‘No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate.’
These oft-quoted words of Nelson Mandela have proven all too true in far too many contexts throughout human history, as indeed they do in a very literal sense in Pakistan today.
Continue reading “How the education system perpetuates religious intolerance in Pakistan, and how it could be a route to change “While hatred can be ‘learned’ in many ways – from one’s family, or cultural background, or even from negative experiences with the object of said hatred – in Pakistan the teaching of hatred, specifically religious intolerance, is embedded in various forms into the very fibre of the country’s education system.