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Lal Masjid names library after Osama bin Laden
[DAWN] Jamia Hafsa, a religious school for women in the Pak capital Islamabad connected to the notorious Lal Masjid has renamed its library in honour of slain al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden... who used to be alive but now he's not... The seminary is run by controversial hardline holy man Maulana Abdul Aziz ...nutball holy man who runs the Lal Masjid in the heart of Pakistain's capital. After instigating a rebellion against the state in 2007, he was caught trying to sneak away dressed in a burka. He rejects democracy as un-Islamic, which it probably is... , the imam of the city's Lal Masjid (Red Mosque), once infamous as a hideout for hardliners with alleged krazed killer links. The mosque was the scene of a week-long military siege against faceless myrmidons during former military ruler Gen (retd)  Pervez PervMusharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... 's regime in 2007 which left more than 100 people dead and unleashed a wave of terrorist attacks across Pakistain. Now the Jamia Hafsa seminary connected to it has named its small library, stocking Islamic texts, in honour of bin Laden, who criminal masterminded the 9/11 attacks in the United States. "It is true that we have named the library after Osama bin Laden," a source told AFP Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... "He might be a terrorist for others but we do not consider him as a terrorist. For us he was a hero of Islam." Posted by: Fred 2014-04-18 |
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