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Title: Reluctant Fundamentalists And Unrepentant Westerners
Post by: LostInTime on June 06, 2007, 12:19:04 PM
Post by: LostInTime on June 06, 2007, 12:19:04 PM
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By Irfan Yusuf, June 6, 2007
"I have no argument with her sharing the horrors of her childhood experiences. But when she claims 1.2 billion Muslims across the world are somehow to blame for all this, she is just engaging in racism. Still, we need to distinguish between her often valid critiques of Muslim cultures from the racist and reductionist tarring of all Muslims with the same brush."
Despite living in the UK, Hamid still loves his home town and Pakistan. He wishes hostile critics of Pakistan would learn of its social sophistication. "Pakistan has more Muslims than any Arab country. Yet we have had a female Prime Minister and our most famous talk-show host is a ->-bleeped-<-!"
By Irfan Yusuf, June 6, 2007
"I have no argument with her sharing the horrors of her childhood experiences. But when she claims 1.2 billion Muslims across the world are somehow to blame for all this, she is just engaging in racism. Still, we need to distinguish between her often valid critiques of Muslim cultures from the racist and reductionist tarring of all Muslims with the same brush."
Despite living in the UK, Hamid still loves his home town and Pakistan. He wishes hostile critics of Pakistan would learn of its social sophistication. "Pakistan has more Muslims than any Arab country. Yet we have had a female Prime Minister and our most famous talk-show host is a ->-bleeped-<-!"