Gojrah; What happened to the promise land?
Posted by عمار - aMmAr | Posted in Pakistan, Pictures that speak, islam | Posted on 02-08-2009-05-2008
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“You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed — that has nothing to do with the business of the State… We are starting with this fundamental principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens of one State… I think we should keep that in front of us as our ideal and you will find that in due course Hindus would cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the State.” - August 11, 1947 address of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Zia ul Haq was the worst thing that could happen to Pakistan. No corrupt elected ruler or unelected marshal law administrator can top the level of damage Zia has caused since his military coup in 1977. He polluted the very ideology of Pakistan by injecting his version of Islam in the roots of this country. Even after 21 years of his death the country continues to burn in the fire of sectarian and communal violence. Where a rumor of desecration of the Holy Quran can make self appointed army of Islam murder and tear down the property of a minority community. I wonder which divine revenge in the Islamic Shariya allows a Muslim to burn alive innocent women and children.
The incident which is not the first of its nature does not surprise me at all. The silence of the religious parties and Islamic clerics on this incident continues to amuse me. How can you expect from the mullahs to speak against this atrocity, when they kept their jaws sealed whilst Muslims were blown on numerous occasions in the major parts of the country. I am sure a foreign hand will be indicated by these mullahs in this situation and no practical solidarity will be shown by the followers of Islam who teaches solidarity and religious coexistence.
While growing up my late grandmother often used to narrate the following quotation of Imam Ali:
“One can live under infidelity, but one can’t endure brutality”
But we will find no shame by sticking with those golden words which helps us promote our version of Islam. How convenient?
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I agree with the part about sectarian violence and what zia did. Don’t really agree with the part where you put gojra case in that of secterian violance. I have the first account of what happened in gojra, and to me it appears to be a case of mob mentallity and Christians happened to be a colateral of that damage. What happenned was wrong, and I condemn it, but not for the wrong reasons.
@ yousuf
what are the right reasons, since collateral christians arent
Well we should quit bitching about the dead and start doing something about the living — http://www.ahmedquraishi.com/article_detail.php?id=769 .
Zia was an ass, and he deserved what he happ to him in the end. And you’re right about the double standards of mullahs these days.