Saturday, September 14, 2013
Perspective: Ahmadium Muslimate and the Islamic laboratory: A scientific story of intolerance and bigotry
Scientists in the Islamic laboratory of Pakistan are parochial and bigoted to the core, and their inner insecurity with regards to their specific branch of ideological science means that they just can’t let any other branch flourish in the lab.
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By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid | September 12, 2013
The pH (Power of Halalness) value of the controversial chemical Ahmadium Muslimate has hogged the deliberation of ideological scientists in the Islamic laboratory of Pakistan, ever since the lab’s inception in 1947. As long as every member of the lab had its own theory about the pH value of the chemical, the laboratory work was relatively passive. But ever since there’s been a ban on the usage of Ahmadium Muslimate, its pH value has been legally sanctioned by the lab management and hence, open-mindedness in scientific work has largely been curtailed. Zab’s sanctioning of narrow-mindedness on September 7, 1974, as the leader of the Islamic laboratory, has left the lab in disarray.
Over the past 39 years, the chemical has secretly been used as a litmus test for pH value in the lab. Any sample that changes its original colour to red, witnesses increase in inflammability or results in a violent reaction, after interacting with Ahmadium Muslimate is ranked high on the bigotry scale. Hydrocarbons Salafane, Deobandene and Wahabaldehyde are said to rank highest on that scale and their reaction with Ahmadium Muslimate is always brutally explosive. One such explosion was witnessed on May 28, 2010, when TTP (Tetra-Talibanic Phosphate) was intentionally added to an Ahmadium Muslimate jar that resulted in fatal blasts.
A decade after Zab’s verdict on Ahmadium Muslimate, his successor as Islamic laboratory’s head Zee Haq issued the XXX Ordinance, according to which, unlike other Muslimates, the Ahmadium samples were barred from being called or even chemically react like Muslimates. Furthermore, scientists were warned against using the word “jar” for Ahmadium Muslimate containers, while condescending terms like Qadianium, for the controversial chemical, were proliferated by the kafirologists. In fact, following the XXX Ordinance, all members of the Islamic laboratory of Pakistan, have had to sign an oath declaring all samples of Ahmadium to be non-Muslimates and the discoverer of the chemical as a quack, before they can get their membership cards. It’s almost as if the sole purpose of this Islamic laboratory is to derogate a chemical and to take away its labeling rights.
Scientists in the Islamic laboratory of Pakistan are parochial and bigoted to the core, and their inner insecurity with regards to their specific branch of ideological science means that they just can’t let any other branch flourish in the lab. This is precisely why Ahmadiologists have suffered the worst kind of discrimination. Believers in the verisimilitude of Ahmadi Muslimate like the lab’s only Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam, former ambassador Zafrullah Khan, academic Qazi Aslam, finance expert MM Ahmad and security personnel like Akhtar Hussain Malik, Abdul Ali Malik, Khalifa Muniruddin and Iftikhar Janjua among many others have been sidelined, and their overall services to the lab have been erased from the history books.
The first time Ahmadi Muslimate was a part of a violent explosion in the lab was back in 1953, when Mao Doodi (no relation to Mao Zedong) orchestrated the reaction for the chemical’s destruction. And the ensuing 60 years has seen laboratory members adding stones, popping chemicals, and even breaking bottles containing used Ahmadium Muslimate solutions just because “authentic” Muslimate formulae were inscribed on them. Back in September 2008, following an advertisement of renowned kafirologist Aamir “Late Cut” Hussain two vigorous reactions were seen involving Ahmadium Muslimates further adding credence of the chemical’s use as the quintessential litmus test for the identification of pH values. Similarly a few days ago SS Raza (Shehla Secular Raza) belonging to belonging to the PPP (Pseudo-Philosophical Physicists) dubbed the ban on using Ahmadium Muslimate in 1974, as “solving a 90 years problem”.
Such manifestations of anti-Ahmadium propaganda connote that it has become increasingly clear that for samples of the chemical or the proponents of Ahmadiology to survive in this lab, the adherents have to let go of their ideology and take dictation from followers of other scientific schools of thought with regards to their identity. Furthermore, while proponents of Ahmadiology might be allowed to exist in the lab as a noble gesture of charity, it’s clear that Ahmadiology, as a scientific ideology is unanimously being targeted by Islamologists who simply refuse to accept it as an offshoot of their own branch of science.
Expecting Ahmadium Muslimate to react differently to other kinds of Muslimates is to bizarrely suppress the chemical nature of the compound. Furthermore, scientists should realise that in order to reach consensus on any particular theory conflicting ideas need to coexist, and everyone should be allowed to individually follow their own scientific school of thought.
Almost every branch of ideological science is an offshoot or is linked to its predecessors, and in many ways Ahmadiology is to Islamology what the latter was to Christianology, or what Protestology was to Catholicology. While disagreements are pivotal for ideological evolution, vigorously suppressing an ideology that contradicts yours means that neither scientific prosperity nor universal chemical development would be possible. Everyone should be allowed to individually form opinion about chemicals or ideologies, but to coerce the members of Islamic laboratory of Pakistan into prejudice towards a particular compound or ideology would only result in propagation of intolerance and bigotry. And so, while everyone should be allowed to have their own theories with regards to the pH value of Ahmadium Muslimate, no one should be allowed to force their scientific calculations on everyone else – least of all by issuing an order applicable to the entire laboratory.
The Islamic laboratory of Pakistan has too many chemicals that rank high on the bigotry scale, and for the lab to avoid volatility and violent reactions the scientists need to be tolerant to chemicals that are low on that particular scale. How the scientists treat Ahmadium Muslimate in the future would be a good litmus test.
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Kunwar Khuldune Shahid is a financial journalist and a cultural critic. Email: khulduneshahid@gmail.com, Twitter: @khuldune
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