muse
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I am at ease sir, you need not misjudge me. And my observations are not limited to this forum and its members. My observation is a reflection of the ground situation and of general psyche of the Muslim world.
That be the good news. However, my reading a thing won't change ground realities. If however you say that we will see change, then I have nothing to counter. I would only extend my well wishes.
Change is a given, of course - that's not the issue, it's what the change is about - and really it's not just one thing, all kinds of positions are evolving, changing --- Keep you eyes on the Wahabi and the Ikhwan connection - the Ikhwan have already changed much with the Wahabis but this has brought about reaction in places such as Syria - It's easy to see this malignancy of Islamism, as a monolith and immutable, that just not the case, whether by education, by persuasion or by bullets, multiple venues of change are inevitable.
Inside Pakistan, more people are becoming aware of the role of the state and in particular the army, in creating and shaping the Islamist identity -The Pakistani state is a failure and it has sought to deflect the attention of it's citizens of it's failure to provide for that citizenry by imagining the citizenry such that the victories of rich arbis are it's victories and the failures of the arbis are the hostile conspiracies of Islam haters -- and that is reason you see curious things such as Pakistanis expressing sympathies with Balestinians and Chechans, but not with bonded laborers in Sindh and Punjab, with Bosnians but not Christian and Hindu Pakistanis, with the criticism of Europe's fashion laws but not a whimper about the misogyny afflicting their own society --- So in a way, to these Pakistanis Islam-ism is merely slogans, it is devoid of substance, that is to say it is devoid of ethical and moral substance, and therefore you will read the determination and passion with regard to the infliction of sadistic punishments, but no debate about the doing of Justice and the laws relationship to that justice.
Half full or Half empty?? Yes, it's both at the same time, that is to say that we are better off embracing the complexity of the issue, instead of risking much of our understanding and going with less complex and ultimately, more fearful ideas.