Was just watching this particular track from 'Khuda ke liye' on Youtube. I happened to read through the comments. Here's some of those:
"Music is haram even if people listen to it at least admit its haram, dont bend the rules"
says one to which someone else has replied
"can someone quote me an ayat from quraan forbidding music, or a confirmed hadith? btw does Allah not dictate us to say prayer regularly, pay zakat regularly and fear Allah? does he not order us to treat our women well? do we do that and condemn those who don't with the same gusto as we use against music and those who like it. let the first stone be hurled by the one who has never sinned!" and another comment goes "Religion should be separated from state matters and Pakistan should be a secular state. It's going to take at least a decade to cleanse our society from religious fanaticism.everyone who love Pakistan should make there voice heard that we will not let mullahs to highjack the whole society.Only socialist idiology can defeat religious fanatics. Well done shoaib ji, we need more films like this"
In fact every video on youtube on this movie has started a debate of sorts in its comments section, not just for this movie, pick any Atif aslam songs and there is a debate on India and Pakistan. "haram" being the most used term!
Purists - they are the trouble makers. They are the ones who are trying so desperately hard to put breaks on the progress. Mix a little bit of these purists with some hunger for power and insanity and there you have the perfect reciepe for disaster!
People die everyday. The newspaper everyday has reports of bomb blasts or killing in the name of religion or war or some overrated nonsense like that. After a while, I think people won't even blink at such news, until the situation gets worse and comes to bite their ass!
But then, what I think hardly matters. I wonder how everything went so terribly wrong that it now seems irreparable, the mistakes done are far too many and unforgivable. The self declared saviors of the religion, language and even mankind, And bombs to save mankind?
Why look at other countries, a simple division of labour, belief in a particular god, turned into something as inhuman as untouchables, their supression, revolt, quotas, national debates on it, politicos making use of this bias to get what they want - power! and so much more in our country.
Did you read about Thackeray today? wanting members from his party to take an oath only in marati while our constitution clearly states a candidate can chose any language from the 17 languages to take his oath? He is another maniac...wants marathi to be the only language spoken, wants everyone else out of bombay.... oops.. mumbai! next he'll want mumbai to be a country on its own where everyone speaks marathi wearing those white caps and he will be the king! He even warned them openly saying ‘‘If anyone dares not to take the oath in Marathi, you will see what my MLAs can do. They will create a ruckus in the house’’ here's
the full story if you want to read it.
I don't even want to talk about the politics in karnataka! They have made a fool out of everyone involved! I got this text message from a friend in the morning and nothing could have described the situation here any better:
What is full of crazy monkeys and not a zoo? changes every fortnight but not the moon?
The karnataka government!
Actually when I take a step back... separate myself from the reality and look at it from a distance. I find it very funny, very very funny. Like dumb blond jokes. It is funny because it is hard to believe such extreme stupidity can exists. But it does. All around us and sadly somewhere without our knowledge we become a part of this big elaborate cruel joke. But a joke nevertheless.
