Women in Black

Here is one of the best articles I have come across in the wake of viglantism of Hafsa femme fetalls in the capital of "land of pure" - right under the nose of "His Enlightenend Moderation". The current vigiliantism on part of Beard & Burka brigade is just one of the symptoms of contradictions that run deep into the very foundation of Pakistan.


... while the Islamists have got their martyrs and are always ready to commit more cadres to die in the cause, the liberals work on Russell’s formula: “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong”.

Neither would I. But this formula works in civilised environments. In a place where some are prepared to die for an absolutism, however misplaced their concreteness might be, some others also need to stand up and commit to defending the right of many to not die for beliefs because they might be wrong. This is a contest between the absolutism of the absolutist and the absolutism of the relativist.

The relativist has to fight to retain the absolute right to his relativism.