Islamabad’s Lal Masjid is again in the news, and for all the wrong reasons, as has been the case on other occasions. The mosque, prominently situated in Pakistani capital, is the oldest and second-largest mosque in the national capital. It made headlines in 2007 when hundreds of jihadists were killed there in a military raid by the Parvez Musharraf government.
Last week, UNewsTV released an undated audio alleged to be of Maulana Abdul Aziz, the head cleric of the Lal Masjid. An interviewer questions him about his mission in inviting people to dawah/dawats (a gathering called to appeal to non-Muslims to convert to Islam).
“Our goal is that in this world…we want Islamic rule to be established in Pakistan, Islamic rule to be established in Bangladesh, Islamic rule to be established in Hindustan (India), and eradication of Christianity in the world, eradication of Judaism, eradication of the Hindus, and eradication of the Sikhs, and apart from this, eradication of the Shias and the rawakhis, and the Qadianis [a demeaning word used to refer to Ahmadiyya]. In the whole wide world, as Prophet Muhammad had professed, by the end of times, the sound of kalma will be emanating from every mud house as well as concrete house, and the entire world will become Muslim,” says the Maulana. Kalma is the Islamic oath of allegiance that proclaims that Islam is the only true religion. Non-Muslims are made to recite the kalma for their conversion to Islam.
He adds, “We want to make the entire world embrace Islam. He (Prophet Muhammad) had affirmed that the entire world will have to embrace Islam. Those who are men of honor will gracefully accept Islam, and those who are bereft of honor will be disgraced until they accept Islam. Our goal is to compel the whole world to embrace Islam, be it America, be it India, whether they are Hindus, Sikhs or any other community, they will have to convert to Islam. And that time is approaching, inshallah [Allah willing]. It is about time and there will be no other religion in the world except Islam, and in this land of Allah, the law of Allah only shall prevail, others will be finished. That is our mission.”
The one-minute-40-second-long soliloquy may appear to be the irrational rant of a deranged Pakistani extremist, but it would be foolish to dismiss Maulana Abdul Aziz’s ambitions as the fantasies of an old Islamic cleric.
A passionate supporter of terror organizations such as the Taliban and al-Qaeda, Maulana Abdul Aziz was expelled from the Lal Masjid in 2007, but he managed to gain control over the mosque in 2009.
In 2014, a leaked video from his madrassa showed his students declaring their support for the Islamic State. The same year, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan carried out a bomb blast in Peshawar’s Army Public school, killing 148 students and leaving over 110 children severely injured. Aziz defended the blast, for which he was banned from the mosque again.
However, he stormed into the establishment again in 2020 and took complete control of the mosque. He also forced the Imran Khan government to grant him two large plots of land for building madrassas. He also demanded his reinstatement as the Lal Masjid chief, and his demands were duly honored.
Aziz wields immense influence over Pakistan’s government, and this has been so for generations. His father, Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi, was allegedly a close associate of the dictator Zia ul Haq. During the 1970-80s, he had sent thousands of his madrassa students to fight as mujahiddin (warriors of Jihad) in Afghanistan. After Ghazi’s assassination in 1998, Aziz’s brother Abdul Rashid Ghazi, another hardliner, began training mujahiddin, while Aziz succeeded his father as the cleric of the mosque.
During his reign as the mosque chief, he shot to prominence for promoting jihad activities against the West, delivering inflammatory sermons, and promoting Islamic jihadist beliefs among thousands of his students. His foot soldiers took his message to the streets of Islamabad by abducting Chinese masseuses and vandalizing “un-Islamic” CD and DVD shops, which resulted in murderous clashes in the capital. This is what called for the siege of Lal Masjid by Pakistan’s military in 2007.
The cleric’s brother, Abdul Rashid Gazi, was killed during this military raid. Interestingly, Maulana Abdul Aziz was apprehended by the Army while he attempted to run away hiding in a burqa and was given the mock name, Mullah Burqa. On the other hand, the attack on the religious establishment led to an uprising in Pakistan’s Waziristan that could be crushed only after the slaughter of hundreds of Pakistani soldiers.
The influential Maulana hoisted the flag of the Taliban in Pakistan’s capital city last month, and the authorities stood there as mere spectators. Aziz maintains amicable relations with both the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani Taliban, though these entities often conflict with each other.
