Arabification of Pakistan and Pakistani culture:

Doppleganger · July 22, 2015, 5:30pm

Re: Arabification of Pakistan and Pakistani culture:

Don’t be afraid of the Al-Haramain Cotton thobe, and the emphasis on certain letters of the alphabet in spoken sentences. It’s not an invasion.

Thumbs up for the user before me. There are bigger, more serious things to dwell on.

Perhaps, it has to do with shortening of distances, and easier access to other cultures. The spread of internet while bringing us closer to our loved ones back home or abroad, has also brought the world to our fingertips including all that is good and wholesome, as well as all that is bad and corrupting. It really depends on the individuals and how they access the information, and what they do with it. Some in Pakistan may find inclined to dress as the people of arabic speaking countries out of affection because the holiest of places of Islam are located in Saudi Arabia and Palestine. While others may choose to adopt a more western lifestyle because that is more in-line with their liking.

If how we dress were to define us, a whole lot of us would be lumped together although our reasons for dressing the way may differ significantly.

OP may have observed the trend, and an obvious change partly because of easier access to the trends worldwide.

I think that the problem is that many people think that emulating arab = emulating islam and being good muslims. This is NOT TRUE considering wahabiyat and ISIS, Al Qaeda that have been spawned from the gulf.

Arabs of today aren’t the arabs that came after Prophet Muhammad and even then, I wouldn’t blindly follow them if they are wearing the robes and jhaantay. I think that it is overall ill of Pakistani (or muslim) society that we can’t identify ying from yang.

I could also make a thread about indian influence (why do we need ladki when we had larki for centuries) or why do we need to dance to bollywood songs when Pakistan does happen to have a very good industry? Of course, the so-called “islamists” who seem to think that they are doing a service to islam by worship arabs or persians etc would be first ones to jump and criticize ‘indianness’ on that thread. I can probably name them but lets avoid the conflict.