Re: Download 2 My Name Is Khan
Christian Erdmann
Khan (/xɑːn/) is a surname of Turko-Mongol origin,[1] today most commonly found in parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Iran. It is derived from the historic title khan, referring to military chief or royalty. It originated as a hereditary title among nomadic tribes in the Central and Eastern Eurasian Steppe during antiquity and was popularized by Turkic dynasties in the rest of Asia as well as in Eastern Europe during the medieval period.
The name's earliest discovered usage as a title for chiefs and for monarchs dates back, respectively, to the Xianbei and the Rourans, two proto-Mongolic societies in Inner Asia during antiquity; in the Pannonian Basin and Carpathian Mountains and their surrounding regions of Central and Southeast Europe, the title was used by the Pannonian Avars and the early Bulgars during the early medieval period before being more widely spread by various Muslim chieftains in a region spanning the empires centred in modern-day Turkey and Crimea to those in the Indian subcontinent.[2][3]
The surname Khan is occasionally found among people of Turkic and Mongolic descent, but it is far more common among Muslims in South Asia.[4][5] Khan as a last name is also used by Kashmiri Hindus, native to the Kashmir Valley of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.[6][7]
As of 2014[update], Khan is one of the most common surnames worldwide, shared by over 22 million people in Asia and 23 million people worldwide.[8] It is the surname of over 108,674 British Asians, making it the 12th-most common surname in the United Kingdom.[9]
I have a friend. There is nothing Muslim about her other than her name. She swears like docker and parties harder than Kanye West. She is Palestinian American. Even this young New Yorker, who is as American as it gets, right down to her Brooklyn accent, feels scared in the US.
If future attacks from a tiny but determined minority are to be stopped, then enlist the help and respect of those good people who share the name of the faith with the terrorists, but not their spirit.
Before unveiling the new street sign on Blackstone Avenue at Hyde Park Boulevard, singer-songwriter Chaka Khan gave fans a taste of what they can expect from her free concert in Millenium Park this weekend.
"I can't believe that my name is hanging there under Blackstone," said Chaka Khan.
But afterward, at a press conference, Chaka Khan who was born Yvette Marie Stevens, said she has come a long way since her high school days at Kenwood Academy, which is just steps from the newly named Chaka Khan Way.
Pittsburgh Steelers vice president of football and business administration Omar Khan has been named the team's new general manager, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported Tuesday night. The team confirmed the news Wednesday.
Faced with two different eight-point deficits, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott threw for 299 yards and three touchdowns to help will Dallas to a 41-35 shootout victory over the Seahawks. In doing so, he put his name front and center for MVP.
Rizwan Khan, a Muslim, grew up with his brother, Zakir, and his widowed mother, Razia, in a middle-class family in Borivali, Mumbai. His autism leads to special tutoring from a reclusive scholar and extra attention from his mother, all which leads to a heightened level of jealousy from Zakir, who eventually leaves his family for a life in San Francisco. Despite this, Zakir sponsors Rizwan to come and live with him after their mother's death. Zakir's wife Haseena diagnoses Rizwan as having Asperger syndrome. Rizwan also begins to work for Zakir's. He meets Hindu woman Mandira and her young son Sameer, born from a previous marriage. Despite Zakir's uncertainty, they marry and live in the fictional Banville, adopting Rizwan's surname as theirs. They also live next door to the Garrick family; Sam is close to their young son, Reese.
The Khans' perfect existence gets disrupted following the September 11 attacks. Mark goes to cover the war in Afghanistan but dies there. At the same time, the Khans begins to experience the post 9/11 prejudice, and Reese begins to turn against Sam. Their rivalry causes an eventual fight on a soccer field, where a bunch of older students attack Sam. One of them kicks a soccer ball at Sam, rupturing his spleen and killing him. A grieving Mandira blames Rizwan, stating that Sam died solely because of Rizwan's surname. Consequently, when Rizwan asks what he can do to help, Mandira sarcastically tells him that to be back together, he has to tell the people and President of the United States that his name is Khan and he is not a terrorist.
Rizwan, taking her seriously, thus sets out on a road trip to first meet President George W. Bush and later President-elect Barack Obama. He travels to the fictional Wilhemina, Georgia, and befriends Mama Jenny and her son Joel. While at a mosque in Los Angeles, he overhears violent rhetoric from a doctor, Faisal, who is quoting religious texts, and defies angrily Faisal's statements before walking out to drop a message for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). While waiting in a crowd to meet President Bush, he says, "My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist!", repeatedly. He is arrested due to misinterpretation as "I am a terrorist."
