Konstantinos Bogdanos
With hundreds of Hindus and Christians killed and thousands more attacked and wounded, violence on minorities in Bangladesh finally calls western attention to what happens when an Islamist majority is left unchecked to terrorise non-Muslims.
At last, Western selective sensitivity should open its eyes to a state of affairs that manifests itself not only in Bangladesh, formerly known as East Pakistan, but also in Pakistan and elsewhere.
The Bangladesh crisis should act as a belated wake-up call. It must alert us to the fact that brutal violations of human and civil rights occur all over South Asia – and especially in countries dominated by Muslim majorities and ruled by Islamists.
Whereas Afghanistan, of course, is nothing short of a modern-day theocratic dystopia and a rogue state which has cut ties with the rest of the world, it is high time we took a closer look at what is happening in Pakistan.
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