Comrade Junaid responds to Jawad: "If Jawad can demonstrate
where in my posts I defended the “polygamous head-chopping zombies of the Saudi
regime,” then I will give him the Angry Arab’s favourite prize, a blender.
Otherwise, he should not lie.
Otherwise, Jawad’s comment
is illustrative of how strongly some of the pseudo-left react when you challenge
their new sacred cow, the fashionable and cool blame-a-Wahhabi for anything and
everything that happens to the country narrative. The country’s population could
be (and is) facing hell (malnourishment, disease, natural disasters, etc.), but
the neoliberal elite will just find a Wahhabi under every bed, tree, rock,
whatever, to blame.
But Jawad
put "neoliberal" in quotation marks, so maybe he doesn't think such an elite
exists in Pakistan. I guess Pakistan was spared neoliberalism. Again,
just
reactionary Wahhabis running around.
Like I said, and I take
note that Jawad does not necessarily do this, but this narrative dare not blame
the country that, as the other comrade from Pakistan aptly demonstrated, is
principally responsible since the 1950s for strengthening the biggest impediment
to progressive social change in Pakistan, its military national security
establishment. Readers can read Tariq Ali’s “The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight
Path of American Power” to understand that that other country isn’t
Saudi."