Attack of the bigots in Pakistan

Arab News Editorial:

It says much about the moral bankruptcy of Pakistan’s insurgents that yesterday one of their fanatical bigots sought to blow up a minibus containing children on their way to school. Five innocent children were wounded in the depraved attack in which only the suicide bomber died. On Sunday two more children were among six slain in a suicide attack on a checkpoint in Swat. Terrorists who believe that killing children can advance their cause have nothing whatsoever to offer the human race. (Emphasis added.)

These twisted and demented attacks come at a time when Pakistani politics is itself in flux as political leaders jostle for position. Both Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif threatened last week to boycott the Jan. 8 poll but Benazir’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) later changed its mind. Sharif, who as a convicted criminal is barred from running for office, was insisting until Sunday that his Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) would boycott the elections but then performed an about face.

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The editorial goes on to discuss the upcoming elections is Pakistan. What I found interesting is that the Arab News has adopted the PrariePundit description of the human bomb attack in Pakistan. I find this encouraging. Not to flatter myself and this blog, but because a major Saudi paper recognized the accurate description of the attackers.