Re: South Asian Muslims' Self-Hatred
COming back to the interesting topic. Its quite true that Pakistanis and south asians have this identity crisis. I have also noticed that we somehow feel underconfident in front of arabs when it comes to religion. ANybody who speaks arabic is automatically thought of as knowledgeable in Islam.
Anyway,
I guess problem lies deep within us also. You commonly see Arabs wearing their dress openly in the international media....their ghtra eegall and thoub.
Sadly, many Pakistanis would be shy in openly doing so + we are even within our country doing away with an important pillar of culture - Urdu.... We don't even want our kids to learn it...W ejust give a smile when kids say painsath (65) kia hota hai...Sixty five.,..?
So its all related. A general feeling that our culture language and ways of doing things are inferior.
However, i also feel that tehre is nothing wrong in learning a foreign language - Arabic. It can only be beneficial.