ET: Murder is commonplace and so is mass murder. It is a news item, and news items change too quickly to keep count, to mourn properly, to be disturbed over for very long. Yet, even now, occasionally the soul is bruised. It will not last, however, it does linger. Death of children is unspeakable. Death of children by murder is unthinkable, at least up to the point that it is not. Murder of children being cheered on by ordinary folks, not only making excuses and condoning it, but celebrating it, dancing and displaying triumph is where one runs the risk of running out of not only words, but thoughts. However, keep some of the powder of your outrage dry, Gaza continues and Gujranwala will happen again.
Perhaps, because the thoughts are so forbidding and forbidden that every day honest words are no longer possible. How else can one explain the bombing of hospitals and schoolchildren in Gaza as being termed “justified retaliation”? How else does it make sense to term an attack by a mob burning down houses of Ahmadi residents, killing young children a “clash”? Who was the mob “clashing” with? Humanity, perhaps.
At least, some of us, and our leaders, can find it in themselves to condemn the murder in Gaza, even if feebly. What about the Ahmadi children murdered? The Urdu press could not even identify the religion of the children killed, some omission, given that they were only killed because of belonging to that religion. The chief minister of Punjab, Mian Sahib the younger, has no words of condemnation.
The chief minister will not be going to the house of the Ahmadi children killed because it is not good marketing. The Younger Mian will choose his words, if there are any, very carefully since the elder Mian, the now absentee prime minister once did not. After the mass slaughter of Ahmadis in their “places of worship” (so much for honest speak), Mian Nawaz Sharif made the horrible mistake of calling the murdered and their families as “fellow Pakistani brothers” and sure enough had to mumble excuses and clarify what he meant the next day. Reflect on this, for nothing else but for calling them “Pakistanis” and “brothers”.
A nation, state and society can begin to consider an entire people, a community as evil, even their kids, and being remorselessly complicit in killing. The Ahmadi debate is nonexistent. The vernacular media cannot even say the word, ‘Ahmadi’, not even when children are burnt alive, burnt to death. The State has not only declared them ‘non-Muslims’, it has also prohibited them from using ‘religious symbols’, and the court has held that these religious symbols are like ‘trademarks’. Worse, society does not care. We, the people, are not disturbed when Ahmadis are killed. No, we are not. “All death is condemnable”, “nobody should take law in their own hands” and “the rule of law should be established” is meaningless and often cowardly gibberish in this particular context. If the chief minister/s and the prime minister cannot say that the persecution of the Ahmadis has to stop and the perpetrators held accountable, then that’s that, Sirs, by all means go on and build your flyover to hell.
The Ruling party and opposition should pay attention to the rule of law and law making. If they will not do that then there is another law of judgment from Almighty Allah which will take account of all things. Instead of making bridges and dams and overpasses, it is necessary for the government to look after law and order.
There is no system of true evidence (Shahaadat) in the courts. Where is their Islam???
As long as these uneducated and selfish people are ruling pakistan,they can’t bring law and order.What they are doing with ahmadis Allah is seeing all this,a day will come soon inshallah when they will not be able to run away .May these days of trials get shortened and peace be with Ahmadis and this country.