Re: Name them & shame them Series
Even the US is doing some introspection into torture methods used in interrogation and how this is not effective.
We criticize these people because they have violated the basic tenents of Islam - they try to kill other muslims, they treat us like “kaafirs” and even Kaafirs, honestly, have rights in the Quran. We are not to go hunting after innocent people who have done nothing - doesn’t matter if they believe in a God or not.
Therefore, we muslims, the REAL muslims, cannot stoop down to their level. Indiscriminate killing, and killing of children, women, etc is to be avoided as much as can be humanly possible.
Drone attacks have not helped, their effectiveness is questionable, and drone’s annhilating entire madrassas, which are the closes possible educational opportunities kids have in some of the FATA tribal areas and Waziristan/Bajaur agency, etc doesn’t help either.
A full military take-over of the area, removing kids as much as possible, and putting them in mental rehab centers, would be much more worthwhile. These kids have been brainwashed, and the only way to end terrorism is to pull out terrorists’ kids and the madrassas’ youths before they get used for war fodder.
Suicide bombers/terrorists/terror acts are being carried out because there are people in these madrassas being trained, and that issue hasn’t been addressed. The madrassas need to be reformed, not bombed by drones - this just puts people in more grief and creates more terrorists, and those of us here in America have realized the hard way that carpet bombing regions and countries creates more problems than anything else.
That’s not to say there shouldn’t be a military offensive, there should totally be and Zarb-e-Aab is a REALLY GREAT example of how to militarily fight terrorists. So far in Zarb-e-aab, there hasn’t been carpet bombing of civilians and men and women were given a chance to get out of the way. Yes, this gave a chance for the bad guys to get away but it’s won over the IDP’s. Even if there were 10% of those folks sympathetic to anti-Pakistan forces, now they’ve seen the kindness and warmth from Pakistanis, and so maybe they WONT end up being terrorists - this is ALSO a win for Pakistan.
The drone attacks stand in stark comparison. There are reports of drone attacks taking out kids in madrassas. Imagine if we could have saved those kids, rehab’d them, and made something proper out of those kids - so they could go back to their mullah mentors and spit in their faces in the next 10-20 years. THAT’s what needs to be done.
We need to get our generation BACK.