Class and religion

KARACHI: With reference to Manan Ahmed’s “House on the hill” I agree with the essence of what the writer is conveying, but the confusion between ‘class’ and ‘religion’ is unwarranted. They are two separate and distinct issues. By conflating the two, Ahmed oversimplifies an issue which assumes more complex dimensions. His insinuation that all members of the Sunni majority take the role of the clichéd bourgeoisie while all others, by default, belong to the financially oppressed classes is absurd. I advise the author to refrain from confusing two separate problems — one’s class, the other’s religion.

Published in the Express Tribune, June 17^th, 2010.