06-16-2006, 08:12 PM
Gem from Urdu press - FT
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In its 2006 annual issue Naya Zamana published an article by Amir Hussaini who stated that Sunni Tehreek was set up in 1990 to counter the rising Deobandi and Ahle Hadith dominance. Sunni Tehreek leader Salim Qadri was killed by Jaish-e-Muhammad. Salim had accused the Banuri Mosque Deobandi seminary in Karachi and the Akora Khattak Nowshehra seminary as two hiding places of terrorists. JUP leader Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani had stated in Lahore that the terrorist Muridke seminary of Lashkar-e-Tayba would be used against the Barelvis. He had also dubbed all the jihadis as terrorists. The Barelvis didnât take part in jihad.
<b>Allama Ehsan Elahi Zaheer and âAl Barelviyaâ</b>
In its annual 2006 Naya Zamana wrote that Allama Ehsan Elahi Zaheer under General Zia started a Wahhabi movement against the Barelvis and wrote a book in Arabic Al Barelviya which was published in Saudi Arabia. He was killed in a bombing after that but his task was then taken up by the founder of Sipah Sahaba in Jhang, Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, who began targeting the Shia community.Â
<b>General Zia and Barelvi mosques</b>
According to Naya Zamana General Zia backed the Wahhabi and Deobandi seminaries while the Barelvis supported the PPP. Because of this, by 1988 in Karachi alone he allowed the Deobandis and Ahle Hadith to grab 700 Barelvi mosques and more than 100 seminaries at gunpoint. In those days both Shia and Barelvis came under pressure as a ban was demanded over ashura procession and urs of Eid Miladun Nabi.
<b>Barelvis condemned under General Zia</b>
According to monthly Naya Zamana (May 2006) the publications of Jamaat Dawa/Lashkar-e-Tayba (Al Dawa) and Sipah Sahaba (Khilafat-e-Rashida) continued to criticise and condemn the Shias together with the Barelvis. The Barelvis were dubbed a moderate version of Shiism and both were together dubbed a version of Judaism. After General Zia, his Wahhabi Islam was used in Kashmir too and the state itself became more permeated with this hardline faith. It was in the face of this Wahhabi dominance that Sunni Tehreek was defensively created to protect the interests of the Barelvis with force. Its leader Salim Qadri was killed by Jaish-e-Muhammad after repeated accusations by him that Darul Ulum Banuri Masjid and Darul Ulum Akora Khattak were centres of terrorism. When JUP chief Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani attended a rare gathering of the Barelvis in Lahore in those days he made a speech in which he declared that there were one lakh kalashnikovs in the Muridke headquarters of Lashkar-e-Tayba which will not be used in Kashmir but against the Barelvis in Pakistan. Â
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<b>One dish again!</b>
Columnist Abdul Qadir Hasan wrote in Jang that all parties in parliament were agreed to lift the ban on serving of food on weddings and allow one dish. The hotels and wedding halls however say that one dish would make no difference because cost will be calculated on the basis of how much is consumed and not how many dishes are served. People will now end up eating quite a lot of just one dish. The idea was to prevent the Muslims from spending too much money (israf) on festivities which was against the tradition of the holy Prophet PBUH.
<b>Amir Cheema beautiful martyr</b>
Writing in Nawa-e-Waqt Irfan Siddiqi said that his pen was silent because of his fascination in describing the beauty of Amir Cheema the youthful lover of the Prophet PBUH who was killed in police custody after he stabbed a blasphemous German editor. Irfan Siddiqi wrote that standing in front of Amir Cheema the Martyr, even Bayazid and Junaid, the great mystical saints, would have become tongue-tied. A lover of the Prophet PBUH could not commit suicide, so it was wrong on the part of the Germans to say that he had committed suicide in jail.
