Barbaric, brutal, abominable, horrid, loathsome, inhumane, atrocious, callous.............. i went through my thesaurus and couldn't find the right word to describe what has happened in Sialkot. Watching the video as agonizing as it was one could only think it was being played on some uncensored version of The National Geographic Channel for except two of them the rest were definitely not humans.
Although i had lost my senses for about two days after watching the video, my memory takes me back to the event of two robbers being burnt in Karachi by an angry mob and the series of murders that took place after that in the same manner in Lahore as well. Is this the freedom for which millions of our ancestors gave their lives " freedom to kill" . Well to be honest our elders did not set a great example for us except for those who died. We'll some of our parents might testify to the fact that in 1947 mobs were moving around the whole country to avenge the deaths of our fellow muslim brothers and sisters. Anybody who was considered to be a hindu or sikh was teared down into pieces by our great ancestors the reason being that the hindus and sikhs in India were doing the same to muslims and mind you had there been video cameras at that time the images would have been a trazillion times more agonizing than what we saw a few days ago. To our advantage there were no cell phones with video cameras at that time therefore we can be proud of ourselves and our ancestors. Moreover there was no strong media to report such events so we might not be able to find a trace of what we have done.
So what are we ashamed of now is it the cellphones we posses or is it our media. By the standards set by us in the past these acts should be rewarded and the rest of the nation including us should feel proud of what we have done, as some reports suggest the brothers were robbers.
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