Aqsa and Benazir, not so different at all.
Now that my article about Benazir Bhutto has been up for a few hours and I have had a chance to read the replies to it, be they good, bad, weird, stupid, hate full or just plain ignorant, I would like to make a point.
The way this article was written has a lot in common with the piece about Aqsa Pervez who refused to wear her Hijab when she was out in public.
There is a great similarity between the story of a teenage girl who didn't want to wear a Hijab and was killed for it, and the fictional account of Benazir Bhutto being killed for refusing to take hers off.
The Hijab is not the reason for these killings and is only one of the links to these two events. They are but a symbol of the real problem, and that is one of other people trying to impose a set of beliefs or morals or practises on someone else.
Impose their values when they have no legal or moral right to do so!
The story about Aqsa Pervez is not a story of the Hijab or of religion, but rather a story about a domineering, controlling, vain and cruel father attempting to bend a daughter to his will, and when that failed, to resort to violence to achieve his objective.
The same can be said of Ms. Bhutto's case with the fictional Hijab. Benazir Bhutto was killed by people who could not achieve their political objectives by any other means and so used religion as an excuse to put an end to what they considered to be a threat from her.
In either case it was a means to an end that happens when individuals start to think they have a right to dictate the morals, beliefs and practices of other people.
It is one of the worst failings of Humanity when people believe they have the duty to subject others to their way of thinking.
Especially when they use God as a justification.
*This is really the proverbial "Devils" work and should be recognized as such!
*From the book, The Plain Truth About God at www.God-101.com
And visit the blog "Perspective" at http://God-101.blogspot.com
The way this article was written has a lot in common with the piece about Aqsa Pervez who refused to wear her Hijab when she was out in public.
There is a great similarity between the story of a teenage girl who didn't want to wear a Hijab and was killed for it, and the fictional account of Benazir Bhutto being killed for refusing to take hers off.
The Hijab is not the reason for these killings and is only one of the links to these two events. They are but a symbol of the real problem, and that is one of other people trying to impose a set of beliefs or morals or practises on someone else.
Impose their values when they have no legal or moral right to do so!
The story about Aqsa Pervez is not a story of the Hijab or of religion, but rather a story about a domineering, controlling, vain and cruel father attempting to bend a daughter to his will, and when that failed, to resort to violence to achieve his objective.
The same can be said of Ms. Bhutto's case with the fictional Hijab. Benazir Bhutto was killed by people who could not achieve their political objectives by any other means and so used religion as an excuse to put an end to what they considered to be a threat from her.
In either case it was a means to an end that happens when individuals start to think they have a right to dictate the morals, beliefs and practices of other people.
It is one of the worst failings of Humanity when people believe they have the duty to subject others to their way of thinking.
Especially when they use God as a justification.
*This is really the proverbial "Devils" work and should be recognized as such!
*From the book, The Plain Truth About God at www.God-101.com
And visit the blog "Perspective" at http://God-101.blogspot.com
Labels: agsa pervez, benazir bhutto, pakistan, politics
posted by Allan W Janssen | 7:38 p.m.
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