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That program made me laugh. Khan is so wooden. When he pulls up in his flashy car to see that guy sitting on a wall wearing a tracksuit. Asks him about his criminal past. "I got done for X and Y" - Khan evocatively raises left eyebrow. "I did at at X" - next programmed facial response...

I personally find the whole thing ludicrous. Khan is I'm sure a fine upstanding lad, he doesn't seem to be a hooligan, and doesn't get himself into trouble except when he's driving a stupidly powerful car that he shouldn't be behind the wheel of at his age.

However, he is not articulate or worldly enough to be offering advice to anyone, certainly not at the tender age of 20, when all he knows of the world is his part of town, his family and boxing, and recently the high life extended to him by allegedly.

If I was some young offender, I'd think 'What the fekk does this flash git know about my life?"

I think with him being a star boxer and a Muslim a big meal has to be made of the role model thing so that everyone can see it's a positive social thing. It's as much about Khan being a goodie that cares as actually rehabilitating the guys.

The only thing I ask is, will he bring in Jeremy Kyle when things get rough? He's quite good at making young yobs cry. Whe he gets 'em on his turf, camera and audience trained on them, virtually tied to a seat by the microphone cable, they have no option but to run off sobbing...

If they do get a helping hand, does it matter if it comes from a 'flash git' or not? For whatever reason Khans done a fair amount of charity work - he did some during the pakistani earthquake too. Amirs helping some really worthwhile causes and he doesn't have to do a thing really - most don't. He could probably get as much publicity doing Celebrity Big Brother or something (he'll probably do that now )

verballistic wrote:

Phenomenal-Nutrition wrote:

verballistic wrote: interesting sidenote...most of the 'stans' are made up primarily of one ethnic group---kazakhs, uzbeks, turkmen, tadjiks, afghans---but amir khan's homeland is different:

P=punjab, A=afghan, K=kashmir!!

the wonders of british partitioning!!

Paki translates to pure though doesn't it. Wasn't Pakistan partitioned by the muslim tribes alianced against Indian rule and not by the BRitish? There has always been allot of religous/tribal wars/persecutions throughout the Indian sub-continent

i know pakistan had 90 years of british rule that ended in 1947 and since the name was given in 1933 i just assumed it had to do with british partitioning, but you may well be right on that one!!

paki was actually the persian word for pure, so i guess you could say it is a double entendre...but the 3 ethnic groups mentioned above are what the letters P-A-K stand for...

The name was coined by Cambridge student and Muslim nationalist Choudhary Rahmat Ali. He devised the word and first published it on January 28, 1933 in the pamphlet Now or Never [2]. He saw it as an acronym formed from the names of the "homelands" of Muslims in South Asia. (P for Punjab, A for the Afghan areas of the region, K for Kashmir, S for Sindh and tan for Balochistan, thus forming 'Pakstan.' An i was later added to the English rendition of the name to ease pronunciation, producing Pakistan.) The word also captured in the Persian language the concepts of "pak", meaning "pure", and "stan", meaning "land" or "home", thus giving it the meaning "Land of the Pure". All Arabic-speaking countries refer to Pakistan as Bakistaan (باکستان), as the Arabic language lacks the phoneme [p].

here's another paragraph on the partitioning from same source:

Partition of the British Indian Empire
Main article: Partition of India
As the British granted independence to their dominions in India in mid-August 1947, the two nations joined the British Commonwealth as self-governing dominions. The partition left Punjab and Bengal, two of the biggest provinces, divided between India and Pakistan. In the early days of independence, more than two million people migrated across the new border and more than one hundred thousand died in a spate of communal violence. Non-Muslims who lived in Pakistan were forced the leave the area, which was one major factor in causing a violent reaction amongst the populations of the newly founded nations. The partition also resulted in tensions over Kashmir leading to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947.

Interesting stuff obviously racists are being ironic using the insult 'F***** PAKI' - Sexualising their purity and mocking their religous concept of sexual abstainence

My head hurts.

verballistic wrote:

terminator wrote:I thought the program was OK

As for taking advice from someone who wears a Jacob watch -i don't see a problem with that.Clearly he has worked hard to get that level of success!!

Not surprised to see paranoid islamophobes complaining!!

"islamophobes" is a word with a very interesting history...the islamists adopted it from those who started the trendy "homophobes" term!! strange bedfellows, those islamists and homosexuals!!

Is it? you mean as opposed to say Eisoptrophobe or the other 1000 or so phobias which makes people -------phobes? Sounds like verballistic diarrhoea to me ;)

Caught the end of this last night and pissed myself laughing. Amir, brother and Dad were all basically saying that he could fight for a world title now and win, and his Dad esp. winking at the camera saying this is going to happen when he turns 21.

The camera cuts to Frank and he replies well when I was 21 I wanted to shag Julia Roberts but it ain't never going to happen.

Thought it was a genius comeback (even though the ages are a bit out) to the tripe the Khan family were spouting.

Very interesting but a bit serious so lets lighten the tone with a DVD for Arab children "Bostman Bat"

WildWaylon wrote:Very interesting but a bit serious so lets lighten the tone with a DVD for Arab children "Bostman Bat"

I don't understand......

what happened to Khan's Angry Young Men after part 3?