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^ talk against taleban? its anti Pakistan as well as Islam.
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^ talk against taleban? its anti Pakistan as well as Islam.
Sometimes I think the real conspiracy is what is going on in Pakistan. Here is a good alternative to Billawal Bhutto some years down the lane and we're crucifying her for being too good?
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Jolie ... You seem to know a bit more about Malala ... And what you have written has encouraged me to buy her book ... I'm gonna do that, read it and see what she is really about ... She really is interesting if what you say that her stance is Ghandian ... Then may be after verifying that I might alter my opinion about her.
Malala the innocent school girl with a message and the obnoxious breed of people who use her message for propaganda tool are two very different thing and that's the sad truth. Do read her book or if nothing, just closely follow all her recent speeches and interviews, I personally haven't come across any instance where she passionately spoke about wiping Taliban off the face of earth, launching military operations to eliminate them or using arms to eradicate their ideology. All those things used as means test to differentiate between Taliban apologists and so called pro Pakistanis in cyber world. So where does Malala stand? Who is she? I mean to make things worse, she fully supports US' led and internationally backed initiative of peace talks and hopes it succeeds. In the eyes of political extremists, that's blasphemous, a criminal thought and straight up act of treason. No?
So I don't understand how she can make pro-peace talks on big international platforms and still be termed champion who spoke against Taliban and whilst an average PTI voter is a Taliban apologist and their leader is given Taliban as his first name for saying exactly the same thing she's been saying since past couple of weeks. If anything she's everything the usual suspects stand against in their daily posting. She is perhaps the most fitting person to be PTI's current spokesperson. Yeah the same party behind controlling the whole of army and influencing the polices of the White House. Ah, the double standards, hypocrisy and sheer superficiality that oozes from some people's posts.
The bottom line is, Malala is one thing but the hypocrites are just here to create further divisions, fitna and* fasaad* using her name. Time to ponder over her actual message instead of using her name as a "reference" to launch insults and abuse.
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Jolie,
What if the Taliban bomb schools and kill a dozen school girls anyway?
Oh wait they didn't they do that already?
I was thinking more along the lines of Malala's home town which has been relatively trouble free in recent time, expect the shooting incident of course.
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Booksellers take Taliban threat seriously - DAWN.COM
http://www.dawn.com/news/1049519/booksellers-take-taliban-threat-seriously
Booksellers take Taliban threat seriously
PESHAWAR: When Taliban say something, the people of Peshawar listen and local businessmen take the words seriously, as well.
The militants’ sinister influence on public life is a reality no one can avoid. Taliban are a reality, they are going to stay here in the foreseeable future, and they mean business about their decrees. People know all this very well.
That’s the reason when Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) banned Malala Yousufzai’s memoir ‘I am Malala’, it was taken seriously.
A major book selling firm of Peshawar cancelled its ‘I am Malala’ purchase order the day the Taliban decree was published by local newspapers.
“Who can dare ignore their words, they will blow us up,” said a sales representative of the company.
Fear defines the choices people make these days in this city. So many deaths and sufferings have been suffered at the hands of the forces of dread and doom that the people have developed the knack to acknowledge the expanding Taliban threat.
They were left with restrict mobility long ago. An ineffective network of military and police checkposts, thrown in and around the provincial metropolis, carries a strong bearing on the city dwellers’ daily life. Long queues of vehicular traffic at these checkposts have won a general public acceptance. The closure of previously frequented city roads has become a reality to live with.
Music parties on weddings are not considered a good idea, these days. Numerous local musicians have either migrated to other areas in the country or gave up their profession. The people avoid open and frank discussions about matters relating to religion. Late night, travel is not considered safe to-and-from areas in close proximity to Peshawar.
The militants’ pronouncements hold sway over the people’s personal preferences and political thoughts. Sanity is losing space to fears of dread. An element of resilience,characteristic of brevity is there in public response to the Taliban threat. The submissive resilience is more of subjugation to the Taliban tyranny.
“Please don’t put that book (I am Malala) on sale here, we don’t want to get killed in an explosion at this place,” said a female customer, interrupting the salesperson when he was talking to another customer about the book store’s decision to cancel its initial order for 20 books.
“A good number of the people have contacted us, but we asked them to contact booksellers in Islamabad,” said the bookseller.
“We can’t take risk with people’s lives after the Taliban decree,” remarked another salesperson. He said bookshops at Islamabad had removed the book from their display shelves.
