Is a Pakistani Christian equal to a fellow Muslim?

[AuntyNumber1]

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

@khoji

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.

Not really, they can just choose to drop the subject altogether but they take it coz its an easy subject and they can get another passing subject under their belt. I am talking about the O level case as I’m more familiar with that, I am not sure how Matric works here.

@khoji

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.

Why is time spent and overall skill of the person not the issue? As I’ve mentioned, you don’t Just look at the academic qualification when awarding college admission. This applicant who is a Hafiz has a valuable skill and is rewarded for that simply.

@khoji

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.

This is the job of countries who are based on those religions. Pakistan is Islamic Republic of Pakistan. For the minorities, you have minority quota. Maybe government will consider this if we want to abolish minority quota though?

@khoji

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

i don’t want to repeat same thing again about Non Muslim doing Hifz.. but anyway, that is more of a technical point… but sure, Hafiz is getting extra marks, but minorities are also getting special care through minority quota.

@khoji

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.

If we did not consider minorities to be equal citizens, we would not be going out of our way to make special laws to ensure their protection. Pakistan has a minorities ministry. And for educational admissions, there is minority quota. Islam ensures that minorities are taken care of in an Islamic state, and consequently the laws of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan are trying to emulate that..

@khoji

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.

Ok… well… this is a different topic altogether so I will not comment on this here…