Saturday, 11 August 2012

The name is: Mohamed Farah. The 'nickname' is not the name!

An AADHIKARMedia Original Lingusitiuc Ethical and Nomenclature Commentary:

2200 Hrs GMT

London Saturday 11 August 2012.

Editor © Muhammad Haque.

Mohamed Farah, whose name is being distorted by the Team GB PR machine and as carried on the “mainstream” Murdochite UK and USA Media and their many equally untruthful, lying tributaries of toxic, corrupt propaganda and Cultural offensive, is one of many subjected to distortion. This racist and imperialist distortion goes to the heart of the corruption on which the Big Biz “Culture” flaunted via the fabtr5carted imageries around the name of “the Olympics” is stood. Of course this latest sample of the corruption culture is not on the scale that Muhammad Ali had been subjected to in the years of his battle against racists controlling the agenda of misinformation, disguised as “the authoritative news” media. Decades after he voluntarily embraced the Islamic faith and declared himself to be Muhammad Ali, the “Champ” was being violated and insulted by being still referred to as “Cassius Clay”.

As has been shown by successive thinking members of the anti-racist population of the “African Americans” in the USA, the NAME and the CULTURE that the NAME signifies [= the “Nomenclature”] and symbolises are as important if not more important than the person’s/persons’ very humanity. So ANY attempt at distorting Muhammad [however it may be spelt in the English or in other western racist imperialist linguistic contexts] and to abbreviate it into an offensively violating “Mo” or any variety of that distortion, is a deliberate act of violation and deserves to be treated as that.

[To be continued]

Extracts from Wikipedia entry [below] was retrieved at appx 2158 Hrs GMT on Saturday 11 August 2012:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mo Farah
Personal information
Farah at the 2008 European Cross Country Championships
Full name	Mohamed Farah
Nickname(s)	Mo
Nationality	British
Born	23 March 1983 (age 29) Mogadishu, Somalia^[1]
Residence	London, United Kingdom
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)^[2]
Weight	65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb)^[2]
Sport
Sport	Running
Event(s)	1500 m, 3000 m, 5000 m,10,000 m
Club	Newham and Essex Beagles Oregon Track Club
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	800 m: 1:48.69 (Eton 2003) 1500 m: 3:33.98 (Monaco 2009) 3000 m: 7:34.47 (Birmingham 2009) 5000 m: 12:53.11 (Monaco 2011) 10000 m: 26:46.57 (Eugene 2011) Half Marathon: 60:23 (New York 2011)
Medal record[show]

Mohamed "Mo" Farah (born 23 March 1983) is a British Somaliinternational track and field athlete. He is the current 10,000m Olympic Champion and 5000m Olympic and world champion. He won a gold medal on 4 August at the London 2012 Olympics in the 10,000 metres, giving Great Britain its first-ever Olympic Gold Medal victory in the event, following up with the gold medal on 11 August in the same games in the 5,000 metres.

On the track, he generally competes over 5000 metres and 10,000 metres, but also runs the 3000 metres and occasionally the 1500 metres. He has expressed a desire to move up to the marathon after the 2012 Olympics.^[3]Farah holds the European track record for 10,000 metres, the British road record for 10,000 metres, the British indoor record in the 3000 metres, the British track record for 5000 metres, the British half-marathon record, and the European indoor record for 5000 metres. In July 2010, Farah won Britain's first-ever men's European gold medal at 10,000 m.^[4] He followed this with a gold in the 5000 m, becoming the 5th male athlete to complete the long-distance double at the championships and the first British man to do so.^[5] At the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, he won silver in the 10,000 m and gold in the 5000 m.^[6]

In addition, Farah competes in cross-country running, where in December 2006 he became European champion in Italy.^[7] He also took gold in the 3000 metres in both the 2009 and 2011 European Indoor Championships, inTurin and Paris respectively.

Farah was originally based in London and ran for Newham and Essex Beagles athletics club, training at St Mary's University College, Twickenham's sports facilities in Strawberry Hill from 2001 to 2011. In 2011, he relocated to Oregon, US, in order to further his training. He is an ambassador for Bupa, Lucozade Sport and Nike. Farah was also voted 2011 European athlete of the year from twelve nominees, with Christophe Lemaitre in second place.^[8]

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Early life and education

Born in Mogadishu, Somalia on 23 March 1983,^[9] Farah spent the majority of his childhood in Djibouti.^[10] He later moved to Britain at the age of 8 years old to join his father, speaking barely a word of English.^[10]^[11] Farah's father was born inEngland and grew up in Hounslow, London; his parents met after his father went on holiday to Somalia.^[12]

For his education, he attended Feltham Community College in London. Farah's athletic talent was identified by physical education teacher Alan Watkinson at Isleworth and Syon School,^[13] who later said of him: "When I first met him, he was struggling academically and suffering from the language barrier. He needed focus and I sort of took him under my wing. His passion was football but it was his turn of speed on the pitch that showed his real talent." His ambition was to play as a right winger for Arsenal^[14] and Watkinson would encourage Farah by allowing him to play half an hour of football before their training sessions.

