Pakistan is Taliban heaping indignities on its citizens, mayhem around globe: Dr. Tarek Fatah

Canadian author and journalist of Pakistan origin Dr. Tarek Fateh has said that Pakistan is the actual Taliban.

In an exclusive interview given to ANI, Dr. Fateh said, "You are asking a lake of water to say where is the water. That (Pakistan) is the water, that's it. Pakistan is Al-Qaeda, Taliban and ISIS, you know, blackmailers, liars, terrorists and goons."

Dr. Fatah further went on to say that some Pakistanis are very good people and some Pakistanis are not.

"Essentially, most Punjabi Pakistanis who are Muslims and who dominate the country. They occupy vast areas of Balochistan, and are heaping indignities on Pashtuns, Sindhis and even Mohajirs. They run the show. They give out contracts to kill, they set up everything, and that's why, everyone wants to, and everyone who is a mass murderer Jihadi, wants to live in Pakistan," Dr. Fatah told ANI.

Dr. Fatah, who is the author of the book "Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State", which challenges the notion that the establishment of an Islamic state is a necessary prerequisite to entering the state of Islam, simply, but emphatically stated that anyone who does not denounce Jihad is the part of ISIS.

"You can fool non-Muslims, but you cannot fool Muslims, as we know what jihad means. It is like saying that gay means happiness and we all know gay means homosexual. So, Jihad means "holy war" and, if anybody is saying it does not mean so, he or she is lying," he said.

Dr. Fatah said that he was not at all surprised to hear that a number of people were now coming out on to the streets in India to protest against terrorism and against the (Muslim) Ulema, but questioned as to why no Indian was saying that armed Jihad is against the nation's Constitution.

Maintaining that terrorism was global threat fanned by elements in Pakistan, he said, "Not a single person has come out to say that the concept of armed Jihad is against the Constitution of India or the United States or Russia or any nation state based on a parliamentary form of democracy, whether it is the Lok Sabha (in India) or the Duma (in Russia), or the House of Commons (in the United Kingdom)."

"Allahs do not come from the Gita, the Koran or the Bible, or you know some Zoroastrian book. A nation state's laws come from people like me and you, sitting together, getting a mandate and creating laws, and if the laws need to be changed, we change them. The Jihad concept, on the other hand, is the law being written for all times to come. If religiously, India or Indians think that yes a law can be changed, then that's a great point, but ISIS saya these laws were are written and they are written for everybody, and I know that. Every Muslim knows that the Sharia was written 100 years after the prophet (Mohammad) had died. The life of the prophet was written much later with no regional documentation. The life of the prophet is what the ISIS, Khalida Baghdadi, Taliban leaders, Jamaat-e- Islami or the Muslim Brotherhood. You name them, they are all armed combatants. They are not just non-violent Islamists, they all believe in the same doctrine," Dr. Fatah told ANI.

When asked specifically what would be the impact if ISIS starts targeting India and how serious will that impact be, Dr. Fatah said, "India is already targeted. What do you mean, when Mumbai was hit (in November 2008), who do you think the attackers were? Were they the Japanese Red Army that attacked? Everyday India is attacked by the ISIS. When people got into Indian military camps and blew themselves up last week, who do you think they were? Were they some Buddhists monks who had come there, or some Pope from Vatican City who had come on a visit?"

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"You and I know, we just want to, you know we do not want to see the truth, because it is so harsh. The ISIS is here in India in the mindset of a number of people who consider themselves primarily loyal to the community rather than to the country," he added.