Comments on: Why Pakistan Will Not Become a Theocracy

By: zia m

zia m — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:35:41 +0000

This is not about one religion,its about Theocracy that includes all religions Christianity,Hinduism,Islam,Sikhism,Buddhism or Judaism.
Most Pakistanis believe in democracy,they have always rejected the religious political parties.Taliban know that they can only come in power by force.They have made a blunder in declaring other religious parties as Kafirs.

@Adnan Siddiqi
Most Pakistanis don’t believe in science,they rather believe in all sorts of superstions.Some of the Ulema in Pakistan claim they don’t need nuclear energy they can harness energy from Jinns,after all prophet Suleman was able to put an army of jinns to work more than 2 thousand years ago.

There are some Christian Fundamentalist (American Taliban) who are very vocal against Muslims.Don’t blame secularism for that, religion is clearly responsible.You can call it a family feud since they are sons of Ibrahim.
The same right wing nuts were responsible for putting Bush in office with disastrous results for the whole world.

Peace

By: jock

jock — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:27:38 +0000

You know, the most amusing thing about the comments here is that they always seem to regress to a conflict between Islam and Secularism, which at least IMO they’re not.

PPl who think this is about Islam need to think abt whether extortion, intimidation, destruction of schools (it hardly matters whether its boys or girls’) etc is really the kind of Islam they want.

And ppl who think this is abt Secularism need to ask themselves whether the secular agents in this country e.g MQM, PPP and their numerous corruption scandals, elitist attitudes and gang warfare is really what could be expected of ppl with ‘secular’ attitudes.

Best wishes/ Salam (whichever you prefer…:))

By: bilal

bilal — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:26:36 +0000

I might add that people don’t give a damn about Islam too.

Religion is used to convey anger about other issues.

Poverty is the key issue. The have-nots are so much poor and those in power so much rich that this anger is always on the table for a Taliban Leader.

Pashtoons also don’t like to be pushed around especially by foreigners. To counter that, the term Jihad is very conveniently used.

There is a big hope and that’s from Obama. This guy has brains.

He seems to understand that these people cannot be gunned down. They must be uplifted from their terrible economic conditions. And that will be not only be good for the people of FATA, but also for Pakistan and America.

On the other hand, if the Bush-era Kill-them-policy continues, every child that is orphaned or displaced will be a potential terrorist.

Army also needs to have a reovery plan for those who are affected by their wars that they unleash for $$$ or to pacify their foreign masters.

What will happen to those who are affected by these wars?