Monday, May 3, 2010

Pakistanis and politcial Islam

Viewing various material on the Internet related to Pakistan and Islam, weather comments on news articles or videos, I notice many Pakistanis who try hard to band together with Middle Eastern and other Muslims.

But these particular Pakistanis are far from Islamic teachings. They seek to preserve Islam as an identity and a political ideology and not accept it's teachings for what they really are.
They take pride in their imaginary Mughal ancestries without knowing who the Mughals actually were.

As an example I saw comments like "your ancestors were black dirty Hindus who cleaned the steps; my ancestors were blond haired, blue eyed Mughals who sat in the palace thrones."
Or similar comments such as "death to the enemies of Islam, death to Armenians, death to Greeks."

All these comments contradict Islam's teachings. So why do these Pakistanis claim such attachment to Islam? The answer is that it's not really their attachment to Islam, but attachment to Middle Eastern people who these Pakistanis feel are the "true Muslims" since they were Muslims much before the Pakistanis.

Through Islam, these Pakistanis think they will get closer to the Middle Eastern and other Muslims.
In reality, to these certain Pakistanis, Islam is a sense of identity and belonging amongst the Middle Eastern gang instead of accepting Islam's true values of peace and tolerance.

The senseless comments without reason "death to Armenians, death to Greeks" is to essentially imitate the hatred some Turks have for the Greeks and Armenians. Even though it is not clear who is on the right side of the conflict. Sometimes there is even no "right side" since most conflicts arise amongst humans due to difference of opinion.

I doubt these ignorant Pakistanis have researched the history of conflicts between the Muslims and the "enemies of Islam" to reach a fair conclusion.

These Pakistanis make the most racist comments and then hate Jews for the sake of copying the Arabs. Islam to them means being more like Arabs, Turks and Iranians and not really Islam itself.
This is what I call political Islam which has infected the minds of Pakistanis.

A lot of these racist Pakistanis have a history of hatred and racism towards Bangladeshis.
I once heard of a traditional saying in Pakistanis families, when one of their family members overeats, they tell him in Urdu "tum bhukhay Bengali neyhi ho" meaning you are not a hungry Bengali. They are trying to imply that Bengali people are thin and hungry people, a typical racist attitude that many people from Pakistan as well as India seem to have against Bangladeshis.

But why? Aren't Bangladeshis our Muslim brothers? So why do Pakistanis put them down? My best answer is because they are not Middle Eastern. So the racist Pakistanis who try so hard to fit in amongst Middle Easterners have no real sense of Muslim brotherhood, because again, Muslim brotherhood to them means merging your identity with Middle Eastern identity.

Even amongst older generation Pakistanis who are grandparents, promote a more conservative, religious way of life at the same time try to spread racial prejudice into their grandchildren.
When they migrate to Western countries, they express fear of their granddaughters "running away with black people" but rejoice when their grandchildren marry people of European Christian descent. They would even prefer for their grandchildren to marry these "infidels" than marry black Muslims.

These same racist, Arab-wannabe Pakistanis oppose secularism and want Islam as the state religion. This is despite the fact that their racist attitude contradicts Islam in every way.
At some point these hypocrites need to review their behavior and ask themselves if they really advocate Islam in favor of secularism, then they need to stop doing what their religion does not allow.

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