Re: What do you dislike about Pakistani Mentality
Different people have different reasons to hate Malala.
Some think she stole Edhi’s Nobel Peace Prize. For some reason, they think this year was Edhi’s best chance. They never objected to all the Nobel Peace Prizes given out over the last so many years.
Some think, through her, the west is projecting negative image of Pakistan. As if, before Malala, Pakistan’s image was that of a very peaceful and tolerant country.
Some think, Malala hasn’t raised her voice for the children killed in drone attacks in Waziristan. They don’t have a problem with children getting killed, because they’re killed by Pakistan Air Force’s aerial bombardment as well. And you will never see them showing the same concern for the children in Balochistan, because that doesn’t fit their version of a tragedy. It must involve ‘western inflicted wounds’.
Some, like the editor in this interview, think she is promoting western, modern, co-education in Pakistan and that she is a threat to our supposedly high moral standards over the rest of the world.
So the problem is the presence of the element of ‘west’ and its ‘agenda’ and the fact that anything that is associated with the west is supposedly a conspiracy to destroy us. I don’t think these objections would have been made had Malala wore a niqaab, was a hafiz e quraan, and was awarded a prize by the Great Saudi Arabia. That would have perfectly fitted our imagination of a muslim hero.