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Pakistanis, Don’t Worry About Trump. Worry About Your ‘Trumpistan.’
Dear Pakistan, work on reaching out to your own forgotten minority groups.
11/19/2016 03:34 pm ET | Updated 3 days ago


Many Pakistanis have taken to social media to express their outrage over a Donald Trump presidency. How will he treat Muslims? Will he follow through on his campaign promises and infringe on the civil liberties of Muslims? Right-wing Pakistanis are most furious. They are suddenly concerned about the treatment of a minority faith group by state officials and policies. The irony beats me.



As a Pakistani American, here is what I have to say to my concerned friends in Pakistan. Please don’t worry about us Muslims in America. There are numerous politicians, public figures and religious leaders who are standing in solidarity and support of our rights. Senator Bernie Sanders tweeted earlier that he will become Trump’s worst nightmare if the president-elect thinks about discriminating against Muslims. Many public figures have expressed similar sentiment. Jewish and Christian leaders visited Mosques this past Friday to express their solidarity with Muslim Americans. Following Trump’s election, a woman in Nashville, Tennessee used chalk to write messages of love outside a mosque. Many of my colleagues assured me of their support if things ever changed for me as a Muslim in America. And I have received numerous emails from non-Muslims asking for ideas on how to show their acceptance for the Muslim Community.

So dear Pakistani friends, please spare us your concern and work on reaching out to your own forgotten minority groups instead. Embrace them instead. They need you far more than we do. As I have written elsewhere, Mr. Trump only dreams of what Pakistan already enforces and implements with full force against its own minority faith groups.

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Sign outside a shop in Pakistan reads, “Qadianis (pejorative for Ahmadi Muslims) are not Muslims. They are blasphemers. Trade with them is forbidden, and so they are forbidden entry here.”
You don’t like Trump’s proposal of special IDs for Muslim Americans? How about you call to end the special discriminatory IDs for Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan ― IDs that have left them disenfranchised. You don’t like him looking at us Muslims with suspicion and fear? How about working to ensure mainstream Pakistani religious clerics and politicians stop rampant fear-mongering of minority faith groups, especially the routine scapegoating of the Ahmadis. Worried about potential anti-Muslim legislation in coming days? Well, stand up and condemn Pakistan’s Second Amendment and anti-Ahmadi laws that have already severely limited the religious freedom of Pakistan’s Ahmadi Muslims. Outraged at me calling them Muslims? Then don’t complain if us Muslims are ever denied the right to self-identify as we chose in America. Or if the State forcibly labels us with a slur instead.

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Pakistani Passport/ID forms require all Muslims to abuse the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to obtain a Muslim ID.
You don’t like Trump’s allies suggesting adhan (call to prayer) be banned from mosques. Then speak against the three years jail time that Pakistan imposes on Ahmadi Muslims for saying the adhan quietly in their own Mosques (which they cannot even identify as Mosques under law). You don’t like Trump’s new chief strategist suggesting Mosques be stopped from construction in America? Well, then speak up against the over a hundred Ahmadiyya Mosques that have been forcibly occupied or burned down by Sunni extremists, or sealed or stopped from construction by the State. You are concerned Muslim congregations might be limited by the new American government? Consider that the Ahmadi Muslims have been banned from peaceful congregation since 1984. They have been denied permission to conduct their annual conventions (Jalsa Salanas) since then.

I can go on and on. But you get my point.

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RABWAH TIMES
Leaflets distributed by the extremist anti-Ahmadi “Khatme Nabuwwat” group across Pakistan calls on “pious Muslims” to wage Jihad and kill Ahmadi Muslims.
It is no secret that the intolerance and bigotry ― Mullahism ― that has plagued Pakistan for the last many decades is is far more putrid, hateful and hurtful than the white supremacy we are having to deal with here in America. Where are the Sunni and Shia politicians, public figures and religious leaders who are speaking up for the rights of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan? Where are the religious clerics visiting Ahmadiyya Mosques to express their solidarity with Pakistan’s Ahmadis? Where are the messages of love being chalked outside Ahmadi houses?

So until your concern for us Muslim Americans is based on principle, thank you my fellow Pakistanis, but no thanks. We will deal with Mr. Trump. You worry about the “Trumpistan” you have created back home.

This oped originally appeared in Pakistan’s The Nation Newspaper.





