Okay, I think most of you will remember the huge powderkeg that the Red Mosque standoff became in Islamabad, Pakistan about 2 years ago - where cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz held a bunch of people hostage and tried to hold out against government forces - it was pretty bloody and caused ripples throughout the islamic country. Oh, and if you will recall, big bad boy cleric Aziz, got caught in that incident trying to escape dressed in a woman's burqa. Well, the piece of shit is out on bail and is back at it again...stirring up unrest, being a mouthpiece for the war-mongering extremist Taliban in the country. Here's what this shitbag had to say today at a rally, from the story at Dawn:
The Pakistani government better hope the courts get this asswipe back into the system, get him convicted and store his ass away in a prison for a good long time. I don't know, you'd think a condition of bail might be that you don't go out and try and repeat the offense that you got convicted of. Shrug.
‘The rulers should announce Islamic sharia through the national assembly,’ said Maulana Abdul Aziz, who was captured during the July 2007 siege to flush out Al-Qaeda-linked militants allegedly holed up at the mosque.
His release on bail 21 months later raised fears the Red Mosque could become a flashpoint for Islamabad once again.
‘If they do not enforce sharia, there is risk of bloody revolution,’ added Aziz, who faces around two dozen cases of terror, abduction and abetting the seizure of government property but has yet to stand trial.
‘If you want to solve the problems, you should stop the operations in Swat and the tribal areas, then enforce sharia in Pakistan,’ said Aziz, who asked his audience to promise to continue the struggle to enforce Islamic justice.
The Pakistani government better hope the courts get this asswipe back into the system, get him convicted and store his ass away in a prison for a good long time. I don't know, you'd think a condition of bail might be that you don't go out and try and repeat the offense that you got convicted of. Shrug.
Cleric Abdul Aziz warns of ‘bloody revolution’
ISLAMABAD: The most hardline cleric in Pakistan’s capital on Friday demanded that the government enforce Islamic law or risk bloody revolution, two years after security forces stormed his Red Mosque.
‘The rulers should announce Islamic sharia through the national assembly,’ said Maulana Abdul Aziz, who was captured during the July 2007 siege to flush out Al-Qaeda-linked militants allegedly holed up at the mosque.
He was arrested trying to flee the deadly siege in a woman’s burka.
His release on bail 21 months later raised fears the Red Mosque could become a flashpoint for Islamabad once again.
‘If they do not enforce sharia, there is risk of bloody revolution,’ added Aziz, who faces around two dozen cases of terror, abduction and abetting the seizure of government property but has yet to stand trial.
The cleric addressed Islamist militancy in the northwest district of Swat and the tribal belt, where Pakistani troops are fighting an insurgency.
‘If you want to solve the problems, you should stop the operations in Swat and the tribal areas, then enforce sharia in Pakistan,’ said Aziz, who asked his audience to promise to continue the struggle to enforce Islamic justice.
During the main Friday prayers, worshippers chanted ‘al-Jihad al-Jihad’ (holy war), ‘Long live Islam,’ ‘Long live the martyrs’ and ‘Allah Akbar’ (God is great).
Young boys wore traditional red caps favoured by Abdul Rashid Ghazi, Aziz’s brother. The main figurehead for radical militants at the mosque, he was killed during the siege.
‘You killed one Ghazi. Here are thousands of Ghazis ready to sacrifice in the way of Allah,’ a speaker told the gathering.
Last year, on the first anniversary of the siege a suicide bomber targeting police at an Islamist rally nearby killed 15 people.
Mosque authorities and Pakistani police enforced strict security Friday, closing all roads leading to the complex and searching all visitors.
Government forces surrounded the mosque on July 3, 2007 following a clash between police and militants, who allegedly used it as a base for an Islamic vigilante campaign in the capital.
On July 10, army commandos stormed the building and an adjacent girls’ school, in an operation that left more than 100 people dead.
The events at the mosque unleashed a wave of revenge bombings across Pakistan that have since killed around 2,000 people. Attacks are now part of daily life.
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Looks like another target for a Predator.
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