Re: Absurdity Continues
Warning: The Following Rant may cause some indigestion of the facts. Proceed with caution
Okay. I am all for Musharraf’s philosophy on extremists. When he went military on Lal masjid goons, I sided with him. I said he was correct. I still stand by that.
Here’s what I don’t agree with, and I am so MAD that this is happening, all in the name of emergency.
If you’re going to get on TV and tell me that you’re suspending constitutional law and firing a bunch of judges so that you can fight the terrorists more easily, then FINE. But then do what you’re going to say. I wanted to wake up this morning, and find top profile terrorists being caught and arrested, or running for the mountains to share a dhoti with Osama Bin Laden and the rest of the NutJob Team. I did NOT want to wake up this morning and find that peaceful protestors are in jail and under house arrest. I did not want to see journalists and lawyers and human right activists getting jailed. Lawyers, I could have tolerated to some degree - sometimes they need a good kick in the arse anyway. But journalists? HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS???
Asma Jehangir is under house arrest. Apart from criticizing the government in their moves regarding Lal Masjid (mainly on how they waited it out to use it in their favor because they were in political heat), she hasn’t really done that much damage to Mush. So why is she under house arrest?
Why are terrorists not under house arrest? Why aren’t MMA officials who have been instrumental in spreading Islamic fitna in the NWFP under house arrest? Its because of them that little girls are being banned from school, that polio vaccines have been deemed a conspiracy to population control, and musicians in a musically rich pukhtoon culture have been repressed. Those fanatics should be under house arrest, not civilians who simply report the news and who advocate for human rights.
VERY DISAPPOINTING, Mr. Musharraf, VERY DISAPPOINTING.
I had better open up the newspaper tomorrow, and instead of seeing pictures of jaahil police beating the crap out of peaceful protestors, see police beating the crap out of terrorists who want everyone to go back to living in 600 A.D.
Asma is under house arrest. That’s where I draw the line, and Musharraf crossed it.
Musharraf has even traded arrested terrorists for captured soldiers today (I thought he accused the CJ of the same) What do you have to say to all this. http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/05/top4.htm
Is this not double standards? I have been saying this all along that all his narra against extremism is one big drama. He (and any dictator for that matter) will only ever take cosmetic or token measures and I doubt his sincerity in eliminating the extremist threat. He needs Taleban and their like to keep his kursi in power.