My name is Pakistan and I’m not an Arab

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Re: My name is Pakistan and I’m not an Arab

@teggy

Believe me brother, I’m well aware of the author’s leanings and rants that revolve around a few set of specific things. If it’s not Islam’s influence on Pakistani public, then it’s Arabian culture. It’s always one thing or another. If you look hard enough, you will find a pattern emerge in the subject matter the author writes about.

Of course Pakistanis have an identity, and quite frankly it’s a very respectable identity. There may be a segment of the Pakistani society that desires to assimilate Arabian culture into their lives. But to disassociate from Indian culture is not a bad thing. It brings nothing good to Pakistani society, the very creation of Pakistan was along the lines of Pakistanis having their own identity different from their Hindu/Sikh friends and neighbors of the past. But that’s a topic in itself, and has been discussed many times.

The way I see it, it’s better to associate and merge with those who share similar ideology than to force a patchwork that differs from the majority mindset. Example: Eurozone is a group of countries sharing somewhat similar ideologies, and poor Turkey despite being the best candidate to become a Euro nation sees no way to get in because its’ ideology is not the same as European core nations.

If I say more, I would be going way off topic. But I’m sure you get the jest of what I mean. It’s perhaps that Pakistanis portray, and yearn to link up with Middle-East for the above stated reason, sharing the religion just helps bond that. Like it or hate it, it is what it is.

The west is indifferent or would want other countries to emulate it (free trade one example), but arabs or iranians couldn’t care less or actively despise pakistanis trying to copy them. Zameen asmaan ka faraq hai how west treats pakistanis compared to them even after 9/11 so self-respect automatically should come in if you are trying to follow their cultures.

Btw, where is it in jinnah’s or iqbal’s speeches that Pakistan isn’t from this area? Their demand was for a majority area of muslims (“indian muslims” ?) to have self rule. Further research shows that iqbal, for example, envisioned more of an economic independence because he did say in one of poetry verses that mullah thinks that he is free because he can worship in india. It shows that religious freedom wasn’t really threatened in india but it was something else that was “missing” in having joint rule in undivided India.

Look at Iqbal’s allahabad address and towards the end, see what he said:

Allahabad Address - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia