Dear Friends thank you for e mailing me Brigitte Gabriel's open letter top Obama. She has raised some important points and has supported her arguments with historical facts that no one can deny. I happen to be at the fore front of the fight against such fanatic Islam that Brigitte appeals Mr Obama to launch an attack at. I am in Mardan, in Pakistan, working among 4 million displaced people. These people have been displaced as a direct result of the atrocities committed by the Islamist Jihadist.

 

Dear Friends, we have taken an oath. We promise to conduct our war against these jihadist until the last drop of sweat and blood is shed on our part. But we are faced with certain problems that cannot be ignored. Some of them are as follows:On the practical side:

1) Financial resource. The jihadists have got billions to fund their onslaught on our civilization but our resources are scarce. There is no medicine in our camps. 66000 child births that were expected to begin in the coming 2-4 weeks has already begun as several pre-mature births are being reported. These pre-mature births are a direct result of the trauma and scorching heat that these women are not used to until recently. The city of Mardan cannot cope with this emergency. We desperately require medical aid and money to buy delivery tables and to set up field hospitals.

2) We need to set up recruiting stations (camps) in different cities and towns in order to build an army of people to fight the Taliban and the Al-Qaida in the mountains of Northern Pakistan.

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4) we need international solidarity campaigns to promote our work and collect donations for our struggle.

 

Now on the intellectual side

1) There is a vigorous debate going on in Pakistan among the left, the right and the NGO sector. Since the Taliban belong to the deobandi sect of Islam all other sects are against them and continuously issue Fattwas that suicide bombings are un Islamic. The recent killing of a religious scholar Mr Maullana Dr Sarfaraz Naeeme has generated lot of hatred among the barailvi sect of Islam to which the doctor belonged. The left has put a demand to halt the military operation. They vigorously oppose the military operation against the Taliban in the north and have formed an Anti Wart Committee. These Pacifists do not propose a solution to the crisis. What will happen if the military operation  stops and the Taliban continue with their south ward territorial advance? They do not provide an answer. There is another section of the left which unconditionally support the military operation. Similarly the NGO sector is divided on this issue. But majority of them condemn the military operation and blame the operation for the displacement of 4 million people.

Under the current situation I am proposing the following:

 

1) that industrial workers should be organized and politicized in order to counter the infiltration of Taliban propaganda that they are waging a just war in the name of religion

2) that peasants and farmers should be organized and politicized in order to establish defense committees that can be vigilant of any Taliban spy's and guerrilla attackers

3)that conditional support should be extended to the military only if they  a) ban religious groups and so called Islamic political parties and allow democratic and left political parties to operate in the liberated areas to mobilize and politicize the people in those areas b) allow workers and peasants armed contingents to fight the Taliban along side the military

4) All liberated areas to be brought under the joint control of locally elected people's defense committees.

 

Friends, there is no other way out of this quagmire. This war will have to be transformed into a civil war if we want to exterminate the Taliban and the Al-Qaida from this country. Secondly our war has to be co-ordinated with the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

This is a transitional period in the volatile history of Pakistan and Afghanistan. If one wants to win it then one has to be in it. How many of you consider yourselves IN? If you consider yourself in then help us materially otherwise wars are not won by wise words alone.

Thank you

Dr Amjad Ayub Mirza