It all started with Mohammed Zia Adnan penning an article about experiencing the American dream by walking into a ‘Hooters’ one day.
Nothing essentially wrong with that, except that Mohammed Zia Adnan is the grandson of Zia-ul-Haq, one of Pakistan’s fiercest dictators, who changed the course of the country’s history with the coup that Pakistan will never forget.
The coup, called Operation Fair Play, happened in the early hours of 5th July 1977, when the then Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and other members of his cabinet were arrested by Military Police under the order of the then Military Chief, General Zia-ul-Haq.
The rest, as they say, is history.
The irony of this article being published on the eve of the 40th anniversary of that fateful coup, can just not be overlooked.
That the grandson writes about emancipation and the ‘good life’ in America when his grandfather turned the country into an almost theocratic state, is something Twitter is not ready to forgive.
Here are a few of the things that were said on the Twitterverse:
Genuinely wondering whether this knob wrote the Hooters piece as a middle finger to the country to go w/ 40th anniversary of granddad’s coup
— Ammar Rashid (@AmmarRashidT) July 5, 2017
How the fuck did this happen. Who let him write for NYT, and that too on this.
— Abid Hussain (@abidhussayn) July 5, 2017
Must be SO HARD to be a young Londoner in Princeton poor haramkhor baby. pic.twitter.com/3B0DcODdig
— ? (@darkcocoaMnM) July 5, 2017
Your nephew goes to Princeton & eats in Hooters, & your dad, the Hypocrite-in-Chief, shoved the sons of Afghanistan & Pakistan into jihad?! https://t.co/TWsjeGb79o
— Nasir Khattak (@nasirjkhattak) July 5, 2017
He meant four ignorant and rich bastards. Princeton’s standards have plummetted rather dramatically. https://t.co/tACvOQpBQz
— Abbas Nasir (@abbasnasir59) July 5, 2017
Gen Zia’s grandson at Hooters, printed on July 5, anniversary of grandfather’s coup (via @mirza9) https://t.co/x2XBdKk7nh
— Hasan Zaidi (@hyzaidi) July 5, 2017
best part was when Zia Adnan went all Intersectional SJW and asked us all to “check your privilege” on Qandeel https://t.co/betgycb1T7
— علی (@Syednaa) July 5, 2017
The man who made it mandatory for newscasters on TV to wear “Duppata” back in the 80s has a grandson appreciating Hooters in America. https://t.co/179jZK8th9
— Saadat Ali Zia (@my69cents) July 5, 2017
Fav defense of Zia from that piece: ‘We never fled the country’. Because you were the grandson of a military dictator, you privileged prick.
— Ammar Rashid (@AmmarRashidT) July 5, 2017
Screw @NYTimes for giving Zia-ul-Haq’s grandson space to write on the 40th anniversary on 1977’s coup. They want to see Pakistanis oppressed
— TLW (@TheseLongWars) July 5, 2017
Adnan are you ashamed of the fact that you’re grandson of the most brutal dictator in history of Pakistan? May Zia ul Haq burn in hell. Amen https://t.co/W7WZMlaofc
— Ali (@Maarkhor) July 5, 2017
Zia-ul-Haq’s grandson professes his love for Hooters (and America) in the NYT opinion pages https://t.co/A04uuJHJVO
— Omar Waraich (@OmarWaraich) July 5, 2017
from zia to grandson. khuda ki shan hai
let him be published more. well done NYT https://t.co/bUZ4lqzw2R— Asad Jamal (@LegalPolitical) July 5, 2017
Hooters for the grandkids and lashes for everyone else for being un-Islamic. Gen. Zia’s grandson drools over Hooters in NYT OpEd.
— NewYorkistanian (@fawzianaqvi1) July 5, 2017
Nothing to see, just the grandson of Zia (who screwed Pakistan sideways with Islamism) enjoying tits at Hooters and writing about it in NYT. pic.twitter.com/1vCfmOR8Z5
— F. Jeffery (@Natsecjeff) July 5, 2017
Zia made #Pakistan a dystopia on Jul 5, 40 yrs ago; grandson at #Hooters on #July4. 2 legends. Story worthy of #NYT https://t.co/pWxk5xhWJh
— Osama Siddique (@DrOsamaSiddique) July 5, 2017
Zia’s grandson shudnt have gone to Princeton & Hooters.
Shudve gone to Jamia Haqqania n Afghan jihad in Grandpa’s memory.— Waqas Ahmed (@waqas_x) July 5, 2017
Zia’s grandson shudnt have gone to Princeton & Hooters.
Shudve gone to Jamia Haqqania n Afghan jihad in Grandpa’s memory.— Waqas Ahmed (@waqas_x) July 5, 2017
Grandson of US backed dictator who pushed rt-wing political Islam writes in @nytimes abt Hooters. Irony is dead https://t.co/JdfPPj5vXg
— M.T. (@Madi_Hatter) July 4, 2017
Grandson of Pakistan’s great Taliban enabler writes of visiting hooters and ‘clinking gold libations’ on anniversary of grandfathers coup: https://t.co/DdFFYjkiPp
— Emrys Schoemaker (@emrys_s) July 5, 2017
