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.
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Lal Masjid maulvis should consider teaching moral values to the Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. He is the one who has publically stated that he can charm any woman in two minutes.
Lal Masjid maulvis should consider teaching moral values to the so called Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. He is the one who has publically stated that he can charm any woman in two minutes.
Nice balance Darwaish.
I dont know why some commentators here are talking about Lal Masjid to improve the economic welfare of the society. Are physicians responsible to fix my broken car? Maybe its not so strange when we have serial killers turned to urban planners, when we have dhoodh-waalas becoming law ministers, when we have military playing democracy-democracy, we as ‘subjects’ do tend to ask everything from just about anyone. Lal Masjid is a religious institution, and any religion’s first level of capability is a value system for morality. Followed by other systems like economy, welfare, governance, etc etc.
In the sorry state of religious competency of Pakistani religious institutes (for whatever reasons), most of them focus on the first factor and thats morality. If they are just focusing on this niche, y the hell r we so demanding of them to broaden their sphere of business without providing them the favorable business conditions (for a start, stop hating the beard).
Now, why they are taking this authority in thier own hands, besides the ‘behind-the-curtains’ situation which is most likely the case here,they just want to be heard, the authorities to be dont represent the public. We are an Islamic Republic of Pakistan and such openness to anti-Islamic elements dont make us good advocates of Islam just like talibans dont make good advocates of Islam.
However, its a paradoxical decision to be made, if the government do listen to them and act, this would send a strong signal that ‘might is right’, if they dont, the oppressed will have yet another reason to retaliate the government through various means including the unpleasant ones.
On the matter of education as someone brought up above, its better not to mix education with literacy? Those with literacy have practiced more power to achieve their malice. And globally, the so-called education is about skill building, all the way to doctoral studies, most of the streams r that. How many people study morality and related disciplines and be called truly educated by its practice? Its just the lack of this practice by the so-called educated that we dont have medical treatment for the masses, when we dont have drinking water for the masses, when we dont have justice for the masses. What have the so-called education ever done to change all this? Increasing school attendance doesnot stop our national criminals. That helps another cause, to improve our standard of living (either in Pakistan (rare) or brain drained abroad).
And some readers are putting some very strong allegations mostly related to child and sexual abuse to the more-religiously inclined people. I wonder whether they have any proves of that and is the frequency of such events so high to consider it a phenomena or to classify a particular group with such acts?
The government should take responsibility of maintaining justice especially including the Islamic justice areas as described in the constitution.