Response of the people

Added: Monday, 9 July, 2007, 13:32 GMT 14:32 UK

Why are we not seeing clerics and Muslims protesting around the world, voicing their opposition to the Red Mosque's perverted version of Islam? Why does a single cartoon cause mass protests around the world, but taking hundreds of innocent women and children hostage and using them as human shields doesn't garner a peep? Where are the normally outraged in Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and on and on? Who will stand up publicly and denounce extremism? Their silence speaks volumes.

AK, Riyadh

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=2&threadID=6813&edition=2&ttl=20070711224208&#paginator

Until the majority in those countries rise up and take a stand, we will have further “versions of Lal masjids” in each and every one of those countries.

Definition of a state

WASHINGTON DIARY: No more Mullah-blindness —Dr Manzur Ejaz

"Whether or not the operation against Lal Mosque is being conducted under Chinese pressure, Indian prodding or US directives, it is clear that the Pakistani state can no longer facilitate a theocratic ideology" http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\07\11\story_11-7-2007_pg3_6

A state that does not think for itself, but is buffeted by the whims of larger nations.

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http://pakistaniat.com/2007/07/10/gun-battle-at-lal-masjid-security-forces-take-control-from-militants/

Umar Jul 10th, 2007 at 2:32 pm

Saner voices warned about this WAY back in 1972, when Gulbadin Hikmatyar and Ahmed Shah Massoud (future enemies), barely 20 years old, were given a room in Peshawar and funds and arms to start a rebellion in their own country against Sardar Daud Khan, because he promoted the idea of Pakhtunistan… since then, the army supported Hikmatyar and co. against the Soviets, Zia butchered PLO fighters in Jordan, the army sponsored militant groups in our country to slaughter our own Shia compatriots, sponsored the phony Jihad in Kashmir, created the Taliban, interfered in Chechnya, interfered in Central Asia, and even interfered in China’s Xinjiang province… so much for Pak-Cheen dosti… the list is endless… no surprises that the fire we have set to the neighborhood now engulfs us…

Time to not only set our own house in order, but to promise never to interfere in our neighbours’ affairs…