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.
@Adnan:
But why are you not emphasizing that it was from the Prophet that Jinnah learned that in an Islamic system, religion has no business to do with the state ??
and that in an Islamic system of “Khilafah” muslims and hindus cease to be muslims and hindus in the eyes of the state !!!
Please profess how wrong Jinnah was about Islam so that we can get Jinnah’s Pakistan back from the hijackers ..
@Akif: my mistake, I overestimated you to have ability to “smell” sarcasm. And don’t worry about me. As I said, you need to learn that when you point out one finger at others ,remaining fingers point out at you.
@Ammar: Do you use Internet from Cafe? Jinnah was Liberal or Hindu or someone else,Jinnah had studied Islam more than psuedo Jinnah experts. Just like molvis declared him kaafir, the left wing radicals did same. If you ever get chance to visit library near your area then do verify what I am quoting below:
The Prophet of Islam (PBUH) was a great teacher. He was a great lawgiver. He was a great statesman and he was a great sovereign who ruled. The life of the Prophet (PBUH) was simple according to those times. He was successful in everything that he put his hand to from as a businessman to as a ruler. The Prophet (PBUH) was the greatest man that the world had ever seen. Thirteen hundred years ago he laid the foundations of democracy(occasion of the Holy Prophet’s birthday at the Karachi Bar Association on 25th January 1948)
btw, I discussed Jinnah long time back on my blog with details:
tinyurl.com/jinnahsecular
The mantra of foreign involvement is repeated with such zeal but till this date the foreign office has not submitted any proof or records
kitna masoom admi hay ye. Chanda, FO even don;t have guts to present Kashmir case properly infront of UN let alone any other issue.
BTW, the involvement of India was claimed several times by same Rehman Malik who you are quoting for “genuine swat video”. Furter, DG ISPR Athar Abbas also have mentioned it various times so is NWFP’s minister.
Kindly learn to explore online news resources on Google so that you could keep yourself up to date. I can also help you to educate you how to use Google.
@Adnan Jinnah too was liberal, what be your take on him? Or have you Islamized Jinnah too!
The debate did not pertain to liberalism or left-wingers you can be left, right, center or corner! The acts of terrorism remain the same nothing can sugarcoat them. The Kohat tragedy was an act of blatant violence by Taliban and you cannot distort the fact. The mantra of foreign involvement is repeated with such zeal but till this date the foreign office has not submitted any proof or records or even a complaint in the U.N. We are engaged in home-grown insurgency and unless we eradicate extremism from our society this ordeal is likely to continue.
Adnan, I’m sorry you got the wrong impression. I should have been more clear…… I’m not an admirer.
But then again, who really knows what I am in that dimension where you live. Apparantly you have your own reality show where you are both the hunter and the hunted, chasing your own tail in circles, probably thinking it’s the jew the mullah warned you about on Friday…..but it’s not. It’s you.
hey Adnan..
how is “live and let live” gunda gardi ?