Lal Masjid
- Badr o Hunain
By Col. Riaz Jafri
(Retd)
Westridge, Rawalpindi
On
13 July TV show ‘Capital Talk” I was
astounded to see what the two student girls of
the Jamia Hafsa believed in and had to say about
the unfortunate operation. Sad, as it was, its
graphic narration under sobs in choked voice was
presented by the students in a very effective
way. Being senior students with probably one of
them being a 'muallamma,' they seemed well versed
in the art of putting across their point of view.
Their conviction in their righteousness and their
hardened stance against the government was too
obvious as they saw nothing wrong in challenging
the writ of the state.
To a question about the presence of the arsenal
of arms and ammunition in the mosque and the jamia
they just not only denied it but blamed the govt.
for placing it there after the operation! To lend
credibility to their version and gain sympathies
of the media, they argued, "That's why the
govt. didn't allow the media to visit the mosque
and the jamia immediately after the operation".
To Hamid Mir’s question that if there were
no weapons in the mosque and the jamia and no
one used them then how did the ten officers and
men of the SSG lose their lives and about 34 of
them got wounded, lo and behold, one of the ladies
quoting battle of Badr recited an ayah from the
Holy Qur’an and translated it, "Allah
(SWT) told the Prophet (SAWAW) that while you
were still arming your bows with the arrows your
Allah (SWT) destroyed your enemies" (words
to that effect). She went on to say that the Lal
Masjid operation was just like the battles of
Badr, Uhad and Hunain, meaning thereby that Allah
(SWT) destroyed the enemies of Lal Masjid and
Jamia Hafsa!!!
General Muhammad Ashraf Qazi (Retd) - the federal
education minister who was also on the panel of
the TV talk show - drew the attention of the compere
to the type of product such madrassas were producing
and aptly called them “Zombies”. Imagine,
the girls believing that the bullet shots killing
the SSG personnel were fired by some supernatural
power other than the extremists inside the mosque!
What kind of brain washing or indoctrination do
the students of such madrassas undergo? My dear
girl student, if Allah (SWT) was with the inmates
of Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa, then why were not
all the troops taking part in the action destroyed?
Why was Lal Masjid and Jamia overpowered by the
govt. forces?
Such misbelieves aside, why has no religious or
religio-political party condemned the cleric brothers
for causing loss of innocent lives by not laying
down their arms? Or, do they find yet another
opportunity of playing the politics of the corpses
in this episode as well? Don't they have any morals
to side with the right even once?
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Rushdi Wajabul Qatl
Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa have placed all other
flaming issues on the back burner. One such issue
was of the knighthood of the blasphemer Rushdi
who has been declared not only wajabul qatl unanimously
by all muftis and ulema but it has also been made
mandatory upon all Muslims to kill him even at
the peril of their life.
No amount of arguments could satisfy the hardliners
that it was up to the British Government to bestow
the knighthood on one of its citizens. A lot has
been said and written in the media about it but
to no avail. I have a simple question to ask them
all. What would happen if the British Govt. introduced
a question in its visa application form asking,
“Do you consider Rushdi wajabul qatl ?”,
and deny the visa to all replying in the affirmative
on the plea that the applicant could kill Rushdi
in the UK and as such was a terrorist. How many
maulvis and ulema – particularly those who
collect millions during their foreign tours from
their followers - would answer the question according
to their belief?
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Capital Suicidal Blast
It is indeed sad that 16 innocent persons lost
their life and more than fifty got injured, some
critically, in a suicidal bomb attack in Islamabad
. The bomb went off around 8:30 PM at the reception
of the PPP stalls some distance away from the
lawyers' rally in F/8 Islamabad which Chief Justice
Iftikhar Chaudhry was due to address. Luckily,
the CJP was not present as he arrived at the venue
at around 10 PM, and most appropriately decided
not to address the rally as a mark of respect
for the dead. The electronic media, as usual,
pounced upon the opportunity to excel each other
in reporting live the gory details. Views, opinions
and analyses of all kind of people were hurriedly
telecast and every one seemed to have his own
theory about the attack. While almost all thought
it to be an act of a random terrorist, the learned
Aitzaz Ahsan in his own wisdom considered it to
be an attack on the lives of the Chief Justice
and his lawyers. One wonders how he could arrive
at such a drastic inference and that too that
soon when the investigating agencies had not started
even collecting the pieces of evidence scattered
around. I can’t say for others but the intellect
of Mr. Aitzaz – the barrister par excellence
- has certainly disappointed me. I could never
imagine that he could stoop so low to gain the
sympathies of the naïve for himself that
he would concoct such a horrendous story.
Mr. Aitzaz, whether you know it or not, a suicide
attack is not a time bomb attack which has to
go off at a fixed time. The suicidal bomber after
choosing his target can lie in wait for hours
for him to arrive at the scene.
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