PM.....
(Idea is a story of struggle and little intellectual worries of my life.. A small view on how I react to my rejections in my own paper- on one hand it depicts freedom that we believe in and second shareholders of papers should be far from editorial discretions, they should only cry like a sulking babe)
A cry of a rejected author!!
Dear ---ifa,
I take your email of today with little tongue in cheek remarks,
The following articles were timely and represented a view that is different not in currency in my country, I put my neck on line but three were neglected by your editorial board, whereas 300,000 people read them in last few weeks online Iranian.. My forecasts and predictions if you care to read are more in line with realties on ground than 'wishes' we have in Islamic world.
Dawn of a new day
Fall of Baghdad from 1258 to 2003
By Iqbal Latif
Road map to Baghdad and beyond
Writing's on the wall
March 17, 2003
Controlled democracy
A political analysis of Iraqi freedom
November 11, 2002
iranian.com
'Ghar ke murghi dal barabar,' this is the way you treat my thoughts...it is sad...some comments that I received today I am forwarding you. I send you my articles because I love 'my'(no pun intended God forbid on your authority or editorial discretion please don’t make it an issue since this is a cry of a rejected author not a shareholder or Director) paper.
I do look for respect and that respect means ‘rejection’ if you don’t intend to print should be notified, that is my only request, on my last three article even this small request of mine was turned down, even a rejection is too much and was not send. By the way the size of all these articles was as per editorial guidelines.
I have some views on world and not lot of wishes, I see lot of wishes being presented and very little factual things the way we will see in Iraq. Baghdad will fall and like Basra people will love it, some views expressed nowadays are as far from reality as Sahhaf the 'disinof Minister of Iraq' is from truth. If people welcome USA in Baghdad like they did in Basra, Sakkar, and Karbela after these thugs are under some faces will have a lot of egg. Long live Free Iraq and Iraqi persecuted people.. My hearts go out for them. Free views can be suppressed but reality emerges hard and fast, Iraqi freedom will bring and usher a new era in the Middle East, we Pakistanis can sit and have a pan- Islamic and sympathy with tyrant like Saddam but Iraqis under Saddam did not have the luxury of opposing Saddam as we do with Mush and they were regularly hanged by their tongues so that those things should not be used..
best regards,
your friend
Ike..
Reactions from the world...the word spreads.. on my two shows and my articles..
From: "info" This is spam | Add to Address Book
To: ilatif@yahoo.com
Subject: permission to reprint article
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 00:25:53 -0700
Dear Sir:
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The UCLA research Library as well as other institutions of public learning carry our newspaper and our bi-weekly 25000 copies are distributed throughout Los Angeles area.
I am an avid follower of your articles and would like your permission to reprint the latest one appearing on Iranian.com for our readers. Naturally, upon publication we will send you a copy if you should so desire.
Could you please send us your reply ASAP since the next issue is only 7 days away.
Thank You
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From: "Nazari, Hamid" <HAMID.NAZARI@saic.com> | This is spam | Add to Address Book
To: ilatif@yahoo.com
Subject: thank you for an excellent article
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 10:11:39 -0400
Hello Iqbal
Thank you for a good article putting things in perspective. It is
amazing
how easily people forget who Saddam is and what atrocities his regime
has
brought about. Everybody I have spoken to who supports "peace" did
nothing
to avert this war, or say anything against the totalitarianism,
dictatorship
and authoritarianism of the Baath party. They prefer to do nothing and
just
any event, short of war, take place. In their thinking so long as there
is
no war, all is fine, even tyranny and oppression. Arabs of course have
a
blind eye: anything Arab is good, even the most destructive regimes
that
start wars, invade neighbors, annex neighbors, oppress populations and
destroy institutions and healthy evolutions.
Thanks
Hamid from Iran
From: "DSEBIRE" | This is spam | Add to Address Book
To: "'Iqbal Latif'" <ilatif@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: IRAQ-Fall of Baghdad from 1258 to 2003
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 11:03:05 +0200
Ike,
You're right, that war was probably the only way to replace Saddam's
regime, and seams to be as clean as possible for the time being. I hope
that allies will give back power to iraqi democrats as soon as possible
and
will not keep oil benefits for them but for iraqi people.
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 16:07:20 -0400
From: RMazcuri| This is spam | Add to Address Book
To: ilatif@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: IRAQ-Fall of Baghdad from 1258 to 2003
Iqbal, this is a great article!
I have made copies of this and I am shoving it into the face of many of my anti-American chat and pannis.
You were right on the dot with your predictions.
The new slogan (nara) in Baghdad is 'stay, stay, U.S.A.)!
Way to go.
Love,
Riaz
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 16:43:07 +1000
From: "Daniel Parsa" | This is spam | Add to Address Book
To: ilatif@yahoo.com
Subject: Doroud
Dear Igbal Latif,
I do enjoy reading your articles. I hope you will continue to enlighten us with your insights and knowledge.
Regards
Daniel Parsa
From: Brookdata| This is spam | Add to Address Book
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:11:23 EDT
Subject: Great Article Iranian.com
To: ilatif@yahoo.com
Ilatif,
I agree with everything you said in your article. We are appalled by
the
Arab world who carry Saddam's picture around, openly siding with the
most
vicious oppressor of Arabs in modern times against us. They have sunk
to
their lowest level. The lies, propaganda and ignorance in that part of
the
world is beyond anyone's comprehension, and I don't see it reversing
course
anytime soon. It's more likely that Arabs will quickly begin spreading
their
lies in Iraq and turn the people there against us in a very short time.
Bush
is betting that he can set up a democracy there that will be the
catalyst for
reform in the Arab world. I hope he's right, but it's going to be a
long,
long struggle.
Brook Dataski
Nashville, TN
From: "khalid mahmood"| This is spam | Add to Address Book
To: ilatif@yahoo.com
Subject: PJ MIR
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 19:11:25 +0300
hey,saw ilatif,i will say not in full cry,but kind of subdued on PJ
MIR'S
mideast crises lastnight.Atlast somebody,a Pakistani, had the guts to
speakout against the tyrant saddam.I'd almost givenup on our nation! If it
was'nt for US saddam would have lived forever.I think americans are
doing
a fine job,whatever the reasons.Anyways ,well done, you were just
great.let's see you more on such talk shows but do keep us
posted,when&where
you have done what?last night was just pure luck. Take care& bye.
khalid
Subject: Good Show at ARY
To: "Iqbal Latif" <ilatif@yahoo.com>
From: "Khalid JAMIL"ca-indosuez.com> | This is spam | Add to Address Book
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:53:01 +0500
Dear Iqbal,
You are speaking some hard truth which most of the people avoid. We
live in a world
where black is black and white is white. No illusions and impractical
approach can resolve
our problems.
Good going, on both occasions.
Best Wishes
K Jamil
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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 05:50:44 EDT
Subject: Re: IRAQ-Fall of Baghdad from 1258 to 2003
To: ilatif@yahoo.com
Dans un e-mail daté du 08-04-03 10:31:42 AM Romance Daylight Time, ilatif@yahoo.com a écrit :
Jesus I wish I could write like that. I'm forwarding it on to the family. I know this sounds stuipid, but at a time when everyone seems to be against us, thanks.Ken
Dear Mr. Latif:
From: .com | This is spam | Add to Address Book
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:29:29 EDT
Subject: Wonderful article!
To: ilatif@yahoo.com
Dear Mr. Latif:
What an excellent article. I think this should be disseminated more
widely
than so much of the shallow trash that we are reading about Iraq. I
agree
that this may be the first real break that this sad country has had in
centuries. Thank you.
Who are you? I know you are Iranian, but are you a writer, a professor,
or
just an amateur scholar? Whatever you are, I salute you.
Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman
Author of: "God's Law or Man's Law: The Fundamentalist Challenge to
Secular
Rule"
and "Zoroaster's Nest: An Overview of Revealed Religion." Web site
www.globalthink.net.
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 16:10:46 -0700
From: "Masood / SysRox" <masood@.com> | This is spam | Add to Address Book
Subject: Dawn of a new day
To: ilatif@yahoo.com
You're a Genius.
Masood |
