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| India-Pakistan |
| Our religion problem |
| 2015-02-23 |
| [DAWN] POST-Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. the need to rethink our national security policy and terminate the state's patronage of jihadists has been under focus. Also under spotlight has been the state's capacity deficit that partly explains the gap between law and its implementation (obsession with military courts being a misconceived response to this issue). But what is not being acknowledged or debated candidly is the Islamic Theocratic Republicof Pakistain's religion problem: terror is being preached, justified or tolerated in the name of religion and we are doing little about it. President B.O. was both right and being smart when he argued during the anti-terrorism summit convened at the White House last week that, "we are not at war with Islam, we are at war with those who have perverted Islam." Imagine the outrage across the Moslem world had the American president insinuated that there is something intrinsic about Islam that encourages violence and extremism or even that our religion lends itself more readily to abuse by terrorists. |
| Posted by:Fred |