Victims of their own hatred
Mahatma Gandhi once remarked, “Those who hate others ultimately end up hating themselves.” Pakistanis have proved that Gandhi was right. Pakistanis are supposed to be Muslims and yet the Sunni Muslims are slaughtering the Shia Muslims and vice versa.
The Taliban are supposed to be Sunnis and yet they are slaughtering fellow Sunnis in the name of their version of Islam. They have been bombing schools, hotels, hospitals, mosques and Sufi shrines - all in the name of Islam. The Taliban and their acolytes hate the US, India and Israel but they hate their fellow Pakistanis even more, as evidenced by their slaughter of fellow Muslims.
As the Pakistani journalist Ethsam Waheed wrote in Lahore's Daily Times, “It is important to curb the extremist mindset amongst naïve minds if we want a peaceful future. Terrorism cannot be eradicated from Pakistan unless and until we work towards a tolerant mindset, which is free of bogus myths.”
Unless this hateful mindset is corrected, Pakistanis will continue to slaughter each other as they are doing now. Pakistan needs its own Gandhi who will teach them love and tolerance instead of the doctrine of hatred and violence being promoted as jihad.
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