Re: The other Pakis
Let me shatter at least one sterotype you cling to for dear life. My counsellor during high school was a Quran teacher who wore hijab and did purdah, firmly believed in polygamy and a woman's place at home. I unloaded all my woes about sex, drugs, men, moving out on her, and my athiesm. She did not alert my parents, did not lecture me about my hatred for Islam and instead offered her home for me to come and live in,
As for institutional shortcomings, how about this. Foreign students who cannot work outside of campus and campus jobs do not pay much and their parents back home cannot support them fully financially. Scholarships and bursaries are not open to them
And how about this. All those who I have talked to must have been hallucinating discrimination when other candidates were chosen over them, despite them being of equal calibre.
What about only Western perspective being taught in highschool, with contributions of Chinese, and others being sorely, SORELY misrepresented. Or what about professors in religious studies classes very deliberately offending the beliefs of others.
And what about those like yourself, who opine crap that religion cannot go hand in hand with progress, that it must be relegated to an inferior influence upon the individual for that person to succeed in life.
I do not need to tell you about institutional barricades, I don't even know much about them myself but I know enough that I think you stuffing everyone into a box labeled bad religion will not solve anything. Maybe solve things for only a small segment, but certainly not for everyone.