http://rationalistpk.org/2012/11/e-jihadis-at-full-throttle-fake-column.html
Today Ahmad Waqass Goraya tagged me in a post of E-Jihadis on a facebook page named Golden Pakistan (https://www.facebook.com/Goldenpak). What I saw was equally nonsense and depressing. There was a column by Hamid Mir Sb in which he exposed his editor and some other fellow journalists including Mubashar Luqman, Nusrat Javed, Kamran Khan and Hassan Nisar. What I read was unbelievable and It was perceived at the first moment that it was a fake column. But provided the conditions of our youth present in social media and the shares of this column (shown in the picture below) one needs to worry a lot. Because this trend is not going to let create any sense of reason in the society. I am posting the link of the column and providing summary for those who cannot read Urdu.
Hamid Mir in his column (fake indeed) tells us how State Department sent him and his other colleagues an email about a girl being lashed in Swat and he was told to make the issue a media hype. He did accordingly and so did his colleagues. This created ideological grounds in Pakistan for Army to do the military operation in the area. In another episode of creating Media hype, he received another email, this time from Pentagon. Where he is ordered to highlight the issue of Rimshah Maseeh which he religiously followed but gave the pretext of earning his bread and butter. Then, for writing this column, he was invited to Dubai on 1st of October by Jang Group's head, Mir Shakeel ur Rehman and he alongwith Kamran Khan were told to create a drama on the case of Malala. But sadly Birmingham Hospital released the pictures and they were exposed. In the end he showed reluctance to apologize on his professional dishonesty on the grounds that this is his job. Link to the FAKE column: https://www.facebook.com/
This fake column is supposed to be ignored but before we ignore it, let us double check the following things.
One, that even popular and experienced (even right wing) media professionals are not safe from E-Jihadi Mindset attack.
Two, this same mindset can reach to any limits against Education and Women Rights (aka Malala).
Three, our vulnerable youth is exposed to such elements and they share these things at a massive scale without any verification. This third trend is very unhealthy and dangerous and is needed to be countered.
Four, these E-Jihadis are promoting a very extremist mindset calling everything a conspiracy and are closing all the doors of possible development in the society.
Today Ahmad Waqass Goraya tagged me in a post of E-Jihadis on a facebook page named Golden Pakistan (https://www.facebook.com/Goldenpak). What I saw was equally nonsense and depressing. There was a column by Hamid Mir Sb in which he exposed his editor and some other fellow journalists including Mubashar Luqman, Nusrat Javed, Kamran Khan and Hassan Nisar. What I read was unbelievable and It was perceived at the first moment that it was a fake column. But provided the conditions of our youth present in social media and the shares of this column (shown in the picture below) one needs to worry a lot. Because this trend is not going to let create any sense of reason in the society. I am posting the link of the column and providing summary for those who cannot read Urdu.
Hamid Mir in his column (fake indeed) tells us how State Department sent him and his other colleagues an email about a girl being lashed in Swat and he was told to make the issue a media hype. He did accordingly and so did his colleagues. This created ideological grounds in Pakistan for Army to do the military operation in the area. In another episode of creating Media hype, he received another email, this time from Pentagon. Where he is ordered to highlight the issue of Rimshah Maseeh which he religiously followed but gave the pretext of earning his bread and butter. Then, for writing this column, he was invited to Dubai on 1st of October by Jang Group's head, Mir Shakeel ur Rehman and he alongwith Kamran Khan were told to create a drama on the case of Malala. But sadly Birmingham Hospital released the pictures and they were exposed. In the end he showed reluctance to apologize on his professional dishonesty on the grounds that this is his job. Link to the FAKE column: https://www.facebook.com/
This fake column is supposed to be ignored but before we ignore it, let us double check the following things.
Two, this same mindset can reach to any limits against Education and Women Rights (aka Malala).
Three, our vulnerable youth is exposed to such elements and they share these things at a massive scale without any verification. This third trend is very unhealthy and dangerous and is needed to be countered.
Four, these E-Jihadis are promoting a very extremist mindset calling everything a conspiracy and are closing all the doors of possible development in the society.
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