My friend Faraz Talats excellent piece in the Pakistani daily Dawn - a letter from one Pakistani Nobel laureate to another: --- Not a lot has changed in this country. You were mocked and alienated by your countrymen, when you did nothing wrong. I know something of that. As a nation, we do not want to be celebrated. What we wish for, is to be pitied. They were pleased with you as long as you were another local victim. But then, you cast off your victimhood and emerged as a hero, a beacon of hope for young girls around the world. That’s where you lost them. We don’t like heroes, Malala. We like battered souls that we can showcase to the world. We want to humiliate the ‘colonialists’ and the ‘imperialists’ for their crimes, real or imagined, against the Muslims of the subcontinent. --- Read this and share.
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:45:40 +0000
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