Brick Lane bared lines of "Curry Capital" Customers at the height of the most idiotic Games hypes!

WE are here reporting that Tower Hamlets Council is operated by a corrupt, incompetent and dishonest clique.
We are also at the same time giving space to an empirical diagnosis, just published this evening [Saturday 11 August 2012] on the London Guardian newspaper’s web site, which analysis accuses the decision-makers on behalf of the Curry Restaurants in Brick Lane, of their own ignorance, narrow mindedness. .

We are doing so to bring out and put on the record the full extent of the evidence of the factors underlying the compound degeneration of the area.

We are about to publish, later this weekend, more and updater evidence to support the thesis that there is an orchestrated agenda for the degeneration of the “Brick Lane area” so that multinational corporations operating via surrogate outfits, can make the move that they have been plotting for decades and take over the area.

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We shall show how the corrupt elements controlling the relevant operational agenda ion behalf of the formal Tower Hamlets Council have been sabotaging all attempts at uniting the traders of the Curry Restaurants and other small outfits.
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[To be continued]

THE following comment has just appeared on the Guardian web site, about the lack of trade by Curry restaurants in Brick Lane. .

The comment is signed by “linesofhunger”. .

THE following comment has just appeared on the Guardian web site, about the lack of trade by Curry restaurants in Brick Lane. .

The comment is signed by “linesofhunger”. .

The comment is the fifth one on the Guardian’s London blog in response to Dave Hill’s piece

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”Olympics diary: losing out in Leyton and Brick Lane

While the big picture appears mixed, its clear that some east London small businesses have not received an Olympics boost

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The LINESOFHUNGER comment on the Guardian web site is definitely from the Tower Hamlets area.
It focuses on the failure by the individuals who make the decisions on behalf of each of the Curry restaurants for the lack of trade and for the declining trade.

Here is the comment [with one spelling error cor4cted]:

Your promotion of the "East London Advertiser" needs to be qualified. It is actually the website that you are referring to, the previous, long running; "East London Advertiser" has been merged with another of the current owners' titles.
Secondly, you repeat a claimed comment that there was a lack of marketing, as the key reason for the dearth of business as far as the "Curry" restaurants are concerned.
How then is it that so man " restaurants-linked" "associations" become available to at least parts of the media yet they cannot get organised enough to do THEIR own marketing?
Why do they need the Council to do their marketing, especially when certain individual “restaurant owners” and proprietors are too eager to make their points whenever they get a spot in the media?
The truth is that the "Curry" restaurants are not united.
The individuals who “decide” on behalf of each of the known Curry restaurants in Brick Lane and in the neighbouring streets don’t have the necessary respect for the standards of genuine economic and social organisation to understand that only by genuine and sustained unity can they make any significant and lasting impact on the Council and more importantly in the “open market” of customers.

They have been missing the opportunity to get the basic unity on strictly common trading, economic and the crucial community bases.

They have also failed to respond to or cooperate with the local community initiatives - specially created for the benefits of the Curry trade over the past forty years in the area - to organise the Curry restaurants on a level from where the really important issues could be addressed, thus making the Curry restaurants sound and attractive to customers all year round.

The comment is the fifth one on the Guardian’s London blog in response to Dave Hill’s piece

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”Olympics diary: losing out in Leyton and Brick Lane

While the big picture appears mixed, its clear that some east London small businesses have not received an Olympics boost

RAMADAAN Reflections from "Bethnal Green", London, October 28-30, 2000: An UPDATER Commentary for today, Ramadaan, 11 August 2012. Due here, next

RAMADAAN Reflections from "Bethnal Green", London, October 28-30, 2000: An UPDATER Commentary for today, Ramadaan, 11 August 2012.

