Pakistan’s Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider said:
“From many years the sectarian parties are spreading poison among their followers and polluting their minds. They take a child under care and poison his mind and he starts thinking the other (sects) are Kafirs (non-believers) and there will be recompense to kill them.”
In a mosque in Lahore, a young boy says his big ambition in life is to kill “non-believers”. His friend says he wants to fight a Jihad, or holy war.
In the nearby village of Raiwind, hundreds of bearded men carrying bed rolls arrive at a religious school to learn more about their Islamic faith before heading off to preach in Pakistan and abroad.
In Punjab, where 60 per cent of Pakistan’s, 140 million people live, segregation of the sexes is gaining momentum. Television advertisements of pretty young women using facial soap have been pulled, not for what they show, but for what they don’t. As one government censor put it: “People may imagine that she is not wearing anything.”
The Quran does not distinguish between the majority and the minority, but between the Muslims and non-Muslims. Its injunctions on how the Muslims should treat the non-Muslims are numerous, unambiguous and blood-chilling. The Quran repeatedly promises hell to kafirs, warns believers against mixing with kafirs, calls on them to wage war on kafirs, encourages war against kafirs by glorifying it or by promising lust in paradise to shaheeds who die in such a war.