Re: Lal Masjid Siege Thread - Operation Silence (merged)
Pasha Shaeb: The way you put things, it seems you have no empathy nor could think beyond self-interest. No innocent law-abiding citizen would like to live in a country where people like you rule or have authority, as you do not care about right of others as long as you are safe.
Just imagine, what you are saying in your post.
People in Lal Masjid were not part of terrorist organisation and thus government should not have acted against them … at least as harshly as government did:
Even though Lal-Masjid goons were part of terrorist organisation as they had given refuge to terrorists and were helping forces that were/are fighting Pakistani forces and killing innocent civilians all over Pakistan… Still, from your statement, it seems, you do not care about those lal-masjid rascals were victimising, as long as Lal-Masjid rascals were doing terrorism but were not from any known terrorist organisations?
There is no doubt that Lal-Masjid goons and goonies were terrorising people around them, challenging state writ, and were also breaking laws. Not only that, but they were continuously doing that for months before state acted against them.
Anyhow, if what you mean is what you wrote … then what you think, who should protect and care for people who become victims of person or group terrorising them, if it is not responsibility of government?
Suppose some people (maybe girls with danda backed by their supporters with danda, AK47, and suicide bombers) start terrorising you and your family and if state tries to stop them then they resist insisting on terrorising you and your family … and when state try to enforce law and order then they even attack state machinery with guns, then would you say the same that state should not act against them rather leave them terrorising you and your family, because according to you, they are local goons and goonies, not part of any terrorist organisation?
I think Musharraf government behaved too leniently with them. If I was in place of Musharraf or was running the government of Pakistan, I would not only initiated action against them, but would have put all rascals of that madrasa (be they boys or girls) and their supporters and abetters (in politics, media, other madrasas and mosques, so-called religious scholars promoting such terrorist behaviour, and their financiers) in prison on charges of inciting terrorism, harassing citizens, creating mayhem, causing fitna, challenging the state and state writ, abetting and financing those breaking laws, promoting intolerance, and demeaning state authority.
Actually, if I would not have done that then I would have considered myself failure in fulfilling the duty a person running the state should do (in front of Allah, towards myself, as well as in front of historians), as it is duty of state to establish writ, punish those breaking laws and harassing others, and protect every citizen of the state irrespective of citizens’ race, colour, religion, sect, financial and social status, or values.
[Note: Most funny thing is that, if people of any other group get strong and start persecuting, harassing, and victimising people who support (or supported) rascals of Lal-Masjid and other law-breaker terrorists like them, then these same people would look towards state demanding and expecting state to make them safe from persecution and victimisation … but since today it is these people who are persecuting and victimising others, they are happy and do not want state to interfere].