Rameez Ahmad

In constant battle to squeeze random neuron surges in 140 chars or less. Any RTs even tweets may not be used against me in case I run for Public Office!

[Rameez Ahmad @ahmadrameez]

@UTDKarra They used to have Postiga

[Rameez Ahmad @ahmadrameez]

@Napoha_ The guy is hell bent on getting this poor chap killed, I personally am not a huge fan of qawali and how you reconcile it with Islam, but this is insane, let people live and not force your opinions especially when they can easily result in this person losing his life

[Rameez Ahmad @ahmadrameez]

@TheUnitedExtra in an instant

[Osman Samiuddin @OsmanSamiuddin]

It’s not even close that’s the greatest sporting feat by a Pakistani ever #ArshadNadeem

[Rameez Ahmad @ahmadrameez]

@ArshadOlympian1 You are a legend mA

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

I've never met anyone with intellect, wisdom, and charm who led a sophisticated lifestyle.

[Mohammed Hanif @mohammedhanif]

In protest, returning my Sitara e Imtiaz, given to me by a state that continues to abduct and torture Baloch citizens. Journalists of my generation have seen @SammiBaluch and @MahrangBaloch_ grow up in protest camps. Ashamed to witness a new generation being denied basic dignity.

[Osman Samiuddin @OsmanSamiuddin]

The pressure on this skier. Outstanding catch.

[Rameez Ahmad @ahmadrameez]

#NewProfilePic

[Rameez Ahmad @ahmadrameez]

@FootballPak loved watching this match, great effort by the boys

[Bassem Youssef @Byoussef]

"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
Martin Luther King Junior 16 April 1963

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

One of the most destructive ideas in modern times is this notion that it’s fine and appropriate for governments to act like monsters whenever anything bad happens to their country. We saw it happen with the United States after 9/11, and we’re seeing it now with Israel.

Dropping military explosives on children is just as wrong now as it was on October 6th. Wars of aggression were just as wrong on September 12th 2001 as they were on September 10th. But there’s this idiotic belief in mainstream culture that a nation experiencing a traumatic event means it gets to go on a murderous rampage until it feels better.

As soon as the Hamas attack occurred we were inundated with messaging from the western political/media class which conveyed the idea that because something bad happened to Israel, Israel now gets to do a little genocide, as a treat. This is stupid nonsense, and should be rejected by all thinking people.

No other aspect of human life works like this. A normal guy isn’t permitted to go on a shooting spree at his wife’s workplace just because she cheated on him with Kyle from marketing. He’s not even allowed to be mean to customers at work or he’ll get fired. The rules don’t stop applying to normal people just because something bad happened to them; only when we’re thinking about the giant power conglomerates known as governments is this sloppy thinking ever taken seriously.

In fact, in other aspects of life we understand that after a traumatic event it’s actually important to protect our friends and loved ones from making bad decisions in the emotional heat of the moment. You wouldn’t let your sister get an ugly face tattoo after a nasty breakup. If you saw your friend stumbling around with his car keys in one hand and a bottle in the other after losing his job, you wouldn’t tell him you stand with him and support whatever it is he’s getting ready to do. You’d understand that people can make unwise decisions after something bad happens to them, and you’d do what you can to help steer them away from it.

But when we extend our thinking out to the world’s deadliest military forces — precisely the things toward which we should be most careful about bad decision-making — all that goes out the window. All of a sudden “You’re either with us or against us” is framed as a perfectly sound and reasonable position to have on issues like multiple full-scale ground invasions, and if you don’t “Stand with Israel” while it bombs Gaza, Lebanon and Syria that means you’re an evil terrorist supporter who probably hates Jews.

The death toll from Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza has already more than doubled the death toll from the Hamas attack, and we can expect it to keep multiplying because there’s no meaningful opposition to the bloodshed. The United States, who as an indispensable backer of Israel could end all this with a word, has refused to draw a single red line on what Israel may or may not do if it wishes to retain US support — even its indiscriminate use of white phosphorus, which violates international humanitarian law. War crimes are being committed not just openly but announced in advance as Tel Aviv commits itself to the collective punishment of Palestinians with a complete siege of Gaza, and Israel’s allies have no objection to this.

And it’s pretty bad in the general western public as well. Because of the frenetic propaganda campaign by the western press in the wake of the Hamas attack, a new CNN poll finds that half of Americans have been successfully convinced that because something bad happened to Israel, Israel is “fully justified” in raining hellfire on a giant concentration camp in which half the population are children.

The moments after a scary and traumatizing event are the very moments we should be most vigilant against abuses by the nation affected by it. Instead we’re doing the exact opposite as a society and silently agreeing that certain nations get a hall pass on war crimes and mass murder whenever something bad happens to them. At the exact time when the light of wisdom needs to be shining at its very brightest, we’re allowing it to be flushed down the toilet.

And now as anti-war voices like Trita Parsi, Branko Marcetic and Connor Echols have noted, we’re looking at a conflict that could easily escalate and expand to include other nations in the middle east and the US alliance. All because the world decided that we are now on a temporary holiday away from reason and compassion.

This needs to stop. We need to be thinking rationally not just about the current violence but the factors which gave rise to it. That means taking a full accounting of the apartheid abuses which gave rise to Hamas and the Palestinian resistance, ending those abuses and righting the wrongs. It means negotiations. It means diplomacy. It means reparations. It means making concessions. It means sitting down and talking. It means acknowledging the problem so that it can be fixed.

And all of this can be avoided for as long as Israel and its allies want to strut about huffing about how they have special license to kill Palestinians now because blah blah victim story. At this point in history, just as after 9/11, war looks so very, very easy and peace looks so very, very difficult. But it’s at these exact moments that we need to be pushing hardest for peace, because this is when it actually matters.

This is where the rubber meets the road, folks. This is where the real work of creating a healthy world takes place.

[Rameez Ahmad @ahmadrameez]

Congratulations on securing the silver #ArshadNadeem that was massive !

[Rameez Ahmad @ahmadrameez]

@BishopAzadM feel ashamed and sad, this should not be tolerated !

[Sir Humphrey Appleby @YesSirHumphrey]

No. They have a right to be ignorant. Knowledge only means complicity in guilt; ignorance has a certain dignity.

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

Two thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The rest is covered by Sofyan Amrabat.

[Haider Abbasi @HaiderKAbbasi]

The only political system that can work in Pakistan is Babar Azam as an absolute monarch.
But elevated portraits of him everywhere like they do in Dubai.

[Astro Realm @ineed__spacee]

We live here...

[Hassan Cheema @mediagag]

This'll fade. The casuals will hate, but gotta ignore them.

Am gonna think of the last 3weeks, the ride we went on. In a country (& a time) with so little to cheer for, so little to b optimistic abt, even get out of bed for, them boys made us proud, made those days worth living.

[Babar Azam @babarazam258]

Keep the head high, team. You were impressive and played like true champions. We will definitely learn from this experience and come back stronger, In sha Allah. Extremely proud of my pack. #Pakistan