A Conspiracy-Afflicted Mind

That is, the mind of a common Pakistani. Most Pakistanis consciously and many of them subconsciously suffer from this disease. They have an extremely efficient ability to link each and every, minor and major, national and international, incident with some mysterious masterminds and all-powerful hidden hands who can upset the order of the world, to the most discreet extent, whenever they feel like it. As usual, the urban middle and upper-middle class, educated in well-reputed institutes, is the most convincing example of the conspiracy-afflicted mentality.

You would’ve seen those Zaid Hamid lectures at various places in recent months, in which he sits like the commander of the faithful and there are a few kids standing behind him in the style of secret service agents; while he churns out his impeccable knowledge about the Free Masons, about the economic omnipotence of the Zionists and about the New World Order. Intriguing enough, these people believe that all these evil forces are striving to establish an order known as New Word Order so that they might be able to rule the world as it’s masters and subjugate the rest of the world. In the very next breath, they renew their convictions to endeavor for the establishment of their own World Order known as Khilafah, where their own religion would be the ruling power, with the rest of the world submitting.

This New World Order theory is intriguing. Ask a common Zaid-Hamidist, or just a common conspiracy-afflicted mind, and a ready-made reply would emerge as I’ve described above. What they are unaware of is that the mighty has always striven to rule the world. That’s the law of power and nature of the powerful. It was Maolana Muhammad Ali Johar who wrote a book titled “New World Order”, in which he advocated a world order based on the principles of Islam and that only such an order would be the savior of the world. Now if a common Muslim supports this view and organizations like Tanzeem-e-Islami and Hizb-ul-Tehrir aggressively aim at such a system, how about equating it with the Free Masons striving for their own World Order? Or our sense of self-righteous has reached at such painful limits that if we and our rivals do one and the same thing, they are the conspirators and evil monsters while we are the saviors of humanity (this being our favorite tag, by the way)? Why is it that if someone else wants to establish their own political and economic system, it a conspiracy but when we advocate to struggle towards our version of ideologies, it’s only a very humane conviction?

This mentality has it’s systematic roots in the education system, from it’s very beginning. A student goes to school and he’s categorically informed that the Jews, Christians and Hindus are his worst enemies, they are out to hunt Muslims all around the world and eventually they want to establish an evil Kingdom where they could rule the world. If Muslims, however, want to establish a world-wide Khilafah, it’s only natural because Muslims are the very essence of humanity and again, the best of all humans. thence beings the mental decadence and intellectual decline. Not only the Christians, Jews and Hindus, ask a common Pakistani “Muslim”, and he would enlighten you that Ahmadis are the worse enemies of “Islam”, that they have secret ties with Israel and that they want to undermine the ideological and economic basis of Pakistan. Ask for a proof and you become a Zionist agent yourself. In fact, I recall a religious website created solely for the purpose of inciting Muslims against Ahmadis, which actually “argues” that the Nobel Prize of Dr. Abdul Salam was a Zionist conspiracy just to defame the “actual Muslims”. (As if there were platoons of extremely efficient Physicists among the “actual Muslims”). Another common belief among Pakistanis is that Dr. Abdul Quadeer stole the research material from Holland and that material was the deciding factor in the creation of a Nuclear Bomb. They don’t care whether this was against the law or conspiracy against Holland, because this was for the Muslims. Just consider for a moment: What would’ve been the reaction of these common people had this been done by an Israeli Scientist (not that they need to do it, they are efficient enough to utilize their own intellect)? The answer is clear: A conspiracy, an evil action of the dirty Zionists under the patronage of the Free Masons.

The fact is, in the words of Hassan Nisar, it’s always better to “concentrate on your own weakness and rectify them so that the mighty won’t exploit it” instead if “pointing your fingers towards them and blaming them for all your short-coming and failures”, because if you keep doing this and chanting about your own ideologies, it won’t do them any harm and you any good. It would only push you further in the abyss of bankruptcy.