Salaam need advice about moving back to pakistan

[Sehrysh]

Re: Salaam need advice about moving back to pakistan

@homesick

Notice I said “we have become dollar chasers” myself included. So it was not really finger pointing but an analysis of the situation in which we are all included. People have opinions and they are going to vary, and I respect all of them as long as they are communicated respectfully. Speaking of accusations, if one feels that criticizing Pakistanis in the west for living there is an accusation, what are you saying about Pakistan and 180 million people living there when we call the country corrupt, polluted, unsafe and God knows what else. Are these not accusations too? And no Pakistan is not the the solution to some of the problems we have described, but I will tell you that Pakistan will never make me an apologetic Muslim, or take me to prison because my kids decided I over stepped the boundary and call the cops on me, my tax money won’t be contributing to the “liberation” of the Muslim world. Anyways. Someone mentioned Texas. I have heard a lot about the community there. Anyone in Texas right now wanna share about the community, housing, jobs , people etc.

^ I agree with you in part. I do have enormous respect for the awaam of Pakistan and I shouldn’t paint everyone with the same brush - the majority of Pakistanis are moral people who are struggling to make the best of difficult circumstances. But what I respectfully disagree with is the above bolded statement.

Violence on sectarian differences abounds. We are constantly hearing about the Shia-Sunni divide and the mutual attacks. Persecution of Christians and Ahmedis, or anyone accused of blasphemy also makes it to the news. The same way you feel you are made to apologize for your Muslim beliefs living in a non-Muslim country, Ahmedis, Christians, some Shias and some Sunnis from non-prevailing schools of thought are also made to feel the same way in Pakistan. The idea of tolerance of different people isn’t supported there.