By Britta Petersen
The murder of a Christian minister: Fundamentalism has affected many aspects of society, liberals are a minority.
No, the images will not be repeated. The latest political assassination in Pakistan, the minister for minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti, has a different quality than that of Salman Taseer in January, the liberal Governor of East Pakistan province of Punjab. There is no bomber who can arrest the smug smile and no security forces to watch the killers do nothing. Shahbaz Bhatti died all alone. Accompanied only by his driver. The Pakistani Taliban, called Therik-e-Taliban have claimed responsibility for the murder. The culprit fled undetected.
No one will throw rose petals on the murderer and no lawyer will offer to take over his defense to nothing, as happened in the assassination of Salman Taseer. This was a figure of the liberal elite, whiskey-drinking, divorce, illegitimate children, the full program, and therefore was Puritan of the forces that murdered him, hated all my heart.
Shahbaz Bhatti, however, was an easy victim. He was the only Christian in the cabinet of Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, while a member of a minority in Pakistan on the edge of society stands. Most Christians are children of untouchables, the Indian caste system lives on in Islamic Pakistan. To convert in the hope that as Christians not to be longer untouchable. Shahbaz Bhatti, despite his office had no personal protection and those who spoke in the last days of his life with him say that he had expected his death, in imitation of Christ.
Apart from their membership of the ruling party, PPP, these two very different men had so little in common except for their seemingly suicidal stubbornness to battle against the blasphemy law (blasphemy) in Pakistan. This was introduced under dictator Sia and theoretically allows Attacks on the Koran with life imprisonment and defamation of the Prophet Mohammed to be punished with the death penalty. The law is now exploited by radical clerics in Pakistan for the suppression of other faiths, but also from non-political reasons, simply for defamation.
Bhatti Taseer and therefore had good reasons to be against the law. Each of the two realized that he is now at risk of losing everything that makes his life in Pakistan. The liberal elite their Western lifestyles, minorities, their already difficult home.
For if the forces that have killed Taseer and Bhatti, should prevail, and this possibility is not unlikely will rule in Pakistan is a puritanical Islam that has always been of the opinion that the country only as a "home for the South Asian Muslims," has a permission, the founding myth. For followers of other religions and philosophies, and this may also include secularism, is no place in it.
This is the fight against any change in the blasphemy law, which now is already the strongest in the Muslim world, only a means to the growing number of those who rally behind him, which are believed to be Islamic Pakistan. And there are many. It is the "generation Sia," grew up with curricula that under military dictator source Sia al-Haq in the seventies. Sia did write in all that you can now hear and read on the road and in the published opinion and: hatred against India, adventurous historical misrepresentation, and above all the "need" for a jihad, a holy war.
latest after the murder of Governor Taseer was clear that the seed has taken root in the seventies. In the public debate about the assassination prevailed among many young people from the middle class of which it: Taseer deserved death, explained in detail with references to the Koran.
Liberals are a minority
And therefore, the Government at one time with their backs to the wall. Have long believed the liberal forces that want just a few fanatics on the border with Afghanistan, another Pakistan. But this is a mistake. Taken together, the Taliban, parts of the army and an increasingly large part of the middle class now form a majority.
while the Islamists have successfully copied that tactic with which it has succeeded to the British colonial rulers to subjugate the great India: Divide and conquer! Arm against kingdom, Christians against Muslims, Muslims against Hindus, Shiites against Sunnis, Punjabis against Pashtuns, Pashtuns against Sindhis, intellectuals against large landowners and all against the small Muslim sect reform the Ahmadis (Ahmadiyya).
Everyone is fighting alone in Pakistan and in the end they play into the hands of those who know have always been, what they want: an Islamic Caliphate in South Asia and the Islamic nuclear bomb.
And the West? The is, as always, the wrong question: Would it not be best if the army would take over again? Who asks it overlooks the fact that the security apparatus in Pakistan is part of the problem. Part of the officer corps themselves Islamists. The murderer Taseer was a member of an elite unit. The army is fighting in parts of the country against the Taliban and other terrorist groups can provide them, because they are still used in Kashmir against India.
South Asia and the Arab countries have little in common except religion. But perhaps implied by the current wildfire in the Arab revolutions but learn at least one for the policy towards Pakistan: stop supporting dictators and authoritarian powers! Sooner or later you will reap in politics, what you sow. Pakistan is now harvest time.
The author Britta Petersen is office manager of the Green Party-affiliated Heinrich Boell Foundation in Lahore
Source: Terrorism: Pakistan on the way to the Islamic State
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