Hello Pakistan! Does it reflect Pakistani Culture or Core Values?

Ms.Scaachi Koul, go ply your trade in a flesh market on seamy side of New York. Or find better role models for Pakistani women! The side of Pakistan, you are hell bent on showing is “burger family trash,” which does not represent Pakistan; and its core values.
And BTW, I am not a fanatical fundoo or a bleary eyed Mulla, I am just a scribe telling you, that your journalistic slip is showing, your Western upbringing (ABCD = American-Born Confused Desi ).
“Hello! Pakistan aims to show another side of the country…but don’t expect to see women in bikinis,” Scaachi Koul,
who claims to be a Pakistani Canadian.”
Who is more beautiful, Zahraa Saifullah or a humble Pakistani woman shown above?


“Say to the believing men that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty: that will make for greater purity for them: and Allah is well acquainted with all that they do. And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty…….” (Qur’an Nur, 30-31)

 

 

Commentary
Khurram Shaikh

Pakistani women do not want to emulate the seamy side of Western Society which trashy glossies like Hello,a Cosmopolitan for Pakistani greed stricken, corrupt to the core, mammee-dadee burger babee elite.

 

 

TARGET PAKISTAN


There are several steps in destroying a nation from within. The first step is to destroy its core values. Make them look conservative, fanatical, not in step with time, backward. Go after the family structure and make it egalitarian. Make fathers into tyrants or buffoons. Mothers into backward and controlling. The second step is to challenge the role of founding fathers. Treat them with derision and assasinate their character, by “cooking-up,” their foibles or weaknesses. Make the youth rebel against national, cultural, and social values. In the third step, create doubts about the most important core value, Faith. Demonize their religion. Bombard the youth about horrible acts of its adherent. Brainwash, weak intellects or illiterates to commit irrational acts in the name of faith. By, default move people away from a structured belief systems. A glaring example is to connect a negative word, like terror, and make it interchangeable with the name of the faith. Propaganda and brainwashing nations is done on a massive scale, to such an extent that adherents of the Faith, especially, younger generation, begin to dissociate or deny their faith. Such an incident happened even in the life of the Prophet Isa (PBUH). He told his most ardent disciple Peter, “before the cock crows twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.” And Peter did deny knowing Hazrat Isa (PBUH), when the Romans questioned him about, Hazrat Isa’s (PBUH) whereabouts.
Demonization of Islam continues for the last 1400 years

Demonization of the name of the religion has already started. Islamic terrorists, Islamic Bomb. Islamic Jehad, Islamic fanatics, Islamic suicide bombers, Islamist Al-Qaeda and on and on. Make the people believe that it is Islam, not humans which commit acts of terrorism. This is religious racism and it is being spread like wild fire. The driving force for this crusade are none other than the people who attacked the Holy Prophet (PBUH), when he presented Islam to the pagan Arabs. The biggest opponents of Islam were the Meccan Jews and to a lesser extent the Meccan Christians. Fourteen centuries have passed and this Anti-Islamic Crusade has no let up. Hatred is being spread against Muslims, by the global Newspapers like The New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, and the news agencies, like Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France Press.National governments from Western nations are funding electronic and news media, through planted news, skits, parodies, fake stories, unethical journalists, writers, art and culture alambardaars, economists, scientists, educators, scholars, religious leaders, state minorities, and a host of hidden conduits of brainwashing and propaganda.
Here is a typical story.

After reading it, one would say, “Attagirl, Zahraa Saifullah, you are making a breakthrough for the clostered women of a Muslim society. Shahbash well done. Zahraa will be invited to all the embassy functions. Be wined and dined and lionized, because she is serving a purpose, destroying a core value of Islam, Hayaa or Modesty. But, if Zahraa had invented a new type of long lasting car battery, she would not find even one line about her feat. 
Pakistanis must continue to fight for better education for all sexes.  So that the snake oil being sold to them in name of modernity finds no buyer.
In this article, poor “Hello” Magazine is being portrayed as a victim of turban wearing Fundoos. As if the whole Pakistani society spins around whether Zahraa Saifullah “show a sliver of bare shoulder.” 
Well, we’ve got news for you. On many streets in Pakistan, occasionally on sees a mentally disturbed “half-naked women!” Pakistani people do not stone them to death. Most of the times nearby women or men provide a blanket or a shawl to cover them.
Nakedness Sells in Societies, where women are a piece of meat

