My Niece

[hareem01]

@farrah

While i agree with this:

and this:

i still do take into account Hareem’s situation, that it’s her family we’re talking about here, and more than not being about the hijab, it probably could be.

about “are pakistani kids like this nowadays” … it’s not like there arent hijabis in Pakistan … there are … but there is a general concept in peoples’ minds that those who go abroad, or are abroad, are out-of-the-blue stricken with islamism, and the need to go conservative. i used to think on similar lines. but my view changed once i came here.
my friends used to ask me about if i’ve done this .. or that (fun related things not too nice in the eyes of isam) .. and i said no i dont, it’s not nice to do that … and they’d be like … “bahar ja ker kya logoun go islam yaad ajata hai”* ..
i explain this shift in psychology as an unconscious channeling of oneself into the struggle of mainting what you are, where you’ve come from when you’re exposed to uncontrolable freedom.
it’s only natural to want to rebel when you’re controlled. and very natural to hold onto yourself, when you have moutain worths of freedom.
though ofcourse, there can be exceptional cases.

*this does not mean that they godforbid look down on islam .. dont take it in the extreme context please … although i think that will be hard for some people here.

So you agree that my niece finds my views suffocating. Well, my niece doesn’t even know me and that’s why I want to see her.