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| 18 Jun 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com |
| How to Murder for Peace: Begin with the words, In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful | ||
 There’s nothing a practising Muslim ever does without the invocation: “Bismillah ar-Rahman-ur-Rahim” (In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful). About Prophet Mohammed he will tell you that Allah sent him to earth as “Rahmat-ul-Alemeen” (mercy on all mankind). The very word Islam means peace, you will be told. Allah, Prophet Mohammed, Islam is all about peace, compassion, mercy. Get it? No doubt Mumtaz Qadri, the assassin of Pakistan Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, believes himself to be a pious Muslim. No doubt “Bismillah ar-Rahman-ur-Rahim” preceded the bullets he pumped into a person he was trained, paid and sworn to protect, risking his life if need be. -- Javed Anand (Urdu Translation by Md Zafar Iqbal, NewAgeIslam.com) | ||
| How to Murder for Peace: Begin with the words, In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful | |
By Javed Anand
There’s nothing a practising Muslim ever does without the invocation: “Bismillah ar-Rahman-ur-Rahim” (In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful). About Prophet Mohammed he will tell you that Allah sent him to earth as “Rahmat-ul-Alemeen” (mercy on all mankind). The very word Islam means peace, you will be told. Allah, Prophet Mohammed, Islam is all about peace, compassion, mercy. Get it? No doubt Mumtaz Qadri, the assassin of Pakistan Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, believes himself to be a pious Muslim. No doubt “Bismillah ar-Rahman-ur-Rahim” preceded the bullets he pumped into a person he was trained, paid and sworn to protect, risking his life if need be. ...
Killing may not be your idea or mine for promoting peace, but, to the “respected ulema” of Pakistan that’s Islam. Read the joint statement issued by 500 “maulanas” from the Jamaat Ahle Sunnat Pakistan (JASP), which also issued a death threat to anyone who dared lead or even participate in the namaaz-e-janaza (funeral prayer) of Taseer: “The punishment for blasphemy against the prophet can only be death, as per the Holy Book, the Sunnah, the consensus of Muslim opinion and explanations by the ulema... this brave person (Qadri) has maintained 1,400 years of Muslim tradition, and has let the heads of 1.5 billion Muslims of the world be held high with pride.” No, you messiahs of murder, count me out.
Ironically, until a fortnight ago, this very Barelvi sect was seen as Pakistan’s great big hope for peace, a counter-force waiting to be deployed against the Deodandis, the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Ahl-e-Hadith, all of whom are guilty of injecting intolerance, extremism and terrorism into Islam. But a single murderous deed of a “ghazi” has brought Pakistan’s mutually warring “ulema” to a common platform. Whatever else the disagreements between them, they stand together in their worship of violence and contempt of the dissenting voice.
URL for full text of the English Article: http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamWarOnTerror_1.aspx?ArticleID=3979
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10:58 PM
Moderate Islamist here
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