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 7^th 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?

 

 

The Germany has just recently shared the concerned of US and Afghanistan over the so-called peace deal with Islamic militants by new Pakistani Government as experiences of the past dictate that the exercise will not only resulted as utter failure but it will help the militants to regroup, re-strengthened and reorganize. The Germany has rightly expressed concern over the issue as such deal always resulted as more trouble and loss of human lives. Mark Silverberg, the Canadian analyst has discussed the same phenomenon in a recent piece of writing. He alluded towards the last month’s meeting between former President Jimmy Carter and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Damascus and has said that the meeting has once again highlighted the perils of negotiating with terrorists. Carter emerged from that meeting and declared that Hamas, under certain conditions, was prepared to recognize Israel. Like so many other naïve idealists, he does not understand that Hamas was, is and remains an uncompromising jihadist organization bent on the conquest of its neighbor, regardless of what it says.           

In March 2007, the Director of the Centre for Defense Studies at King’s College, Peter R. Neumann, laid out the essential premise for not negotiating with terrorists: “Democracies must never give in to violence, and terrorists must never be rewarded for using it. Negotiations give legitimacy to terrorists and their methods undermine actors who have pursued political change through peaceful means. Talks can destabilize the negotiating governments’ political systems and undercut international efforts to outlaw terrorism.”

Nevertheless, democratic governments routinely conduct secret negotiations with terrorists although they often achieve significantly different results. The question is why? In 1993, the Israeli government secretly negotiated the Oslo Accords with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) – a decision the Israelis have long since come to regret. With Jihadists ensconced on her northern, eastern and southern borders, Israel now faces an existential threat from all sides. The more concessions it makes, the greater the demands of its enemies. On the other hand, the nationalist IRA agreed to lay down its weapons, pledged to pursue its goals through the political process and was able to achieve an historic power-sharing agreement that replaced British rule in Northern Ireland, so there seems to be distinction between terrorists who seek to bomb their way to the negotiating table (like the IRA) and terrorists who are only interested in blowing up the table altogether (like the Jihadists) for a grander purpose.    

This distinction led Bruce Hoffman of Georgetown University and William Zartman of Johns Hopkins University to conclude that the goal and ideology of terrorist organizations should be the litmus test in determining their willingness to compromise – all of which leads to the secret negotiations currently underway between the US and Iran. In negotiating with the Iranians, we are negotiating with Jihadists who have a religiously-inspired absolutist, even apocalyptic vision of the future, who have consistently lied about their nuclear enrichment program, who have threatened Israel with a second Holocaust (even as they denied the first) and who have made no secret of their global Jihadist ambitions.          

Twenty-five hundred years ago, Chinese General Sun Tsu wrote in The Art of War that you cannot defeat an enemy unless you understand its nature. Yet, many in our political echelon argue that we can reduce the level of violence and lessen the threat to our foreign interests by establishing a dialogue with Jihadists. What is needed, we are told, is a better mix of diplomatic carrots and economic sticks and, as reasonable men, we will then be able to sit down and resolve our differences just as the Irish Catholics and Protestants did in Northern Ireland.         

What’s missing here is any understanding of this enemy’s mindset and game plan. Jihadists justify murder in religious terms because they see the world populated by infidels who must be eradicated or subjugated. Their agenda is purely theocratic and absolute with not a scintilla of concern for the lives of non-believers anywhere. As such, negotiation with them is useless for there is nothing to negotiate.

Western diplomats are like children playing with fire because they fail to grasp that the Middle East is not Northern Ireland and this enemy is not the IRA. That means the likelihood of a compromise with Ahmadinejad in Tehran or any of his Jihadist cronies in the Middle East will be about as effective as were negotiations with Adolf Hitler who, in 1938, told his General Staff after meeting with British Prime Minister Chamberlain – “Our enemies are little worms. I saw them at Munich.” Chamberlain’s belief that Hitler was a reasonable man who would accept a good deal when he saw it, failed to consider the ideology and global ambitions of the Third Reich.          

Similarly, during the Iranian embassy crisis, Ayatollah Khomeini told his Revolutionary Guards that they had nothing to fear from America after the Embassy take-over, since President Carter’s only response to the hostage-taking was to impose ineffectual sanctions, an embargo on Iranian oil, a rescue mission that turned into a farce and to send his Secretary of State to Tehran to apologize for unspecified past transgressions. Khomeini’s response was to order the American flag to be painted at the entrance to airports, railway stations, ministries, factories, schools, hotels and bazaars so the faithful could trample it under their feet each day.         

