A nation hallucinated with the
bait of Malala Yousufzai’s shooting
Introduction:
Pakistanis are being flooded with “news”, “information”, articles, commentaries,
blogs, and various forms of propaganda about the shooting of a 15 years old
young woman from Swat, Malala Yousufzai (previously she was said to be 14 years
old, but some more recent information indicates that she is 15). It has been
alleged that she was shot on the orders of Tehrik-e-Taliban of Pakistan (TTP).
So, why write another article, knowing that it would probably be wasted in the
flood of propaganda, disinformation, lies, half-truths, and all types of
subjective and emotional diarrhea, in which the rationality and intelligence of
people, especially of the Pakistanis, are being drowned, turning them into
partners and tools of the powers that are doing all that for their sinister
plots and objectives, described below? The answer is that the author is
committed to doing what is necessary, regardless of the results or consequences.
The obsession with the Malala affair seems to be restricted to Pakistan, because
there is where it is needed. In the US, most people do not even know about it,
in spite of some coverage by the media. To be sure, some top leaders and
so-called celebrities have made some ignorant, hypocritical, and omissive
statements against the shooting and against the Taliban, but there has not been
that constant obsessive-neurotic preoccupation with it here that is going on in
Pakistan. It is understandable that the Pakistani government and media leaders
want to maximize the national insanity for their own objectives, as well as
those of their foreign patrons. But, why are so many Pakistanis participating in
this insanity and going berserk?
Basic facts and their analysis
Recently, this author wrote a brief paper on this subject https://imperialismandthethirdworld.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/malalas-shooting-tragedy-the-need-for-its-placement-and-understanding-within-its-full-and-proper-context-by-fazal-rahman-ph-d/
, as various known facts and their interconnections, as well as the opening of
the flood-gates of massive, omissive, demagogic, and constant propaganda-from
which, some of the most important facts and their interconnections were excluded
and omitted-by the Western and Pakistani governments and mass media, on this
tiny little ripple in an ocean of mass murders, atrocities, and
destruction-initiated and mostly caused by the state terrorism of US, NATO, and
Pakistani military and secret service forces, indicated that something very
sinister was being hatched. This tiny little ripple is now being extracted from
that vast ocean of blood and gore, and injected with all types of blinding fog,
which is then being blown by the huge blowers of the massive modern propaganda
machines, so that the people would identify and confuse the huge clouds of fog
with the tiny little ripple, which would divert their eyes and attention away
from the vast ocean.
As unrelenting efforts by the powerful international and national forces are
underway to use this tinny little ripple for the creation of another river of
blood and gore, atrocities, and destruction in North Waziristan, it is necessary
to elaborate further on the contents of the previous article.
The following basic facts and their connections were contained in the previous
article:
1. Malala was methodically elevated to grotesque levels of prominence and
publicity by the Western and Pakistani governments, mass media, and some NGOs.
2. This 15 years old ignorant, naïve, ambitious, and vulnerable young woman and
her family were lured into becoming the tools of psychologico-cultural and
political propaganda warfare of the US and NATO imperialism and its puppet
Pakistani government and military. They were well-rewarded for their services.
3. She was allowed access to high level American and Pakistani officials and
their mass media.
4. She was parroting and writing whatever was being fed to her by her mentors.
5. The Western and Pakistani mass media have slavishly and uncritically
collaborated with all the omissions, distortions, and misrepresentations of the
facts and their interconnections in this whole affair.
Purposes and objectives of the Malala Affair
Malala and her shooting have been used as magical hallucinogenic bait by the
above powers for the following purposes and objectives:
1. To bait both the TTP and Pakistani people for the purpose of diversion of
energies from opposition to drone attacks in the tribal areas of Pakistan, war
of aggression and occupation of Afghanistan, subservience and slavery of
Pakistani government and military to US and Western imperialism, and the recent
anti-Islamic film.
2. To divert public attention from the colossal problems of corruption,
mismanagement, and incompetence of the government; poverty; unemployment; civil
war and sectarian violence; and other socio-economico-political problems.
3. For propping up the unpopular puppet government of Pakistan Peoples Party
(PPP) and postponement of the upcoming elections, in which, in all likelihood,
it will lose.
