by Farid Esack, Islamabad, Pakistan

Ah the great jetsetter visits the Third World and becomes even more illustrious as he pisses on his own people.

At the end of the day, you have to decide whether you want to be a Christopher Hitchens/Irshad Manji lone ranger who just wants to be a contrarian for contrarian?s sake, or whether you want to have some purpose, some accountability to real people in real movements that you say you support.

As?ad, my brother, we who for many reasons, have ?made it to? and ?made it in? the world of power need to reflect a bit more on the supposed backwardness of the ?Third World.? People here die of undereating because some of us who have made it to the ?First World? die of overeating. There is a connection here. Let us not piss on people who pay the price for our comforts and for our ?development.? They are our people.

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