Is a Pakistani Christian equal to a fellow Muslim?

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Re: Is a Pakistani Christian equal to a fellow Muslim?

@AuntyNumber1

Technically, this Christian girl Could do Hifz. (unless there is a religious decree telling her not to, but i’m not sure about that).

They take Islamiat because they have no other choice in the class full of Muslims, and school not willing to teach a different subject to just one pupil.

for Pakistanis, or Muslims in general, Hifz is something very dear to our hearts. A lot of us would love for our children to be Hafiz. However, many people have the concern that it will take too much time in early years of schooling, and therefore the child will not be able to catch up later on with “normal” school.

But he DID catch up later. That’s why he had good marks, to be able to get close to taking admission in a medical school.
Besides, time spent is not the issue here.

Therefore, measures such as these are necessary to put in place so that people do not think that if their child will do Hifz, he will be left behind in his career.

Well then similar measures should be put in place for minorities as well. That if they do something special for their religion then they will get 20 marks in medical schools too.

Same as for example, if you apply to a western college, they will value you if you’ve done sports/community work for example.
if people can be given extra marks for NCC (military training), or if minorities can be given special consideration (putting them in a separate pool of applicants through quotas), then why is giving extra marks to Hafiz unfair?

EVERYONE would have equal access to sports/community work, regardless of religion. This is not true in case of hifz.

Pakistan has a right to define the laws in education sector in the country according to religious and societal values.

Pakistan has every right to do whatever its people like. But then Pakistan should openly say that it does not consider minorities to be equal citizens of the country. That they are second class citizens. That Pakistani people do not agree with its own founder’s vision.
Interestingly, this is what extremist Talibanic people like Jamatis actually want to do in Pakistan.