Hindu boy converts to Islam in Pakistan

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Re: Hindu boy converts to Islam in Pakistan

@Med911

Dawn is perhaps the most respected news paper in Pak. Suddenly you question their ethics because YOU don’t agree with their opinion?

And Muslims in Pakistan should be on the defensive for many reasons. And much of that criticism of Pakistani Muslims is legitimate. The treatment of minorities within Pakistan is a disgrace.

I never took DAWN as very respected newspaper. I have mentioned my criticism of reporting by DAWN before. Not all of sudden.

it caters few percentage of population of Pakistan, not only being an English language newspaper but also its articles periodically which do not conform to
majority people of Pakistan. No time for that now, but if I find those, will definitely mention.

@Med911

Try to look at it from the prospective of the minorities here, not from the majority.

Regardless of how the Muslim majority perceives this, the minorities will still feel threatened. Because ultimately, its their community that is losing. Its they who are losing members of their community, **its they who are losing their heritage.
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And regardless of how “nice” Muslims will be in trying to convert the Hindus, the act of conversion will itself be perceived as hostility, however passive it is on the surface.

I would encourage u to think out of the box here. How would you like it if you were a minority, say in a Christian community, and that majority was quietly, and through very non hostile and “nice” means, trying to convert you or your children by encouraging them to leave Islam? And lets say this community you knew to have very strong history of persistent hostility and violence towards your kind in the past, both latent and overt. Would still consider this a non issue?

ps: You misunderstand. I didn’t say you supported them. Your sympathy wasn’t towards their cause, but you sympathized with them as Muslims. So in that case you showed some degree of sensitivity towards the mobs humanity, even though they behaved like rabid dogs, yet I don’t see that same sensitivity to the issues that affect Non Muslim minorities in Pakistan. Another words, you are only sensitive toward Muslims.

ps: Regardless of your “support” of minorities in Pakistan, supporting their conversion, ultimately means you support a Pakistan in which no minorities are left.
So you support minorities, but also their conversion to the majority! I hope the irony isn’t lost on you.

Two issues you discussed. I already talked about those earlier.

One is not feeling good and feeling remorseful of losing a person of one’s religious community is different than saying that conversion on TV promotes threatening feelings among the minority.

All throughout this thread I had problem with the latter.

**There is no connection between showing conversion on TV, to intimidating the minorities. This is all made up.
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The minoroty members/leaders, their supporters should come out and say the truth that they did not like conversion.

Now, on one hand it is said that it is a personal choice of a person to follow a religion and should be a personal choice of the person to leave a religion, then why so wavela/outcry if a hindu boy willingly comes out on TV and changes his religion.

Double standard? Right?

Regarding the mob, I never supported them, I proposed their punishment under the law.

I was merely against shooting with real bullets. I even asked everyone ANY example of that around any ‘civilized’ part of the world.

No one could come up with that example.