Friends
This forum informed you on aspects of the Islamist insurgency - this forum explained that the strategy of the Islamist enemy was to intimidate others from issuing Fatwas against the Islamists and we also informed you that creating sectarian strife in Pakistan is a persistent ambition of the Islamist. This forum informed you that the purpose of the attack on the PC in Peshawar was to create further problems with regard to the IDP --- Have we been correct?? below is an editorial from "The News International":
A terrible threat
Monday, June 15, 2009
The letter sent to an Imambargah in Lahore, and reproduced by this newspaper, says nothing that is very new. It threatens an attack on the place of worship unless Shias stop anti-Islamic activities. It insists the Shias are in fact non-Muslims. What is shocking is that we as a people, and as a state, have done so little to stop such attacks, to act against those who promote hatred for a community that according to some estimates forms around 20 per cent of the countrys Muslim population.
The attempt to label the Shias as non-Muslims has been on for decades. The process has gained pace since the 1990s, when the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) initiated a systematic process of murdering Shias by bombing mosques or gunning down leaders. Retaliation by Shia groups triggered sectarian violence that killed hundreds and devastated numerous families. The ban placed on extremist groups has not ended this process. The Taliban, with their distorted beliefs linked to orthodox Sunni schools of thought, have carried forward the process. In the Kurram Agency the lone tribal areas where Shias formed a sizeable chunk of the population there has been something akin to genocide. According to some accounts the killings continue.
This is a part of a larger process. The effort to cast the Shias in the role of a religious minority stems from the fact that the state connived with orthodox forces in the 1970s. Pakistan after all is made up of many diverse groups. It can flourish only if each of these communities can do so. And for non-Muslims, the situation is of course still more perilous. Our government must wake up to reality. Only by acting now can we save our state from further violence and halt the process of irrational violence that has led to more and more schisms.
Friends, for the love of Jinnah's Pakistan, don't let them succeed, inform yourself, ediucate yourself on the reality of this islamist insurgency - they will hide behind all kinds of names, but at the end of the day their emnity against the creation of the person they label "Kafir e Azam" will be clear. Defeat them, only you can, whether by support to the patriotic Fauj and more importantly by raising your voice against bigotry, against using religion as a ideology, as a tool of political expediency.
Absolutely Spot on.
It is absolutely essential that the likes of us not be bullyied into submission when someone uses the name of Islam to counter our pro Pakistan point of view.
Pakistan is not a joke and is certainly not something we cannot justify being Muslims.
We are no less Muslims when we live abroad so how come our sentiments for Pakistan (which is home to so many Muslims) are so easily bombarded by the Taliban apologists as being unislamic?
We should note that even in the early Islamic caliphate there were huge provinces which had governors to look after the affairs.
Each province was quite autonomous in its economy, law and order and local defence.
There was a geographical boundary where each governor was to establish the writ as per his discretion until deemed as per against basic guidelines.
Afterwards the Islamic empire was a union of various kingdoms, sultatnates and self governing mini states which used to be under the token leadership of a Caliph (this was in the crusades era).
Salahudding was the ruler of Egypt and Syria and there were many powerful kings etc who looked after their own kingdoms and made sure their writ was established within a geographical area.
When the Ottoman conquered the land they became the masters and so established their writ in their name and in being Muslims they automatically became the symbol of Muslim power.
The symbol of Islamic Power shifted throughout the history to those who had made themselves the most worthy of being called a super power and were able to exert their writ in the majority of Muslim Land!
My point is that there is nothing unislamic about Pakistan and its bid to protect is boundaries.
There is nothing Islamic about dismembering Pakistan and targetting its people...
There was never any justification to carry out this bloodshed unilaterally by TTP and when the state has finally responded to ensure the safety of its people and in defence of its boundary...we have people shedding crocodile tears over the brutality of the conflict and demanding a halt of army operation.
What ails us that we cannot even stand up for what is clearly something in the defence of our country and our people?
One cannot simply give in to the likes of TTP...no way is that ever going to solve any of our problems.
Pakistan first and foremost should be our motto and we should know that in protecting Pakistan we shall actually be making Muslims stronger and not vice versa as we have been led to believe by those who are always willing to provide justifications of all what Taliban are doing.
We need to engage our families, friends and all those who are still confused and hammer into their minds what is it that we are and should be fighting for.
