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Complaint filed against Sultan Masjid Imam

The mosque imam allegedly declared PPP MNA Sherry Rehman non-Muslim, lauded Governor Taseer's assassin.

Express January 09, 2011

KARACHI: Civil society members have filed a complaint with the Karachi police against the Pesh Imam of Sultan Mosque. The imam in question allegedly issued a decree against Pakistan People's Party (PPP) MNA Sherry Rehman and termed her a non-Muslim.

Civil society members alleged that the imam also lauded Mumtaz Qadri, the man behind the assassination of Governor Punjab Salmaan Taseer during a Friday sermon.

The complaint was registered at the Darakhsan Police station, on behalf of Rehman, Salmaan Taseer's son Shan Taseer and a journalist Ali Chishti.

Speaking to Express News, Chishti said civil society members fear for Sherry Rehman's life following the murder of the Punjab Governor.

He asserted that they will expose evidence against the Pesh Imam in a press conference. The civil society members also stressed that they were proud to be Muslims but rejected murdering people in the name of Islam.

COMMENTS (25)

Mujahid | 13 years ago | Reply Well if Imam said some words in Kutba like sheere rehman or salman taseer he is right and all knows Imam doing his job well and Qadri is a Ghaazi and hero of majority of nation and who killed Gustak e Rasool and all of you people live your life in a true track and dont support those who said wrong words for our prophet Muhammad PBUH

Reasoner | 13 years ago | Reply Very well done Chishti Sb ! The fanatic mullah needs to be put behind bars for inciting voilence !

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K Aga | 13 years ago | Reply good work but hope the police do cut an FIR or there will be no action taken and this whole effort will have been meaningless…hope it is done so…this looks like stone walling and surprised that a barrister would fall for it…why do the police need a few days to cut an FIR…it is something that can easily be done on the spot against a complaint recording the complainants’ grievance

ali | 13 years ago | Reply leave us alone mullah

SYED AGHA ALI Moosavi | 13 years ago | Reply Action & Reaction time is Now or Never

Kehkishan Asghar | 13 years ago | Reply I would request Civil society of KARACHI to come forward and raise voice aganist BRUITAL justice and actions suported by UNEDUCATED mullas to support ZIA,s ISLAM......

Omar | 13 years ago | Reply Who gives the right for anyone to judge if someone is a muslim or not? Can anyone point out in any religous text that shows that any mullah is qualified to include or exclude someone from Islam due to his personal opinions?

D. Asghar | 13 years ago | Reply @Ali Chisti Bhai, if you are reading this, well done. I am proud of you.

mohammed+abbasi | 13 years ago | Reply Lets see if the police have any guts to take this excuse for a holyman on!

Maulana Diesel | 13 years ago | Reply excellent work civil society. Now lets go after that crazy looking guy in Masjid Mohabat Khan in Peshawar who announced a reward of Rs 500,000 to whomever that killed Asia bibi.

asma@london | 13 years ago | Reply Any Imam who comes from pakistan to do his duty as a Imam in a London mosque has first to sit for a test which test whether they are inclined towards extremism. A similar act is badly needed for a Imam in Pakistan otherwise if they win we will lose and if that happens then I fear for a Taliban style government in pakistan.

AZMAT+KHAN | 13 years ago | Reply who so ever incites violence and issues such fatwas should be proceeded against and brought to court.no soft corners for the fatwa mongers please.

Anoop | 13 years ago | Reply If this becomes big news then the Imam will be let free.

BinYamin | 13 years ago | Reply Not only DHA Mosque, Imams of other Mosques located in Cantt areas are aso more vocal in incitment and spreading hatred against other sects. I request defence/cantt authorities to pay attention to this fast growing menace.

Bilal | 13 years ago | Reply Get all such mullahs. Govt needs to get tough with them.

Naushad Shafkat | 13 years ago | Reply Hope the Police follow up on this complaint according to law and book the culprit. Also as rightly pointed out the Defence Housing Authority, which is otherwise so efficient in enforcing the law- also take some action.

Umair | 13 years ago | Reply Give all of them mullahs fierce punishment for inciting to murder, terrorism and heinous crimes against humanity in the name of Islam. Their time has come now… I urge every one to unite against them.

Farieha | 13 years ago | Reply Excellent! Good precedent has been set by lodging this complaint. Hope this example is followed and more and more FIRs are filed against clerics all over the country who encourage hatred and incite to harm and kill.

M. Salim | 13 years ago | Reply other illiterate Imams in DHA (DHA-I, Gol Masjid, Abu-bakr Siddiq, Masjid Ali, Seaview, CCB Rahat, Mujahid, Iqbal, etc, etc) should also be imparted awareness and stewarded for righteous, pertinent and anti-hate sermons

Humanity | 13 years ago | Reply The snakes in the cloak of mullah must be rooted out before the country becomes a totally law less zombie land.

xeeshan | 13 years ago | Reply My favorite part: "stressed that they were proud to be Muslims but rejected murdering people in the name of Islam" 'But' huh? I suggest next time you try 'and'!

parvez | 13 years ago | Reply This mosque in DHA Karachi comes under the control of Corp. Commander Karachi a Lt. General who is also head of DHA. Lets hope he does the right thing.

hell to all mullahs | 13 years ago | Reply Hang all these so called pious mullah.......

Malik | 13 years ago | Reply Good job. Now only if government developed some back bone to carry these complaints to their logical conclusion we'll all be better off.

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