If I never see you again...

Blogger is working. That's quite a shock since everything else seems to be restricted. I don't know how long this will last, so I'm posting fast. I feel like I'm writing from behind enemy lines in a WWII movie or something. Any second now, they'll find my hideout or all communication will be lost, and this might just be my last post before I'm never heard from again. If that's true and Pakistan is on-route to becoming the next China, or more accurately the next Afghanistan, I want this to be out there.

The "everyone draw the prophet" event was insensitive. Every religion in the world has some belief or the other that makes no sense to someone who doesn't belong to it, yet to purposely instigate them and taunt them over it is wrong and unfair. This goes for muslims who behave that way towards other religions as well.

Hence, I felt that the initial idea of not signing into facebook on a specific day to make your point was an intelligent manner of protesting. Yet as per usual in the case of Pakistan, it all spiralled out of control. I'm not quite sure how it happened, but suddenly our govt has banned not just facebook but every other conceivable website ( let's just ban the internet altogether while we're at it). To say that I'm angry as hell, and don't know which wall to bang my head against would be an understatement. What could have been a very valid protest has now lost all credibility and as usual we've become a standing joke.

My freedom of choice has just been taken away; I knew this would happen some day, I was just hoping I wouldn't be alive to see it. In my book this means we're now standing on the precipice of absolute talibanization, whether this ban becomes permanent or whether we see the error of our ways and drop it, will decide where we're headed as a nation. So for all I know this may just be my last post ever.

If so, I hope that over time I've been able to show, how not all pakistanis think exactly alike or are exactly what the media portrays us to be. How many of us are able to see the beauty in other people, other cultures and other worlds, while still loving our own country and religion. For me, and many people like me, it was never an either/or situation.