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| Majlis-i-Amal backs June 28 strike call |
| 2002-06-25 |
| The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal has supported the Ittehad-i-Tanzeemat-i-Madaris Deenia's call for observing June 28 as protest day against the Madaris Registration Ordinance. "Alright, guys! Let's get a little civil unrest going, here. You guys call the strike, and we'll support it, okay?" The MMA's decision was announced by Jamaat-i-Islami amir Qazi Husain Ahmad at a press conference here on Monday. The Qazi also urged the people to come out on roads after Juma prayers to protest police raids on mosques and Madaris under, what he said, the FBI supervision. Terming the raids in Lahore an act of hooliganism, he said searching the mosques without any justification was an intentional attempt to create harassment among the faithful, prayer leaders and students only to appease anti-Islam forces. He said religious forces were the well-wishers of humanity and these were being wrongly projected as terrorists. He denied there was any Al Qaeda network in Pakistan and said Indian agency RAW and the US agencies FBI and CIA were involved in terror acts in the country. He went on to deny the existence of the continent of South America, decried the color orange as un-Islamic, and blamed McKenzie King for assassinating himself. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |