We shall overrun: The young, urban, middle-class Pakistani’s manifesto

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@CM

That wasn’t an attack on your personal life. It was a fact. You do sit in the west and read dawn. If you didn’t the comment would not have pissed you off so much.

No issue with me sitting in the west, and Dawn is a fine newspaper. This is what you said:
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Actually no. Consider it anecdotal as well as a desire to see what the common man on the street thinks of these parties. After all the support these parties have received is minimal in a majority of cases. And more specifically there was a great deal of dissatisfaction when these groups were in power.

Just because you can’t read it on Dawn while sitting in the West doesn’t mean it is not true.
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As it happens, when they were in power, and when you say there was a great deal of dissatisfaction about them, I was in NWFP! I have family and friends there, so not only as part of education but everyday life. This is what pissed me off, not whether or not it was true.

Contextualizing the debate is not the same as changing the narrative. A comparison or equating the two would be changing the narrative as you have already stated the Taliban include blowing themselves up and others as part of their ideology. The JUI and JI do not.

Which only means that it isnt exactly accurate to say that they or NFP are different sides of the Taleban coin.

@CM

Also lets be honest. You are defending JI and JUI less and more so defending your personal opinion on an internet forum. Rather common on GS.

Any other discussion and you would consider them extremists.

Im someone who mostly posts on PA when it concerns religion/religious violence. If that were the case you would be able to find me calling them extremists.

I have been very critical of IK and JI’s Munawar Hussain’s statements for example. At no point do I recall calling them extremists, atleast not in any sense the same ideological coin as the Taleban.