Comments on: Blogging is Easy

By: Zack

Zack — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I agree blogging about these issues from the safety of the US is quite easy. Very few people actually risk their lives for their beliefs. I am not sure I am one of them.

By: Chan'ad

Chan'ad — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, I often feel guilty for not doing enough by just blogging about the issues that I am concerned with. While risking your life for a certain cause may be honourable, in a recent article of his, Prof. Asef Bayat proposes a different strategy to achieving social change.
You can get the link to the article from a post I posted just yesterday:
http://chanadbahraini.blogspot.com/2004/07/art-of-presence.html

By: s¯nee

s¯nee — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

well i think something is better than *NOTHING*..blogging for the truth and uncovering something illicit in the society is also a courgoeus thing!! how many blogs ‘actually’ point or speak up for the truth??? i dont see many?? do you?? and i guess it also depends at which level of platform you are working… ofcourse one cannot justify the courage like Hashem Aghajari or Aung San Suu Kyi etc etc with sitting on a easy comfi-leather chair and posting on blogs ; but like i perceive it : working on different levels!! but both my dear requires ‘courage’ in the end!!! so keep up the goodwork!!

By: Deevaan

Deevaan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

As far a public debate is concerned, the print and electronic media in Pakistan is quite open in its scathing criticism of the mulla. It is becoming part of the political process i.e., the MMA taking a panga with the army and the guardians of the country see the mulla for what they really are, This breath of fresh air we owe to Musharaf for the 180 degree turn he took from being the spokesperson for the taliban to becoming an exponent of enlightened moderation (whatever that is).As far a heaping scorn on the mulla goes, punjabi and seraiki poetry is replete with examples of treating the mulla as the scounderal and theocracy painted as an impediment. (Buss mulla, hik alif qafi – Enough already Mulla! The alif is all I need – reference to universal truth of Allah)

200 years ago people wished death upon the mullah as they wished them and their orthodox ways the worst fate for the crime of corrupting religion. It is only when civil society becomes subservient to scounderals like ziaul haq that seeds of contempt for civil liberties are sown otherwise life in villages was peaceful until religion became the yardstick for partition.

So sitting in the cool environs of your windy cities, keep on speaking the truth while our society gets its own house in order. And the hypothetical scenario of you being in Pakistan wanting to say the same things as openly, somehow I see such a time not in the too distant future where one can speak their mind as to openly condemn the institutions that have done us harm.