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.
And while we are huffing and puffing about Rushdi’s knighthood, the most intolerent, violent, unIslamic regime is growing right in the heart of the capital, under the very eyes of the powers that be. The blackmailers at the Lal masjid – who make the Taliban look like God’s gift to humanity – are challenging the writ of the state – and we – and the state – are powerless?
OK if there is prostitution under the facade of acupuncture and massage, that is indeed abhorrent and should be curbed.
But the way to fight this is not by taking law into your own hands. Instead the judiciary should be made stronger, so that it has the power to summon corrupt generals, MNAs and IGs.
Pakistan needs a revolution and I’d rather have a revolution led by lawyers than anyone else.
Mush and his cadre of mother-fu$king generals and politicians have not only assaulted our own people in Karachi and Balochistan, they’ve even attacked our moral values.
If human desires are not controlled there would be no end to them. As per the poet Ghalib:
HAZAARON KHWAHISHEIN AISI KE HER KHWAHISH PE DAM NIKLE
BAHUT NIKLE MERE ARMAAN LAIKIN PHIR BHI KAM NIKLE !!
( THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF DESIRES IN MY HEART AND EACH DESIRE IS SUCH THAT IT’S HARD TO LIVE WITHOUT IT———– I AGREE I GOT MANY OF MY DESIRES FULFILLED BUT I STILL FEEL ONLY A VERY LITTLE OF THEM COULD BE CONSUMMATED)
Why only be amazed at noticing massage parlors in Islamabad: these are present in all posh localities of Pakistan. I was told that one such ‘parlor’ operated in Karachi Defence where men were ”pleased” by women under the cover of ”massage”. These massage parlors and some beauty parlors are spreading ‘prostitution’ under the cover of ‘massage’ and ” primping” and no body is there to check them. They are glove in hand with the ”higher ups” of administration who would come to their rescue in case of any trouble by any complainant. The massage parlor and the so called ”chinese alternate ” health treatment parlor was indeed a den and the administrative authorities knew it well. But as I said the ‘bad and ugly’ ones have ‘longer hands’ than a law abiding citizen no one could ”touch ” them ! No complaint against them was entertained. Consequently what the Hafsa University girls did was quite warranted. Afterall, in an illegitimate regime someone stepping forth to suppress or end an evil is quite justified in its right. Look around yourself, you will find many many dens especially in posh areas of Defence and under the existing laws try to go against them and you will end up nowhere!
Dont indulge in passing futile remarks on this page provided you think what was going on in the chinese parlor was morally justified or at all according to your faith as a muslim. Otherwise what mutterings I skimmed over on this page is nothing more than ‘futile intellectual and childish flirtation” for self-satisfaction only
As Muslims it’s our duty to condemn the conduct of the chinese parlor operators rather than criticize our own religion. It’s just like talking from both sides of your mouth !
Wow, I didn’t even know there were massage parlors in Pakistan with Chinese masseuses. Is Pakistan such a lucrative place for such services that people would come all the way from China to set up shop there? If this is true, my respect for Chinese people’s entrepreneurial talent goes up fivefold.
I personally feel that it is pointless — and ultimately fruitless — to try to control human desire. If you ban one outlet for the expression of human nature, those repressed desires will find some other, more twisted means of escape. Regulation of morality in conservative societies is tricky business. When is enough enough? When are you going too far? In my native India, some of the vestiges of social conservatism (similar to attitudes in Pakistan) are dropping away — drinking is becoming more and more common, sexual taboos are coming down right and left. This is raising anxieties among many people, just as in Pakistan. It’s the Buddhists of Southeast and East Asia who I think have the most sophisticated attitude toward virtue and sin. Witness the huge and lurid prostitution scene in Thailand, yet that doesn’t stop them from being devout Buddhists. Nobody goes around stoning brothels and kidnapping madams and hookers. It’s all “live and let live.” I wonder if we Indians and Pakistanis could learn a thing or two from them.
This will make the Army MAD as hell because Jamia Hifza has now interfered with their Lifestyle. These Massage parlors need translators because a lot of people get caught in that due to miscommunication.
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Jamia Hifza should be shut down because these vigilantes are giving Pakistan a “badder” name.
We don’t need Lal masjid walaon ki help.