Re: The DVOI - Desi Version of Islam
Lately it has become extremely fashionable to diss Islam as practiced in Pakistan-India etc. Seems more a case of being awe-struck by Arabs and thinking that since Islam originated from Arab lands, everything modern day Arabs do must be the proper version of Islam, and anything the modern Arabs don't practice but is practiced in Pakistan-India must be influenced by bad bad hindu culture and has nothing to do with Islam.
Understandably no effort is made to sift through myths and facts (case in point the oft repeated flamer about grave worship) or to understand what basis in quran and hadith is used by Muslim scholars in Pakistan-India to support their beliefs and practices. Who has time for all that when the easiest route is to just criticize the practice and get rid of the tummy ache. Unfortunately, most information about Islamic practices in Pakistan-India is in paper-bound books and not on websites. The internet world is dominated by salafi/ahle-hadeeth websites which diss anything they don't understand.
Lets carry on dissing stuff we have no idea about. This is just a BS alert! :)