The News: by Harris Khalique: In medieval Europe, heretics were burnt alive, rebels were quartered and their body parts were sent to the remote corners of the country, those who believed that the earth revolved around the sun were admonished and threatened. The Christian church held sway over kings, queens and princes, theology was knowledge and science was profanity. That period in history is called the Dark Ages.
Times changed. Europe saw the period of enlightenment, industrial revolution, ascendancy of philosophy over theology, pre-eminence of science and rational thought over dogmatism and superstition.
European civilisation produced Newton, Galileo, Einstein, Darwin, Freud and Marx. From James Watt to Graham Bell, thousands of discoverers and inventors completely transformed human existence. At the same time, they began to dominate the rest of the world – politically, culturally, militarily and economically. Even today, what we see in the form of the United States, Canada and Australia are the projections of European civilisation and culture over other parts of the planet.
The state of Pakistan began with a promise. Even the scars of the Partition of British India and the massive bloodletting it entailed did not held us from dreaming, from planning, from progressing in different walks of life.
Categories: Ahmadis And Pakistan, Anti Islam act by Muslims, Asia
George Bush had warned Pakistan:”we will bomb you to the stone age”. The bombs he referred to were the suicidal bombers from amongst the Pakistani lot, the logical result of the fanaticism which was intentionally spread for winning the Afghan War.
Speaking from a religious point of view, “there were supposed to be no wars in the name of religion” during the time of Imam Mehdi.
Afghan national war was branded as “Jihad” by the Ullema of the Muslim World headed by the miltary regime of Zia ul Haq in Pakistan backed by Saudi money and American weaponry. And ofcourse all in the name of Islam. You cannot play games with the big Boss up there.
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