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| Lal Masjid cleric gets pre-arrest bail in two cases |
| 2016-03-09 |
| [DAWN] A local court of Rawalpindi on Monday confirmed the pre arrest bail to Lal Masjid ...literally the Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been... 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... in two cases, extending threats to the civil society and prompting incitement. Both the cases were registered against him in October 2014. The court also rejected identical applications filed by the representatives of civil society seeking registration of FIR against the holy man. The complainant counsel argued before the court that the holy man had sympathy for Daesh [Islamic State], besides inciting the people against the army. He requested the court to direct the police to register a case against Maulana Aziz under relevant sections of Protection of Pakistain Act (PoPA). Tariq Asad, counsel for the holy man on the other hand informed the court that his client had neither shown allegiance nor praised Daesh [Islamic State]. He said the government in July 2015 has added Daesh [Islamic State] to the list of proscribed organization and it was not an offence if someone has praised the Daesh [Islamic State] before the government officially banned it. |
| Posted by:Fred |