While all extrajudicial killings are to be condemned, perhaps our secularist minority may learn a lesson from this killing?
Wikileaks Diplomatic Cables Leak 07TELAVIV2652: Mossad was Concerned for Musharraf’s Wellbeing
November 28, 2010The leaked cable dating from August 2007, shows that Mossad had an interest in Musharraf retaining power, Mossad chief Meir Dagan was intimately aware of the intricacies of Pakistani politics and even had an interest in the ‘Wardi’ issue i.e. he wanted Musharraf to retain both the presidency and his post as head of the army at the same time and remain in power for the next few years. The paragraphs which include the Mossad chief’s statements on Musharraf are excerpted below :
1. (S) In an August 17 meeting, Israeli Mossad Chief Meir Dagan thanked Under Secretary Burns for America’s support of Israel as evidenced by the previous day’s signing of an MOU that provides Israel with USD 30 billion in security assistance from 2008-2018. Dagan provided his assessment of the Middle East region, Pakistan and Turkey, stressing Israel’s (a) concern for President Musharraf’s well-being
D4. (S) Assessing the region, Dagan said Israel sees itself in the middle of a rapidly changing environment, in which the fate of one Middle Eastern country is connected to another. Dagan then said he was concerned about how long Pakistani President Musharraf would survive
16. (S) On Pakistan, Dagan said that President Musharraf is losing control, and that some of his coalition partners could threaten him in the future. The key question, Dagan said, is whether Musharraf retains his commander-in-chief role in addition to his role as president. If not, he will have problems. Dagan observed that there has been an increase in the number of attempts on Musharraf’s life, and wondered whether he will survive the next few years.
A Succinct Description of the Anti-”Ground Zero Mosque” Movement
September 23, 2010Feisal Abdul Rauf: Living Proof of Surah al-Baqarah Ayah 120
September 17, 2010General Ashfaq Parvez Kiyani is not fit to lead Pakistan Army and should be removed from office
July 24, 2010A few days ago, in an interview with the ARY news channel, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan related how Musharraf had been compromised by the US since the very beginning and how he surrounded himself with sycophant generals who kept quiet during meetings never raising any objections to his disastrous policies.
Nowadays both the government and opposition accept that Musharraf’s policies were wrong and that his brutal actions resulted in the creation of thousands of radicalized young men, willing to resort to terrorism even against their own people.
Now Kiyani is one of these handpicked sycophants of Musharraf. He has a share in all of Musharraf’s murderous and treacherous actions against the Ummah and against Pakistan. He was also responsible for giving Musharraf a ‘gaurd of honour’ despite the fact that the nation hated him and wanted him kicked out in disgrace.
Such a person as General Kiyani should not have been allowed to complete his regular term of service as the COAS much less being given a three year extension.
Pervez Hoodbhoy the Hypocrite
June 1, 2010In an interview with Buddhist/Atheist Dr. Khalid Sohail, Pervez Hoodbhoy acknowledges that he is a munafiq and says that his guru Eqbal Ahmad was one too and did not believe in the existence of God or in the Quran or the Angels or the Day of Judgement right upto the time of his death (May Allah protect us all from such a state):
Sohail: Your book, your articles and speeches make you appear as a Muslim scholar, Muslim scientist. Why do you not leave the religious podium and speak completely on secular terms?
Pervez: Well, that is a very vexing question. I think if you want to have any degree of credibility with people whose destiny you want to change, then you cannot say, “I am not one of you”. The reality is I was born a Muslim. I was for a while a very strongly practicing Muslim. All of us were brought up in a Muslim tradition. We cannot completely cut ourselves off from our roots. Let me tell you a story about Iqbal Ahmed. When he was dying, Raza Qazim’ s wife, who adored him, stood outside the room and read Quran for hours. When I informed Iqbal Ahmed. He invited her in and asked her to sit down. She was reading Quran even when inside. At one point I scribbled a note asking Iqbal Ahmed if I could request her to stop. He shook his finger, asking me not to do that. Later on when she left, I asked him, ‘Why did you tolerate this? You are not a Muslim’. “Of course I am,” he said. “No, you are not,” I insisted. “You don’t believe in Allah, the Quran, angels or the Day of Judgment”. “Yes, I am,” he still insisted. “I was born a Muslim and I will always remain that”. Although he never made any supplications to God, never asked for forgiveness, yet to the very end, he felt he was rooted in the culture he had lived in. I think it is a dilemma we all have. Though we may not believe in it, yet we were born in something and that something stamps us forever. So we are Secular Muslims.
The whole interview may be read here
Husain Haqqani: Enemy of the Ummah
April 19, 2010Haqqani presents the occupation of Muslim holy lands as primarily an `Arab not a Muslim cause. He denigrates the importance of al-Quds to the Ummah. He presents the Jewish lobby which more or less controls US foriegn policy as a beleaguered lot forced to confront the awesome influence of the Saudis. He endangers the Muslims in America by characterizing their advocacy groups as extremists.
Haqqani is presently a co-Chair at the Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World established at the Hudson Institute by the neoconservative Hillel Fradkin.
Previously he has collaborated with another neocon pundit, Stephen Schwartz on the Institute for Islamic Progress and Peace, a project of the notorious Islamophobe Daniel Pipes[1]. While on a tour Schwartz to promote the think tank, both were reported attacking mainstream American Muslim organizations. They claimed that “[e]xtremists dominate all of the major Muslim advocacy groups”. According to the Cleveland Jewish News, Haqqani said:
There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world and only 18% of them are Arabs, Haqqani points out. In the U.S., only 200,000 of the 4 million Muslims are Arabs. Furthermore, only one-third of the Arabs in the U.S. are Muslim. A little more than half of one percent of American Muslims are Palestinian.
“Yet Muslim leadership in America focuses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as its core issue,”…
Haqqani and Schwartz then went on to say:
The Jewish lobby has to organize, write letters, and continue to contribute to politicians to counter the Saudi lobby, which has extraordinary influence in Washington [4]
“FLOWER DAY”
August 1, 2008Believe it or not; Before the Wahhabi heresy raised its head, the Sunni orthodoxy were liberal pacifists! The traditional response to kafir aggression is to hold a flower day and invite everyone to a Hadra!
The “But the Hadith is Dhanni” Crowd
July 21, 2008Yeah, the Hadith is dhanni and on the other hand fanciful innovated tafaseer of the Quran from your “Allamahs” and “doctors” with which you counter the hadith, those are completely qati’i right?
