Is Dr Aafia Siddiqui really the "daughter of the nation?"

It's not that I don't sympathize with this woman and her family. I feel terrible of the fact that somebody's life is being wasted because the fascist US Government suddenly decides they are a terrorist without even proving it.

By all means this woman deserves a fair trial- and one in an international court or Afghan court given the fact that her alleged crimes were committed in Afghanistan, not in America.

But why has she suddenly been declared "the daughter of the nation?" Out of all the thousands of Pakistanis who suffer the injustice of being imprisoned, raped, tortured, assassinated by the hands of our own brutal government and military, why does this one become "the daughter of the nation?"

Are all those other Pakistanis not worthy enough to be the sons and daughters of Pakistan? The best answer I can come up with should be obvious to others and that is because she was illegally imprisoned by a Western power and not our own or another "brotherly" Muslim country, she has become the "daughter" of the nation.

After all what of those hundreds of Pakistani expats detained and/or executed in Gulf Arab countries, especially Saudi Arabia on dubious charges? They are not given the same attention let alone even given the title of "son/daughter of the nation."
Let's also not forget the reports that Dr Siddiqui was not even abducted by the Americans but handed over voluntarily by the then Musharraf led regime.

It's the same as I emphasize all along. If our own leaders imprison and torture our citizens, it does not get the same attention as a case like that of Dr Aafia Siddiqui gets. Nor do they get any saintly title as Dr Siddiqui did. Nor do all those middle and lower class Pakistanis mistreated in Arab countries get that sort of attention or mass sympathy in comparison to those such as Dr Aafia despite that they as working class people are in a more vulnerable position and have little legal- if any- security.

Do all those other Pakistanis imprisoned both in Pakistan and other "brotherly" Muslim countries not have families the way Dr Aafia has? Do their families including spouses and children and siblings and parents suffer the fear of never seeing their loved ones again or even worse found badly beaten/mutilated?

The case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui is just one of many examples of our double standards as Pakistanis when it comes to giving sympathy and support when we strike the judicial hammer of justice.

Because whenever the West or some non-Muslim entity commits injustice against us, we are suddenly victims, but when our own kind or other Muslims commit acts of injustice against us, worse in most cases, we save our screams for the next "infidels" to commit a similar kind of injustice.

This double standard of ours is what I call a form of religious extremism. Support and outcries for Muslim causes that often turn violent but utter silence to abuses done to us by our own leadership- even when we elected them- to utter silence on worse injustices committed against by fellow Muslims.

For it's part political Islam just like Western foreign policy has no shortage of double standards and hypocrisy.
At least in the Islamic world most people will admit they follow some sort of dictatorship weather by their religious teachings or a government imposed upon them.

In Western countries on the other hand aside from Neo-Nazis and other White nationalists, the mass population do not believe let alone admit that they are not programmed by their Zionist influenced school system which indoctrinate them with the mentality of "Jews are always right because of the Holocaust" or that punishing Holocaust denial is a violation of free speech, which the West seems to champion itself on, particularly the liberal fascists living there.

Many compared the shameful release of Raymond Davis as an example of the corrupt American justice system.
To an extent I can agree with that since America pays to release a killer while imprisoning innocent people even before proving them guilty.

But the fact was that it was the PPP that was responsible for ordering his release and using our own laws of blood money which I have expressed disapproval of in my other posts long before the Raymond Davis incident even occurred.

Now let's not jump on the government blaming and bashing game as we always do. The fact is we are guilty of electing the PPP and the crook Zardari. And even those who didn't elect the PPP, they have their democracy, the rule of the majority.

We have ourselves to blame for Davis's release. Many circles in our government and public, including political parties, challenged the blasphemy law, but I don't remember anyone challenging or publicly calling for abolishing these diyat/blood money laws.

The military might have had a role too in Davis's release, but they did do it to remain per the law by taking orders from the PPP. Had the military been trying to be break the law, they would never have let a high prize like Davis go. They (the military) are so far playing along with the democracy game for what ever reason and no coup has occurred despite the current memo scandal.

It's easy to blame the Americans when we ourselves install one crooked regime after another or do nothing to reform our own medieval laws. Our double standards and hypocrisy are so strong that we do not even see it.

That being mentioned, it takes us back back to the question is Dr Aafia Saddique really the "daughter of the nation?" and I answer it as a simple no based on the circumstances I have mentioned above. At most she is no more/less a daughter than all the Pakistanis imprisoned under unjust reasons and/or imprisoned without a fair trial, be it in Pakistan or some other Muslim country.