Pakistani47
Thank you for your comments;
You responded to my question;
"Could the Army of Abu Bakar Siddique (RUA) do something about the hungry, cold and destitute child who wants to go to school in my country."
As I clarified to W Durrani, I was referring to the present day flag-bears of those armies, ie people like W Durrani and hence the question was directed at the quick.
My fundamental difficulty is not with the historic fact but with the following two things;
Why are we so concerned about defining people muslims and non muslims when Pakistanis are submerged in intractable problems of existence. It might well be true that there may have been once a time in Islamic history that you describe but I am more interested in the deprivation and starvation my country faces now. If we want to mobilise the armies of Islam, they should be mobilised to educate and train our young people so that they can earn a dignified living on their own. Worrying about what a certain minority is up to and how they are hatching a conspiracy to convert gullible and vulnerable muslims is hardly our biggest problem.
My second point was that to promote intolerance and hatred towards any minority of Pakistan is totally unacceptable. We seem to love it and applaud it when people convert to Islam but we hyperventilate just at the thought of someone else trying to convert a muslim? Preaching and conversion is a two way street and frankly I have little or no interest in it. We cannot have double standards, it makes us the laughing stock of the world.
Last but not the least, harking back to our glory days seems like a prelude to inaction. We suffer from self-loathing because we compare lives with the glorious past and always ending up the same wishful conclusion;
"If only we are true muslims, we would......"
I only wish that was the reason for all that ails my country.
The responsibility for change is ours, we need to stop another generation of our children from becoming idle fatalists. This is the real challenge.
Once again, I thank you for taking the time to answer my question. I only wish W Durrani had the same courage.
