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Dutch Politician Hurts Muslims’ Sentiments   By Sajjad Shaukat

 

 

 

 

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Dutch Politician Hurts Muslims’ Sentiments                                                             

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Sajjad Shaukat

 

In  the  modern  age,  fast  development  of science  has  changed  the  world  into  a  global  village  through  social  media  networking  websites,  while  range  of  the  TV  channels  has  also  been  extended. But,  it  is regrettable  that some  anti­-Islam  elements  are  using  these media  instruments  against  Islam by committing blasphemous acts which are inviting terrorists’ attacks even in the western  countries.  In this respect on June, 24, this year, Dutch anti­Islam politician Geert Wilders aired cartoons of  the  Prophet  Mohammad  (PBUH)  on  Dutch  television,  which  were  drawn  in  May,  2015  at  a  caricature competition in Garland, Texas where Wilders was one of the speakers. The event was  assaulted by two gunmen. Islamic State (ISIL) has claimed responsibility for the attack. Now, Wilders introduced the three­minute broadcast, in the second half of which the  cartoons  scrolled  across the screen  accompanied by piano music. One  caricature had the  accompanying  text: “I (Wilders) have been made victorious with terror.” Geert  Wilders  who  leads  the  Dutch  Party  for  Freedom  aired  the  caricatures  in  programme,  reserved  for  political  parties.  He  said  that  he  broadcast  the  drawings  to  defend  freedom  of  expression, even as Islam holds that any physical depiction of the Prophet is blasphemous. While showing prejudice, he elaborated, “The Islam, the terrorists do not want us to show these  cartoons. But, terror  and violence may never defeat freedom of speech. We must precisely do  what the terrorists prevent us to do.” Wilders is viewed as one of Europe’s most prominent critics of Islam, which he has described as  a  fascist  ideology.  The  politician  is  currently  facing  prosecution  in  Netherlands  for  discrimination and hate speech over remarks he made about citizens of Dutch­Moroccan originduring election campaign, last year. Meanwhile,  Dutch  authorities  have  taken  precautionary  measures  in  case  of  violent  protests.  Embassies in the Islamic countries have been put on notice and diplomats have been instructed to  explain that the broadcast reflects the views of one politician and not the Dutch government. The broadcast came almost six months after the incident when the two armed persons stormed  into the office of infamous French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. They had  killed 12 people including a French National Police officer.  Although the officials of the Dutch government have publicly denounced Geert Wilders’ views  on Islam, yet they stated that they support his right to free speech. Some critics, however, have condemned Wilders’ latest act of provocation. A group of Moroccan  mosques last week released a cartoon, depicting him as a disgruntled child being displayed on a  bomb. Spokesman Aissa Zanzen said, “Ignoring him or using humor is the best way to respond  to [Mr. Wilders]…We refuse to let him polarize our society.” Nevertheless, it is not the new sacrilegious act; such anti­Islam activities also took place in the  past.  In  this  regard,  YouTube  was  banned  in  Pakistan  on  September  22,  2012  when  a  blasphemous  US­made film  “Innocence  of  Muslims”  was  uploaded  on  it,  which resulted  into  massive protests and violent demonstrations in more than 30 Islamic countries, leading to loss of  life  and  property. In Pakistan,  violent  protesters  plunged the  country into  chaos,  as  30  people  were killed in nationwide protests. And, the American ambassador Christopher Stevens in Libya  and three of his staff were killed.  In fact, reprinting of the caricatures about Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and release of a Dutch  film  against  the  Holy  Quran  was  also  part  of  the  conspiracy  against  the  Muslims.  The  film  equates Islam with violence, followed by the 9/11 terror attacks inside the US, showing Muslim  leaders preaching inflammatory sermons against Jews and Christians. It displayed that Europe is  under threat from Islamic beliefs and practices. In 2008 too, the YouTube was banned in Pakistan, as it had hurt the feelings of Muslims across  the  world  by  uploading  the film  by  Geert  Wilders,  which  displayed  links  between Islam  and  terrorism.  In May, 2010, the sacrilegious caricatures competition of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)  inspired by an American cartoonist on Facebook and YouTube triggered violent protests across  the Islamic world. On March 20, 2011, a US evangelical preacher Terry Jones supervised the burning of a copy of  the Holy Quran by Pastor Wayne Sapp in a Florida church, while similar blasphemous act was  done  by  the  US  troops  in Bagram  base  in  Afghanistan. In  2005,  caricatures  of  Holy  Prophet  (PBUH) published in Danish newspapers sparked deadly protests in the Islamic countries. In that  context,  Al  Qaeda  claimed  responsibility  for  a  suicide  attack  on  Denmark’s  embassy  in  Islamabad in 2008, killing six people, saying it was in revenge for publication of caricatures. It is of particular attention that those who are behind these fanatic entities intend to fulfill their  political  designs.  In  these  terms,  by  availing  the  international  phenomena  of  terrorism,  IndoIsraeli lobbies are collectively working in America and other European countries to manipulate  the double standard of the west in relation to terrorism and human rights vis­à­vis some Islamic  countries. Israel and India are equating the ‘war of independence’ in Kashmir and Palestine with  terrorism. However, all these similarities of interest have brought the two countries to follow a  common secret diplomacy to misguide the US in order to target Pakistan, Iran, Syria etc.  Hence, anti­Islam activities have been conducted by these elements not only to distort the image  of Islam, but also to create division between the Islamic and the Western Worlds. And, these blasphemous activities against the religion of Muslims resulted into the recruitment of  more militants by the terrorist groups. Instead of curbing terrorism, these acts have caused more  terrorism  in  the  volatile  countries  like  Somalia,  Yemen,  Nigeria  etc.  The sacrilegious  moves  provided  the  Islamic  militants  with  new  ammunition.  It  is said  that  Al  Qaeda  or  ISIL  is  the  winner. If such nefarious designs continue, even moderate Muslims could join the radicals.  Notably,  critics say  that  if  western  democracies  have  passed  laws  against  anti­Semitism  and  denials of the holocaust, as to why there is no such law about anti­Islam moves. Nevertheless, it  indicates double standard of these liberal and civilized countries which have further encouraged  those who want to sabotage the world peace through division.  In this respect, Organization of the Islamic Countries (OIC) should take up a case in the UN by  drafting a resolution—not allowing any person to misuse the Holy Prophet’s (PBUH) name and  make movies and caricatures on him.  Nonetheless,  strict  action  must  be  taken  against  the  persons  like  the  Dutch  politician  Geert  Wilders who has hurt Muslims’ sentiments. 

