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| 'Indiscriminate firepower' against Lal Masjid criticised |
| 2007-07-09 |
| The government is ‘massacring humanity’ by using indiscriminate firepower against Lal Masjid, said the administrator of Binoria University International, Mufti Muhammad Naeem, and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Central Joint Secretary General Qari Sher Afzal in a joint statement issued Sunday. Attacking the mosque with mortar shells for the past six days and indiscriminate killing are blatant violations of human rights, they said. “The West is aware that present rulers are using Lal Masjid as an issue, which will lead to nothing.” They regretted the loss of human life on both sides, and were saddened by the death of Lt. Col. Haroon Islam in particular. “Sensitive national institutions should not be used against their own people.” They demanded that action taken against Lal Masjid be stopped to avoid killing innocent people. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Hey, words are cheap, and if they get you what you want, why not? |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-07-09 05:09 |
| #4 That's funny, I was about to criticize them for using insufficient firepower. |
| Posted by: Glusorong the Slender4698 2007-07-09 03:25 |
| #3 I keep thinking "Red Mosque" would be a great name for a video game. |
| Posted by: Classical_Liberal 2007-07-09 01:59 |
| #2 To wit: SAIMA KHAN wants to die a martyr. Life is transient, she told her father in a telephone call last week, and the real glory is to sacrifice it for Allah. Her statement would be alarming at any age, but Saima is only 10. As she spoke, rifle shots rang out, the acrid smell of tear gas drifted over Islamabad and hundreds of troops surrounded the pro-Taliban Red Mosque, a religious school complex in the heart of Pakistan’s capital where Saima was among hundreds of children being held as virtual hostages in a stand-off between militants and the government. Saima and her 14-year-old sister, Asma, were embroiled in a struggle for the soul of Pakistan in which up to 70 militants died last week and more than 100 were injured, according to mosque officials. Holed up inside the complex behind the lines of troops and razor wire, the children – many of them girls whose families had sent them to the mosque to receive a strict Islamic education – repeatedly rejected relatives’ entreaties to leave before a threatened army onslaught. There was evidence that many had been brainwashed into a cult of martyrdom, and the authorities feared last night that some were being prepared to be suicide bombers. In barely eight weeks, Saima had been transformed from a religious but fun-loving girl to a jihadi, grimly craving martyrdom. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-07-09 01:44 |
| #1 The government is ‘massacring humanity’ That is patently untrue... the humanity part that is. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-07-09 01:26 |