It took me a day to finally find words to express myself. The terrorist attack on the bus of Sri Lankan Cricket team just a mile from the Qaddafi Stadium, Lahore, was horrific. Who are these people, I wonder. How dare they hijack a nation, a country, kill its policemen, injure its guests and rob them off pleasure of cricket. It is a sad day in Pakistan. Every Pakistani is praying for the speedy recovery of the injured cricketers.
This horrific act is not an isolated case anymore. All the muslim countries are now suffering from cases like these everyday. People are not safe anywhere, when they leave homes for work or school or even to shopping, it is always at the back of their minds that they may never return home. Suicide bombing, snipper firing, armed robbery, kidnapping for ransom, and car bombs have become a norm in our countries.
I have always believed that radical elements in the society can only be neutralized by promoting awareness of civic duties, patriotism, nationalism and above all humanitarianism.
Our religion, Islam, the most beautiful religion in the world, a religion of love, peace and brotherhood. A religion that places mankind above God. A religion that advocates and educate believers and non-believers alike to love and protect thy neighbors; killing is forbidden, taking one life is equivalent of killing the entire human race; to be quiet rather than speak a word of evil, lest it may hurt someones feelings; to distribute all our surplus wealth and food amongst strangers; to protect and propagate all creations of God; to be kind and just to all regardless of their religious beliefs, cast, creed, color or nationality. Allah said,"Pious among you is the one who is the most humble" and Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) said," if you stay angry with your brother for more than three days than you are not one of us", which means you are not a Muslim.
These twelve men with back backs and armed with weapons and satellite phone are not Muslims, and they are definitely not Pakistanis because Pakistanis are extremely hospitable people, they lay down their lives to protect their guests.
Now the time has come that the civil society should rise up against these elements among us. Because there is no doubt that these criminals must be staying somewhere among us, eating and drinking with us, hiring vehicles and loading them up with weapons and some one some where is always aware of their suspicious movements and activities. If we are sincere with ourselves, sincere with our children and the next generations and our countries then it is our responsibility to inform the law enforcement authorities of such activities. It is now the duty of an average citizen, to protect its country, because it is impossible for our police and armed forces to curb these elements without the help of its citizens. We have to put our differences aside and work together to rid our homes of this menace.
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The reality is that this is just as likely to be an attack made by our own home-grown terrorist organizations as it is to have been made or facilitated by 'foreign hands'. There is no shortage of highly-competent well-armed and trained groups within our own borders capable of such an operation. They have no need of foreign assistance or foreign money – there are plenty of people here happy to finance them and offer logistical support. No shortage either of groups wishing to undermine the government and capable of exploiting a perceived weakness caused by the confusion rife in the Punjab police force; a product of the political movement of senior officers in the wake of the imposition of governor rule. Another reality is that the attack was carried out close to a police station and that the attackers must have conducted a reconnaissance for them to set up a kill-zone – and nobody noticed? Nobody noticed that up to fourteen heavily armed men using at least three cars, as well as rickshaws and bicycles, were securing a road junction in the centre of Lahore? A reasonable person may infer from this that there was a failure of intelligence, both electronic and human.
ReplyDeletei wudnt be surprised if indian government had its hand in this horrible act.
ReplyDeleteEntire Muslim world is quite uneasy: while a crisis is latent here it is brewing there and it has already erupted into noisy chaos elsewhere. In Iraq and Afghanistan people seem to have lost the very perception of life and death. Border security force of Bangladesh took to mutiny as a mode of expressing their anger. Democratic dispensation in Pakistan, which has come after a long period of dictatorial rule, is more a make-believe than real. Turkey once described as sick man of Europe still fits the description while Iran continues in revolutionary mind set. Gaza is visited by Israeli forces whenever they feel to go for an outing. OIC has reduced itself to an elitist club where weather is talked about more than the issues facing the Muslim world.
ReplyDeleteOutside the Muslim world, Muslims have everywhere become most suspicious and vulnerable lot and are routinely caricatured by media in every possible manner involving all aspects of their faith. Muslim bashing is at the centre of all political discourse in India, which boasts to be the largest democracy in world and second largest Muslim population after Indonesia.
During the pristine period of Islam Muslims were defined by it. Their vigour, vision and their great contributions towards human advancement, which have made west what it is today, all emanated from the spiritual refinement that Islam brought about in its followers in varied socio-economic and cultural backdrops.
Somewhere in the mid way Muslims took to defining Islam rather than being defined by it. This change in the basics is peaking now and of late Muslims are known as Islamists –likening them to other politico-economic groups like communists, capitalists, socialists etc. World has seen the fate of these ideologies: communists are redundant, socialists are vestigial and capitalist are melting down. Obviously then the politicising of Islam is an intellectual bankruptcy. It is disastrous to use an eternal spiritual guidance for achieving the mundane. This fundamental deviation of mixing up of the divine with the profane needs to be analysed, understood and interpreted properly as a first step towards restoring Islam to its original meaning and purpose so that fifth of humanity plays its part in ongoing march of civilization which is, so far, considered the high-noon of human achievement...........