Kambojaric
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Yup and we dont see people going Hawwww or even bringing it up as often as they bring up about Pakistan
As Pakistanis though our focus should be on Pakistan.Let Swedes or Danes worry about the Ghettoization of Muslim and Immigrant communities in their country's and the resulting socio-economic barriers that are subsequently developing there. As a Pakistani I want to see Pakistan prosper. We can only do that by scrutinizing ourselves.
I totally agree with this part....Esp when it comes from people who dont even know anything about the religion and all their knowledge is from that 1 druggy peer baba or mullah in their masjid rather than referring to the Quran they go to people...
That is the problem with our society which we picked up from Hinduism....Pooja everyone who is even a drop better than you when clearly Prophet said only those whose aamal are better than you are closer to Allah nothing to do with knowledge but action...
It it is part of our culture on which Hinduism has had an impact no doubt. A bigger reason though I believe is illiteracy. Illiteracy literally makes you reliant on others to read and explain things to you. Further free thinking is never encouraged in our society even amongst the more literate. From early school days children are taught to memorize facts and obey. I remember when as a child I moved from Pakistan to Sweden for a while my grades suffered tremendously especially in subjects like history and social studies. The reason was that the teachers werent content there with me learning for example when Nazi forces retreated from Russia in WW2. They wanted me to answer why operaiton barbarossa failed and what in my opinion could have altered the outcome of the operation. This was a huge change for me but in the long run this kind of education creates individual who dare to think freely rather than being restricted to memorizing facts and numbers. It could be that this was just my individual experiance in the school that I went to in Pakistan but the impression I have from my cousins and friends in other schools was the same. We all did "ratta", but never thought why.
Actually I wouldnt paint all 280 million of us with 1 brush....Most of us are tolerant hence we can actually take the ideas of a dirty old peer or Mullah who has no manners on how to deal with women ....I would call that open minded to shit but it is a sad form of open minded and tolerance! I mean the head of the family...usually a man would go to such idiots and actually be "inspired" to do stuff he would never otherwise is showing tolerance and acceptance of something outside their realm...the sad part is that these Mullahs actually make you think you will enter heaven faster by doing shit! Well, Quran warns us about these people who sell their religion for the price of hell...
Im willing to accept that maybe my post was too much of a generalization and certainly Pakistan is a very diverse country but everything that I wrote was based on what I have observed throughout my life in both more and less well off areas of Lahore (I have relatives in both) and some other parts of Pakistan, as well the behavior of the Pakistani diaspora in Europe. The examples that you are narrating still bring us back to literacy I believe. If we could read, write and think freely ourselves why would we need a Mullah to explain life to us.
Well, my closest are Malaysians
but again we are cherry picking do the ones we know and talk to...do they represent whole of their country?
Rest I can agree with
In this case though it isnt cherry picking. The concept of "Pakistanization" has actually expanded throughout the Muslim world. Below are articles by Muslims from the various backgrounds. We have to question ourselves why is our country's name being used as a synonym for narrow mindedness and religious intolerance. How would the Quaid feel about all of this?
Pakistanization of Indonesia? | The Jakarta Post
Pakistanization - CONTRIBUTOR
Asia needs ASEAN-ization, not Pakistanization - Geopoliticalmonitor.com
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