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2011-10-23 Home Front: Culture Wars

Waris Shah in America: How the Sufi Poet Would Have Seen It

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Posted by trailing wife 2011-10-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Personally, I'm waiting for Andrew Jackson.

Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-10-23 06:01|| 2011-10-23 06:01|| Front Page Top

#2 am I Pakistani or am I American?

If you are a Pakistani then get your butt out of America and return to the sink hole of your dreams.

Posted by AlanC 2011-10-23 09:23|| 2011-10-23 09:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Yes, yes, the existential angst of the first generation American. Choose either to be an American enriched by the culture of your ancestry, which enables you to more fully appreciate what America means, or move back to the ancestral home, where you will discover you feel no more one with the people than you do here. With 20% of Americans facing the exact same experience, you are not special, my dear. But it's nice that you see farther down the path than the noisier of your peers.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-10-23 11:20|| 2011-10-23 11:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Many other Muslims still think of Sufis as heretics and apostates, and have been lynching or judicially murdering them for over a millennium.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-10-23 15:54|| 2011-10-23 15:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Sorry to disappoint you but the Ottoman Turks and the leader of the genocidal Sudanese junta were sufis just to name a few. And their actions were approved by all the Suffi community.

Posted by JFM 2011-10-23 17:34|| 2011-10-23 17:34|| Front Page Top

#6 #5: There are self-proclaimed Sufis & then there are the other kind.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-10-23 22:30|| 2011-10-23 22:30|| Front Page Top

#7 I believe you are being unfair JFM. But even if you are not, who would you rather have Pakistani-Americans listening to: Waris Shan, or the Wahibists?

Posted by Secret Master 2011-10-23 22:57|| 2011-10-23 22:57|| Front Page Top

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