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Thursday 5 November 2009

Ansar Abbasi, Zardari's corruption and the Media Taliban

(Abbas Ather)

(Asadullah Ghalib)

Why are the media Taliban (Ansar Abbasi, Shahid Masood, Shaheen Sehbai, Hamid Mir) angry with Asif Zardari. Here is the answer:

EDITORIAL: Ignored victory in South Waziristan

On Tuesday the Pakistan army took control of Sararogha in South Waziristan, the nerve-centre of the operations launched by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) into the populated heart of the country. As the troops entered Sararogha and were carrying out search and clearance operations the rest of the country was busy witnessing the falling apart of the political order brought about by the 2008 general elections. But the success achieved by the Pakistan army is extremely significant in the context of what is expected to transpire in Pakistan in the coming days.

Sararogha was where the TTP Shura met and decided the targets the Taliban suicide bombers were going to hit. This is where the various branchline warlords streamlined their plans and the spokesmen of the TTP made important announcements about the crimes the TTP had committed in the name of their dubious sharia. The taking of Sararogha was important after the capture of the symbolic Kotkai, the home of the current leader of the TTP, Hakimullah. It is too soon to say if this latest victory is going to lead to the disintegration of the Taliban, but it will definitely relieve some pressure on such important cities as Bannu, which lie right next to Sararogha.

The final success of the operation will depend on the ability of the Pakistan army to prevent the expanding of the war front. The Taliban must be engaged within the territory controlled by Pakistan and the enemy must not be allowed to flee to areas where Pakistan army cannot pursue them. If the enemy were able to flee across the Durand Line and regroup on Afghan territory, the effectiveness of the operation would be halved, putting pressure on the paramilitary forces that the army will leave behind after ‘pacifying’ South Waziristan.

It is for this reason that Pakistan was upset earlier on when it saw that the US-NATO forces were seen to remove their border posts, which later was said by the Americans to be mere “readjustment”. Already a large part of Afghanistan is said to be the target of Taliban forays because the US-NATO forces do not control it or control it only temporarily. The Taliban strike not only in the heart of Kabul city but anywhere in the country at will, and even more freely in southeast Afghanistan, which is predominantly Pashtun territory. It is more or less known now that the Taliban on both sides of the border are acting under one shared command. Hence, the success of the Pakistani operation in South Waziristan will depend on how well the US-NATO forces are going to coordinate with the Pakistan army.

There is hardly any doubt about the importance of the South Waziristan operation in the eyes of the US and its allies. The view on the other side of the border is that men coming across from Pakistan carry out most acts of terrorism committed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. For instance, the attack on the UN guesthouse was blamed on suicide-bombers that had come from Pakistan. Pakistan is often subliminally blamed for not guarding the border well enough, but the same charge could be made about the allied forces guarding the border on the other side.

President Barack Obama faces his own dilemmas on the subject of Afghan policy. Should he go for reconstruction or counter-terrorism? Since reconstruction is impossible without control, he has to beef up the ability of the allied troops in Afghanistan to handle the Taliban aggression. The US army chief in Afghanistan, General McChrystal says 40,000 more American troops are needed, but that balks the Pakistan army on other counts. The last time the Taliban came under pressure from the American troops they made a beeline for Pakistan. When the additional troops put pressure on the Taliban they will retreat into Pakistani territory for regrouping and in the process negate the success achieved in the Tribal Areas by the Pakistan army. Clearly, both sides are pointing to the same weaknesses that they actually share. The only way is to coordinate and tackle the menace jointly. (Daily Times)

5 comments:

Aamir said...

Intellectual Bankruptcy of Dr Shahid Masood, Ansar Abbasi, Irfan Siddiqui, Haroour Rasheed and GEO TV - 1

Dr Shahid Masood, Ansar Abbasi, Haroon ur Rasheed, Irfan Siddiqui and other so-called Islamist Journalists of Jang Group/The News/GEO TV often Exploit Islam to serve their selfish interests whereas one fail to understand as to why the Jamat-e-Islami and other Mullahs haven’t filed a Blasphemy Case against GEO TV BECAUSE GEO TV has telecast “The Ten Commandments” [a movie on Prophet Moses - PBUH The Ten Commandments http://geo.tv/geotv/program.asp?pid=647] and it is an open Blasphemy because Prophet Moses [PBUH]’s role has been played by an actor and there are several scenes which are objectionable. Every Prophet [PBUT] is euqal before Muslims [article of faith] therefore first of all GEO TV should be tried for Blasphemy and yet these Mullahs have the audacity to appear on GEO TV for Political Coverage.

