Whenever we start using our right to criticize and condemn someone nowadays, we focus more and more on the language usage of the individual. Be it on personal level, professional or job prospect level, religious level, political level or religio-political level of criticism. We are going too far on this road that we are not even ready to hear the persons' point of view if the language used is not that which we approve in our own interpretation and mind frame. This leads to complete and absolute disapproval to the content of someone’s views if their language or standard of language is not up to a certain mark.
We are a nation with many regional languages which people used to feel proud of and used to transfer it to their next generation then came a time in our childhood when grannies used to say something to us but we could only understand it and used to reply to them in our national language. Today’s grandparents are in somewhat similar situation where they use the native language to communicate but their grandchildren hardly understand if there is any 'pure' word involve and responds mostly in partial or complete foreign language.
On professional grounds too the accent of one's native origin can be easily picked and can go for/against someone when being judgmental and discriminating on such irrelevant aspects specially while sitting in a jobs interview. If applying at any international firm, the use of and fluency of international language needs to be a compulsory feature of anybody’s CV.
Religiously inclined mentally disregards foreign language completely and instead focuses on the use of the language of the holy book (also a foreign language) and gives high value to those who can speak that language fluently with proper and accurate vocals to say certain words.
The dilemma continues on political front as well where the party leaders easily criticize and make fun of someone’s' fluency in native language without taking any notice of their own partial and use of mixture of native-foreign language style. In all these taunting finds an easy escape to disregard someone's opinion on use of language standards. I wonder how they communicate with the foreign delegates and representatives.
In my view, all people are respectable irrespective of their accent and original regional/national/international languages, the only judgment is on the basis of the content that is used, be it the granny's wise story to teach brotherhood and respect for all, or Eidhi's concern for the injured and orphans in broken Urdu, or Bilal e Habashi the companion of the Prophet (PBUH) to becoming a muazzan with unclear vocals and pronunciations, or Quaid e Azam who could hardly speak Urdu and was unable to read nor write it. It doesn't really matter which language a person is using to express his / herself and sometimes special people just use sign language to communicate, I wonder in which category we'll going to put them if they don't use any language of words!
By the way, you are reading this article in your foreign language but I'm hoping the focus should be on the content and not on finding out whether it's my native/second/or foreign language.
Language is one of the means of communication, our dilemma is that we don't want to listen to anyone who differs from our view point, and this intolerance is a lot bigger and more complex than this silly language dilemma.
