Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 26: Secularists refuse to discern the causes behind unrest in Kashmir. Their capacity to deceive themselves, and others, is unlimited. So, despite evidence to suggest that jihadists are embedded in Pakistani society, India's bleeding hearts continue to peddle the dangerous lies that perverted our foreign and defence policies for decades.
Sagarika Ghose and her ilk are typical liberal, whose mission in life is to fool anybody who is credulous enough to swallow her fancies as truths. See what she wrote the other day. She wrote: "Who is India at war with? Is India at war with the terrorists who have not only struck India but have also attacked a Peshawar school and killed over 100 children, who have gunned down Pakistani rights activists like Sabeen Mehmud, who have taken thousands of lives across Pakistan? Or is India at war with Pakistani actors, singers, academics, cricketers, journalists, many of whom on pain of death, are trying to lead normal lives, raising ever-weakening voices against the deadly ISI linked religio-terror virus raging through their land?"
See the nice binary she has conjured up - the 'good' Pakistani actors, singers, academics, cricketers, journalists, and the 'bad' terrorists who have not only struck India but slaughtered thousands in Pakistan. She may want us to believe that the two groups are mutually exclusive. But the reality is that there are popular journalists, academics, and crickets in Pakistan who are as jingoistic and excitable as any of their Indian counterparts.
Then there is the cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan who supports Taliban, arguably the most articulate Islamist-a jihadist in a suit and tie.
The long and the short of it is that jihadists are as much part of Pakistani society as Ghose's good Pakistanis are. In fact, there is no Wall of China between the two imagined communities; instead, there is a process of osmosis between her good and bad Pakistanis.
The dialogue-seeking secularists are mostly the supremacists who-while engaging India in dialogue and selling fairytales about our common heritage-want to inflect a thousand cuts on our country.
Even more dangerous is Ghose's view-actually, it is the view of the Pakistani establishment-that Pakistan itself is a victim of terrorism.
The fact, however, is that its suffering is self-inflicted; it is akin to the suffering of a drug-lord whose own children become addicts. By unquestioningly accepting the perspective of Islamabad as truthful, and then further disseminating it, Ghose has proved to be Pakistan's useful idiot.
According to Ghose, "the dwindling liberal, soft-liner, dialogue-seeking Pakistan constituency is in dire need of empowerment." Actually, these are two constituencies: one that is liberal, which is victimized by the mullah-military alliance, the second constituency.
The dialogue-seeking guys are mostly the supremacists who-while engaging India in dialogue and selling fairytales about our common heritage-want to inflect a thousand cuts on our country. They are wolves in sheep's clothing.
It is unfortunate that liberals like Ghose, instead of taking a cue from their Pakistani counterparts and campaigning against Islamism, usually play into the hands of jihadists. |
