Why are characters like Salman Rushdi, Mukhtaran Mai, Malala Yousafzai and Sharmeen Ubaid Chinoy specially picked up by the West for glorification that borders around deification?
There are many others whose names are not coming to my mind instantly. But they are all, in one way or the other, linked with an organised campaign to bracket Islam and Muslim Societies with ugliness, inhuman behaviours and barbarism.
Malala’s only grand achievement was that she had a cunning, ambitious and scheming father who took full advantage of an environment that was pregnant with opportunities to catch the attention of the West. She herself was as good as a programmed computer or robot. Luck favoured Malala’s father Ziauddin, and she was targeted by unknown assailants. She survived to become an ‘icon’ of courage and probably the most celebrated darling of the West in recent times.
In Pakistan hundreds of kids have been targeted by terrorists in similar way, but none had a father like Ziauddin.
Malala since then has been ‘celebrated’ as Pakistan’s identity with all her twisted ideas about this country, its founder, its ideology and its ethos.
Madam Chinoy is a slightly different case. She has made her fortune by picking up stories of ugliness in our society, and projecting these stories in a manner that the resulting pieces of art are made to be identified as the Face of Pakistan.
Far greater ugliness exists in the societies that pick up these characters to represent Pakistan’s image.
I was shocked to see Kamran Khan joining hands with the Western media in dubbing these ‘special ladies’ as ambassadors of Pakistan.
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