[Rx-Ultram]

The side effects of modern civilization being steered (in the wrong direction) by the west are not hidden from any body. But then some people are very slow to get the direction of the drift. In 1835 Lord Macaulay presented a bill for modulating education in the colonial area. Aim was to produce those eastern educated people who'll have the skin colour of the east but the mind of the west. Guinea pigs robotically serving the imperial interest. What wonderful success he had! Here is a case in point. The recent mobile technology combined with internet is wrecking havoc in people's life. Countries like China are smart (and powerful) enough to control them completely but when Pakistan tries to do, very minor, damage control then the people there do not need the British or the American to be ridiculed. There are enough desis. Here is one Nosheen Abbas reporting for BBC.

[cakaeroryrere]

I think face book should be banned too in pakistan .It is doing real damage to youngsters.

[numinertyuesk]

mobiles with cameras, internet facilities and televisions should be banned. Internet speeds to be slowed down to 128 kb/s and heavily censored.
P.S. night time calling rates i.e. from 12 am to 6 am should be double the normal rate.

[Lhtfajba]

The side effects of modern civilization being steered (in the wrong direction) by the west are not hidden from any body. But then some people are very slow to get the direction of the drift. In 1835 Lord Macaulay presented a bill for modulating education in the colonial area. Aim was to produce those eastern educated people who'll have the skin colour of the east but the mind of the west. Guinea pigs robotically serving the imperial interest. What wonderful success he had! Here is a case in point. The recent mobile technology combined with internet is wrecking havoc in people's life. Countries like China are smart (and powerful) enough to control them completely but when Pakistan tries to do, very minor, damage control then the people there do not need the British or the American to be ridiculed. There are enough desis. Here is one Nosheen Abbas reporting for BBC.

aoa,

the idea isnt bad.i support it. but why make a mockery of yourself by including ridiculous words not even considered as slang?why on earth would they publish the list?just ban them. get it over with.
i hate secularism, and those who make fun of activities of islaah. but the people who are doing islaah should atleast be careful

[Lhtfajba]

"But many people have picked up on inconsistencies: the banned list includes every conceivable incorrectly spelled version of "m****rbation". Bizarrely, if spelt correctly, the word is not banned."

see?
thats what these people are making fun of. i mean seriously. a good thing gone to waste and opned to ridicule

[Rx-Ultram]

The problem is just lack of meticulousness on part of the implementing agency. This is what has been pounced upon by the unscrupulous people. It will be nice to have the meticulous people (and people with other talents) on the side of modesty in particular and Islam in general. Unfortunately at the moment nearly all the competent people of Ummah are on the side of batil - barring the madarsa people. At least my head spins when I think of the problem of calling the modern educated people towards taking sides with Islam. Most of them (I live in their middle) have the attitude like: I said this and that to that mulla. If the cream of the Ummah is working against the interests of Ummah than they can only do damage. Worse-they take pride in that.
Wassalam

[Orefsmisits]

how come the PTA has suddenly become so aware of their islamic responsibilities?

articles online say that the phone companies are now looking at ways to screen the banned words. developing screening technology?

[cakaeroryrere]

The problem is just lack of meticulousness on part of the implementing agency. This is what has been pounced upon by the unscrupulous people. It will be nice to have the meticulous people (and people with other talents) on the side of modesty in particular and Islam in general. Unfortunately at the moment nearly all the competent people of Ummah are on the side of batil - barring the madarsa people. At least my head spins when I think of the problem of calling the modern educated people towards taking sides with Islam. Most of them (I live in their middle) have the attitude like: I said this an
d that to that mulla. If the cream of the Ummah is working against the interests of Ummah than they can only do damage. Worse-they take pride in that.
Wassalam

And why is that Maripat?. Why our own people turned against us ?.Why the 'cream' of the society has developed such hatred against 'Mullla'?.( I don,t like this term,as it is not use
d with respect by our modren class,otherwise in itself mulla and molvi are honourable words.).Is it the remnants of our imperial past?.Is it something to do with the secarianism and infighting of our religious class?. Is it because of the lack of knowledge of mulla or lack of character? Or simply because they are poor economically and the leftover of our society goes to Madrasa,s?
Mostly though,i think,that the school educated considers the madrasa educated much inferior to themself.The reasons might be many,including some or all of the factors mentioned above plus more.This question needs to be addressed seriously,we need to bridge the gape between these two classes,or the results may not be good for the Umma.

[Rx-Ultram]

And why is that Maripat?. Why our own people turned against us ?.Why the 'cream' of the society has developed such hatred against 'Mullla'?.( I don,t like this term,as it is not use
d with respect by our modren class,otherwise in itself mulla and molvi are honourable words.).Is it the remnants of our imperial past?.Is it something to do with the secarianism and infighting of our religious class?. Is it because of the lack of knowledge of mulla or lack of character? Or simply because they are poor economically and the leftover of our society goes to Madrasa,s?
Mostly though,i think,that the school educated considers the madrasa educated much inferior to themself.The reasons might be many,including some or all of the factors mentioned above plus more.This question needs to be addressed seriously,we need to bridge the gape between these two classes,or the results may not be good for the Umma.

You have raised very relevant points brother Fani. Personally I agree with nearly all of them. I'd like to add one more point. Our traditional (clergy based) education system has ignored modern education and has mostly disregarded and devalued it. Just a few months back I read this statement in the editorial of a Urdu monthly from a well known madarsa that science is over valued and is not necessary for changing the condition of Muslims. The editor substantiated his stand by observing that Muslims in Spain were scientific leaders of the world but that did not protect them from the doom of Reconquista. You can see what a long ditch one has to cover to communicate to the people on that side. Similarly from our side, the side of the modern educated, the attitude is not less devastating and the BBC report that irked me is symptomatic of that attitude. I keep mulling over this Two Culture gap in this blog. (Also present in my signature below. Kindly spare few minutes to get the drift of my posts.) (Incidentally in the sixties of last century there very influential book by CP Snow about Two Cultures and the gap between them. He was talking about the academic cultures of Humanities and Science. To some extant these two cultures have not still amalgamated while we Muslims have another equally disparate set of Two Cultures.)

Finally I'll request you also to start at least a blog to air views about this problem. This is the least we can do. I keep pestering other brothers also about starting blogs in the related field.

Wassalam