<b>Amir Cheema wanted to kill many!</b>
Quoted in Khabrain the father of Amir Cheema, the boy who stabbed an editor in Germany (who supported the blaspheming cartoons) and was later found hanged in his cell by the German police, said that his son often thought of killing people who were wajibul qatl (deserving of death under Islam). He said his son was a true lover of the Prophet (Ashiq-e-Rasul). He had often told his son that killing people who were wajibul qatl was the job of the state. He advised him often to dissuade him from thinking in terms of killing. He said given these views, he did not want to send him to Europe but it was unavoidable because of the need for education. Amir Cheema was a textile engineer with a degree from Faisalabad. His uncle said he was fond of jihad.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Barelvis versus Deobandis</b>
In its 2006 annual issue Naya Zamana published an article by Amir Hussaini who stated that Sunni Tehreek was set up in 1990 to counter the rising Deobandi and Ahle Hadith dominance. Sunni Tehreek leader Salim Qadri was killed by Jaish-e-Muhammad. Salim had accused the Banuri Mosque Deobandi seminary in Karachi and the Akora Khattak Nowshehra seminary as two hiding places of terrorists. JUP leader Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani had stated in Lahore that the terrorist Muridke seminary of Lashkar-e-Tayba would be used against the Barelvis. He had also dubbed all the jihadis as terrorists. The Barelvis didnât take part in jihad.
<b>Allama Ehsan Elahi Zaheer and âAl Barelviyaâ</b>
In its annual 2006 Naya Zamana wrote that Allama Ehsan Elahi Zaheer under General Zia started a Wahhabi movement against the Barelvis and wrote a book in Arabic Al Barelviya which was published in Saudi Arabia. He was killed in a bombing after that but his task was then taken up by the founder of Sipah Sahaba in Jhang, Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, who began targeting the Shia community.Â
<b>General Zia and Barelvi mosques</b>
According to Naya Zamana General Zia backed the Wahhabi and Deobandi seminaries while the Barelvis supported the PPP. Because of this, by 1988 in Karachi alone he allowed the Deobandis and Ahle Hadith to grab 700 Barelvi mosques and more than 100 seminaries at gunpoint. In those days both Shia and Barelvis came under pressure as a ban was demanded over ashura procession and urs of Eid Miladun Nabi.
<b>Barelvis condemned under General Zia</b>
According to monthly Naya Zamana (May 2006) the publications of Jamaat Dawa/Lashkar-e-Tayba (Al Dawa) and Sipah Sahaba (Khilafat-e-Rashida) continued to criticise and condemn the Shias together with the Barelvis. The Barelvis were dubbed a moderate version of Shiism and both were together dubbed a version of Judaism. After General Zia, his Wahhabi Islam was used in Kashmir too and the state itself became more permeated with this hardline faith. It was in the face of this Wahhabi dominance that Sunni Tehreek was defensively created to protect the interests of the Barelvis with force. Its leader Salim Qadri was killed by Jaish-e-Muhammad after repeated accusations by him that Darul Ulum Banuri Masjid and Darul Ulum Akora Khattak were centres of terrorism. When JUP chief Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani attended a rare gathering of the Barelvis in Lahore in those days he made a speech in which he declared that there were one lakh kalashnikovs in the Muridke headquarters of Lashkar-e-Tayba which will not be used in Kashmir but against the Barelvis in Pakistan. Â
<!--emo&:o--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<b>One dish again!</b>
Columnist Abdul Qadir Hasan wrote in Jang that all parties in parliament were agreed to lift the ban on serving of food on weddings and allow one dish. The hotels and wedding halls however say that one dish would make no difference because cost will be calculated on the basis of how much is consumed and not how many dishes are served. People will now end up eating quite a lot of just one dish. The idea was to prevent the Muslims from spending too much money (israf) on festivities which was against the tradition of the holy Prophet PBUH.
<b>Amir Cheema beautiful martyr</b>
Writing in Nawa-e-Waqt Irfan Siddiqi said that his pen was silent because of his fascination in describing the beauty of Amir Cheema the youthful lover of the Prophet PBUH who was killed in police custody after he stabbed a blasphemous German editor. Irfan Siddiqi wrote that standing in front of Amir Cheema the Martyr, even Bayazid and Junaid, the great mystical saints, would have become tongue-tied. A lover of the Prophet PBUH could not commit suicide, so it was wrong on the part of the Germans to say that he had committed suicide in jail.
<b>Amir Cheema wanted to kill many!</b>
Quoted in Khabrain the father of Amir Cheema, the boy who stabbed an editor in Germany (who supported the blaspheming cartoons) and was later found hanged in his cell by the German police, said that his son often thought of killing people who were wajibul qatl (deserving of death under Islam). He said his son was a true lover of the Prophet (Ashiq-e-Rasul). He had often told his son that killing people who were wajibul qatl was the job of the state. He advised him often to dissuade him from thinking in terms of killing. He said given these views, he did not want to send him to Europe but it was unavoidable because of the need for education. Amir Cheema was a textile engineer with a degree from Faisalabad. His uncle said he was fond of jihad.
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