We are going around in circles.
Yes, we are.
Indian maoists have not been attacking other countries, heck they have been receiving help from Chinese for decades.
Why don't you tell the ''civilized world'' and ''international community'' to take action against the Chinese? After all, India is very important to them.
Actually, yes, I do trust the exploding guys and assault weapon wielding ones more, because they know they are going to die, money is not a motivation to kill yourself. They truly believe they are fighting for Islam and they are going on a jihad.
They don't, actually. They beg for mercy when they are about to be executed, and most of them d
on't have the slightest idea about Islam. Those who do believe it and do suicide bombings are indoctrinated psychopaths. The issue is that terrorists seem to be very good at finding such psychopaths, because they prey on orphans and vulnerable people and indoctrinate them since childhood. It's a very complex issue and dismissing it by saying ''Jihad'' doesn't do justice to it.
And I have to practically wonder - every major religion on earth teaches spiritual struggle, why is it that the Hindus or Budhists are Christians are not exploding everywhere?
Because the world's geopolitical scenario has recently shifted to being centered around Muslim nations. The LTTE, which invented suicide belts, used left-wing ideologies for their purposes. The Christians were fighting in Crusades and massacring people in Inquisitions not so long ago. When the political situation changed to their advantage, their religious extremism was replaced with ideas of ''Democracy'' and ''Civilization''. Yet they used these ideas too for aggressive political purposes.
The Buddhists are currently perpetrating violence in Myanmar.
My point is that every religion or ideology can be twisted.
Localized insurgencies/brutalities I can understand - like the IRA in UK, or LTTE in SL or Maoists(atheist) in India, but certainly, Myanmar budhists are not exploding against Muslims in London or Hindus are not committing suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia
Religious extremism has more reach than political ideologies.
So it has to be something specific to Islam because its spread over a very very wide geographical area and to very unrelated people- Austrians joining ISIS to Pakistani taliban.
It's not specific to Islam. The concept of Jihad is emphatically and clearly described as ''doing something for the betterment of society or one's spiritual state''. Additionally, suicide and the killing of innocents is forbidden. These restrictions are very, very emphasized in all Islamic texts, a lot more so than Jihad.
If the situation was reversed, the same would happen with Christian extremists or Hindu extremists. Like I said, religious extremism is more potent than political ideologies.
Though we can agree to disagree, my point is that were Pakistanis not dying everywhere for Islam, the world would be bothering Pakistan exponentially less.
You seem to think that even if Pakistanis were not involved in all this, the world would still bother Pakistan.
Yes, that is your point and I disagree with it. But I'm not talking about some massive worldwide conspiracy against Pakistan specifically, or even Muslims. Just that the global political situation is such that it results in countries having to bother Pakistan. Hypothetically, had Pakistan not supported the US in its fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan, Pakistan would still be facing similar situations, if not worse.
Another point I disagree with is your usage of 'the world' to refer to the Western Bloc. It's not the world whose interests were and are aligned against Pakistan's. Just a few nations. China, for example, is a big part of the world, yet it maintains good relations with Pakistan.
