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| JUI-F lawmaker terms Osama hero of Muslims | |||
| 2011-05-04 | |||
| The news of killing of the late Osama bin Laden ... who has won the race to that place where we all eventually end up... overshadowed the proceedings of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Assembly on Monday when a politician of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl
On a point of order, Mufti Kifayetullah of JUI-F said that Osama was a hero for Mohammedans and a great jihadi leader, who sacrificed his life for the glory of Islam. He said that America in collaboration with the army killed Osama in a fake encounter in Abbottabad.
"This is a fact that Americans killed bin Laden
Awami National Party parliamentary leader Bashir Ahmad Bilour, who also holds the portfolio of senior minister, while giving a tit-for-tat reply to the Mufti termed bin Laden a symbol of terror. He said that the killer of thousands of innocent people had reached his logical end. "Thank God, we have been rid of this man," said Mr Bilour amid loud thumping of desks by the treasury members. He said that Osama bin Laden was not only responsible for killing of 10,000 innocent people but also killed over 3,000 soldiers. Osama and his supporters had destroyed schools, hospitals and killed their brothers and sisters therefore he did not deserve sympathies, he said. "He (Osama) was providing suicide jackets, guns and explosives to our children in Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... and other parts of the country. His people have killed 400 workers and politicians of ANP," he added. "Let them (Al Qaeda gunnies) fight in Middle East and other parts of the world instead of killing innocent people in blasts. If Osama was a true Mohammedan then he should have launched jihad in his own territory," he said, adding that before the fall of Taliban government about 500 Learned Elders of Islam had asked Osama to leave Afghanistan. Speaker Karamatullah Khan Chagharmati, who was presiding over the proceedings, did not allow Qalandar Khan Lodhi, the parliamentary leader of PML-Q, to express his views on the US forces operation in Abbottabad. Mr Lodhi told Dawn that news about presence of bin Laden in Abbottabad shocked him and he did not believe that he was residing in such a peaceful and sensitive area. "This is failure of our security agencies that a high value target took shelter near the prestigious military academy," he said. Although security alert was declared in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar after the news of bin Laden's killing spread, people thronged bazaars and shopping malls. Offices and schools in the provincial metropolis remained open. Security was on alert as usual. However, The contradictory However... people seemed reserved to express their feelings on the killing of the Al Qaeda leader, who stayed in the scenic provincial capital along with his fighters for several years during the Afghan war. Many native of Peshawar did not believe the news about the killing of bin Laden. Mohammad Sajjad, a shopkeeper in Saddar Bazaar, said that he did not believe in the death of bin Laden. "Americans always tell lies. They have declared Osama dead many times before and I can't trust," he remarked. | |||
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 I'm sorry but I keep getting confused between the names Osama and Obama. There's only one letter difference and my eyesight isn't what it used to be. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-05-04 14:01 |
| #3 IMO: Islam needs, a lot, more heroes like this. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-05-04 03:14 |
| #2 "This is a fact that Americans killed bin Laden but they could not eliminate his ideology," At some level, one's "ideology" should perhaps include personal survival. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-05-04 02:50 |
| #1 Maybe Mufti Kifayetullah would like to be a hero like Binny. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2011-05-04 00:51 |