What kind of logic is this? People emigrated only because of the reason that is to accept the way of living as described in Quran not in Ved or Poran. Even in India the muslims lived with a different identity. Otherwise all of us would be worshiping chanting mantras doing soorya namaskar.
You should know that in India there was this surya namaskar controversy. Muslims immediately denied not to practice it. For muslim it's not allowed be it tradition of the land.
By this I mean, if a Muhajir migrated to Lahore, he ought to learn the local language and customs, at least those that are not against his faith, if he went to Peshwar, he ought to learn the local language and customs,at least those that are not against his faith....
and if he does not want to learn, then at least respect them,
You know most of the people in co-terminous Pakistan circa 1947 were also Muslims...
Parts of neighbouring Hindustan also part of the Indus too you know, which is the main issue with this whole concept of Pakistan being the sole inheritor of the Indus.
1. The Afghan government are not the same as the people (other than the upper class, most Afghans do not really hold strongly negative views about Pakistan).
2. Ever since the USSR occupation of Afghanistan, all the major fighting stopped.
3. Right, but if some of them have assimilated why not give them citizenship?
4. Why not just vet them while they're actually in the country?
5. Again, not most of them.
I've been to and lived in Pakistan for quite a bit of my life (mostly as a child though).
Yes, it was. It was called the Muslim League for a reason.
Islamic "culture" as you like to call it would just be following the Quran and the Sunnah, so yes it does exist.
Then why are there so many Muhajirs in Pakistan? Better yet, why was Bangladesh also a part of Pakistan?
No, they weren't, otherwise there would have been far more communal tensions.
Nations deals with nations....
People deal with people...
I have met Afghans and I have got on well with them..individually....
1. In my experience most common Afghans at least in the UK (who come on Pakistani papers) despise Pakistan....
2. Hence the term COLD WAR....
3. Because their nation is in a cold war with Pakistan....it matters not if they speak the language...have you seen who supports PTM(TTP)? A lot of Afghan refugees who have assimilated very well...
4.Because that defeats the purpose of vetting....
5. In my experience most Afghans Pukhtoons (in the UK) hate Pakistan...they will get along personally fine with you...but when we talk about nations, they hate Pakistan.....
Like I said, nations deal with nations....it is time for Pakistan to learn from Iran on this matter......
http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/amcdouga/Hist347/additional rdgs/article culture imperative.pdf
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By a German American convert Sheikh Dr Umar Faruq Abdullah. This is mainly concerned with Islam in America as he is an American, however its concepts can be applied globally.
By the way he is a scholar who is very Orthodox...
"For centuries, Islamic civilization harmonized indigenous forms of cultural expression with the universal norms of its sacred law. It struck a balance between temporal beauty and ageless truth and fanned a brilliant peacock’s tail of unity in diversity from the heart of China to the shores of the Atlantic. Islamic jurisprudence helped facilitate this creative genius. In history, Islam showed itself to be culturally friendly and, in that regard, has been likened to a crystal clear river. Its waters (Islam) are pure, sweet, and life-giving but—having no color of their own—reflect the bedrock (indigenous culture) over which they flow. In China, Islam looked Chinese; in Mali, it looked African. Sustained cultural relevance to distinct peoples, diverse places, and different times underlay Islam’s long success as a global civilization...
...By contrast, much contemporary Islamist rhetoric falls far short of Islam’s ancient cultural wisdom, assuming at times an unmitigated culturally predatory attitude. Such rhetoric and the movement ideologies that stand behind it have been deeply influenced by Western revolutionary dialectic and a dangerously selective retrieval and reinterpretation of Islamic scripture in that light. At the same time, however, the Islamist phenomenon is, to no small degree, a byproduct of the grave cultural dislocation and dysfunction of the contemporary Muslim world."
" For them, “culture” is a loaded word, something dangerous, inherently problematic, and “un-Islamic” (a deeply ingratiated Islamist neologism). Culture, for them, is a toxic pollutant that must necessarily be purged, since Islam and culture are mutually exclusive in their minds. Some foolishly or ahistorically regard Islamic culture—legacies like the Taj Mahal, for example—to have been chief causes of Muslim decline and fall in history. Their mindset reflects the general malaise of the modern period and the breakdown of traditional Muslim cultures, leaving chronic existential alienation and cultural dysfunction in its wake."
Parts of neighbouring Hindustan also part of the Indus too you know, which is the main issue with this whole concept of Pakistan being the sole inheritor of the Indus.
1. The Afghan government are not the same as the people (other than the upper class, most Afghans do not really hold strongly negative views about Pakistan).
2. Ever since the USSR occupation of Afghanistan, all the major fighting stopped.
3. Right, but if some of them have assimilated why not give them citizenship?
4. Why not just vet them while they're actually in the country?
5. Again, not most of them.
I've been to and lived in Pakistan for quite a bit of my life (mostly as a child though).
Yes, it was. It was called the Muslim League for a reason.
Islamic "culture" as you like to call it would just be following the Quran and the Sunnah, so yes it does exist.
Then why are there so many Muhajirs in Pakistan? Better yet, why was Bangladesh also a part of Pakistan?
No, they weren't, otherwise there would have been far more communal tensions.
A small part of Bharat is part of the Indus Land...the heart land is and was in coterminous Pakistan....