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If you think Trump is racist, come to Pakistan
By Usman Ali Virk Published: November 23, 2016
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One of the reasons Pakistan was founded was for the Muslims to show the Hindus of India how they were supposed to treat the minority communities. PHOTO: TWITTER.


Muslims in the US and across the globe are condemning, in the strongest possible words, the US President-Elect Trump, for his anti-Islam rhetoric during the election campaign. And now that the British and American people have made the seemingly impossible possible, in the form of Brexit and Trump’s victory respectively, Muslims have every reason to be worried about a substantial increase in Islamophobia in the West.

But while the concern for our Muslim brethren living abroad is completely legitimate, let us introspect and have an objective, impartial discussion about Pakistan’s own covert affair with bigotry.

One of the reasons Pakistan was founded was for the Muslims to show the Hindus of India how they were supposed to treat the minority communities. In Pakistan, the Hindus, Christians, Sikhs and other marginalised groups would live side by side with the Muslims as equals. How we have failed in that pledge!

A cursory glance at the treatment of our fellow countrymen, who have beliefs different from us, would suffice to demonstrate the layers of discrimination that unfortunately exist in the land of the pure. What is more shocking is that this unconscious prejudice has provincial and sectarian dimensions to it as well, meaning that even Muslim Pakistanis are not immune from such intolerant tendencies.

Let us begin with the brand of racism that non-Muslims face in the Islamic Republic. If we see the status of Christians, we know very well that derogatory term used when referring to a Christian. They have been relegated to cleaning duties, working as sweepers in our homes, offices, and on the streets. Though our government has allotted a quota for the Christian community in educational institutions and for jobs, it has clearly not been enough. Just ask yourself, when was the last time you met a well-to-do Christian doctor, engineer or bureaucrat in Pakistan? The picture of the young boy, probably a university student, getting his celebratory picture taken at the scene of a mob attack, which was vandalised homes in Youhanabad, a Christian neighbourhood in Lahore, is indicative of the xenophobic mind-set some people have in our nation.

Now let’s talk about the Hindus. Jinnah went out of his way to have a constituent assembly that represented the diversity of the country. That is why Jogendra Nath Mandal, a Hindu who chose to stay in Pakistan, was elected as the first Chairman of the Assembly. It is saddening to note that, disillusioned by the theological course Pakistani politics was taking, Mandal decided to leave Pakistan and relocate to India.

The same practice was repeated in recent years, when scores of Sindhi Hindus, living in Pakistan for generations, left for India, because our state failed to protect them against the scourge of forced conversions. Muslims hardly ever interact with Hindus in Pakistan, let alone befriend them. As the majority, it was our collective responsibility to make them feel safe and secure. Instead, we maintained silence whenever such incidents occur, thereby validating our inner dislike for them.

As pointed out, even Muslims face prejudice in Pakistan, unless of course you are a Sunni – the Pakistani equivalents of Caucasians in America. Take, for example, the plight of the Shia community. On social media, in books, in educational institutions, and even in mosques, our Shia brethren are ridiculed, denounced as ‘kafirs’ and verbally abused. What right does anyone have to label another kafir? We lie, cheat, womanise and accept bribes, but the moment it comes to calling Shias or Ismailis kafirs, suddenly we ‘find our faith’ and transform into the most zealous devotees of Islam. Allah is the Creator of everything in this universe; surely we can entrust Him to determine better who is or isn’t a Muslim.

Having discussed our peoples’ racist attitudes from a religious context, let’s turn our attention to the provincial aspect of this intolerance. Ask the average Pakhtun, Sindhi, or Baloch what he thinks about Punjabis, and most likely you will receive an answer loaded with curses and utter loathing. Agreed, the Punjabi establishment – military, politicians and the bureaucracy – has wrongly maintained unchecked control over national resources at the expense of other provinces, but does that in turn justify such hatred against the entire population of Punjab? This is the very definition of racism.

A somewhat similar situation exists in relation to the status of Muhajirs in Sindh. Muhajirs have been treated with contempt and disdain by the indigenous Sindhis, who think the Muhajirs – who left everything to come to Pakistan – are destroying their culture.

All this, taken as whole, shows that rather than calling foul at the west for its discriminatory attitude towards Muslims, it is high time that we in Pakistan realise and stop our own bigoted failings, by treating our minorities equally, with the respect that they worthy of as our fellow Pakistanis.



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As soon as you say ''Ahmedi'', ''Shia'', ''women rights'' or ''Afghani'', The inner Trump jumps out quickly of many people.
 
Pakistanis, Don’t Worry About Trump. Worry About Your ‘Trumpistan.’
Dear Pakistan, work on reaching out to your own forgotten minority groups.
11/19/2016 03:34 pm ET | Updated 3 days ago


Many Pakistanis have taken to social media to express their outrage over a Donald Trump presidency. How will he treat Muslims? Will he follow through on his campaign promises and infringe on the civil liberties of Muslims? Right-wing Pakistanis are most furious. They are suddenly concerned about the treatment of a minority faith group by state officials and policies. The irony beats me.



As a Pakistani American, here is what I have to say to my concerned friends in Pakistan. Please don’t worry about us Muslims in America. There are numerous politicians, public figures and religious leaders who are standing in solidarity and support of our rights. Senator Bernie Sanders tweeted earlier that he will become Trump’s worst nightmare if the president-elect thinks about discriminating against Muslims. Many public figures have expressed similar sentiment. Jewish and Christian leaders visited Mosques this past Friday to express their solidarity with Muslim Americans. Following Trump’s election, a woman in Nashville, Tennessee used chalk to write messages of love outside a mosque. Many of my colleagues assured me of their support if things ever changed for me as a Muslim in America. And I have received numerous emails from non-Muslims asking for ideas on how to show their acceptance for the Muslim Community.

So dear Pakistani friends, please spare us your concern and work on reaching out to your own forgotten minority groups instead. Embrace them instead. They need you far more than we do. As I have written elsewhere, Mr. Trump only dreams of what Pakistan already enforces and implements with full force against its own minority faith groups.

5830b2e21a00001e00cc8d11.jpg

THE NATION
Sign outside a shop in Pakistan reads, “Qadianis (pejorative for Ahmadi Muslims) are not Muslims. They are blasphemers. Trade with them is forbidden, and so they are forbidden entry here.”
You don’t like Trump’s proposal of special IDs for Muslim Americans? How about you call to end the special discriminatory IDs for Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan ― IDs that have left them disenfranchised. You don’t like him looking at us Muslims with suspicion and fear? How about working to ensure mainstream Pakistani religious clerics and politicians stop rampant fear-mongering of minority faith groups, especially the routine scapegoating of the Ahmadis. Worried about potential anti-Muslim legislation in coming days? Well, stand up and condemn Pakistan’s Second Amendment and anti-Ahmadi laws that have already severely limited the religious freedom of Pakistan’s Ahmadi Muslims. Outraged at me calling them Muslims? Then don’t complain if us Muslims are ever denied the right to self-identify as we chose in America. Or if the State forcibly labels us with a slur instead.

5830b43d1800001c0030f027.png

Pakistani Passport/ID forms require all Muslims to abuse the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to obtain a Muslim ID.
You don’t like Trump’s allies suggesting adhan (call to prayer) be banned from mosques. Then speak against the three years jail time that Pakistan imposes on Ahmadi Muslims for saying the adhan quietly in their own Mosques (which they cannot even identify as Mosques under law). You don’t like Trump’s new chief strategist suggesting Mosques be stopped from construction in America? Well, then speak up against the over a hundred Ahmadiyya Mosques that have been forcibly occupied or burned down by Sunni extremists, or sealed or stopped from construction by the State. You are concerned Muslim congregations might be limited by the new American government? Consider that the Ahmadi Muslims have been banned from peaceful congregation since 1984. They have been denied permission to conduct their annual conventions (Jalsa Salanas) since then.

I can go on and on. But you get my point.

5830b59c180000ef0b30f02b.jpg

RABWAH TIMES
Leaflets distributed by the extremist anti-Ahmadi “Khatme Nabuwwat” group across Pakistan calls on “pious Muslims” to wage Jihad and kill Ahmadi Muslims.
It is no secret that the intolerance and bigotry ― Mullahism ― that has plagued Pakistan for the last many decades is is far more putrid, hateful and hurtful than the white supremacy we are having to deal with here in America. Where are the Sunni and Shia politicians, public figures and religious leaders who are speaking up for the rights of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan? Where are the religious clerics visiting Ahmadiyya Mosques to express their solidarity with Pakistan’s Ahmadis? Where are the messages of love being chalked outside Ahmadi houses?

