Part 7: My Response to Asjad Bukhari’s Blog on Hoodbhoy Issue

Proxy Wars and Asjad Bukhari

Tazeen Hasan

My Response to Asjad Bukhari’s Blog on my article published in Express Blogs part 6

Proxy Wars

Later he writes:

Asjad Bukhari Blog statement: No doubt this wave of terrorism and extremism in Muslim countries have strongest links with American foreign policies and proxy wars in the region but the justification and multiplication to accelerate the problem is coming from Islamist interpretations of scriptures. Jihadists are exploiting that with full strength, ignoring that side by persons like Ms. Tazeen is also a part of biggest problem.

Later he adds the statement below.

Asjad Bukari Blog: Isn’t tragedy for bringing this type of counter-argument to justify atrocities committed by Taliban and ISIS type Islamist groups in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Libya etc?

His statements will be confusing for many who will read it. From where did he get the wrong impression that I am ignoring it?

I repeated the first statement because these two are the most confusing and misleading statements.

No need to I reiterate the fact, I never justified anyone’s atrocities. Hope he will acknowledge it.

Here I will reiterate for clarification that I have always spoken loudly against all forms of extremism. This includes atrocities committed by ISIS in the greater Middle East and the western world; brutal terrorist attacks by TTP in Pakistan; Buddhist mob’s extremism in Burma which forced more than a half million Rohingya to flee; far-right anti-immigrant extremism in Germany and other parts of Europe; the verbal extremism evident from President Trump’s tweets; and any aggression in the form of proxy wars as mentioned by Asjad Bukhari himself in his blog.

Having said that, I am strongly opposed to justifying any form of EXTREMISM and TERRORISM to incite “more terrorism.”