IS IT WORTH LOSING OUR HARD-EARNED FRIENDSHIPS FOR OUR HARD-LINE VIEWS?
“There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.” - George Bernard Shaw I love the word ‘Kattar'. Because, I fully understand the meaning and significance of this word… I, also, know the consequences of being one…. A die-hard, a hardcore, a staunch, a fanatical, blindly-driven, a dogmatic, bigoted, overzealous, irreconcilable, sworn, hard-line… rabid, partisan… There are another half-a-dozen cousins of this word ‘Kattar’… I have so many friends and acquaintances around me. If I make my kattarness public, I know its consequences: more than ninety percent of my friends and acquaintances would turn into my enemies... Two fields which tend to make most of us kattars are Religion and Politics. Our affiliations can be so strong here, that we, often, become blind… we act blind… We also act as if we are intoxicated or drugged… We also behave, speak and act as if someone has cast a spell on us… We can be utterly...