Civil society apathy to #ShiaGenocide in Pakistan
While HRCP and a handful of other voices have expressed concern, many others have not just been deafeningly silent about the exponential increase in hate crimes against Shia Muslims in Pakistan. They have actually been complicit with hate groups like Sipah e Sahaba. Muhurram sees many prejudiced folks and bigots being unmasked. One tactic […]
While HRCP and a handful of other voices have expressed concern, many others have not just been deafeningly silent about the exponential increase in hate crimes against Shia Muslims in Pakistan. They have actually been complicit with hate groups like Sipah e Sahaba.
Muhurram sees many prejudiced folks and bigots being unmasked. One tactic is baiting Non-apologist Shia Muslims in one-sided discussions. No one inside Pakistan can respond to these discussions as even expressing the Non-majoritarian point of view can result in a slew of blasphemy cases and lynch mobs.
There are multiple (likely) aspects to the increased Takfiri and Nasibi activity in Pakistan. Aside from historical reality of course.
There is the failure of the current propped up regime, both domestically and at the foreign policy level. There is foreign pressure from Saudi Arabia. Then there is a pressure from some politicians and clerics who cannot tolerate more traditional Shia Zakirs and want to forcefully hijack the pulpit for their own political agenda. There is also the issue of censorship where those clamoring for it want to take it to its logical extreme of censoring even the primary and secondary textual sources of religion.
Those who supported the cases against Shia Zakirs for a historical critique – are they also supporting cases against ISIS for violent incitement?
Of course, there is also the issue of censorship where even some liberals can not tolerate history that deviates from Pak Studies and Islamiyat. This group of liberals have excoriated Lesley Hazelton types for daring to present what is actually in the primary and secondary sources of religion.
We are at a point where hate speech and incitement against a sizeable part of the population has been justified. But free speech to critique historical personalities that are not the Holy Prophet (PBUH), has been declared illegal. And that too by ISIS.
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