If there was ever any doubt about Pakistan’s ability to survive as a country, the recent attacks in Lahore have once and for all settled the issue – Pakistan is a ticking time bomb with no way to unplug or stop the bomb from exploding.
And, even with this tragedy, there are people in Pakistan who were questioning whether those were killed can be called Muslims. Regretfully, for some, it was not important that couple of young kids can devastate a community and kill almost a 100 hundred unarmed civilians while these victims were praying, but what is important is to establish whether the deceased were Muslims or not.
This is madness beyond comprehension.
Before the massacre in Lahore, we all witnessed the unfortunate episode of blocking youtube and facebook ban only in Pakistan. Why? Because someone had insulted Islam or someone had tried to depict Prophet Muhammad. To be perfectly honest, I don’t know what the heck is or was going on, but I do know that no other so-called Muslim country even noticed or mentioned anything remotely similar to what the people in Pakistan expressed. And what was expressed by the people in Pakistan? Yes, you guessed it correctly, they were enraged.
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Now, if you think that people in Pakistan and only Pakistan are always outraged about one thing or the other, you are 100% correct. People in Pakistan, for some bizarre reason, are always mad; mad about America, mad about Israel, mad about India, or just mad about whatever may be the issue at hand.
Additionally, it seems that Pakistan as a society has been desensitized to violence. And, making matters worse, the public in the country has completely bought into this ridiculous and dead wrong notion that America is behind everything that goes wrong there. Since loss of life, property or constant destruction doesn’t bother people; it is unlikely that the country as a whole is willing to accept reality.
I have always believed that Pakistan was on a coalition course with disaster, and after the childish actions of blocking facebook and youtube, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that sooner or later, decades of negligence, denial, and unnecessary and misplaced anger would catch up Pakistan. Actually, I think it is actually happening and things are getting tougher by the minute.
Look at any channel in Pakistan except Pakistan Television, the guests and the so-called anchors are consistently talking about conspiracies against Islam and Pakistan (as Pakistan is the only country where Muslims live). And, believe it or not, every Jihadist, every religious fanatic and nut has been provided with a superb platform in the shape of private channels in Pakistan. Now, turn on any private channel in Pakistan and you will find that every hatemonger has a voice and a platform to air their vicious propaganda except for voice of reason. And, everyone once in a while when there is someone sane on television trying to present the realistic side of the any argument, his voice is drowned by the right wingers. And, as a result, we have a country of 170 million (according to very conservative estimates) that is not prepared to deal with facts. Instead, these people love to live in a delusional world – far from the realities of the ground.
