A response to ‘Comrade’ Ali Azmat by ReKazim on www.teeth.com.pk  - (Click here to read the article)

I wonder what this bitter, cynical and overly critical author has against Ali Azmat or Shoaib Mansoor for that matter. This is what I find so confusing and unsettling about these self-professed promoters of social justice and freedom. The ideals of civil rights and social justice are based on acceptance, tolerance and appreciation and not on over-judged, ill-perceived character defamation. And very respectfully I would like to inform the writer that the gaining political ideology around the world isn’t pure socialism – it is social capitalism. Social capitalism encourages market competition and entrepreneurial spirit but also allows the people of the republic (through their elected representatives) to monitor and regulate the market. And the fact that Obama was being called a socialist during the campaign was actually an over-exaggerated image portrayal by the neoconservative media (especially Fox News) to win the support of the independent voters by playing on the fear of ‘wealth-distributing’ socialist ideas among the American people. Obama believes in market liberalization with diligent oversight of the government, the emerging ideology that is being accepted as a better alternative to competition-discouraging socialism and free-market capitalism.
While I don’t mean to doubt the writer’s genuine faith in social justice and civil rights, all I wish to say is that let’s promote the culture of acceptance and tolerance – a pre-requisite for a strong democracy.