Re: Re: Why I Am Never Going Back To America
with all due respect the writer of this letter can't be older than 18 or of she is, she is quite naive. there are red light districts in pakistan, drugs rampantly available, corruption is a way of life, cleanliness, which is half of faith, is a joke. add to that the demeaning treatment of fellow pakistanis, the difficulty getting meaningful employment without connections. Homosexuality exists and has existed for ages in Pakistan. The eunuchs have been around for ages. All I'm saying is that it's pretty immature to simply say "my country is better than yours." America is not perfect and has many of the problems that she mentioned in her letter. That in and of itself is an acceptable argument. But then to say say that you would never live there and to give the impression that other socieities are better is a little disingenuous methinks.
all people want to do what's best of their kids and families and they will do whatever it takes, wherever they have to go; that's not opportunism that's logic. Didn't our prophet (s) move to Madinah so he could practice his faith in freedom and provide the means for a better life for his followers?
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*Originally posted by fayax: *
Thanks for posting this article.
Fayax: Here is the ending part of the article that is pretty relevant. However I would suggest reading the whole article if you have about 10 minutes.
Religion in American is approached in a way that’s comical if it wasn’t so idiotic. In accordance with typical non-judgmental morality, one religion is no better than the next, and all religions take a back-seat to freedom. You may not believe that homosexuality is good, but in America you believe that people should be free to practice homosexuality if they like. Never mind that you believe it is wrong, if you say so in public then you are labeled as intolerant, homophobic, a closet-queer, and of course, a bigot. Bigots get fired by their employers for being closed-minded, but gays get free health-insurance from their employers for the same-sex partner they happen to be living with at the moment.
To move back to America would be to subject my future children to a thorough brainwashing, regardless of how well I tried to prevent it. When filth is broadcast on TV, sung about on the radio, advertised on the internet, and taught in school, how can you even remotely hope to fight it? Whatever you teach you children between breakfast and school, school and soccer practice, soccer practice and dinner is untaught a thousand times over once the child leaves home.
True, there are some Muslims who come out of America with basically sound minds and characters, but for every sound mind there are 100 corrupt ones who live with their Christian boy-friends, blame God for homosexuality, use the Masjid as a meat-market for dating and flirting, and join organizations like the Al-Fateha group. Al-Fateha sounds holy enough from where you’re sitting, I’m sure, but it’s actually an organization of homosexual Muslims in the US and Canada.
The American society is a system of thinly veiled chaos, and ever so often the veil is lifted. In New York, currently the world’s most famous city, the Puerto Rican National Day Parade was one such example. In broad daylight, buzzed on alcohol and under the cover of mob-action, two years ago a group of over 50 young men traveled downtown New York assaulting women. Police stood idly by as women were stripped naked, sexually assaulted, sprayed with liquor and raped in the streets on New York. Did darkness hides the mob from the police? No, it was mid-afternoon. Were the men stopped right away? No, they rampaged for over three hours.
This is American society, this is what happens to a people who do not believe in God, whose conduct depends on whether or not anyone will catch them if they do anything wrong. There is no humility or fear of Divine Retribution to keep men acting as men, there is only fear of the police. And when the police invisible or ineffectual, the men become rapists, murderers, barbarians and savages.
A funny comparison exists between Karachi and New York, two major cities. In Karachi, when the electricity goes out, children play chupan-chupai or cricket in the streets. In New York, when the lights go out, women are assaulted, people are robbed, and stores are looted. This is not because the electric gates of the prisons have opened, releasing all of the criminals. No, this is because the electric lights and eyes of the police have gone blind, and in the cover of darkness, the common New Yorker becomes a common criminal.
I’m not nuts you know, I’m just honest. You can’t get me to go back to America, not for money, not for fame, not even under the flimsy pretense of doing Dawah in America. I’m not going to lie to myself and say that living in America is Dawah, because I can’t hide that my tax dollars pay Israeli settlers $10,000 a year, per family member, to occupy Palestine and to kill the Ummah I profess to be a part of. A white-picket fence and a two car garage in the suburbs is not Dawah, its greed. Sending your children to the best schools is not Dawah, its opportunism, its taking advantage of a system built on the backs of third-world countries and dead Muslims.
Thousands of Afghanis have died to put cheaper gas in your sports utility vehicle, thousands of Iraqis died to keep your car running for less money, your heating bills down, and your salary higher. Thousands of Palestinians have been shot with bullets that your tax-dollars bought and thousand more will if you stay and become the ideal immigrant. To be the tax-paying, flag-waving, English speaking Desi who is repulsed by ’backwards’ notions of religion, and sends your children to get a good education at a Catholic school, is to be the perfectly assimilated, perfectly absorbed hypocrite.
How convenient it is for a Muslim to condemn America for its tyranny, but take no action against it at all. It’s like a shepherd that shares a cave with wolves who kill his own sheep, but stays because the cave is warm and the mutton is free. The shepherd stays with the wolves under the pretense of doing Dawah to the wolves.
He hopes that by living with the wolves, the wolves will feel sympathy for the shepherd, they will better understand him, and maybe not kill his sheep anymore. How very convenient, very illogical, and very beneficial for the shepherd! Never mind that it’s wrong, just remember that the cave is warm and the mutton is free, the streets are clean, the skyscrapers are shiny, and your children are being given quality wolf-education and eating quality mutton from your murdered sheep.
Dear aunties, I would recommend that you set your sights on some other Amreekan Palat, I may move a hundred times in my life, but never back to the country whose ruler has reinstated the crusades. Never to the land where a 67 year old Afghani Imam is in camp x-ray for giving Mujahideen dry bread crusts. Never to a land where my own Muslim brothers are collateral damage. I swear by Allah, I will never make that mistake again.
Never.
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