Don't We Feel a Parallel here? http://blog.dawn.com:91/dblog/2009/07/09/lost-in-space/
"...Ever since the early 1980s, there has been a three-fold growth in the formation of ‘praying areas’ in offices in both private and government institutions, and the toleration of laxities at the workplace regarding timings - especially for office hours during Ramadan - have been unconditionally allowed. Of course, as can be observed from the facts and figures of assorted sociological studies in Pakistan of the last 20 years or so, all this has not helped in making society any more law-abiding and constructive than what it already was before the 1980s. In fact, the rate of crime has increased dramatically; especially sexual and financial, and social commentators have continued to bemoan the ‘institutionalisation of the notion of social hypocrisy.’ But this trend of the supposed Islamisation of social space soon seeped into other areas as well. For instance, beginning in the 1980s, there are more religious programs on the television and radio than ever before. Also, more and more lawns and drawing-rooms are becoming venues for religious lectures and dars. In fact, even in modern, posh shopping malls, the central sound system is used to broadcast the azaan and naats while recitations from the Holy Qu’ran are played during holy months and days. Other peripheral trends such as the change of traditional Islamic greetings – replacing Khuda Hafiz with Allah Hafiz – is also a case in point..." -- http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
