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Is it blasphemy !!

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Years back, I wrote an article in my college magazine about not being dogmatic and how religious extremism kills freedom. Being a medical school student, I didnot get to hear much from people at that time, even though I was living in Pakistan.
Now after becoming a medical doctor and doing some world travels, I became a bit more vocal as how the in-growing fanaticism is eating away the Pakistan society. I had the good opportunity of meeting one of my favorite and muslim world's condemned writer Salman Rushdie in Chicago. I got his book signed and some pictures taken with him.
It didn't take much long after I posted that picture on my facebook account that it got hacked and suddenly many of my medicine colleagues from pakistan started sending me hatemail. And now after coming back to Pakistan, am surprised to see that how much free time and energy these religious fanatics have. Not just that my blog was taken over and all my posts deleted, someone did go through the pains of finding that old college magazine article and is trying to sue me under Pakistan Penal Code sections for Blasphemy. Isn't this the height of absurdity that a country with 50% of people below poverty line, no active judiciary and a rubberstamp government (yet nuclear-armed) can have huge section of laws related to just blasphemy.
Nobody here cares even that I am a foreign qualified medical doctor saving lives. They are just concerned about 'preserving' a dying religion:confused:
 
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THIS IS...SPAAAARTAAA!!!!!
 
somi said:
Years back, I wrote an article in my college magazine about not being dogmatic and how religious extremism kills freedom. Being a medical school student, I didnot get to hear much from people at that time, even though I was living in Pakistan.
Now after becoming a medical doctor and doing some world travels, I became a bit more vocal as how the in-growing fanaticism is eating away the Pakistan society. I had the good opportunity of meeting one of my favorite and muslim world's condemned writer Salman Rushdie in Chicago. I got his book signed and some pictures taken with him.
It didn't take much long after I posted that picture on my facebook account that it got hacked and suddenly many of my medicine colleagues from pakistan started sending me hatemail. And now after coming back to Pakistan, am surprised to see that how much free time and energy these religious fanatics have. Not just that my blog was taken over and all my posts deleted, someone did go through the pains of finding that old college magazine article and is trying to sue me under Pakistan Penal Code sections for Blasphemy. Isn't this the height of absurdity that a country with 50% of people below poverty line, no active judiciary and a rubberstamp government (yet nuclear-armed) can have huge section of laws related to just blasphemy.
Nobody here cares even that I am a foreign qualified medical doctor saving lives. They are just concerned about 'preserving' a dying religion:confused:
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That is pretty despicable on the part of those people who are so blind to their surrounding that they would let things get so out of control. Pakistan has become very dangerous.
 
somi said:
Years back, I wrote an article in my college magazine about not being dogmatic and how religious extremism kills freedom. Being a medical school student, I didnot get to hear much from people at that time, even though I was living in Pakistan.
Now after becoming a medical doctor and doing some world travels, I became a bit more vocal as how the in-growing fanaticism is eating away the Pakistan society. I had the good opportunity of meeting one of my favorite and muslim world's condemned writer Salman Rushdie in Chicago. I got his book signed and some pictures taken with him.
It didn't take much long after I posted that picture on my facebook account that it got hacked and suddenly many of my medicine colleagues from pakistan started sending me hatemail. And now after coming back to Pakistan, am surprised to see that how much free time and energy these religious fanatics have. Not just that my blog was taken over and all my posts deleted, someone did go through the pains of finding that old college magazine article and is trying to sue me under Pakistan Penal Code sections for Blasphemy. Isn't this the height of absurdity that a country with 50% of people below poverty line, no active judiciary and a rubberstamp government (yet nuclear-armed) can have huge section of laws related to just blasphemy.
Nobody here cares even that I am a foreign qualified medical doctor saving lives. They are just concerned about 'preserving' a dying religion:confused:
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Why would you go back to Pakistan?
 
Aww, you're just hooked on all that wine you guys make there.. :rofl
 
Southern Man said:
I can't. I grew up in Boston, and you couldn't pay me enough to more back to that liberal, high tax, racist society.
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That's the difference between someone who love their home, remembers their roots, and has motivation to see an improvement in the world they came from and someone who simply lives to loathe.
 
jallman said:
That's the difference between someone who love their home, remembers their roots, and has motivation to see an improvement in the world they came from and someone who simply lives to loathe.
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My "roots" are in the foothills of the German Alps, the lush farmlands of Ireland and Scotland, and the grand civilization of England. I chose to leave the loathing masses of the Northeast to pursue a better life for my family, in order to get closer to my roots.
 
Southern Man said:
My "roots" are in the foothills of the German Alps, the lush farmlands of Ireland and Scotland, and the grand civilization of England. I chose to leave the loathing masses of the Northeast to pursue a better life for my family, in order to get closer to my roots.
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Your roots are where you were born. Unless you were born in the foothills of the German Alps or the lush farmlands of Ireland and Scotland, you are just one of those loathing masses out of his natural habitat.
 
Southern Man said:
My "roots" are in the foothills of the German Alps, the lush farmlands of Ireland and Scotland, and the grand civilization of England. I chose to leave the loathing masses of the Northeast to pursue a better life for my family, in order to get closer to my roots.
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I agree wholeheartedly with this statement. If I was born in Japan, but had Spanish parents and lived in Austrailia, I would still think of myself as Spanish.
 
Southern Man said:
My "roots" are in the foothills of the German Alps, the lush farmlands of Ireland and Scotland, and the grand civilization of England. I chose to leave the loathing masses of the Northeast to pursue a better life for my family, in order to get closer to my roots.
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From one liberal area to another?! I too lived in Boston, undoubtedly the dirtiest, litter filled city in the world.
 
you got the hell out of pakistan, should have stayed away.

Like it or not, if thats a crime there ... agree with it or move.

Unlike the US, freedom of speach is not a right.
 
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