Monday, 11 November 2013
Saturday, 9 November 2013
09 November - Iqbal Day
09
November - The birthday of Iqbal
The poetry and philosophy of
Mawlana Rumi bore the deepest influence on Allama Iqbal's mind. Deeply
grounded in religion since childhood, Iqbal began intensely
concentrating on the study of Islam, the culture
and history of Islamic civilization and its political future, while
embracing Rumi as "his guide". Iqbal would feature Rumi in the role of
guide in many of his poems. Iqbal's works focus on reminding his readers
of the past glories of Islamic civilization, and delivering the message
of a pure, spiritual focus on Islam as a source for sociopolitical
liberation and greatness. Iqbal denounced political divisions within and
amongst Muslim nations, and frequently alluded to and spoke in terms of
the global Muslim community or the Ummah.
"Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians." - Allama Dr Muhammad Iqbal
Friday, 8 November 2013
Detachment
Detachment
Detachment
is neither kind nor unkind. It does not imply judgment or condemnation
of the person or situation from which we are detaching. Separating
ourselves from the adverse effects of another person’s alcoholism /
addiction can be a means of detaching: this does not necessarily require
physical separation. Detachment can help us look at our situations
realistically and objectively. Addiction is
a family disease. Living with the effects of someone else’s
addiction(s) is too devastating for most people to bear without help. In
Al-Anon we learn nothing we say or do can cause or stop someone else’s
drinking/using. We are not responsible for another person’s disease or
recovery from it. Detachment allows us to let go of our obsession with
another’s behavior and begin to lead happier and more manageable lives,
lives with dignity and rights, lives guided by a Power greater than
ourselves. We can still love the person without liking the behavior.
IN AL-ANON WE LEARN:
• Not to suffer because of the actions or reactions of other people
• Not to allow ourselves to be used or abused by others in the interest of another’s recovery
• Not to do for others what they can do for themselves
• Not to manipulate situations so others will eat, go to bed, get up, pay bills, not drink/use, or behave as we see fit
• Not to cover up for another’s mistakes or misdeeds
• Not to create a crisis
• Not to prevent a crisis if it is in the natural course of events
DETACHMENT
By learning to focus on ourselves, our attitudes and well-being improve. We allow the alcoholics or addicts in our lives to experience the consequences of their own actions.
IN AL-ANON WE LEARN:
• Not to suffer because of the actions or reactions of other people
• Not to allow ourselves to be used or abused by others in the interest of another’s recovery
• Not to do for others what they can do for themselves
• Not to manipulate situations so others will eat, go to bed, get up, pay bills, not drink/use, or behave as we see fit
• Not to cover up for another’s mistakes or misdeeds
• Not to create a crisis
• Not to prevent a crisis if it is in the natural course of events
DETACHMENT
By learning to focus on ourselves, our attitudes and well-being improve. We allow the alcoholics or addicts in our lives to experience the consequences of their own actions.
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Makkah of Today
Commercialism & Makkah of Today:
The Saudis have spoiled Makkah – but the British Museum doesn’t want you to know:
The Masjid Al-Haram is an iconic image for millions of Muslims who dream of making the once-in-a-lifetime Hajj pilgrimage to Makkah, but its silhouette has been drastically altered by the luxury hotel and clock tower that now overshadows the religious complex.
Go to the British Museum’s Hajj exhibition if you want a close-up look at Egyptian textiles and medieval Turkish manuscripts.
But if you want to find out the truth about Makkah, and specifically how the Saudis have destroyed and spoiled some of the holiest sites in the Islamic world, you’d be better off staying at home to read this jaw-dropping article in the New Yorker by Basharat Peer.
Here’s what the British Museum didn’t let on in its blockbuster exhibition, which I visited last month.
Looming large over the Grand Mosque and the Kaaba (the black cube-shaped building that is the holiest site in Islam) is the largest and second tallest building in the world, called the Royal Mecca Clock Tower complex.
You can’t miss it (see pic above) – unless, it seems, you’re a British Museum curator. The 2,000-foot hotel certainly didn’t feature in the exhibition.
