Pakistan lodges Facebook protest with US

It’s about time this happened. On one hand, United States declares Pakistan an ally and the need for American safety, but on other hand, does too less than satisfactory to ease Pakistan’s concerns on sundry issues. Pakistan is the role-model for other Islamic nations to learn from. Pakistan acted as it must have. Pakistan proved once more that it still has a countless number of slaves of Allah and lovers of His Prophet (peace be upon him). In my viewpoint, Pakistan followed all the right steps, blessed be the sacred land.Recommend

Nauman what are sundry issues by the way?Recommend

**Pakistani ambassador HUSSAIN HAQANI is trying to score some points here and he is trying to improve his tarnished image in the eyes of the Pakistani people and the government of Pakistan is trying to get the attention of the people of Pakistan away from real issues.If Pakistani government loves the prophet Muhammad(peace be upon him)so much then it should not allow the drone attacks and it should not allow the oil supply to Afghanistan for the NATO forces via Pakistan.ALSO,the Pakistani government should lodge a strong protest over the detention of Dr.Asia in USA.If the Pakistani government is so sensitive about Muhammad(peace and blessings of ALLAH be upon him)then it should not support America on the so-called “war on terror” and it should not allow the killings of our afghan and Pakistani Muslims.If the government is so sincere then it should not take America and other European countries as its protector rather it should take only ALLAH as its protector as described in the glorious QURAN.Recommend

Since when has foreign affairs been under the purview of the judiciary? Our clueless courts are getting way way out of hand. Recommend

While Pakistanis have the right to protest against an alleged blasphemy, they should also ponder if they are overreacting to it. In the West there is nothing sacred. Lincoln, Roosevelt, Jesus, Queen Elizabeth, Krishna… everybody has been lampooned. That’s how the democracy there works – by making nothing sacred, people have more room to be objective and can more easily point out mistakes in their public figures. Hindu, Jewish and Christian figures have been offended a lot of times in the West, but most times they wither out because we don’t bite the trap and throw tantrums.

On the other hand, Islamic nations have found to be reacting aggressively for every little offense. This whole episode started when muslims in RevolutionIslam.com threatened South Park with murder – like the gruesome murder of Theodore Van Gogh. Van Gogh guy’s only mistake was to bring out the gender inequalities in Islam with a small movie. If you don’t like his idea, write blogs or ignore him. Brutal murder and justifying it is the thing that world can’t tolerate.

Pakistan’s overreaction kind of justifies Islamaphobia and the wrong notion that muslims are not compatible with modern free society. By just accepting this notion of the hard right in the West you are digging your own grave. At some point no Muslim will be allowed in the West and life for existing immigrants will get hard.

My advice to Pakistanis is to cool down when a public figure is offended in the West. Public figures like prophets are meant to be lampooned and criticized & that would not detract the believer in any way. Convey your protest peacefully if the offense get excessive. But, blocking Wikipedia, Facebook, Youtube just for one Facebook group is really horrible and is not acceptable in the rest of the world.Recommend