The Quetta Police Lines Carnage: Thou Shalt Not Speak the Truth! – by Mahpara Qalandar
On 8 August, a suicide bomber blew himself up in one of safest places in Quetta: The Police Lines. In the Police Lines mosque, a number of policemen of various ranks had gathered to offer funeral prayers for an inspector who had only hours before been killed by the Taliban. The suicide bomber took 30 men’s lives. Those killed included one DIG, two SPs, and a DSP. The rest of them were lower-rank policemen.
Only a couple of hours after the suicide bombing, Shahidullah Shahid, a Taliban spokesman called up a few TV channels saying, “We did it and soon you see another big attack in the next coming days.”
But Sarwar Sukhera, the IGP Balochistan followed the line perfected by the likes of Shahbaz Sharif. Reacting to the killing of the policemen, Sukhera who is supposed to lead, comfort, and defend, announced at a press conference,
1. “The killer was a suicide bomber.”
2. “Our brave officers embraced martyrdom but we will continue sacrificing our lives for the security of our motherland.”
3. “The people involved in this act of terrorism could not be called Muslim or even human beings.”
(http://dawn.com/news/1034975/suicide-attack-on-quetta-funeral-kills-30-police-chief)
With these three salient points, Sarwar Sukhera rested the matter once for all. As I have indicated above, this is how the rightwing politicians of Pakistan led by Shahbaz Sharif react to the never-ending campaign of terror by the Taliban. Even when the Taliban have proudly owned up to their murderous crimes, Pakistan’s rightwing politicians and journalists go to the most bizarre, indeed absurd, lengths in claiming that the Taliban have nothing to do with those crimes. Sukhera claims that the people involved in the Police Lines crimes were neither humans nor Muslims. What were they, then? Leprechauns? Djinns? Or the zombies raised by the Hindu-Jewish lobby?
By not naming the Taliban as the “people involved in this act of terrorism,” Sukhera has trivialized the tragic deaths of 30 policemen who were his own subordinates. This is the sad story of Pakistan. This is what Im the Dim claims. This is what our generals claim by distinguishing good from bad Taliban. Unless this mindset is changed and the Taliban are names and punished for their Islamofascism, there is no hope for the people of Pakistan.
Anyone who thinks that the bomber is a non-Muslim or a CIA, Mosad, RAW, or MI6 Agent, etc. need only study the violent Islamic history and investigate the religion and ideology of the group who fought battles against Ali (AS) and Husayn (AS). Also do some research and identify the killers of the direct decedents and the progeny of our Holy Prophet (S). Were they Christians, Jews, Hindus, Zoroastrians, or Buddhist?
There is no doubt that they all professed to the Islamic Kalima and that they were very particular about daily prayers, Zakat, Saum (Roza), Hajj, etc. They had organized clergy including muftis on state salaries, etc. They called themselves to be the Ummat of the Holy Prophet (S).
But there were, are, and will be two types of Muslims – one who sacrifices for Islam and one who slaughters “in the name of Islam”.
The trouble with some people is that they think that personalities are islam but they are not.
Ali ( RA) and Hussain (RA) were followers of islam not the religion themselves. If they did anything great its God who will decide on the day of judgement not us. Some sects glorify mortal people and have even shaped ahadis for them and want every one else to follow them. Abbas you are right they are not non muslims but in fact muslims who in one way or the other serve the wishes of anti islam camps. Hate is directly proportional to blind praise and this is how and why trouble starts.
Of course some personalities are Islam, e.g. our Holy Prophet (S). We know about God and the religion only as much as our Holy Prophet (S) told us. Otherwise we would have know nothing about either God or Islam. So for all our purposes, God does not represent Islam, rather it is the Holy Prophet (S) that represents Islam.
There can be no blind praise, but anyone who sacrifices his whole family for God or Islam deserves to be praised. And BTW, the best praise for such people are in the word of His messenger (S). He (S) said that the sin of killing his grandson Husain (AS) is equal to the cumulative sins of the whole universe. He (S) also said that the a single strike of Ali’s (AS) sword is greater than the cumulative prayers of the whole universe. These are not my words mind you so do some impartial research and think before criticizing. There is a verse in the Quran which says that the only remuneration the Messenger (S) seeks for enlightening us is the love of his (S) descendents by the Ummat. But the history is such that one of his direct descendents, Ali bin Husayn Zainul Abideen (AS) had to say that the Ummat would not have committed such torture, mistreatment, and contempt even if the Messenger (S) told the Ummat to desecrate his descendants.
If you want to understand what is going on around us these days and the the type of people who are slaughtering in the name of Islam while shouting slogans of Allaho Akbar specially while beheading a fellow human being, only need to identify the people Ali bin Husayn Zainul Abideen (AS) was talking about when he (AS) said those words. You also need to study the sings of the final days as explained in several authentic sayings of the Messenger (S).