Family of the Heart - DIALOGUE & DISCUSSIONS 

#15: Rashid Mughal,

Dear sir, our purpose here is to have a dialogue which by its nature should enlighten us. If we just keep repeating the same questions without answering them and asking the other person to find the answer in the question, it serves us no purpose. Neither, cynicism and sarcasm make exchange of ideas any better.

My question about who funded madrassas, which implied that CIA and Saudi money funded those madrassa, as almost everyone knows, points to the complexity of the problem. My hope was that exploring that aspect will bring to light a perspective which is needed in understanding the mess in which countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan finds them. Your response to this question with a question “How come Muslims need international aid to fund their own madrassas!” is either shirking from the reality or is just misplaced Muslim bashing.

The next question you posed, should be posed to the champions of democracy aka USA and their aides, who funded these madrasses just to keep illiteracy flourishing and to produce Mujahadeen to fight with Russians. It is the irony that same madrassas are now producing Mujahadeen for Al-Quaida and such organization. Even a child knows this much by now, unless it is a case of amnesia.

Next, you advise for finding answer in the question. This brilliant advice unfortunately does not resolve the inherent contradiction of your argument. Let me state it again. You say we are hard wired which implies ‘determinism’; and you say we can change only if we decide to change, which contradicts the determinism of hard-wired organism, whose decision to change is also ultimately determined by its hard-wired nature. In fact, in your words, if we can change our mind, we can change ‘anything’. What sir, is meant by ‘anything’. This is simply a vague statement because the terms of arguments are too broad. That is why I said it sounds like a religious sermon. That is the problem I am finding with atheistic zealots these days. They are becoming their own antithesis without realizing it.

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