We often get hate mail. We've been called "dogs" and "pigs" several times in the past year. When we blogged about the Taseer sisters being our new poster girls earlier this year we got anonymous messages asking us to leave Pakistan!
And now an ardent Shahida Ahmed fan has called us "Indian bastard" suggesting that we go back to our "poverty stricken fucking country" and blog about that.
Shahida Ahmed is a topline restaurant owner who runs a commercial kitchen from our next door house. In India, we Indians would not have allowed this to happen at an urban address.
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And now an ardent Shahida Ahmed fan has called us "Indian bastard" suggesting that we go back to our "poverty stricken fucking country" and blog about that.
Shahida Ahmed is a topline restaurant owner who runs a commercial kitchen from our next door house. In India, we Indians would not have allowed this to happen at an urban address.
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You mother fucker! How dare you write such insulting posts time and time again about a hard working woman such as Shahida Ahmad! Rather than being a whiney bitch why don't you move out of the neighborhood! Better yet why don't you move back to India, "I am sure you can more than afford it" and I'm sure the cows and pigs residing all over India would make better neighbors for someone like you. You practically are one of them after all! | |
Do you honestly have nothing better to do with your time other than crib and complain about her! Or am I sensing the green eyed monster of jealousy coming out! |
Really?
ReplyDeleteYou get such emails?
This is so sad to know that someone from us is doing this. At the same time, our FMs are talking about peace. What irony !!!
Extremism of this extent can be found anywhere. But am sure you must be coming across good extremes too :)
Pray tell me what bothers you so much about Mrs. Ahmed's kitchen next door? That you have a bunch of "uncouth" baker boys as neighbors? Or that you have to bear the sight of her unkempt garden? Look at it this way- What if she lived next door and had a bunch of uncouth servants and neglected her garden- Would you have had a reason to complain? No. As long as she does what she does inside her house, you should really let it be.
ReplyDeleteServes you right!! i mean what else did you expect from us intolerant folk!
ReplyDeleteJust get back home.
ReplyDeleteAnon, thank you for your kind comments. Much appreciated. Please convey our best regards to Shahida Ahmed :P
ReplyDeleteJman, thankfully most folk we know in Pakistan are very tolerant! Thanks for dropping by ;)
Well said Anon! What she does in the four walls of her house is her business and not ours. Before you go criticizing your neighbors you should pause and think about what kind of a neighbor you are? Complaining about your fellow neighbors, breaching their respect for privacy by taking pictures to belittle them, do these sound like the qualities of a good neighbour? Whatever it is, she pays the rent for those men to be living there and thus they are your neighbors whether you like it or not, whether the are from the same social class as you or not, whether they are as well versed as you are not, they are your neighbors and they deserve to be treated like any other resident of that street; with respect and the status of an equal especially considering the fact that they have never caused you any harm, just gone about doing their jobs.
ReplyDeleteHow, where, when and why she chooses to run her business is entirely up to her. You should learn to accept that and If you cant, wouldn't it make more sense for you to move? After all, she is perfectly happy where she is and her business is a roaring succession, the only unhappy one here is you.
ReplyDeleteAnons, a pleasure seeing you all parked here :D
ReplyDeleteObsessivemom, yes missing civilisation badly! :)
Then why don't you get the hell out of here!
ReplyDeleteGood grief...what a bunch of losers [who need to get their mouths washed out.] Bullies are always cowards too......Why "anonymous"? Not enough guts to put a name?
ReplyDeleteI see the abusive comments are all anonymous, racists generally are cowards as well. I live in England and this is the kind of bigotted ignorance my Father had to put up with in the Fifties, he was from Pakistan by the way,
ReplyDeleteThese losers need to wash their mouths out with soap. And whats the "anonymous" deal...? Bullies are cowards too, everyone knows that. So this one doesnt have the guts to put a name to the filthy language?
ReplyDeleteKhuda in logon ke badtamiz aur na-insaafi lafzon se aapke hifaazat kare! Mujhe aapke takleef sunkar bahut afsos aur empathy aaye hain. Yahaan pe aap ke liye dua maangne jaa rahaa hun.
ReplyDeleteSo awful and so dissapointing to hear these rude and nasty comments from our people. Please ignore them and you are most welcome as are your countyrmen. There may be bad people but there are also good people too. And as i have said before to you, your presence has an affect that is also unseen and your experience is a beginning in breaking down barriers. I hope you enjoy the rest of your stay.
ReplyDeleteAli
Hmm... You guys amaze me... Getting all those hate mails, nd still replyin with a smile... Awesome guys... Keep up d patience.. nd stay safe.. :-)
ReplyDelete@ Anon guys... Cut the crap... In the end, if you are fightin for something, at least fight for correct thing... Whateva dat cook does, there is a quality standard to b maintained.. Khana jata to insaanon k paas he hai...
These guys r showing you Sun and wat u r lookin at is Finger... lolz..
and these must be those few of the "better" addressed mails, i am sure there must be much worse, at least that is what we encounter interacting with them online :D
ReplyDeleteLOL. Funny thing guys. All your haters are anonymous. That says a lot. They want to hate you, yet they are reluctant to post from their google accounts under their real names. That really shows something; a bully mentality which is all-pervasive and yeah like bullies go, they are most afraid and most insecure human in the world.
ReplyDeleteI want to see a hater who can say what he like damn well as he/she pleases WITH HIS/HER TRUE NAME ON THE SHOW. if that can be done than really one can believe there is credibility otherwise, all these "anons" are whiny teenagers who probably spend their time googling "camel sex".
Kudos to you blog owners. You guys deal with this crap really well. I mean it. Because I know the liberal side of the country you are currently living in. :) And I love that. Despite living in India.
Well, think about it, if there were PakistanisInIndia writing negative things about India, I'm sure the reaction wouldn't be much different either.
ReplyDeleteTry visiting YouTube and reading some of the comments the users post on some of the videos regarding the two countries. These 'hate' comments you've mentioned here would read like lullaby's in comparison to them.
Both sides are guilty of unnecessary and illogical hate.
- An Objective Indian
An objective Indian,
ReplyDeleteExcellent and very truthful Comments.
- A Pakistani