Middle Ground

[SaeedinPakistan]

Re: Middle Ground

@PyariCgudia

What is happening to the balanced families of Pakistan that can balance tradition, deen, and duniya? I feel like there was a time when families encouraged their daughters to go to college, you’d see girls in shalwaar kameez with their books in hand being seen going to university, you’d see men and women talking appropriately with one another without chichorapan, and religion had it’s place, but no one was obsessed with it 24 hrs a day, constantly pushing religion on others.

I go to Pakistan now, and everyone is either one extreme or the other. Either people are completely Americanized and want NOTHING to do with Islam, or people are constantly ON and ON about religion, as if there is no other topic to discuss.

What happened to the girls going to university with books in their hands? You don’t see them on the street anymore because 1. it’s not safe for women to walk back from school alone, and 2. they’re now in burqas, and whether they’re holding a book under that burqa or a gun, you have no clue.

I think more girls are going to college these days, compared to a generation ago.

The cohort of Zia-ul-Haq, Saudi Arabia and the US can again be blamed for popularizing the Burqa all over Pakistan. The Wahabi flavor of Islam worked well to cripple the Russians in Afghanistan, however it left us with all sorts of problems once the war was over.

Heck you could ever get booze in Pakistan before Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto decided to ban it.

I digress. Let’s stick to burqas and college lasses.