To Jihadists, Western threats mean nothing without the fear that they will be removed from power by force if they continue to pursue their Jihad. That’s why Hamas in Gaza is seeking a ceasefire with Israel and its leaders are in hiding. That’s why, in the aftermath of the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq in 2003, Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi announced that he would dismantle his WMD programs. That’s why Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 believing that they were next on the US “hit list” after Afghanistan and Iraq. But when the Iranians realized that American anti-war sentiment worked in their favor and that they could sap America’s fighting spirit in Iraq through attrition without fear of being overthrown, they re-started their conversion and uranium enrichment programs.            

U.S. and Western leaders must confront the reality that Jihadism is not a “problem” to be resolved through roundtable discussions, negotiations or even sanctions. The Iranians and their Middle East proxies are not “reasonable people” in the classic Western sense. They are the vanguard of a religious crusade that threatens the continued progress of the American experiment in the Middle East and even the European Enlightenment. By seeking to accommodate their demands, by suggesting that regime change is no longer on our agenda, and by forcing Israel into making dangerous concessions to appease them, we have shown weakness.        

For all these reasons, Jihadists like Ahmedinejad and his Middle East surrogates are convinced that the West is a “paper tiger” and only prepared to impose ineffectual sanctions that Switzerland, Russia, China, Germany, Singapore, Malaysia, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates are bypassing for purely economic reasons (according to the January 16, 2008 GAO Report).    

Neither Jimmy Carter nor much of America’s political establishment understands that this enemy cannot be moderated and will never compromise on its ideological agenda. They can only be defeated as were the Nazis before them. And yet, we continue to place our faith in “dialogue” and an almost irrational belief that we can convince them to moderate their “views” by correcting “misunderstandings” and fashioning a deal – and that’s why the Iranians, the Syrians and the others are convinced that we are weak and destined to lose.

Jimmy Carter’s pointless journey to Damascus is symptomatic of a far greater malady in Western society – the embrace of a political culture that holds an unswerving devotion to “dialogue”; to the belief that a religious Jihad can be moderated through improved communications, compromise and engagement. There is a reason why we should not engage these Jihadists. It is because they are not interested in limited, nationalistic goals like the IRA. Theirs is a religious crusade aimed at conquest and submission and they are waging it on a global level even as we seek to reach out to them. We never learn from history.

A United States religious freedom watchdog other day asked the State Department to include Pakistan, Vietnam and Turkmenistan in its global blacklist of countries violating religious freedom. As reported by AFP, in its recommendation to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom also wanted Myanmar, China and North Korea to be kept in the department’s “countries of particular concern” blacklist, together with Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Eritrea and Uzbekistan.

The independent commission, established through the US law to monitor religious freedom across the globe, also kept Afghanistan and Bangladesh on its watch list, together with Belarus, Cuba, Egypt, Indonesia and Nigeria. The 10-member panel was divided on whether to downgrade predominantly Muslim Iraq, where widespread persecution of Christians has been reported, from the watch list to blacklist states, saying it needed more time to make the decision.

The commission makes an annual recommendation to the State Department ahead of its compilation of its annual report on international religious freedom. The panel wanted Vietnam to be re-included in the department’s blacklist, saying the government continued to imprison and detain dozens of individuals advocating for religious freedom reforms in the communist-led state. Vietnam was removed from the list in November 2006.

In Pakistan, the commission said it did not see major improvements in religious freedom even though the country had gone through a democratic transition following landmark elections.
According to Commission, Pakistan should be blacklisted because of inadequate government response to sectarian violence against Shias, Ahmadis, Christians and Hindus. “Despite the dramatic events in Pakistan in the past year, the commission finds that all of the serious religious freedom concerns, including violence, on which it has previously reported, persist,” panel said.

The panel said concerns over Indonesia remained, citing communal violence and the government’s “inability or unwillingness to curb it” as well as what it called the forcible closures of places of worship of religious minorities. It also referred to the growing political power and influence of religious extremists “who harass and sometimes instigate violence” against moderate Muslim leaders and members of religious minorities.

“There are persistent fears that Indonesia’s commitment to secular governance, ethnic and religious pluralism, and a culture of tolerance will be eroded by some who promote extremist interpretations of Islam,” it said. While commission has made important observations and most are true, it has neglected the plight of “apostates” or ex-Muslims who are liable to kill and even if survive they are permanently subject to persecution by state and victimization by society. Hence, there right to live a normal life is denied but no one raise voice for them or have any care about them. US and International community must do something to safeguard the rights of these hapless people besides mere rhetoric or lectures to those people who are not ready to listen anything when its about rights of “others”.

Is it just a coincidence that people belongs to Muslim countries, do not treat women right or we can find the tree that produce such a bitter fruit. According to the Global Gender Gap (GGG) report, the planet’s ten-worst offenders are: Yemen, Chad, Pakistan, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Benin, Morocco, Turkey, Egypt and Oman. Of the ten, nine are Muslim-majority states. At the other end of the spectrum, the planet’s best countries for women to live in are: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Ireland, New Zealand, Philippines, Germany, Denmark, Ireland and Spain. Not even one of the top-ten is a Muslim-majority state.

GGG collected data from a total of 128 countries to develop a comprehensive, scientific index. The GGG Index is based on four different sub-indices — namely, economic participation, educational attainment, political empowerment and health — while each of the sub-indices has half a dozen components.

Under economic participation, five of the worst-offenders are: Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Oman and Bahrain. Under educational attainment, the worst-offenders are: Chad, Yemen, Benin and Pakistan. The best: Denmark, United Kingdom, Australia, France and Belgium. Under political empowerment the worst are: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kuwait, Qatar, Egypt and Iran. The best: Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland and Spain.

For women, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan comes out as one the worst of countries to live in; there are only two other countries worse off than is Pakistan — Yemen and Chad. Under economic participation, Pakistan is ranked 126 out of 128. Educational attainment, 123 out of 128. Health, 121 out of 128. Political empowerment, 43 out of 128. Surprisingly, Pakistani women are worse off this year than they were last year.

Al Mamlakah al Arabiyah as Suudiyah, or the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is ranked really low, too. Under economic participation, Saudi Arabia is ranked 127 out of 128. Educational attainment, 87 out of 128. Health, 60 out of 128. Political empowerment, 128 out of 128.

Al Jumhuriyah al Yamaniyah, or the Republic of Yemen is worse than both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Under economic participation, Yemen is ranked 128 out of 128. Educational attainment, 127 out of 128. Political empowerment, 127 out of 128.

Welcome to Pakistan 2008. Are we committing crime against humanity? Is this religion or just culture? God made or manmade? Next. Can you think of a Muslim-majority country that has risen to the height of glory? Could it be because we let half of our accumulated brainpower go to waste?

Dozens of Muslim workers at a factory in Karachi beat to death a Hindu colleague on Tuesday for alleged blasphemy. Jagdish Kumar, 25, was tortured and killed at the garments factory after a debate on religion became heated, police and hospital officials said.“About 1,500 workers at the factory in the Korangi industrial area beat to death the Hindu worker over [allegations of] blasphemy,” police superintendent Farrukh Bashir said. The mob was trying to burn the body when officers arrived and took it away, Bashir added.   

(      )fascism is running rampant. Another hapless soul has paid the price of the apathy of so-called global community toward the screaming humanity which has been made hostage of barbarians. Pity on political correctness withers its liberal or illiberal.   

WITH the induction of the elected government, there has been a lot of discussion about Pakistan’s role in the ‘war against terror’. Understandably, there is growing concern over the bloody backlash ordinary Pakistanis are being subjected to from terrorists reacting to government attacks on their sanctuaries.

Several members of the coalition government, as well as the new provincial chief minister of the NWFP, have suggested they will negotiate with the militants to end violence in Pakistan. Given the plethora of Islamic groups currently waging jihad against their own people, it is not clear whom they will talk to, but even assuming they find interlocutors there is the larger problem of agreeing on a common agenda.

Normally, conflicts are about land and resources. Both can be negotiated. Civil wars over autonomy and independence have been successfully resolved. But ideological battles are usually fought until the bitter end. The motivation here is the conviction that one particular utopian vision is superior to all other systems, and thus confers upon its followers the right to impose it on the rest of the world, with brute force if necessary.

This frightening close-mindedness was best illustrated in an article by Pervez Hoodhboy appeared in a sction of press last last month. The writer described a recruitment film produced for Al Qaeda in which the leader says something to a member of a group of masked men in a foreign language, pointing towards a high rock nearby. Without a word, the man climbs up and then leaps off, shouting ‘Allah-o-Akbar!’ His companions gather around his dead, broken body and quickly bury it in a shallow grave. They then march over the grave, again shouting ‘Allah-o-Akbar!’

How do we negotiate with such people? Where is the common ground to build on? At best, they might agree to a temporary truce, as they have done in the past. But they use such respites to strengthen their position, while awaiting another opportunity to attack.