His words conveyed a mix of surprise and shock. However, he was not wrong.
A major bookseller in Islamabad, originally a Peshawar-based company, which wound up its business from the provincial capital in 2011 due to the growing Taliban danger, is not selling the book either.
“We are not selling the book and don’t know who is the distributor,” said its representative when contacted.
A growing space is being lost to the militants who have apparently been given the ease to take initiative and decide what is good for the people at large.
Taliban are a reality hard to miss, they decide what people should wear in schools and universities, whom they should not vote for in the general elections, and now they have also assumed the role to decide what people should not read. Co-existence with militants is the name of the game.
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Fair decision. Saving local lives comes before selling books of a person who doesn't even live in Pakistan nor proposes military action against those animals.
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^ alarming as it shows that taleban have more control as compared to the government ruling the province.
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Refuting malala-propaganda means loving Taliban? That’s intolerance by liberal fascists.
And, we know why secularists need malala propaganda, because they think that Pakistani people are terrorist minded and malala can be used as a tool to “liberalize” them. That tells how much liberal and secularists love Pakistani people.
That is why we need malala hyperbole. just get it what secularists give us otherwise we are terrorist minded.
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Refuting malala-propaganda means loving Taliban? That’s intolerance by liberal fascists. And, we know why secularists need malala propaganda, because they think that Pakistani people are terrorist minded and malala can be used as a tool to "liberalize" them. That tells how much liberal and secularists love Pakistani people. That is why we need malala hyperbole. just get it what secularists give us otherwise we are terrorist minded.
I have made my point regarding that in the thread quite amply. I know how Malala haters try to obscure things to shield taleban.
I am neither a secular neither do I need a certificate of loyalty from some one. Thanks.
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I have made my point regarding that in the thread quite amply. I know how Malala haters try to obscure things to shield taleban.
I am neither a secular neither do I need a certificate of loyalty from some one. Thanks.
Why do we need this "campaign"? Doesn’t it mean something wrong with people of Pakistan?
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Fascism comes from right & not left. Please educate yourself.
Fascism - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
fas·cism noun \ˈfa-ˌshi-zəm also ˈfa-ˌsi-
: a way of organizing a society in which a government ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government
1: often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2
: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control <early instances of army fascism and brutality — J. W. Aldridge>
This sounds like what Taliban & most Islamists, including many on this thread, want.
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Disagreement is also not digested by left wing. Everyone is imposing... tera kutta kutta hai, mera kutta tommy hai.
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somewhat same is doing media. they are presenting malala as hero when people of pakistan dont take her as so, not that people hate malala but the facists using her as tool.
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^ alarming as it shows that taleban have more control as compared to the government ruling the province.
What control? Where's the control? More like an imminent threat from the enemies who is still fighting a war against you. It's no different from UK closing down its underground stations after receiving threat of a bomb blast.
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I dont get why it is so hard to understand as it is quite natural that a girl whose ideal is obama cannot be a role model of Pakistani pepole. And how does it imply hating malala and loving TTP?
and why it is necessary to take Obama as an ideal to prove yourself a anti TTP?
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What control? Where's the control? More like an imminent threat from the enemies who is still fighting a war against you. It's no different from UK closing down its underground stations after receiving threat of a bomb blast.
in this case the KPK government didn't ban the book though.
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I dont get why it is so hard to understand as it is quite natural that a girl whose ideal is obama cannot be a role model of Pakistani pepole. And how does it imply hating malala and loving TTP? and why it is necessary to take Obama as an ideal to prove yourself a anti TTP?
Similar to hating taleban (I am sure one cannot garland them for killing thousands of people) implies to one becoming liberal fascist or secular (which I think means murtad or kafir for some).
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in this case the KPK government didn't ban the book though.
Why should they? They have nothing against the book.
It's up to the local booksellers to decide whether they want to take the risk of putting her book on display or not.
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Similar to hating taleban (I am sure one cannot garland them for killing thousands of people) implies to one becoming liberal fascist or secular (which I think means murtad or kafir for some).
everyone have the right to hate anyone. But facism is when someone makes someone his/her own hero and impose on others to make them accept it as national hero.
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everyone have the right to hate anyone. But facism is when someone makes someone his/her own hero and impose on others to make them accept it as national hero.
What ever floats your boat, I am out.