I just think sometimes that if we all started posting pictures of normal scenes in muslim countries, that people would step back and say wait, is that place actually Pakistan? Turkey? Syria (pre-war)? Egypt? Labanon? Qatar? Indonesia? Malaysia? India? Kazakhistan? Iraq? Iran?
I have on/off posted scenes from Pakistan - music videos, songs, theatrical trailors from movies, just scenes from the countryside or the cities, etc. And now after this Bill Maher thing, I’m posting…I guess this is from the country where stoning occurs?
As much as I thought Reza Aslan’s response to Bill Maher on CNN was good, I didn’t like the fact that he threw Pakistan under the bus. How many stonings have actually happened in Pakistan and by whom? Are we counting the Taliban, a terrorist organization, that set up a parallel government to Pakistan and had to be bombed out of Swat by our military? Does anyone in the western media even cover the fact that currently there is a battle going on between our military and extremists in KPK’s mountains? Has the issue of IDP’s even been shown on western media? People have gotten up , left their homes, to allow the government to flush these crazies out. Pakistan is so much more complex than the crap they’re showing on Homeland or Madam Secretary. It’s unbelievable how our image is being marred in the media and what the heck are we doing about it?
So if you can post a regular photo from Pakistan, even if people are wearing traditional garb then fine, show them the beauty of Pakistan and it’s people.
God, the amount of stupidity there is unbelievable on these news channels.
I have people at work that have these preconceived notions, then I show them photos from Pakistan and they’re like wow, we had no idea.
Your thread is like “Naqqar khanay Mein Tooti Ki Awaaz”.
There are lots of idiot and brainless… Anti-Muslim/Pakistan/Pakistanis, and Islam haters,.. who make so much noise that reasonable voice gets ignored…like your thread even when it was read by around 60 people. One like.
Speaking of Bill Maher: He has limited vocabulary and has made his career on very few issues sounding like a broken record. He needs to retire from making money off talking non-sense. There was time when he made sense now its all hogwash.
PCG whole those “argument” are designed to make us look bad.
When we start talking with some one, who start talking with wrong assumption, intentionally or unintentionally, we set our self to look bad.
I refuse to believe, all those present there, did not know stoning woman in pakistan is a complete false. Yet if make you start talking over it, you will make your self look bad.
I find it strange how a nation of 200 million people stays silent when they are humiliated by western media. There is hardly anyone speaking up for Pakistan except a handful of people living in western countries. Maybe Pakistani people are too confused so they dont know how and who to defend or maybe they have become so numb that they just dont care.
We also see instances when people come out on streets in voilent protests throwing stones and burning property that shows to the world that Pakistani people are only capable of this. There is no section of society that projects peoples point of view in a sensible, civilized manner. This kind of behavior encourages haters to attack Pakistan.
They’re not silent, it’s their leaders that are silent. But I think people could help by just posting more on social media, maybe pics from travels to Pakistan and such. Because it’s not THAT abnormal of a country honestly. I’ve been to Karachi often and no one has stoned me or thrown acid in my face, or done anything that crazy. Take a pic of any mall in Pakistan these days, and westerners will feel like “oh that’s actually a normal place with a normal population”.
The image of Pakistan portrayed by our local media itself is terrible. We cannot condemn the international media for showing the violence our country as the local media is showing only that 24/7/365
To make people outside Pakistan realize that we are a normal country, our uncensored/raw and amateur production on social media is the best bet (IMO). However due to various political reasons the biggest of these forums is blocked withing country. Youtube was a perfect opportunity where amateur and semi-professional comedians, actors, musicians were portraying the not-so-gloomy side of country.
The only face saving way that we have now to promote Pakistani products in export market, things like Gul Ahmed, Khadi, Murree will definitely deliver the required message that besides stoning our women, suicide bombing and child labor, we also produce the worlds finest beer.
Cheers!