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EXPRESS TRIBUNE – NO PLACE FOR CONSTRUCTIVE ISLAM

EXPRESS TRIBUNE – NO PLACE 

FOR CONSTRUCTIVE ISLAM

 

 

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Over the last decade or so, I wrote some constructive articles on the situation of Islam in Pakistan with a view to promote Islam. Some of those articles were published in different English newspapers, except THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE. I tried to contribute some original articles to the blog at THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, but I always received a reply from their staff one or two days later expressing their regret for not publishing my article. On July 01 this year also, I contribute a fresh piece to EXPRESS TRIBUNE but received a negative reply from the staff member again. Given below is the relevant email communication with my reply also given below:

Dear Roman,

Thank you for your contribution.
I regret to inform you that we will not be running this particular piece as it does not meet our criteria.

We would, as always, love to hear from you on a different topic though.

Thank you.

Kind Regards

Sub-editor Blogs Desk
The Express Tribune

ROMAN’S REPLY

Dear Kid,

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE never wants to publish any concrete thought on Islam. You people are more into promoting homosexuality for which there can be no pardon in afterlife. You are not to be blamed dear, it is the policy-makers of your newspaper since ET falls under THE INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK TIMES which was owned by a Jew until much recently. Jews are heavily promoting pornography in the world also, do you know that? If you think I am a Mullah, then search for related info on Internet.

I am a creative writer and you people always decline to publish my posts only because they favour Islam. Watch out, the days of glory of ET will soon be over and the whole media house revamped and closed down in sha ALLAH. This is a promise for we won’t tolerate this godlessness anymore.

May ALLAH guide you and your superiors – Aameen.

 

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Hundreds Banned from Leaving Pakistan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dubai Sanctuary of Pakistani Crminals

 

 

Hundreds Banned from Leaving Pakistan

 

Dubai Capital of Pakistani Money Launderers,Land Grabbers,Killers.Murderers

 

 

FIA told to arrest anyone who resists; ministers, MNAs, MPAs, bureaucrats allegedly involved in corruption, land grabbing, patronising criminals, seek bail; all placed on watch list; Rangers seek federal govt’s permission to make arrests

Imdad Soomro
Sunday, June 21, 2015

KARACHI: The federal government has banned the exit of many ministers, ex-ministers, MPs and scores of bureaucrats from the country, placing them on a watch list at all exit points of the country.

Sources told The News that the federal government had directed the FIA Immigration Wing not to allow seven provincial ministers, four former ministers, 20 MPAs and 8 MNAs of the PPP and over 100 officers of the Sindh government to leave the country and seek clearance from the law enforcement agencies in this regard.

These persons have been placed on the ‘Stop Person Watch List’ for their alleged involvement in corruption, land grabbing, patronage of criminals and other charges.Sources said all those on the watch list were yet to be placed on the Exit Control List (ECL); however, if any of them tried to escape, he would be arrested and charged as enough incriminating evidence had been collected against them.

