Likes of Arundhati Roy try to bolster their secularist credentials by drawing a moral equivalence between RSS and Lashkar-e-Tayiba. What was the last time you heard Bajrang Dal people getting into a boat to bomb Karachi?
What people like her fail to understand is the historical context – Hindus were not conquerors and Jihadi Muslims seem to deeply believe in their military superiority and dream of ruling all of India like they did only a few hundred years ago. It’s not hard to see that the main logic (right or wrong) behind RSS’s actions are self preservation, while the primary thesis behind the actions of terrorists from Pakistani Punjab is that Hindus are cowards.
So Ms Roy, please think before you write another completely bogus article like this. You might face a size 10 or two from an Indian Muntazer al-Zaidi.
I’ve been watching what the Pakistani press has been doing/saying for the last week or so. What I’m seeing doesn’t make me very hopeful that anything has changed. What Ms Rice and the generals have been saying doesn’t pass the smell test.
All of the “we condemn the attack in strongest terms” type of statements don’t hold water when:
- Not a single Pakistani media outlet has tried to investigate the existance or non-existence of a Amir Iman from Faridkot in Punjab. How hard can it be? Instead, they seem to be pushing the govt agenda: Indian incompetence, Gujrat etc.
- Refusal to hand over Dawood. Why do the Pakistani public sympathize with an Indian gangster?
I suspect that an anonymous survey of street opinion in Pakistan would actually indicate some degree of support for the attacks (similar to the support for Al Qaeda) – which explains the behaviour of the media and the government.
Western media also didn’t seem to make a distinction between the Punjabis (who seem to be the backbone of this attack) and Kashmiris who haven’t done much harm outside of Kashmir.
Targeted strikes on terrorists in Pakistan seems to be the only option left and it seems to be a matter of time now.