Essay about Do Ahmadis Deserve to Live in Pakistan?

In a world where the news is always about corrupting education, poverty and increasing violence, religious discrimination is the man behind the curtain. As an ancient issue accompanying mankind, religious discrimination has driven humans to commit many wrongful sins. With differences, come conflicts. The difference in people’s religion has The book, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, displays the issue of religious discrimination as a main conflict throughout the whole book. Hazaras, Shi’a Muslims are often oppressed by the Pashtuns which are Sunni Muslim. They use the Hazaras as slaves and later on, even mass murdered them. However, in today’s society, religious discrimination is still not rare among people and it is causing unnecessary harm to the society. To prevent further damage, religious tolerance must be built as religious discrimination worsen the education condition for students, brings huge economic loss through conflicts, and takes away countless innocent lives. That way, people can save their energy and progress as one.

Iran’s conflict between modernism and fundamentalism can be seen in the novel’s focus on the political prisoners. Marji encounters various men that were incarcerated for holding extreme leftist views, including her uncle, and the consequences they faced. In the chapter “The Heroes” Marji is exposed to the various torture methods induced to make the prisoners betray others who shared their discontent. This can be seen when Marji’s father asks about Ahmadi and Siamk, the newly freed prisoner, tells them, “… Ahmadi was assassinated. As a member of the guerrillas, he suffered hell” (54). In making this comment, Ahmadi shows the intensity with which fierce opponents were persecuted. Additionally, the never ending arrests and deaths of these political opponents show the

Throughout the novel you can see the corruption of power via characters and their cultures. The Hazaras being a minority group, practicing the Shi’a Muslim religion, they were treated unequally. The affluent Pashtuns have discriminated the Hazaras for decades and considered them as servants. The separation of ethnic groups in Afghanistan, led to the Pashtuns utilizing their power to abolish the Hazaras out of their history. The two groups have a ongoing ethnic conflict that is inscribed into a child at a young age "I found one of my mother's old history books. . . An entire chapter dedicated to Hassan's people! In it, I read that my people, the Pashtuns, had persecuted and oppressed the Hazaras. It said the Hazaras had tried to rise against the Pashtuns in the nineteenth century, but the Pashtuns had "quelled them with unspeakable violence." The book said my people had killed the Hazaras, driven them from their lands, burned their homes, and sold their women."(Hosseini 9) It is not socially acceptable for Pashtuns and Hazaras to be acquainted. Both groups do not believe the other is a “true” Muslim and express this through violent outbursts. Nevertheless, there are exceptions to these social norms. Baba, Amir's father was a Pashtun and wealthy but throughout the novel has not followed the religious expectations of a Sunni Muslim such as despising

In Khaled Hosseini’s book The Kite Runner, one of the most surprising motifs is of ethnic division and violence in Afghanistan. The groups that commit such acts , though brutally primitive, have deep set reasons and justifications for their actions. In totality, ethnic violence is an enduring problem for humanity that is due to differences that exist between people of various cultures and ancestry as well as foreign intervention from world powers.

Hamid shows Changes perception of individuality. People like Changes suffered a lot in America and got interest to know native identity. Native culture and identity is awesome for every individual. Changes worries that even after all the sacrifices and services of Pakistanis has never treated Pakistan as ally or friend. There is probability that Americans might have encouraged Indians to envy with Pakistanis. Hamid painfully conveys that Americans never treat non- European Counties as their friends and they treat like tissue papers.

This quote not only represents Khaled Hosseini’s point and theme of the Pashtun and Hazara ethnic and religious differences, but also continues the theme of history affecting things in the present and how Amir lets it affect him. This thinking makes Amir predisposed to multiple, poor decisions later in the book.

The relevant matter of whether or not Middle Eastern immigrants pose a threat to society has created serious divide among US citizens. Some Americans perceive these immigrants as a threat to society and a burden to the United States while others think otherwise. Due to the media and attacks on US soil, many individuals are skeptical of those coming from the Eastern Hemisphere, specifically Muslims. Because of fear perpetrated by many in the United States, a multitude of people have little to no trust for Middle Eastern immigrants. There are several misconceptions held by Americans about these immigrants such as an extreme elevated crime rate and their lack of contribution to society.

Throughout the world there have been many different cultures that have been oppressed. People can be oppressed in many different ways by different people of different races. The writer will discuss the muslims culture/people and their oppressed history over time. In this paper it will address this group and their oppression currently. Furthermore the writer will discuss how we can end the oppression against muslims.

People fight for their own rights and what they believed in, though, one of the groups

The taliban’s concept was that their personal religious beliefs were correct and the beliefs of others were wrong. Moreover, he called Amir a traitor as he lleft his country at such grave times and fled. The second reason was that Amir was friends with a hazara and went through severe lengths for just a young hazara boy. Which according to Aseef was an incorrect way for one to honor one’s country. Hence this depicts that how racial and religious differences from a person’s early life can lead to whole new future for them.

he second article being looked at is ‘Muslim Women’s Quest for Equality: Between Islamic Law and Feminism’ by author Ziba Mir-Hosseini. This article looks at the plight of women in both the Middle East and Southwest Asia and looks the the distinction between sharia law and fiqh. Mir-Hosseini argues that Muslim women will be treated as second class citizens as long as patriarchy is justified and upheld in the name of Islam (pg.629). Both the invasion of Iran and Afghanistan were justified on the basis that Muslims were in need of “freedom” and “democracy”. By doing this is has brought upon many internal and external struggles. Muslims in these countries see the “neo imperialist intervention as a direct assault on their religion” (pg. 631). Further giving more reason to legitimize the power of radical Islamists such as Al-Qaeda.

The purpose of this paper is to present a gendered perspective of Khaled Hosseini’s ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ (2007) and it also proposes to enumerate the role of Taliban in the treatment of women, importance of education and the concept of marriage as a microcosm of the Afghan society as a whole, with a special reference to Ishmael Beah’s short story ABC Antidote (2009) Khaled Hosseini not only nostalgically presents an insider’s view of the Afghan society, both before and after the Taliban regime, which was prior seen through a First-World perspective but he is also very critical of the policies of the Taliban, particularly of the discriminations against women and children. He presents Taliban’s misogyny and the control of religion

To understand the state of race and ethnic relations in Afghanistan, one must examine the history and influences that positioned the nation and it’s people in such a precarious situation. The

As a further means of separating the population into distinct groups, religion acts as a divisionary force between characters and cultures. There are two primary conflicting cultures represented in the novel that are the cause of religious differences: Sunnis versus Shi’ites and secularism versus religious fundamentalism. Similar to the discrimination based on ethnicity, the conflict based on religion is primarily exemplified through Assef and Hassan, who are Sunni and Shi’ite, respectively. As such, any justification for inclusion and exclusion of people not based solely on ethnicity could just be rationalized through differences of religion. With this prevalent culture present, the importance is in the author’s depiction of the “bleak hypocrisies of the Taliban period--the disgusting cruelties performed in the name of righteousness” as stated by David Denby in “Hard Life.” Through the

The incident in the stadium also reveals to Parvana and Shauzia the complete horror of living under such a regime and haunts Parvana for the next few days. As a Muslim, the writer believes that the actions of the Taliban like the one’s depicted in this novel disgrace Muslims in the present times. Islam is a peaceful religion that promotes morality and generosity among all people, not the twisted version portrayed by the Taliban.