Legacy, Reverence and Bloodline

Legacy, Reverence and Bloodline

Other day I read Beena Sarwar’s article about the legacy of Benazir Bhutto. It seems to be influenced by sympathy and remorse over Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.

Legacies evolve over time. Some of them are small and some big. Many times legacies are totally revised over time. Who would have thought of Jesus or Mohammad’s legacies soon after their crucifixion and death respectively? Some legacies are too obvious and can not change, such as Benazir Bhutto being the first female prime minister of a Muslim country.

Many of the recent political changes in Pakistan are wrongfully attributed to Benazir Bhutto. In fact the follies after follies of an incompetent idiot finally caught up with him. No need to go into details about Musharraf’s follies, starting with the suspension of CJP Iftikhar Chaudhry. Here is a person so ignorant that he actually stood in front of a Quranic calligraphy, “fa be ayya aa la ae rubbe kuma tukazzeban” to announce the devastating earthquake in Pakistan. That picture alone was worth, perhaps a million words. This particular ayah is often used to thank God for his blessings. Not only the current situation is inadvertently of his own making but any legacy that include dealing with Musharraf as a friend or a foe is no legacy.

If presence is extrapolated into future, Benazir Bhutto is not going to have much of a legacy. Thanks to the Pakistani education system, media and establishments’ indoctrination of public as well as public definitely believing that the body of seventh century Arab tribal culture with cap of one God was the best thing humanity has ever created, Benazir Bhutto lacked the qualities and symbols of a revered person.

Here is a simplified qualities and symbols order of reverence.

· 10. Non-Muslims
· 9. Women
· 8. Men on horse back
· 7. Bearded men on horse back
· 6. Bearded men on horse back with swords
· 5. Syeds and other Meccan bloodlines
· 4. Men on camel back
· 3. Bearded men on camel back
· 2. Bearded men on camel back with swords
· 1. Bearded men on camel back with swords follwed by several veiled wives and courtesans on camels
It is obvious that people at number 9 or 10 have little chance for gaining positive legacies in Islamic Pakistan, since reverence and legacies go hand in hand.

It is very likely that certain powerful forces saw her removal as paving the way for a number 5 person to take charge since the obsession of the so-called number 5 people with their bloodline is well-known and even Musharraf has proudly and repeatedly mentiond his number 5 bloodline. Below Benazir Bhutto in PPP they were all number 5 bloodline people. Any one of them would have been better for another number 5 at the top. Benazir Butto additionally was perhaps from a nominal Shia background as well as a carrier of so-called Hindu-blood of her paternal grandmother in her veins, although she converted to Islam before marrying Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto but this was greatly exploited during Zia era to indoctrinate military officers against Bhutto clan and in the end few or one of the same indoctrinated people took it upon themselves to rid Pakistan of any contamination of blood by a former Hindu using their contacts with any fiercely sunni group.

As long as the heart of the body of Pakistan lies in Mecca, there is not going to be any legacy for a native bloodline person in Pakistan for some time to come.