Bailed cleric calls for Islamic order in Pakistan

[Coventina]

Source: AFP

ISLAMABAD (AFP) — The most radical mosque in Islamabad reverberated Friday with calls for jihad as a cleric released on bail asked thousands of people to make sacrifices to turn Pakistan into an Islamic order.

Maulana Abdul Aziz, captured two years ago during a siege on the radical Red Mosque, was freed from house detention Thursday after the Supreme Court granted bail on a surety bond worth 200,000 rupees (2,500 US dollars).

The elderly cleric faces around two dozen cases involving terror, abduction and abetting the seizure of government property, but has yet to stand trial.

"We will continue our struggle to enforce Islamic order in the country," said Aziz, delivering the main Friday sermon to nearly 4,000 worshippers overflowing from the Red Mosque.



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[Glorfindel]

1. What a fine, BRAVE cleric he is, too...sneaks out disguised as a woman

while calling for martyrdom for his followers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6270626.stm

[ohio2007]

2. His "sermon" is calling for the overthrow of Pakistan but the article failed to spend much time

explaining what comments he made got the congregation all fired up

Members of the congregation frequently interrupted his sermon with chants of "Al-Jihad, Allahu Akbar ....

well, maybe other news sources will dwell a bit deeper on the subject.

[iandhr]

3. This time

for India to take care of these people or is that a bad idea

[ohio2007]

4. to late for some already forced to pay protection $ to the Taliban

Those with links to India better wire home in order to pay the sin tax

Sikhs in Orakzai pay Rs 20 million jizia to Taliban

By Abdul Saboor Khan

HANGU: The Sikh community living in Orakzai Agency on Wednesday conceded to Taliban demand to pay them jizia – tax levied on non-Muslims living under Islamic rule – and paid Rs 20 million to Taliban in return for ‘protection’.

Officials told Daily Times that the Taliban also released Sikh leader Sardar Saiwang Singh and vacated the community’s houses after the Sikhs accepted the Taliban demand.

The officials said the Taliban announced that the Sikhs were now free to live anywhere in the agency.

They also announced protection for the Sikh community, saying that no one would harm them after they paid jizia. Sikhs who had left the agency would now return to their houses and resume their business in the agency, the officials said.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009%5C04%5C16%5Cstory_16-4-2009_pg7_3

If they "offend" the Taliban in any way,look out, all bets are off.

[ohio2007]

5. Two women killed in Mardan ( closing in on Islamabads retreat from 'contested' provinces)

Killing of 'working class' women is the calling card of the righteous ones as they continue their march into the "civilized" areas of sectarian districts

MARDAN: A former women councillor and a woman employee of an NGO were killed in separate incidents here on Thursday.

According to sources, an explosion caused by a home-made bomb planted in the office of the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) in the Hattian village killed Mumtaz Begum.

The NGO’s office was located in building belonging to a former MPA of the Awami National Party.

Local Taliban leader Habibur Rehman claimed responsibility for the attack. He accused NGOs of propagating obscenity and vulgarity and threatened further attacks.

In the other incident, armed men gunned down Shaheen Bibi, a former councillor of the Union Council Gujjar Garhi.

A number of terrorist attacks have taken place in Hattian, Shergarh, Lund Khwar and Takhtbai areas of Mardan in recent days and a number of girl schools, police stations, security posts, music centres and cellphone towers have been targeted.

Meanwhile, three employees of the Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) were kidnapped in Kohat.


snip


Police mounted a search but by that time the kidnappers had reportedly crossed over into the tribal areas.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/nwfp/two-women-killed-in-mardan--bi

no go zones are respected by one side it seems as those expanding areas are becoming very familiar in the west

[bemildred]

6. Dang, this feels like 1979 in Iran somehow. nt

[Coventina]

7. Plus nukes.

:scared: