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Resistance, it is easy to say, should happen.They can be, simple because they refuse to resist and they are the largest funders of them.
To be fair, common people can hardly be in a position to resist. For if that was the case, then even with such a mammoth support for Anna Hazare, corruption in the country should have been over. Not only does corruption continue, the Bill has not even been tabled!! That much for resistance by the people.
Then one cannot superimpose our way of action on Pakistan. Pakistan is an Islamic country and they dare not go against any saying, even if quoted out of context, against Islam. It will be taken as blasphemous and the wrath of God and the people will visit the 'blasphemer'.
Even in our country, the Shah Bano case, which was anti woman got a Constitution Amendment because of pressure from the Islamic bodies and even though India is a secular country, the country could not resist this infamy.
Then take the case of the Maulavi who was thrown out from being the head of the Aligarh seminary, when he praised Modi. This was not for a religious interpretation, but just his personal view. Was there any resistance against the pedagogues? He praised Gujarat's development and that is there for all to see!
Therefore, as I see it, and hopefully I am not wrong, resistance by the people is easier said than done.
What maybe true is that it is time that the Pakistani people did protest against the terrorism that has been unleashed and then slowly turn it into a movement that is against the false interpretation being made by the terrorists. But even for doing so, one has to be ready to die as the Governor of Pakistan Punjab died as also their Minister for Minority Affairs. Are the common Pakistanis, not too deep into religion, ready to die?
Indeed that is so.Pakistani's believe a weak Afghanistan as a vassal state or as a protectorate is enough it to be strategically useful for Pakistan.
It opens up an uninterrupted avenue to the oil and gas rich Central Asian Republics, as also permits influence peddling in such areas.
Given the hysteria of Indian (read Hindu) domination inherited historically, and given the mass of India and its overwhelming population, given that India has surpassed Pakistan in all fields even though Pakistanis thought that they were equally endowed in all respects, and at the same time, finding Pakistan being dubbed by the international comity of nations as a pariah and a failed and rogue state, it only invokes envy and that envy gets translated into impotent anger. Therefore, they feel that the answer lies in giving their zakat to organisations that makes life miserable for India and brings it down to a manageable size to handle.Who donates the most to JuD : - The Pakistani public through their various donation collection boxes and centers. The public of pakistan is responsible. It is not Saudi's or ISI/Pak Government which is the largest funders, but the general public.
It is an incorrect manner to get even, but then these are but human foibles.
You maybe right. I am not too well versed in the subtlety of the situation. However, I wonder how a forum can be taken as a vehicle to change public opinion. In fact, no matter which forum it be, one hardly finds any intellectual interaction and instead one observes the whole ballgame as a game of oneupmanship!Having been in Pakistani forums before, let me make it very clear to you Brigadier, this is a tactical retreat from them, this is about making us stop while they regroup. Pakistan as a nation has lost its narrative to the world, it is now lying open and naked. They want their victims, that is us, to support them, while not really changing their attitudes towards us or our concerns.
I will confess I do not visit Pakistani forums as a matter of routine and therefore I cannot comment on their subtle game, if indeed they are at it. I visit Asim's forum because he is old 'sparring' partner of mine from many a forums. I find some posters on his forum commenting on the situation in Pakistan and ways to solve the issue - the same refrain that you have raised about resistance. Of course, the vast majority are jingos, but then if one just does not care to even acknowledge their presence, one can get a general idea as to what a certain section of Pakistani society, within and without Pakistan, is thinking about as also what is their view on India and other nations around the world.
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