Who is a better fanatic?

Is your fanatism better than mine? If you can flog a teenager for alleged zina, I can burn alive a couple who tried to marry out of caste. If you can form laws to keep women in homes, I can chase young girls from pubs. If you can incarcerate a woman for ‘getting’ raped, I can rape a woman in her 60s for letting her son marry a girl from higher caste. If you wont allow a septuagenarian woman to accept bread from her nephew, I wont allow boys and girls celebrate a nonsense festival called valentine’s day. You are not gay enough to accept man loving a man, I am xenophobic.
While going through an article written by Dawn correspondent based in New Delhi, I realised that reality pinches and it pinches hard if it comes from the unexpected corners. I agree with the writer that social inequities are everywhere. I agree that Indians are no less barbaric when it comes to saving their honour (it is not honourable to kill daughters by the way) and protecting their customs but defending what the Taliban did to the 17-year-old girl in the not so far corners of your country is not justified.
What the author meant to say was that Indian media should mind their own ‘honour-killing’ and ‘non-pub culture’ business rather than creating brouhaha out of the whole issue of Chand Bibi been lashed by custodians of Islamic law in Swat. Instead of defending them by painting an Indian barbaric picture of the whole episode, it would have been better for the journalist to actually condemn the act objectively.
Bigotry has been a part of cultures of the world, almost all the cultures of the world. It is with time and development that these prejudices are overcome. Zealots are born out of insecurity, not by religion.