So until your concern for us Muslim Americans is based on principle, thank you my fellow Pakistanis, but no thanks. We will deal with Mr. Trump. You worry about the “Trumpistan” you have created back home.

This oped originally appeared in Pakistan’s The Nation Newspaper.





http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...-worry-about-your_us_5830a7f9e4b0d28e55214fe3

Another self loathing scumbag lecturing Pakistanis from his adopted home land the USA. A favorite destination for anti-Pakistan despots.

Fvck Trump. Ordinary Pakistanis haven't got the time to laugh at this joker or his angry white supporters. The entire world has witnessed a clown fest. Today, these people feel insecure and utterly humiliated with Trump as their newly elected president. You can feel it from a mile away. They cannot hide their frustration and humiliation. They are again looking for scapegoats. Who better to lecture and blame in this instance? Of course Pakistan. Well, all these insecure creatures can go to hell. Pakistan has other important things on its mind. The US or Trump doesn't figure in any of those plans. Sour grapes is the only thing that fits the description. I hope Trump puts these despots in a database and tracks their every movement. That should remind these scumbags of their place.

If anything Pakistanis rejoice Trump and his rhetoric. This is the need of the hour. We need a scumbag like Trump to up the ante. It will serve his nation well.

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If you think Trump is racist, come to Pakistan
By Usman Ali Virk Published: November 23, 2016
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One of the reasons Pakistan was founded was for the Muslims to show the Hindus of India how they were supposed to treat the minority communities. PHOTO: TWITTER.


Muslims in the US and across the globe are condemning, in the strongest possible words, the US President-Elect Trump, for his anti-Islam rhetoric during the election campaign. And now that the British and American people have made the seemingly impossible possible, in the form of Brexit and Trump’s victory respectively, Muslims have every reason to be worried about a substantial increase in Islamophobia in the West.

But while the concern for our Muslim brethren living abroad is completely legitimate, let us introspect and have an objective, impartial discussion about Pakistan’s own covert affair with bigotry.

One of the reasons Pakistan was founded was for the Muslims to show the Hindus of India how they were supposed to treat the minority communities. In Pakistan, the Hindus, Christians, Sikhs and other marginalised groups would live side by side with the Muslims as equals. How we have failed in that pledge!

A cursory glance at the treatment of our fellow countrymen, who have beliefs different from us, would suffice to demonstrate the layers of discrimination that unfortunately exist in the land of the pure. What is more shocking is that this unconscious prejudice has provincial and sectarian dimensions to it as well, meaning that even Muslim Pakistanis are not immune from such intolerant tendencies.

Let us begin with the brand of racism that non-Muslims face in the Islamic Republic. If we see the status of Christians, we know very well that derogatory term used when referring to a Christian. They have been relegated to cleaning duties, working as sweepers in our homes, offices, and on the streets. Though our government has allotted a quota for the Christian community in educational institutions and for jobs, it has clearly not been enough. Just ask yourself, when was the last time you met a well-to-do Christian doctor, engineer or bureaucrat in Pakistan? The picture of the young boy, probably a university student, getting his celebratory picture taken at the scene of a mob attack, which was vandalised homes in Youhanabad, a Christian neighbourhood in Lahore, is indicative of the xenophobic mind-set some people have in our nation.

Now let’s talk about the Hindus. Jinnah went out of his way to have a constituent assembly that represented the diversity of the country. That is why Jogendra Nath Mandal, a Hindu who chose to stay in Pakistan, was elected as the first Chairman of the Assembly. It is saddening to note that, disillusioned by the theological course Pakistani politics was taking, Mandal decided to leave Pakistan and relocate to India.

The same practice was repeated in recent years, when scores of Sindhi Hindus, living in Pakistan for generations, left for India, because our state failed to protect them against the scourge of forced conversions. Muslims hardly ever interact with Hindus in Pakistan, let alone befriend them. As the majority, it was our collective responsibility to make them feel safe and secure. Instead, we maintained silence whenever such incidents occur, thereby validating our inner dislike for them.

