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July 15, 2007
Al-Qaeda Leader Behind The Red Mosque Bloodbath - And Musharraf Can Expect More To Come
Topics: Understanding Islam
No real surprise here for those who've been following the horrors of the Red Mosque and the lead-up to the final assault. According to senior intelligence officials, the troops who finally took control of the Red Mosque discovered letters from Osama Bin Laden's deputy - Ayman al-Zawahiri, and that it was al-Zawahiri who had secretly directed the Islamic extremists (terrorists and brain-washed children) whose armed revolt at the Red Mosque in Islamabad ended last week with more than 100 deaths after it was stormed by the Pakistan army. One cannot help but think about just how many more "Red Mosques" are still out there harboring similar weaponry and intent:
... They were written to Abdul Rashid Ghazi and Abdul Aziz, the brothers who ran the mosque and adjacent madrasah.Al-Qaeda led, al-Qaeda directed, fueled by Muslim extemism, and housed in a madrassa with an abundance of children to brainwash; little wonder the disaster of the Red Mosque occurred.Government sources said up to 18 foreign fighters, including Uzbeks, Egyptians and several Afghans, had arrived weeks before the final shootout and set up firing ranges to teach students, including children, how to handle weapons.
Al-Qaeda has wanted to open a Pakistan front in its global jihad since President Pervez Musharraf sided with America after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Diplomats were surprised by the speed with which the fugitive Zawahiri condemned the raid and called on Pakistanis to rise up against Musharraf.
The response to his appeal was equally swift. Twenty-seven soldiers were killed when a suicide attacker struck a military convoy in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border yesterday. At least 58 have been killed in bombings and shootings since the Red Mosque crisis began 12 days ago.
Yet, just how many more "Red Mosques" are out there waiting to happen remains to be seen, and with 40,000 registered and unregistered madrassas in Pakistan, of which most or all fail miserably at enabling graduates to do anything remotely relating to a real job - only serving to prepare the seminary graduates for a khateeb of a mosque, and the truth being that the madrassas fundamentally perform the task of isolating children through a "sealing process" represented by dars-e-nizami, then brainwashing them with doctrines no longer practiced by the state, and then pushing them to a rejectionism whose high point is vigilante action under the doctrine of amr and nahi, Musharraf and the Pakistani government had better get ready for a very long road in the war on terror, an had better become far more serious about executing it than they've been up to now.
Other coverage: Noblesse Oblige
Related readings:
Afghanistan's Karzai criticises Pakistani madrassas
Mosque carnage puts pressure on Pakistan 'madrassas'
The Madrassa and the State of Pakistan
Posted by Richard at July 15, 2007 8:51 AM
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