{"id":15207,"date":"2012-01-21T04:47:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T04:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?p=15207"},"modified":"2012-01-21T04:47:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T04:47:45","slug":"we-will-make-pakistan-a-taliban-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2012\/01\/we-will-make-pakistan-a-taliban-state\/","title":{"rendered":"We will make Pakistan a Taliban State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"How do you fight a person, when you can\u2019t fight the mentality? The Jehadis in Pakistan have very clear enemies \u2013 Americans & Westerners, Jews, Indians (read Hindus), and the Muslims who aren\u2019t \u201cMuslim enough\u201d. That is how the hierarchy of \u201cEnemies of Islam\u201d goes.<\/p>\n

What happened in Lahore is symptomatic of a larger malaise in Pakistani society and the difficulty of the nation\u2019s psyche to extricate itself from it. When a Jehadi shouts hate slogans against a Jew or an Indian Hindu, how can another Muslim also brought up on the hatred for Jews and Hindus \u2013 reinforced by their education and mosque \u2013 credibly and effectively<\/strong><\/u> (critical qualifications) counter him? Even when he knows that he is the next one in line of the hierarchy for the self-appointed \u2018Believers in Line- Incharge\u201d Jehadis. <\/p>\n

How can one with 50 or 60 or 80% of the destructive beliefs of the killer\u2019s total content of belief system, effectively fight him? By the time, the Jehadi comes out of the comfort zone of the \u201cModerate\u2019s\u201d 50% belief similarity zone, it is too late. He is the next in line!<\/p>\n

Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JD) \u2013 a Jehadi outfit in Pakistan \u2013 openly took out a rally<\/a> vowing to convert Pakistan into a Taliban state. Notice the words in the news item \u2013 \u201coutlawed\u201d. These words somehow lose their normal meaning in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

Jamaatud Dawa (JD) has vowed to convert Pakistan into a Taliban state and to train young people to wage jihad against America and India, in the latest rally by the outlawed group here in the city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cIt cannot\u201d, many Pakistanis will retort. Taliban is not a group. It is a mentality. One would need to take a deep dive into one\u2019s own self to see if he is or isn\u2019t a Taliban in his heart.<\/p>\n

It is not about the 60% of your heart that feels for humanity that counts. It is the 40% of the heart that is steeped in prejudice which will matter in the end.<\/p>\n

No one has ever seen yet, nor is there any record of \u2013 a \u201cDay of Judgment\u201d by a faceless and formless God (who is also never been seen, nor heard in any audibly recorded device) as yet. But it is important for everyone to judge himself to see if s\/he is what one wants to make the society as?<\/p>\n

You cannot be 20% Taliban in your core, and expect 100% country to be rid of Taliban! It doesn\u2019t work that way.<\/p>\n

An interesting but devastating fact of this incident \u2013 that shows the vulnerability of the nation\u2019s society is who were involve in the protests and how. A fact, that underscores the mess that I am talking about. School kids as young as 10 years \u2013 were taken on pretext of a \u201cField Trip to Science Exhibition\u201d. Pretty obviously, they were NOT from madrasas, but from English Medium schools, albeit \u201cIslamic\u201d English medium schools. 50% Taliban + 50% Modern. <\/p>\n

Just as I said, it doesn\u2019t work that way. <\/p>\n

Critical to remember, however, is the relationship and power<\/u> of outlawed<\/strong> Jehadi groups with schools for middle or upper middle class society in the country.<\/p>\n

Students aged 10 to 15 from Jhumra Sandal Islamic School, Faisalabad, and Tameer-i-Seerat Model School Sharaqpur, Sheikhupura, said that they had thought they were going to a science exhibition and that\u2019s what they had told their parents.<\/p>\n

One student from Sandal Islamic School gave this correspondent a form titled \u2018Field Trip Permission\u2019 that was signed by his mother. \u201cDear Parent or Guardian,\u201d it reads. \u201cYour child is going on a field trip. Please read the information at the top of this form, then sign and return the permission slip at the bottom of this form.\u201d It goes on to say that the students would be taken to a science exhibition at Al-Mizan School, Faisalabad, and they would be back by 3pm. The protest did not end till 4:20 pm, when the participants got back in the vans and buses and drove to Nasser Bagh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do you fight a person, when you can\u2019t fight the mentality? The Jehadis in Pakistan have very clear enemies \u2013 Americans & Westerners, Jews, Indians (read Hindus), and the Muslims who aren\u2019t \u201cMuslim enough\u201d. That is how the hierarchy of \u201cEnemies of Islam\u201d goes. What happened in Lahore is symptomatic of a larger malaise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":15208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1788,3371],"class_list":["post-15207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-jamaat-ud-dawa","tag-taliban"],"yoast_head":"\nWe will make Pakistan a Taliban State<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How do you fight a person, when you can't fight the mentality? 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