ARE WE TERRORISTS?!?!?! (from Rohri, ma niggah!)

In this world of conflict perceived by some as the conflict between barbarianism and freedom, between irrationality and Science, between Muslim and a Jew or a Muslim and a Hindu or a Muslim and Christian. Now regardless of these perceived conflicts by the people of the world we can all unanimously agree that is not the case. But with all these perceptions, my confused identity asks itself, Are we terrorists?

Terrorism. What is terrorism? Terrorism is a systematic use of terror, specially in a means of coercion. Internationally, there is no universally agreement on the definition of terrorism. So i would like to look at my own country and ask myself this question. Well, if one thinks about it the whole world asks this question about us, where did we go wrong then? Don’t we desire peace, need it and or want it? Are we not creatures of emotions just like people in the rest of the world? And if not just that. Are all victims of terror are victimized by our people and or our own only? No, they’re not. We just like the rest of the world have our fair share of peaceful portions in the population. But there is no denying that Pakistan which was once known for it’s cricketing brilliance, it’s rich cultural history, it’s rivers and it’s cuisine is now known as an unsafe place and known for bomb-blasts.

In very simple words, it’s a small portion of the Pakistani population that is radicalized and follows a very Orthodox version of Religion, that too in their own form of perception of it and under such circumstance there is an identity crisis in our masses and they fail to understand that there are not two poles in this conflict i.e the foreign forces and the group that these forces call terrorists, there is more to this conflict there are more parallels to it than most us actually think. There are events, there causes and consequence to begin with...

There is corruption in this country. Tax evasion is rampant in the business community. All sorts of methods are used which are unacceptable to make money. State owned enterprises and other similar institutions are not functioning properly. On a smaller scale of things, not even a traffic signal is respected let alone other laws of the land and no law establishment agency stresses on implementing the laws which can bring change for the better. but having indulged in these details of the events, i would like to talk about their causes and consequences. It’s a vicious cycle, as one profits from the methods of corruption other loses his/her chances of social mobility or stability. On a broader scale, the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer because of lack of regulation and the consequence of this is terror which turns out to be the cause of corruption.

Coming back to how the world looks at us. I would like to point out the fact that these problems are faced not solely by us but the lines globally between whats legal and illegal are blurred. But for us, events of terror have become an identity on a global scale. But that does not mean that there will be no end to it because our state is in doubt. An identity crisis, if these things are the things that we are identified with then along with them we are also identified by our cultural identity. And both do and do not go hand in hand. Bomb blasts do not faze the operation of the machine of this country. Despite the terror, we don’t do anything involuntarily and ourselves are

in an internal conflict against it. Which is another factor to the whole scenario.

Having to analyze all the scenarios and the situations that i could, i conclude that no. We are not terrorists. Confused yes. But we are far from terrorists, Yes we have other problems than terrorism but we’re not in them alone. Other states face them too. In our daily lives each and everyone of us. Weather from the establishment or the masses is keen on focusing on his survival needs than his ideological wants and that can be both a great and a sad reality of our lives and our state but it surely proves that we are indeed not the terrorists.