http://m.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/24/1316341/-Cartoon-The-Gaza-grip?detail=email

Shared by Dr.Nasik Elahi

An article from Asia Times

The article in Asia Times is a study of the roles of Iran and Saudi Arabia to foment ancient feuds with modern means.  The so-called religious and social elites of the two countries are using their oil wealths and status to foment a historically  unprecedented Muslim fratricide that is changing the map of the region.  The two principal antagonists are waging their respective campaigns through agents of extreme nihilist violence.  What they are sponsoring is bound to blow back into their own countries.  The consequences for Muslim nations and global stability are profound

.Asia Times Online :: Iran, Saudis give battle on proxy stage

ARE TERRORISTS REALLY HIDDEN?

{Authored and Shared by Saadia Asad}

Currently there is an army operation going on by Pakistan Army to root out the terrorists hiding in North Waziristan. That is all well and good because we need to be rid of these heartless people, bent upon destroying us at all levels: security, sports, infrastructure, communications, international ties and so on But what of the terrorists with whom we are living day in and day out.

These are the people who beat up or behead their own sons and daughters for contracting love marriage, these are also the people who stand by and watch these proceedings without uttering a word, and these are the lawyers who let rape victims run away from court premises. These kind of terrorists are not living in hiding: who let a mentally disturbed man burn to death for blasphemy, who rape a five year old and abandon her to die, unwilling to admit DNA as a proof of a rape carried out or raise the marriage age for girls, who refuse to register FIRs, let witnesses be killed on their way to testify and accused get away. The weapons of these un-hidden terrorists are not guns and bombs, but narrow minds, swollen egos, illiteracy, misshapen ideas of self-glory and above all ignorance.

Pakistan faces external threats from terrorists whose motivation is power and dominance, internally from terrorists who are feeding and acting on their ignorance and being exploited.

If our army is fighting the former kind at borders, how to fend those off among us?

Countless young are sacrificed almost daily, on the basis of ill-conceived ideals of religion and honor. The corrupt and ineffective police, education, judicial system and governance bar the common man to exit this cocoon of misconceived ideas. Except for a few articles in newspapers, rarely does anyone raise a voice against these offences. Our education, our electronic media, our intellectuals and social workers need to form a front against these acts of social terrorism.

Together we need to rid society of this archaic, regressive mindset to create a society where young men and women can make, and stand up to their choices without fear of being persecuted and cry out foul with the conviction of being heard and dealt with fairly. Initially a system has to give support and protection, to later on get strong, supportive, progressive and patriotic members willing to work for its betterment, rather than bring destruction upon itself and others.

Saadia Asad

LHR. Pakistan