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Originally posted by Ana: *
My nagging questions is - why *Christians? There are plenty of other minorities in Pakistan that can be targets of terrorism. Why just the Christians?
Is it because the west is mostly christian, and targeting christians will make the west sit up and take more notice? But who gains from this attention? What is being achieved, and by whom?
If u r conducting a pogrom, u will first take out the lowest rung (social hierarchially speaking) that is least noticeable, maybe the jews, parsis, jains, pak hindus. Why would u aim for the most noticeable sector?
And if christians were to be massacred in bulk, why now? Fundamentalists have been in operation for decades, they could have done a great deal of harm before as well... why this sudden rise in activities?
Surely fundamentalists will not gain anything by incurring the censure of the West. Could it be then the West that is planning and carrying out these well-timed attacks, to gain more support for its cause amongst its own populace?
Who is really in charge here?
btw, I am not taking sides, just throwing out a question. Whoever has done this heinous crime has sold his soul to the devil, there is no Islam involved. Maybe all these people are working together - CIA, fundamentalists, etc... for some stupid conspiratorial reason. Who knows.
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Ana, i dont think you read news daily....do u know how many shias have been killed by these same people...these ppl have been killing shias for a long time....just yesterday my mom got news from her friend that her nephew in pakistan who was shot inside his house along with his brother and father lost his life..his brother and father survived but unfortunately he didnt..so madam the majority of the ppl who are getting killed in pakistan are the shia