Songs of Dissonance

Religion follows demand and supply laws too. Be it large or small, cult or not, we have these mascots floating around to increase recruitment and spread the message ... Scientology has Tom Cruise, Madonna has her Kaballah, Christianity and Islam have many many mascots. Religions being practical, unleash these mascots at times of distress and tragedy - why shouldnt they? There are many TV cameras, many Billions of Dollars, many fears, unknowns, helpless children and ....

Poor J - he probably feels he is becoming less worthless by doing this.

Aisha
Interesting article.
I don`t agree with Mullahs way of pseudoIslam. I won`t judge them for their ways of choosing their ways to lead their own lives. Yes, I will be threatened , when they will force me to change my way of life. I respect their rituals, sameway I will expect them to respect my ways with out judging me. Same applies on singer, Junaid, if he is exercising his own ways of rituals with out harming society like mullahs, I don`t object, he is free to chose, whatever doctrine he believes in, that doesn`t make him less likeable in my eyes.We, humans judge other humans with our own narrowminded judgemental eye glasses with out thinking , others can judge us the same way. Judging someone is a serious responsibility, exercise carefully,before ,you can also be judged same way.Thanks

some of the stuff Junaid comes up with now is just shocking. as a longtime VS fan, if I ever meet him I`d like to ask him wtf he thinks he is doing. I could relate a lot more to him when he was normal. if I wanted a moulvi telling me how I was doomed for eternity, I would rather hear it from Maulana Diesel-ur-Rehman or Qazi Hussain Ahmed. that way at least I could dismiss them right away.

it truly is a loss to see someone who was considered to a modern, intelligent man turn into an empty rheoteric spouting cliche.

Junaid Jamsheds exist (presumably, in proportionate numbers) in every religious group. His nonsence could hardly make Islam a primitive religion.

But, yes, people like him need to get their heads examined.

Re: # 1

Well said, codification of morals breads idol worship where we deify the rituals and cease to look at reason. And yes, it can be inspired from any source. Indeed, JJs are in every religion, and every country.

Aisha Sarwari