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| India-Pakistan |
| Sunni Tehrik demonstration in Hyderabad |
| 2002-05-18 |
| Pouring scorn on the anti-Muslim policies and programs of Jews and Indians hundreds of activists of Sunni Tehrik rallied together to demonstrate against them. With anti-Indian and Jewish slogans and placards in their hands they marched along the main roads and finally rallied at the main Haider Chowk then to Hyderabad Press Club. Sunni Tehrik is a breakaway group of Jamaat-i-Ulema Pakistan. The JUP was split into five groups. The Sunni Tehrik, headed by Maulana Saleem Qadri of Karachi is the biggest of them. Its followers are identified by dark brown turbans. The Punjab Sunni Tehrik is another group, though it has a smaller following, which has set up its offices in Unchi Masjid which used to be the site of Shia-Sunni conflict during Ashura processions in the late 1950s. Angry speakers asked the Muslim Ummah in particular Arabs to use oil as a weapon against the enemies of Islam. "We must join hands together to teach tough lesson to the enemies of Islam. Otherwise, we have to pay the heavy price' said the Tehrik speakers including Shahid Ghari, Fahim Sheikh and others. Revenge and turbans. They go together like ham and eggs, don't they? And we have to have demontrations and threats all the time, otherwise we'd have a civil society. And those Jews! It's terrible the way they've overrun Pakistan! They're almost as bad as them Injuns! |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |