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Does anyone truly believe that the Taliban will lay down their weapons and agree to live in peace in the Swat Valley? Do they truly believe that once they have conquered, so to speak, that region they won’t continue to fight for the Islamization of the rest of Pakistan, and elsewhere?
The recent peace deal inked between the Pakistani government and the Taliban is a coup for those who want to render Pakistan like Afghanistan was, under the rule of the Taliban; ruling through fear, intimidation and violence. The Taliban have held the northwest region of Pakistan captive for years, and the Pakistani government has essentially thrown the citizens who live there under the proverbial bus, with this agreement. It’s nothing more than appeasement. The violence is not going to stop, even when their demands for instituting shariah law are met, and the people there are going to suffer even more.
Civil rights activist and lawyer, Athar Minallah commented
“This is simply a great surrender, a surrender to a handful of forces who work through rough justice and brute force.Who will be accountable for those hundreds of people who have been massacred in Swat? And they go and recognize these forces as a political force. This is pathetic.”
Although they claim female schooling won’t be banned, I am convinced that will eventually change. It has to. The Taliban will never allow women to be educated, they never did when they ruled Afghanistan, why should it be any different in Pakistan? A leopard does not change its spots, and the Taliban will never change their ‘dark-ages’ mentality.
And that’s evident in what happened a few days ago. Even though the Swat Taliban announced a 10-day cease-fire, it didn’t last long. It seems militants don’t care much for cease-fires. Musa Khan Khel, a Geo TV reporter was shot and killed while covering the peace deal. He was also beheaded in what seems to be the popular, barbaric Taliban method du jour.
Hamid Mir, Geo TV Chief said
The Taliban will continue to embrace the violence they are so accustomed to, by killing anyone who they oppose, or who doesn’t fall into their fundamentalist line.“There were 32 bullets fired on Musa Khan. There were groups who wanted Musa Khan to give up journalism so that they don’t come into picture. But he did not fall prey. Instead he got into aggressive reporting and exposed all of them. We are not at all going to run away from such threats. We are going to continue to do our work from Swat. Such killings are not going to slow down our spirit.”
When will people realize that appeasement does NOT work? It never has and never will.
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No the moderate Dad obviously has no control over the son, because extremists have no self-control. They are hard wired for violence. And I agree, this is going to give them carte blanche, because they will see it as a weakness.
I think the extremists are the biggest attention seekers in the world. They agressively provoke retaliation, which panders to their popular political appeal (as so called martyrs)and struggling victims in the world.They provoke their own victimisation. and relish the power it gives them.
Maybe moderation should be encouraged with the hopes of good things to come and true peace,but not at its expense by short sighted so called peace deals that are no more than political expediencies.
The moderates are as scared of causing waves as anyone else, because they too will be singled out and killed. Again, read any of the jihad websites...
You are absolutely right, no-one but those who live under that oppression can do anything about it, but it will be a fight to the death, because the extremists won’t give up without a fight. And will the people have the stomach for it. Time will tell.
Adam,
That’s not going to happen, though.
Really? Is that why they jail and punish rape victims? Surely, if it’s such a great system, why are women even raped in your country? I’d think people would be so evolved and spiritual it wouldn’t even enter their minds to rape, because they are so pious.
You are terribly wrong, but you have a right to believe what you believe.
Sadly, it won’t. The Taliban and other extremists have imperialistic aims. It’s just going to spread.
we all saw and know that Taliban give most muslims a bad name. Closing girls schools, leaving their own female population uneducated reflects on the male psyche of the Taleban who work against the teachings of Islam. We have to separate the issues and understand that Sharia Law isn't a law applicable to society
The Taliban and any extremist give Muslims a bad name, unfortuntely. But they are the most visible, and active.
”Taleban who work against the teachings of Islam”
They don’t see it that way, though.. and that’s a major problem.
I appreciate your opinion, however, not everyone in Pakistan feels the same, so why should they have to live under Shariah, simply because a few would prefer to?
Perhaps there might be less crime, but at what expense? Sad to have to live in fear. There will always be criminals even in Islamic States. You still have men raping women in Saudi Arabia, and sadly the woman is oftentimes punished the same as the man. What kind of justice is that?
