08-30-2004, 05:14 PM
Dont want to patronise your views but amam, but you seem to have very myopic views of the terms 'modest', 'national pride' and the so called 'ghairat'.
Modesty
Why does it always have to be a woman's job to uphold the
modesty of the nation? Where were you when they devised a certain male sport in which large, burly men ride each other in a dirt ring, rubbing mud over each other's bodies and wearing nothing but a loin cloth??!! How can you shut your eyes over this totally 'modest' sport and then cry hoarse over a poor girl trying to compete in a totally 'immodest' sport squash! By the way, if you had even seen the actual race, our poor upholder of the nation's modesty was swimming in a spandex fully covered body suit which is the norm these days for both male and female swimmers.
National pride
Why is our nation's pride hurt only when our women's start competing in international sports? Why isnt it hurt when we read news like the one when 25 Pakistanis were found dead from suffoction in a container in greece which was bound for western europe? Why isnt our national pride hurt when we find Pakistani's being beheaded for drug trafficking in Saudi Arabia after nearly every Friday prayers. Why isnt it hurt when a gathering of so-called village elders (panchayat) orders a girl of only 17 years to be gang-raped by three men from a different tribe? You want to know what she did to deserve this? Her ELEVEN (yes... only eleven) year old brother was found 'immorally' walking along with a THIRTY (yes... 30!!) year old woman of that other tribe!!
You and others like you seriously need to get your definitions of 'modesty' and 'national pride' straight, my friend!
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Arrrgh... it sure's gonna be mighty rough sailin' today ... mates!
Modesty
Why does it always have to be a woman's job to uphold the
modesty of the nation? Where were you when they devised a certain male sport in which large, burly men ride each other in a dirt ring, rubbing mud over each other's bodies and wearing nothing but a loin cloth??!! How can you shut your eyes over this totally 'modest' sport and then cry hoarse over a poor girl trying to compete in a totally 'immodest' sport squash! By the way, if you had even seen the actual race, our poor upholder of the nation's modesty was swimming in a spandex fully covered body suit which is the norm these days for both male and female swimmers.
National pride
Why is our nation's pride hurt only when our women's start competing in international sports? Why isnt it hurt when we read news like the one when 25 Pakistanis were found dead from suffoction in a container in greece which was bound for western europe? Why isnt our national pride hurt when we find Pakistani's being beheaded for drug trafficking in Saudi Arabia after nearly every Friday prayers. Why isnt it hurt when a gathering of so-called village elders (panchayat) orders a girl of only 17 years to be gang-raped by three men from a different tribe? You want to know what she did to deserve this? Her ELEVEN (yes... only eleven) year old brother was found 'immorally' walking along with a THIRTY (yes... 30!!) year old woman of that other tribe!!
You and others like you seriously need to get your definitions of 'modesty' and 'national pride' straight, my friend!
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Arrrgh... it sure's gonna be mighty rough sailin' today ... mates!
