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| JI urges religious parties to fight secularists |
| 2005-08-20 |
| Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan naib ameer Hafiz Mohammad Idrees on Friday urged religious parties to regroup and tackle the secular onslaught against seminaries. Talking at Jamia Mosqueâs Syed Maududi Institute, Idrees said the countryâs rulers were following a foreign agenda and it was imperative to launch Jihad against them by mobilising the people. He condemned the ban on magazines Friday Special, Zarb-e-Islam and Wajoud. âThe only fault of these papers was their commitment to expose Western and the ruling partyâs double standards,â he added. The JI leader said the local council elections had been compromised when the Sindh government âallowedâ the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) to forcibly confiscate ballot boxes. He said the electoral staff was caught filling ballot boxes with bogus votes in Karachi. He added that the governmentâs claims of foolproof security for the polls had proved false in the wake of the people killed in the electionâs first phase. Meanwhile, Jamiat Ittehadul Ulema president MNA Maulana Abdul Malik condemned the disqualification of candidates with religious schoolsâ certificates. He told the congregation at Jamia Mansoorah during Friday prayers that religion and politics should be separate. Malik said several Muslim rulers and the Holy Prophetâs (PBUH) companions had graduated from the Suffah at Masjid-e-Nabvi, adding, âThey were qualified in Quran and Sunnah which proved its worth in their practical lives.â The people present asked the government to accept the equivalent certificates issued by religious institutions for all practical purposes. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Does anyone else get the impression that the Islamo-freaks are going full-out all over the world and that they could not possibly keep up the pace for long? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-08-20 10:44 |