I wonder how conveniently my fellow Pakistanis display pitiable double standards about everything they do. When a muslim terrorist kills in America, he's just an exception and he does not represent muslims.
When an American draws caricatures of the prophet, fault lies with whole America and even whole of the non-muslim population who are out to 'get the muslims' just like bogeyman is out to get the kids at night. While they have the choice to ignore this material which hurts their sentiments, they choose to pursue it, get furious, and set prizes on the head of the mastermind behind them. (At the same time insisting upon how peaceful their religion is)
The difference with kids is that they grow up out of these irrational thoughts. While the belief of a blind believer gets just stronger with time until they are fully immune to the voice of reason and logic. How do you survive surrounded by people who think they are 100 percent right according to the world of God, impose their values, judge you according to them and yet tell you how there's no compulsion in religion?
When an American draws caricatures of the prophet, fault lies with whole America and even whole of the non-muslim population who are out to 'get the muslims' just like bogeyman is out to get the kids at night. While they have the choice to ignore this material which hurts their sentiments, they choose to pursue it, get furious, and set prizes on the head of the mastermind behind them. (At the same time insisting upon how peaceful their religion is)
The difference with kids is that they grow up out of these irrational thoughts. While the belief of a blind believer gets just stronger with time until they are fully immune to the voice of reason and logic. How do you survive surrounded by people who think they are 100 percent right according to the world of God, impose their values, judge you according to them and yet tell you how there's no compulsion in religion?
The only attack that muslims allegedly did on America was on on 9/11, that too a conspiracy? (many Americans say themselves), a terrorist attack my militants formed by Americans during Afghan war? but can't be something ordered by any Muslim country (leaders are too busy selling oil). The attacks that America did on Muslim countries? (You know better). You don't see Muslims mocking Jesus or any prophet or any culture (in large). Now as radical Muslims here blame whole America or non-Muslim world for the fury, similarly the radicals over there mock all the Muslim world, Prophet and religion itself and that also in a very shameful way. Now the fault doesn't lie with the general population of the both parties but the radicals who affect a minor population and governments who see their own benefits. No religion teaches hatred or inhumanity towards other religion or humanity but the clerics who think they own it. People "who think they are 100 percent right according to the world of God, impose their values, judge you according to them" are obviously doing it wrong. There is obviously no compulsion in religion. No one drags you into it and cannot. The Islam that spread in the world was not by compulsion. The people who got converted in south east Asian countries in the early days were due to the impression of strong character of Muslim traders. Muhammad bin Qasim just went to Sindh. Gazanvi and Ghauri didn't go further than delhi. The Islam that spread in India was not by compulsion. And similarly the conversions made in europe or america in last decade were not by force. The radical Islam can never win the hearts of non Muslims. People come with their own choice. But what's done in our country is bluntly wrong. People here judge you, mock you and then rule you out. Along with many other problems in our country, we are also in a social and religious crises. What we have to do is stick with the basics, and develop strong character and strong views (positive ones) and rule all the negative elements out of our life and train our children in a similar way, that would do their good and good of a whole generation and ultimately the whole future world.
ReplyDeleteFirst. If you think I endorse the activities of American establishment in different countries, you're on a wrong footing. I wonder why it's the first instinct of every defender to start quoting the crimes by American government as soon as someone raises a voice against any vice in muslim community. I realize the reverse is also true. The reason i choose to speak about the muslim community is because I belong to one and I have a vast first-hand experience of every thought i put forward. I was raised under serious influence of a strong bias against every other community and religion which is implied from the holy book of muslims itself. With religion comes the assumption of your superiority and righteousness. This attitude is though a fruit of all religions, the practitioners of other beliefs/faith systems are OKAY with keeping their religion in the confines of their own private lives in the modern age of today, while muslims are adamant on imposing it upon the whole world, they are uncooperative and useless in terms of any substantial development towards the progress of this world. They can stop feeling isolated if they learn to keep their religion to themselves and try to look for other similarities between them and the rest of people. Only then is peace possible.
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