Apr
12
What men!
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By Shahab Jafry
Three cheers! Here’s to the fabled bravery of the god-fearing mountain folk that inhibit the long held artificial line separating Pakistan from Afghanistan – the people who turned back Alexander, halted the British colonial rampage, bled the Soviet empire, have NATO wrong-footed and are the unending envy of the international media since 9/11. Of late, as the frenzied petrodollar indoctrination began bearing fruit, they’ve emerged mutated, with not only their faith and passion somewhat changed, but also their intended targets.
Thoroughly dedicating themselves to god’s word and work, they first exhibited the shift in Afghanistan. After bringing up a generation on scripture in an alien language – which they’d bother learning but the time was obviously better spent in action – they took out NGOs, bakeries, churches, doctors, nuns, teachers and every one thing that didn’t mirror themselves. For sure the thousands that honored the compulsory ‘or else’ showing at Taliban’s national day parades in Kabul were thinking, “What bravery, what piety”!
Then when Islamabad dumped the men of god as the “with us or without us” superpower fury came raging, it was only natural for years of chained-recitation teaching to smell treachery, against god and his special chosen men, demanding blood in turn. So the self-styled soldier clerics chanted verses, loaded Kalashnikovs, strapped on bomb-belts and sought martyrdom – small price for annihilating a social setup with men that were evil, women that would bear evil and children that would grow up to be evil, and of course embracing virgins waiting in the heavens. What bravery, what piety! Read more