4. For manipulation and creation of public opinion in favor of the military
operation and invasion of North Waziristan, which will result in the bolstering
of the military and political positions of US and NATO forces and their puppet
Afghan government, and weakening of the anti-invasion Islamic forces of Afghan
Taliban and their allies.
5. Before the shooting, objectively, she has acted as a small tool and spy for
the US, NATO, and Pakistani governments and forces, and against the
anti-imperialist forces of Afghan Taliban, TTP, and their allies. However, after
the shooting, her objectively tiny little importance and role are now being
grotesquely and methodically exploded, amplified, and magnified to immense
proportions, to the benefit of US, NATO, and Pakistani governments and
militaries, and to the detriment of Taliban and their allies, both in Pakistan
and Afghanistan. If Taliban ordered it, it was a huge tactical blunder, as they
swallowed the bait. Taliban in Pakistan consist of diverse relatively
decentralized and independent groups. If it was ordered by the group under
Moulana Fazlullah in Swat, then why is North Waziristan being considered for
invasion and military operation?
6. Pakistan is full of incomparably bigger and more important traitors and spies
of the West. The really big and important tools and spies of the US and Western
imperialism are concentrated in the Pakistani government, military, ISI, and
other institutions, reaching some of the top levels of officialdom, including
the current president. Malala is a very insignificant little particle in that
massive infiltration of all the politico-economic, military, intelligence,
educational, and cultural institutions of Pakistan by the Western powers,
especially the US. Shooting or killing her will achieve nothing for the Taliban.
To the contrary, her shooting has already caused great political damages to
them, which may multiply into various other forms too. Let us face it. Under the
existing conditions of widespread poverty, unemployment, hypocrisy, corruption,
and culture of greed and money-and-things-worship in Pakistan, most families and
their children would have jumped on the opportunity and bribery that were
offered to Malala and her family, and would have done the same as they did. The
real monsters are those who used this 15 years old young woman as a bait for
their nefarious purposes and in the service of their US and NATO masters.
7. The really big and important Pakistani tools and spies of the Western powers
identify with Malala, both consciously and unconsciously. They fear for their
own similar fate at the hands of Pakistani patriots and anti-imperialists. In
this respect, no one knows them and calls them what they really are, better than
the TTP and its allies. In fact, one of their most important demands is that
Pakistani government should abandon and renounce its slavery to the US and the
West. No one else has stated that so clearly and strongly. Their other major
objective is to help their brethren in Afghanistan in expelling the US and NATO
invaders and restore that country’s sovereignty. How can any truly freedom- and
justice-loving person oppose these two great objectives and goals? Afghan
Taliban and TTP are simple people and speak simple language, instead of
hideously and deliberately complex modern jargon, designed to confuse, deceive,
lie, and mislead. Frequently, the real truth is very simple, but gets covered up
and disappears under such jargon. Treacherous and corrupt Pakistani political
and other leaders fear nothing more than such simple truths and honesty, and the
people who not only speak these, but act upon them. They call them backward and
barbaric, because they insist upon their authentic identity, are fiercely
opposed to the slavery and prostitution to the West, and its blind imitations.
These are some of their positive human qualities. These are being mentioned here
as they are relevant to the matter that is being discussed here. However, this
by no means implies the denial of their negative aspects that need changes,
which can only be brought about by themselves. Those Pakistanis, who have sold
their souls to the West, have nothing to teach them, and a lot to learn from
them. Only the uncorrupted and un-prostituted educated people can contribute to
the necessary changes through mutual political, economic, and religious
education, learning, and change.
The US, NATO, and Pakistani governments hatched the incredibly asinine plot of
Malala baiting to divert attention from the vast ocean of blood and destruction
that they created, to the tiny little ripple of Malala shooting, and try to
demonize, attack, and destroy the TTP with that maneuver. Nowhere in history
such an asinine plot has been hatched for such huge deceptions and goals. And it
seems to be succeeding in Pakistan! This could only happen in Pakistan. That so
many Pakistanis are falling for it shows the decadence and rottenness of their
intelligence, rationality, and soul. However, it is very likely that most of
them are the so-called “educated” stooges of the West. All the media,
newspapers, and blogs are flooded with their hypocritical emotional diarrheas,
many of them clamoring for the invasion of North Waziristan. It is possible that
part of these may also be orchestrated by the official and paid agents of the
West, pretending to be ordinary Pakistanis.
