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When Taliban gunmen abbreviated the lives of 132 children in a Pakistani school last month, it became customary on social media to report a feeling of ‘shock’. Via facebook and twitter, Westerners lined up to report their disbelief and surprise at an event that seemed to defy understanding.
This wasn’t a bandwagon I could leap onto myself, I’m afraid. To do so would have been dishonest and almost pretentious. Knowing what I know about Islam, about Pakistan and about the abusive relationship between the two, I couldn’t be less surprised by a massacre of this kind. To be sure, I couldn’t really be shocked by any act of bestial violence occurring in that horrible, irredeemable country. If tomorrow, 300 new born babies were slaughtered in a Pakistani maternity ward, my heart would ache, but my mind would be unchanged.
Islam, you see, can only ever end in violence. Those Muslims who do not commit violence really are (as the extremists say) disobeying the spirit of the religion. That those children massacred in Peshawar were themselves Muslim means little. If Islam cannot fight those outside of its tent, it will turn on its own. Like the proverbial shark that must constantly move to survive, the pace of Islamic evil must be ceaselessly maintained. Noise must made (and what better noise than screaming) so that thought and conscience can be muffled and ignored. If the Muslims of the world could stand still and reflect without the presence of an (external or internal) enemy, even for a year, the culture would begin to crumble. Islam is total and permanent mobilisation of the lower instincts; a military-delusional complex.
Unlike Iran, Tunisia and other moderately infected nations, it is increasingly clear that Pakistan cannot be rescued. There is no cultural haloperidol we can airdrop to change the hearts and minds of that delusion-ravaged land. And when things like Peshawar occur, we should have the honesty not to feign surprise.
D, LDN.
Defend the Modern World 
It was & is the strategy of the Pakistani Military (&civilian) establishment to “Bleed India by a Thousand Cuts” by encouraging and funding (Sunni) Islamic fundamentalist organizations with the explicit motive to terrorize the Indian public & state into submission. The stated goal is to separate Kashmir from India, but, the ultimate goal of these organizations is to finish the unfinished business of Islamization of South Asia.
The Irony is that these organizations are starting to notice that Pakistani State itself is not sufficiently Islamic. The Pakistani legal code is still largely based on the English common law inherited from the British Raj.
The Pakistani establishment still does not want to admit that it’s greatest enemy is within & not India. (India & Indians have no ulterior motives on Pakistan & generally want to be left alone.) But to admit it would be to question the very Islamic ideology of Pakistan & this is the reason for all their crazy conspiracy theories: to shift the blame for their own failures on other people.
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One positive thought, I do believe the US would now back India in a nuclear war with Pakistan. It used to be the case that Washington favoured Islamabad over Delhi. 9/11 and the Pakistani harbouring of OBL has changed things.
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I wonder if the U.S elite have the foresight and long-term thinking to see India as what it really is: Along with Japan, the most natural ally of the West in Asia. India is proudly democratic, secular & non-authoritarian. And the enemies of India, the West & Israel are the same. In fact, many opinion polls have shown that America as a nation has more than 80% approval ratings in India. (The other countries that come close are Poland & Israel)
However, probably due to a force of habit, or obligations which the Americans presume to have to Pakistan(they don’t!), America still treats the Pakistani Military establishment like a favoured ally, while countless opinion polls in Pakistan show that the Pakistani public itself views America with deep suspicion & malice.
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The one flaw India must transcend is the caste system. It’s a stone age way of ordering society.
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Vaseeqaran, in response to your comment: YES, YES and YES!!!!! Oh, and thank you.
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Elena, you are welcome!
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D, your post on this subject is brilliant. You have hit the nail precisely on its head. Thank you.
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Thank you, Elena. Very nice of you to say.
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The caste system, by fragmenting Indian society and by transferring the loyalty of the members of the castes to their own community, rather than to the nation as a whole, weakens India considerably. I agree. It has to go. It’s a flaw and an Achilles heel.
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