Islam in Pakistan - Protesting the Facebook event

May 24, 2010 - PRLog -- If for Pakistani Muslims Islam is a way of life then they have no right to protest against the Facebook!

As a Pakistani, I am proud of all the great people who live and work in Pakistan. Unfortunately number of these good citizens is rapidly dropping.

A new breed of Pakistanis is taking over the country.

If Islam was a way of life for all Pakistani Muslims than the state of the country would be very different indeed. But the current “state of the state” speaks for itself. There is not a single department private or government owned that is corruption free… correction – “that is not completely corrupt!”

No one wants to work for a living. Everybody wants to get rich without striving. Those who don’t want to get rich (or lets say those who have no desire to improve their lives) want to just loiter the streets and be a burden on an already collapsing economy.

Values among the general population are deteriorating at an accelerated rate. Every day it seems that the people have become worse than they were the day before. Morals and work ethics are thing of the past. No one takes pride in their work.

I used to be a strong believer of “our people are so talented, if only someone would encourage and guide them”… absolute bullshit. I have tried to give work to many “talented” workers; I have paid them their dues either on time or in advance to facilitate their work… but these so called ‘talented” workers disappear the moment they get hold of money. Leaving you high and dry!

From top to bottom we are becoming a nation of cheats and hypocrites. We love to say our prayers five times a day; we love to say or Friday prayers and make it an excuse not to work. We love to Fast in Ramadan (and lose our tempers because we cannot eat, drink or smoke) and cut each other throats because of lack of patience.

Yes, we are devout Muslims, following all the teachings of Islam. If the Holy Prophet was alive today, he would weeps with tears of blood because we are using Islam and not practicing Islam. We use Islam not to work, we use Islam to harass others, we use Islam to hog like pigs during Ramadan, we use Islam to cheat each other.

Let’s talk about our manners… public manners. An average Pakistani cannot speak a single sentence without cursing his own and other people’s mother or sister in the worst possible way you can think. For an average Pakistani it is absolutely acceptable and normal to use extreme swear words and phrases in standard conversation in public. In recent years I have seen children as young as 6 or 7 years old using language which would make any “decent” human faint and that is not all, mothers of these children use equally bad language with their family members.
When a child does something stupid or inappropriate, instead of correcting him or her, parents and other elders either laugh at it or ignore it completely. So now you can imagine what kind of society will be evolving in this Land of the Pure in the coming years.

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