I don't know why, may be I read some good posts from you some time ago, I expected better from you.
What 'mass protests' over Obama in Pakistan? How many people? Which political parties? What proportion of the population? I bet not even 0.001% who 'mass protested' over OBL death--and that for a guy who was supposed to be some kind of modern Saladin for the jihadis.
Similarly, there were some sickos who came out when Taseer was killed to support Qadri, but the vast majority of the news media AND this Forum condemned it. It is only the fear of those Jihadis' rented-suicide bombers which prevented mass counter demonstrations.
I am, like most other Pakistanis, are ashamed of what happened to Taseer and Bhatti. But we have not lost of the perspective: These fanatics are vocal and violent but they are not the majority.
And, no, they are 'not winning'. They will be taken care of once the security agencies get some breathing room from the insurgencies and terrorist attacks from the WOT.
My friend, I do not write with quality in mind. Nor do I write to appease or anger anyone. I write what I perceive as I see what is happening around. I am glad at least you noted a deviation in my pattern, I would hate myself for being too predictable or monotonous. And in the end, I am also a human, so I am bound to commit mistakes too, which I am sure I must have many a times.
Now getting to the behavior of the mass that I talked about. I did read news, and see pictures of large groups waving placards and banners in favor of Osama, in the weeks that followed his killing.
I did not count the number of people who participated in those gatherings and protests. Nor did I count the number of protests. It has been such a past that all I remember is bigger groups were mostly from around Quetta, and some from south too.
After witnessing such protests (some of which looked eerily similar to the ones that happened yesterday protesting the sentence pronounced for Qadri), that shouted words like "We are all Osama" and something like "ASSASSINATION OF OSAMA WILL PRODUCE MANY OSAMA IN FUTURE" etc, what am I supposed to think? Please tell me.
Now you are doing exactly the same thing that I alleged in my previous post, that the magnitude of such protests will be toned down in future.
Well, you are the prosecutor, and I will make you my witness with this thread.
I posted that article in this thread not to "show" that "Oh look, there are protests in Pakistan". Rather I posted that article to keep a record in this forum to show everyone an ongoing pattern which is extremely dangerous for Pakistan. And you made that post so relevant within the same day it was posted.
Here's how: Look at the part of your post that I quoted in bold.
Now look at this piece from the same article that I posted here:
'Police were deployed at the jail gate to prevent any break-in. After Qadri was sentenced, the judge left through the back door.
Does it in any way suggest there were only a few? My friend, it suggests that the police force deployed there was inadequate and the
honorable judge was forced to use the backdoor.
Can you not see the crowd knocking on the door of the judiciary?
Meengla, it is not that I fulfill some sort of perverted desire by making such posts about Pakistan. I simply see a pattern or a cause, notice the flaws, and discuss them here.
What you think, or anyone, or even if I were loath myself later for doing it, I will not close my eyes to it, and I will still do it. This indifference and playing down the magnitude of such protests and attitude of many, for whatever reasons, is damaging your own country, and degrading your own society, more than anyone else's.
P.S. I never said, nor do I believe, that majority of the Pakistani people are radicals/extremists/terrorist supporters. No, they are not, I know this. But the number of radicals/extremists/terrorist supporters is not so small that we ignore them. Above all, they are active, working hard for their cause, unlike those whom we call rational. The rational ones appear to be sitting quietly, watching the current affairs in dismay, and appear to be doing nothing about it.