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| Lal Masjid cleric asks SC to 'impose' Sharia |
| 2015-12-12 |
| [DAWN] Maulana Abdul Aziz ...nutball holy man who runs the Lal Masjid in the heart of Pakistain's capital. After instigating a rebellion against the state in 2007, he was caught trying to sneak away dressed in a burka. He rejects democracy as un-Islamic, which it probably is... , former khateeb of the Lal Masjid ...literally the Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been... , has made no secret of his vision regarding the complete enforcement of Sharia in the country. After failing to whip up a popular movement that would demand the imposition of Sharia law, the holy man turned to the Supreme Court on Thursday, submitting a petition asking the government to furnish reports listing the steps taken in this regard. Maulana Aziz, who has a penchant for stirring up controversy, had also made an impassioned appeal before a Supreme Court bench headed by then-Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on March 27, 2012, asking him to invoke suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... jurisdiction and order parliament to enforce Sharia and shun English law. "Otherwise, Allah Almighty will initiate a suo motu," Maulana Aziz had cautioned the court when he appeared before it during the hearing of petitions moved against the alleged extra-judicial killings of innocent people in the wake of the Lal Masjid operation in 2007. The latest petition asks the top court to order the federal and provincial governments to take steps under the constitution that will enable Muslims to live in accordance with the teachings and the requirements of Islam, as set out in the Holy Koran and Sunnah. The petition names President Mamnoon Hussain, the four governors, National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, the federal government and the chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), as respondents. The petition also asked the court to direct the president and the four governors to order that reports on the observance of Sharia be placed before the national and provincial assemblies, and that provisions be made in the rules of these legislatures to provide for discussion on such reports. The petition also sought directions for the CII to make recommendations to parliament for adopting laws that would enable and encourage Muslims to bring their lives, individually as well as collectively, in accordance with the principles and concepts of Islam. The petition contended that the court should direct respondents to take proper steps under Article 31(1, 2a and b) of the Constitution to make the teachings of the Holy Koran and Islamiat compulsory; enable and facilitate the learning of Arabic language; ensure the correct and exact printing and publication of the Holy Koran and promote unity and the observance of the Islamic moral standards in the country. The petition also seek a declaration for the provision of free and compulsory education to all children aged five to sixteen, as well directions to obey Article 5 of the constitution and the their oath that asks for strive to preserve Islamic Ideology, which is the basis of the creation of Pakistain. Maulana Abdul Aziz is not the official khabteeb of Lal Masjid, despite having been associated with the mosque for many years now. The title of khateeb was withdrawn by the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration in 2004. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Frank, the hard part would be knowing when to stop......but the nuclear winter should shut up the warmies. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-12-12 13:02 |
| #1 I'm almost looking forward to the nuclear incineration of this shithole. Almost |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-12-12 11:28 |