Pakistanion ko kuch dollar kai ewaz bechney waley ham naheee

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I am the Chairman of Yeh Hum Naheen! and thought that I should address some of the issues raised in this thread.

Noha, you have got it right! We do want to give this petition to the terrorists. This has never been about appeasing the west or pleading for their pity. This has always been about us… sorting our own house out.

Asma, it is all too easy to hold faceless agencies or foreign hands responsible for the rise in terrorism in Pakistan, but for me simply finding someone else to blame is not the way to resolve this problem. The fact remains that the perpetrators of these heinous acts are from amongst us. It has become not only the civil but also the religious responsibility of each individual to ensure that nobody from our family, our friends, our neighborhoods, our schools or our colleges gets sucked into committing these acts.

Asim, everyone’s opinion is important to us. I firmly belive the power to stop these atrocities lies with us, the people not at the door of politicians or government. It is up to us to root these people out and let them know in the strongest possible way that what they do, they do not do in our name. Terrorism is nothing more than Murder and in Islam Murder is Haram!

We thank you all for your interest. The whole purpose of the campaign was to engender debate and in that respect, we seem to have succeeded. Keep you comments coming. You can always contact me at info@yehhumnaheen.org.

I know exaclty where you are coming from. But I do beg to differ with some of your comments.

As I see it, the campaign does not aim to simply provide an clarification to the west that yeh hum naheen. I believe its addressing our own nation. Frankly, I dont give a rat’s rugged ass to what the west thinks about me or my country… what I do care about is deliberate misrepresentation of Islam by my fellow muslims. I do not want any of my friends to be a suicide bomber and kill many others including friends and families of innocent pakistanis.

How can we ignore the fact that fighting this war against the US or other oppressors does not mean you start killing your own? I also stand firm with you that the US has done enough damage and that we should not stand down… to fight the real enemy, we need to be united and strong at using their weapons against them. Namely… MEDIA!

And sadly… our media has never played the role it should.

We should not critisize a positive initiative without looking into the background. I request the moderator to contact a representative of the NGO to answer the querries of my brothers and sisters here.

Peace