The Masjid Al-Haram is an iconic image for millions of Muslims who dream of making the once-in-a-lifetime Hajj pilgrimage to Makkah, but its silhouette has been drastically altered by the luxury hotel and clock tower that now overshadows the religious complex.
Go to the British Museum’s Hajj exhibition if you want a close-up look at Egyptian textiles and medieval Turkish manuscripts.
But if you want to find out the truth about Makkah, and specifically how the Saudis have destroyed and spoiled some of the holiest sites in the Islamic world, you’d be better off staying at home to read this jaw-dropping article in the New Yorker by Basharat Peer.
Here’s what the British Museum didn’t let on in its blockbuster exhibition, which I visited last month.
Looming large over the Grand Mosque and the Kaaba (the black cube-shaped building that is the holiest site in Islam) is the largest and second tallest building in the world, called the Royal Mecca Clock Tower complex.
You can’t miss it (see pic above) – unless, it seems, you’re a British Museum curator. The 2,000-foot hotel certainly didn’t feature in the exhibition.
Peer, a recent pilgrim to Makkah himself, writes with disdain: “When I walked along the western wall of the Kaaba, the Clock Tower felt like a concrete djinn staring down at me, dwarfing the mosque. Filled with resentment, I lowered my head in anticipation on each circumambulation.”
When he enters the Clock Tower complex, he discovers it has the feel of “the duty-free section of the Dubai airport”.
“The ground floor is devoted to retailers: stores that sell alcohol-free perfume, prayer mats, and Hajj memorabilia, British and Italian clothing boutiques; luggage shops filled with Samsonite travel bags and Prada totes…”
No wonder some Muslims feel so at home in Harrods.
And the situation in Makkah is worsening: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah plans to redevelop the centre of the holy city into “high-rises and shopping malls”. Makkah's mayor, Osama al-Bar, justifies all this by saying that “a tower is very much like a mountain in its height”. Never before have "mountains" looked so garish and distressingly ugly.
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Q u o t e s - Towards A Different Future
Q u o t e s – Towards A Different Future
Past American Leaders Warned us about a Secret
Shadow Government…deniers of the theme of Anti-Christ better pay heed…we Muslims
have been warned about it 1400 years ago…
Presidents, Generals, Leaders.......
Believed in the existence of a secret shadow
government.
Believed in the coming of a New World Order.
Q u o t e s
"I am concerned
for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from
without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." --
General Douglas MacArthur
"Behind the
ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no
allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
--President Theodore
Roosevelt
"Some of the
biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are
afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so
subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had
better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of
it." --President Woodrow Wilson
"The government,
which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and
their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up
above the forms of democracy." --President Woodrow Wilson
"The real truth
of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large
centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew
Jackson."-- President Franklin D. Roosevelt
"For some time I
have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from it's original
assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of
the government."
- President Harry
Truman
"Some of the
biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are
afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so
subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had
better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of
it." - Woodrow Wilson
"The real rulers
in Washington are invisible and exercise their power from behind the
scenes."-- Justice Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court.
"Behind the
ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no
allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people." - Theodore
Roosevelt
"The real truth
of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large
centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew
Jackson."-- U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter written Nov.
21, 1933 to Colonel E. Mandell House.
"These
international bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the
majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission
or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the
powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government." -
Theodore Roosevelt
"We shall have
World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World
Government will be achieved by conquest or consent." - James Paul Warburg
"The interests
behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral Commission -
founded by Zbigniew Brzezinski for David Rockefeller - and the Bilderberg
Group, have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world
dictatorship within the next five years. They are not fighting against
terrorists. They are fighting against citizens." - Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl
Former German Defense Ministry Official and Advisor to NATO
"The high office
of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the Americans freedom,
and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight." - John
Fitzgerald Kennedy
"The Trilateral
Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the
commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government
of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful,
coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of
power--Political, Monetary, Intellectual, and Ecclesiastical." - U.S.
Senator Barry Goldwater
"The drive of the
Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining
super capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control....
Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international
in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent." -
Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976
"If the American
people ever allow the banks to control issuance of their currency, first by
inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that grow up around
them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up
homeless on the continent their fathers occupied." - Thomas Jefferson
"Let me issue and
control the nation's money and I care not who makes her laws." - Amschel
Rothschild
"I care not what
puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire. The man who
controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire and I control the
British money supply."
- Nathan Rothschild
"History records
that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and
violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by
controlling the money and its issuance." - James Madison (1751-1836),
Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
"The real menace
of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls
its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it
operates under cover of a self created screen.... At the head of this octopus are
the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking
houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of
powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for
their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political
parties."
- New York City Mayor
John F. Hylan, 1922
"The government,
which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and
their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up
above the forms of democracy." - Woodrow Wilson
"From the days of
Sparticus, Weishaupt, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenberg and Ema
Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy
played a definite recognizable role in the French Revolution. It has been the
mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century.
And now at last, this
band of extraordinary personalities from the under- world of the great cities
of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head
and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire."
-Winston Churchill
Letter to London Press, 1922
"[There] exists a
shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising
mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest,
free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself." -
Senator Daniel K. Inouye
"Our country is
now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction,
to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary
consequence."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Whoever controls
the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and
commerce." -James A. Garfield
"I sincerely believe
that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that
the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of
funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." - Thomas Jefferson
"I see in the
near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for
the safety of my country… corporations have been enthroned and an era of
corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will
endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people
until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
"
–President Abraham
Lincoln, November 21, 1864
"For some time I
have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from it's original
assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of
the government."
- President Harry
Truman
"A revolution is
coming - a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough;
compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough - but a
revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its
character, we cannot alter its inevitability." - John F. Kennedy
If you want total
security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so
on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We will bankrupt
ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dependence begets
subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit
tools for the designs of ambition.
- Thomas Jefferson
Rightful liberty is
unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the
equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law
is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of
the individual.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is the common
failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature
of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake
restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a
country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I would rather belong
to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in
love with liberty.
- Woodrow Wilson
We Americans have no
commission from God to police the world.
- Benjamin Harrison
"America does not
go abroad in search of monsters to destroy." - John Quincy Adams
"To avoid
entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of
Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute." -James
Buchanan
Our forces saved the
remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the
reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young
state and wish it well.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"No nation ever
had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or
ensure it of victory in time of war." -Calvin Coolidge
Commerce with all
nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. - Thomas Jefferson
"There is a
chance for the President of the United States to use this disaster, to carry
out...a phrase his father used I think only once and it hasn't been used since,
and that is a New World Order"
- Gary Hart, Council
On Foreign Relations, September 11th 2001
"It would have
been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been
subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now
more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The
supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely
preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past
centuries." - David Rockefeller
"We are on the
verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the
nations will accept the New World Order"
- David Rockefeller
"Today Americans
would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow
they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an
outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our
very existence.
It is then that all
peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this
evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario,
individual rights will willingly be relinquished for the guarantee of their
well-being granted to them by their world government."
- Henry A. Kissinger,
Bilderberg Conference 1991 Evians France
"[The New World
Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant
single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the
United States to change it's perceptions."
- Henry A. Kissinger,
World Affairs Council Press Conference,
Regent Beverly
Wilshire Hotel , April 19th 1994
"We can't be so
fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans" -
President Bill Clinton
"It is enough
that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes
decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." -
Joseph Stalin
"What is at stake
is more than one small country, it is a big idea, a New World Order. Out of
these troubled times our fifth objective a New World Order can emerge...Now we
can see a new world coming into view, a world in which there is a very real
prospect of a New World Order." - George Herbert Walker Bush, September
11th 1991
"The technocratic
era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a
society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.
[...] The capacity to assert social and political control over the individual
will vastly increase. It will soon be possible to assert almost continuous
surveillance over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date, complete files,
containing even most personal information about the health or personal behavior
of the citizen in addition to more customary data. These files will be subject
to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
"The easiest way
to gain control of the population is to carry out acts of terror the public
will clamor for such laws if the personal security is threatened." -
Joseph Stalin
"Of course the
people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who
determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along
whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a
communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to
the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they
are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and
exposing the country to greater danger."
