Nasir Khan, November 17, 2013
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
The
wise words of Voltaire can be applied to a number of
situations. Those who have political, economic, social and religious
power over others make them believe as true which in many cases are
absurd lies and misleading garbage. Accordingly, such misled people will
be ready to commit all sorts of atrocities when asked to do so without
any guilt or remorse. Those who have global political and military power
and aggressive designs on other countries hush up the cult of
patriotism and push their armies to do the patriotic duties by
unleashing destructive wars in other countries while the populations at
home applaud the glorious and heroic services rendered by their ‘men and
women in uniform’!
The
preachers and clerics in a violence-ridden country like Pakistan use
their rhetoric against other religious sects and minorities by calling
them infidels (kafirs) and succeed to inflame the feelings of their
congregations. Consequently, the brainwashed and misled followers of
such religious preachers kill their fellow countrymen in the name of
Allah, Islam and the Holy Prophet. It is obvious that ignorance produces
more ignorance and in such an atmosphere of perpetual frenzy of hatred
and barbarism the Shia Muslims and other religious minorities are
targeted and killed.
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