Re: What should Pakistani laws be based on?
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This is just an emotional outburst in the form of 2 questions. Man-made laws vs. divine laws is not that black and white thingy. There is a whole lot of gray area in the middle.
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I fail to see how a question qualifies as an emotional outburst, a question which is pertinent to pakistani politics.
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Even when we talk about divine laws in Islamic perspective, we are relying on "holy men" to interpret those laws. For Sunnis there are 4 holy men and then the door is closed. For Shias there 12 holy men and then the ayatullahs. So even when the source may be divine, the product we get is very much "man made" or sometimes even worse a "bearded-man made".
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Thats a rather blasphemous arguement. Are you trying to say, that even though the word of god, the koran, is unchangeable, the only way the koran can be understood is through human interpretation, which itself changes from time to time, essentially meaning that the word of god is meaningless because it is at the mercy of human interpretation? Are you even a muslim?
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So calm down baboo. We have had really bad experience with these heavenly laws that turned out to be very hellish for the minorities and women of Pakistan.
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Thats besides the point, a grand non-sequitur.
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We in Pakistan used to have a Sufi version of Islam that has now been corrupted under the strong influence and Ryals of Wahabism.
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A sufi version of islam? Is this similar to the hindu version of christianity where they have seperate churches for different castes? The version of islam where the natives rid themselves of their pandits and magean priests to replace them with pirs who espouse pantheist non-sense, which is itself plagarized from the barbarian native pagans? Are you of the crowd that views Aurangzeb, a great muslim, in bad light, while viewing his brother Dara Shikoh, a sufi/hindu/athesit, as a pious muslim?
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You folks who live outside the country are enjoying the fruits of enlightened Western societies of EU and US. Still you want to deny our right to live in an open and enlightened environment where Pakistani-Shias won't be bombed by beardos, where Pakistani-Ahmadis will be free to practice their religion and Pakistani-Christians won't be mobbed just because somebody found a small piece of Arabic inscription lying in the street.
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Another non-sequitur. My not residing in pakistan shouldn't disallow me from asking on an internet forum what pakistani laws should be based on.