Forgetting Aasia Bibi

Completely agree with you, but we are a nation of hypocrites lead by bigger hypocrites who all have a yellow line running down their back bone.
The handling of the Aasia and Salman Taseer cases by the government, law enforcement and the judiciary is just disgusting in so far as nothing tangible appears to be happening.Recommend

Agreed. The focus needs to remain on these dark laws of General Zia.Recommend

My plan is to make everyone forget about Asia Bibi and once she is forgotten, we can put her and her family on the first flight out of this Jazbaati Azab called Mullahistan.

So lets not talk about her.

Once the attention is focused elsewhere, I am willing to come back to Pakistan in the near future and fight violently against the Mullahs and Islamists.Recommend

Apparently, Raymond Davis managed to get all of Pakistan’s blasphemers to start cursing America instead.

Hamna, once this Davis thing blows over we’ll find something else to be outraged about.

So why don’t you get to work on setting the agenda that lies ahead, instead of trying to convince us to go back to that tired old issue we no longer find as interesting?

As for Pakistan’s “moral decay”… isn’t a bit late in the game for us to pretend that even worries us anymore? How cute of you to bring it up anyway.Recommend

Good points, but if you live in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, you know ‘Islamic’ is more important. Asia bibi is a Christian. sad but true. You are allowed,in fact encouraged to blasphemy against other faiths, but it appears this is one way street. You can preach others to join Islam and by so doing state all the ‘bad’ things about their faiths, but a retort can shorten your life. Others can join Islam, but anybody leaving Islam should be killed. “Kill those who join other Gods”, I read
But thanks for writing about Asiua bibi and other future victims of intolerance. .I wish there are more like you. around.Recommend

Agree with you Hamna. Selective memory and short attention span are what has perpetually plagued our mushrooming media scene. This has actually become such a regular occurrence that it has conditioned us consumers of media accordingly. We are being fed sensationalism and the breaking news culture and most of us are gradually falling prey to it as well. It has hence become a vicious cycle where the media keeps supplying newer and newer, juicier stories and we keep demanding or thriving on them more and more. In the process we are losing sight of the bigger picture, as you rightly pointed out. What with the newfound obsession with the Arab and Middle East revolution we see valuable slots in important shows on TV that hold the keys to thought and opinion influence being dedicated to ‘Whether or not such revolutions will work in Pakistan’ What if this and what if that, completely ignoring the plights of the common man and the realities of everyday life in the country that remain unattended.

Efforts by the few voices of reason like yours to keep pertinent issues such as that of the blasphemy laws in the forefront until they are resolved are much needed. An issue that is more symbolic and less consequential in nature like the Raymond Davis case shouldnt have gotten this much mileage for sure. Recommend

Because in Pakistan we have a lust for blood. We always want revenge and like to see people we don’t like suffer. In spite of having grown up with tales of the prophet’s (pbuh) forgiving and merciful nature we fail to apply it in daily life. We are in a constant frenzy being fed by the media. And instead of celebrating the many unsung heros amongst us we are too busy making heros of murderer and terrorists. Just goes to show how skewed our moral compass is. Shame on us!Recommend

Afia – Asia
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