Sunday, August 06, 2006
Useless Habib Jalib
Habib Jalib was an Urdu poet who got into a lot of shit. The guy wrote verses against each and every Pakistani government from Ayub Khan's to Nawaz Ganja's. Being a leftist, the poor chap was arrested numerous times for his ideas. Now this quite frankly is an extremely weird situation to begin with: getting arrested for your ideas.
People normally get arrested for, amongst numerous things, raping the twelve year old coming back from school, snatching cars from Iqbal Town here in Lahore, giving safe haven to Lashkar-e-Taiba militiamen from Jhang, burning down Pizza Hut during a protest on the mall, and killing that bastard guy who threw a copy of the Quran in the garbage. Actually, no, you never get arrested for that bit here in Pakistan, because according to my limited and inadequate legal knowledge, blasphemy laws here permit the execution of any sorry individual who defiles the name of Islam's holiest symbols and icons. Wow, another win for human rights and religious tolerance. Score for The Land of the Pure! Come to think of it, this is mighty convenient. The next time you piss me off, I will proclaim to your neighbourhood that I saw you tearing up the Holy Book and throwing it in the canal. Oh baby, then you're done for! Try and fend off that hockey-and-gandasa-carrying mob outside your house.
Anyway, we were talking about Habib Jalib. Oh screw it, he's dead anyway. And no one cares about him besides the commies. Plus he's too ugly/funny-looking to be taken seriously. Case in point: picture below
People normally get arrested for, amongst numerous things, raping the twelve year old coming back from school, snatching cars from Iqbal Town here in Lahore, giving safe haven to Lashkar-e-Taiba militiamen from Jhang, burning down Pizza Hut during a protest on the mall, and killing that bastard guy who threw a copy of the Quran in the garbage. Actually, no, you never get arrested for that bit here in Pakistan, because according to my limited and inadequate legal knowledge, blasphemy laws here permit the execution of any sorry individual who defiles the name of Islam's holiest symbols and icons. Wow, another win for human rights and religious tolerance. Score for The Land of the Pure! Come to think of it, this is mighty convenient. The next time you piss me off, I will proclaim to your neighbourhood that I saw you tearing up the Holy Book and throwing it in the canal. Oh baby, then you're done for! Try and fend off that hockey-and-gandasa-carrying mob outside your house.
Anyway, we were talking about Habib Jalib. Oh screw it, he's dead anyway. And no one cares about him besides the commies. Plus he's too ugly/funny-looking to be taken seriously. Case in point: picture below
// posted by Sohaib @ Sunday, August 06, 2006 
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Sohaib Bhai,
I agree that Habib Jalib wrote protest poetry but then a poets are like that, aren't they!
They are dreamers and reflect the aspirations of society. When they see inequality and injustice in society, they are bound to be angry. AaaKhir 'voice of dissent' hona bhi to laazmi hai. That's what I feel.
Adnan
I agree that Habib Jalib wrote protest poetry but then a poets are like that, aren't they!
They are dreamers and reflect the aspirations of society. When they see inequality and injustice in society, they are bound to be angry. AaaKhir 'voice of dissent' hona bhi to laazmi hai. That's what I feel.
Adnan
Lol. Right. Thanks for the 'insight' on dissenting poets. And when did I ever comment on his poetry, again? :p
I don't know about Jalib being ugly, I think bald heads are kind of cute, having recetly had one myself. but have you seen tapes of him during a recitation? he used to sing his peotry with a lot of passion, definately increased the impact, so he was taken seriously enough to land in jail time and again
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