If Ms. Zahraa Saifullah wants to wear low cut clothes or no clothes, its her prerogative. But, if she marched around naked in the West, she would be arrested. So There! 
Before pointing a finger at Muslims or Pakistanis, look at your hand, three fingers are pointing back at you. 
Pakistan has travel warnings posted by most Western Embassies. But, is Oak Creek, Michigan safe? Is Tucson, Arizona safe? Is Holland safe? Is Norway safe? And last but not the least, are kindergartners in Scotland safe?
Man’s beautiful partner and equal
 Allah Created Women as brainy creatures, as mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, and collegues,  not as pieces of flesh for prurient fantasies of depraved men.

AND AS FOR WESTERN WOMEN ROLE MODELS:

Ms.Scaachi Koul might be better off talking about, the women, who against all challenges in the Western societies made their mark on human history such as:
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Zahraa Saifullah could be the face of a new generation of Pakistani women: powerful…by Scaachi Koul on Thursday, August 9, 2012 6:20pm – 

Original Article and Photograph Above of Zahra Saifullah
http://www2.macleans.ca/author/scaachikoul/

 

 

Zahraa Saifullah could be the face of a new generation of Pakistani women: powerful and wealthy, yet happy to show a sliver of bare shoulder. Saifullah wants to bring this modern perception of Pakistan to the rest of the world and, as the publisher of the new Hello! Pakistan, she’s using international media to do it.

With editions in Greece, Russia and Canada, to name just a few, Hello! magazine has now furthered its reach. Saifullah, 29, was approached by the media organization last summer to create a Pakistani version.Hello! Pakistan published its first issue this spring. It sold out in just three days.

The Hello! franchise is known for glossy spreads on royals and celebrities, but Saifullah has higher hopes for the South Asian edition. “One of our goals was to reshape Pakistan’s media image,” she says. “All that ‘fire and brimstone’ overshadows the real culture and feel of Pakistan.” Still, Hello! Pakistan is expensive at 500 rupees—around $5, enough for Pakistan’s poorest citizens to survive on for two days.

 

So far, Hello! Pakistan appears to focus more on achievement and philanthropy than who’s wearing what. The first issues of the magazine included profiles of actor Sean Penn and Pakistani-Canadian director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who won an Oscar this year for Saving Face, her documentary on Pakistani women left disfigured by acid attacks.

The wide disparity between rich and poor in Pakistan may explain part of its appeal. Houchang Hassan-Yari, fellow at the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University, notes that U.S. TV showDallas was hugely popular in the developing world. “They see the wealth, the unreal life for them, and it makes them dream about the possibility of getting out,” he says. “That is the attraction.” For many, Hello! Pakistan is pure aspiration. For Pakistan’s wealthier citizens, it offers tips on wedding planning and travel. The magazine’s ads reflect that. High-end retailers like L’Oreal and Mango are among the brands advertising in the new magazine.

Some Pakistanis have criticized Hello! as un-Islamic. And the magazine will struggle with societal standards—dictating, for example, how much skin can be shown on its covers. Saifullah says there aren’t any set publishing standards or regulations, but there is a strong conservative force in the region. “This is a society that is full of contradictions. You have very liberal females, and then you have those who do not let girls go to school,” Hassan-Yari says. “If you see groups protesting Hello! Pakistan, you shouldn’t be surprised.”

In December, Pakistani actress Veena Malik was shown nude on the cover of FHM India, outraging conservatives, particularly since “ISI” was printed on her arm, the initials of Pakistan’s controversial Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency. “I think we can get away with showing a bit of leg,” Saifullah says, “but you won’t be seeing our models in bikinis any time soon.”

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