When I first saw Matrix in 1999 at Bracknell with my platoon mate at Sandhurst, side roommate and friend Guy Boxall, who announced on conclusion of the movie,”Man, I think this is my religion”. I guess he was red pilled by the end of the movie and his confused catholic cum atheist personality found new identity during those 136 minutes of Matrix.
In the hindsight, I guess that was and still is one the best movies of our generation. What we want to take away from it, is totally up to us.
Do watch that Red or Blue Pill moment in the link below:
Now, what it has to do with this Azadi month weekend? Actually, a lot.
Besides, being synonymous to misogyny, incels and preserver of white supremacy, The Red Pill is also a political metaphor. Who needs this metaphor more than Pakistani nation living in dysphoria. "Taking the red pill" or being "red-pilled" means becoming aware of the political biases inherent in society, including in the mainstream media, and becoming an independent thinker; while "taking the blue pill" or being "blue-pilled" means unquestioningly accepting these supposed biases.
So as people of Pure Land which pill do we take? Funny enough, like every other thing, we are divided on this as well. Most have taken Red Pill which means enlightenment - the hard way. You are practically dragged out of your comfort zone.
Some who prefer to stay in comfort of respective niches, swallow Blue Pill and chill. Ignorance is blissful. Just condemn unfortunate incidents of last quarter and not only you are a certified patriot, you might be offered a ministerial assignment.
Please note that The World Order for the past few centuries has had only one problem with Islam and Muslims - The Political Islam. So may it be Islamic Salvation Front of Algeria which when appeared to be winning a general election in January 1992, a military coup dismantled the party and officially banned it two months later. Or Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt where in 2012 its candidate Mohamed Morsi became Egypt's first president to gain power through an election. A year later, following massive demonstrations and unrest, he was overthrown by the military and placed under house arrest. The group was then banned in Egypt and declared a terrorist organization. Not only this, history is replete with such examples. Don’t go too far, look what happened Pakistan early last year. This wouldn’t make sense to Blue Pilled Pakistanis, so only Red Pilled may make sense out of it. Abu Qasim was good or bad, that is not the debate here. Was he the best choice? That is not the debate either. Why he became outcast? The reasons are very simple and obvious. Can’t judge him otherwise and prima facile he was very expressive in his love for Aqa AS, highlighted need to curtail Islamophobia at International forums, talked about State of Medina (really a bullet for all powerful anti political Islam forces), confronted mafias including the biggest mafia, exactly three years ago this day (20 August 2020), Al Jazeera quoted ‘Pakistani PM said his country will not recognise Israel until there is a Palestinian state acceptable to the Palestinians and not to forget the ‘Absolutely Not’ thing. Also following article of Al Jazeera will also help understand real sentiment of people of Kashmir and interestingly there is always a traitor ‘Mir’ who would try his best to twist the Truth not telling the world that Prisoner No 804 had conditioned talks with India to reversal of Article 370.
The list is long but these few indicators shall give you a fair measure of Pakistan’s gradual shift from apparently liberal to Political Islam in first half of the last tenure. It had to be stopped in its tracks. It had to be stalled. It had to be toppled.
But in the process, greater part of the nation swallowed the Red Pill. They had no choice. We are almost rock bottom whether governance, economy or morality. They had to take the Red Pill. They did the right thing. Right choices come at a cost. It has been a rough ride since then. It will be taxing. But the problem is that ‘they’ can’t take out The Red Pill running through people’s blood now. Suppression is not helping because perception has changed. And perception is reality.
Only Allah knows the whole Truth.
Exactly sir. Now Red pill has taken its effects
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