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To: Ilaine who wrote (43410)	10/28/2002 5:31:36 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

<I assume Ike is Muslim.> My brave father broke that yoke long back never ever to wear it again!!(I don't take much of pride or honour in that because I take greater honour in what my father imparted to me that of being a 'global citizen'- the way Zachary who is only 17 has taken up the cause is a beacon of light for me and my family, we strongly believe we all need to be counted) Grand sons and proud sons carry the tradition without any fear and pride and in the heart of hinterland, I was in Peshawar last weekend on 14th of November I am speaking in a public seminar in Karachi on destroying this myth and label of 'Is Pakistan the most difficult country in the world by Jim Hoagland of Washington Post.' I feel sorry for the man, we can be so free but so uncounted, I wish Jim can condemn his share of extremism that bit! We want to be counted amongst those who raised their little small voices, meagre they may be but solid they are. Loving Pakistan does not mean love of militant or fringe Islam. On that count I do enjoy the restrictions of many of my readers. I do respect Islam but find the contradictions overwhelming, as Iqbal Mohammad Abdul Latif I will always be fingerprinted and abused but I hold the people who have hijacked and mutilated Islam responsible for it, I fight this battle with greatest of conviction for sake of millions who don’t have the courage to talk aloud. I am sure that this is not sane but this is the only way, education and new vistas for minds that are caught up in decay and fossilisation is the way forward. My epitaph I pray may only be four sentences ‘we little souls tried.’ I assure you that this is the greatest of the battles, the enemy within and enemy who never fails to stab us form the back because he neither can understand our society nor our culture, our dissent and our democracy is far more deep rooted than what commonly is assumed. Amen