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Mike and his guest-bloggers are, excuse the phrase – new kids on the block. Having been in existence for just a few months now, the quality and variety of writing is nevertheless quite excellent. This week, Mike’s friend Ali, currently visiting family in Pakistan, is chiming in:
People here are taking to the streets and rioting, because of some cartoon they have never seen or read. They are destroying their own government buildings, they are destroying their own buses, attacking their fellow men who have nothing to do with the situation they are supposedly protesting about.Now the focus of their hatred are the Danish and Norwegian embassies, to the point that the government of Pakistan has recalled their ambassador from at least one of those countries. What is interesting to note is that these countries do a lot of developmental work in Pakistan. They send millions of dollars in aid to NGO’s who are doing relief work for the victims of the earthquake.
It is also important to note that it is countries like this who send their NGO’s or money to the local NGO’s, who are the ones that have developed a lot of the rural areas of Pakistan. They have brought education to a lot of areas neglected by every government of Pakistan that has been in power at least since my 30 years of life.
So by rioting and burning down embassies, recalling ambassadors from countries such as this, what do people hope to gain?
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world……..
Indeed it is. And of course the offensive cartoons are just the tip of the iceberg when trying to piece together what lurks behind current Islamist rage. More on that in the forums here.
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- tristero