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By Shoaib Mehmood Nagi
Shakespeare once said ‘Few love to hear the sins they love to act’. One has to only look at the political opinions of various Pakistanis to corroborate his observation. The phenomenon of hypocrisy in Pakistan is not limited to a specific quadrant on the political compass. In fact, all the ideological factions of Pakistan i.e. Islamists, Leftists, Insafians, Liberal-Fascists etc., exhibit this phenomena in its essence. The pervasiveness of this stark hypocrisy has been pestering me for a little while now. So, I finally decided to undertake the task of categorically exposing it.
Islamist hypocrisy
The most skilled players in the infamous sport of hypocrisy are the Islamists of Pakistan. These are the people who idolize Abdullah Azzam, try to distinguish the ‘pious’ Afghan Taliban from the ‘Zionist’ Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and share photoshopped pictures of the ‘massacre of Muslims in Burma’ on social media. They value the life lost at the hands of an American drone more than the life lost at the hands of the religious extremists.
They pour their hearts out for a person killed by a drone strike but stay silent when Shia Muslims are butchered across the country. They organize rallies across the country to campaign for the release of a suspected terrorist i.e. Afia Siddique but they vigorously defend the imprisonment of a woman wrongly accused of blasphemy i.e. Aasia Bibi. They tend to condemn the assassination of Osama Bin Laden as an imperialist act, yet they glorify the assassin of Governor Salman Taseer, whose only crime was to speak our bravely against the injustices that result from the blasphemy laws. On one hand they curse France because of the veil ban and regard it as a vicious attack on multiculturalism and on the other, they firmly believe that the only acceptable culture in Pakistan should be that which is purely Islamic in nature.