At the jirga Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami is holding a three day tribal jirga, or conference, in Peshawar. Pakistan’s Daily Times reports some interesting comments from participants: Syed Munawar Hasan, central general secretary of the JI, highlighted various aspects of the “so-called war on terrorism”. He observed that only Muslims were being targeted in the anti-terrorism campaign … Continue reading “The war on terror was initiated to ‘root out the spirit of jihad from the minds of Muslims’”