[Reader-list] The Bakra Movement in Pakistan

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Goat talk
BY NADEEM F. PARACHA

This Bakra Eid, many Pakistanis received the following SMS: ³Aafia Movement
ki tarraf sey aap sab koh Bakra Eid Mubarak. Dr. Aafia ki eid aik bar phir
qaid-e-tanhai mein guzrey gi. Shame.² (Eid Mubarak to all of you from the
Aafia Movement. This year again, Aafia will spend her Eid in solitary
confinement.²

Curious as to who or what this ŒAafia Movement¹ was, I decided to reply to
the third such SMS. I wrote: ³Bakra Movement ki taraf say aik eelan (an
announcement from the Bakra Movement): what about us bakras who get
slaughtered every Bakra Eid?²

³Who this is?² came the reply.

³This is the leader bakra of the Bakra Movement,² I wrote back.

³Why you joke about Dr. Aafia?²


³I no joke about Aafia. I only serious about my bakra brothers. Why you
slaughter them?²

³It is every Muslim¹s duty to slaughter bakras on Bakra Eid. Are you
Muslim?²

³Alhamdulillah! I am a Muslim bakra.²

³Why you joke like this? Aafia is in pain!²


³So are thousands of other Aafia¹s and Arifs, Saleema¹s and Saleem¹s of
Bakistan, why is there no movement for them?²

³Why you saying Bakistan instead of Pakistan?²


³Why you saying, bakra instead of pakra?²

³You are idiot.²


³No, I am leader of the Bakra Movement; if I am idiot, then the leader of
the Aafia Movement is also an idiot.²

³You are not true Muslim. It is because people like you Aafia in jail of
America.²


³And it because of people like you thousands of local Aafias are rotting in
Bakistani jails for blasphemy and hudood crimes. Bakra Movement is for them
because they are all helpless bakris (she goats).²

³What your name?? I will see you and teach u lesson.²


³Oh, goodie. Can you give me swimming lessons?²

³How you joke about Aafia? How dare. You baighayrat (shameful) Pakistani!²


³Wow! How did you know my name?²

³Your name is Baighayrat?²


³Full name: Baighayrat Bakistani, leader of the Bakra Movement working for
the welfare of all innocent goats and cows in Bakistani jails!²

³They are criminals!²


³What about those who raped and tortured them, or framed them under
blasphemy law?²

³You are not a Muslim nor are you human.²


³I am Muslim bakra. Humans are cruel. Baaaaa!²

³You are mad. Stop making fun of Aafia.²


³Stop making fun of thousands of innocent bakris in Bakistani jails.²

³Why you keep saying Bakistan? It is Pakistan.²


³I am an Arab Muslim bakra.²

³If you Arab, then you defend Aafia.²


³Arabs don¹t even know who she is.²

³Stop making fun of Arabs.²


³Stop making fun of Bakistanis.²

³I not make fun.²


³It shows. Please, make fun. Life would be better and less stressful.²

³You are little man with little thinking.²


³I am not man. I am big bakra.

³You hateful man, I will teach lesson to you. I will see you!²


³Yes, I will see you too, in hell. Baaaa.²

I just can¹t write what Mr. ŒAafia Movement¹ had to say to me after this.
Things and words which were not very Islamic, doing Aafia proud?

Only God knows.

Nadeem F. Paracha is a cultural critic and senior columnist for Dawn
Newspaper and Dawn.com.