Due here, next

Streets definitely bereft of gold for the campaign to secure freedom from the Obama regime's atrocities: [1]

Streets definitely bereft of gold for the campaign to secure freedom from the Obama regime's atrocities: [1]

1650 [1630] Hrs GMT London Saturday 11 August 2012
Editor © Muhammad Haque
The AADHIKARMediaonline picture of the banner of the Free Mumia Abu Jamal UK campaign shown here was taken at Bishopsgate [the “City of London” thoroughfare which includes the railway station Liverpool Street] on 06 August 2012.
The Free Mumia Abu Jamal campaign has also drawn attention to an extent to the over-representation of “black” inmates in British jails.
As the campaign’s blog “democracyandclasstruggle” states that [Hackney, London] British parliament Member Diane Abbot has said: “some prisons in the South East [of England] are now virtually all-black”.
The Free Mumia UK campaign has demonstrated at Bishopsgate before. On the 06 August 2012, we conducted a filmed interview with the man who holds up the banner. In later parts of this series, relevant bits from that interview will be published.

. The Mumia Abu Jamal case or the STATE of that case in the USA today just about reinforces the undeniable truth about the very dangerous failures of the “most powerful” “Nation on earth today”.

The fact that Abu Jamal was sentenced to death in the 1980s is not a particularly exceptional fact at all.
Because the USA has the death penalty, as is widely known.
The Abu Jamal case shows that despite routine and aggressive assertion of the “humanising and the human rights-advancing” “protections” under the “American Constitution”, most people, who fit the socially, ethnically and culturally “profiled” characteristics of Mumia Abu Jamal, remain totally deprived of all the fancy “rights” so frequently and so vigorously vaunted at all the trading stages and platforms.

. The awkward Englishman who helped define so much of the founding USA’s Constitutional rhetoric, Tom Paine, would himself be very very outraged if he were about today.
But Jimmy Carter is about. As a former USA President, Carter has been hitting the headlines especially over the regular massacres of children, women and other civilians that B Hussein Obama had promised to carry out [during his "challenge" as against the Republicans' John McCain in 2008] and has been regularly authorising since getting into the White House.
The massacres were the subject of another heated demonstration in Pakistan today [Saturday 11 August 2012]. The “Oxford University”-stamped former cricket “star” Imran Khan has been involved in the growing political mobilisation by the ordinary people across Pakistan against the Obama White House’s massacres programme against the people in the regions bordering on Afghanistan.
The British legal professional Clive Stafford Smith has been at the forefront of the Pakistan protest, as far as the British links are concerned. Stafford Smith has been widely reported in Pakistan [but has been suppressed by the British mainstream media] as giving extensive accounts from the legal standpoint, of how Obama has been committing illegal acts and how the massacres are crimes against humanity. Apart from Clive Stafford Smith, other lawyers, international jurists and human rights specialists have been vocal “about” Obama carrying out the massacres.
But the Murdoch-led British "mainstream media" outlets have suppressed all the news.

Only the Guardian has been, perhaps to show part of its "liberal" face, carrying some of the "news". But the Guardian has been careful to not allow the victims of Obama’s massacres of the Pakistani children, women and other innocents to be seen as victims as compared with the victims of any regime that could be identified as remotely "like the Pakistanis"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But the very widely publicised “friend of the Muslims” [!!!] and the Bradford West MP George Galloway was not able to even refer to the Obama massacres of the Pakistanis when Galloway allowed his name to go with the piece published by the Glasgow daily RECORD on Monday 06 August 2012. Instead, Mr Galloway ended his piece by invoking the supposed wisdom of Marylyn Monroe [on the holder/s of the office of “Mr President”] and doing a sub-reminiscent textual impression of what had become so spectacularly “famous” impersonation by him of a feline as he had feigned to savour the delicacies amid performing an act while posing prostrate at the presence of Runa Lenska.
It is these voids, these empty spaces in the “professional” utterances by “elected politicians” that the Free Mumia Abu Jamal UK campaign highlighted when it denounced the British and the USA regimes and institutions as being not only racist and imperialist but also as being more so than they had been in some of the recent decades.
The campaign also pointed out that the over-hyped resurgence in the Chinese economy and Society must not be confused with the Cultural Revolution under the banner of Chairman Mao’s leadership. “These are fundamental contradictions”, the campaign referred to its stand on today’s China. As it did so in relation to its stand about the regimes and Societies across the West.
In the context of Jamaica which it treats as a typical case of what has been stalling the true liberation of the Caribbean peoples, the “class struggle” was continuing but it would not overthrow the stooged, corrupt regime only because a “charismatic” “leader”, such as Fidel Castro, might emerge one day or suddenly.
The class struggle does NOT depend on a Charismatic leader, the campaign asserted.

