Mosque threatens Jihad against Pakistan gov't

Again.

From AP, with thanks to all who sent this in:

A defiant cleric warned Pakistan authorities that a raid on his mosque where two policemen are being held captive by radical Islamic students would lead to a holy war against the government, as police detained dozens of students.

The abduction tops months of bold challenges by the Red Mosque to the authority of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's secular, military government.

Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said there were no plans to move against the mosque or a radical Islamic seminary attached to it in downtown Islamabad, adding Sunday that use of force to free the captured officers was a "last option."

But chief cleric at the mosque, Maulana Abdul Aziz, said police detained about 200 students and warned that a show of force by authorities would result in "jihad," or holy war.

Surely he means they will conduct an interior spiritual struggle against the authorities. Doesn't he?

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Feck sake, they threaten everything with Jihad!! Fart in their presence and they call Jihad. Any excuse for these looneys to kill, thats all it comes down to - its a cult for murderers.

Its like, hi, join our gang and kill people, no worries. Cult of freaks and fools.

Maybe allah will send a flock of Predator drones over the Red Mosque and show the Ahmadis that he doesn't like the Islamist agenda and will destroy mosques which preach violence and kidnap policemen.

If predator drones destroy the mosque - it will be the will of Allah, right? It's always the will of Allah. Everything is the will of Allah.

A silly question- does anyone in that part of the Muslim world actually hold a job? It seems that there is indeed a constant call to jihad, and it makes me wonder, how indeed do these people support their 4 wives, 37+ children and 29 concubines? Or is that part of the world just waiting for their chance in a $ for a suicide bombing scheme?

Mosques are nothing but military planning centers.

"A silly question- does anyone in that part of the Muslim world actually hold a job?"

Course not, they are all over here claiming benefits and sending it home.

They should just bomb it, and report that it was a suicide bomber getting ready accidentally setting himself off!!

There is already a coup against Musharraf in this jihad being run out of the FSB against America.

With the willing get out of Iraq crowd providing support in the United States, they will not accept the blame for this when Musharraf is assassinated and try to pin it on Bush like all the things they have instigated causing upheavals.
Track it all back in when problems started surfacing and it was when the complainers reigned in the White House from striking Syria and it spread to the bogus stories about Abu Gahrib.

Every "bad" thing they can find or manufacture ends up from AP to Capitol Hill Blue and then ends up even on here reposted as "fact" for those so intent on getting out of Iraq.
Now though the call is to strike Iran from the same people who want out of Iraq which starts with Hillary Clinton. There would NEVER have been a need to strike Iran if those complaining had not so weakened America so the Islamocommunists thought they could make overt moves and this includes Pakistan.

People post things on here and have no understanding nor connections to intelligence services nor even have spoken with the agents on ground in sub Asia. The ignorance is pushing American policy and what were once allies into fail safe operations which are going to be a real disaster for the entire world.

Special Forces: be prepared to confiscate the Paki nukes. STAT!

A defiant cleric warned Pakistan authorities that a raid on his mosque where two policemen are being held captive by radical Islamic students would lead to a holy war against the government.

Muslims everywhere use the same ploy. If you do anything about our crimes, we will commit even worse crimes against you. This has little to do with religion but it has everything to do with Islamic gangsterism, bullyism, supremism, terrorism, and a bunch of other ism,'s. It's pretty clear that these 'ism's' emmenate from Islams hierarchy. Imamism, Mullahism, Muftism, Ayatollahism, and finally Shiekrattleandrollism. A long word meaning, 'he who has mastered the fine art of 'a little song and dance for the folks'. The common denominator is they all get inspired from the same source, Islamism, its god Allahism, and it's Prophet and main man, Mohammdism. Jihadism is how the other ism's maintain their supremism. Islam is buried in in 'ism's.
I could go on, but the list is endless...the Quran's got more 'ism's' than you can count...

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Yep...more desperation. Turn on the very same folks who harbor you because they're not militant enough.
Nothing like biting the hand that feeds ya.
lol

Today, the Tourism Minister had to resign because no one in the government was brave enough to stand by her against rediculous charges by the same clerics.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article1820247.ece

From the article:
"Her resignation was the latest blow to women politicians in Pakistan. Less than two months ago a Punjab provincial minister was shot dead by an Islamic cleric in the eastern city of Gujranwala because she was not wearing a veil...
But the Government did not take any action against the clerics, who are campaigning for the establishment of a Taleban-style conservative Islamic rule in the capital, and instead urged her to resign. The clerics have already set up a parallel justice system and openly promote vigilantes in the city...
The chief cleric of Lal Mosque in Islamabad, Maulana Abdul Aziz, is leading the campaign to establish a hardline sharia regime with his brother, Abdur Rashid Ghazi. The brothers have made headlines in recent months for openly challenging the Government and for encouraging religious vigilantes to patrol the streets of the capital.
The mosque’s baton-wielding devotees have set up so-called morality patrols telling local shops not to sell “un-Islamic” music and movies. Followers have become a common sight at traffic lights where they warn women to stop driving as it is a “sin” against Islam."

Pakistan seems perilously close to being taken over (overtly) by the Taliban. As I posted in the "US Aid to Pakistan being used against India" story, Pakistani troops entered Afghanistan and attacked several Afghan posts last weekend. After a "truce meeting" INSIDE PAKISTAN, one of the Pakistani soldiers present yelled "Allah-u-Akbar" and opened fire on the US delegation killing 1 and wounding 4. WHY IS THIS NOT BEING REPORTED AS BREAKING NEWS ??? ... at least on the blogs (Robert, Charles?)

Musharraf's hold over his intelligence service and now his own military and government seems tenuous, at best. Islamists feel emboldened enough to issue fatwas against him and impose their own rule of law, and now he is having to shoot rioters in the streets. How long before a pro-Taliban military junta (with nukes) drops the Musharraf mask and openly takes his place?