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.
Seriously before even talking about how to be a Pakistani and handling law and order, we need to stop being a “MOB”…
I am a little confused on how one should re act to this latest scenario of the self proclaimed schions of Islam taking the law in thier own hand.
On one hand the problems with brothels operating in our society is a valid concern and on the other the Jamia Hafsa constantly taking the law into thier hands is also a dangerous trend.
My first reaction to the morning headlines in the newspaper regarding the latest fiasco was … these people should be stormed and shot , one to all ….
Reading more about the situation showed that perhaps these people ARE actually trying to tell the govt to wake up and do some thing about these issues.
Ofcourse there are worse issues that are plaguing our society and when one does not see the Jamia Hafsa admin doing anything about them , one feels , why are these people obbsessed with women, brothels, prostitution and related offences ?
Well, none of you has answered some of the basic questions I asked. So let me reduce them to one. What is that thing, that singular value system, because of which we qualify to be called Pakistanis?
There’s a wine shop just below my office. I see young boys and girls buying booze going to parties. Prostitution is rampant. There is law and order only when and where it suits the government. Pakistani citizens are being killed ruthlessly by friends and foes alike to serve foreign interests. Look at our Chief justice who is in a limbo for more than 03 months, waiting for justice. What happens to a common man is anybody’s guess.
I have not said that everything Lal Masjid ‘Brigade’ (look at the biased term) is doing justifies, but rather than condemning the reaction in strongest terms, shouldnt we condemn the action first rather more harshly?
Or do you approve of the ‘actions’, because in that case, even God will not save us.
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Actually, we have to ask ourselves, being muslims, what we ought to be? Are we gona lose our moral values? if so, then who should come forward to stop this kind of evil deeds which are widely spreading around? Government or us? if Government is not looking to be serious or even giving any hope by saying,”yes we will stop this evil, we’ll take measures” then who’ll come to stop all this? someone from the skies or ourselves? Let the things drive us the way it is going now…modernism at the cost of religious values or let us drive the things towards the modernism but not at the cost of true values? Who is gona pave to stop such kind of evil things, especially if the government is not gona do it? We should wait for +ve mesures from government?…how long we have to wait for this? Who forced these people to take up such measures themselves to stop this evil..government?We cannt smell which way we are being lead to?Let’s say these people are doing “Topi drama” who gave them this opportunity to use this as a tool