Arabification of Pakistan and Pakistani culture:

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Re: Arabification of Pakistan and Pakistani culture:

@Jolie

I totally disagree. Which part of Pakistan you hail from? Let people who actually live in the country paint the real picture! It makes no sense for sense of expats to take offence when Pakistanis set the record straight for their country. All hell breaks loose here when a stupid old worthless Pakistani tries to make a sweeping judgement (God forbid) about Amreeka. All Auntiyaan and kids go berserk.

I haven’t seen any such phenomena in Pakistan. Words like InshAllah, MashAllah have always been part of Urdu language (surprise surprise Urdu the language has taken awful lot of vocabulary from Arabic…shock horror the Urdu language script is a derivation of Arabic script).

Just because back in the days, there was no internet, whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, mobile phone to see and record those words on daily basis, doesn’t mean those words were not used! Pretty naive to assume that.

The phenomenon of Arabisation of Pakistan the country is laughable and is nothing but crass, bitter, aggressive politically motivated exaggeration. It often comes from people who don’t even live in the country! Yet they have the audacity to make such sweeping remarks about a culturally, ethnically, lingually, religiously, geographically and environmentally diverse country of 180 million people.

Talk about Arabisation of Muslim communities and it is indeed a real phenomenon and I can write a whole book on it. Part of the reason behind such change is due to bunch of confused inferiority complex ridden Asians who have turned the word ‘desi’ into such a pejorative term to the point that young generation don’t think it’s ‘cool’ to have any association with culture, so they tend to vouch for pan Arabism to fit into the larger Muslim community of the West.

The recent example from UK: An ordinary Bengali Moulvi being called ‘Shai-ekhhh’ by fellow Bengalis, Indians and Pakistanis. However, In Pakistan, words like Qari Sahab, Moulana Sahab, Mufti Sahab etc are still commonly used for clerics, not Shai-ekkhhh.

expats? born and raised in Karachi son!