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| 2004-01-31 |
| MMA divided over Islamisation According to Peshawar Diary in Jang, Jamaat Islami and JUI(F) were divided over details of the Hisba Act but the reason for its delay was being laid at the door of governor NWFP. The first disagreement was over the definition of ‘Islamic scholar’ as the ombudsman of the province. The two parties were not agreed over what constituted a learned man. On two committees under the Hisba Act, the Public Safety Committee and the Educational Committee, there were differences too. The two thought that their candidates were more qualified to serve as their chairmen. They also disagreed over the criteria set up to include journalists in the committees. The governor had taken exception to the setting up of Hisba Force and Hisba Court in the draft because the courts and the police already existed in the province. He had sent the bill for scrutiny to the Council of Islamic Ideology for a ruling but no response had been received from it. (The Council is down to two persons which means lack of quorum and the president has not yet appointed members of the Council.) America ‘trouble maker’ Columnist Abdul Qadir Hassan wrote in Jang that the world’s dominant powers liked India and thought Pakistan was a dangerous state which had to be kept under pressure. Unfortunately we have wasted our time and allowed ourselves to become weak with no weight in the international world. This was a period of our weakness and should be passed by us carefully not provoking anyone but not collapsing either. He wrote that Iran had succumbed and so had Libya. Iran which was thought to be a strong ideological state had bent before the trouble-making state America. It was obvious that we had to compromise, but our leaders should not do it willingly but unwillingly by first taking the people into confidence. Saddam is at large! According to daily Din, Saddam Hussein was not under arrest but had been seen in the city of Falluja. The people of Falluja said that the Saddam the Americans caught was phoney and a look-alike while the real Saddam had been with them. A group of people went to the Falluja mosque and swore on the Holy Quran that they had indeed seen the real Saddam Hussein after his alleged arrest in Tikrit. Adviser Rana Ijaz in ‘trubbel’ Quoted in Khabrain adviser to Punjab chief minister Rana Muhammad Ijaz said that Muslims were wallowing in backwardness and that good Muslims should now start wearing pants. He said Muslim dress was not liked by anyone in the world and when he went out of the country he always wore pants. He said the mullahs of Islam had given nothing to the world because all the great inventions had come from the Christian world. While announcing that the government would celebrate Christmas officially he said that the maulavis were pulling at one another’s beard. In answer the maulavis said that Rana Ijaz was seeking to endear himself to the non-Muslims and thus threatening the country with sectarianism. They said only an illiterate person could think of wearing the Western dress. They said scientific inventions had come from the Islamic scientists in the past. They accused Rana Ijaz of having gone mad. Gujranwala a religious city According to Nawa-e-Waqt, Maulana Ubaidullah, Amir of Jamaat Islami of Gujranwala, said that Gujranwala was a religious city whose youth had played a big role in jihad in the past but now there was a conspiracy to spread obscenity and nudity in the city. He said that on a chowk in the city a cinema had put up a huge poster which had offended him. He said the cinema people probably thought that religious parties and the police had become weak. He said he would make his own plans if the city administration did not take the poster down. Bahais declared apostate by Al Azhar According to Khabrain, the Al Azhar University of Egypt had declared that the Bahai community was not Muslim because they did not accept the prophethood of Muhammad PBUH. In fact they were a mixture of different beliefs and were working for the Zionists. Fraud without ‘riba’ Writing in Khabrain Munir Ahmad Munir recounted that one Haji Muhammad Yusuf of Tablighi Jamaat traded in cloth and boasted that he would work without the curse of bank interest (riba) after which Allah will increase his profits. Members of Tablighi Jamaat and widows invested with him and he gave them returns of up to twenty percent. But after his business had taken off the Haji disappeared with 10,000,000 Rupees of his investors and was not to be found again. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #3 America ‘trouble maker’ Hell, I read that in the Boston Globe every friggin' day... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-1-31 6:32:41 PM |
| #2 Hisba force = religious police. |
| Posted by: TS 2004-1-31 3:55:40 PM |
| #1 It's been ages since we had nuggets, I've been famished for news. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-31 1:09:36 PM |