Re: Sajda…
of course it is not about interrupting the game… please dont mix issues…
and of course it is impacting other people…**more than anything, it is impacting my country’s brand…what if dhoni and 10 other hindu players were doing it for 5 years in a row? and that too in every match…do you have any idea how aggressively pakistani press and masses would have reacted…they would have called indian team and india racist..what makes you think that people are not making same assumptions about the Pakistani team and Pakistan?
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the issue is fundamentally about using a PAKISTANI Platform and promoting a certain religious practice and thus labeling my country in a certain way…
**and the question that I have is simple: who has given authority to these players to use a Pakistani platform to promote religion?
c**an anyone on this forum say with full confidence that 100% of Pakistani population wants our players to do this?..and if answer is that 1% does not want this practice to be continued… or in principal even if one person has problem with it, well then these players cannot do it…this is not their personal platform. They were selected to represent Pakistan to play cricket not to promote religion. Yes absolutely fine when someone does it upon achieving certain milestones once in a while but it is a different issue when the whole team does it as a policy for 10 years.
When people from other countries watch Pakistani team doing this on a regular basis for years and subsequently develop a certain image about Pakistan because of this practice , then I have a right to protest that my team stop doing it because it is impacting my country’s brand in today’s world. It is not an individual act. It has been in practice for 10 years by every captain of Pakistani team and by every playing elven…
**I ****ask what if we had 30% minorities in Pakistan? you think Pakistani team could do that? i am sure answer is NO WaY…
but you can do it now because we have only 3% minorities…awesome!!!**