So, I turn to you, my collective hive brain. Who is this “Dr.” “Prof.” Zaid Hamid? He has, from most accounts, secured a niche similar to Glenn Beck in Pakistani media – combining ultra-nationalism with a taste for finding Zionist or Hindu involvement in the Pakistani sphere. Here he explains, for example, what truths lie behind “conspiracy theories”:
“We are against the Zionist politics of the Brahmanical elite”. Alrighty then. Some other hair-raising stuff here with Ali Azmat.
He is also, through his privately produced program Brass Tacks, engaged in producing historical narratives – from Khalid b. Walid to 1857 – the “War of Independence”. (“More Indians were killed by the British between 1757 and 1857 than at any time in the previous 5000 years”). Naturally, this makes me very, very interested in him, professionally speaking.
The cursory searches on the internets reveal all kind of contestations – he is an agent of ISPR, he is a true Muslim, he is a former acolyte of a claimant to the Prophethood, he is a true Muslim, etc. What I am really interested in, is figuring out his audiences, his appeals to them, and his theories of media (and mediation). His wiki page is no more than a stub. Can we fill this profile up? Can we place him on a scale of Glenn Beck to Yusuf al-Qaradawi?
{ 104 comments… read them below or add one }
← Previous Comments
Pakistanis psyche as Pakistanis blame everybody for all their problems.
Is not it that civilized world and its accolytes are paying in the same coin by blamming all their troubles originate or will be originating from Pakistan aka safe heaven for terrorism.
I don’t know what to make of this, i’m not accusing just confused. Zahid Hamid seems like the right person at the right time for pakistan, but everything is very shady about his background , some real clarification need to be made. A very interesting analysis I found please read and comment,
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23672211/Zaid-Hamid-s-past-present-a-research-work
Safe havens seem to be dime a dozen :)
“Forget about Yemen. The real terrorist threat exposed by the underwear bomber is in Merry Olde England. ” http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/02/03/londonistan
Speaking of projecting one’s self on others, and since Zaid Hamid is big in antiSemitic myth making. One such myth is the blood libel, which takes us to Cannibalism.
“A spell-binding history of cannibalism in the middle ages: its use as a propaganda tool, and place in Christendom’s self-image; the cannibal as a philosophical hypothetical, and a justification for colonialism; and Richard the Lionheart’s fondness for “Saracen’s head’s all hot” ”
http://www.opendemocracy.net/jen-paton/europe-and-its-cannibals
← Previous Comments