Riled about being called cowards in the New York Times, four Pakistani pop singers condemn suicide bombings, say they are not afraid of the Taliban.
Abrar-ul-Haq, while condemning the suicide attacks, mentioned about his new album, which is about terrorism and suicide attacks. “We make the songs according to the present situation in the country and we always gave the message of peace through our music,” said Abrar-Ul-Haq. Ali Azmat also criticised the NYT report and said that it portrayed our music industry wrongly. “We are against those who fund Taliban, it’s 1986 project of Israel, USA, UK and India,” commented Ali Azmat. He nullified that Muslims are attacking mosques but foreign security agencies like Blackwater are involved in these activities.
I think when it says “nullified that Muslims are attacking mosques,” it means he refuses to believe that Muslims would attack mosques and therefore it must be foreigners.
Azmat was the singer in the original NY Times video blog who said that the Taliban couldn’t be blamed for burning down girls schools because they were receiving money from foreigners to do it. Azmat also says, “We know for a fact that it’s not us, all these terrible problems come from outside hands.”
OK, I’ll say it: Azmat’s inability to confront the truth is cowardly, and he’s propagating his cowardice to his fans.
Pakistan looks like it’s going down the tubes, and it’s not because the population of pure blameless icons of purity that are the Pakistani people are being sullied by outsiders. Pakistan has been dabbling in extremism as an instrument of foreign policy for three decades.
