Alright, this is a long time ago but I ahve to ask ONE more question of JANE…

Why is it WOMEN have to be the ones to stay covered to keep bad thoughts out of the MENS minds?  Why are the men not the ones who are locked up and have blinders on their eyes.

If Muslim Men have a religion which is so superior others that it brings them such “peace,” their women should be able to run around naked and none of the other fellows of the superior religion would have a single incorrect thought.

When I see a woman and get an impure thought it is my fault, not hers, no matter what her apparel. Thats called personal responsibility.

JANE--
You said a couple things I can react to.

The first seemed to be that the people who caused the uproar did not care too much, they just cynically used the conservative religion of their supporters get a political advantage.  OK, that happens in the USA too, and it is not even much disguised either.

But I don’t understand something about that “Islam is a religion of Peace” line.  Are you saying Islam is another one of the many religions whose true nature and message is peace, even if a few of its followers don’t live up to that. Or are you saying that Islam is the ONLY religion which brings peace and other religions are by nature LESS peaceful than Muslims. Well, I work with some Muslims, they are fine people. But, to put it mildly, the part of the world run by Islam, today and in past centuries, is no more peaceful and just than the rest of the world.  And in there seem to be even more problems developing BETWEEN muslims themselves than any groups of people.

To Mr. Trevor’s question about Islam’s beliefs, Islam is a very peaceful and calm religion.

Yes, it has said to women to keep “parda” cover from men other than in your own family because it causes negative thinking to arouse in the other men’s minds.

To know more about Islam and its sayings you can go to an Islamic website and read the “ahadis” the sayings of our Holy Prophet(peace be upon him).

They will be good for your understanding as I am no preacher, merely a true follower of Islam and I cannot tell you all the details correctly.

I hope that you will get to know more about the positive side of Islam (there is no negative side).

I am just saying, Mr. Trevor, that this is just the drama which some of the people in Pakistan politics like Peoples Party have made a big issue out of such a small thing. And I was also saying that this was bad on their part but this doesn’t mean that the complete Pakistan is corrupted?? I was just posting my comments there is no need to fight abt it…

To the person not happy with the bad news reports about Pakistan--So are you saying this story is NOT true, or that this was a RARE overreaction… or are you just mad when proof of the backwards nature of the country is revealed. 

Now the USA has its backwards trolls too, I’d wince to know that stories of Fred Phelps or the Minutemen were getting big play in Pakistan or any other countries, but I’d have some proof that those were minority views in the States. Do you have some proof we should feel that this story is like that for Pakistan? Do YOU denounce the uproar that a single hug caused?

ecuse me but you are publishing such bad things abt Pakistan. It is not at all a bad country and please mind you language all of you :@

I’m sure the minister Nilofar is not a pro on paragliding (sky diving). If this was her first or second jump, it had to be a tendam (instrutor attached to her back). Thank God nobody published the picutre her being in air and a man riding on her back side. She would have been exiled from Pakistan.

Obscenity?  Religion, again, is the obscenity.

Thanks to uptight clerics demonstrating their power and dominion, Pakistan does not seem very warm and inviting right now.  Great tourism flop…

This is just another example of the exploitation of ignorance circumventing a democracy that is free of intimidation.

I try to be accepting of other religious beliefs, and then something like this comes along to make a whole country and religion look like idiots. I’d assume there are smarter opinions in the region, but where are they?

Pakistan is an extremely backward country where even normal human reactions are not accepted.

Yes indeed, religion does bite the big weenie. But before we get in a huff over the splinter in their eye over there, we should first pay attention to the rotten 2 x 4 that’s in our own eye right here.