The liberal lynch mob (III)

Mahreen Khan seems to have completely failed to see what the writers are actually trying to achieve.

ISLAMABAD: Mahreen Khan seems to have completely failed to see what the writers who’ve tried to rouse some ‘shame’ into us are actually trying to achieve. What harm can asking us to view ourselves a little more critically cause anyway?

The purpose behind such articles is far more constructive and positive than the effect your “we’re not such bad people” and “the US did the same thing” article does. Please open your eyes and look around, this country is not a mess because of our leaders or natural calamities, it is a mess because we have failed to play our part. The first step towards reconstruction will involve accepting our faults and identifying our problems. All you’re doing is indulging our petty egos. We don’t need that mollycoddling, we’ve had 60 years of telling ourselves, it’s not us, it’s the US/India/Israel etc.

Until we repent what we’ve become, we’ll never be able to undo the harm we have caused ourselves.

Sarah Farooq

Published in The Express Tribune, August 29^th, 2010.