Dear Aasia Bibi, today I have no apology for you


I have so much to tell you

I have so much to talk to you about

I don’t know where to begin

Perhaps the best way is to start off by saying that I would never dare say such a callous thing like I know what you must be going through

I don’t

I have no idea what is going on in your head

I can’t even imagine how disgusted you must be feeling with life right now

However, I do know that you have every reason to feel disgusted

Aasia, you need to understand a few things about the people that surround you

You need to know that many of us around you are vile and immoral people

We are weak and sad people

We have insecurities about almost everything you can think of

We have filled our stomachs with so much hatred of everything, that your case is sadly not even the tip of the iceberg

Often times, our only source of fuel to carry on is by excreting our mental faeces on easy targets like you

How can I apologise on behalf of these people to you? I wish I could

However, in the minds of these sick people, your case is almost legitimate target material for them

We have folks amongst us that do far worse things to people who are within the parameters of our own ‘religious’ divides

We kill

Do you understand Aasia? We kill

We have sick people amongst us

Fear us, for we will attack without prejudice and we won’t even have the conscience to repent

It is amongst our most reliable qualities

I want to disengage myself from such people, but I know that won’t offer you any resolve

In fact, to truly appeal to you on behalf of the ignorance that is surrounding you, I fear I have to include myself in that group so as to try to connect with you

If ever there were two things that do not go together, it would be religion and illiteracy

While both of these things have done their fair share of damage independently, combining them creates a potential nuclear fission of harmful possibilities

You have become one of the many targets of such ignorant power

But I don’t need such excitement to think of you

That is completely overkill

Instead, I think of a mother who is trying to raise her family with the same level of pressures, if not more, as the millions of other incredibly poor families scattered throughout Pakistan

 I think of how, like every other woman on this planet, you do your best to hold the faces of your children up to the sky in spite of the hand dealt to you

I think of the pain your eyes must have seen over the years just to try and get by in this world

I think of my mother and how she held the entire universe in her hand for me, and then I think of how your kids must feel the same way about you

But then I think of what must be going through your children’s minds at this point

And I want to tell you Aasia, that when I think of all of this, and then of all the incredibly vile things that have unnecessarily happened to you recently, I want to hurt someone

I want to cause physical pain to someone

I am not a violent man, but violence begs to bleed through my veins and find someone to shower it upon

You see Aasia, in many ways, I am no different than any of these other mindless thugs who are causing you such stress with their ignorance

How then can I apologise to you, when I want to do to them, what they want to do to you? I can’t

Please understand

You deserve far more than an apology from a stranger who instead of having the capacity to help you, can only conjure up lustful thoughts of violent revenge on your behalf

I will say this though

This has nothing to do with religion

Religion is in this case, the most readily and easily available catalyst to mobilise the internal insecurities of those harming you

There is no faith that supports such inhumane treatment of people

It is a lack of a moral compass that steers people to such levels of madness

I hope that somewhere within the boundary of your wall of anger and disgust, there is a little crack of hope that still remains

I wouldn’t blame you if it doesn’t exist

However, if it does, then please try to conjure up the strength to look through that crack

When you do look through, you will see millions of other people peeping through their own tiny little cracks

We are all holding on to our vision of hope in the quest that the crack starts to widen

We are in this together

I will never forget you

Pakistan needs and begs for you to hold onto that hope of a better tomorrow

I need you to hold on to that hope

I truly do

Please



Date:17-Oct-2014 Reference:View Original Link