As pointed out, even Muslims face prejudice in Pakistan, unless of course you are a Sunni – the Pakistani equivalents of Caucasians in America. Take, for example, the plight of the Shia community. On social media, in books, in educational institutions, and even in mosques, our Shia brethren are ridiculed, denounced as ‘kafirs’ and verbally abused. What right does anyone have to label another kafir? We lie, cheat, womanise and accept bribes, but the moment it comes to calling Shias or Ismailis kafirs, suddenly we ‘find our faith’ and transform into the most zealous devotees of Islam. Allah is the Creator of everything in this universe; surely we can entrust Him to determine better who is or isn’t a Muslim.

Having discussed our peoples’ racist attitudes from a religious context, let’s turn our attention to the provincial aspect of this intolerance. Ask the average Pakhtun, Sindhi, or Baloch what he thinks about Punjabis, and most likely you will receive an answer loaded with curses and utter loathing. Agreed, the Punjabi establishment – military, politicians and the bureaucracy – has wrongly maintained unchecked control over national resources at the expense of other provinces, but does that in turn justify such hatred against the entire population of Punjab? This is the very definition of racism.

A somewhat similar situation exists in relation to the status of Muhajirs in Sindh. Muhajirs have been treated with contempt and disdain by the indigenous Sindhis, who think the Muhajirs – who left everything to come to Pakistan – are destroying their culture.

All this, taken as whole, shows that rather than calling foul at the west for its discriminatory attitude towards Muslims, it is high time that we in Pakistan realise and stop our own bigoted failings, by treating our minorities equally, with the respect that they worthy of as our fellow Pakistanis.



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This is very ironic coming from a Jew whose country and leaders have made it a sport to discriminate, kill and steal from other people.
 
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Pakistanis, Don’t Worry About Trump. Worry About Your ‘Trumpistan.’
Dear Pakistan, work on reaching out to your own forgotten minority groups.
11/19/2016 03:34 pm ET | Updated 3 days ago


Many Pakistanis have taken to social media to express their outrage over a Donald Trump presidency. How will he treat Muslims? Will he follow through on his campaign promises and infringe on the civil liberties of Muslims? Right-wing Pakistanis are most furious. They are suddenly concerned about the treatment of a minority faith group by state officials and policies. The irony beats me.



As a Pakistani American, here is what I have to say to my concerned friends in Pakistan. Please don’t worry about us Muslims in America. There are numerous politicians, public figures and religious leaders who are standing in solidarity and support of our rights. Senator Bernie Sanders tweeted earlier that he will become Trump’s worst nightmare if the president-elect thinks about discriminating against Muslims. Many public figures have expressed similar sentiment. Jewish and Christian leaders visited Mosques this past Friday to express their solidarity with Muslim Americans. Following Trump’s election, a woman in Nashville, Tennessee used chalk to write messages of love outside a mosque. Many of my colleagues assured me of their support if things ever changed for me as a Muslim in America. And I have received numerous emails from non-Muslims asking for ideas on how to show their acceptance for the Muslim Community.

So dear Pakistani friends, please spare us your concern and work on reaching out to your own forgotten minority groups instead. Embrace them instead. They need you far more than we do. As I have written elsewhere, Mr. Trump only dreams of what Pakistan already enforces and implements with full force against its own minority faith groups.

5830b2e21a00001e00cc8d11.jpg

THE NATION
Sign outside a shop in Pakistan reads, “Qadianis (pejorative for Ahmadi Muslims) are not Muslims. They are blasphemers. Trade with them is forbidden, and so they are forbidden entry here.”
You don’t like Trump’s proposal of special IDs for Muslim Americans? How about you call to end the special discriminatory IDs for Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan ― IDs that have left them disenfranchised. You don’t like him looking at us Muslims with suspicion and fear? How about working to ensure mainstream Pakistani religious clerics and politicians stop rampant fear-mongering of minority faith groups, especially the routine scapegoating of the Ahmadis. Worried about potential anti-Muslim legislation in coming days? Well, stand up and condemn Pakistan’s Second Amendment and anti-Ahmadi laws that have already severely limited the religious freedom of Pakistan’s Ahmadi Muslims. Outraged at me calling them Muslims? Then don’t complain if us Muslims are ever denied the right to self-identify as we chose in America. Or if the State forcibly labels us with a slur instead.

