Some blasphemous caricatures having Anti-Islamic subject were published in Danish Newspaper... then reprinted in several other countries...
The Response:
They said it's just because "Freedom of Press", which causes a wave of anger and hatred among Muslims.
The Reaction:
Many people protested... in the form of Rallies in various parts of the world...
BUT
Rallies in some cities of Pakistan turned out to be something else... including setting buildings on fire... burning lots of buses... destroying shops and looting properties...
It might be a chance that those people have some other intentions...
Here's a collection of some comments from some of my friends on this REACTION:
...Our [Lahore] Mall road is different now.... Lots of destruction... You cant imagine what was going on... those vandals... i think its all is the result of social descrimination, the increasing class distances... Nothing else. Those who couldn't afford to shop from those big stores found an opportunity and looted the goods; Those who couldn't afford a Car smashed and burned other cars parked there... And so much more. I'm thinking on a pattren...
[...apni mall road to badal hi gayee.... tabahi barbaadi... You cant imagine kay kia ho raha tha... those vandals... i think its all is the result of social descrimination, the increasing class distances... aur kuch nai, jo log bari shops say shoppin nai ker saktay thay, unhon nay moqa milnay pay unhain loot liya, jo nayee gari main nay bethtay thay, ussko jala diya, aur bohat kuch... i'm thinking on a pattren... ]
- Cashif [2/16/2006]
well ya...all we can see is jahalat [illiteracy, ignorance], and the actions are pretty justified as well. One can never understand the meaning of a state if he has never been cared or nurtured by the goverment. One can never understand the meaning of institutes and education, if one is illeterate. We are a poor lame nation. we are suppose to suffer like that. I think we absolutely deserve it. The goverment, the nation , the authorities... all comprise of one kind of people... we.... the pakistanis... the shameless, the inefficent...
- Waqas Ahmed [2/17/2006]
"The physical exhaustion leads to numbness of mind. I dont bother about the stuff going on, I have many things to solve within me, but you know the intermittant outburst of mind yeilds alot in these circumstances. :)
Social frustration needs channels to vent, and in our country what can be the best occasion than blaspheme, profane incidences. Pour out your anger [over] fellow-men, wreck destruction, cause chaos, afterall they say violence lets the anger subside.
He [the Artist] might be happy somewhere in the world, his work has got recognition."
- Faraz [2/18/2006]
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There is no pain, you are receding...
Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re sayin’.
When I was a child I had a fever.
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I got that feeling once again.
I can’t explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.
- Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb.
