Eighteen bodies, shot, lay by the roadside with passer bys
having a clear view of the barbaric nature of these humans who carried out
these acts. Three days back two lawyers were shot dead of the same community.
The crime which they had committed was practicing a faith against the wish of
these barbarians.
When news of these killings are broken out in news, people
have glumly feeling for some time but a minute or two later, normal cheerful
chatter resume.
What to do?
With so many killings, taking things too seriously can be
bad for one’s mental health. In Pakistan one’s religious faith, or lack of one,
has become enough to guarantee execution and slaughter.
The killers do their job fearlessly and frequently; with
quarters of our society remaining silent, some distributing sweets and those
who have lost their loved ones mourn the demise of a family member or closed
one. The 17th century philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, once stated
that
“Men never do evil so completely
and cheerfully as when they do it for religious conviction”.
Equipped with just enough religion to hate those who
practice another faith – but not enough to love those who practice something
different. We as a society now have turned our backs to such religious
persecutions. One’s such as when 88 Ahmadis quietly praying in Lahore on a
Friday were turned into corpses, bombing of shrines of sufis and bombing of
peaceful processions have also failed to motivate public response. Mass
executions do not interest and are also not a part of Pakistan’s religious
parties, or Imran’s Khan’s PTI’s manifesto.
For them, only the killings by American drones matter. Hindus,
Christians, and Parsis were also not left alone. Indeed, they were rounded up
by presentation of the Objectives Resolution of 1949 which termed them freaks
and outcasts. Some had accepted their destiny, restricting their religious
freedom and also their private life.
The Tribal Areas are now a scene of sectarian warfare:
Kurram, Parachinar and Hangu and now more settled districts such as DG Khan, Peshawar,
Kanpur and other southern regions of Punjab are now killing grounds.
Is it just weakness?
Or, our responsibility?
While intelligence agents can be seen in many places, they
fail to restrict the virus of religious terrorism. More Difah-e-Pakistan
Council (DPC) rallies in different parts of the country, drawing many tens of
thousands. Prominent self-proclaimed killers of minorities, stand on stage hand
in hand showing their strength and unity while our LORD OF JUSTICE & HIS
JUSTICE LEAGUE don’t listen to the cries of people being targeted.
Newspaper reports state that a person involved in bloodshed
of hundreds named Malik Ishaq was freed by our GATEKEEPERS OF JUSTICE last year
with the reason that enough evidence was not presented. But after Ishaq read
out the names of his children, the judge abandoned the trial. What does the
Pakistan Army think it will gain by tolerating – or perhaps encouraging – such
violent forces once again?
Our brave army men have been paying a huge price in fighting
them, and their offshoots, elsewhere in the country. But the intelligence network
somehow isn’t able to control them, God knows why? Whatever the reason,
Pakistan’s minorities face disaster.
Concluding I would like to ask The Lord of Justice of our
country and the Tsunami Leader:
Why is that you just
focus on cases pertaining to government and not minorities?
Why is that sound of
slaps in pooling station you can hear but not the cries of mothers &
sisters who have lost their family members?
Why is it that
barbaric persecution on basis of faith isn’t rejected by your JUSTICE LEAGUE
& TSUNAMI as you deject corruption?
* Some parts have been taken from An
article from Pervez Hoodbhoy (Daily Express Tribune)
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