What are the causes which makes a 'suicide bomber'? we can only fool ourselves by just saying that the bomber has bee brainwashed at a madrassah. Why not someone comes up with an expose of such individual?
A case study I have gone through was about the killing of SURGEON GENERAL of PAK ARMY in RAWALPINDI. The bomber was a very young man from WAZIRISTAN but the real culprit was a serving SUBEDAR MAJOR of PAK ARMY. The bomber stayed with this SM posing as his nephew. The SMs daughter was killed in JAMIA HAFSA and he figured out this way to get even
The Surgeon General was one of the nicest persons and a good Muslim...what a way to get revenge if it can be believed!
I have not heard this from any reliable source but that still has no bearing on what i am about to say since the comments have made me realize our inherent tendency to just think emotionally on this situation and not at all objectively.
Terror is being spread by terrorists and not random individuals on their own who feel they have been wronged by the state...
This type of typical flawed assumption and resulting attitude helps the terrorists gain undue sympathy...
this attaching of army operations etc. to suicide bombing without blaming the militant and terrorist networks is naive to say the least...
this gift is from our wonderful renegade arab terrorists...never was such a horrible sin committed before they brought in their expertise in terror to our motherland.
You think if person A's family is killed, suddenly within a month he will make a bomb (requiring the highest level of expertise) and carry out a blast (again requires a lot of expertise other than just going and pulling the trigger) in an area which is being visited by scores of innocent people who in no way have ever meant any harm to person A or his family?
All the thousands of bombings carried out far outweigh the families which have been affected by the collateral damages so even if there is one individual per family ( a bizarre assumption and utterly retarded to consider but for argument's sake) who is willing to do a suicide blast, the numbers do not match...not to take into account how the blast is carried out without any terrorist network and that too in areas which have innocents who have nothing to do with the alleged atrocity...
also how a person whose family is killed is willing to kill similar innocents as revenge is beyond me...he should be the last to give the same pain to innocents like him...
going by all the above assumptions i would say that practically speaking even 10% of the victims of collateral cannot be the avenging bombers since there are so many emotional, physical, material hurdles in the way...
This revenge of the victims is what most of the Taliban appologists are saying and this is unacceptable logic and does not match upto the organized horror we are facing.
Suicide is Haraam in Islam for all individuals...and so is the killing of any person except and enemy combatant in a war or for self defence!
To face enemy combatant and knowingly give your life in a war to achieve certain objective is quite a different thing than what we are trying to analyze here...it shall require brainwashing and telling someone that what he is doing is not a sin countless times before he is willing to kill himself and scores of others who are innocent...such young bombers clearly indicate that it is only the young mind which can be influenced in such a manner and i am sure that even these bombers are being tracked by armed people ready to kill them and forcing them into submission, a young child is scared easily and can be made to do a lot of things if his family is not with him or close to him to give cousel...which is most common with madrassa students and not ordinary kids.
I will give an example about how this brainwashing is done in the young minds which helps make them quite the instruments of divine vengeance if they fall into the wrong hands , my father regularly donates to charities and also to some madrassa/orphanages.
One day he donated some money and went out to his car to see a young boy of about ten years writing in Urdu on a wall...
"Dog, Dog...Shia is a Dog"
Of course my father was upset and tried to make the young boy understand but instead he proudly claimed that Shia should be killed...
needless to say it was a sad insight into what these young boys can be made to believe by their madrassa teachers since they are at a tender age...
Ofcourse the kidnappings and forced abduction of young ones from their families in Swat etc. can also bring in young boys who are one way or another made to carry out the attack after spending a few months with them and making them realize there is no escape or no life for them...
my heart aches to see such young people being made cannon fodder...which cannot be done without there being a serious deficiency in the young mind to grasp the consequences and the morality of this horrendous sin...
Sadly our Mullah claims a holy mandate and our citizens think their child is serving Allah they do not question the teachings of the Mullah and when the child grows up on hate sermons (preached by many Mullahs) they do become cold towards a large segment of society and therein lies one of the major problems as well...not to mention the other factors which surround us...
