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@Reha

Again - the root cause is religion. Whether is Sunni, Shia, Ahmadi, etc…its all about religion. In my opinion, its NONE of the government’s business or the peoples’ business who the public believes and how they believe.

I respect your opinion but I would like to disagree with it, why?, I’ll try to put it down in words. you see a person with common sense would agree that one should live and let live, agree?, but if that person were brought up in a jahil environment they would consider it an honor physically hurting someone that would utter blasphemy because they were never really thought religious tolerance to begin with, so religious extremism has nothing to do with religion.

You insult my religion, its my choice to either tolerate it or not. in the same way as, if you were to insult my family, caste, skin color, social status, it would be my choice to act on it or just simply ignore it.

You want a progressive country, educate its inhabitants, and besides, a recent study revealed that educated people are generally more secular and generally smarter than religious people even though I disagree but it fits right in with what you’re trying to say.

@Reha

I know this is not a popular opinion - and trust me - I’d never want to be born anything but Muslim. I love my faith and feel lucky to be a Muslim and my heritage as a Pakistani. I’ve always been proud.

But faith has no place in Pakistan anymore - it never did. You cannot be considered a progressive nation if your people are comprised of different religions and you’re mindset is Muslim and Muslim only. Our religion teaches us tolerance but because we’re a Muslim country, we’re not required to be respectful of other religions. The only way I see is separate church and state completely cold turkey. Yeah, it sounds pretty drastic and bold but Islam has been defamed to the point of embarrassment because of so-called Muslim countries. How about we leave Islam to the Muslims to practice with dignity and allow others to do the same with their own faith? Isn’t this a form of Dawah in itself? To be kind and compassionate to others?

No offense but your argument is not that dissimilar to the whole argument behind how women should wear appropriate enough clothing to avoid being raped.