The Sindh government spokesman and Information Minister Sharjeel Memon is staying away from the media despite many attempts to contact them.The phone numbers of provincial minister Manzoor Wassan, Gian Chand, Jam Shoro and Mumtaz Jakhrani were also not responding.

Sources said DG Rangers had sought the federal government’s permission to arrest 26 top corrupt persons including ministers, MPAs, MNAs and officers.However, by Saturday evening over 107 persons had filed applications with various courts for protective and pre-arrest bail.

They included several politicians, ministers, senior bureaucrats of Revenue Department and commissioner Benazirabad.The sources said investigators had got conclusive evidences of corruption in the Sindh Local Government Department and its subordinate departments including KMC, Water and Sewerage Board, Sindh Building Control Authority and Sindh Irrigation Department.

These departments were under the control of an unauthorized person who is a close relative of the leader of the main ruling party in Sindh.The Sindh Information Department, Finance Department, Coal and Energy, Works and Services, Education, Excise and Health department are also under investigation.

On the other hand, sources confirmed that the arrested Fishermen’s Cooperative Society (FCS) Vice Chairman Sultan Qamar Siddiqi and two directors Muhammad Khan Chachar and Rana Shahid had confessed to their involvement in embezzlement of funds of the Society, land grabbing, patronizing of criminal gangs and murders.

Siddiqi was arrested on June 17, while Muhammad Khan Chachar, Rana Shahid and Coordinator Kamran Abbasi were arrested on June 19 (Friday). The Anti-Terrorism Court had granted their 90 days remand on the Rangers request.

The Rangers law officer informed the court that Muhammad Khan Chachar was the front man of a woman leader and he had to be investigated in several cases including the killing of chairman Pakistan Steel Mills Sajjad Hussain.

He also said Chachar used to sell government vacancies to different people, while Rana Shahid and Abbasi were required for investigation into criminal cases including extortion and target killings.

Well-placed sources in the law enforcement agencies told The News that Muhammad Khan Chachar was a hardened criminal and remained co-accused with the PPP top leadership in many criminal cases including the murder case of former Steal Mills Chairman Sajjad Hussain.

Muhammad Khan Chachar was convicted in the case by a trial court and was later released by the Sindh High Court.

Chachar was also convicted in a murder attempt case of Imran Aziz Khan, son of former Lahore High Court Chief Justice Rashid Aziz Khan, and in murder case of his friend Ghulam Mustafa.

In the said case, Chachar was also convicted but released after his compromise with the heirs of the murdered Ghulam Mustafa.The sources said Rana Shahid was also involved in many criminal activities. He was the gang leader of Punjabi Students Associations (PSA) and joined the gang of Dr. Nisar Morai some two years back.

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IS THIS A NEW DAWN FOR PAKISTAN OR YET ANOTHER MIRAGE?

IS THIS A NEW DAWN FOR PAKISTAN OR YET ANOTHER MIRAGE?

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 Saeed Malik

 

 

 

Gen R.Shariff
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Asif Zardari’s recent round of yelping is a sure sign of pain issuing from the realization that the cycle of immunity from prosecution for multifarious acts in an unending saga of unchecked criminality might finally be coming to an end.
The possibility that the bonding partnership in crime and immunity between  the political parties, established by the unwritten lines of the “Charter of Democracy” is finally about to be dismantled, andthat mega corruption may at last find itself a place among the lowest depths of ultimate dishonour in our society, as also being recognized as the ultimate  existential threat to us as a country.
 

And if, as is rumoured, Gen Raheel is also holding the corrupt generals  to task, Pakistan will surely get a second lease of life. And if this happens it will be due directly to honest and dedicated leadership, which Pakistan has not been acquainted with, from the time that  Jinnah was lowered into the ground.

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It is all a matter of throwing the book at 400 people to save 200 million. Thus there should be no fear, and all the incentive, in doing so.

 

As long as the people of Pakistan FEEL that an era of justice for them, and accountability for the high and mighty who have done little but to rob them of hope and their dreams is about to dawn, they will back Gen Raheel and the army in all that it is doing. And the army should draw great confidence from the fact that its approval rating among the people already stands at over 80%.

 

The danger in all this is that as more and more of the filth of the current political leadership is revealed, the more strident will the calls for the imposition of martial law. These calls have to be resisted. Falling into the trap of martial law will cost the army its professionalism and its credibility, as has happened often in the past.

And while resisting such calls, it should be kept in mind that immunity to PML should under no circumstances be a given. All of them are birds of a feather, and they are brothers in crime under the terms of the Charter of Democracy. It is only the willfully blind who cannot see this even now.As crime after crime is being uncovered and exposed by the Rangers and the agencies, is there even a whimper of disapproval, much less outraged condemnation of such crimes coming from the likes of such stalwart democrats as Mulla Fazal, Asfandyar Wali, Achakzai, Aitzaz Ahsan, Reza Rabbani, Ishaq Dar, Khawaja Asif, Khawaja Saad Rafiq, and the great Sharif brothers? Are they all not acting as if they are positively miffed at the army for attempting to retrieve the fortunes of the country from their unholy claws?

