Food for thought

The pro Taliban apologists are at it flooding the social media as usual with videos and edited photos trying to justify Army Public School massacre and tragedy. Coming up with conspiracy theories.
What a shame!
Deflection and propaganda is in full swing.
"This can't be Musalman, foreigners are behind it, foreigners dresssed as Pakistanis". "This is an attempt to make Taliban look bad!" Really!
Instead of focusing on the victims they are finding excuses for Taliban's murderous actions. 
If this tragedy doesn't shake some sense into our heads then we are truly a dead and doomed nation. Nobody else is responsible for our downfall but us. We are our own worst enemy...looking for short cut to heaven and trying to find nirvana through some twisted ideology. A eutopian Islamic society where all will be well... you are thinking of heaven my friends. ..this is earth.
There are good social welfare and just societies on this planet but none of them is in an Islamic country, they are all Secular states, where we all run for refuge when things go wrong in our countries.
I wonder how those countries achieved that peace and prosperity? Seperation of Church and state and freedom of religion. People can practice their faith without fear of persecution in those countries. Yes, everything is not perfect there, but people can raise their children and live in peace. 

"If only there was Islami Hakoumat all will be well" , is the mantra that I hear from Pakistanis ..that is the dream the nation has been dreaming. As if just by implementing strict Islamic laws somehow all of the problems that Pakistan faces will vanish by magic! Poof! Gone!
Not so. Sorry to break it to you but you are all living in a fools paradise high on the LSD of Wahabism. Strict Islamic laws didn't change the morality of the Arabs, or did it? Unless your moral compass is right, unless you become good human beings, no law will fix anything.
Change comes from within. Morality and values have to change at an individual level to see a change in the society as a whole. There are no short cuts, plain old honest and sincere hard work that makes nations great. Honesty my friends is still the best policy. Be honest to yourselves, be honest in your dealings and live and let live. Speak the truth, call a killer a killer and a victim victim. Don't twist facts to fit your own narrative. Don't lie to yourself and others.
Right is right and wrong is wrong.
Killing unarmed human beings no matter how Holy your cause is wrong and unacceptable.
Violent ideologies usually meet a violent end.
Hopefully Talibanization's end is near....maybe.........?

IDPs with Pakistani IDs ( Homeless within the homeland )

IDPs are the people with Pakistani ID cards...Pakistani citizens not allowed the freedom of movement in their own country.
If there is no freedom of movement within your own country and you are told to stay within your own province then we are 4 separate states living within one common boundary.
If this is being done for security reasons then it is the same as saying that all the people from KPK are terrorists and terrorist activities are only limited to KPK.
Yes, there are Taliban in the tribal areas but all tribals are not Taliban and not all Taliban are Pashtuns.
Was Lal Masjid in KPK? It was in the State Capital Islamabad.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was arrested in Rawalpindi.
Ramzi Yusuf was arrested in Islamabad.
Omar Saeed Sheikh was arrested from Lahore.
Ramzi binalshibh arrested in Karachi.
OBL was killed in Abbottabad a Garrison town because of the tip given to USA by an Afridi Pashtun doctor.
Mullah Baradar captured in Karachi.
Saeedul Islam ( Punjabi TTP deputy chief ) arrested in Karachi
So you see all terrorist activities are not limited to KPK and all terrorists don"t live there. Some do but not all. We all know of different factions of Taliban and TTP. They are known to everyone and everyone knows that the Taliban are not restricted to KPK only.
Here is a point to ponder, if Pashtuns were all Taliban and Taliban sympathizers then they wouldn't be the ones being targeted by the Taliban. KPK would be spared.
But KPK and it's people have taken the brunt of Taliban attacks. Their leaders murdered, their schools destroyed, their security shattered, their Masajids not safe anymore, economy destroyed. Why would a friend do that to a friend?
If Pashtuns were all terrorists none would be sitting in IDP camps waiting for the army to clear their areas of the presence of Taliban so that they can return to their homes and businesses which they have lost for now along with their dignity... waiting for some Govt handout to feed themselves and their families, when once they lived in their own homes and ran their own businesses and their kids went to school. They might not have been rich but they didn't beg for anyone's help. They were content in their homes and their lands living with honor. Even that has been taken from them.
If Taliban were their kith and kin then all these people would be happy that their kith and kin are ruling them. They would not be homeless in their own country. Refugees in their own homes.

When you draw distinctions and set up boundaries limiting freedom of movement then you are the one dividing the country...the one drawing the lines...making the distinction that we are not all one but divided. We are Pashtuns, Punjabis, Sindhi and Baluch and we are all Pakistanis as long as we stay in our own home territory  and are not welcome anywhere else in the country. My home is not your home. You stay in your home and i will stay in mine. You are not welcome anymore. 

Malign Malala

You (Malala haters) see her as a disgrace to the country. I see her as a pride of the country.
 We have this weird way of looking at things. Har aik cheez ko hum apni izzat aur anna ka masla bana laitay hain. Hide the truth and keep covering up the rot for the sake of appearances. Malala makes us look bad..she tells the world that we shoot girls going to schools. But it is not "we"( Pakistanis)  or do we consider the Taliban as "we"? The only people that Malala makes look bad are the Taliban. So it makes sense that the Taliban supporters and sympathizers have been making all sorts of accusations against her and trying to tarnish her image because she makes their heroes look bad, The TALIBAN. It all makes sense. 

We hide abuse in our culture to maintain a certain image. It's a matter of appearances and honour, no one cares about the reality. "Khandan ki izzat kharab ho gee." "Naak kat jaye gee!"
Women are told to endure abusive husbands and bad marriages for the sake of family image. We hide crimes like rape, incest and sexual abuse.
We have an image to maintain, so we lie and hide the rot of the society. That is what gets us in trouble...when the stink gets unbearable.
Facts are facts and by not talking about them the problem doesn't go away...it gets worse.
" All is well" attitude, when nothing is well, is what stops us from progressing.
If we keep lying to ourselves for the sake of appearances then the problem stays...it festers and it gets worse. How can we fix anything if we fail to admit that a problem even exists?
Covering up a tumor under pretty clothes doesn't make it go away...without admitting that there is a tumor and without proper treatment it will spread and kill the patient in the end.

Malala was threatened and shot, girl's schools were blown up, even boy's schools were blown up and that is a fact.
People complain about her being the darling or even an agent of the West and they are unhappy about her address at the UN. She in her speech at UN didn't say that our country Pakistan is bad or Islam our religion is bad.
She is a Pakistani who is showing to the world that Pakistani girls care about their education and will go to any lengths to get one. That is a pretty positive image for our country.
The only people that look bad because of her message are the" Taliban"... ones who attacked her, destroyed schools, attack our security forces, attack our law enforcement personnel, blow masajid and kill innocents in their supposed war against the West... the Taliban.
I wonder if Malala haters care more about the "tarnished" image of the Taliban/ Zaliman than the victims of Taliban? Is she bringing a bad name to their heroes?
One person's freedom fighter is another person's terrorist. Your heroes (Taliban) are my terrorists and i don't care about the negative image her existence brings to the Taliban. I am glad someone has the guts to speak the truth and she is doing it.

People call her a fake and a product that her father helped create or groom.
She is a victim and a product of her circumstances...she or her father didn't manufacture a heroine.
Those who criticize her father, this what i have to say to them; Father's job is to mentor his children...and her father did his job well. He helped groom Malala into a thoughtful, confident and courageous girl.  

What is wrong with Malala promoting Girls education?
Education is an Islamic cause not a liberal cause.

Liberals didn't put a bullet in her head to make her a heroine...Taliban did.