8. For softening the widespread anti-American sentiments of Pakistanis.
Pakistani mass media
Like in all the capitalist countries, the mass media in Pakistan are
profit-driven capitalist businesses, dependent upon advertisements of other
businesses and government and other organizations. They rarely, if ever, take
any positions on the issues and problems that are contrary to their own
interests or those of their capitalist class. They choose between different
political parties and politicians on the basis of their analysis of potential
benefits for themselves and their class. Truth, justice, and depth are routinely
excluded and mutilated in their coverage and “analyses” of the events, issues,
and problems, even though, occasionally, pieces of these may break through the
barriers.
Even by the Pakistani standards, the mass media have broken all their previous
historical records of one-sided, slavish, biased, and subjective coverage of
this whole Malala affair, carrying it to the level of insanity and obsession.
They are overflowing with one-sided and omissive subjective diarrheas, which are
promoting and in the service of the official line. Their ridiculous
Pakistani-Western chimerical moderators and editors seem to be censoring almost
all the in-depth, comprehensive, and knowledgeable articles and comments, and
allowing only those that conform to their chimerical tastes and positions. Even
though, The News of the Jang Group is supposed to be better than many others in
this regard, on the Malala affair, it is doing the same or worse than the other
media. It has some very shallow chimerical writers and bloggers-with meager base
of knowledge and information on various issues, who consider themselves
authorities on these-who are writing shallow, wishy-washy, distortionist, and
biased articles on this and other issues. Such moderators are also mostly
allowing venomous and derogatory articles against the Pakhtoon resistance
fighters, by the sheeple who have all the courage in the world to do that from
the safety of their computers. One wonders what they would say if they were face
to face with them. Almost all such mind-numbing, deafening, and shocking noise
and writings are being produced by the conceited Pakistani “educated” and
“highly educated” sheeple, who are either totally ignorant of the nature or
history of Western imperialism or are its stooges and in its service. They are
so ignorant that they do not even know that they are ignorant! This author had
described the mass psychology of such sheeple in an earlier article
https://imperialismandthethirdworld.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/us-and-nato-imperialism-in-south-asia-the-developing-pakistan-quagmire-by-fazal-rahman-ph-d/
.
The mass folly and absurdity of these “educated” and “highly educated” sheeple,
in case of the Malala affair, confirms the accuracy of the conclusions of that
paper, written in 2009, especially of the paradox described in the following
passages. What is the nature of education that is producing such sheeple? In the
upside-down world of Pakistan, the relatively less educated and uneducated
people are taking relatively better, more principled, and more accurate
positions than the relatively more and highly educated, on some of the most
important national and international problems and their interconnections.
Recently, Hamid Mir, host of the Capital Talk TV show, wrote an article in which
he claimed that a Taliban spokesman, Ahsanullah Ahsan, had emailed him a
seven-page letter, which, among other things, contained threats to his life.
https://www.makepakistanbetter.com/Why_how_what_forumU.asp?GroupID=11&ArticleID=19631
(Hamid Mir-Dhamki ka jawab)
Why would Hamid Mir jump to publish this story before verifying that the email
actually originated from Ahsanullah Ahsan? It is highly unlikely that Ahsanullah
Ahsan would engage in such a useless activity, so soon after the Malala affair.
It is the responsibility of the media anchors and reporters to verify the
authenticity of such emails before publicizing them, especially in the current
highly inflamed and insane situation in Pakistan. It is very likely that this
email and other such communications are originating in some sources that want to
pour more fuel on the inflamed situation. To be sure, Hamid Mir’s ratings and
reputation will shoot up because of this publicity. But, if it is not true, then
it only adds to the current insanity.
Following are some of the relevant passages from my above-mentioned article, in
this regard:
“A major part of the problem in the development of such mass psychology is the
educational, especially the so-called “higher education” system in Pakistan,
which is mass producing “highly educated experts” of various types, overwhelming
majority of whom are highly brainwashed by Western, and especially American,
textbooks, written by advocates and apologists of capitalism and imperialism.
