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Today was Friday, while hearing the Friday Khutba, a thought occurred and I found myself comparing the Khutba as delivered here and the way it is delivered in Pakistan. In our locality in Pakistan, we had two Mosques. One Sunni and the other Wahabi. Every Friday, the Imams would refer to each other’s sects indirectly; that soon always broke out into a verbal brawl and all the locality would listen to it as all abuse (in fact abuse) was being blasted at each other through the loudspeakers.
I also thought about the long names of these clerics that almost always end with the name of the madrassa or the name of the cleric from whom they got educated for Islamic Theology. Could it be that the names are also an incentive for division among the Muslims, as they fondly prefer to be known by the last names that links them to a certain Madrassa or a sect?
Was this very isolation and sectarian divide the prime cause for the creation of armed militias like Jaish-e-Muhammed, Sipah-e-Sahaba and others, that created havoc by killing each other in late 70s and throughout 80s, driving down the wedge of animosity further deep down between the Sunni and the Shia in Pakistan and brought shame on us?
Isn’t it time that our clerics be disciplined. Should they be barred from promoting sectarianism; by favoring their belief and defaming other’s is also a root cause of the spread of sectarianism in our society. If I am not wrong, the doings of our clerics has brought us to a stage where every other country criticizes us as if it is their right, and giving way to excuses and reasons for the imposition of westernized democratic policies upon us.
Why this sectarianism is not favoured abroad as to an extent it is found and favoured in Pakistan? How and when we would shed it off?
