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India-Pakistan
Madrassas no longer safe from govt action: MMA
2007-07-11
Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) Chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad and Secretary General Maulana Fazlur Rehman chaired a meeting of the heads of religious parties in London on Tuesday to review the security forcesÂ’ operation at Lal Masjid. The meeting decided that other madrassas in Pakistan were no longer above the law safe after the military operation, and action might be taken against religious institutions on the pretext of terrorism. Syed Munawar Hassan, Prof Sajid Mir, Pir Nobajar Shah, Qari Zawar Bahadur and Pir Ejaz Hashmi said the governmentÂ’s operation against Lal Masjid was a conspiracy against religious entities and that the main purpose of the operation was to defame the clerics at the national and international level.

They said that in the current circumstances it would be difficult for religious parties to participate in the general elections. The governmentÂ’s propaganda against clerics and madrassas would affect the voters, they said, especially in Sindh and Punjab. It was decided that the clerics would protest in the meeting of the heads of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) and other political parties scheduled to be held on July 11 in London at former prime minister Nawaz SharifÂ’s residence. They said that participants of the all-parties conference (APC) must cooperate with the religious parties to prevent further action against madrassas.
Posted by:Fred

#4  "....action might be taken against religious institutions on the pretext of terrorism...."

But isn't religion their pretext FOR terrorism?
Posted by: AlanC   2007-07-11 16:07  

#3  Close all madrassas.
Posted by: wxjames   2007-07-11 10:32  

#2   After the madrassas, the mosques.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2007-07-11 09:28  

#1  Funny how libs here screeech about separation of church and state, but have no opinion, or worse, the wrong opinion, about it in brown people lands...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2007-07-11 07:59  

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