Even supposing they give credible guarantees to reassure the government that they will not attack targets within Pakistan if troops are withdrawn from the tribal areas, what is to stop them from attacking targets in Afghanistan? Many Pakistanis argue that what the Taliban do across the border is not our business, and we should let NATO and American forces take care of the Taliban threat.

The problem with this argument is that if we allow our territory to be used as a safe haven and a springboard for attacks on our neighbor, then under international law western forces can exercise the right of hot pursuit and attack targets on our soil. Then there are UN Security Council resolutions forbidding governments from helping the Taliban in any way.

But even more important is the stated aim of the Pakistani Taliban and their various offshoots. They have repeatedly said that after western forces have been expelled from Afghanistan, and the Taliban’s version of Islamic law imposed there, they will turn their attention to Pakistan

Al Qaeda and its many supporters are aiming to create a no-go space along the tribal belt from where they can operate without let or hindrance, as they did in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime before 9/11. To this end, they will do anything to destabilize Pakistan, and force its leaders to bend to their will. And if it takes thousands of innocent Pakistani lives to achieve their goal, they are totally indifferent to the human cost.

People who happily send their friends and comrades to their deaths on suicide missions are unlikely to care about strangers, even if they are fellow Muslims (For them Kafirs have no right to exist and for that matter no right at all but when they can not find a kafir to kill they become cannibals, may be due to urge of seeing human blood). Another thing people often forget is that the terrorist attacks in Pakistan did not begin with the post-9/11 western presence in Afghanistan. Outfits like the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi came into being during Zia’s lifetime, and have been creating havoc in Pakistan ever since. Governments have used such militias to further their agendas in Kashmir and Afghanistan, and now find the killers are out of control.

Clearly, then, if Pakistan is to survive this menace has to be eliminated. The problem is that many Pakistanis see the terrorists as fellow citizens with a legitimate cause. This is a view that unites the religious right with the radical left, such as it is. The fact is that the virulent anti-American sentiment that informs much of our political debate distorts our view of national self-interest. Far too many intelligent, educated Pakistanis feel that just because the Americans are against the Taliban and their supporters within Pakistan, we should take the opposite position.

And because we like our prejudices to be confirmed, far too many TV and newspaper commentators adopt this line. But although this viewpoint might be popular, it is intellectually and morally indefensible. We have all witnessed the havoc the Taliban visited upon Afghanistan when they were in power. Do we really wish this upon ourselves?

A man and a woman have been stoned to death by militants inPakistan’s north-west border region after an Islamic ‘qazi’ court found them guilty of adultery. A qazi court is an Islamic court, parallel to the Pakistani judicial system. This is the first incident of stoning carried out in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas on the border of Afghanistan. In the past, couples found guilty of adultery by militants or tribesmen were executed by firing squads.

The woman, identified as Shano, had allegedly eloped with Daulat Khan Malikdeenkhel on 15 March. Quoting Dr. Asad, a spokesman for the militants, Sources said that Shano was a married woman living in Peshawar’s Deen Bahar colony. He said a complaint had been received from her family that she had been abducted by Daulat Khan. But later it was reported that she had ran away with him.

He said that some members of the Taliban captured them when they were returning from Karachi. He said the qazi court found the couple guilty of adultery and sentenced them to death by stoning and the sentence was carried out on Monday in Khwaezai-Baezai, 40 kilometres west of the Mohmand Agency’s headquarters Ghalanai. The body of the woman was laid to rest in the same area by local people. The man’s body was taken to the hospital and handed over to his relatives.

Today, I would not condone or condemn anybody. I won’t talk about Geert Wilder either. I just want input of wiser people like you on a particular issue. Yes, I want an explanation or opinions about what’s the connection between several sorts of perversion and crime (Criminal instinct). According to my humble observation, every one of us is a sort of pervert by one way or other. But right now I want to cover gays and lesbians and their vulnerability to become a tool in the hands of thugs and religiously motivated crimes against humanity. I don’t want to generalize the things and that’s why I seek your opinions. As far as my personal opinion about this type of perversion is concerned, I would say that its matter of individual freedom. I have nothing against homosexuals at personal level but my observation dictates that in most of gruesome crimes against humanity, one or more gays have been part of the act and likewise I observe that the lesbian women have in-built sadism in them.

The criminal instincts of these sorts of perverts become more dangerous when they find conducive environment or persuasion to commit something horrible. In other words they are more vulnerable target for hate-mongers and the forces who wants to use violence to achieve their objectives.    

