Re: Pakistan as Muslim country
You misunderstand me…my intent was just to carry things to their logical ends. Yes, there is no black or white…what makes things gray? It’s all those illogical bits in between…
Woa, woa! I’m not making ANY judgements here…I’m just asking a bunch of questions, that’s all…and to be fair, I’ve tried hard to restrict my comments to a handful of issues and tried to focus on what you wrote…
Look, my point wasn’t about west bashing…there’s nothing wrong in using that term either. People who discuss Islam here use it all the time…read any article on Islam, critical or not, and the authors will always make the distinction between Islam and the west…
I’m not even saying the west has issues too…I’m just asking why are we (you and I…again, I’m not pointing fingers here, just trying to make observations) so duplicitous when it comes to some things? This is a case of double standards, no?
I admit, I’m just as guilty…
Well, I understand this, but I think an even greater human need is that of belonging to a social group…we here in the west often feel the need so great that we’re willing to internalize bigoted views of ourselves when our intent is not at all to be hateful…
Just to be sure, I’m not bombarding you with a zillion questions to test your loyalty or “set you straight” or anything like that…I recognize a lot of the arguments you’re bringing up, and I’m pretty much just throwing those questions I had for myself at you.
If you think I’m ignoring something you really want answerd let me know and we can focus on that…
I may not agree with you on everything, but I mean no disrespect…honest…