New Delhi will not agree to a solution of the Kashmir dispute that is acceptable to the Kashmiris, said Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) president and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) ameer, on Monday.
| And who knows better than Qazi what Kashmiris will find acceptable? |
Addressing a five-day long workshop at Mansoorah, Ahmed condemned the attitude of the army generals and said that they were accustomed to luxurious lives and amassing wealth through the real estate business. The MMA leader criticised the army taking over the PTCL for security reasons and questioned the arrest of the protesting employees of the PTCL. He said that the PTCL had been handed over to US General Zinni in order to please the US. He feared that privatisation of profitable units like PTCL would cause instability.
| I'd say there's a lot more instability caused by Qazi's thugs roaming the streets and breaking things than by the privatization of an occasional industry. |
Qazi said that the troika of Washington, Tel Aviv and New Delhi had united against Muslims and the US had categorically declared war against Islam. He said that they were paying millions of dollars for a 'moderate and enlightened' Islam, which was actually a scheme to brush aside the real Islam.
| As we've pointed out in these pages a time or two in the past, the "real Islam" is neither enlightened nor moderate. In fact, it makes a fetish of ignorance and brutality. It's adherents are incapable of controlling their least impulse toward violence. I, for one, am gladdened by the fact that Washington, Tel Aviv, and New Delhi have united against Muslims of Qazi's stripe. The only unhappiness I feel, in fact, is that so far none of them has invested the minimal amount of cash that would be required to hire someone to put a large caliber round through Qazi's turban. |
He said that Gen Musharraf had allowed the creation of Aga Khan Board to revise the contents of text books in order to please the US.
| Yeah. The Ismailis aren't believers in All Islam, All the Time. They must be declared apostate and hunted down and killed, right Qazi? |
Qazi said that the nation had been divided on the basis of religion.
| And he's been at the forefront of the movement... |
He said that the MMA had proposed to observe 'Hurmat-e-Quran Day' every year in May to condemn the sacrilege of the Quran in Guantanamo Bay detention camps.
| Good idea. I pledge to observe 9-11 day every year, too... |
He said the West and its local agents had tried to malign Islamic movements by spreading a wave of terror in Karachi by setting KFC on fire and carrying out a bomb blast at Madinatul Ilm, following the murder of MMA leader Aslam Mujahid.
| It's not a bunch of wild-eyed, spittle-spewing, AK-waving Islamists who're conducting a wave of terror in Pakland, it's the West, trying to malign religious movements in Pakistan that most of us never heard of before the WoT. |
Malik Mohammad Asharf, JI deputy secretary general, also spoke on the occasion. Jamaat workers from across the country attended the meeting. Speakers from various walks of life and seasoned trainers will lecture the participants on various aspects of religion, politics and morality during the workshop. |