Re: Plight of Christians in Righteous Pakistan
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We got acutely embarrased because there were other restaurant patrons around us who were Indian, but yet the husband launched into a loud anti-India and anti-Indian rant and we literally had to beg and plead with him to be quiet.
I guess I was stereotyping, but for some reason I had imagined Pakistan's Catholic community didn't participate in the whole Indo-Pak rivalry, I'd mentally labelled it as a Muslim-Hindu affair. But this women and her husband never avoid a chance to take cheap shots at India and Indians....
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Cute, very cute. :)
Weren’t those three Paki singer sisters also Christian? (I know that narrows it down.)
From the first paragraph of that article it seems like the website is missionary own and run, they'll obviously take one or two isolated incidents out of context and over sensationalise them. Yes there are incidents of violence against Pakistani Christians but they are ignorable compared to what Muslims have to go through in Christian countries (a.k.a some of our friends and relatives in Britain and now in America). Also being considered Dhimmi is portrayed as unfair when it’s not, I wouldn’t mind being a protected religious minority in a non-Muslim country as long as I had my basic rights instead of being considered a normal citizen yet face discrimination.
I had a Christian friend for the few years that I was in Pakistan, nobody had a problem accepting him, his family wore Shalwar Kameez, spoke Punjabi with an influence of Hindko, ate Halaal meat in accordance with the Old Testament but when I asked how he worshipped and if they prayed Namaaz he said no they go to Girja-Ghar to sing Geet. His family were ‘menial’ labourers but he got free admission in the posh school because his parents and elder siblings were all the school caretakers but there are now also plenty of educated Pakistani Christian professionals too.
Christians and Sikhs have it pretty good in Pakistan, Hindus however probably face more discrimination than any other minority because of our differences with India and Pakis associate all Hindus with India.