psyah
October 4, 2014, 7:27pm
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Re: Radicalization of education in Pakistan
Well the problem tends to be that people use the term “western” as blanket insult for anyone that believes there are things to be learned from Western societies.
I may not appear fair, but where in your response did you specify what parts of Western society are or are not acceptable to you ? I mean I could assume you support the good things of Western society, but then there are people among us who object to even those things.
The entire debate over what is “western” or “Islamic” etc opens up a debate we can never agree on. I mean the case of “clubbing” exemplifies to me the right to choose the way ones lives their own life. Now should my distaste for that lifestyle trump my my belief that we all have a right to choose how we live? and isnt a truly pious person the one who choose to not go clubbing because that is his own choice despite the temptation, and not one who does so because the choice is made for him by society? Agree to disagree.
Suffice it to say, Western society to me, for whatever its ills, still is worthy of emulating. I would rather deal with people “clubbing,” then deal with people throwing hand grenades at school teachers because the students are wearing slacks and not Shalwar kameez (which if you hadnt heard, happened a few days ago).
One of my favorite quotes:
Mohammad Abduh
There is a richness that you have not yet seen … Hidden in clear sight … A legacy better than anything “Western” … And that is to follow Islam … And that does not mean … Following the West and it does. It mean doing as we are doing in the East, but rather returning back.