mercoledì 26 ottobre 2016

Quetta bum

Take a little boy and incarcerate him in a remote madrassa. Keep him far away from the rest of the world and bar any interaction with humanity. Indoctrinate him with a distorted version of a religion and tell him that he does not belong to this world. Teach him about the fanciful world that awaits him in the heaven, and that in order to attain that he has to destroy everything that stands in his way, including his own body. By the time he is sixteen, the child would have become a drone: an un-manned man. Instead of a lively teenager, we would have a robot in living tissue ready to detonate on remote orders. At full steam ahead in Pakistan, this is a monstrous experiment in brainwashing and it is on a par with, if not worse than, Nazi Germany’s eugenics. They did it in the name of science; here, it is being done in the name of God and religion. On a very large scale, this is a hugely successful experiment in which nurture triumphs and nature takes a beating.
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From Zia to Zardari, and all others in between, no one even acknowledged that we have an overpopulation problem. Such is the fear of backlash from religious conservatives. Here’s the equation: a population that breeds likes rats equals poverty equals despair equals cannon fodder for religious organisations and terrorist networks. Were these children better off working at motor workshops or making carpets? Perhaps the ILO or an NGO can answer this question. They seem awfully quiet on something much worse than child labour. There’s a reason for that: in matters of faith or religious beliefs, no one dare object. All kinds of evil, illegal or inhuman practices can be given sanction if a particular religion or sect proves that it is part of its belief. You could be dying in a hospital but no one would give you a hallucinogenic drug to save your life. But, hey, you can get official approval for the use of cannabis or other hallucinogenic drugs if you prove that use of these substances is part of your religious belief. In 2006, the US Supreme Court did just that. Our children face a frightening future not because of the Taliban (they are just a handful) but because of the ultra-conservative wave of religion that has swept this country. Remote madrassas may be turning boys into drones but then there are thousands of madrassas spread all over Pakistan’s urban centres that are producing millions of neo-drones who may not become suicide bombers but are totally unfit to live in this world. These kids need to be rescued. 
Nasir Abbas Mirza 2009

Quetta, e anche tutto il Baluchistan, è una zona ricca di materie prime e risorse energetiche.
Se solo le si volesse sfruttare in maniera razionale, verrebbero creati lavoro ed educazione.
I ragazzini non sarebbero semplici prede delle madrase locali. E invece i politici si limitano ad avvantaggiarsi della situazione assoldando di volta in volta un capobanda per mandarlo a colpire l’avversario. Va da se che la porosità del confine con l’Afghanistan, la corruzione e le intrusioni indiane, non fanno altro che peggiorare il quadro.
Che i mandanti dell’attentato di Quetta siano i Lakshar e Janvi, o qualche gruppo del Khorasan che ha preso in franchising il marchio Isis o anche i soliti talebani, fa poca differenza. Il settarismo e la povertà sono alla mercè del migliore offerente. Ed è anche inutile accusare l’esercito di fare semplice propaganda attraverso l’operazione Zarb e Azb o dei continui abboccamenti con i Talebani. Quando la politica è debole, militari e intelligence non brillano. Non a caso il generale Shareef non avrebbe alcuna intenzione di assecondare le richieste di un prolungamento di mandato ormai in scadenza.
Non c’è un governo che sappia farsi valere all’interno del Paese e nemmeno nel contesto mondiale. Imran Khan che accusa gli indiani di aver pianificato l’attacco assieme a Nawaz Sharif per indebolire il suo programma di riforme e gli americani che ricorrono in continuazione a piccoli e grandi ricatti per dettare legge, sono il termometro del Pakistan attuale. Una nazione fallita.
E noi gli mandiamo indietro i temibili terroristi di Facebook.
Ragazzetti che quella terra finora l’hanno vista solo in cartolina e sono pronti a diventare terroristi veri.

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