I wanted to create a light-hearted thread where Pakistanis and Indian Muslims can discuss and learn from each other in an environment free of the usual trolling.
So to get it started, i wanted to ask our Indian Muslim members some simple questions.
Why did you join PDF?
What did/do you hope to learn from Pakistanis?
How has your experience been on this forum?
Was there anything interesting you learned from PDF?
Thanks first of all for tagging me. This is a good thread with like minded inviduals. Belated Eid Mubarak to all of you.
Why did you join PDF?
So, to be honest, I have followed PDF since 2012 and found it to be (pardon me) infested with Sanghis. Even then, I found this forum to be a breath of fresh air - compared to the cesspool of Twitter or social media in general. Of course, I was only starting out on Twitter then. Did not join PDF then, but kept checking out posts for Neelum valley pics taken by members - pics that you don't find on Google easily.
What did you hope to learn from Pakistanis?
I have interacted with Pakistanis ever since I left India - and to be honest, apart from a few Pak nationalists who condemn us to genocide, I don't see any large difference. To be fair, the religiousity of an average non resident Pakistani is slightly less pronounced when compared to Indians, but besides that there is little difference.
How has your experience been on this forum?
There are a lot of things that you have in your mind but are not able to share in public posts. PDF allows a more personal channel of communication. So, yeah, overall very positive.
Was there anything interesting?
Yes. I had a hypothesis with regards to the source of all the ills that plague the Indian society (that is Hindu society is morally bankrupt and the source is Hinduism). I found it largely validated here as well. The very fact that many if not most of the social ills of India that I am sure must have existed in pre partition Punjab and Sindh no longer do. For instance the numerous riots in unified Punjab or tensions in Sindh and resulting loss of innocent Muslims have been avoided. I can't claim this is a complete validation, to be fair. But it is convincing to me, it makes sense. I already knew that Pakistanis are (in general) better human beings and their moral compass remains in the right place. The same cannot be said about Hindus in our country.