To establish my case, I would present some figures here.  In 2005, Pakistanis witnessed a total of four suicide attacks. In 2006, there were seven and in 2007 there were 56; more than one a week. In the first 11 weeks of 2008, there have been 17 suicide attacks; an annualized rate of 80. In 2005, casualties of terrorist violence in Pakistan numbered 648. In 2006 and 2007, casualties jumped to 1,471 and 3,599, respectively. In the first 10 weeks of 2008 casualties already stand at 1,064 with a daily average of 14 and an annualized rate of over 5,000. Why these people are killing innocent people? Is there a connection between suicide attacks and lack of education? Is there a correlation between suicide attacks and poverty? Is there a connection between suicide attacks and the followers of a particular faith?  

  I would like to present a report here compiled by Professor Robert Pape of University of Chicago. The report have detailed data on age, place of origin, residence, educational background, socioeconomic status and even dietary preferences of 462 individual suicide terrorists (who undertook suicide terrorism campaigns between 1980 and 2003). Here are some surprises. Question: Is there a correlation between poverty and suicide terrorism. Answer: No. Professor Pape has demonstrated that the poverty level of individual suicide terrorists was more or less the same as the rest of the population. Question: Is there a correlation between education and suicide terrorism. Answer: No. Professor Pape has, once again, demonstrated that the level of education of individual suicide terrorists was more or less the same as the rest of the population.     In conclusion–and contrary to the common held perception–suicide terrorism has little or nothing to do with the level of education. Additionally, suicide terrorism is certainly not rooted in poverty (as is often believed). According to Professor Alberto Abadie, of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, “There is no significant relationship between a country’s wealth and level of terrorism…..” Furthermore, individual psychology has almost nothing to do with suicide terrorism. Suicide terrorism is all about group dynamics. 

Dr Yusef Yadgari, an Afghan pathologist, has studied 110 suicide bombers in Afghanistan. Dr Yadgari has found that “80 percent of the attackers had some kind of physical or mental disability.” Though the Dr. Yadgari has not given the details of that physical and mental disability, it has been learned that most of these bombers were involved in homosexual activities before falling in the hands of hate-mongers. The homosexual aptitude among those guys may have been developed as a result of tightly segregated religious seminaries and they were told that doing something big (suicide attack on kafirs) would be only way out for their salvation.  

As is always the case, a proper diagnosis of the ailment is the first step towards cure. We must, therefore, make a distinction between an ordinary extremist and a mentally or emotionally disturbed person who, to overcome his guilt, is ready to whatever he have been told. 72 virgins is a huge temptation but not enough to make someone ready to blow up himself into pieces and their must be some guilt factor working behind or may be sadistic approach is working here. Hence, the ideologically driven forces, which have extra-territorial objectives hunt for these perverts and often find them in abundance in religious schools. The next stage is to evoke a deep sense of guilt among them with blend of hatred toward “others” and finally show them a shortcut that leads to salvation.  I have presented the case which is of course highly debatable. In fact debate is what I want and I believe instead of violent demonstrations and rejectionism we can find the truth by debating on every issue intensely. 

Abdel Kareem Nabil, an Egyptian blogger and former student at Egypt’s Al-Azhar University have been convicted and sentenced to four years in prison on the pretext of blasphemy. He had raised some critical questions regarding crimes against humanity in historical context.

In a comment after the trial, The Egyptian foreign minister said that Egyptian society prohibits blasphemy against religion

The National American Coptic Assembly is saying that this comment from the Egyptian foreign minister is incorrect because there are many bloggers and authors who are attacking Christianity and Judaism in Egypt, such as the extremist Muslim blogger Abu Islam who calls Christians and Jews apes and pigs. In addition, he also calls on Muslims to kill them wherever and whenever they find them. Also, these ideas are included in the books of Muhammad Emara and many books are published by the ministry of Awkaaaf the highest Islamic authority in Egypt. Also, the Sheikh Zakolal El- Nagar is insulting Christianity and Judaism in the al-Ahram newspaper which considered the biggest newspaper in Egypt. But the Egyptian government never accuses any of those individuals of blasphemy against religion.

The National American Coptic Assembly is unhappy with the conditions of freedom of speech or expression in Egypt. Also, the assembly is asking the international community to pressure the Egyptian regime to release Abdel Kareem Nabil and give more rights to its citizen to express their opinions. At the end I would say Kareem is still lucky enough he’s being persecuted through (misuse of or discriminatory/oppressive) law. Had he been in Pakistan, some crazy mob would have been ripped him into pieces till now. Anyway international community should come forward to help Kareem Nabeel.