Even if we go by primitive customs etc. then it is an eye for an eye...
by all laws islamic if i have killed your brother and am guilty then i am to be killed or you impose your condition and i shall instead compensate via blood money (if you the victim are willing ofcourse)
The blame falls on me and the sin is mine...the one who kills an innocent alone is the sinner...vengeance cannot be taken against anyone else...
There is no excuse or forgiveness in religion or the law for such an ultimate act of vengeance against anyone who has not absolutely directly inflicted a similar pain on you or your loved ones...
All this can in no way be made similar to the horrible sin of going into a mass of people and ripping them apart via a suicide blast...
killing hundreds of people whose innocence only Allah can judge...
killing hundreds of people, most of whom are in
no way responsible for whatever personal tragedy that
may have fallen on the bomber...
destroying hundreds of families whose breadwinners are claimed by this horrible act....
comdemning hundreds of children to a life of deprivation....
condeming hundreds of women to live without their husband in this most unforgiving world and cruel society...
condeming hundreds of parents to lose their children...
All this can be the result of one single suicide attack which is being carried so i cannot believe that it is possible without a network of hate and terror which is preying on the very weakness not only in our country...but in the propagated teachings of our Mullah as well...
the countless militant anti Shia and anti Sunni outfits which have been full of many religious figures clearly point to this most horrible sin which has been perpetrated in the name of Islam so it is not possible for us to deny the role of Madrassa if it is being controlled by such a horrible person (which are many) who wants to exert power by breeding hatred!
I am not saying all Madrassas are bad, many are very good charity organziations but they cannot be left unchecked, that is very very dangerous...We need to monitor these Madrassas and sadly most are under one man's control who is the biggest double dealer and most of Pakistanis agree on this persons reputation.
The biggest hypocrite Mullah of them all...Fazl Ur Rehman the diesel smuggler...
What happened to SWAT under the watch of MMA?
How can they not be held responsible when they were the government and did not take effective actions...as per the hundreds of stories which people of SWAT are telling now!
There was no martial law in SWAT so we can and should never absolve MMA for their poor show or even a deliberate collaboration with Talibanization of SWAT!
Ok we should blame Musharraf as well but believe me there is no way the TTP could have infiltrated so easilty without MMA support since if MMA had confronted them as they should have, MMA would have been targetted like ANP and we would have seen many red lights flashing in SWAT!
We saw no such thing ever under the MMA tenure...does that not make anyone wonder what was going on?
How were the rebels getting hold everywhere, taking out all the influential families, individuals and also making such bases in Mountains etc. which take years and countless labourers to countruct.
The TTP had infiltrated all cities in SWAT and yet what was MMA telling us?
What did MMA do if it did not have the power to deal with the threat?They were enjoying the show since they were thinking that it was they who will benefit from such a takeover in being the sole party with links to most people in the TTP like organizations...
as a result there were training centers being setup in SWAT and young people being abducted and taken to these centers...the Madrassas being setup by Fazlullah were the primary centers for such recruitments...but all was said to be under control...
My point is that these Mullahs were not even in the favour of the creation of Pakistan for most part so they are not bothered about Pakistan and regarding Islam, they are using it as a tool of power!
We should not be seduced by their overt religious demeanour because we all know that most of them are also rotten and corrupt like those they condemn...we should do what is best for Pakistan.
If we do not check them actively and eliminate all those weaknesses and links which are proven to be aiding anti Pakistan activities then we are just kidding ourselves about this war.
I am sure such a step can be taken by a great leader and a unified nation...sometimes both arise out of a similar troubling situation and sometimes both are also not enough to save the day...
I am hoping and praying for the former for i know that this nation can do wonders and has shown wonders on the few fronts that we have been united on!
May Allah help us pierce the cloud of darkness and misconceptions and may we rise to the occassion.
Ameen