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My thread on the Islamist rioting once again in Pakistan. This is an issue of interest for me because it involves a demand to expel French ambassador, effectively making it NOT an internal Pakistani issue. Would be keeping tabs like I have so far. More vids might be added. https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1381919883429093385
Like I have long said, Pakistan is an extremist majority country. When I say that, I use my words very carefully and I know exactly what I'm saying. A large majority in Pakistan has extremist mindset on varying degrees. These riots are once again evidence of that.
In the TLP case, on one hand you have the violent perpetrators and those who are physically in the field. But there's very large number of people who're not physically part of them but are sympathetic to them and their demands sit at their homes and offices,justifying their acts.
They're what you'd otherwise call "the moderates". That is the full extent of the problem we're talking about here.
So far there have been plenty of people in the Pakistani mainstream who have expressed support for TLP, their "mission" and their demands to varying degrees. These people are part of Pakistan's mainstream society - from intellectuals to clerics from other sects to people in media
Also remember what I said earlier: this is just another case of Pakistani chickens coming home to roost. Absolutely no one who has followed TLP since 2017 should be surprised at the current events taking place in Pakistan. https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1381623417783398408?s=20
Pakistani government should have never entered negotiations with TLP in 2017. That brought credibility. That was first big mistake.
Second big mistake was to negotiate with TLP last year.
TLP has grassroots support now. Good luck with handling them. https://twitter.com/JusticeDSword1/status/1381679716021768195?s=20
Second big mistake was to negotiate with TLP last year.
TLP has grassroots support now. Good luck with handling them. https://twitter.com/JusticeDSword1/status/1381679716021768195?s=20
It's one thing to validate an extremist group on a domestic level. It's a whole other thing to allow that extremist group to dictate your country's foreign policy matters. Simply put, TLP is no longer a domestic issue of Pakistan & international bodies should be paying attention.
I personally think US, UK and France should move to designate TLP as a terrorist organisation. That would make it easier to disrupt this org's reach into the West, where it has many, many supporters. Those West-based supporters are a major part of TLP's funding. Cut that funding.
I will continue to educate our friends in the West about TLP and the threat its supporters pose to Western societies. TLP is already giving quite a challenge to the govt in Pakistan, and it's only a matter of time before its blasphemy-related terrorism increases in the West too.
People surprised about the mainstream support TLP is finding in #Pakistan have forgotten that Pakistani Taliban (TTP) once also had support in mainstream. It took deaths of over 100 schoolchildren and Pakistani state repeatedly accusing India of backing TTP to end that support.
So far Pakistani state has failed to come up with good enough reasons that would satisfy Pakistani public as to why the govt is cracking down on TLP and why their demands cannot be met. Pakistani state has also so far clearly failed to link TLP somehow to India.
