The liberal lynch mob (III)

KARACHI: With reference to Mahreen Khan’s article of August 28, may I say that what happened in Sialkot is a vivid and macabre manifestation of what is normal for Pakistan. The mob enjoying the violence needs to be subjected to a good non-lethal thrashing. There is nothing Islamic about the Islamic Republic of Pakistan or the people who enjoy watching murder taking place in front of their eyes. The fact that it happened during Ramazan and a day after our Independence Day, casts doubts about the claims of moral superiority made by many of us. And we should come out of the Alice in Wonderland bigotry and stop acting like ostriches.

Collectively we have failed and although I may not necessarily agree with my friend George Fulton’s view, his dig at our rotten edifice was correct.

Ali K Chishti

Published in The Express Tribune, August 30^th, 2010.