The USA is not a unique place where hatred is part of the social contract.
Wade Michael Page, (click here) a gunman who shot dead six worshippers at a Sikh temple was a white supremacist who had previously served in the US Army, officials said.
March 22, 2015
LAHORE (Dunya News) – A 7-year-old girl (click here) Anmol who had survived the Youhanabad terror attack succumbed to injuries on Sunday at General Hospital in Lahore, Dunya News reported.
Anmol’s passing has raised the death toll of the Youhanabad tragedy to 18....
The bigotry within 'Us." (click here)
It is unreasonable to demand or expect to ask for loved ones to be protected from violent attacks anymore. Yet, is it time for us to give up any hope of anyone’s memory being honoured decently, sympathy and empathy shown? The Christians of Youhanabad, Lahore certainly were denied that small courtesy. Those whose loved ones died in the church attacks in Youhanabad were not granted a proper mourning, and instead were expected to be apologetic about the actions of some of their ‘community’ members.
Moral equivalence is tricky business at best, often degenerating to simple nastiness and hypocrisy. Churches were attacked in Youhanabad, Lahore, by an organised group that believes that anyone not sharing its faith (or even the particular brand of the faith) should be killed, women and children included, their places of worship blown to smithereens. A mob lynched two young innocent men for no good reason; horrific murder plain and simple. Murder is a murder and a lynching is a lynching. Indeed. Yet, there are different brands of violence at play. One is part of systemic murderous pogrom against non-Muslims and the wrong kind of Muslims and the other is random mob violence. The only commonality between the two is an unravelling state and impotent government with monopoly over violence completely lost....
Wade Michael Page, (click here) a gunman who shot dead six worshippers at a Sikh temple was a white supremacist who had previously served in the US Army, officials said.
March 22, 2015LAHORE (Dunya News) – A 7-year-old girl (click here) Anmol who had survived the Youhanabad terror attack succumbed to injuries on Sunday at General Hospital in Lahore, Dunya News reported.
Anmol’s passing has raised the death toll of the Youhanabad tragedy to 18....
The bigotry within 'Us." (click here)
It is unreasonable to demand or expect to ask for loved ones to be protected from violent attacks anymore. Yet, is it time for us to give up any hope of anyone’s memory being honoured decently, sympathy and empathy shown? The Christians of Youhanabad, Lahore certainly were denied that small courtesy. Those whose loved ones died in the church attacks in Youhanabad were not granted a proper mourning, and instead were expected to be apologetic about the actions of some of their ‘community’ members.
Moral equivalence is tricky business at best, often degenerating to simple nastiness and hypocrisy. Churches were attacked in Youhanabad, Lahore, by an organised group that believes that anyone not sharing its faith (or even the particular brand of the faith) should be killed, women and children included, their places of worship blown to smithereens. A mob lynched two young innocent men for no good reason; horrific murder plain and simple. Murder is a murder and a lynching is a lynching. Indeed. Yet, there are different brands of violence at play. One is part of systemic murderous pogrom against non-Muslims and the wrong kind of Muslims and the other is random mob violence. The only commonality between the two is an unravelling state and impotent government with monopoly over violence completely lost....
