Darwaish
In another dramatic development last night, dozens of armed Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa students stormed into a Chinese Beauty Parlor (massage centere) and kidnapped 9 people including 6 women and 3 men. All people are apparently of Chinese nationality. The incident occurred late Friday night.
According to Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa students, a brothel was being run under the name of massage centre and they have held Chinese men and women hostage for ‘Islah’.
I was watching Geo News just a few minutes ago and Chinese Government has strongly condemned this incident and demanded an appropriate action. Daily Times reports:
Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa students raided a Chinese massage centre in Sector F-8/3 and took hostage five Chinese nationals, including three women and two men, on late Saturday night in Islamabad, Geo television reported. According to the channel, two vehicles full of armed seminary students raided the massage centre, abducted the staff and brought them to the mosque. Geo reported Jamia Hafsa administration as alleging that a brothel was being run under the garb the massage centre. The Lal Masjid clerics could not be contacted as they had switched off their mobile phones. Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) officials reached the seminary and were trying to secure the release of the abducted Chinese through dialogue, it reported. Earlier, the students had abducted an alleged brothel owner and released her after a couple of days. They had also abducted and later released two police personnel.
This is another very serious act after holding policemen hostage for several weeks. I am really worried about this new trend of kidnappings. This is becoming ‘I don’t like you so I am going to kidnap you, beat the hell out of you and fix you (Islah)’. I wonder what is next? If government tries to settle this matter by force, the results could be a bloody clash and loss of life. Surely, this time a serious action will be taken.
I agree with the argument that brothels exist everywhere in today’s Pakistan. But is this the right way to do Islah? If our security and law enforcing agencies do their job properly, such incidents can never happen. Just blaming students of Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa is no good. The failure and inability of State of Pakistan to act when most needed, is equally responsible for this embarrassing situation and making us all look like a nation of extremists (both ends), illiterate ignorants and a bunch of fools.
What is Government of Pakistan is going to do? Why can’t we have a permanent solution to this embarrassment? Tough question.
Axiomatic… Yes, obsceenity IS preferable to criminality.
Let God be the judge of people including these Lal Masjid Taliban … they are teh true enemies of Islam…. the people who are destroying Islam today are these Lal Masjid wallahs….
At time I feel ashamed of our shallowness as a nation. For a nation to exist as a nation, there ought to be a set of common values, dreams, tradition and heritage in which all sections of that nation truly believe. I ask as a Pakistani and as a Muslim, what is my set of values that I am supposed to adhere to? Where is my heritage as the member of this great nation? Is it in that Chinese massage parlour? Or is it in Jama Hafsa? And which one of the two is right? Is a western set of fake ideals including ‘free sex’ more acceptable to us than a benign way to protest by some powerless girls? Total lack of justice in this twisted society is more acceptable to us than a Sharia court? Gross obscenity storming our homes is more acceptable to us than a call for Pardah?
I mean, who are we people?
I agree, the way these jokers have been allowed to continue like this is making it increasingly look like a topy drama.
One can not help asking where the intelligence agencies and the rest of the state machinery are where you need them. Perhaps they are too busy trying to pressure the civil society and judiciary to do something about the lal masjid issue.
Do you know such moral police operates in Saudi Arabia.
But guess what they are authorized.
I entirely agree with Neena and AJ
Who authorized them to abduct foreigners?
If you ask them, I bet they don’t have any proof of what ever they are claiming. There are many Chinese in Pakistan running Parlours restaurants and other businesses. This in another blow to Pak- Chinese’s relationship and foreign investment.
No group should be allowed to practice such powers.
Have you people ever heard the term, ‘topi-drama’? It seems like this one is happening right before our noses.
It is so sad to see the poor conditions of Rawalpindi with so many women and underage beggars and these Hafsa people who supposedly playing a moral police role keep a blind eye for such destitute. They are worried about the morals of those people who are aware of right and wrong and its consequences. Tsk Tsk. What a world coming into, they don’t even know where their help is needed.
Listening to reports, it seems Lal Masjid leaders might release the abductees within the next 2 days. The right strategy will be to wait until the release and then launch an action to close the facility and arrest the leaders. The government has pussy-footed long enough.