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| Pakistan wants end to religious hatred |
| 2002-11-10 |
| Pakistan on Friday called on the international community to address the dangerous pattern and practice of discrimination, intolerance and hatred on the basis of religion and culture and reverse it. Now I've got coffee all over my screen, my keyboard's ruined, and my nose is scalded on the inside. Cheeze, that hurts! Formally introducing Pakistan's draft 'declaration on religious and cultural understanding, harmony and cooperation' at the UN General Assembly, Munir Akram, permanent representative said the mutual misunderstanding and suspicion between followers of different faiths and cultures have become significantly accentuated in the aftermath of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks. "Despite declarations by world leaders that the war against terrorism is not targeted against any religion or any religious or social group, discrimination, mistreatment and hate have proliferated," he pointed out. Much of it in Pakistan, in fact... Akram regretted that some simplistic academic analyses and theories, projecting a "clash of civilizations", had provided a veneer of respectability to the practice of religious and cultural discrimination and intolerance. "In recent months, some extremists have gone to the extent of attacking Islamic teachings and insulting revered religious personalities. Such prejudice, hate and blasphemy have evoked justifiable and widespread anger among the adherents of Islam. In some states interested groups were exploiting popular misperceptions of Islam and Muslims to justify institutional and individual acts of discrimination and repression against Muslim minorities or Muslim peoples in the guise of fighting terrorism." Pakistan certainly seems to be the place to go to learn all about that stuff... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 This from a country where a man can kill his wife with impunity if she displeases him, where non-muslims can't walk the streets without fear of being killed,a country which sends terrorists to murder innocent people in its neighboring country because of a border dispute.Yeah, I guess I do get bigoted about that. |
| Posted by: El Id 2002-11-10 11:49:50 |