What a marvelous day it was. We were surrounded by clouds. They were touching our cheeks and giving us sensational feeling of being so closed with the nature. The whole environment was so cosmopolitan that we were totally lost into it. The scenic beauty around us was making us believe that the hills, trees, flowers, birds and clouds around us were part of heaven. The cool breeze was so fresh and revitalizing that it made us highly spirited and cheerful just after few moments of our arrival to this dream land. Me and my two friends had left Islamabad just a couple of hours back where the sun was in a bitter mood even at 7:30 A.M. and we were all getting drenched as a result of scorching heat. But now in the hills of Murree, a beautiful resort town, everything was entirely different including our moods.
Two of my friends are quite controlled freak but even though the romanticism in the air was forcing them to sing and act like teenagers. Good weather always has deep impact on me and in that wonderful environment enabled me to transform my mood as well. To add to our ‘trouble’ of being romantic, we suddenly find a pack of “chicks” around us enjoying the bliss of nature. The gals were ultra-modern, stylish and to boot appealing enough that it was getting hard for guys to refrain from some ogling. Luckily or unluckily, the chicks were in lively mood and soon we were having some nice chit chat with them. Finally, the gals gotta go and saying adieu to them became hardest thing to do for us but yes there was no other choice. So a long wave of hands and than even longer silence prevailed after that.
After wandering in the woods for another hour or so, we left Murree and stopped at a small hilly restaurant for cola and Pakoras (Pakistani traditional snacks). At that moment, I just heard some noise around and out of curiosity; I went straight to the side from where the noise was coming. Oh my god…I witnessed countless chicks there. But these chicks were confined in big coops. Yes, you got, here I mean there were so many hens and at that particular moment they were making hue and cry as the restraint-guy was attempting to snatch one of the chicks, which was destined to get into pieces very soon of course.
I find the scene ugly to watch and decided to move myself from the sight but an intriguing idea came in my mind and that was to observe the reaction of the chicks who survived this time but one of their co-habitant and friend was being cut into pieces before their eyes. As I was feeling the pain of these chicks, the next thing happened there was most surprising for me. As the restaurant-guy was engaged in cutting the ill-fated chick into pieces, the chicks in the coop were again busy in eating grain. They were doing it as fast as they could as the most important work on the earth is eating grain and they were doing so by totally ignoring what had happened to their friend just a few moments ago.
During rest of the journey to Islamabad, I could not speak a word and was totally lost and aloof. My friends inquired the reason of this sadness and started advising me that don’t think too much about those ladies whom we had met at Murree. I could not tell them that normally saying adieu to people whom I like is of course always a saddening thing for me. But at that particular time, I was not thinking of those beautiful and elegant chicks. Even I was not thinking about the disgusting behavior of the chicks in the coops as their behavior was guided by instinct. In fact I was thinking about the cuckoos. Yes, the cuckoos, but not those beautiful singing birds, those were the cuckoos (stupid politically corrects) who are denying that there is a real threats to humanity by the forces of darkness and even they are defending these barbarians with their naïve ideas e.g. cultural pluralism etc., while the barbarians are on rampage and cutting the humanity into pieces before their eyes everyday.
I was lost in so many questions. Yes, chicks are just chicks but what happened to these cuckoos who represent themselves as politicians, writer, intellectuals, thinkers etc. and yet they are not able to see the danger to humanity. Barbarians are inroading into Europe with a clear agenda of curbing civil liberties and impose 7th century’s dark and primitive desert code of life on others. They are ready to kill genocide and eliminate whomever they feel may hinder their evil agenda. The mad mullas in Iran are hunting down every voice of dissent and everyday freethinkers and women are either being hanged or subject to other harsh and inhumane punishments. In Pakistan, apostates, freethinkers and members of minorities are being terrorized by draconian laws of state are getting stabbed to death on roads by frenzy mobs.
I was lost in the thoughts that how some apologists are busy in repeating the mantra “Islam is peaceful religion” while thousand of innocent people around the world is being killed everyday by those who are inspired by the teachings of “glorious” Quran. The persuasion for violence and hate speeches against the humanity in allegedly divine book can be noted on almost every page of it. The people are victim of this philosophy from last so many centuries at right at this moment, barbarians are busy in killing, maiming and plotting against entire humanity. But at other hand, the cuckoos are busy in the business of appeasement and making it an easier task for barbarians to work on their evil agenda further while their brethren in faith and so-called “moderate” are paving roads for them by applying deceptive tools.
My mind was recalling various cuckoos with those I had interacted and talked about this growing threat. A friend from Brazil said, “Oh common friend, we are pretty safe here”. I could not make him realize that 1400 years ago Iranians uttered the same comment when the terrorized people of Mecca approached them for help. But what happened to Iranians later, it’s an appalling and dreadful history. A lady friend of mine who was 100 PC agreed with me about the threat suddenly got a high profile job in a Canadian NGO. She moved to an elite place and then she was so happy with his newly find life style that she considered the issue worthless to discuss anymore. She forgot the fate of once highly honorable Indian ladies who were captured as war-booty and turned into sex slaves by faith-driven barbarian invaders. So being safe and secure time being doesn’t mean you are safe and what about those whom you left behind amidst the crocodiles. Pity on this selfishness….
A “Dhimi” (member of minorities living in Islamic state) also came in my mind. The naïve Christian guy was talking about peace by interfaith dialogue with those who are divinely mandated to eradicate all others from the face of earth to make the religion “pure” for Allah. He was so much into act of appeasement and had turned into brain-dead zombie that he avoided inclusion of a Jewish symbol in his so-called “peace-museum” just not to offend Muslims who hate Jews at most. The guy get so frightened that he stopped interaction with me when find that I don’t believe in cosmetic actions but to call a spade a spade and aware of real threat. I wanted to share with him our common concerns but he gets evaporated all in sudden.
The journey was over finally, but the list of cuckoos remained endless, the naïve western donors investing in “peaceful Islam”, the coward dhimis, the elite fashionable ladies and rich but loose guys sponsoring Jehadis to overcome their guilt of living a westernize life. The western politicians that are not aware of the suffering of humanity and still not able to see that barbarians are about to knock at their doors. I feel the pain of every individual who is victim of disgusting philosophy of hate and while I’m quite aware of the fact that I may be the next victim and the so-called global community would not move this time either. The caged chicks were guided by instinct while being busy in eating grain. But what’s wrong with these cuckoos? Are they born to grab few votes, some cheap popularity and some Dollars only?


