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How many Pakistanis have been denied economic opportunities because of a lack of political connections or ability to pay bribes?
Nobody has ever been refused employment because they are of the wrong caste or are muhajir?
The same nonsensical argument again.
I'll simplify it. The minorities in Pakistan face oppression, subjugation, and injustice far more and in far more different ways than the common Pakistani does, i.e. A Muslim. While they face all of the issues that you and I do, there's a plethora more which you and I do not (examples already given). They face these issues exactly because they are non-Muslim. They face most of them primarily from and due to the apathy and bigotry of the Majority, i.e. you and I. It is not about the system not providing them justice, it is about you and I not only not given two-bits about them but also exploiting and subjugating them every chance we get. This is only then exacerbated by the defunct system. You and I cannot be thrown in a kiln and then have our murderer released and supported by thousands on baseless claims that you and I committed blasphemy. It is exactly these issues that I am raising, and exactly these issues which you are trying to brush aside because of the other issues which you and I share with them. It does not work that way. If the minorities faced the exact same issues and only the exact same issues in the exact same amount as the majority, I would not be calling out discrimination. If them being non-Muslim did not drastically add to their daily misery, I would not be calling out discrimination.
I take it the TTP suicide bombings on sunni masjids don't count? The attacks on Data dardar or the darbar of lal shabaz calandar? You realise the biggest victims of terrorism in this countrt were pukhtuns living in KPK where Funnily enough they are the ethnic and religious majority.
How can you possibly present that as an argument? The minorities get their temples/churches burned by regular Pakistani civilians without any retribution and you claim it to be the same as a fringe militant element committing terrorism while being fought a war against?
I take it you've never heard of women being kidnapped or raped in Pakistan? The motorway incident earlier this year doesn't count for example?
I take it you don't read posts carefully before responding to them. This has been answered in the very post you quoted.
How many shias felt nervous going into masjids during the last 20 years?
How many of them were nervous about it from their neighbors? How many of them were given the excuse; "Hey man, Sunni masjids burn too"?
ps: The Shia minority has faced their own gross discrimination due to the exact same processes that non-Muslims have. Just relatively less because they are still Muslim. It is ironic that you presented them as an example for the opposite.
Your last point is utterly farcical. Nobody who is a sunni Muslim in Pakistan has struggled to get justice from the criminal justice system?!
Explained above.
It's beyond ridiculous. Nobody is denying minorities face discrimination because of thier religion, but nearly everyone in Pakistan has faced discrimination for one reason or another.
Explained above.
A couple of years ago a sunni boy cut off his own hand fearing he'd be lynched for blasphemy. How different was his fear than anything a religious minority might face? Such acts happen because of the general lawless of the state.
No. That happened because you and I have forced that un-Islamic law on our minorities and refuse to even review it. You just gave an example of what minorities face every other day and wrote it off because one Sunni boy had to face it as well. If anything, it should have made it easier for you to realize your mistake.
I live a safe life in Britain not because British people are lovely tolerant hippy liberals, but because the writ of the state is enforced, the law is enforced.
The state and law in Britain did not descend from the heavens. It was made and enforced by its people. It was made for you, an outsider (not meant as an insult), by them before you even got there. And I don't know which cup of tea you've been drinking, but the religious intolerance in Britain cannot be compared to what pervades throughout Pakistan.
Similar issues (thankfully to a much lesser degree) happen in India too and we need to be vigilant as well.
I'm sorry but animals in both Pakistan and India, let alone Pakistani minorities, have it better than Indian minorities in India. What they have to face there every day is unimaginable in Pakistan. Furthermore, Pakistan passed the maxima on its religious intolerance more than a decade ago and has since been on a steady decline. I bark here to expedite that decline. India, OTOH, doesn't seem to be hitting its apex anytime soon.
Just because I am mad at my people does not mean I will let your back-handed comments slip in.