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| The events at Faizabad have made me realise that I'm now a minority in Pakistan | |
| 2017-12-04 | |
| [DAWN] This week was a painful one for me, for I finally learned that I had been living a fantasy all my life. There was no silent majority in Pakistain that some mysterious event was finally going to jolt them out of their sleep. I used to laugh at children for believing in unicorns and fairies. This week, it occurred to me that I was no different. I was living in cloud cuckoo land as well. This week it dawned on me that it was this fabled silent majority all along that had transformed the society into what it is today. The majority of this country is intolerant, and this is why they have remained silent in face of mounting social and cultural crisis. Their silence was tacit approval of the ugliness around us. I feel sorry for the activists and the intellectuals who have spent their lives believing they could succeed in waking the silent majority up. The silent majority was always awake and had been laughing at those trying to summon a mythical group. This week, I understood that I am actually a minority in Pakistain. The critical task for us now is to embrace this status and work to convince the intolerant majority to let us live in peace in their country.
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| Posted by:Fred |