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Pakistan is not a free country and will never be a free country as the very base of our society, the common man, is tied up in hundreds of different entanglements. We are narrow-minded, devious, deceitful, ignorant, thoughtless, xenophobic, ruthless, unkind, selfish, shameless bigots. Even in my own memory, majority of Pakistanis were good. The recent wave of materialism has turned us into greedy and power-hungry hypocrites. Democracy has not suited us at all as it has created a ruling class who walk around like little Pharaohs and rest of the society is blindly trying to emulate this 'Pajero Class' (a class exclusively created by our rotten democracy after the fall of Zia). I strongly believe that in order to keep materialism and capitalism, we need a balancing influence of Christianity, specially Protestant Christianity with its excellent humanistic work ethic and focus on charity (compassion). These values can be taught through good education as they are integral part of every surviving religions (no religion can survive without the humanistic element of charity and compassion as it becomes destructive minus these two qualities and any way of life which is destructive towards any society can not survive for long time as destruction of society is against human animal's herd-instinct).
Any religion from which the humanistic element is taken out for whatever reason, becomes inhuman, rigid, ossified, unchanged, unchangeable and dead. Dead things rot and fester, this is their way of changing. This is the negative change that we see in the Islamic world around us. Islam needs a major reformation. We have to reclaim the humanistic element in our religion as the over-emphasis on the divine element has changed Islam into a dogmatic ritualism which has empowered clergy and all the despotic rulers who align themselves with the clergy. The unholy alliance of religion and politics pollutes both as religion becomes a tool for keeping hold of power. Unfortunately all our politician have used the religion-card to win popular support. Even the 'sharabi zani' Pajero-class can not win elections without showing their religious zeal. This has corrupted the very core of our society. People have lost moral courage and the whole society has become power-hungry and hypocritical. Hunger for power has corrupted our religion as well. We might not have changed anything in Islam (who knows!) but we have definitely changed the emphasis from humanism to ritualism and dogma.
Sorry I have not seen the video nor I ever will. All these television presenter look for reasons for our fall (yes we are already fallen, having hit the rock-bottom very long time ago). Point at politicians and you will empower the Army, point at America and you will empower the Saudis. These people are always busy pointing fingers at the 'foreign hand' or corrupt politicians whereas in our present state we are our own worst enemies. They can't say that, they will only say what people want to hear. They are very, very 'tabloid'. Why do we forget that Pakistani nation is very young. The average age of a Pakistani citizen is 21.2 years. This is very, very young compared to the UK with its average citizen aged more than double of an average Pakistani Citizen (40.5 years) and even USA (36.8 years). Hence our young and very exciting sports teams. Same element makes us a very immature and emotional people. With such a wealth of young talent at our disposal, we can do anything, the only problem is to save these people from above-mentioned evils. We need a free eduction system. An education exclusively focussed at providing our youth tools for thinking freely and creatively. That will NOT happen as it will shut the power-brokers' shops so nothing will EVER change and generations will be wasted. Very sad indeed.
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05-12-2010, 01:09 PM
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