- Herman Goering
During The Nuremburg Trials
(One Of Adolph
Hitler's Top Men)
"Terrorism is the
best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden
death." - Adolph Hitler
"Every time we do
something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to
tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel.
We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." -
Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon
"I don't care
what the American people think, I own the congress!"
- Israeli Prime
Minister, Ariel Sharon
"To announce that
there must be no criticism of the President, or what we are to stand by the
President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally
treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt
"I'm for the
little fellers, not the Rockefellers." - Senator Paul Wellston
"Military men are
dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." - Henry A.
Kissinger
"Intelligence is
not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of
fact, useless." - Henry A. Kissinger
"It is an act of
insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from
ordering assassination."
- Henry A. Kissinger
Statement at a
National Security Council meeting in 1975.
I can think of no
faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist
attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will
quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy. - Henry A.
Kissinger
Depopulation should be
the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US
economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad,
especially from less developed countries. - Henry A. Kissinger
"Let me issue and
control the nation's money and I care not who makes her laws" - Amschel
Rothschild
"At what point
then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reaches us.
It must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our
lot, we must ourselves be it's author and it's finisher" - Abraham Lincoln
"There ought to
be limits to freedom" - President George Walker Bush
"When the
government fears the people, there is liberty. When people fear the government
there is tyranny."
- Thomas Jefferson
"In the size of
the lie there is always contained a certain factor of credibility, since the
great mass of people will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a
small one." - Adolph Hitler
"One-fourth of
humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's
selection process for planet earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders
of the pale horse, Death."
- Psychologist Barbara
Marx Hubbard - member of Task Force Delta; a United States Army think tank
"Covert forces behind terrorism" - Roman Ahsan
COVERT FORCES AT PLAY BEHIND ‘TERRORISM’
I wrote the following article in February 2009
while working as Sub-Editor in magazine section of THE NATION but since I switched to Content Writing field afterwards it never got published
in the paper. The info is a bit outdated but hopefully it still covers the
basics. The objective is to provoke a thought-process. It might seem a little
hardcore so brace yourself !!
COVERT FORCES AT PLAY BEHIND ‘TERRORISM’
S ROMAN AHSAN reflects on the continuing chaos surrounding
Pakistan & Afghanistan
FEBRUARY 2009: Our
President’s plea for enhanced US economic assistance to crush terrorism has
been heeded by the US President. With promise of $1.5 billion annual aid to
Pakistan in the next five years, the US has laid down a new strategy which aims
at building more cooperation between Pakistan, Afghanistan and US in fighting
terrorist forces. There is a positive message of developing the infrastructure
in Pakistan with emphasis on schools, hospitals and roads, however the
deployment of 17,000 more US troops in Afghanistan has also been announced. A
month ago, a cover story ran in Newsweek “Learning to live with radical Islam”
in which the writer confesses that the Afghan Taliban and the Saudi Al-Qaeda
carry different ideologies. It was further mentioned that the Afghan Taliban
were not implicated in the 9/11 incident but the US treated or confused the
Taliban and the Al-Qaeda as one and the same group. US made a big error in
invading Afghanistan after 9/11 intensifying frustrations and fuelling passions
amongst the locals who are after all only fighting for their freedom. It is
like a vicious circle of hate that continues spreading its wings since those
fighting US and NATO forces on Afghan soil earn sympathies with their fellow
Muslims across the border. In this way, the ‘war against terror’ so coined by
the US might have disastrous repercussions with chances of extending to the
other parts of the world instead of a short voyage.
The Afghan Taliban though
rigid in their interpretations were bent on enforcing their interpretation of
Islamic Shariah in their own land without any designs of harming the outer
world compared to Al-Qaeda. However, they also brought an end to poppy cultivation which is
flourishing again under the present peacekeeping forces in the country. With
the US sending more troops to Afghanistan, things could take a new turn. The
term ‘peacekeeping’ has a very noble connotation, however when evil takes its
place, it should not be tolerated.
