Cancerous Faiths

by Tipu Salman Makhdoom


According to fundamentalists, all faiths are cancerous; all but one. Which one, is the million dollar question. And answer to this question is not easy. At least it is not cheap. It has cost us tens of thousands of innocent lives in last few years. Count in many tens we paid in Karachi. The currency this time was the blood soaked bodies of the peaceful Ismailies, a sub-sect of Shias, considered heretics by Talibans and ISIS.

These pseudo Jihadis are on a mission clean-up; taking ethnic cleansing one step further, they are upto faith-cleansing. They are bent-upon, rather chosen ones, to remove filth from the world of the pure. The pure are the faithfuls; rest are impure. Impure people are like cancerous cells in a healthy body. They are cancerous because their faiths are cancerous; wrong, impure & filthy. If cancerous faiths are not eliminated from the body of pure faith, they will engulf it, destroy it, exterminate it. It calls for a war in protection of the correct faith, the true faith. But how to figure out which faith is the correct faith--the true faith?

Formula for this is not only simple, it's tested and tried. Doesn't matter why historically the state of Pakistan was created, ignore what the creator of Pakistan said it would be like, forget what the reality is screaming in your face,  it is meant only and only for Muslims. And this fact is proved, beyond any shadow of doubt, by the Objectives Resolution; the famous preface to our Constitution. It says Sovereignty belongs to Allah alone and people of Pakistan will use this sovereignty on His behalf. Obviously only His people can use His sovereignty, none else.

Thus, to start with, only Muslims can rule Pakistan. Not everyone who says he is Muslim but only True Muslims. Therefore the struggle for power, the Godly power, boils down to the question of, who are His people; the chosen ones? The chosen ones should get together, usurp power and eliminate everyone else.

This question is tackled by the brokers of the Godly power strictly according to rules of logic. In logic when you want to exclude one thing from another, you simply define one thing precisely and everything else is automatically excluded. As cancerous cells in the pure body are removed surgically, so the REAL Muslims want to surgically remove the non-Muslims and the fake Muslims from the body of the pure Muslims. To do this, REAL Muslims just need to separate Muslims from Kafirs. They have a very good solution for this too.

Define a Muslim and everyone else would be a Kafir. This was what the learned judges of 1950s commission on Ahmadi riots of Lahore noted; every Maulana they interviewed had his own unique and comprehensive definition of a Muslim. They noted in their report that if they would adopt any one of those definitions as correct one,  they would be  Muslims according to that sect but Kafirs for all the other sects. And that was the catch 22.

Pseudo Jehadis do just that. Since they are closest to God and are the chosen people, it's only they who are the ones who know who are  True Muslims which in turn deserve to use Godly power. Their criteria is simple. Anyone who does not fit in their definition is Kafir. And their definition is easy; if you believe what they believe, you are the chosen one, not otherwise.

What Article 20 of our Constitution says does not matter. Even if, which in fact it does, says that believing in whatever you want is your fundamental right.

The fact that Pakistan is the pioneer voter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 (on which, state of Saudi Arab held its vote) is also of no consequence. And that its Article 18 talks about ensuring freedom of thought and conscience also means little. 

Yes, it means little to the chosen ones, who are close to God, who know what actually God wants, who are His agents on earth, and who have the right to kill anyone and everyone not in league with them. But what about our State? Does all this right-crap mean little to it too? If state is not going to protect us indiscriminately, just for being its citizens, what option do we have? Should we become the religious zombies or should we start counting days before we too will get murdered on the street? 

And if these are the only two options we have, what really State is there for?