This is true of all the so-called social “sciences” being taught in the country
by brainwashed professors and other teachers, who are also, in effect,
brainwashing their students, with “knowledge” and “information” that almost
exclusively serve the interests of capitalism and foreign imperialism. The
situation in natural sciences is even worse. In these, the “highly educated
experts”, just like their counterparts in the US and Europe, are almost totally
devoid of any knowledge or information in the social, politico-economic, and
philosophical areas. These latter are the ones whom the Spanish philosopher
Ortega y Gasset had called the “Learned Ignoramuses”, who know a lot about a
tiny little area of natural reality but are ignorant of all the rest of natural
as well as social reality. Such Learned Ignoramuses are being mass-produced in
Pakistan and are also being exported to the imperialist centers and other
relatively rich countries, causing enormous damages to the national economy by
such a large brain drain, on the training of which important national financial
and other resources are spent. The educational “elites” in Pakistan are, by and
large, either ignorant of the problems of imperialism and capitalism or are
active parts of them. This explains the paradox of why relatively less educated
and uneducated people there instinctively understand Western and US imperialism
much better and take incomparably more principled and strong positions on this
matter- based upon their understanding of good and evil, just and unjust, true
and false, and freedom and slavery-than the so-called “highly educated elites”.
We are witnessing a powerful manifestation of this paradox in the Tribal Areas,
where, in spite of low literacy and educational level, there is incomparably
more understanding of Western and US imperialism-and its disastrous effects on
the economy, politics, and culture of the country-than in rest of the country,
where literacy and educational levels are much higher, and especially than that
of the “highly educated elites”. As stated earlier, this is mostly the result of
healthier instincts, intuition, and values in the Tribal Areas than rest of the
country, in which human nature, instincts, intuition, and values have been
greatly polluted and corrupted under the influence of many forces, including
those originating in Western and US imperialism, especially in the form of
cultural and educational imperialism. This situation is somewhat similar to that
in the voting differences between Whites and Blacks in the US. Blacks, in spite
of their lower educational levels than the Whites, routinely vote more
intelligently and ethically in the local and national elections.
Related to the above topic is the totally false, deceptive, anti-factual,
anti-logical, and anti-historical notion of “Extremist” and “Moderate” Islam,
propagated by the think tanks of US imperialism, through their local agents,
like Musharraf, Zardari, and the late Benazir, . Who can deny the apodictic
truth, without making a complete idiot of himself, that the US imperialism is
the most extremist and aggressive imperialism on this planet, and has been for a
long time, and that the current focus of its extremist high-tech aggression is
the economically and strategically important parts of the Muslim world? Is
submission to such an extremist and militarist imperialism, and becoming a tool
in its plots for domination of Muslim peoples and their resources, “Moderation”
or prostitution and betrayal of the worst kind? On the other hand, is resistance
to such an extremist and militarist imperialism “Extremism” or fulfilling the
most important and sacred duty of protection and promotion of national
liberation, freedom, dignity, resources, and culture from the imperialist
onslaughts? And to begin with, who had created these forces during the proxy war
against the revolutionary government of Afghanistan and its Soviet allies-at
that time being characterized as the epitome of “freedom fighters” and now being
labeled as “extremists”?”
End of passages from the above article.
Eroding integrity of the country
The Pakistani government, military, and a lot of the “educated” ignoramuses are
playing a very dangerous game with the fate and integrity of the country.
Damages that they have caused in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and tribal
areas may already be irreversible. The intermediate and long-term consequences
of their treacherous, prostituting, and asinine domestic and foreign policies
will be dire and huge indeed, for the already faltering and failing state of
Pakistan. With further aggravation of the situation, the tribal areas and the
whole province may opt to secede in the future and either join Afghanistan or
Balochistan to form a new country, like the Bangladesh. If and when that process
starts, no one will be able to stop it. Pakhtoons never forget the wrongs and
injustices done to them and their tenacity and resilience is unmatchable. Once
they embark on a course of action collectively and resolutely, no one can stop
them. It is up to the common Pakistanis to take collective action to reign in
and change the political and military leadership and save the integrity of the
country and restore its honor, instead of joining them in further prostituting,
eroding, and disintegrating it.
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