Dr Khalid Sohail
has a way with words: Secular. Pakistani. Evolution. Education. Human
rights. Mythology. Scriptures . . . and so on.
He says he's
"fascinated with creative writings as they stimulate the imagination
but they can also cause confusion in communication."
It saddens him, he says,
"when people make literal interpretations of scriptures," which
he himself reads "as part of folklore . . . mythology and wisdom
literature."
He cannot fathom why his
"religious friends want to make laws in
He doesn't say he's
baffled, frustrated, disappointed or disillusioned.
Instead, says Dr Sohail,
he's optimistic -- unlike "our scholar friend Rashid Mughal [who] is
frustrated and disappointed and disillusioned" -- and that he's
willing to "light a candle of hope rather than complain about the long
night of darkness."
Who ever complained
about "the long night of darkness" on this forum?
Certainly not Rashid
Mughal.
I know for a fact that
Rashid Mughal is an easy-going freethinker far removed from the world of
those Dr Sohail professionally describes as "frustrated and
disappointed and disillusioned."
I certainly did pose a
question (under the original topic: "All secular Pakistanis need to
unite") which I wish someone would answer in the same spirit of
inquiry as that in which it was asked.
It's an oxymoron of a
question, as follows: Can one become a secular humanist AND remain a
Pakistani?
Rashid Mughal