5830b43d1800001c0030f027.png

Pakistani Passport/ID forms require all Muslims to abuse the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to obtain a Muslim ID.
You don’t like Trump’s allies suggesting adhan (call to prayer) be banned from mosques. Then speak against the three years jail time that Pakistan imposes on Ahmadi Muslims for saying the adhan quietly in their own Mosques (which they cannot even identify as Mosques under law). You don’t like Trump’s new chief strategist suggesting Mosques be stopped from construction in America? Well, then speak up against the over a hundred Ahmadiyya Mosques that have been forcibly occupied or burned down by Sunni extremists, or sealed or stopped from construction by the State. You are concerned Muslim congregations might be limited by the new American government? Consider that the Ahmadi Muslims have been banned from peaceful congregation since 1984. They have been denied permission to conduct their annual conventions (Jalsa Salanas) since then.

I can go on and on. But you get my point.

5830b59c180000ef0b30f02b.jpg

RABWAH TIMES
Leaflets distributed by the extremist anti-Ahmadi “Khatme Nabuwwat” group across Pakistan calls on “pious Muslims” to wage Jihad and kill Ahmadi Muslims.
It is no secret that the intolerance and bigotry ― Mullahism ― that has plagued Pakistan for the last many decades is is far more putrid, hateful and hurtful than the white supremacy we are having to deal with here in America. Where are the Sunni and Shia politicians, public figures and religious leaders who are speaking up for the rights of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan? Where are the religious clerics visiting Ahmadiyya Mosques to express their solidarity with Pakistan’s Ahmadis? Where are the messages of love being chalked outside Ahmadi houses?

So until your concern for us Muslim Americans is based on principle, thank you my fellow Pakistanis, but no thanks. We will deal with Mr. Trump. You worry about the “Trumpistan” you have created back home.

This oped originally appeared in Pakistan’s The Nation Newspaper.





http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...-worry-about-your_us_5830a7f9e4b0d28e55214fe3
Okay so here you are mixing ahmedi with other minorities, the pictures you attached doesn't say anything about Hindus, Christians, Sikh et.c, why??? Are they Muslims??? No, the discrimination with ahmedies is not because they are a minority but because they are in direct conflict with Islam. they are outlaw. It can be explained more clearly like of someone or some states in US officially announce that Trump is not our president and we are not part of USA, how will you treat them? you will fight with them and will try kill them of make them surrender to you?
Same is the case here, we must fight with ahmedis until they are finished or they surrender. Yet we are not fighting with them, we are only separating them from ourselves.
 
NO Country is perfect ... But come back to us when Pakistan chooses an Extremist Mullah as its head of Government !

it is not we but biggest democracy on earth elected a Hindu Extremist as Prime Minister . the butcher of Gujarat ....

It is not we the Second biggest democrazy of world choose a President, who is openly Racist, Sexist, Xenophobic ...
 
There is a saying: dard kuch aur dawa kuch aur.

These people are in pain. They thought they could isolate Pakistan and term it a pariah state. How sorely wrong they have been. They are left red faced. All they can do now is pay content writers to spew hate and propaganda against Pakistan. All their little plans in next door Afghanistan gone to waste. Opiumland has gone from bad to worse. Little do they know now that they are digging their own grave. Pakistan is already out of their reach. This will make matters only worse.
 
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Isn't it interesting that such drivel always come from the so-called Pakistani's working or studying in the USA. The things these wanna-be Gora losers do to feel accepted :jester:
 
Isn't it interesting that such drivel always come from the so-called Pakistani's working or studying in the USA. The things these wanna-be Gora losers do to feel accepted :jester:

Stupid losers. Always trying to pin everything on Pakistan. Pakistan is now somehow also to be blamed for Trump's election win. Like Pakistanis don't have better things on their mind.
 
Stupid losers. Always trying to pin everything on Pakistan. Pakistan is now somehow also to be blamed for Trump's election win. Like Pakistanis don't have better things on their mind.
When the West is trying to poke it's nose into Pakistani domestic affairs then these hypocrites quote you "world rankings, western standards and their biased research statistics". You catch "The Eutopian West" with it's pants down then these lousy wanna-be's like the author of this shitty OP jump in and ask you to focus on Pakistan instead. :cheesy:
 
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If you think Trump is racist, come to Pakistan
By Usman Ali Virk Published: November 23, 2016
43190-twitter-1479804873-563-640x480.jpg

One of the reasons Pakistan was founded was for the Muslims to show the Hindus of India how they were supposed to treat the minority communities. PHOTO: TWITTER.


