Why we should shun Western ideals and culture, according to JI chief Sirajul Haq

Sirajul Haq bashes Western culture for its individual freedom and liberty


Izhar Ullah May 07, 2017
The JI chief made the claim while narrating the story of a young American couple he had heard from another party leader. PHOTO COURTESY: JI Facebook page

PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq claimed on Sunday that Western ideals and culture were so materialistic that a man there would not even spend money to buy his girlfriend an ice cream.

"We don't want the promotion of a culture in Pakistan where a couple won't even spend Rs5 on each other for an ice cream," he said at a clerics’ conference at Tehmash Khan Stadium in Peshawar. The JI chief made the claim while narrating the story of a young American couple he had heard from another party leader.

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Haq said the party leader, who had told him the story, on a recent trip to the US had seen the couple separately paying for their ice creams.

The JI chief also bashed the Western culture for its individual freedom and liberty. Comparing societies, Haq said people in Western countries left their parents at old homes and met them only once a year but in Pakistan they lived as joint families.

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Talking about Pakistan's banking system, the JI leader said interests should be abolished. "The country’s leadership isn’t serious about bringing an end to the interest system but our party will continue striving for its elimination” he added.

Criticising Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for referring to 'Bhagwan’ as God, Haq said it was “ideological terrorism” and the premier's remarks were meant to appease the West.

COMMENTS (18)

Iqbal Khan | 6 years ago | Reply He is a great leader. His clean and transparent life style always inspires me.
Umer | 6 years ago | Reply I'm fairly secular but I have to say I kind of agree with what he's saying about the West. I lived in the USA for two years and saw stuff like that. I saw couples paying for themselves. I also saw a father taking rent from his own daughter who was living in one of his flats. My friend saw a middle-aged couple paying for meals separately. And we all know what the old-homes culture is. It is capitalism to blame. I don't agree with the joint family system either but what I saw in the States was scary.
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