Christian Youth in Pakistan
Roger Rojas
Professor Delgado
Religion in Contemporary World 101
28 February 2013
Christian Youth in Pakistan
A country that has an abundance of tension between its people and religion can always land more media attention. The author of this article Feisal Rauf is a man with immense understanding and patience. For he is an author, activist, and has founded two non-profit organizations help to build up the relationship in the society of Islam. As Time magazine “named him among the 100 most influential people in the world”(Rauf). Though he resolves tension between the United States and Islamic countries this problem he could not pursue. This problem landed in the eyes of Rauf and he knew he could not let it slip away from the media, as people outside of Pakistan should be aware. The problem occurred when a young christian girl with a mental disability was accused of burning the Quran to use as cooking fuel, which is against the country’s blasphemy laws. The past years Pakistan has been under great scrutiny for the hiding of Bin Laden, random acts of violence involving innocent people and hatred towards the United States. Now Pakistan has another issue in which has national attention. There are over one - hundred and seventy five million people in Pakistan that all use the Quran towards leading their “life in obedience to the commandments of Allah”(Ali). By having constant tension in the air, it is just nature that people begin to take anything done to them personal in which releases no remorse towards anyone. Is it justifiable the people were so aggressive towards a young girl that was Christian, mentally ill and starving? Due to the entire turmoil happening in Pakistan people are becoming fed up and are standing for their religious view rather than for what is right. Understanding that the Quran is their holy book and no one should burn those texts is understandable but the people should see the circumstances being presented. Moreover, as
Professor Delgado
Religion in Contemporary World 101
28 February 2013
Christian Youth in Pakistan
A country that has an abundance of tension between its people and religion can always land more media attention. The author of this article Feisal Rauf is a man with immense understanding and patience. For he is an author, activist, and has founded two non-profit organizations help to build up the relationship in the society of Islam. As Time magazine “named him among the 100 most influential people in the world”(Rauf). Though he resolves tension between the United States and Islamic countries this problem he could not pursue. This problem landed in the eyes of Rauf and he knew he could not let it slip away from the media, as people outside of Pakistan should be aware. The problem occurred when a young christian girl with a mental disability was accused of burning the Quran to use as cooking fuel, which is against the country’s blasphemy laws. The past years Pakistan has been under great scrutiny for the hiding of Bin Laden, random acts of violence involving innocent people and hatred towards the United States. Now Pakistan has another issue in which has national attention. There are over one - hundred and seventy five million people in Pakistan that all use the Quran towards leading their “life in obedience to the commandments of Allah”(Ali). By having constant tension in the air, it is just nature that people begin to take anything done to them personal in which releases no remorse towards anyone. Is it justifiable the people were so aggressive towards a young girl that was Christian, mentally ill and starving? Due to the entire turmoil happening in Pakistan people are becoming fed up and are standing for their religious view rather than for what is right. Understanding that the Quran is their holy book and no one should burn those texts is understandable but the people should see the circumstances being presented. Moreover, as
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