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.
They killed homeless people. People who are already vulnerable and insecure. Now if Talibaan say that we fight against the forces of evil not innocent Muslims; I wonder if these shelter-less IDP’s defined any other evil than the evil of victims of terror.
Dear Salman
Keep typical left-wing non-seriousness aside,I thank you to mention following:
” The great revered men of old that you respect so mu”
My great revered men are; Muhammad(saw),Omar,Usman,Ali,Abubakr (RA),Imam Hanifa,Imam Malik,Imam Hambal,Ali Hejveri,Imam Shafai etc.
Pls share the “extremism” these guys have spread in the world.
What are yours? Abu Lahab,Abu Jahal,Nimrod, Pharaohs,Hilter,Bush,Michael Jackson or Brtinary Spears?
Kindly share with me the “love” your men has spread in the world.
Sincrely yours,
Adnan
@Adnan:
By the way.. I don’t agree with calling the only real muslims “fanatics” either..
The number of muslim apologists outnumber western apologists by far..
There is hardly anything “non islamic” the Taliban are involved in..
Its just that forcing ur views down somebody’s throats or using violence to do so is typically 7th century stuff… The great revered men of old that you respect so much might have committed all that and would condone it today as well..
But these days we require convincing and dialogue.. no matter how “unislamic” or non-jihadi that is..
And its only proper to fight for this freedom of thought ..
I think the bombing and deaths are all fake.
This is a hype created by the enemies of Islam. No body died !!! There was no bomb. The videos are real but the blood is really tomato ketchup, the whole thing was sponsored by Heinz.
And if we don’t sympathize with the Taliban, we will be thrown in hell.
So.. well.. thats about it.
@Adnan:
I understand there are “conspiracies” against the only true religion and the whole universe wants to eradicate it. Yes, I am actually including all the Greek Gods sitting up in the constellations as well. I am a fanatic far greater than you are.
But on this earth, the Taliban are killing people because they want their religion’s authority to be supreme, while the people killing the Taliban are NOT killing them to force their ideologies down their throats. The sacred Taliban are being (rightly) killed to stop them from forcing their religion down OUR throats.
Do you have an alternative ?? How does a person stop the Taliban from using violence to force their views on everyone ??? is there ANY Islamic Solution to the problem (given that Islam has a solution to all problems)??
There is no difference between these murderers and those murderers sitting in parliaments throughout the world.