I met Pervez Hoodbhoy once! He came to our department to showcase his documentary, and signed a book for me:D
It was a longish article, and has many dimensions. Confusion over identity, religion versus culture debate, salafi vs. sufists. Good read!
Well i did meet Mr. Hoodbhoy many times and i also did watcho his documentary but i was totally not impressed by his documentary because it was more pro Indian then objective documentary.
Now here it come: :) once we were interviewing him in The Hague Holland. And at the end what did he say? :) he said Allah Hafiz
no joke and withing seconds he said please cut that out of the interview because many of his Westernised and so called intellectual friends would object to his ALLAH HAFIZ.
it was so funny that someone proposing Ghuda Hafiz himself said Allah Hafiz.
We Pakistanis are indeed in an identity crisis but we should not bother about petty things like wether to say Allah Hafiz of Ghuda Hafiz.
Why is Hoodbhoy worried about ARABIC Allah Hafiz taking over PERSIAN Ghuda HAFIZ???????????????????
Why is he not worried about our language, lingua franca (URDU) being taken over by English???
So many words we use daily are English. I love English but i think its jut anti Islamic sentiments that are mastering people who always have looked up to the WEST to guide them.