Re: Liberal Pakistani activist Marvi Sirmed takes on Zaid Hamid
Peace mukobhai
A secular person doesn’t mean anti-religious … not entirely … it merely means they prefer to separate religion from state affairs. Islamically you and I believe to do this is not allowed and hence for you and me secularism seems to be an irrelegious act. But for those who don’t judge others on their religious affiliation such as Jinnah wouldn’t have cared less whether the person pulling the flag was outwardly religious or not … I believe he favoured the idea of “freedom of expression” …
… I can’t believe you think that Jinnah was religious based on the appearance of his flag man … he himself as shown in Marvi Sermid’s article wore shirt and trousers, had two dogs and smoked …
On the other hand people who are anti-Islam will side with the secularists and for the non-secularists like you and I it becomes a hard task to work out if the other camp are secular because they believe Islam allows it or if they are indeed allergic to Islam. I think we need to give them the benefit of the doubt just like you have learnt to give Jinnah Saab the benefit of the doubt.