Silence of conservatives: Why no one is protesting an attack on Malala Yousafzai?

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Re: Silence of conservatives: Why no one is protesting an attack on Malala Yousafzai?

@Shamraz_Khan

But religious parties and mosque leaders were largely silent, highlighting the grip that right-wing clerics hold on this increasingly conservative, majority-Muslim country.

“These religious parties have strong ideological links to the Taliban. Conceptually there is not much difference between them. They want to control the state and take up jihad against the West,” said Ijaz Khattak, a professor at the University of Peshawar who knows Yousafzai and her father, and a member of Swat’s peace jirga, or tribal council.

With regards to the bold part above, it is true that religious parties have strong links with Taliban. But what is even more worrisome is that the so-called secular parties are also not far off from Talibanic mindset. Especially PML and PTI.

Some interesting reads about how these Taliban apologists “apologize” for Taliban’s crimes.

h**p://dawn.com/2012/10/13/malala-wont-be-airbrushed-out/
Qazi Hussain Ahmed:
Jamaat-i-Islami’s former amir Qazi Hussain Ahmad made an appearance. He seemed to condemn the attack on the teenaged Swat student and in the same breath also condemned those who, in his words, “used Malala”. He didn’t elaborate. Neither was he asked to.

**Imran Khan:
**Referring to the attempt on Malala’s life, he talked about the scourge of extremism which he mostly blamed on the US-led war on terror. When the presenter pressed him to name the attackers, Imran Khan reluctantly said the Taliban.
When asked to condemn the Taliban, he was open in saying his party had a presence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata and that he didn’t want to give statements condemning the Taliban and leave “my party workers undefended” at their mercy.
This statement at least clarified that he has shied away from unequivocally slamming the Taliban for the sake of his party workers’ safety and not on ideological grounds.