by telecasting their daughters in negative light is beyond imagination.
And worse still we do not even know that whether the so called “guilty” couples were actually even dating or not. In her zeal to the so called guardian of morality, Ms Maya Khan did not even exercise basic decency. And as Café Piyala has made a very good point that parks are generally frequented by people from lower income segments as due to widening income disparities, these are the only avenues of entertainment and relaxation they can afford. The rich and affluent (even when they are as absurd and idiot like Maya Khan) can actually go to cafes and expensive restaurants. All the so called “immoral” dating is occurring there also. Now would Ms Maya Khan and her dumb entourage of Jamiah Hafza poster women go to those expensive Zamzama restaurants to do the same kind of exercise? We all know the answer! They would never dare to do it. All they are capable of is invading the privacy of those who belong to less affluent sections of the society and who made the mistake of going to public parks.
I fully support the move against Maya Khan which is underway right now and I also endorse the view that the buck should not stop at merely sacking her but should extend beyond it to set an example. I think the electronic media needs to some serious soul searching with respect to understanding what exactly freedom of speech is. In a country where legal system is extremely weak and one cannot sue for defamation, media needs to be extremely careful and while censorship is bad and anti liberal, unfortunately there is a case for a powerful media watchdog here.
Here is the link to an online petition as well
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i was infuriated when i watched the clip. this is nasty. fuck this third corporate media hungry for profit at any cost.
That woman should be insulted openly so that she can understand what it really means to go through what she has done to others
Thanks for your support please post a link to my petition in your article.
http://www.change.org/petitions/to-mr-zafar-siddiqi-ceo-samaa-tv-stop-subah-saverey-maya-kay-sath-vigilantism-like-lal-masjid
Video clip has already been deleted. If somebody downloaded it, one could post it again!
@ Ali Taj
I have posted the link in the article
Regards
Raza
One of the best article i’ve read. Each n every word of the article makes complete sense and is relevant to the topic…!
Keep up the good work Raza Habib Raja.
Peace.!
@ Talha
Thanks a lot!
Regards
Raza
samaa tv is qadiani sponsored along with hindustani hosts such as maya….and jasmine manzoor……
this video is qadiani type reality show along with this qadiani toilet like article…..no need to give importance to maya and jasmine manzoor.
“cafe piyala”????
koi insanoo kay bachon wala naam to rakhna tha yar blog kaa…app qadiani bloggers ka waqay mai hi damagh kharab ho gia hai…..bilkul toilet mirzay ki terah…!
Fazl e Haq
Keep barking.
@ fazle haq..
Now I can understand ytour love for Jamih Hafza and that burqa clad coward maulana aziz, but seriously there is no linkage between this article and Ahmedi faith.
And secondly kindly refrain from abuses..
Regards
Raza
isn’t Maya a kuffar name – I see consiperacy
MTG, on the contrary, in Pakistan, it’s probably a shortened form of an arabic word – sumayya. That name is found in Islamic mythology. Of course, I am merely guessing here.
This 7th century arab religion has put our women (our mothers, sisters, daughters etc.) in a terrible situation. No man who honors women (not only his women but all women) will defend or advocate this religion. Nature has given the women certain advantages and disadvantages and the men have to be their good partners and not torturers.
Unfortunately some muslim women want to be “appreciated” by some muslim fascist leaders, machos and gangsters and they are often more fanatic in their muslimness than the muslim macho-men.
This is the mental slavery that islam produces.
A book written in 7th century Arabia has no ability to guide human beings well in the 21st century. This simple intelligence, self-respect and wisdom is permanently missing among the agents and quislings of this religion.
Funny thing is that you could see the same show reviewing Bollywood movies like dirty picture.
Now that’s a good contradiction.
Pakistan has the best quality contradictions in the world…
What ,”Maya Khan”…?
Isn’t the name Maya unIslamic and also foreign ?
maya khan apology
http://www.hacklejackle.blogspot.com/
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maya khan is a sweage of the country. she should publicly apolofize to the ppl she has been harassing. this is pur harassament and nothing other who appointed this cow to be the moral polce. the woman would do much better if she started a health programme helping ppl to lose weight and would also benifit from it. has this cow (Maya) ever pondered the idea that her methods might lead to another honour killing? Pls boycott the cow she is worthless.
@larkidesi on twitter
to larki desi
You write: “Pls boycott the cow she is worthless.”
Are cows worthless?
Why insult cows by comparing the cow with a fascist muslim woman?
Maya is a secret raw agent. Her mission is to divide and confuse Pakistanis.
to milestogo
Actually every pakistani is a RAW agent. They are all working to destroy Pakistan. Pakistani A accuses another Pakistani B of being a RAW agent in order to distract attention from his own activities as RAW agent. I never could have imagined that an agency run by the cowardly stupid hindus could be so efficient.
Wow Raza this is the first ever article of yours i read and seriously i just loved it. Extremely logical arguments along with the very simple way of projecting your thoughts.
Impressive!
Maya Khan herself, talks, meets freely, with adult males, who fall within prohibitive degree,how she would feel if a pack of young boys and girls follow her howling like she and her group were doing with the couples peacefully sitting in the park, She must know that inquisitiveness is not permissible in law and religion.
Maya needs a good!
pehli baat to ye hay kay Maya kay pass jo program tha us pay bht achay andaz main jis mozu ko woh discuss karna chati thi kar sakti thin lakin jis andaz main ye program kia gaya woh intahi galat tha or agur ye saab loag jo us program main thay bakool maya khan fake thay paid acters thay to phir media pay sawal utha hay kay media jis andaz main or jesaa chahy woh karlay?? anay walay waqt main aisay hi kisi program main agur yehi media kisi qatil chore ya qomi mujrim ko dikata hay to kia awam yakin karay gi?? ya awam usay ye soch ky darguzar kar day gi kay ho sakta hay ye bhi fake ho kion kay hamara media to fake topi drama pehlay bhi karta raha hay?? kia ab hum apnay tv channels kay program pay belive karain ?? kia pata kamran ka ye program bhi topi drama ho ??