The Bar that doesn't serve drinks

A couple of days ago the Lahore Bar Association managed to do what no other bar association has been able to do so far; they lowered their bar. They decided to ban all products by a company called SHEZAN from being served at court premises because apparently according to them SHEZAN is Ahmadi owned. Now you would think that being lawyers they would understand how logic works and how an argument should be shaped. You would think that a whole association made up of lawyers would realize that why banning stuff based on the manufacturer’s apparent religious affiliations is a bad idea.

But you are wrong. Thinking an idea through would have required common sense and some actual lawyer work, so they instead chose to do the stupid thing. And now that it is done, let us take a look at the sort of crap these geniuses have pulled and what effects it would have.

Firstly, as lawyers they should have known that doing something like this would set precedence. That means that now that it has been done in Lahore, zealots in other Bar Associations would go ahead and start making such moronic decisions as well. So what these idiots have done is successfully given precedence for institutionalization of discrimination based on someone’s religious beliefs. So even though right now it is just juice, they can ban other things based on the same logic. It may even get to a point where they might discriminate against people instead of just products because that is their logic to start with. Because this specific person has religious beliefs that are not identical to mine so anything he/she makes is banned, ergo that person himself should be banned too.  So you see where I am going with this.

Secondly, these are the same people who talk about Quaid ka Pakistan and have the picture of Quaid in their Chambers as Quaid was not only the founder of Pakistan but a great lawyer too. But with this decision they have effectively shit on Quaid’s image of Pakistan. Quaid built this country and assured at multiple instances that minorities will be treated equally. Quaid said the following:

Minorities to whichever community they may belong; will be safeguarded. Their religion or faith or belief will be secure. There will be no interference of any kind with their freedom of worship. They will have their protection with regard to their religion, faith, their life, their culture. They will be, in all respects, the citizens of Pakistan without any distinction of caste or creed. They will have their rights and privileges and no doubt, along with it goes the obligation of citizenship. Therefore, the minorities have their responsibilities also and they will play their part in the affairs of this state. As long as the minorities are loyal to the State and owe true allegiance and as long as I have any power, they need have no apprehension of any kind.

Source: http://m-a-jinnah.blogspot.com/2011/04/statement-on-protection-for-minorities.html

And if Quaid’s words were not enough, the flag was to be the representative of the diversity of Pakistan where the white portion represents the minorities who are a crucial part of this country. So based on all of this, who the hell are these people to go ahead and take such decisions that negate the very vision of our founder. How can these people be expected to uphold the constitution and laws of Pakistan when they do not even share the vision of its founder.

All said and done, the point is, we all know that this is a bad decision. We all know that these Bar Association people are zealots who are pushing Pakistan down a dangerous path. But what we need to start understanding is that this sort of mentality is now spreading. It is no longer the action that is dangerous; it is the thought that has gone in to that. The sort of evil mind that thought this up is the problem for our nation. And that mentality is unfortunately spreading. This was a Lawyer’s association, who are apparently educated and if this is how their mind is working imagine how easy it would be to influence the mind of simpletons with such religious hatred fueled by moronic reasoning.

It’s the mind set we need to be freaking out on, not the non availability of a juice.

In case you were wondering who are these people at Lahore Bar Association, follow this link http://www.lahorebarassociation.com/current-cabinet