Wednesday, June 30, 2010

License to kill by Pakistan Constitution

The tragic incident of Lahore in which a massacre carried out by an extremist religious group shouting slogans of "Khatam-e-Naboot" left more than 100 casualties. The incident caused a great confusion among political and religious parties over how to react. When families were mourning over the bodies of their beloved ones including parents of Waleed who was the only son and just 17 years old, there was no one from Punjab government to come to doors of these families and show condolence. Instead several political and religious parties strongly condemned the statement of Nawaz Sharif, an opposition leader, when he used the word "brothers" for Ahmadiyya community in his condolence statement. Sympathy of public with this minority sect and attitude of media was positive but that does not change any thing when public and media will keep hiding the root cause of terrorism behind it i.e Constitution of Pakistan. This constitution failed to provide justice, food or shelter to the people but yes it covers all rules of the game by which you can persecute any minority sect in the name of Islam. This is may be the only constitution of the world that controls the behavior of Ahmadis and prohibit them to behave as Muslims behave, calling themselves Muslims etc. Living lifestyle and behavior of minorities can frame them into blasphemy law that leads to death penalty. This way constitution of Pakistan provides a passage to Islamic clerics to carry out activities against minorities. Constitution also prohibits minority sects to preach their views that further helps to flourish hatred in the society against them. This results into dangerous speeches by extremist to their followers that turns out into terrorist attacks like Lahore incident. Following is such an example in which Islamic clerics are preaching people to kill Ahmadis with reference of Pakistan's constitution.

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