Saturday, February 21, 2015
I was very happy to read about a sudden awakening in the minds of government officials in Pakistan as respects to their realization of the source of funding to the fanatic groups, and also the guts to criticize openly Saudi government as the culprit to propagate radicalization of Pakistanis via their funding of madrassas. The whole world was aware of the impact of Wahabism ideology of Islam and, needless to say, that this 7th century ideology is the main contributor of what is happening in the Middle East and in other Muslim countries. Unfortunately, most of the sheikhs in the Middle East are playing a dual - face role meaning they are criticizing ISIS and other Jihadi groups while at the same time abetting and financing the same groups to further their 7th century ideology also. It does not mean that Pakistan was not aware of source of funding to these fanatics, but the officials could not openly criticize the donor - Saudi Arabia - out of sheer survival. Saudis have been funding the civilian government in Islamabad for decades which in turn is taking good care of the nexus of Pakistani army/ISI. However, Peshawar's incident which involved killing of over 140 children of army officials happened to be the cause of this awakening and criticism of flow of funds from the Saudi government. As they say, better late than never. One hopes that Pakistani army/ISI and the civilian government carry on with their mission of eradication of fanatics from its territory, and also stop supporting any non-state actors in Pakistan.
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