Adil Najam
Just how inhuman can the murderous zeal of fanatics be?
Here are the essential facts: Two suicide killers, hiding behind burqas, murdered more than 40 people, and injured another 60+, in two explosions minutes apart, at an IDP (internally displaced peoples) refugee camp at Katcha Pakka near Kohat, as they gathered to register for relief goods and as food was being distributed to them.
Yes, you read it right.
They murdered people who have already been made homeless. They killed people gathered to collect food and relief goods. They killed deliberately. They murdered on purpose. This was not an accident or bad planning. They had planned to kill. They had wanted to murder. They planned to kill women and children and innocent civilians.
That is exactly what they wanted to do. That is exactly what they did.
This is neither unique as an incident nor unique in its brutality and inhumanity.
Yesterday, it was a hospital – yes, hospital – that was attacked in Quetta where Muslims were mourning the death of a murdered Shia leader.
The butchers were butchering. Deliberately. Purposefully. Inhumanly.
The blood boils, eyes swell up and humanity cries whenever an innocent soul is killed. No matter why. No matter by whom. No matter how. But when the murder is so callous, so planned, so deliberate, so inhuman, the heart skips a beat, the mind is baffled, and something dies within each one of us. There is nothing more left to say.
What can one say that has not been said before. One seethes in ones anger. One sends out a silent prayer. One wipes off the tears. And one stares into the darkness. Trying desperately, trying senselessly, trying uselessly, to understand why anyone could do such a thing. How anyone could do such a thing.
One stares into the darkness. Knowing full well that no darkness known to man could be darker than the darkness that breeds this murder.
You need to come out and identify who is behind it. I have said many a times that the problem lies with Wahabhi religion and its unbridled influence on muslim elites and masses. Not all Wahabhis are inhumane but there is a very obvious and evident streak within this group that has established itself in Pakistan and alligned itself with Deobandis and Islamic Fundamentalist.
We need serious research on this topic. The loss of religious authority among Sunni Muslims. The division between Barelvi and Deobandis. Alliance and mutation of Deobandis because of Wahabhis and evident rift between pakistani deobandis and indian deobandis.
Until you identify who is behind these senseless attacks nothing will happen.
One word to describe what happened – SICK!! I have nothing else to say. These are sick people with a sick mind. A cruel mind with a sick mentality. A sickness that is breeded by sick weapons moulded by a sick mind. A sickness that is all pervading and all encompassing the mind. A sickness that never ceases to become more and more sick with each act of sickness.
Fanatics and soldiers have to be inhuman in order to do what they set out for.. they have to kill ..
its those behind them that we need to focus upon.. those who REQUIRE the services of these fanatics.. and thats no other than WE ourselves..
unfortunately these fanatics are the only ones we can rely on if some outside force attacks us.. so its a difficult decision for the establishment to get rid of them completely..
that would require a fundamental change in our self-perception as an inherently insecure nation..
My heart is with all of you in Pakistan. It is a terrible price that Pakistanis are having to pay and I pray that this madness and violence in the world will soon end
Some comments from the ATP Facebook Page:
– “Taliban = Face of Munafiqeen on the name of Islam”
– ” ترجمان کے مطابق ہلاک ہونے والے تمام متاثرین کا تعلق اورکزئی ایجنسی کے اہل تشیع کے علاقوں کلایہ، سپاہ اور مرائی کے مقامات سے بتایا جاتا ہے۔
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/2010/04/100417_ kohat_idp_camp_blast.shtml”
– “What could be more worst than that ………. Where the hell is the security ………. what the hell is this government doing ………….. Its starts since 2007 and no signs of ending ………… how long the innocent Pakistani’s shall be paying the price of their lives for nothing ………….”
– “Govt. is in deal with ASS ( Anjuman Sipah Sahaba ) part of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and the sub group of Taliban. This will be happen more because Govt. doesn’t want to stop it.”
– “horrible.”
– “Were you serious when you asked how inhuman can a fanatic be? These ppl understand only one language. They must be exterminated with extreme prejudice and no mercy. Kill their clans and kin like they kill ours until they stop or are all killed once and for all. Nothing can be expected from this puppet govt which got power through back door deals and brokering by western powers. If the army wants to stay the king maker in Pakistan it must use the deadliest of weapons in its arsenal in areas where these vermin come from. Question is when will its leadership take that step? The army must adopt a role similar to that of the Turkish army if it wants to honestly safeguard Pakistan and insure the survival of its people.”