Rise Up, Ye Muslims
There he goes again. Now he's dropped his pseudo-Marxist agonizing to reveal once again his authentically fundamentalist Islamist fascism. Need anyone be surprised? Evil hatred has many guises, to be employed expeditiously when situations reveal themselves. Fashioning the message to meet the temper of the times and the receptivity of the audience.General Musharraf was so certain he had done the right thing for Pakistan in reaching a mutual agreement of co-operation with Pakistan's hinterland tribal leaders. Their doings would be off bounds to his military as long as they were prepared to stop supporting the Taliban. They would, he assured the United States, become allies of a sort. They would not be welcoming of al-Qaeda operatives, and could instead be relied upon to resist the incursions of al-Qaeda, and rebuff their message.
In their own self-interests of course. A law unto themselves, through tradition and isolation. And fierce determination to shelter pure Islam and their culture, their aeons-old way of life from exposure to foreign, godless values.
Likely he knew of what he spoke. But then, as happens, shit hit the fan when the leaders of the Red Mosque and their fervently fundamentalist adherents insisted it was their duty as searingly devoted Muslims to ensure that Pakistan's societal mores be less accommodating to the odious encroachment of western mores and culture on Islamic values and traditions - and went to great lengths to prove their point.
Needless to say, their flagrantly open opposition to reason and particularly to the recommendation by General Musharraf that they cease and desist left him little option but to close them down. Violently, as it happened when the Red Mosque students and their clerical masters defied authority and met armed violence with equally armed violence. Earning General Musharraf the outraged censure of those same Islamist tribal leaders.
Who then saw fit to make common cause with al-Qaeda, spurred on by their mutual devotion to rigid Islam and their signal rejection of all religion-defiling, tradition-despoiling actions of the government. The result has been a struggle for survival. On the part of President Pervez Musharraf, whose own country's courts and justices hold him in less than high esteem. Not to mention the opposition parties eager to have their exiled former heads of government return.
And last of all, General Musharraf's personal defence, Pakistan's beleaguered military, fighting a rearguard action against insurgents, Taliban and al-Qaeda. Troops taken hostage. Others kidnapped on a daily basis. Mutilated and dumped. Facing the growing presence of suicide bombers. His elite commandos targeted, his defences and support fading before his very eyes. This is evidence of manifestly hostile Islam; a kinder gentler treatment of erstwhile allies turned enemy.
Most troubling of all, to now view tapes aired on public television for all to see, being lectured, castigated and harangued by Ayman al-Zawahri and Osama bin Laden. Who the hell do they think they are?
Labels: Terrorism, Traditions, Troublespots
posted by Pieface @ Friday, September 21, 2007
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