Muslims in Social Media

Monk · October 7, 2014, 12:53am

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”?

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.