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.
Lets just say student of lal masjid are doing the right thing which is what our governmnt should have done long time ago, but if you consider brothel a bad place then who the hell is going there and supporting their business.. hmmm let me think… they are no-other then Pakistani people after all. huh?
Any business stays in business if there is exponantial demand of its product. My dear country’s people love wasting money and time on such rubbish and sick activities.
Student of Lal masjid are ignoring the fact that this is not the only place in pakistan where this kind of activity is booming. There are lot of brothels and booze houses all around Pakistan that nobody gives a damn about. I just want to say that if you want Pakistan to be a better place to live then don’t try to fix other people’s character instead just improve yourself and others will follow.
I was reading dawn in morning and i found ‘extremist’ the most used term on its front page. I feel some1 is generating and manipulating all this hype of ‘talibanization or extremism’. No one in Pakistan can do all these TOPI DRAMAS in a capital with prior getting nod of highups. Further in my opinion, such dramas have considerable contribution towards changing public attention from hot issues and changing public ideas about tolerance in religion as well as clerics. Who want all this:)
All I want to know is why have they not Kidnappend the Mullahs who molest and rape the Boys in the Mudrassa and the Molvees who regulrly molest the innocent Boys and Girls that they teach Quran…. and WHAT ABOUT the gangs that take children from their parents and drug them, distort their bodies and put them on the streets to beg???
If their agenda is to take imorality out of society, then begin with you own people….then work on the Chinese…
The simple reality is that for us Pakistanis Islam is a a culture not a religion and ABOVE ALL we only practice it when concenient for us… and only when it serves our agenda…
We all deserve to go to hell…. and we are well on our way…
Now is the time, LAL MASJID Students (Taliban), stop them now or they will prove that Islam is really a barbaric religion, which is definitely not true.
I say Government should take a strict action and put these hypocrite illiterate so called Muslim behind bar where they belong.
First of all, please note that all acts of Lal Masjid have been against women…. so basically somehow tying morality into a woman’s being.
Secondly, I wonder what is more immoral:
What happened to Mukhtaran or the Chinese center, the hundreds of hunger-suicides or Aunty Shamim, the honor-killings or…. the list can go on and on…
and axiomatic and Naveed, why can there not be a happy median? Why must be there two polarized worlds of obscenity or the Lal Masjid version of Islam? Why can we not occupy the median realm, that we seemed to be occupying till the Mullah was unleashed on us in the 80s.