Prime Minister Imran Khan, who leads the reigning Islamic government in Pakistan, bows down to Aziz, as he is aware of the immense authority he commands over the people of Pakistan. His power and position have been emboldened after the occupation of neighboring Afghanistan by the Taliban jihadis. An advocate of Islamic jihad across the world, Aziz is looking forward to the global caliphate, not sparing his home country of Pakistan, either, and he is backed by a generation of home-grown jihadis who are ready to go to any extent to establish the rule of Islam worldwide.
Mike says
something to look forward to
JimJFox says
I look forward to drone strike
mortimer says
He mentions that those who resist Islamization should be ‘disgraced until they accept Islam.’
This mullahs is encouraging Muslims to persecute non-Muslims. The message is understood by his audience. ‘PERSECUTE THE DIRTY KAFIRS.’
gravenimage says
Yes–when pious Muslims talk about mutual respect, it is all Taqiyya. Infidels are to be humiliated and terrorized until they convert to Islam or are murdered outright.
Ty Ader says
Muffinheads. Muffinheads living in the stone age. Disgusting.
Mount Zion says
Here we go again , a rant of over a minute on how this beautiful religion of peace will prevail over all other religions . This chief cleric will not face any ripercussions nor will he be repremanded by the international community , but if someone rightfully claims that Islam is a cancer and intolerant and that it needs to be eradicated from our modern civilisation because it’s a threath to freedom of speech and freedom of religion and that women are worth half the value of a man under Islam or that it is Ok to kill infidels “….wherever you find them …” , if you stated these simple truths publicly then be assured that you would be charged with hate speech .
mortimer says
60% or more of the Koran is the ‘RANT’ that Allah hates the kafirs and calls Muslims to persecute them.
This message is so repetitive in the Koran that it is impossible to miss.
Mount Zion says
This message may very well be impossible to miss Yet nobody talks about it publicly . They have done a real good job at intimidating western societies into keeping there mouth shut on such topics because if they don’t , there will be threaths to their lives.
Eva says
Over my cold dead body.
mortimer says
We should all find ways to convince Muslims that 1) the Koran is manmade 2) the Mohammed of the hadiths is fictitious 3) Mecca did not exist in the time of the Standard Islamic Narrative (SIN). You cannot find evidence for something that never existed.
gravenimage says
Of course the problem is that pious Muslims do not listen to the “filthy Infidels”. Do you think that Maulana Abdul Aziz is going to be open to this information? Sadly, I think not. “Maulana” means learned Islamic scholar.
David H. Partington says
Not quite. Maulana is derived from the tri-literal Arabic root waliya, the basic meaning of which is to be close or near to or next to something. In Islamic terminology that implies next to God. Maulana is a form of address directed to someone in authority, temporal or spiritual, with the na ending meaning “our.”
Sort of like the old English address “my lord.” A religious scholar would more likely be ‘âlim, with the plural ” ‘ulamâ.”
gravenimage says
Thanks for that clarification.
It looks as though you have named yourself for David H. Partington and the eponymous Muslim award named for him from the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA).
Do you admire this thug Maulana Abdul Aziz? If so, can you tell us why?
Peace says
Don’t forget 4) Jerusalem was a city full of Christians hundreds of years before Mohamid was born
Jim Austin says
When figuring out the goals of Islam, it has always been a question of whom to believe: Moslem clerics themselves or liberal apologists who rationalize, minimize, sanitize Islam.
mortimer says
The most conservative Muslims will always win because they are willing to go all out. They crush all the ‘moderates’.
The all-woman symphony orchestra of Kabul was disbanded two weeks ago after the Taliban fanatics smashed all their musical instruments.
mortimer says
Viral pictures of destruction of instruments of ZOHAR ORCHESTRA
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/viral-pics-taliban-destroys-musical-053231017.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABQtSwz_kFpQR9Wdj6e4exteu2EiAQhaZn8MDdpqbzpeAHFAd070jTjOQPj3lPv9gxjO-vvOOdtfyyOxk0qRtE5k87TXAMipVBSWPRUBDmSb9S4xMaEdiqSJ9ObnZ0hhS2LaCW8qXf062vjWs8rLt7gdsTQ03iVrcwLR7GHa2jY3
gravenimage says
All too true, Mortimer. All pious Muslims can do is destroy beauty.
Here’s more on this orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61Zdq8avAMs&ab_channel=WorldEconomicForum
I just hope these musicians have escaped the Taliban.
Rufluc says
It just goes to show how deluded these old devil worshippers really are if he honestly believes what he preaches. How they honestly believe in the evil they preach is the word of the one true God is truly astounding.
