Fashion Shows Harmful to Pakistan's Identity

This private video - made in the wake of Karachi Fashion Week 2009 - is an excellent illustration of Pakistan's deep-rooted identity crisis as a "Muslim" state in a multi-religious Subcontinent and a secular, multi-cultural globalized world. The video creator claims to be against Islamic fundamentalism whether in the form of "Mullaism" or "Talibanization" and yet rejects fashion shows as nothing less than "murder of our unique ideology and identity"! He exhorts viewers to "remember that our ...
Author: KashifHKhan; Tags: Pakistan Pakistani Pak national identity crisis nationalism Karachi Fashion Week clothing couture designer designers models catwalk Western West cultural influence Islam Islamization Taliban insurgency terrorism Talibanization culture ideology tolerance Clash of Civilizations Islamic Caliphate fundamentalism extremism madrassa religious Wahabi brainwashing war on terror conspiracy theory theorists social freedom economic liberalization development globalization analysis future failed state


















