Re.: Pakistan: The crisis of Punjab

We have seen this with al-Qaeda in Iraq as well. As long as they attacked Shia there was little sign of a backlash. But when they blew up a wedding in Jordan, a Sunni wedding, there was a reaction. It is sad that the Ahmadis' deaths did not appear to cause the same level of outrage

Ahmadiyya Times | News Staff | UK desk
Source & Credit: The Guardian | Editorial
By MoveAnyMountain | July 3, 2010

[Ahmadiyya Times note:  The following comment was made in response to the editorial printed in The Guardian of July 3, 2010. [online here]]

[The Guardia editorial wrote:]

"The attack on the Data Ganj Baksh shrine in central Lahore was the second assault against a religious group in just over a month, after the Ahmadi sect was targeted in late May, when 94 people were killed. Popular reaction yesterday blamed America for stirring up the jihadis with drone attacks in the tribal belt."

Denial is an amazing thing isn't it? The extremists tell people what they want to do, but people simply don't hear them. This attack [on Ahmadis] killed far more people, with far less justification, than any American drone attack. Yet it passed silently into the Fish Wrapping Heaven where all news goes when it is ignored. No one cared about the Ahmadis.

A good editorial, I have to say.

"But suicide attacks against Sufis have more to do with the sheer intolerance which the Wahhabi and Deobandi sects have for expressions of Islam they consider heretical."

An intolerance they have made clear for decades now. To the complete indifference of pretty much everyone on the planet.

"Thursday night's attack was the second on Sufis, and will enrage ordinary Pakistanis, the majority of whom identify with that tradition of Islam."

And there's the rub. We have seen this with al-Qaeda in Iraq as well. As long as they attacked Shia there was little sign of a backlash. But when they blew up a wedding in Jordan, a Sunni wedding, there was a reaction. It is sad that the Ahmadis' deaths did not appear to cause the same level of outrage. Not one protest by non-Ahmadis. No one marched through London to protest their deaths. This is the worst development in this tragic story - that it seems to take the deaths of members of the majority to make the majority care.



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