Muslims in the US and across the globe are condemning, in the strongest possible words, the US President-Elect Trump, for his anti-Islam rhetoric during the election campaign. And now that the British and American people have made the seemingly impossible possible, in the form of Brexit and Trump’s victory respectively, Muslims have every reason to be worried about a substantial increase in Islamophobia in the West.

But while the concern for our Muslim brethren living abroad is completely legitimate, let us introspect and have an objective, impartial discussion about Pakistan’s own covert affair with bigotry.

One of the reasons Pakistan was founded was for the Muslims to show the Hindus of India how they were supposed to treat the minority communities. In Pakistan, the Hindus, Christians, Sikhs and other marginalised groups would live side by side with the Muslims as equals. How we have failed in that pledge!

A cursory glance at the treatment of our fellow countrymen, who have beliefs different from us, would suffice to demonstrate the layers of discrimination that unfortunately exist in the land of the pure. What is more shocking is that this unconscious prejudice has provincial and sectarian dimensions to it as well, meaning that even Muslim Pakistanis are not immune from such intolerant tendencies.

Let us begin with the brand of racism that non-Muslims face in the Islamic Republic. If we see the status of Christians, we know very well that derogatory term used when referring to a Christian. They have been relegated to cleaning duties, working as sweepers in our homes, offices, and on the streets. Though our government has allotted a quota for the Christian community in educational institutions and for jobs, it has clearly not been enough. Just ask yourself, when was the last time you met a well-to-do Christian doctor, engineer or bureaucrat in Pakistan? The picture of the young boy, probably a university student, getting his celebratory picture taken at the scene of a mob attack, which was vandalised homes in Youhanabad, a Christian neighbourhood in Lahore, is indicative of the xenophobic mind-set some people have in our nation.

Now let’s talk about the Hindus. Jinnah went out of his way to have a constituent assembly that represented the diversity of the country. That is why Jogendra Nath Mandal, a Hindu who chose to stay in Pakistan, was elected as the first Chairman of the Assembly. It is saddening to note that, disillusioned by the theological course Pakistani politics was taking, Mandal decided to leave Pakistan and relocate to India.

The same practice was repeated in recent years, when scores of Sindhi Hindus, living in Pakistan for generations, left for India, because our state failed to protect them against the scourge of forced conversions. Muslims hardly ever interact with Hindus in Pakistan, let alone befriend them. As the majority, it was our collective responsibility to make them feel safe and secure. Instead, we maintained silence whenever such incidents occur, thereby validating our inner dislike for them.

As pointed out, even Muslims face prejudice in Pakistan, unless of course you are a Sunni – the Pakistani equivalents of Caucasians in America. Take, for example, the plight of the Shia community. On social media, in books, in educational institutions, and even in mosques, our Shia brethren are ridiculed, denounced as ‘kafirs’ and verbally abused. What right does anyone have to label another kafir? We lie, cheat, womanise and accept bribes, but the moment it comes to calling Shias or Ismailis kafirs, suddenly we ‘find our faith’ and transform into the most zealous devotees of Islam. Allah is the Creator of everything in this universe; surely we can entrust Him to determine better who is or isn’t a Muslim.

Having discussed our peoples’ racist attitudes from a religious context, let’s turn our attention to the provincial aspect of this intolerance. Ask the average Pakhtun, Sindhi, or Baloch what he thinks about Punjabis, and most likely you will receive an answer loaded with curses and utter loathing. Agreed, the Punjabi establishment – military, politicians and the bureaucracy – has wrongly maintained unchecked control over national resources at the expense of other provinces, but does that in turn justify such hatred against the entire population of Punjab? This is the very definition of racism.

A somewhat similar situation exists in relation to the status of Muhajirs in Sindh. Muhajirs have been treated with contempt and disdain by the indigenous Sindhis, who think the Muhajirs – who left everything to come to Pakistan – are destroying their culture.

All this, taken as whole, shows that rather than calling foul at the west for its discriminatory attitude towards Muslims, it is high time that we in Pakistan realise and stop our own bigoted failings, by treating our minorities equally, with the respect that they worthy of as our fellow Pakistanis.



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Usman Ali Virk
The author hails from Lahore and is a lawyer by profession. He recently graduated with a Masters in Law from the University of California, Berkeley.

I wonder from where these retards get their facts to write these articles...... and than one wonders why it always comes from 3 retarded sellout news papers
 

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