diwana
October 7, 2014, 12:43am
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Re: Muslims in Social Media
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.
NO SHYTE, HAVE YOU GOOGLED “PAKISTAN”?
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.