[These commentaries will continue]

The following is an extract from an entry on MUMIA ABU JAMAL on the Wikipedia, retrieved at 1545 GMT Saturday 11 August 2012

Abu-Jamal was given the name Mumia in 1968 by his high school teacher, a Kenyan instructing a class on African cultures in which students took African classroom names.^[12]

According to Abu-Jamal, 'Mumia' means "Prince" and was the name of anti-colonial African nationalists conducting warfare against the British in Kenya at the time of its independence movement.^[13] He adopted the surname Abu-Jamal ("father of Jamal" in Arabic) after the birth of his son Jamal on July 18, 1971.^[12][14]

His first marriage at age 19, to Jamal's mother, Biba, was short-lived.^[15] Their daughter, Lateefa, was born shortly after the wedding.^[16]

Abu-Jamal married his second wife, Marilyn (known as "Peachie"),^[14] in 1977.^[17] Their son, Mazi, was born in early 1978.^[18]

By 1981, Abu-Jamal was living with his third and current wife, Wadiya.^[17]

[edit]Involvement with the Black Panthers

In his own writings, Abu-Jamal describes his adolescent experience of being "kicked ... into the Black Panther Party" after suffering a beating from "white racists" and a policeman for his efforts to disrupt a George Wallace for President rally in 1968.^[19]

The following year, at the age of 15, he helped form the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party,^[20] taking appointment, in his own words, as the chapter's "Lieutenant of Information", exercising a responsibility for writing information and news communications. In one of the interviews he gave at the time he quoted Mao Zedong, saying that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun".^[21]

That same year, he dropped out of Benjamin Franklin High School and took up residence in the branch's headquarters.^[20] He spent late 1969 in New York City and early 1970 in Oakland, living and working with BPP colleagues in those cities.^[22]

He was a party member from May 1969 until October 1970 and was subject to Federal Bureau of Investigation COINTELPRO surveillance from then until about 1974.^[23]

The UK campaign for the Release of Mumia Abu Jamal from prison in USA is being led by an organisation some of whose publications can be read at their blog. The latest accessible blog address is given below :

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/free-mumia-abu-jamal-march-from-brixton.html

"East London Advertiser" web site: Brick Lane loses its ‘Olympics gold’ moment to shine

Eastern Eye Balti House

Brick Lane loses its ‘Olympics gold’ moment to shine

by Mike Brooke

Tuesday, August 7, 2012
10:52 PM

Traders along the East End’s famous ‘Curry Mile’ are hot under the collar over what’s gone wrong down Brick Lane during the Olympics.

Emran Sohel outside his Curry Bazaar

The ‘Curry Capital’ has turned into “a dead city,” say the restaurateurs—there are no customers, despite the status Brick Lane was given with all the Olympic razzamatazz when the 2012 organisers switched the original marathon route to the West End.
That’s how the two trade associations which run the once-lucrative tourist magnate see the effects of the 2012 Games.
Everyone’s staying in Stratford and no-one’s beating a path to the street where once passers-by would be entertained or harassed by touts in what was the spicy flavour of East End life.
They were expecting 10,000 Olympic tourists a day down ‘The Lane’ crammed with its 50 curry houses.

Waiting for customers who don't come

Many took on extra staff for the influx—they’re having to lay them off now.
“Brick Lane is like a dead city,” said Azmal Hussain, vice chair of Brick Lane Restaurateurs Association.
“The Olympics opportunity has been missed because of a lack of marketing.
“We were told 90,000 people would be drawn to the area by the Olympics.

Pop into any Brick Lane curry house at lunchtime and pick any seat

Along the ‘Curry Mile,’ Mohammed Salim, one of two brothers running the Brick lane Brasserrie, has a stern view of London 2012.
“The Olympics have been rubbish,” he tells you.
“The restaurants here are all empty. We were told we’d do lot of business as the Curry Capital—but there’s been nothing promoted to say where we are.”
His restaurant was one of the few eateries with any customers the lunchtime I looked in.
Frank Helms had popped in with his Dutch sister-in-law Nienke Ronk the day after they had been to see the Men’s Gymnastics, when Japan took the Gold. They were sitting quietly by the window, the only ones in the place.
Frank said: “We came to Brick Lane for a curry, but didn’t expect it to be deserted. The atmosphere has gone—it’s dead.”
Nienke didn’t mind so much. She wasn’t looking forward to crowded streets, but admits: “You need some hussle-and-bussle.”
Next door, the Eastern Eye’s Kamrul Hussain was running a completely empty house.
“We had high expectations—but it’s going bad,” he explains. “We were told to expect thousands a day.
“The Olympic Torch didn’t even come down Brick Lane. We were really upset about that.”
Opposite, the Bengal Village proudly displays a ‘Best Curry 2012’ banner after being named top eatery by a national newspaper. But manager Abdul Majid points to the rows of empty tables.
“There were supposed to be 90,000 coming to the area,” he said.
“We took on three extra staff—now we’ve had to lay them off. The trade is dead.”
It’s the same at the Curry Bazaar two doors down. Imran Sohel reveals how bad business is as he straightens the table napkins and polishes the empty glasses yet again.
“There’s been no promotion by the council,” he tells you. “Most restaurants took on extra staff, but the owners lose money if they keep them on.”
Preem & Prithy, at the epicentre of ‘Curry Capital’, had just two customers. The other 90 tables were empty.
Assistant manager Sied Hussain saw trade plummet by 80 per cent in the first week of the Olympics.
“The tourists are staying in Stratford,” he explains. “We’re supposed to be the ‘Curry Capital’—but we’re getting only 20 per cent of our usual custom.”
“The council told us we were the Curry capital. But that’s all they did—there’s been no promotion.”

