What will I teach my daughter?

Re: # 6

Ali -

Correction: Chennai

``is also endowed with good looks from both sides of the family.``

Not sure about the other side, but you are plain butt ugly, even by, lets say, madrasi standards...

Secondly Mr. Feminist, why do you have such a low opinion of your wife? Is she a doormat? Why can`t she decide what education to give to your child?

Remember, your wife is someone`s daughter. What does around comes around.... so treat her well if you want your daughter to be treated well when she grows up. K?

This is one sorry read. Dude you are on a very slippery slope here. My son asked me the same question, and let me paraphrase it for you: “Daddy, why can only a man lead a prayer? Are Muslims worshiping God or a Penis?”. What should I tell him?

load of crap. First you are not that good looking (although I admit kid is really cute, may she live a happy life) and seconly with these pathetic views you are not liberal. What is wrong with women getting political power in community proportionate to their numbers?

What is this with every educated upper class pakistani getting religious education/tutoring at the tendor age of 8 and 10. and then they grow up and boast they grew up in a very liebral environment.

Did you hint at mullah teaching you some sexual tricks in first few paragraphs?

author writes ``Now my wife has some misguided views about raising our daughter she seems to think that she is going to impart the same religious values and rituals that she practices. As you may understand by now that is not going to happen.``

This is a strange article on many fronts. I will not dwell on the religious aspects of it, since author has every right to raise his daughter in whichever way he likes. However I am particularly preturbed by his causually marginalizing the role of child`s mother in raising her.

That pretty much shows that the author has a lot of growing up to do. And when he does grow up, a lot of other strange twists in this article will get resolved too.

Mr. Hussain,
I did read your article and I do agree with some of the things you say, but I do find it a little confusing that what you are trying to teach your daughter is the basic apect of Islam yet you say that you will not teach her about Islam. True that the way you were taught was wrong but if you read Koran in a language like Urdu or English you will learn a lot of things that you dont know yet and will probably find out that all of the things you mentioned like being good to yourself, to your neighbors, or to anybody else are already there. Now regarding praying 5 times or learning Koran or other things like that which everyone has to do - of course no one can push you to do anything of that nature because you know what is best for your child but wouldnt you rather have her make her own decision. You are very proud in asserting the fact that you will teach her about every other religion so I am assuming that you have learnt about them also. But you somehow forget to mention whether you have taken time to learn about Islam. If you dont know Arabic then I am sure you can still read the Urdu or English translation. Then why dont you let your daughter read the Quran in English. That way she will understand everything that is there and then you wont have to waste your time in teaching her about other religions. She wont be learning from a Mullah who will only be concerned with making money but would rather have a deep knowledge of what Islam is. You can be her guide through this but of course for that you will have to read it in English first. Just reciting verses from Koran is of course not the answer. I have finished Koran 5 times but I never learnt anything until I started reading it in English and actually understanding it. Now, I understand that being in America all of a sudden opens up every Pakistani and Indian mind and they start seeing the so-called truth but that does not mean that one forgets how important religious education is to truly understand the moral aspects of society.

Azmat, that was one pathetic article. I mean, that was really bad. Your logic is twisted, your beliefs are twisted and your faith is twisted. You talk about the word of God but don`t want to go to the mosque. Well, doesn`t the quran actually tell you to pray (not necessarily in a mosque though)?

I feel sorry for your daughter already.