We are facing extremism in the 21st century, it will not go away unless we are willing to take revolutionary steps.
ISLAMABAD: This is with reference to Asad Munir’s article of October 16 titled “Let the Taliban rule Karachi”. People tend to follow religious sources selectively, as in they do what suits them. But as for their views on women and their treatment, time does not change. All laws are applied to women in the way they were 1,500 years ago.
The video that the writer quoted had a Talib quoting Islamic sources selectively, to justify criminal acts like robbery, kidnapping, beheading, killing of woman and children, and so on.
The Christians and Jews have passed through these stages, albeit many centuries ages in the period what is now known as the Medieval Age (or the Middle Ages). For us, we are facing extremism in the twenty-first century and it will not go away unless we are willing to take some revolutionary steps.
Ghulam Ali
Published in The Express Tribune, October 18th, 2011.
