You’re right. It’s long term. But how do we plan to wipe out this ideology? That’s the problem. Is it not obvious what kind of steps have to be taken to root out this “ideology”? Demolish Madrassas? Limit activities in mosques? What does it come down to, especially when our government works at the behest of foreign powers? Penalize the few left in Pakistan who recognize the reality of their life after death, and struggle to be peaceful, honestly practising Muslims? Penalize people for keeping long beards? For wearing full veils? For teaching the Quran? Penalize everything that has any remote resemblance to anything remotely Islamic? Ultimately wiping out the word of God and His Messenger, to whom we do still at least claim lip-service?

Why can’t we open our eyes, think out of the secular (or media-brainwashed) box and take a realistic look around at what’s REALLY happening? Is this the first time that imperialist forces, either directly or through their local puppets, have tried to root out and persecute innocent religiosity under the pretext of rooting out dangerous ideologies? It’s happened all over the world, from China to Spain to Iraq, Islamic libraries burned, Qurans banned, hijab banned, people who keep Muslim names persecuted, genocide, displacement… Even in supposed Muslim countries like Egypt and Turkey – where one does not have the right to pray Fajr at a mosque. Can’t we see where we’re headed by falling like sheep into the propaganda that these “Talibs” cling to a dangerous, mutated ideology that is rooted in some extremist version of Islam? Can’t we open our eyes to the US-funded, color-coded or not-color-coded “revolutions” or “terrorism” in the world, in the NOT-so-recent past? What proof do we have that this Talib ideology is local and Madrassa-inspired and has deep roots that need to be cleansed? What proof do we have that this isn’t a manufactured cult, funded and supported and given military help by foreign powers? (If anything, I’ve only seen proof – in terms of history, funding, media trends, and the chronology of certain events – that this is clearly manufactured by outsiders.)

The biggest danger is not even knowing who our enemies are. By misidentifying the real bane of the problem, we might end up taking steps that will only pull us further into disarray and drag us down the path to complete destruction.

On the issue of health and the number of pregnant women, another problem is that there is not enough female doctors to tend to them. Todd Shea, of CDRS, has been working to bring doctors from overseas to the camps. My mom’s friend is one of them, and I think more people like her need to volunteer their time to go out there.