This article sounds like a victory beacon for supporters of radicalism.
KARACHI: Ayesha Siddiqa’s article of august 21, titled “Obituary of liberal-secularism — I” perhaps focuses too much on radicalism as an ideology rather than a reactionary force. This article sounds like a victory beacon for supporters of radicalism who have only found their way into our society on the shoulders of skewed allocation of resources, sadly always in the favour of our liberal elite. This has rendered the ‘liberal cadre’ prone to misrepresentation, leading masses hostile to the very basis of modernity and liberalism.
It seems the underlying force behind this issue of ‘us’ and ‘them’, feeds upon the problem of economic inconsistencies which can only be solved by a true representative government, either religious or non-religious (I prefer religious or non-religious instead of radicalists or liberals).
This societal segregation would diminish if Pakistan adopts the ideology of ‘justice’ as it is the former that guarantees progress.
Arsalan Nazim
Published in The Express Tribune, August 24th, 2011.
