{"id":4660,"date":"2007-08-15T09:02:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T14:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4660"},"modified":"2007-08-16T21:08:26","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T02:08:26","slug":"yeh_hum_naheen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/15\/yeh_hum_naheen\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeh Hum Naheen"},"content":{"rendered":"

While on the subject of pop culture <\/a>as a force for Good<\/a>, I thought it would be interesting to point mutineers at a current chart topping song<\/a> in Pakistan. “Yeh Hum Naheen<\/a>” (“This is Not Us”<\/em>) has been making<\/a> waves<\/a> and the title is apparently becoming a catch phrase of sorts. <\/p>\n\n

Thanks to the magic of YouTube, we present it here<\/a> with English subtitles –<\/p>\n\n

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Personally, the tune doesn’t move me too much but the message kicks ass….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m Too Sexy For<\/em> … Terrorism?<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n\n

It’s often been said that the difference between a terrorism \/ crime-ridden society and one that’s comparatively at peace isn’t really in the small number of folks who actually commit the ill deeds — after all, marginalized peeps are a statistical fact of life everywhere. <\/p>\n\n

The real difference lies instead in the home society’s social narrative… their words drive the direction & magnitude of the (sometimes violent) action at the margin. It’s different “stories” and thus support structures that (partially) determine where on the continuum you land from merely disaffected youth to a high school-scale Trench Coat Mafia<\/a> all the way up to a transnational one<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Thus, what pieces like Yeh Hum Naheen <\/em>hopefully do is drain some of the “juice” from Islamo-militantism. It’s one thing for a potential suicide bomber to be told he’s a glorious martyr by his society (well, by the vocal <\/em>members at least). It’s quite another thing, judging from the attractive folks in the video, if the cool kids create a new voice that tells everyone else you’re a chump….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While on the subject of pop culture as a force for Good, I thought it would be interesting to point mutineers at a current chart topping song in Pakistan. “Yeh Hum Naheen” (“This is Not Us”) has been making waves … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}