VIOLENT PROTESTS!!
"Mocked were many apostle before thee; But their scoffers were hemmed in by the thing thay they mocked " Al-Quran (21:41)
The mayhem in our own country since the past few days to me has been not surprising at all. Whereby some point towards the maulvis having insufficient vote-power yet possessing plenty of street power igniting public emotions, it should be brought to their kind selves that did the “rightly” condemned violent attitudes of the public not get the government into action? (That is not to say that the hostile behavior against our own fellow brothers was well justified.)
At a time when the whole world was protesting against the caricatures, our political parties for most of the bit were either engrossed in deciding on to the Hudood Ordinance bill being passed or the issuance of red notices. So much for having such an administration in an Islamic republic it was surely a wonder that the people did not riot before. Weeks after the publications of blasphemous cartoons in the Danish newspapers, Pakistan finally decided to recall its ambassador from Denmark and it wasn’t until the extreme protests that the leaders begin to state that such violation of muslim’s faith could lead to eroding of west’s goodwill! May I ask, wasn’t such a blow essential for the leaders who only stated that they condemned such perverse attitudes yet failed to show it by any sort of action at all? Clearly, it was so, due to the unchecked and unguided passionate intensity that lead to the undoing.
Moreover, if the west is startled by the emotional intensity of the muslims, let us bring to their knowledge that it was the Europeans who screamed the loudest over the screening of the movie “the last temptation of Christ”. Was it not faith that justified their actions? Howcome the muslims are supposed to be more tolerant and accustomed to the notion of freedom of expression and that of attack.
posted by Arooj Riaz Sheikh @ 11:15 AM
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