[Reader-list] Did God make a mistake in Pakistan?

[Yousuf]

Everytime there is a disaster like that, the religious
priests all over start talking about how the disaster
was a sign from God on how the people have gone
wayward. Even on 9/11 some Church in the US had
claimed that this was a sign from God on how we need
to go back to Church. But the most hillarious was a
Friday sermon I heard at a mosque in Jamia Nagar
(Delhi) at the time of Tsunami. The Imam said that
Tsunami was a punishment for the kafir sinners who
were indulging in their sins at places like Phuket and
Patong in Thailand. He obviously didn't know about
millions of innocent people who died in Indonesia, Sri
Lanka, and Nagapattinam. By the way, the most
interesting debates on "Act of God" took place in the
letters column of The Hindu at the time of Tsunami and
even now.

Yousuf

--- Vijender chauhan <chauhan.vijender at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What to say!  Except that please ask me as well I'll
> add some from
> kashmir to kanyakumari. One name I am eager to add
> to this list is
> "GOD".
> vijender
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/19/05, rehan ansari
> <rehanhasanansari at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Bilal Minto writes a column for DNA
> >
> >
> >
> > Did God make a mistake in Pak?
> > Sunday, DNA, October 16, 2005  20:17 IST
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Bilal Hassan Minto hopes that next time God feels
> like doing a little
> > justice, he could do a bit of homework first lest
> there is a mistake
> >
> >
> >
> > LAHORE: Despite my frivolity, I am finding it hard
> to say anything funny
> > today. A couple of  hundred miles north of here,
> hundreds of thousands of
> > people lie dead and a few more hundreds of
> thousands await death. It will
> > come to them; surely, and slowly. In the ghost
> cities and villages up there,
> > the dead far outnumber the living.
> >
> > A young mother sits besides the debris of her
> erstwhile home pulling at
> > something. It is the hand of her four-year-old son
> and it is the only part
> > of him visible. He was crying loudly before. Then
> he was whimpering. Now he
> > is quiet. For his mother whom God has graciously
> spared, life's journey is
> > suddenly much, much longer than she ever expected.
> Unless she ends it
> > herself, like some others have done. A father
> finally displaced enough
> > rubble to reach his son, the only one alive
> underneath. When he saw the son
> > he knew that the only favour he could do him was
> to finish him. He picked up
> > a heavy stone and did that. Then he killed
> himself.
> >
> > God's self-appointed representatives are telling
> us that this is a warning;
> > that the people have gone wayward and left God's
> path and that we must
> > repent and beg for His forgiveness. True. Very
> true! Muzaffarabad, Balakot
> > and Rawalakot were a hedonist's paradise. The
> little dead girls and the
> > little dead boys in their school uniforms, the
> little crippled starving
> > girls and the little crippled starving boys and
> their crippled starving
> > families, were busy in orgies when the slap from
> God came.
> >
> > No, they were not merely trying to get by through
> another difficult day in
> > their less than ordinary small lives. They were
> drinking and dancing and
> > having orgies at 8.50 in the morning. Or did God
> simply miss the target and
> > make a mistake?
> >
> > Manto wrote a short piece on the killings during
> partition in which a Muslim
> > slays a passerby thinking he is a Hindu. Then
> discovering that the dead was
> > circumcised, he says, "Saala, mishtake ho gaya".
> Next time God feels like
> > doing a little justice, he could do a bit of
> homework first lest there is a
> > mistake. He could ask me for a list which I will
> have ready with the correct
> > names and addresses from Karachi to Khyber.
> >
> > Bilal is a lawyer & filmmaker.
> bilalminto at gmail.com
> >
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