To effectively charge the corrupt so that they pay back their dues to society, and to ensure their reservation in the clink,the law will have to be changed, whereby the mega thieves should be considered guilty unless they can prove themselves innocent. All their assets, [minus their proven inherited wealth] need being added up; the authenticity of their declared earnings should be examined;  and  a quantification [in monetary terms] of their living expenses should be made. Their assets and living expenses should then be weighed against authentic, proven income, and these should be weighed against the taxes they have given. And if there is an imbalance between their assets and proven income, or between their assets and the taxes they have paid, they should be held to be guilty, and jailed till they have returned the thieved amount plus back taxes, plus an additional fine in proportion to the scale of their theft. And their terms in jail should not be eased by conferring upon them a class of confinement reserved for the common criminals which they undoubtedly are.

And there is nothing new nor “undemocratic” about this. The IRS in the U.S moves more or less precisely this way.

It is the call of the hour to save the country from the ravages of its

so called​

“democrats” who, with few exceptions, have gutted their motherland. And if Gen Raheel starts with the generals, he will have the people raving for him as he moves ahead.

By now, it is quite clear, that the army has tons of evidence of theft, of robbery, of extortion,of murder, of prostitutes [some now pregnant] being used to launder billions of rupees, of qabza and auction of thousands of acres of land, of government auctioning off positions in officialdom, and of outright treachery [witness the memogate affair and related issues.]

Has there ever been such a coordinated effort at eroding the very foundations of the state by the people who have been “voted” in to safeguard and strengthen these very foundations, and to provide good governance and justice to its people??

Armed with all this evidence, the following needs to be done, to recover the country from the fatal gift of Musharraf’s NRO:

– The generals need to meet to assess the sheer gravity of the situation as regards national security, brought about directly by the ravages of the very people sworn to serve the country and its people.

-To formally resolve to put this situation right, through direct intervention, but not by imposition of military rule, and as far as is possible to avoid recourse to this extreme measure.

-Every general should sign this resolution so that each is personally vested in it, and also so that should they veer from it and allow themselves to be swayed away for considerations of personal power, they could one day be held accountable.

-Make a reference to the Supreme Court for an in- camera hearing, with a plea to find the government, at the very least, criminally negligent in the discharge of its duties, so that it is dismissed, and an interim set up  takes its place, and fresh elections are announced.

 

The following ordinances need to be enacted immediately upon investiture of the interim government:

  • ​To put the country under emergency rule with the army brought in, in aid of civil power till new elections are held, and the new parliament is firmly settled.
  • ​No one charged for corruption be allowed to stand for elections unless first cleared of such charges.
  • All the people so charged, be considered guilty unless the taxes they have paid are in proportion of the wealth they have garnered; and the assets they hold are in proportion to the income they can justify…..such people be tried by military courts, where it is a question of comparatively simple tabulation of wealth accumulated against taxes paid, so that the usual objections of competence or otherwise of military courts is not brought into question.
  • ​Police and civil servants are granted statutory guarantees such that never again is there a danger of their status falling to that of becoming personal servants of those in government. And having done this, to ensure that the best of them are then given the most important assignments. If need be the finest of such officers who have been wasted out of service in the recent past, should be recalled to service, to heal the decimation which these services have suffered at the hands of the “royalty” which has passed itself off as elected democrats. It must be realized that the best of our civil servants and police officers are in no way inferior to our better army officers. And but for the protection that the institution affords the military officers, they themselves  would have fared no better than their brothers in the civil. Such officers properly placed and supported by the army will imporve governance and make martial law redundant.
  • Immediately after fresh elections, the 18th amendment, this monstrous piece of legislation thought out by Raza Rabbani to imperil the unity of the country, should be sent to the trash heap.
 
The bottom line in our recovery from terminal illness as a society and a country lies in the hope that the arch criminals at the helm of the state be dealt with by the same fearlessness, with which they have prostituted their powers in the destruction of all that is sacred and valuable about their country.
 
Ultimately it is a question of bringing a few hundred people to the book so that the future of 200 million is redeemed. The army has promised this four times earlier and failed. It failed because the promise on the back of which it came to power each time, was never meant to be kept. If this time finally the intent is different, so will be the results. And if this is so, this batch of generals will have earned the undying gratitude of millions today, and many more who are to follow. All they need to ask themselves is whether giving their last full measure of devotion to their country will be worth the toil or not.
 
P.S.
At the first opportune moment the government should be forced to disclose all the secret clauses of the LPG deal with Qatar. But before doing this, they should all be put on ECL. I have a suspicion that when such a disclosure is forced on the government, there will be a mad rush for the exits.

 

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