Goebbelsian speak.

Byline: Dr Mervyn Hosein - Karachi

AMERICA is convulsing and much of the world has awoken to the realisation of that chronic anguish, 'I can't breathe!'Enough! Among the many viralised social-media outpourings of rage and pain at the continuing gross injustices meted out to the downtrodden, presently focussed on the blacks, is a picture that grabbed my attention. It shows a man and a little girl, both standing, both black, she holding a placard reading, 'Who do you call when the murderer wears a badge?'

The concepts of human rights, equality and rule of law - all basic tenets of glorious Islam - have not fared well here either.

Years of Goebbellian propaganda and indoctrination using religiosity as our be-all-and-end-all have stunted thought and growth. Looked at...

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