Every Prophet is equal, Quran says…
آمَنَ الرَّسُولُ بِمَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْهِ مِن رَّبِّهِ وَالْمُؤْمِنُونَ كُلٌّ آمَنَ بِاللّهِ وَمَلآئِكَتِهِ وَكُتُبِهِ وَرُسُلِهِ لاَ نُفَرِّقُ بَيْنَ أَحَدٍ مِّن رُّسُلِهِ وَقَالُواْ سَمِعْنَا وَأَطَعْنَا غُفْرَانَكَ رَبَّنَا وَإِلَيْكَ الْمَصِي
The messenger believeth in that which hath been revealed unto him from his Lord and (so do) believers. Each one believeth in Allah and His angels and His scriptures and His messengers – We make no distinction between any of His messengers – and they say: We hear, and we obey. (Grant us) Thy forgiveness, our Lord. Unto Thee is the journeying. [AL-BAQARA (THE COW)Chapter 2 - Verse 285]
Read this part of verse:
لاَ نُفَرِّقُ بَيْنَ أَحَدٍ مِّن رُّسُلِهِ
We make no distinction between any of His messengers
If The Ten Commandments were not enough this GEO TV on several occasion has telecast “The Message” http://www.freshwap.net/finder/The+Message+in+Urdu(GEOtv)+divx.html made on Islam and several leading Companions [May Allah be pleased with all of them] of Prophet Mohammad [PBUH].
Those Hollywood actors who are known Womanizers and Drunkard played role of Companions [May Allah be pleased with them] in that Movie. [May Allah forgive me for even repeating this]
Now tell me why no Mullah particularly the Political Maulvis lodged any protest against the GEO TV on its Blasphemy for which Mullahs raising hue and cry.

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Aamir said...

Intellectual Bankruptcy of Dr Shahid Masood, Ansar Abbasi, Irfan Siddiqui, Haroour Rasheed and GEO TV - 2

BLASPHEMY LAW AS PER QURAN AND HADITH AS UNDER:

"QUOTE"

The scholars are unanimously agreed that a Muslim who insults the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) becomes a kaafir and an apostate who is to be executed. This consensus was narrated by more than one of the scholars, such as Imaam Ishaaq ibn Raahawayh, Ibn al-Mundhir, al-Qaadi ‘Iyaad, al-Khattaabi and others. Al-Saarim al-Maslool.
This ruling is indicated by the Qur’aan and Sunnah.

In the Qur’aan it says (interpretation of the meaning):

“The hypocrites fear lest a Soorah (chapter of the Qur’aan) should be revealed about them, showing them what is in their hearts. Say: ‘(Go ahead and) mock! But certainly Allaah will bring to light all that you fear.’

If you ask them (about this), they declare: ‘We were only talking idly and joking.’ Say: ‘Was it at Allaah, and His Ayaat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) and His Messenger that you were mocking?’
Make no excuse; you disbelieved after you had believed” [al-Tawbah 9:64-66]

This verse clearly states that mocking Allaah, His verses and His Messenger constitutes kufr, so that applies even more so to insulting. The verse also indicates that whoever belittles the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) is also a kaafir, whether he was serious or joking.

With regard to the Sunnah, Abu Dawood (4362) narrated from ‘Ali that a Jewish woman used to insult the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and say bad things about him, so a man strangled her until she died, and the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) ruled that no blood money was due in this case.

Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah said in al-Saarim al-Maslool (1/162): This hadeeth is jayyid, and there is a corroborating report in the hadeeth of Ibn ‘Abbaas which we will quote below.
This hadeeth clearly indicates that it was permissible to kill that woman because she used to insult the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).

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Aamir said...

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Abu Dawood (4361) narrated from Ibn ‘Abbaas that a blind man had a freed concubine (umm walad) who used to insult the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and say bad things about him. He told her not to do that but she did not stop, and he rebuked her but she did not heed him. One night, when she started to say bad things about the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and insult him, he took a short sword or dagger, put it on her belly and pressed it and killed her. The following morning that was mentioned to the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). He called the people together and said, “I adjure by Allah the man who has done this action and I adjure him by my right over him that he should stand up.” The blind man stood up and said, “O Messenger of Allaah, I am the one who did it; she used to insult you and say bad things about you. I forbade her, but she did not stop, and I rebuked her, but she did not give up her habit. I have two sons like pearls from her, and she was kind to me. Last night she began to insult you and say bad things about you. So I took a dagger, put it on her belly and pressed it till I killed her.” Thereupon the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Bear witness, there is no blood money due for her.”
(Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh Abi Dawood, 3655)

It seems that this woman was a kaafir, not a Muslim, for a Muslim could never do such an evil action. If she was a Muslim she would have become an apostate by this action, in which case it would not have been permissible for her master to keep her; in that case it would not have been good enough if he were to keep her and simply rebuke her.
Al-Nasaa’i narrated (4071) that Abu Barzah al-Aslami said: A man spoke harshly to Abu Bakr al-Siddeeq and I said, ‘Shall I kill him?’ He rebuked me and said, ‘That is not for anyone after the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) .’” (Saheeh al-Nasaa’i, 3795)

It may be noted from this that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) had the right to kill whoever insulted him and spoke harshly to him, and that included both Muslims and kaafirs.