They are so entrenched in the religious garbage they live and believe in that they cannot, for the life of themselves, see what others, who remain outside of their cult, can see.
It has always been Satan’s intention to dominate the Earth and destroy everything that God created. So what better way is there other than for him to create a bogus ‘religion’ that has no real believable foundation to it, No element of love or righteousness to it, only evil and hate at its heart. Then prey on the simple minded and deceive them into believing and worshipping a bogus God i.e. him, who is thinly disguised as the despiser of all humanity. It’s just a great shame that there aren’t more of us who can see the truth.
tim gallagher says
Very well said, Rufluc. A good summary of the situation with Islam. What a loathsome, evil, barbaric load of crap it is.
Rufluc says
Thanks Tim, I have to agree with you wholeheartedly. It is an insidious, mind corrupting, evil force that wheedles it’s way into every lobe and neuron of your brain if you allow it to. Sadly there are many out there that allow it to. Just as the father of all demons intended.
TruthWFree says
You are right on. I have been studying Islam since 9/11/2001 including reading the Quran and over 30 books on Islam, many by apostates who leave at the risk of death. Islam denies Jesus Christ’s divinity and death on the cross (lies against the eye witnessed Gospels) and calls for fighting Christians and Jews (Quran Sura 9-29) and slaying pagans (Sura 9-5), a recipe for eternal fighting among men. Jesus says in John 8:44 that Satan is the father of all lies. The allah god of Islam is Satan, no question in my mind.
Infidel says
That is news to me: why are the 2 Talibans in conflict w/ each other?
peace says
The Talibans are in conflict with each other, basically because they’re too stupid not to be, a lot of muslims are so uneducated they don’t even know their colors, give someone that stupid guns, bullets and warped motivation and all they’re going to do is fight ..
The reason :- It’s the only thing they know how to do ….
TruthWFree says
This is the exhortation of the supposed allah god of the Quran Sura 2-193, to fight until the religion is supreme. No doubt the allah god of Islam is Satan.
OTTER says
He is saying what all Muslims believe in, or at the very least, cannot challenge as they know this is the goal of the ‘religion’ they belong to. The so-called ‘moderate’ Muslims are the BIGGEST threat of them all.
James Lincoln says
OTTER,
I think you’re right about the moderate muslims.
They give cover to the devout muslims.
Infidel says
OTTER
The radical muslims want to kill/convert us
The moderate muslims want the radical muslims to kill/convert us: they’re ‘moderate’ in that they wouldn’t lift a finger to do it themselves
gravenimage says
Often true about “moderate” Muslims, OTTER.
peace says
The so called “moderate muslims” are just part of the smokescreen to make normal people think Islam is peaceful
In reality the “moderate muslims” are 100% behind the radicals, but as Infidel sez “they wouldn’t lift a finger to do it for themselves”
gravenimage says
True in the vast majority of cases, peace.
Walter Sieruk says
That top Muslim cleric had declared the Islamic goals and one of them on that list is the and “Eradication of Christianity in the world…”
That statement reveals and confirms that in this twenty –first century “War of Ideas” is that of a great a conflict and a clash between Christianity and Islam. As explained by the Christian author, William Wagner,, in his book which is entitled HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD had explained on page 155 about a meeting that he had with a Muslim cleric , which reads “Several years ago one Imam told me that ,prior to 1990, the greatest enemy to Islam was Communism but now it is the Christian missions.” Further, on page 208 the Wagner had written about some zealous Muslims that “They have failed to stop Christian missions. They see Christian missions as their number one enemy.” On the very next page the reader is informed that “Christianity remains the number one buffer against Islam, a fact readily recognized by those who seek a world wild ummah.” [1]
[1] Ummah – The community of all those who affirm Islam.
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gravenimage says
Pakistan: Chief cleric of influential mosque reveals the ultimate goal of Islam
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This from Maulana Abdul Aziz is orthodox Islam, and the aim of every pious Muslim.
More:
However, he stormed into the establishment again in 2020 and took complete control of the mosque. He also forced the Imran Khan government to grant him two large plots of land for building madrassas. He also demanded his reinstatement as the Lal Masjid chief, and his demands were duly honored.
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There are only two possibilities here–one is that Imran Khan basically agrees with Aziz–this would not surprise, given many of his own words and actions.
the other is that Aziz has such a large–and dangerous–following that Khan dares not deny him.
Both posibilities are hideously disturbimg.