Desert Fox
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Interestingly all these issues you mentioned Islam and Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) already addresses and If anyone thinks otherwise onus is on them to prove so.It ain't fun, it ain't easy. In this chaos of debate having watched/read so much about one side of story I thought to put up the different side of story too for consideration.
Let’s put "Aurat march" and "liberals" aside for a moment. Let’s just say for a moment, they both don't exist.
Now, no matter how unfortunate, let put up a list of only reported cases of harassment, sexual or otherwise, verbal and physical abuse, oppression, violation of Islamic (for the sake if you are not a fan of the human slogan based criteria) rights, forced and under age marriages, lack of health care, lack of education, and lack of opportunities in this country, society, your city, town, village or neighborhood or any level... Now...
Question 1: Is it true that majority of victims (children, young, old) of all the above-mentioned issues will be women? (yes men (especially underage) too are victims)
Answer:
If No. Here is an example for you.
Example: Education (Currently, Pakistan has the world’s second-highest number of out-of-school children (OOSC) with an estimated 22.8 million children aged 5-16 not attending school, representing 44 per cent of the total population in this age group. In the 5-9 age group, 5 million children are not enrolled in schools and after primary-school age, the number of OOSC doubles, with 11.4 million adolescents between the ages of 10-14 not receiving formal education. Disparities based on gender, socio-economic status, and geography are significant; in Sindh, 52 percent of the poorest children (58 percent girls) are out of school, and in Baluchistan, 78 percent of girls are out of school. Nearly 10.7 million boys and 8.6 million girls are enrolled at the primary level and this drops to 3.6 million boys and 2.8 million girls at the lower secondary level. Gender-wise, boys outnumber girls at every stage of education. https://www.unicef.org/pakistan/education)
You are welcome to not trust this data and go out and make your own data on any scale possible for you and in any sector as per your wish. You will find similar results from rapes, to harassment to work issues to health care (specifically pertaining to women only health issues) to status of women in home and family to almost majorly everything.
Whenever your answer changes, then...
If Yes. Between the last time's and this time's "aurat march" who talked about all these issues, anyone even on personal level, let alone do something about it? Talking about an issue is the first step, educating and acting comes after so talking about it matters. Second, if one can protest about economy and jobs and religious issues, one can also protest about these issues. (how to debate/protest and how not to, is sure up for debate, for now let’s first decide whether it is supposed to be up for debate/protest)
Question 2: Why (what are called as so called) Liberals or feminist hijack, misinterpret and manipulate the agenda of “aurat march”? If so, should I be not against it?
Answer:
Let’s suppose two people (namely x and y) know the truth about a certain thing. The person X manipulates the truth and tells everybody while the person Y keeps shouting again and again that person X is liar. When asked for truth the person Y does not tell the truth but keeps insisting that person X is a liar. Does that make up for his case? NO!
Same is the case for “aurat march”. The Maulana on mosque, the teacher in classroom, the father and brother in house, the username on social media, the person in society or country will keep up being the person Y, only blaming others but not doing saying or dong anything about the issue themselves, one can argue at very least argue the issue is being raised.
It is up to us, we the common folks, to talk about it, raise voice for it and against it, to take charge ourselves and society and if not, then not cry foul play while sitting idle.
What about focusing a little more on “what is said” rather than “who is saying”. Are we not focusing on the minor issue and setting ablaze the major one?
Question 3: What about the slogans? “Mera Jism Meri Marzi”
Answer:
There is no negating it. There can be no “mera jism, teri marzi” for man or women or anybody. For some it may portray all the aforementioned issues women are facing especifically “Getting a say in bearing children” an issue persistent in society if u look for people bearing children for boys for example putting women’s life at risk (https://www.samaa.tv/living/health/2019/04/why-mothers-are-dying-during-childbirth-in-pakistan/) for others it might be more of “sex working”. There is no denying that anything against law is not acceptable but why look at one side and what are you saying or doing about the other? Only if you remove the lack of “say in birthing” problem, can you then accuse of it being a slogan for “sex-work”. Although nowhere it has been used in the world by the feminist or liberals, as they are called, for “sex-work” but rather actually abortion rights if unplanned pregnancy (in marriage too) happens. In our context, looks like no one gave it a thought because things are not so bad that bar of talking of abortion rights seems too high to set probably.
Conclusion:
A large amount of almost 50% of our country's population i.e. women, are highly persecuted on a number of grounds simultaneously.
Controversial highlight of an issue is better than its denial.
So, what are you going to do about it other than whining about foul play by a group calling it manipulation of truth?
Unless you do walk and talk the truth yourself should you be allowed for accusing other of lies?
The real Question and Solution: How many women in your house, family, friends, acquaintance, neighborhood, village, town, city or country do you know or see persecuted in any way and what are you doing about it?
IT’S JUST A SIDE OF STORY, I FELT TO BE LEAST FOCUSED ON. YOU MAY HAVE ANOTHER SIDE. BOTH MAY BE TRUE OR BOTH MAY NOT BE. JUST DON’T OVER-LOOK ANY OF THE TWO.
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We are an Islamic Republic, Muslim majority country (Muslim = someone who submits to the will of Allah). Our solutions are within the fold of Islam, not some man-made ideology that has destroyed the family system even in the countries it has originated from.
Secondly, please do not be deluded by these Liberal, Upper class, Westernized Feminist aunties because they themselves oppress women of the under-priviledged segments of our society.
Upper class Liberal Feminist women in Pakistan murder and torture under-age maids and then have the audacity to cry about "womens rights".