Re: A nice tribute to Pakistans only Nobel Laureate
Its not Abdus Salaam but the faith he practiced which made muslims uncomfortable. He was a great physicits (amazingly great, I must say).
Pakistan is an unfortunate country who does not know how to show respect to her heros. Dr. AQK is a living example of that. He is muslim. Dr. Salimuzamman Siddiqui was a muslim. We are very ungreateful people by nature
Must Pakistans obsessive Islamic zeal coem at the expense of her own citizens?
Abdus Salam was a scientist, he was a Pakistani, and thats all that should matter..
Keep the relgion out of it. What have most of the great scholars of the Islamic ummah done for Pakistan, besides drag it through the mud? We are so jahil that we are willing to name kid after murderers like Osama Bin Laden, but naming a small street after Abdus Salam would be welcomed with protests and god knows what.
Dr. AQ Khan hardly counts as a great scientist... And he is in no way in the same league of Abdus Salam..
AQ Khan almost certainly smuggled much of Pakistans Nuclear technology.
Abdus Salams contribution to Science was something original and indispensible.
His contribution was real and substantial... He is cited in every single college level Physics text book, except perhaps those printed in Pakistan.
Honestly, in country thats constantly maligned as a the hub Islamic fanaticsm, poverty, backwardness, and coruption, its mind boggling that you should renounce one of the few in the country who truly accomplished somthing, based on nothing more thne something as shallow as religion!