Posted on 10/28/2005 7:49:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Tragedy has made ruthless terrorists into good samaritans overnight as banned terrorist organisations run mobile hospitals and ferry medicines to the victims of Pakistan's Oct 8 earthquake on mules and donkeys.
Thousands have camped alongside some 200 donor organisations in Abbottabad, a North West Frontier Province (NWFP) town 200 km northwest of Islamabad, and are virtually spearheading relief work here.
Subsequently, the local population has begun hailing them as messiahs.
"I think the jehadi organisations are working in the most organised way," enthused Rauf Kareem, a volunteer camping here since Oct 10.
"In the beginning they were barred by the local administration from setting up their camps but later they were allowed," Kareem said.
Once they got the go-ahead, banned outfits like Jama't-ud-Dawah, Jaish-e-Muhammad and the Al-Rasheed Trust, alongside others, plunged into relief work in far-flung areas in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir like Muzaffarabad, Rawla Kot, Bagh and Balakot.
Interestingly, Dawah, which figures on the US watch list, has morphed into a frontline organisation in relief work, along with the Al-Khidmat Trust, the welfare foundation run by the Jamaat-e-Islami and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen.
In an extremely meticulous and well-crafted operation, Dawah has created separate zones in calamity-stricken parts of Kashmir and the NWFP. More than 10,000 volunteers have fanned out to help here.
In 2002, the government had banned Lashkar-e-Taiba, the terrorist arm of the Jama't-ud-Dawah, but it continues to operate under the name of its parent organisation.
"In the beginning, the police dismantled our relief camps," complained the Jama't-ud-Dawah spokesman, Mujahid Hussain.
Hussain was quick to point out that their motivation was purely altruistic. "We are here to serve humanity," he said. "People are suffering and they need help from each and every Pakistani.
"We have buried hundreds of dead bodies in different areas," he said, adding that his volunteers were still extricating bodies from the debris and giving them a decent burial.
This is not all.
"Our mobile hospitals in troubled areas are providing treatment to victims in their proximity. In areas where communication links are still suspended, we are reaching victims with medicines on mules and donkeys," he added.
Unlike Dawah, which is engaged in operational rescue and help of the injured, the Al-Rasheed Trust is focusing on the provision of relief goods and medicines.
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'Bush and Blair will lick your boots'(Fresh Barf From a Mosque Near You)
Rediff ^ | October 26, 2005 | Mohammad Shehzad
Posted on 10/26/2005 5:20:41 AM EDT by CarrotAndStick
Spread over many acres in the heart of I-8 (a posh residential area in Islamabad where the price of a 60' by 90' plot is around 20 million rupees), the Jamia Mosque Quba is run by Jamat-ud Dawa [JD], which is popularly, though wrongly, identified as the Lashkar-e-Taiba -- the largest network of Pakistani militants fighting in Indian Kashmir. A visitor to the mosque on any Friday at 1 pm will see a long queue of brand new vehicles in which the rich of the twin cities [Islamabad and Rawalpindi] come for the Friday sermon. Some come from the adjoining cities.
Why do they take this trouble when there is no dearth of mosques in their vicinity?
Because they get the opportunity of listening to Hafiz Abdur Rehman Makki, the number two in JD's hierarchy who travels every Friday from Lahore to give a sermon and lead the Friday prayers.
An eloquent orator, Makki has the power to draw tears from his listeners. Last Friday [October 21] this correspondent attended his sermon.
Quoting numerous Koranic verses, Makki justified the earthquake as a punishment of Allah on the sinful.
Ridiculed seismologists who rationalized the quake on scientific grounds, he said: 'You are saying that the earthquake has occurred because the plates beneath the earth have dislocated. Oh foolish scientists, don't you know that the plates could have never moved without Allah's order? Human beings' knowledge is nothing before Allah who is the creator of the universe. Whatever knowledge you have today is due to His will. You could have learnt nothing had Allah not wished so!' He urged the scientists to seek Allah's forgiveness instead of being proud of their so-called knowledge.
'Oh unwise people open Koran. It tells you how so many nations before you were annihilated by Allah through natural disasters when they crossed the limits and refuted His blessings. Don't you learn a lesson from the Jews? They are the worst receiver of Allah's wrath because they flayed His commandments blatantly.'
Declaring natural calamities as Allah's army, Makki said: 'Allah would order His soldiers -- earthquakes, storms, plaques, droughts, and hurricanes -- to invade the disobedient. Thus He would serve a reminder on the survivors i.e. they should abandon vice and adopt virtue.'
'The earthquake is a reprimand to the rulers on their un-Islamic policies e.g. recognition of Israel; maligning jihad and ditching the jihadis; ridiculing jihab; perverting society with obscenity by urging women to work with men in all spheres of life; secularizing the curriculum, etc. Oh foolish rulers, did you ever give it a thought that Islamabad had many towers but only one collapsed? Because Allah did not want all of you to die! He has given you another chance. Avail it and become his obedient beings.'
Criticizing Musharraf's development agenda, Makki said: 'By 2007, Musharraf had to take off veil from women's faces and force them to run with men on road in semi-nude state. He had to put them in dance classes. The quake has perished his plans! Now he has become a beggar. He has to beg continuously for 10 years to rebuild the quake-hit areas!'
Reminding Musharraf that his decision to outlaw jihadi outfits was myopic, Makki said: 'The world has seen that these banned jihadis reached where the army or the US Chinook could not reach and provided relief to thousands of people. Jihadis are not afraid of bans. They are the soldiers of Allah. They will continue to help the people. Nobody can stop them!'
Urging the rulers to reject the aid by the international community and secular NGOs, he said: 'Remember brothers, by accepting their aid, you will lose your honor. You will become their slaves. They will ask you to follow their evil agenda. The UN, the US, and the EU are not the friends of humanity. They are the worst enemies of the Muslims. You should seek help from Allah only.'
Makki claimed that the JD alone could undertake the entire relief, reconstruction and rehabilitation work.
'Only the four districts have been devastated. The rest of the country is in the protection of Allah. The 150 million people can feed and shelter all the earthquake victims. I ask the government to hand over the charge of relief work to JD. We -- the mujahideen -- would do everything alone in minimum time.'
Makki reminded his followers that the Muslims' glory was in jihad. As long as they dedicated money and sons for jihad, they ruled the world. They were trapped in the quagmire of humiliation when they abandoned jihad.
'We can rise again. We can rule the world again. I give you a simple recipe. Donate money and sons for jihad and your glorious days will return. The entire world will be under your control. Bush and Blair will become your slaves and lick your boots.'
The jihadis sound like they've been taking notes from the Scientologists.
Allah's army
Could be that these fellows just have too much time on their hands and just need something constructive to do. Ruling the world is just not going to work.
Or maybe they're short of funds and figure a 20% cut of the aid funding will replenish their Jihad bank accounts.
They would not be assisting non muslims. And they are reportedly taking orphans to be brainwashed in their evil schools of death (madrassas).
Hope they aimed the feet at Mecca.
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