On August 15th 2010, two brothers Mughees Butt and Munib Butt were publicly tortured and beaten to death by a mob in a village near Sialkot, not by the Taliban, Al-Qaeda or any other extremist organization, but by the general public. They were not only murdered, but beaten brutally and mercilessly for two hours, their bodies and clothes dripping with blood. And that’s not the end of it. The entire incident was recorded on camera, to be an ‘example for the entire country’.
Everyone knows the story – the how and the why. What surprises me is the utter apathy that the crowd showed as this was going on. Not one person, from the dozens watching the incident, look even slightly perturbed by the bloody justice enforced by a few people and endorsed by the police. Yes, the police. Police who was looking on as hundreds of people participated in the mass lynching of the two brothers.
The ideology here is not a problem. After all, it shouldn’t be since we are all doing this in the name of ‘Justice’. Ask yourselves, would you have had the same reaction to it had you been informed by the media that the two brothers were actually guilty of theft and murder? No. Many of us would have been glad that these brothers were mercilessly beaten.
The problem, therefore, does not reside in the police or in the people watching on as the two boys were killed; the problem lies in an average Pakistani. What do the people brutally killing the two brothers represent? Pakistan is diseased. Pakistan is affected with a virus, which causes people to lose all forms of rationality and humanity. What should we do if an area is affected with a virus? Quarantine it. Thus the solution only would be to do humanity a favour and put giant fence around all Pakistanis. All we can do is hope and pray that rest of the world does not get affected with this virus.
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