Bloodless Social Revolution

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Can we dream of a bloodless social revolution? Sufficient said and heard about ailments of the country we live in. Nobody denies change is inevitable to the whole Religious-politico-legal system. The famous saying goes on that the world is sure to fall into evil when the nobles keep mum. People want change so passionately and desperately that no barrier can stop them to march for it. However, the irony is that people see it through political lenses. That is the hard way of doing things given the electoral systems based on feudal and tribal links. What is the remedy then? Do we wait for the revolution? A revolution strong enough to force things set right and that too look right to many in this society of starkly divergent views. Revolution …show more content…

It is averse to any radical change. The social blend of the communities, living in major urban centers, is not congenial to it. People are divided into water-tight compartments of faiths, ethnic identities, tribal and clan distinctions with large disparities of education, social status, and income. Common people generally, being awfully illiterate, don’t know the history of nations; leave alone the concept of revolutions. The literate middle class is in the spin of hard chores of living for survival. The religious class is either power-mongers addicts to luxuries or absolute fanatical followers of their respective school of faith. Both of them could not and cannot create any genius who could add value to present day beliefs or to graft intellect to address the challenges of the time. …show more content…

Who denies what the progressive societies do in their treatment of women and minorities? Religious sages all over the world insist that contemporary religious ideas about gender equality and minorities are fair. If this be the fact, can we stop subjugate women in lots of ways like not letting them vote, not letting them inherit property, discounting their legal testimony, forcing them whom to marry, marrying them to settle bloody feuds, denying them higher education, not making them work on the pretext of the veil, paying them like enslaved servants and not letting them use birth spacing methods? On minorities, it is still beyond the understanding of folks that mosques are not always everywhere in the west yet they provide their faith places, Churches for the Juma prayers of the Muslims. It is the height of respect for freedom of faiths and worship. We cannot imagine this treatment for the minorities here in Pakistan. In contrast, we use unattested traditions, sayings and stories in provocation and instigation against every faith and sect exploiting superficial cheap religious

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