The second issue is: if a person who insulted the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) repents, should his repentance be accepted or not?
The scholars are agreed that if such a person repents sincerely and regrets what he has done, this repentance will benefit him on the Day of Resurrection and Allaah will forgive him.
But they differed as to whether his repentance should be accepted in this world and whether that means he is no longer subject to the sentence of execution.

Maalik and Ahmad were of the view that it should not be accepted, and that he should be killed even if he has repented.

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Aamir said...

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They quoted as evidence the Sunnah and proper understanding of the ahaadeeth:

In the Sunnah, Abu Dawood (2683) narrated that Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqaas said: “On the Day of the Conquest of Makkah, the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) granted safety to the people except for four men and two women, and he named them, and Ibn Abi Sarh… As for Ibn Abi Sarh, he hid with ‘Uthmaan ibn ‘Affaan, and when the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) called the people to give their allegiance to him, he brought him to stand before the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). He said, “O Prophet of Allaah, accept the allegiance of ‘Abd-Allaah.” He raised his head and looked at him three times, refusing him, then he accepted his allegiance after the third time. Then he turned to his companions and said: “Was there not among you any smart man who could have got up and killed this person when he saw me refusing to give him my hand and accept his allegiance?” They said, “We do not know what is in your heart, O Messenger of Allaah. Why did you not gesture to us with your eyes?” He said, “It is not befitting for a Prophet to betray a person with a gesture of his eyes.”

(Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh Abi Dawood, 2334)

This clearly indicates that in a case such as this apostate who had insulted the Prophet (S), it is not obligatory to accept his repentance, rather it is permissible to kill him even if he comes repentant.
‘Abd-Allaah ibn Sa’d was one of those who used to write down the Revelation, then he apostatized and claimed that he used to add whatever he wanted to the Revelation. This was a lie and a fabrication against the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and it was a kind of insult. Then he became Muslim again and was a good Muslim, may Allaah be pleased with him. Al-Saarim 115.

With regard to proper understanding of the ahaadeeth:

They said that insulting the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) has to do with two rights, the right of Allaah and the right of a human being. With regard to the right of Allaah, this is obvious, because it is casting aspersions upon His Message, His Book and His Religion. As for the right of a human being, this is also obvious, because it is like trying to slander the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) by this insult. In a case which involves both the rights of Allaah and the rights of a human being, the rights of the human beings are not dropped when the person repents, as in the case of the punishment for banditry, because if the bandit has killed someone, that means that he must be executed and crucified. But if he repents before he is caught, then the right of Allaah over him, that he should be executed and crucified, no longer applies, but the rights of other humans with regard to qisaas (retaliatory punishment) still stand. The same applies in this case. If the one who insulted the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) repents, then the rights of Allaah no longer apply, but there remains the right of the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), which still stand despite his repentance.

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Aamir said...

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If it is said, “Can we not forgive him, because during his lifetime the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) forgave many of those who had insulted him and he did not execute them?” The answer is:

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) sometimes chose to forgive those who had insulted him, and sometimes he ordered that they should be executed, if that served a greater purpose. But now his forgiveness is impossible because he is dead, so the execution of the one who insults him remains the right of Allaah, His Messenger and the believers, and the one who deserves to be executed cannot be let off, so the punishment must be carried out.
Al-Saarim al-Maslool, 2/438

Insulting the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) is one of the worst of forbidden actions, and it constitutes kufr and apostasy from Islam, according to scholarly consensus, whether done seriously or in jest. The one who does that is to be executed even if he repents and whether he is a Muslim or a kaafir. If he repents sincerely and regrets what he has done, this repentance will benefit him on the Day of Resurrection and Allaah will forgive him.

Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have mercy on him) wrote a valuable book on this matter, entitled al-Saarim al-Maslool ‘ala Shaatim al-Rasool which every believer should read, especially in these times when a lot of hypocrites and heretics dare to insult the Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) because they see that the Muslims are careless and feel little protective jealousy towards their religion and their Prophet, and they do not implement the shar’i punishment which would deter these people and their ilk from committing this act of blatant kufr.

Courtesy: Shaykh Muhammad Saalih al-Munajjid – Khobar – Saudi Arabia http://www.islam-qa.com/en/

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