The problem with terrorism

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When Brussels suicide bomber attack happened the whole world rallied around them for consolation and rightly so. But when similar attacks happen in Ankara, Baghdad, Lahore, Quetta, Peshawar and Kabul, there is dead silence from the world. Why? Because West has conveniently labelled all terrorism as Islamic so it becomes an internal issue for Muslim majority countries. West is secular in all respects except when it comes to terrorism; they have a religious label for it. It was the West that used violent jihad to defeat a communist superpower and sought regime change in Middle East through violent civil wars. It was the West that used drone and aerial strikes without any regard for collateral damage. It is the West that maintain a kill list without any regard for the sovereignty of other countries. I am not suggesting Muslims don’t have an issue to deal with but West keep poking their nose rather than allow us to deal with it through peaceful transformation of our societies.

We can’t overcome expansion of terrorism and fundamentalism until all innocent lives become equally important and a global effort is initiated to eradicate it. Pakistan along with Belgium and Turkey should request a special session of the UN Security Council to discuss an action plan for the global response against these acts of terrorism. In this session it should be clearly defined what constitute terrorism; religious and sectarian labelling of terrorist attacks and victims by media should be stopped; global database of suspected terrorists should be prepared; armed intervention in other countries whether drones or training of opposition militants should be stopped; UN charter to respect sovereignty of other countries should be reinstated; and people of a country should be allowed to seek peaceful protest for their political rights. If we fail to rally the world for a new charter on terrorism then we should be prepared for continuation of this low intensity world war that will wreak havoc on economies, produce social break downs, result in radicalisation of societies and rise in organise crime.

I pray for the deceased in all countries that are victim of terrorism and condole with their families.

ABDUL QUAYYUM KHAN KUNDI

Islamabad

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9 COMMENTS

  1. The foreign secret agencies originally used to collect internal intelligence from countries strategically important for them. But now they have concentrated all their resources entirely on creating unrest, mayhem, and terror in those target countries, which are of course the Muslim countries. Sporadic acts of terror are also carried out deliberately in some western countries too with the host country's collaboration in order to accentuate the credibility of the myth of Muslim terrorism and to divert world's suspicion from falling upon the true perpetrators of terrorism, the western secret agencies.

    • What a pile of lies… it is obvious to the rest of the world that almost all of the terrorism on the planet today comes from radical Islamic militants…. wake up, and face the truth… ISIS, Al Qaeda, Taliban, TTP, Al Shabab, Boko Haram, etc. etc…. it is Muslims who are killing the most Muslims in Muslim countries today…

      • You are right, radicalism is playing in the hands of those foreign agencies. So what is the solution? We have been fighting terrorism for the last two decades, and nothing has come of it. You have got to abolish that radicalism, and that can only be done through schooling. Don't blame the ordinary Muslim, it is the wrong policies of their rulers that are keeping them illiterate. Blame your rulers.

  2. Perhaps the author should stop complaining about the west and start doing something about terrorism that originates in Pakistan?… the west is always saying that you should do more?… and after this weeks bombing and mass killing of children in an amusement park… it is clear that you haven't done enough?… suicide bombers are always radical Islamic militants… do something to stop them and you will stop most of terrorism in the world which is caused by radical Islamic militants….

    • Of course we have plenty of illiteracy and fanaticism, and these illiterate and fanatic elements are the easiest recruitment material for the foreign agencies. And the only antidote against fanaticism is modern education, which our governments have failed to carry out.

  3. There is but a single common denominator for terrorism across the globe. Unless w admit it, acknowledge it, address it and crush it from the population it comes from, we all can foolishly blame the West, while keeping our heads, ostrich like, firmly and deeply in the sand.

    • We can't crush it with weapons of mass destruction. Fanatics, the recruits for foreign agencies, thrive on some ideas of their own. An idea can only be fought with another idea, and that will come though modern education. You can never kill any form of idea with firearms.

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