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| Bid to postpone Oct polls will be disastrous, warns Qazi |
| 2002-06-24 |
| Jamaat-i-Islami Amir Qazi Husain Ahmed has warned that if people were not allowed to cast vote in the October elections according to their will, it would lead to civil war in the country. Who the hell suggested they won't be? Qazi and Fazl keep using term "civil war" while setting up strawmen of secularism and thumping them really hard. Speaking at a news conference on Sunday, the JI chief alleged that the rulers were trying to postpone October elections to perpetuate their rule. "If the rulers continued to play in the hands of anti-democratic forces, there will be direct clashes between the people and the armed forces. This would be dangerous for the federation." According to him, the entire government machinery was being used for the character assassination of religious scholars and jihadi organizations. That's what we live for, beppy: character assassination of wild-eyed lunatic religious "scholars" and organizations made up of crazed killers. First ya gotta have a character for it to be assassinated. He said that the imposition of graduation condition through promulgation of an ordinance was a clear violation of fundamental rights and an attempt to keep a vast majority of popular political leaders away from elections. "This is nothing but pre-polls rigging, an attempt to create chaos and pave the way for the postponement of October elections." I suppose in a devout nation with such a strong religious character, where fully half the population is illiterate, having a requirement that legislators have a minimum of education seems pretty outlandish. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Reminder: until he was jailed from Nov 3, 2001 to Feb 27, 2002, for incitement of violence against US airmen in Pakistan, Qazi had a Pakistan diplomatic passport, and provided paid ($$$)consultation to the US State Dept at their Washington headquarters. (He stayed at the residence of the Ambassador of Pakistan to America, while soaking US taxpayers) Qazi also regularly attended US conventions of his American puppet wings, the Islamic Society (Jamaat) of North America and the Muslim Students Association. Check it out for yourself at the JI website: www.jamaat.org. |
| Posted by: RG Fulton 2002-06-24 16:52:39 |