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.
Dear All,
The society in Pakistan is now beset with so many evils. There is corruption rampant, bribery is a way of life, weighing less is part of business , policemen are the biggest thugs of all, the army regularly conquors Pakistan the list is endless. Than all these people claim to be pious as well. Its like Julius Ceaser when it was said for brutus is an honorable man. These honorable man of our country has sold everything including the country down the river. Why dont the self appointed guardians of morality try to correct any of these ? Why dont a group of them goes and sits in the police station to ensure no bribery takes place. Why dont some of them goes and sits in the Government offices to see that work is done smoothly without any sifarish ? Why dont they check the electricity bills to see that the meter reader is doing his job without any gratification. Why dont a large group of them goes to karachi and save the mohajirs from the terror of MQM. Why dont they take up the cudgel against kabza group. The answer is simple. They are puppet on a string and the master puppeteer is sitting on his throne surrounded by his cronies (the colloborators) and making the puppet dance to their tune. The correction of society is not their agenda. It never was and it never will be.
Lal masjid should be destroyed in accordance with Quranic injuctions to demolish mosques that are used to spread “fasad fil arz”.
The government should give a 1 hour notice for all criminals in the Lal masjid to hand themselves over to the police. After the deadline the place should be stormed by army.
Sadly the government is itself abetting the criminals and terrorists inside lal masjid
>>>>>of which we are so tired that we are not even able to tolerate even its last remaining signs, however distorted>>>>>.
You are right about this axiomatic. This form of Islam is becoming tiresome. You will be surprised at how many atheists or former Muslims there are in Pakistan. They just do not declare it openly because of fear of death…but there are many people I know who privately confess to being non-believers…. and I do not blame them. If this is the version of Islam that is the loudest, then I am afraid it will ultimately implode. My significant other is so disgusted with everything that he/she is considering becoming a buddhist.
Who’s going to keep an eye on the single men, roaming in and out of the Lal mosque, as there are many examples of young men in the madressah enviroment who have been implicated in homosexuality. And often these young boys are exploited by their Mullahs? Who is going to monitor them?
Ayesha,’Are you saying that we have our roots in having no respect for the law , ….?’
Which ‘law’ are you talking about? Is there any law in Pakistan? It must be the same law under which more than 40 people were killed on May 12. Or the same law under which our supreme court is hearing ‘arguments’ on the chief justice case for last 03 months, whereas the truth is clear even to a layman. Is it the same law under which the brothels are being run? Is it the same law under which reference has been filed against Imran Khan and chief justice? have you ever been to a police station and seen what happens there, how ‘law’ is put into practice? Ever been to a court to get justice? Pray that you dont have to!
And let me ask you now, are our roots in massage parlours, injustice, dogged loyalty to foreign masters, killing our fellow nationals after branding them extremist and militant?
How many of us know Namaz-e-Janaza? If, God forbids, some of our near ones dies, we cannot even say his last riots properly and go running to a Mullah whom we otherwise never tire of abusing. Mullah, whatever wretched state he might be in, is still our last weak link to our religion, of which we are so tired that we are not even able to tolerate even its last remaining signs, however distorted.
Those who are saying why Lal Masjid doesnt do this or that should ask themselves what have they done to reform the society, or even their immediate neighborhoods?
And Shueyb, have you heard of an African country named Rawanda? Do you know that Tutsi and Hutu tribes were both ‘born’ there, and Hutus killed more than one million Tutsis in a campaign of genocide. This is what happens when people ‘born’ in one country, having same ‘passports’ dont share a common ideology.