Mandira joins Rizwan in Georgia. At the moment she arrives, Rizwan is stabbed by one of Faisal's followers, and is hospitalized. Rizwan survives and meets Obama, who tells him: "Your name is Khan and you are not a terrorist."
Kamala Khan is the current Ms. Marvel. How is her name pronounced? I assume that her last name is pronounced the same way that Shatner says it, but what about her first name? Camel-a? Cam-ah-la? Cay-mala?
The surname Khan is derived from the historic title khan, referring to a military chief or royalty. It originated as a hereditary title among nomadic tribes in the Central and Eastern Eurasian Steppe during antiquity and was popularized by Turkic dynasties in the rest of Asia as well as in Eastern Europe during the medieval period.
The surname is the 17th most commonly held surname globally, borne by around 1 in 319 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Asia, where 98 percent of Khan live; 94 percent live in South Asia and 74 percent live in Islamic South Asia. Khan is also the 1,392nd most frequently occurring first name globally, borne by 696,912 people.
It is the most widespread last name in 2 countries: Pakistan, where 62 percent live and Saudi Arabia, where 2 percent live. It is most prevalent in Pakistan, where it is held by 14,211,606 people, or 1 in 13. In Pakistan Khan is most frequent in: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where 46 percent live, Punjab, where 27 percent live and Sindh, where 15 percent live. Aside from Pakistan Khan occurs in 220 countries. It is also found in India, where 20 percent live and Bangladesh, where 10 percent live.
The incidence of Khan has changed through the years. In England the number of people who held the Khan last name grew 367,371 percent between 1881 and 2014; in The United States it grew 371,859 percent between 1880 and 2014; in Scotland it grew 243,100 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it grew 7,000 percent between 1901 and 2014.
The religious devotion of those holding the Khan surname is chiefly Anglican (59%) in Ireland, Orthodox (69%) in Russia, Orthodox (80%) in Belarus, Muslim (100%) in Kazakhstan, Christian (59%) in Kenya, Muslim (100%) in Kyrgyzstan, Sunni (97%) in Lebanon, Orthodox (75%) in Ukraine and Muslim (100%) in Uzbekistan.
Just like the first time round with Taimur, Kareena Kapoor and her baby son Jeh are trending madly because it turns out that Jeh might actually be short for Jehangir. Kareena, 40, just launched her new book, a handbook for pregnant women, and Bollywood Hungama reports that Jeh's full name is revealed in its pages. There was no mention of this at the launch event for Kareena Kapoor Khan's Pregnancy Bible: The Ultimate Manual For Moms-To-Be on Monday evening, however. Asked by Karan Johar on an Instagram live chat, "Are we allowed to mention his name out in the public debate now? Can we say that you call him what you call him," Kareena Kapoor said, "Yeah, it's Jeh Ali Khan."
Jeh Ali Khan, or Jehangir as it might be, was born in February this month. His older brother Taimur is four-years-old and just as Taimur's name triggered Twitter, the revelation that Jeh might be Jehangir has also prompted social media to erupt. Twitter was outraged in 2016 when Taimur's name was revealed because of its association with a fourteenth century Central Asian invader; it's outraged now because of Mughal emperor Jahangir. The trolls are being told off on social media by others who see the choice of name as the business of the baby's parents and no one else's.
My name is Sumana Khan. No, please don't pronounce Khan from the epiglottis, and don't feel obliged to reassure yourself and me with the famous assertion, "Your name is Khan and you are not a terrorist." I usually avoid explaining my surname but I will do so here because it has placed me at an unusual intersection of religions and castes and the reactions these evoke. You see, I'm not a Muslim. Indeed, I am officially a Hindu with a Bengali heritage whose surname is a title or " " (like Chowdhury, say) given to a forefather during the time of the British rule. Most people do not know this and nor do I tell them, but more on this later.
After getting through another PSU in a permanent executive position, when I was undergoing an orientation session with my colleagues, another senior asked me the same question. Again I said "yes" without further explanation. However, he persisted and asked me if I was a Muslim. I asked him if it mattered. He said it did, to which I replied that I was a creature of the human race and followed humanity. He laughed out loud and asked me the same question again. I got up and left. Interestingly, my surname bothers people on the other side of the religious divide too. A Khan I knew (a "real" Khan, so to speak) stopped speaking to me when he I was not a Muslim.
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