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Farmocracy Experiment

About Amad

Amad Shaikh is one of the founders of MuslimMatters, Inc. His identity is shaped by his religion (Islam), place of birth (Pakistan), and nationality (American). By education, he is a ChemE, topped off with an MBA from the Wharton. He was one of the founders of the TDC, and in what seems like a distant memory, he served as the President of U. Houston's MSA. His interests include politics, cricket, and media interactions. Career-wise, Amad is in management in the oil & gas industry (but one who still appreciates the "green revolution").

28 comments

  1. This entry is so strange. What’s the point? :)

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  2. ExEx, the point is to figure out what the heck I am talking about ;) All the names are coded, albeit with simple freshman-level coding…

    It’s a parable of ongoing events… any guesses?

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  3. Tsin, Acir and Hata have forgotten that Sama parrots worship Allah alone and have full tawakul that Allah is the one who provides the rizq not Tsin, Acir or Hata. May Allah grant victory to Sama parrots to get what legitimately belongs to all parrots.

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  4. It also shows how Acir is hypocrite.

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  5. I think it would have been fair that Tsin to get their own place in Epor. Tsin cats is doing to parrots of Enit, what Epor dog did to them. They should feel some irony

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  6. Amad, it sounds like your wife has put something dodgy in your food ;)

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  7. Must be the biryani. Well, at least my co-FOBs like Hassan are getting it… you never know, the story may become a classic! :)

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  8. Ooooooh, I get it!!!!
    … I think! :P

    I started reading it, blinked, scrolled down to read the comments, read it properly, and now… now I think I get it.
    I didn’t know you had this creative writing stuff in you, Amad! Masha’Allah! It’s very, ummm, interesting… ;)

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  9. When I first wrote it and shared with a couple of ppl, Yasir’s feedback was that the story was too obvious, didn’t have the flavor and the mystery to make for a good parable (like the veganopolis story in the Progressives thing). So, I redid the whole thing to make it less obvious.

    Seems I may have overdone it!

    jak Mouse… during my adolescence youthful years, I wrote a lot of poetry and short-stories, and then I became an engineer! ;) Though, I still have one short-story that I would like to put online, just looking for a good time for it… it was related to the Bosnia genocide about a decade ago… perhaps on an anniversary of the event or something…

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  10. Hhahaha!!!
    Now thats one contemporary story.
    Nice work Amad.
    it was Qari that opened the door to the house.
    Take that Davinci.
    We call this the Amadian Code.

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  11. “Amadian Code”

    LOL……..

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  12. Anyone want to venture in decoding the all the names?

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  13. Salam. I am sorry it was pretty obvious after few lines. I can decode, but lets somebody else try it.

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  14. WE HAVE:
    Qari = Iraq
    Madd = Saddam
    Sama = Osama
    Hsub = Bush
    Nari = Iran
    Acir = Amirica
    ECT.

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  15. Hassan Take it Away Brother

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  16. You got one wrong miserably,

    Sama = Hamas

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  17. I guess now you would rethink rest, I mean the ones you did not mention would be much clearer to you.

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  18. Na’am Jazakallah khair
    Actually that does make more sense
    as my history teacher would say
    “Thats a great wrong answer”

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  19. What is Amirica?!
    So, the freshman coding is as simple as this: The names are just the reverse of the last 4 letters of the correct name.

    So Acir is ameRICA… still 1 or 2 left? The most imp. one Enit? Tsin? Hata? Jeel?

    Osama?? Whoa there… Trying to get me in trouble ;) ! You seem to be in a different world there since you didn’t get any of the actual players in the House of Enits!

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  20. Anyone? Or should I (except Jeel does not make sense to me, I know what is referring, but it does not fit the pattern Amad suggested)

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  21. Spill the beans… Jeel = Khaleej ; that was a curve-ball…

    But really, i think the point was not the coding but the message… I hope that got through somewhat.

    We have been blaming the Hamas/Fatah for the infighting, and no doubt, they partly deserve it. But consider the circumstances that they have found themselves in, and then be fair in your judgement.

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  22. Brilliant stuff,

    I enjoyed reading it.

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