Omar Zia

Dr Omar Zia

Islamic Jamhooria of Pakistan is one of the leading nations which is on the world radar for all the wrong reasons. The world has begun to shudder at the mention of Pakistan and its people. Our passport is a curse for its carrier, prompting several extra hawk eyed checks by nervous immigration officers while transiting through airports. Our national carrier's aircrafts are subjected to extra scrutiny around world airports, and not only for terrorist threats but also for drug trafficking or plain lack of maintenance (from Dawn). PIA has recently been allowed to fly to Europe again after overhauling their maintenance procedures. Muslim emigrants, particularly from Pakistan living in the western world, some of them for generations, have failed to assimilate with local populations and under the toxic influence of Islam have even begun to pose a serious threat to their host and fellow countrymen. Internally Pakistan is suffering from terrorism, nepotism, cronyism, fascism, to name but few isms. All these isms have crowded out the only ism which is desperately required. Rationalism. The replacement of a military dictator by an inept and highly slithery (although slithery kind may hiss in offence at this comparison) civilian dictator is only succeeding in making the situation worse. His main past time includes conspiratorial but sumptuous dinners at the Presidential palace, jaunts to Dubai and London to prepare his son for reins of power and to check up on his various bank accounts, and shaking his begging bowl to all and sundry for a few billion dollars at regular intervals.

I would be the first to admit though that the present Pakistani ruling set up is not the worst of the lot. Not yet! But measuring their time in power with the amount of misrule one can see that they will attain the worst of the lot title with ease. Kuldip Nayar, a respected journalist from India who writes for Dawn put it more succinctly than I can in one of his columns "I do not condone what Pakistani governments have done to indoctrinate the nation, from teaching hatred through textbooks to allegedly training and arming terrorists. But this is what happens in a country which loses the ballot box. Pakistan has had no real democracy for nearly five decades. Most of the leaders who came on the plank of democracy built up their own assets and personal followings, and not the environment that would protect the people's right to voice their opinion. The army cashed in on the lack of unity in the country to defend such values". This is a strong but spot on indictment of Pakistani leaders. What I want to consider here is why that is so. Why do Pakistani leaders, without exception, fall into hypocrisy straight after attaining power? Why do they start breaking their promises, loot the exchequer, and fall into all the moral ills that can befall a mortal human? A likely answer came to me while watching the inauguration ceremony of Gilani in 2008. Once again the cursed religion of Islam is the clear culprit. Gilani is the gentleman who is the current prime minister of Pakistan and the man sexually harassing Sherry, comely but hapless information minister in public, in this video: Gilanis oath of office of the Prime Minister of Pakistan was as follows:

I, Yousuf Raza Gilani, do swear solemnly that l am a Muslim and believe in the Unity and Oneness of Almighty Allah, the Books of Allah, the Holy Quran being the last of them, the Prophethood of Muhammad (peace be upon him) as the last of the Prophets and that there can be no Prophet after him, the Day of Judgment, and all the requirements and teachings of the Holy Quran and Sunnah:

That I will bear true faith and allegiance to Pakistan: That, as Prime Minister of Pakistan, I will discharge my duties, and perform my functions, honestly, to the best of my ability, faithfully in accordance with the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the law, and always in the interest of the sovereignty, integrity, solidarity, well- being and prosperity of Pakistan: That I will strive to preserve the Islamic Ideology which is the basis for the creation of Pakistan: That I will not allow my personal interest to influence my official conduct or my official decisions: That I will preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan: That, in all circumstances, I will do right to all manner of people, according to law, without fear or favor, affection or ill- will: And that I will not directly or indirectly communicate or reveal to any person any matter which shall be brought under my consideration or shall become known to me as Prime Minister except as may be required for the due discharge of my duties as Prime Minister.

May Allah Almighty help and guide me (A'meen)

Phew... I am sure you are glad that's over. Once you get over your boredom reading this speech like oath, just read it again. You would be amazed at its fascistic nature. The first 5 lines in italic are basically excluding non Muslims from attaining high office and are a dig on Ahmadis, an offshoot of Muslims who are trying to humanize Islam. These lines are also holding Islam supreme over all other religions leaving no room for dialogue. Now I know that most oaths on any religious books by most leaders can be classed as hypocritical as the truth of those books has already been laid bare as profoundly nonsensical. But in my defense I can tell you that no leader takes the oath to uphold and apply the truth of the book but rather swears on the 'supposed holy book' to solely uphold the constitution of the country. Now consider the bold part in the main oath, That I will strive to preserve the Islamic Ideology which is the basis for the creation of Pakistan: This line is the real curse for Pakistan . If the prime minister is to stay true to his whole oath, then very next day he should do the following: Shut down the Banks Shut down stock market Close down Music and film making industry Close down music and film supplying industry Shut down cable and all other TV broadcasts Shut down Murree and Quetta breweries Order all women to cover up their faces Order all women to not leave the house without a Mahram Order jihad to conquer and Islamize the surrounding countries Oh and the most difficult of all, stop housewives and all cooks from using garlic in their daily cooking, in line with the moronic edict of Muhammad to refrain from garlic. This little list is not exhaustive. Of course he does not and cannot do any of it. He is unable to fulfill his oath. He knew that already. He immediately becomes a hypocrite if he is already not one. Now the field is open to him. He starts accumulating wealth and power and cronies to sustain him in this endeavor. Those cronies have taken the similar oath and continue in their own plunder. The whole ruling apparatus becomes a hideous hypocritical monster mauling the whole nation. This has been going for decades. The last line of the oath is nothing short of ironical. By begging help from the Allah of the Quran he surely is asking for even more hypocrisy, barbaric behavior, and Stone Age reversion. In comparison to this hypocrisy compare the oath of prime minister of Israel , the arch enemy of Islam according to Muslims: The Prime Minister of Israel has to make the following "declaration of allegiance" upon taking office:

I (name) pledge myself as Prime Minister to bear allegiance to the State of Israel and to its laws, to carry out faithfully my functions as Prime Minister and to comply with the decisions of the Knesset.

Or even the oath of most powerful office on the face of the earth, the Satan incarnate according to Islam's demonic followers: In the United States, the oath of office for the President of the United States is specified in the U.S. Constitution (Article II, Section 1):

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

No mention of God, Yahweh, Jesus or any other super natural entity. Just a simple pledge to uphold the man made laws of the country. Perhaps one reason why humanity is prospering there while Muslims are wallowing in their own religion's infused ignorance.