Kalo di Indonesia sih, ngebantai si Abdus Salam (kalo masih hidup) cuma akan dihukum 3 bulan max. Itu namanya ngehormati pemenang hadiah Nobel, hehehe...
>________________________________ > From: Sunny <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 6:17 PM >Subject: [proletar] Amidst religious intolerance, Pakistan’s Nobel laureate >fades away > > > >http://dawn.com/2012/07/30/amidst-religious-intolerance-pakistans-nobel-laureate-fades-away/ > >Amidst religious intolerance, Pakistan’s Nobel laureate fades away >AFP | 5 hours ago > >Local residents offer prayers at the grave of Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate >Professor Abdus Salam to pay homage to him in the town of Rabwah on July 13, >2012. View more photos of the hometown, residence and college of Dr Salam >here.- Photo by AFP > >JHANG: The two-room bungalow, the birth place of Pakistan’s only Nobel >laureate, today stands empty, testament to the indifference, bigotry and >prejudice surrounding the country’s greatest scientist. > >Professor Abdus Salam, the child prodigy born to a humble family on the >sun-blasted plains of Punjab who won accolades all over the world for his >ground-breaking research in theoretical physics, is all but forgotten. > >He was the trailblazer who helped pave the way to the recently hailed >discovery of the “God particle” — one of the greatest achievements in science >for the last 100 years — but as the world went into overdrive, Pakistan stayed >largely silent. > >Not even boasting from India, whose late physicist Satyendra Nath Bose also >contributed to the discovery, snapped Pakistan out of lethargy. > >And the reason? Because in the eyes of the law, Salam was a heretic. > >“Our people are not educated. They just know this is the house of Dr Salam, >who was a scientist, and they, including me, are unaware of his contributions. >They also know he was Ahmadi,” said local resident Kamran Kishwar, 23. > >One of the most religiously polarised towns in Pakistan, Jhang, 188 miles >southwest of Islamabad, is home to thousands of Ahmadis and tensions run high >between the community and mainstream Muslims. > >Ahmadis, were declared non-Muslims in 1974 as part of Islamisation. > >In 1984, they were banned from calling themselves Muslim. They are banned from >preaching and even from travelling to Saudi Arabia for pilgrimage. Their >publications are prohibited. > >Ahmadi mosques have been shut down. Others have reportedly been desecrated. In >May 2010, suicide bombers killed 80 people at two mosques during Friday >prayers. > >Dashed dreams > >Salam’s portrait hangs in his old school and he paid for a block to be built >in his father’s name in the 1970s, but locals are still fighting to have any >connotations with him wiped from the premises. > >“Elements are still trying to remove Dr Salam’s name from the school,” said >Rana Nadeem, an Ahmadi who lives near Salam’s house. > >It wasn’t like that when Salam was born in 1926, under British rule. The >entire town turned out to welcome him after he scored the highest marks ever >to get into the University of the Punjab. > >After a PhD at Cambridge, he returned home to teach and determined to set up a >centre to encourage world-class science from the developing world. > >But his dreams were dashed. Associates say ignorant bureaucrats rubbished his >ideas and to pursue an international career he returned to Britain in 1954. > >In 1957, he was made professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College, >London and in 1964 set up the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in >Trieste in an effort to advance scientific expertise in the developing world. > >He continued to advise Pakistan on science and atomic energy, and was chief >scientific adviser to the president from 1961-1974. But after the law changed >in 1974, he found an increasingly hostile reception on visits home. > >After winning the Nobel prize for physics in 1979 with American scientists >Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Lee Glashow, he was banned from lecturing at >public universities under pressure from right-wing students and religious >conservatives. > >‘Victim of narrow-mindedness’ > >On the other hand, he was given a rapturous welcome in Bangladesh and India. > >“Dr Salam is a great hero and possibly the most famous Pakistani in the world >but he became victim of the narrow-mindedness of our society,” says Hassan >Amir Shah, head of the physics department at Government College, Lahore. > >Even in 1989, the world’s first Muslim woman prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, >who herself knew prejudice, refused to meet him, recalls nuclear physicist >Pervez Hoodbhoy. > >“That day I was with Salam in his hotel in Islamabad and he had come all the >way from Trieste. Salam was very disappointed when her personal assistant rang >up to say the prime minister did not have the time,” he told AFP. > >Although Salam’s achievements far outstrip those of A.Q. Khan, the father of >Pakistan’s nuclear bomb and a Muslim, it is he who is revered as a national >hero, despite Khan’s alleged role in nuclear proliferation. > >“Ninety-eight per cent of people in this country are Muslim but still they are >insecure and intolerant to the two-per cent minority,” said Shah. > >It took until 2000 for Government College to establish a physics chair in his >name. The university has also named one of its halls after Salam. > >Salam’s colleagues also wanted to get the National Centre for Physics in >Islamabad named the Abdus Salam Centre for Physics, whose first director had >been a PhD student of the Nobel laureate, but Hoodbhoy said the authorities >refused. > >The Ahmadiyya community certainly feels he was betrayed. > >“Even after he was buried, local administration asked the Ahmadi community to >remove the word ‘Muslim’ from the inscription on the grave which said ‘the >first Muslim Nobel laureate’,” said Shah. > >The word has been painted over, leaving just: “the first Nobel laureate.” > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! 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