Reforming the way we think about Jews and Women’s rights in Pakistan
A couple of good posts
- Baybers wrote about the Muslims reforming the way they think about the Jews:
Over recent years we have seen a genuine attempt by Jews from around the world to understand and speak forcefully in the defence of Palestinians, often at great personal cost to themselves. They have done so because they retain a desire to speak the truth even if it be against their own tribal loyalties. If that sounds familiar, it is because that is what we also are commanded by our faith to do.
Those people who witnessed it, remember an extraordinary sight of an elderly Jewish man (a survivor of the German death camps), lecturing Bill Clinton at a holocaust memorial ceremony. He said to Clinton, that the president should be expending all his efforts, and the full reach of his office, to prevent another European genocide of Semites (Muslims on this occasion), rather than attending a Holocaust memorial. It is sobering indeed, to see a Jew begging an American to save the lives of Muslims [More...]
I will add that Jews were at the forefront of the American Civil Rights movement, and American Jews like Julian Rosenwald gave millions of dollars for the establishment of black educational institutions. We don’t hear about this from those who distribute the dodgy information and the insane conpiracy theories that portray Jews as a hive minded power hungry monolith.
- Eteraz gives an update on the situation in Pakistan of rolling back the un-Islamic ‘Islamic’ laws that do nothing but distort true Islamic values
Link: It is time to see Jews beyond the prism of our own shortcomings
Link: What is happening to the women’s protection bill (Pakistan)
Filed under: Muslim Isolation, Sloganism over Reality, The Culture of Denial and Pretense
Very true, there are Jews that are sincere. We must give credit where it’s due and not short them, nor hurt their feelings unnecessarily.
About women’s rights in Pakistan, we are talking about Pakistan, right? A poor or dark MAN can’t get too much respect there, so we can’t look for them to start respecting and protecting women. That’s not part of the bobble-head sunnah. (Yeah, I said it!) Our own generation of Pakistani Muslims is tired of their parents’ “brown saheb” culture for these very same reasons. They got to start embarassing their parents and uncles about this foolishness.
Now, allow me to make my escape on my flying carpet before before Uncle Saheb Khan lectures me to death with his onion breath.
Salam alaykum.