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Originally Posted by picoico
.....I'm referring to secularists, who simply don't want to take the assimilation message to Pakistan's minorities (as if they care about them...more importantly, they don't take the message to heart themselves). .......
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I don't think you have lived in Pakistan and experienced any interaction with Pakistani minorities.
Pakistani Christians are fully assimilated. Their dress, language, and even names are just like any other mainstream Pakistani. Christian run schools, hospitals etc. follow strict rules about not preaching to Muslim kids. And they have been doing so long before the Talib madness gripped the country.
Pakistani Hindus are in such a small number and yet you can't look at a Pakistani-Hindu and quickly tell him apart from his Muslim neighbor as per his dress or language etc.
The same is true for other minorities as well. None of them behaves like the Arabs (discussed in this thread). How many Muslim Arabs living in the West name their kids James, Bob, or Jack. You can find most of the middle class Pakistani Christians with names like Anwar, Akram etc. And in some cases they have Mohammad and Allah as part of their names.
So what else you want from them as far assimilation in Pakistan is concerned?