Pakistan: Denial of basic human rights

"Mr Kanwar Idris rightly complained that many religious parties didn’t bother to condemn the Lahore massacre on May 28 that killed almost a hundred worshipers, though the Data Darbar attack was extensively denounced." [Reader]

Ahmadiyya Times | News Staff | Letters to editors
Source & Credit: Daily Dawn | Pakistan
Rayyan Ahmad | Toronto | July 15, 2010

This is with reference to the article “Religion and Murders” by Kunwar Idris (July 11) and the letter “Reluctant Ulema” by Sabahat Ahmad (July 11) dealing with the extremist ideology spreading rapidly in our society.

The problems and troubles surrounding our country are already numerous and we just can’t afford to be silent spectators to the brewing internal and social hatred.

Social intolerance and prejudices should not be neglected by the government in this era of distress and terror. Mr Kanwar Idris rightly complained that many religious parties didn’t bother to condemn the Lahore massacre on May 28 that killed almost a hundred worshipers, though the Data Darbar attack was extensively denounced.


Innocent people had gathered at both places to worship and supplicate, but the difference was that the former were declared non-Muslim by honourable MPs.

I request the honourable executive and the clergy to at least acknowledge their loss on the basis of basic human rights, so that their death is also as much condemned as that of their fellow Muslim countrymen.

Moreover, I was also moved by the idea presented in the letter by Sabahat Ahmad as to why our Ulema are still reluctant to denounce or condemn terrorism.

Islam is a religion of peace and harmony and I believe that such people are doing a great disservice to it. So why not book them under the blasphemy law?



RAYYAN AHMAD
Toronto



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