When US forces landed in
Iraq in 2002 (on the pretext of uncovering WMDs), they committed many
atrocities as well. Hundreds of US citizens themselves protested against the US
decision to attack Iraq before it was carried out. Videos have been forwarded
by the Americans on the Internet showing US fighter jets bombing and killing
innocent civilians on roads trying to find shelter, US marines throwing a puppy
off the cliff, making small Iraqi boys run behind their vehicles for a bottle
of water, destroying the sanctity of mosques and turning them into rest areas,
the list is endless. However, these issues have never been touched upon by the
Western media rather the focus has been on ‘wrongly’ projecting Afghan Taliban
as terrorists and human rights violators who oppressed their wives or forbade
the Afghan girls to attend education institutes. It is completely ignored that
one of the ways Taliban emerged as the leaders of Afghanistan was when they
punished individuals for criminal assaults on female students attending classes
in universities.
It is sad when our own
people from the elite circles blame the extremists charged with Islamic fundamentalism
as the ‘sole’ factor responsible for the current terrorism scene in Pakistan.
They simply close their eyes to the bigger picture where external enemy
elements could be operating under the guise of religious fanaticism to
destabilize the country. The interesting thing is that this trend is mostly
found amongst such Muslims who are not keen themselves in following and
applying the Islamic code of life. Since they are unable to comprehend the
beauty of true Islam, hence it is a favorite option for them to condemn the
‘religious fanatics’.
If we try to analyze the
forces acting behind such actions of religious fanatics in the tribal areas of
Pakistan, we will find that many of those actions could be reactions against
the army invasion where many innocent local tribesmen who had nothing to do
with terrorism also lost their lives. What would a person do if his father or
brother died at the hands of armed forces especially if they were peaceful
people? If you are a person who has never handled a weapon, you will just mourn
and move on with your life. However, the men in tribal areas are of a different
kind. They are groomed with the use of weapons at a very early age. The fire of
vengeance could make them blind compelling them to join forces with the militants
landing from across the border. In this way, the strength of the militants
keeps on multiplying with some of them even volunteering for suicide missions
across the country since they are brainwashed that the state is ‘Kafir’
(opposed to religion). Apart from this, circumstantial evidence has revealed
some other significant points. Many corpses of militants when examined, were
found to be uncircumcised clearly not Muslims, while there have been US marines
dressed as Pathans and terrorists wearing fake beards.
On March 27th, 2009 a
mosque in Jamrud was targetted while on Monday, March 30th, 2009 young police
trainees institute had been targeted. The trend of terrorist attacks shows that
they strike when we least expect them. The attack at a religious institution
like mosque in Jamrud killing 70 persons is a clear indicator that a Muslim
would never carry out such an act since his religious spirit would never allow
him so. The suicide bomber entered the mosque during weekly Friday prayers, and
blew himself up when the Imam just said ‘Allah-o-Akbar’. However, if those
really are Muslims aspiring to achieve martyrdom this way, then nothing could
be more terrifying than this.
Last year, a Polish
journalist was kidnapped by the terrorists and beheaded very mercilessly while
a video recording was also made of the whole scene. Behind the masked
terrorists, a bold banner displayed ‘kalma’. The execution style reminded of a
windows media file video being forwarded through email three years ago, which
showed a similar killing of a white in exactly the same manner. This makes one
wonder that if the terrorists wanted to kill someone, then why would they
observe the same details repeatedly presenting the execution in the form of a
recorded show and relaying the video across the world? Who are the actual
people behind the masks? Are they really Muslims devoid of any compassion or
are they saboteurs who want to tarnish the image of Islam in front of the
world?
In these times, the
nation as a whole should be vigilant and we should equip ourselves with
disaster management programs, instead of continued mourning for the dead. The
Pakistanis reject terrorism in any form but the foreign covert forces operating
behind it is also a big reality and cannot be ignored. While offering economic
assistance, the US leadership must recognize and accept the presence of those
covert forces also if it really wants to help Pakistan, for it is due to the
‘error’ on part of US to invade Afghanistan that Pakistan is surrounded by
chaos!
Thursday, 7 November 2013
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