By: Azam Mairaj
From 2017 to 2026, approximately 47 individuals reached the assemblies on Christian identity. Many held positions as ministers, advisors, and even occupied constitutional offices. Yet, on the issue of the 2017 “paper genocide,” both current and former representatives have remained silent.
Not only that—thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Christian political, social, and religious activists have also failed to raise this issue at national and international levels. They have neither turned it into a serious NGO-driven cause nor presented it in a structured, evidence-based, and organized manner on any credible forum.
In your view, what are the reasons behind this collective apathy and negligence among Christian political, social, and religious workers?
Is it lack of competence? Intellectual bankruptcy? Limited knowledge?
Or the “cash-first doctrine” prioritizing immediate personal gain over long-term collective interests?
Is it the preference for individual benefit over collective welfare?
Or the fear of competition in other sectors, forcing many to seek livelihood only within limited, identity-based spaces?
Is it the absence of transparency and merit in the minority electoral system, which has resulted in a shortage of genuine, trained, community-based political workers—leaving space for incompetent individuals to fill the vacuum?
Or do the roots go deeper into centuries-old psychological effects of subjugation embedded in the collective DNA?
And the intergenerational transfer of incentives and methods adopted during religious conversions two centuries ago?
Has the exploitation industry grown—where, under the guise of collective welfare, Christian issues are traded in churches, corridors of power, and embassies for personal gains?
In your opinion, which of these factors outweighs the others?
Or are there additional reasons that prevent these professional “social workers” from even recognizing the fundamental issues faced by their own people?
Please identify them—because once the diagnosis is correct, the cure becomes possible.