Last night heard Yasir Pirzada, Ansaar Abbasi and Syed Noor addressing the issues of "liberalism" "ideology" "religious perspectives" and what not...I do not want to comment on what they said except the last part of what Syed Noor the films' director mentioned. He said that if we were more liberal in 1960s or 70s that is because we had the effect of British Colonialism and Hindu society on us, now we have grown out of it and we are ideologically stronger than before...my question is have we really grown out of colonialism??? or have we grown into more of neocolonialism???
For a moment lets think of a child who is not growing taller but is gaining weight, when the doctor tells the mother that your child needs to loose some weight as it might be causing to stop his growth, will you accept the mother's argument that my child is growing and it does not make a difference if he is gaining more weight than height...should a doctor accept gaining weight as a parameter of growth...
When we claim that we grew in past 68 years we should compare ourselves with the other nations growing in the same period of time...if we want to show our growth in the social norms then also please look at the crime rate, corruption indexes, rape, domestic violence, honor killing, property disputes, etc...have we grown out...I am sorry we are still fighting even to acknowledge the equality of skin color, we are still struggling with the cast system, we are still stuck with the feudalism and all I see is a confused state of theocracy, democracy and dictatorship, we are at war with terrorism that grew up from within us and I get irritated by the kind of fascists we have that we call "leaders" ...how can we even think of saying we grew up or grew out...just look around what have others achieved and where do we stand...we are growing more and more into extremism as we see the bipolar division in society..
Lets come back to the debate of liberal and conservative debate...I am sorry to say that two terms are totally miss-understood and misinterpreted by most of the people in Pakistan, one is Liberalism and the other is Secularism...and usually when they are critiqued the arguments are not about liberalism or secularism rather these are about the debate of people of faith and atheists...will address this in detail later...
(please do not hesitate to comment for my learning...)
For a moment lets think of a child who is not growing taller but is gaining weight, when the doctor tells the mother that your child needs to loose some weight as it might be causing to stop his growth, will you accept the mother's argument that my child is growing and it does not make a difference if he is gaining more weight than height...should a doctor accept gaining weight as a parameter of growth...
When we claim that we grew in past 68 years we should compare ourselves with the other nations growing in the same period of time...if we want to show our growth in the social norms then also please look at the crime rate, corruption indexes, rape, domestic violence, honor killing, property disputes, etc...have we grown out...I am sorry we are still fighting even to acknowledge the equality of skin color, we are still struggling with the cast system, we are still stuck with the feudalism and all I see is a confused state of theocracy, democracy and dictatorship, we are at war with terrorism that grew up from within us and I get irritated by the kind of fascists we have that we call "leaders" ...how can we even think of saying we grew up or grew out...just look around what have others achieved and where do we stand...we are growing more and more into extremism as we see the bipolar division in society..
Lets come back to the debate of liberal and conservative debate...I am sorry to say that two terms are totally miss-understood and misinterpreted by most of the people in Pakistan, one is Liberalism and the other is Secularism...and usually when they are critiqued the arguments are not about liberalism or secularism rather these are about the debate of people of faith and atheists...will address this in detail later...
(please do not hesitate to comment for my learning...)
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