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.
Pakistanis remain resolute against these religious charlatans who abuse the name o religion to spread their agendas of hate and killing. They will never be able to destroy Pakistan or Islam no matter how hard these Taliban and their supporters try to do so.
The real danger to Pakistan is not the Taliban but those who support there argument and come in to defend them after each incident of them murdering Pakistanis.
It is the Taliban who are the worst enemies of Pakistan and really of Islam also
We live in a make-believe world of culture, religion, cult or whatever name you give it. Even our mode of thinking is determined by the culture in which we are born and grow up, whereas aql or baseerat is a universal phenomenon. Every faith degenerating to religion or cult would try to protect its mythology or great lies from ‘corruption’ by reason and logic by suspending aql and would require its followers to believe in its mythologies blindly. In Pakistan the cult of ‘Deen-e-Mullah’ reigns supreme in the garb of Islam. It protects itself by the ‘Aqeeda-e-Tahafaze-Khatme Nabuwwat’ and the ‘Law of Blasphemy’ and ultimately by resort to terrorism.
In fact we live in a world about which Mir Taqi Mir had said:
“Yih tawwaaham ka kaarkhaanah he
Yaan woh hi he jo ehtibaar kia”
This is the world of ‘absurdism’ wherein you have to surrender (Salamna) however absurd an idea may be or face death at the hands of fanatics of either side.
@aamir ali. That is true what you say. It seems like adnan and others are more concerned who was born in which religion and they keep diverting the discussion from the fact that Taliban attacked the refuges. Denial mode is what they are in.