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| 2004-03-12 |
| Is private jihad allowed? Columnist Nazeer Naji wrote in Jang that orders for jihad in the Quran all relate to the functioning of the state and not to private jihad. There were references to agreements at the state level that private jihadis could not rely on. If private jihad had been allowed in Islam then the orders for reaching agreements between states would not have come. He said that if private jihad was permitted by the Quran then there would be nothing but chaos in the state because every strongman would be allowed to create his army and go to war. Why no ‘mubahila’? According to Nawa-e-Waqt, a meeting in Chiniot bemoaned the fact that the Qadiani community was being challenged to mubahila but it was responding. (Mubahila is a match of mutual cursing in which the weak party falls down dead through some kind of miracle.) The clerics gathered at Chiniot said the Qadianis were holding key posts and that they were secretly spreading sectarianism in Pakistan. Maulana Manzur Chinioti said that he was dying to hold mubahila with the Qadiani leaders because he was sure that the cursing match would make them fall dead, but they were cowards and not were not responding to his challenge. Iraq will be given to Iran? Veteran columnist Abdul Karim Abid wrote in daily Pakistan that conservatives in Iran had unfairly gotten rid of the moderate orientation under president Khatami. He said Iranian newspapers wrote anti-Pakistan things but in Pakistan Iran was never looked at as an enemy. Pakistan hoped that Iran’s moderation would lead to good relations with the Arabs and Iran would be able to break out of its isolation. But now it was said that America had promised the hardline Iranians under Khamenei that Iraq would be handed over to Iran and that the hardliners had made some secret deal with America as a result of which the Americans had not protested too much at the removal of the moderates. Yandarbayev was great Leader of Jamaat Islami Hafiz Idrees wrote in Khabrain that Chechen leader Selim Khan Yandarbayev in was killed in Doha in 2004 at the age of 53 after living there for two years. He had to leave Chechnya but found no country willing to give him protection till he found Qatar. Hafiz Idrees remembered that Selim Khan came to Pakistan and spoke to big gatherings in Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Sialkot and Karachi, etc, and was the guest of Jamaat Islami at Mansoora in Lahore. He said Selim Khan lived for jihad and loved the people of Pakistan for devoting their lives to jihad. Depression from lack of Islam Daily Jang stated that doctors in a meeting at Jang Forum decided that Pakistanis were depressed because they had strayed from Islam and because there was social and economic inequality in the country. This depression manifested itself in pain in the shoulders and neck. The seminar was named ‘Depression-free Pakistan’. Divine AQ Khan Astrologer Syed Intizar Hussain Zanjani wrote in daily Din that the formula for making an atom bomb was recorded in the Holy Quran but America made the bomb instead and Dr AQ Khan brought the formula to Pakistan and he was going to do more explosions in fields like industry and education but he was stopped from doing so. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #7 Wonder if there's something in the Koran that tells 'em all to march ten miles into the ocean... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2004-3-12 9:29:53 PM |
| #6 "...and he was going to do more explosions in fields like industry and education but he was stopped from doing so." What was he planning to do, detonate one of his devices in a refinery or a university? |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2004-3-12 6:57:20 PM |
| #5 Sheesh, Paul, all of these are just surreal! PakiWakiLand, like a whole 'nuther planet. Thx for posting! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-12 11:14:06 AM |
| #4 "He said that if private jihad was permitted by the Quran then there would be nothing but chaos in the state because every strongman would be allowed to create his army and go to war." LOL! Of course, that's not happening anywhere in Islam. Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-12 11:10:33 AM |
| #3 Frank G, That fits well with more explosions in fields like ... The Quran knows all. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-3-12 9:17:52 AM |
| #2 A cursing contest, huh? I know a Marine DI or two we ought to enter. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2004-3-12 9:16:35 AM |
| #1 a "depression-free pakistan" will be a radioactive and smoking hole in the ground, I'm afraid |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-3-12 9:08:11 AM |