Pakistan: Terrorism and us, Islam,Terrorism and Jihad, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam,Terrorism and Jihad

Pakistan: Terrorism and us

By Mir Jamilur Rahman

August 27, 2008

Taliban sent a strong reminder of their agenda when two of their suicide bombers brought havoc to the peaceful town of Wah Cantt near Islamabad. They killed 70 and injured another 100, leaving the citizens in grief and shock. Wah is a high security town because of its ordnance factory and yet the suicide bombers succeeded in penetrating its security. To be sure, there is perhaps no way to stop a suicide bomber from breaching the security if he is willing to forfeit his life. As an American president once said, it is not very difficult to assassinate the president of the US provided the assassin is prepared to give up his life.

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani visited the scene of the Wah carnage to condole with the people who lost their breadwinners and near and dear ones. He assured them of the government's support in their rehabilitation. The prime minister told a news conference in Wah that economy and law and order are the priorities of his government.

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The Muslim Brotherhood’s Divine Weapons, Radical Islamism and Jihad, NewAgeIslam.com

Radical Islamism and Jihad

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Divine Weapons

By Mshari Al-Zaydi

07/08/2008

The truth is that there is no harm or shame in that so long as the group does not mix good deeds with bad ones or the divine with the profane etc. If from the outset the Muslim Brotherhood had introduced itself to the public and emerged on the scene as a conservative party that seeks to protect the society’s conservative values, in addition to formulating a political, social and economic agenda based on these values, then perhaps the situation would have been very different. Perhaps the group would have entered the political sphere since the 1940s.

But the reality is different; from the beginning since the MB announced itself; it proclaimed that it was the bearer of the divine message and that its members were guardians entitled with the execution of God’s commands on earth. And this is precisely where the hidden disease of the MB lies and it is what afflicts the Arab culture. However; it also marks the group’s ingenuity in exploiting the MB’s capabilities and maneuvers and efforts, including money and academic degrees for the sake of protecting their principal idea which is that the solution lies in the establishment of a religious state. The Muslim Brotherhood’s famous slogan is: Islam is the solution.

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