Adil Najam
For the fifth time in as many days, a bomb ravaged through Pakistan killing innocent Pakistanis. Muslims killing other Muslims they considered less Muslim than themselves. This time the target was the shrine of 13th century Sufi saint Sakhi Sarwar in District Dera Ghazi Khan. This time more than 40 were killed. That number is likely to rise.
This was, once again, a target killing of a Sufi shrine. As so many times before, this time the victims of this heinous murder were devotees at a Sufi Shrine. As so many times before, this time the murder was committed by a mere child (reportedly 15-16 year old and reportedly now in custody amongst the wounded). A child who is himself a victim in so many ways. A child who grew up in displacement and got the idea instilled and cemented into his mind that the short-cut to heaven was to blow other Muslims up!
The tragedy at Sakhi Sarwar was the logical culmination of another tragedy – the indoctrination of hate. Hate kills. Hate killed again today.
Murder was committed at Sakhi Sarwar today not merely by a boy-murderer dreaming of an easy ticket into heaven. Murder was committed at Sakhi Sarwar today by the purveyors of hate who have sanction from society – sanction given by our tacit silence. Hate kills. Yes. But so does silence. Silence killed again today.
Messages like Hasan Abidi’s, while being well-meaning, don’t help the cause much. Our messages must not spew hatred, even for the Taliban. The Taliban themselves suffer when their children get blown up to bits by US drones. They see any supporter of the US cause as being their enemy. And BTW, now YOU, Abidi, need to watch your back, because right as you are about these guys being evil-minded, they do read these posts and cause tragedies like Gov. Taseer. A balanced approach to the Pak foreign policy has to be worked out, and can’t happen as long as agents of the US or West-worshippers remain in power.
To say Bush zindabad is like piercing someone’s chest with a knife. Bush was one of the most hateful guys in control of so much ordnance, which he used to blow Muslim-human flesh into bits and burn it into ashes. That is precisely what the Taliban are doing. The difference is only that of magnitude — Bush’s killing being far higher in numbers. It is true that the Taliban are targeting innocent civilians on purpose, which is evil, but humans resort to such tactics when they are desperate, are cornered, and believe there is no other way. Also, let’s let the investigation into this tragedy take its course — I don’t rule out a US-israeli hand behind it – paste labels on me liberally for saying that. What, after all, are Raymond Davis’ up to in Pakistan? His contacts with desi terrorist organiations have been amply reported. Why does the US keep appointing Jewish diplomats and envoys to Pakistan time and time again. No sense of sensitivities? Impossible. US officials are dumb, but not that dumb.
When will this carnage stop? It will not. Condemning the tragedies one after the other is not enough. We are turning into robots responding to the events following the same stereotypic, predictable protocol. Something concrete, long-term and creative has to be undertaken. But we all like to belong; are paralysed by paradigm; and like being like those who are in power, operating from the comfort of the arm chair by the keyboard.
Some nonviolent outlet for the Taliban’s frustrations and grievances MUST be made available because the current one they’re using is simply UNAFFORDABLE, no matter which side one belongs to.
As a disgruntled Pakistani, I have a message for all my fellow countrymen.
If we dont stand up to these lunatics NOW, then it wd b too late. Our silence has given them the much needed liscence to kill.
We r no more Silent Majority….but a Criminal Majority.
Its our criminal silence, that serves as the lethal accomplice to the murderous zeal of these Dark Ages cave monsters.
Our inaction has virtually endorsed and condoned their medieval and intolerant mindset.
I also hv a message for these future GITMO prisoners…… GO BACK to the stone age where u came from & still belong to…………by sitting on the smelly camel of urs , u Dark Ages, Saudi funded arab lunatic.
There z no place for animals like u in a civil and decent social set up.
Fundos like u hv a place on earth called Gitmo and one upwards with the BIG GUY, called ” rotten hell”……. ur permanent abode , u sick minded, cave creature, desert beast.
Y dont u take this murderous , barbaric and talibanistic mindset to some Afghan Cave or some hypocrite, homosexual, illiterate, smelly, Rolls Royce driving Shiekh, on whose zakat khairat, lunies like u come down from ur caves to our cities and civilizations, preaching ur hardcore , fundo , extremist mantra…………….welll here is the bad news
WE r not gonna to take ur crap ANYMORE, and wd root u out and all like u , from our midst by force, who have been the greatest source of defmation and negaive propaganda for Islam all around the world.
We go to shrines and will continue to go, because our forefathers and ancestors were Imams and Walis…………………U being the direct decendant of Yazeed continue doing wat u and ur foreathers hv been doing…….TO KILL
Ur skewed , distorted , blurred , beastial , wild , uncontrollable and screwed up preachings, are in fact a reflection of your history, ur background, where u coming from and definitely where u going.
But ur psychotic , depressive n highly misguided mindset is too repulsive for ordinary, decent, educated and even remotely civilized ppl.
So take a hike my friend and dont waste our time…ur suicide boming friends r waiting for u in some dungeon, trying to figure out why on earth, the entire planet thinks of u as gone and incurable terrorists, who only hv one solution………….DRONE and if u survive that, God Forbid……………….GITMO….( Bush Zindabad 4 that)……throwing u in a slammmer n then throwing the key in the Arabian Sea………….oh i m sorry…GITMO is in Cuba……..as long as they throw the damn key ……………… Rot in hell you brainwashed, illiterate , suicidal puppets and their masters.
Hasan Abidi
These are cruel people. These maulvis use children to do their killing and they spread hate and kill other muslims. And we just stand and watch and wait for our turn to die.
Yes, our silence and justification in the name of religion, nationalism, ghairat and all that killed today!!
They use children for this ghatia and mean act and they think they are religious and love God. What the…