The heroes of one nation are quite often the villains of the others. One case in which this near-universal rule can be regarded as simply unquestionable is that of Dr A.Q. Khan. His “national-hero” status in Pakistan has remained unchallenged except by a handful of skeptics (like Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy). And the fact is that in addition to Pakistan, in several other Muslim countries too, Dr Khan is regarded as a luminary of iconic dimensions. Those who remember the dying days of the month of May 1998, may have fresh in their memories the kind of ‘surge’ Pakistan had experienced in the ‘esteem’ of the world of Islam.
The general feeling was that the Crescent-flying nations which had gone through a couple of centuries of collective ignominy and shame, had suddenly been gifted with some thing to cheer about and celebrate.
No wonder when the nuke-making capability of Pakistan was still a subject of considerable division of opinion, the phrase “Islamic Bomb” had come up, to serve as an accurate reflection of the mind-set of the anti-Islamic forces, For quite some time we have lived in ‘a state of ‘apologetic defensiveness’ in this respect, and argued that “Pakistan’s bomb happens to be only as much Islamic as that of India is Hindu, of Israel is Jewish, and of the rest, Christian or Confucian”. Time has come however to do away with our apologetic behaviors of the past.
The American-Indian-Zionist axis that has come into play so unconcealedly in recent times gives us an opportunity to stand up, and declare fearlessly: “Yes we are Islamic. Yes we have a Bomb. Yes it is Islamic too, if you continue to insist it is. And yes Dr A.Q. Khan is our Hero whether or not it pleases you.” Meaning thereby that it should not be a matter of any concern for us how much of a villain this great man of destiny happens to be in the eyes of those, whose sole objective was, happens to be, and will always remain to contain ‘Islam’ and to build barricades in the way of the march of Islamic ‘Peoples’ towards a renaissance of the Crescent Power.
(This Column was first published on 09-02-2009)
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