Wages of our surrender
Just a day went by and the sectarian terrorists struck again — this time in Quetta.

Regrettably, this view — that outsiders have something to do with these attacks or that the attackers cannot be Muslims — is perpetuated in large part by sections of the media and this plays right into the hands of the terrorists. In fact, this perpetuation is so prevalent in society in general that one sometimes wonders whether there is some real sympathy for the terrorists among ordinary Pakistanis. And then when one begins to see the latent dislike or hatred if you will of America among many Pakistanis — for the right or wrong reasons — things begin to make sense. Even the attack on an Ahmadi place of worship in Mardan, also on Friday, which killed two worshippers, can be ‘rationalised’ under this paradigm because the people being targeted are deemed ‘kafirs’ and hence ‘wajibul qatl’. This is exactly how the sectarian outfits such as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi or Sipah-e-Sahaba justify the murder of Shias in this country, and unless we stand up to it and challenge their hegemony the terrorists will not even begin to be defeated.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 4th, 2010.
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