“But instead, it’s the worst I’ve ever seen.”
He’s never seen it as bad in the 13 years he has run his Preem & Prithy restaurant.
So a meeting of all Brick Lane restaurateurs is being held after Ramadan to organise a deputation to Tower Hamlets council to find out just what the £120,000 promotion budget from the London 2012 organisers went on.
They blame some of the lack of trade on police and council together targeting the area looking for licensing infringements, street peddlers, touts, prostitutes and anyone with drugs.
“If people see lots of police in a street, they don’t go there,” Azmal explained. “There’s too much heavy police presence. People come for food and to enjoy the atmosphere—but when they see so many police they go away.”
Take a stroll down this narrow, winding thoroughfare through the heart of Spitalfields any lunchtime while the 2012 Games are on at Stratford, three miles away, and you not only have the pick of the 50 restaurants, but any seat you want—they’re mostly empty.
The rival Brick Lane Curry Association met Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman in the run-up to 2012.
The association’s Daraz Miah, whose Cinnamon restaurant was totally empty at luchtime last Thursday, said: “The mayor told us we should be ready the first day when 20,000 visitors would come.
“Many of us took on extra workers—I took two on myself.
“But on the day of the Opening Ceremony we were dead.
“Even the next day everywhere was empty. We have 100 seats and normally it’s packed on a Saturday.”
He blames all the warnings of traffic chaos and overcrowded public transport, coupled with the council not being serious about marketing Brick Lane as Curry Capital.
“The police and council aren’t helping,” Mr Miah added. “They’re frightening away the tourists.
“The only way we can promote ourselves is telling passers-by what we offer—but all that’s been stopped. They call it touting.
“The Olympics are a flop for us. The last two weekends have been a disaster.”
Traders also feel they missed out on a gold opportunity to be on the world stage with the Olympic Torch relay being diverted along Commercial Street instead of Brick Lane itself.
Tower Hamlets council, for its part, blames official warnings about travel disruption for scaring away tourists.
“Businesses showing an unexpected and disappointing slump haven’t been helped by messages about travel disruption that could have been more targeted,” says a council statement.
“With official warnings scaring visitors away, we have unashamedly been promoting the borough and Brick Lane, flooding hotels with information for tourists.”
Decisions about the Olympic torch route were made by London 2012 which the council said was out of its control. But the authority promised in the second and busiest Olympic week to work with Mayor Boris Johnson and TfL to promote the East End more.
That might be good news for the curry house proprietors, but a little late.

Saturday, 11 August 2012

The name is: Mohamed Farah. The 'nickname' is not the name!

Contents

Early life and education

Brick Lane bared lines of "Curry Capital" Customers at the height of the most idiotic Games hypes!

.”Olympics diary: losing out in Leyton and Brick Lane

.”Olympics diary: losing out in Leyton and Brick Lane

RAMADAAN Reflections from "Bethnal Green", London, October 28-30, 2000: An UPDATER Commentary for today, Ramadaan, 11 August 2012. Due here, next

Streets definitely bereft of gold for the campaign to secure freedom from the Obama regime's atrocities: [1]

[edit]Involvement with the Black Panthers

"East London Advertiser" web site: Brick Lane loses its ‘Olympics gold’ moment to shine

Brick Lane loses its ‘Olympics gold’ moment to shine

Pop into any Brick Lane curry house at lunchtime and pick any seat

.
”Olympics diary: losing out in Leyton and Brick Lane

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”Olympics diary: losing out in Leyton and Brick Lane