Can Pakistan rid itself of religious fanaticism?

[TLK]

Re: Can Pakistan rid itself of religious fanaticism?

@ravage

TLK, two questions:

1. What is the basis for asserting that people who think oh all the lal masjid residents (including girls and kids) and all the kids living in FATA deserve to be killed are liberal. There are two possible reasons you could have. Firstly that the justifications offered have liberal roots. It would be tough to make that case, I’d like to see you try. The second would be that a majority of liberals make such arguments. If so how many of such people are there, and what is the basis for suggesting that this typifies liberal opinion.
2. When you speak of getting rid of the ‘liberal fanatics’, who exactly do you mean.

I am going to try to answer both of your questions in one shot. First of all, our country is divided into 2 groups, liberals and conservatives (hey is that not we wanted anyways :D). The classification is so rigid that you just cant be a neutral party anymore. Take my example. I am trying my level best to present a neutral pov in many recent threads about Mr. Taseer but somehow I am looking like a clean shaved mulla.

Having said that, anyone who is going to support (or try to represent a justification behind Mr Taseer’s killing) will be labeled as Mulla (you can see that happening right here in this forum). Simlarly all those who support/supported laal masjid or drone attacks are going to be labeled as liberals.

Liberals and religious fanatics are not the titles that we give to ourselves. Its the title that people of opposite point of views give us. For all of us, we are nothing but moderate people, its others who think that we are liberal or religious.

For your second questions, liberals fanatics and religious fanatics are not two camps, they are two thought processes. We should elimnate the thought procesess and not the people. Eliminating people just result in killings. We dont want Afghan style killings of ‘liberals’ but we also dont want Turkish style killings of all the ‘mullas’