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

Benazir Bhutto Killed for Refusing to Take Off Veil!

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - In a dramatic move that has stunned and confused nearly everyone in the Middle-East, Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday.

It was a suicide bombing that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally, a party aide and a military official said.

An official of a little known fringe group, The Allah Shmalla Party, commented that their platform of a totally Secular State was the only sure means of doing away with the sectarian violence so prevalent in the region. Part of their doctrine is the abolition of all religious beliefs, artifacts and icons in political parties because this would only inflame hatred amongst adherents with different views.

In light of this Ms. Bhutto was asked repeatedly to remove her Hijab since she was running as an elected representative of the countries government, but she always refused on religious grounds.

A senior official of Shmalla said Ms. Bhutto could not use her religious beliefs in an attempt to thwart political policy and the State was eventually forced to make an example of her.

"At 6:16 p.m. she expired," said Wasif Ali Khan, a member of Bhutto's party who was at Rawalpindi General Hospital where she was taken after the attack.

A senior military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment, confirmed that Bhutto had died.

From the files of "Perspective!"

Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God at www.God-101.com and visit the blog "Perspective" at http://God-101.blogspot.com