Who really cares about bhutto? Does it affect your life?

Question

There is a lot of news about this lady and was just wondering if her killing would affect you in anyway, it doesn't effect mine in anyway. I didn't know her, she had no influence in my life at all and I will continue to enjoy myself with my friends and family this christmas time. Happy new year to you all xxx

Answer 1

This is a very small world. There are millions of extremists who hate YOU and ME because we are non-Muslim, white, from the US or UK and these people do affect us - remember New York, remember London, Glasgow Airport.
Enjoy the rest of your holidays and a happy new year to you but these things affect us all.

Answer 2

Ahhh, but it does affect you. You haven't been following recent events in Pakistan, have you?!

Pakistan is currently under military rule after a coup led by General Musharraf overthrew the democratically elected government. Since Musharraf has been in power, Islamic extremism has blossomed in South Asia. That is not to say he is one of them, but being an unelected military dictator he has not concentrated on doing what democratically-elected leaders like Bhutto and Sharif had wanted to do - close down the extremist madrassas, alleviate poverty, improve public education.

Musharraf wants to remain in power - meaning Pakistan would remain a dictatorship. Under enormous pressure from the US and EU, he decided to drop trumped-up charges against Bhutto and Sharif, who were both living in exile (or else they would have been dying in prison in Pakistan!), and let them return. And democratic elections were announced. Then when Bhutto and Sharif returned, Musharraf realised that if democratic elections were held, he would surely lose power, especially if Bhutto and Sharif's political parties formed a coalition. So he cancelled the elections and declared a state of marshall law. The (still independent) judiciary in Pakistan ruled that Musharraf could run for president, but only if he relinquished his role as head of the military. So he did; he lifted the state of marshall law, and elections were supposed to take place about two weeks from now. But with Bhutto's death, there is no clear leader of her party, which was leading in the polls. And knowing that elections could not be truly democratic with only one serious party in the running, Sharif's party has announced they will not participate. So democracy in Pakistan is on hold again and that is a very bad thing for the rest of us. It means a very much weakened Musharraf, who risks being the victim of the same military he once led, retains a tenous grip on power in a country where extremism is rife. It means it will be very easy for extremists to fill the power gap in a country where:

1. We depend on to fight terrorists
2. We have US Special Forces (a few hundred troops; more planned) to train Pakistani soldiers in counter-intelligence and anti-terrorism and fight alongside them, including tracking down top Al Qaeda members...OBL and others
3. Its neighbors are among the most volatile in the world - Afghanistan and Iran
4. Violence could overspill into India, and especially Kashmir where there is still much extremism
5. They have a nuclear arsenal! If extremists get ahold of those weapons - 9/11 will look like a cake-walk.

Answer 3

Personally im more worried about american nukes then a little country with inferior nuclear weapons, mind u it doesnt take much to kill everyone, but atleast a couple of nukes are easy to manage vs thousands of them like in america.

Either way back to the topic at hand, even if a nobody dies in the middle of the sahara, it is always possible that something could result from that, u can never be 100% certain when factoring in the strands of time folowing every single occurance.

the more influence a person has on the people around them, the more possible effect that person can have on a even increased area, which can cause dramatic scale changes or effects.

So just assuming on this little and i mean little cramped planet we live on, that what happens on the otherside of the world doesnt effect u is not a good concept, specially when valuable resources used in most modern countries are supplied from the areas u think dont effect you.

Answer 4

If the President of a Country can be an exemplar! Pres. Bush appeared on TV with his condolences and sorrows, within an hour of the tragedy. That was very early in morning in US, The President of the Security Council called an emergency meeting. The whole world cared.

Answer 5

It doesn't affect me personally, but I still care. Firstly because a person was killed, murdered, and hearing that always makes me sad.

But mostly I feel upset and angry that Pakistan may just go downhill even further, and that once again the lunatic fringe is making Islam look like a violent religion.

If something terrible happens to your country, you are under military rule or in the grip of repressive religious leaders, I would care about you, an innocent person caught up in something that was not your fault. I don't think it's too much to ask for a little empathy and concern for your fellow human beings.

Answer 6

She was promising to allow the US/UK greater freedom in pursuing Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan - but more than that, she was a symbol of the kind of Islam we want to be dealing with - democratic, moderate, and more concerned with people than religious ideology.

If her values are set back by this event, and if others who share them are more reluctant to speak up, then it is another victory for the terrorists, and another step on the road to all-out war between Islam and the West.

That affects everyone who has to wait an extra hour to check in at an airport. Everyone whose train is cancelled because of a suspicious package. Everyone who will in future lose their life (or the life of a loved one) to a 9/11 or 7/7-style attack. Everyone with friends or family in the armed forces - especially those who couldn't enjoy a peaceful Christmas at home this year because they're too busy on the Afghan front line defending YOUR freedom to do so.

Answer 7

Truly speaking, it does not, as I have to make my living the way I am already in Pakistan. She has left us memories of her corruption - and you trust me those Taliban will NEVER able to take over Pakistan as the Military here as strong hold & people of Pakistan trust military more than the CORRUPT politicians in Pakistan.

US also have a good reason to stay with President Musharraf for its activities against Taliban - and they just cannot have faith in Pakistan Military with out good reason.

Rest assured, there is still no threat (although disturbances are there) from the Taliban end, and however, the political scenario has drastically changed with the demise of Benazir Bhutto.

Answer 8

Anyone being killed by terrorists affect me. You are being very ignorant by burying your head in the sand as you are.
You will not be so blase when these extremists get a hold of nuclear weapons & wipe us all out, will you? Hers is a very volatile country at the best of times & this will only inflame things, as was seen on the news coverage last night.
The type of people that will detonate a suicide bomb in their own country are unhinged & will think nothing of getting more volunteers to do it in other countries. How can anyone fail to be concerned about this?

Answer 9

I met her and spoke with her a few years ago when she gave a lecture at the university here. And her death does affect me because she has been murdered. The fact that a Muslim woman was murdered for political reasons makes it a "Harram" (an offense against the Koran). This might cause Muslims throughout the world to finally announced they are fed up with the likes of Bin Laden and the other Habirah (those who carry out sinful war). If that happens, we may gain up to one billion allies to defeat those who attacked our nation on September 11, 2001.
Happy New Year to you. Enjoy your insularity.

Answer 10

It will in many respects, in the UK there is a huge Pakistani community, who perhaps will see her death as a way of attacking her opponents and those responsible for her death. They are a nuclear power and could quite easily attack India causing all out war. And seeing how many Asian people live here we could see the ramifications on our streets.