You are in a laboratory.
You read and research, you derive a formula.
You mix ingredients according to that formula and create a
solution.
You feel happy. You write out that formula to the
rest.
It spreads. Everyone starts making the solution through that
formula.
You come back to your lab, beaming with success, you decide
to call all your friends.
You launch a grand operation.
You take the formula to other labs.
The other labs have same ingredients but different
atmosphere. Different environment.
You continue mixing the ingredients, however, this time the
formula yields not a solution but a monster.
The monster grows. You remain unaware.
It grows until it turns too big to be denied.
Sitting here, you debate, whether and how to end the monster.
Some even tell you the positives of letting the monster
remain.
This is how ideology stems from theology - eventually
leading to movements.
Movements are not good or bad. Any movement rising against
tyranny and injustice is good.
However, not every formula for movement turns the way you
want it to until of course you deliberately wanted a monster.
Not every culture, not every nation in Arab Spring had the
same ingredients. Not every nation had the context of Egypt. Not Syria. Not
Iraq.
Not every culture yields the same result. Not every nation
is independent of Global Powers with vested interests.
Some of them want a monster, some don't.
You are sitting in the lab with the monster as your army
goes to war with it here in Pakistan.
This is how ideologies shape. Religious narratives evolve
from theologies. Versions and brands endorsing movements, when movements turn
violent, theologies disassociate themselves from it.
When monster turns big, the blame game starts as to who
created the formula. The formula is not wrong. The theologies are not wrong.
What is wrong is how ingredients are mixed with vested interests with hegemonic
intentions.
If you know what I mean.
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