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The Lal Masjid affair - 21 May 2012
Lal Masjid: rewarding an insurrection
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The fact of the matter is that they were organised leaders of a gang of terrorists.
SWANSEA, UK: This is with reference to Ayesha Siddiqa’s article of May 23 titled “The Lal Masjid affair”. Neither the Ghazi brothers, nor their wives or daughters were innocent no matter how generous anyone wishes to be. The fact of the matter is that they were organised leaders of a gang of terrorists who were misguided by their own sense of mission against our way of life as we know and practise here in Pakistan.
They challenged and raised arms against the state, they provoked and threatened the state, they incited violence and they even kidnapped ordinary citizens and conducted ‘trials’ against them. Back then, the government of the day made the grave mistake of tolerating their antics for far too long. The government should not have dilly-dallied and should have been firm with them much earlier. Anyone who supports them and wishes to portray them as anything other than what they really were is not a friend of Pakistan and deserves our rejection and even our wrath.
Uza Syed
Published in The Express Tribune, May 24th, 2012.
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‘our way of life’ – I think the Bush/Blair rhetoric is very well out of date now.
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@ Uza Syed
Are you so sure and aware of the facts to pass a judgement like this? Keeping all the facts aside which none of the public is actually aware of, which is why i won’t start arguing who is who & what is what. I would rather say one thing only that no matter what Government should have never started the operation in a mosque which is a symbol of peace and a place to communicate with Allah. They could use other means to deal with the issue as have been used by Saudia in past and if you really think that such ethics project unpatriotic approach then you must analyze aspect of humanity in your thoughts.
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All who take sides with the government in that particular incident should also deplore the activity of Anty Shamim otherwise it gives an impression that she is included in our way of life.
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