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

[KatDaddy]

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

@khoji

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.

or his safety???.

This is the problem in Pakistan today…the population that was largely brainwashed with religion, was supporting Taliban at first and then tolerated them later and now fearing them. Hopefully, the next step is to raise against them and only way that will happen, is first they have to wake up from the sleep induced by extreme religious views.

[Shamraz_Khan]

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

While I dont have much sympathy for terrorists but this statement that she tried to kill American soldiers while she was in their custody and they casually left a loaded rifle with the catch off near her in order that she could attack them, yeah right.

EB, I agree that details about her initial arrest were murky, but I can tell you that I have lot more faith in American justice system than Pakistani justice system. For one thing, you can't bribe judges/jury in this country. And two, its lot harder to convince 12 people on jury to convict someone than most people think.