Arabification of Pakistan and Pakistani culture:

[Guppshupper]

Re: Arabification of Pakistan and Pakistani culture:

@teggy

My dear fellow Pakistani! You always seem to hop into conversation when it’s half-way through, to post almost the same message. Why don’t you contribute and let the rest of your fellow contributors know that you are in Pakistan, and based on what you experience within the country, such is or is not as it seems. That would be far more beneficial, and allow the rest of us to learn not to make assumptions. Please share your perspective instead of criticizing others for attempting to address what they may see as a possible “trend”. Your post may be the one that helps shed that misconception, but only if you make it known.

I apologise you feel offended for me hopping in and repeating the same thing .
However, had you gone through the thread you would have seen it (if you wanted to that is)
anyhow here it is - my same message as before where I am ‘‘contributing’’ (without criticizing) which you seem to have missed:

@Guppshupper

Being a resident of Pakistan ( I think i am one of the very few here) all this Arabization is blown out of proportion. This is not a significant trend.

Boys and Girls who have started wearing jeans/T-shirts is far greater than those who start wearing Abaya/Jubba.

People who start using english expressions/words in their speech is far far greater than those who incopoorate Arab words.

May be it is a thing with people who live in western countries - but it is NOT a trend in Pakistan.

I may be speculating here, but all this hoopla is due to combination of following:

1. Fear of pro-western thinking people that Islamization/Arabization would result in extremism
2. Shia/Barailvi vs Wahabi thingy
3. Urdu vs English vs Arabic linguistic thingy

@mahool

Arbification of Pakistan or Pakistani community. Two spearate topic.

Jubba culture is not popular in Pakistani. Urdu has many words from Persian, Arabic, Hindi and local languages. There is nothing bad to use new Arabic word in Urdu if word can adjust to tongue of common people. We Pakistanis are more Indian then Arab. We share their culture more than Arab culture.

Pakistanis in foreign land. They may adopt it openly. Absence of home country, thousands of miles away from Pakistani culture there are greater chance that you adopt foreign culture, you will adopt other cultures as you expose to different nationalities. Your mosque visit will open the door of diversity. Guy on right hand would be Algerian, guy on left hand would be Arab. Your parents influence, your friends includenc, your mosque’s influence. You will start communicating Arab-english with your fellow Moroccan . You will use Ramadan instead of Ramazan…

So, what is the problem?

@mahool

How many of you actually seen speaking of Urdu in Arabic accent?

@ajazali

It appears you dont know about pakistan. No saudi or arab culture is being followed. Show me example if any?
If anything, salfis in pakisan would follow Arab culture but they know culture is not Islam. Even Salfis who are almost a minority, being the great supporter of saudis dont follow their culture. Get some knowledge about Pakistan.

@chipships

So many misconceptions I must say. I already kinda know western folks have hatred towards Arabs. No one & I repeat no one is doing whatever BS has been mentioned in this thread about Pakistan. I don’t see any arabnization happening in Pakistan, don’t know from where you guys are getting all this from. Not in Pakistan but this Arabnization is surely happening in the UK, they are the one who forcefully use InshaAllah, MashaAllah, SubhanAllah & JazalAllah in every other sentence even when it is not required, they are the ones trying to emulate Arabs in terms of pronunciation, wearing hijab with different styles from different arab countries etc… if thats what arabnization is for you.

And my question to those who are talking crap, have you ever been to Pakistan? I highly doubt that. You guys have never been to Pakistan in your lives but you seem to know whats going on in there.

Great!

and the responses like these…

@PyariCgudia

Some of you guys are living in serious bubbles, including those living in Pakistan. It is very well known that the rich of Pakistan have no clue what goes on with the lower class and the middle classes in Pakistan.

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@Pisiform

I don’t know wtf are you doing in Pakistan if you can’t walk around with your eyes open. Arabisation has been happening since a long time. Urdu words are being replaced by Arabic and people try to use arab accent and sound extremely dumb. I have seen couple of license plates that say “Al Bakistan” with arabic numbers. Everyone now ends their sentence with inshallah, mashallah, jazakallah etc. which they never used to before. I think you are either one of them or you are too naive. Arabization may not be as rampant but its happening.

And Wahabi/Salafi maybe minority but its gaining ground. That why its called arabization of Pakistan. If it was majority it had already been an Arab country. Just an FYI, stay off the cool aid