Re: Islamophobia
I both agree and disagree with this. Yes, it would really be easier to convince the rest of the world that majority Muslims are not a bunch of violent loonies if there wasnt so much violence and ignorance within our own states but you and I as Muslims/Pakistanis etc understand that there’s more to it than just religion playing a role in that kind of scenario. The west doesn’t understand this other perspective and is quite in a bubble about it. They sometimes refuse to or have no way of understanding the deeper issues because they don’t live them. So much of it is politics and so much of it is socio-economics as well as the war between all the different branches of Islam etc etc. I think acknowledging the problem is good but it’s also something much bigger than you and I. I don’t live in Pakistan and cannot speak to much to the discrimination people face there except with some understanding from those from whom I personally know have gone through some sort of persecution of their own. So I won’t try to dissect the issue but that’s my general thought on it. The only reason it’s important here to have to now have to prove ourselves against ignorance against Islam is because there’s so much back lash against good Muslims around the world and its more than just our religion being tarnished, it’s also our general safety being compromised. So many people, especially those that are “obvious” Muslims have been targeted for no good reason. Some guy and wife decide to shoot up his workplace for their own sick minded belief and yet people are asking the entire Muslim population “why’d you Muslims do it?”… Why are we answering for individuals when we have no clue who they are or what they believed.