Pakistani religious parties condemn terrorism
PESHAWAR – For the first time in years, “Pakistani religious parties condemn terrorism”. The top religious politicians of Pakistan have started openly opposing terrorist attacks in the country.
Suicide attacks are un-Islamic and defame Islam. The religious leaders need to (inform) the people and society by using their knowledge and influence.Terrorism has killed many innocent people. which contradicts the teachings of Islam.
Maulana Fazal Ur Rahman, leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazal (JUI-F), said, former Jamat-e-Islami (JI) chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad told a gathering of graduating religious students at a seminary in Mandani, Charsadda, early this month.
Pakistani religious parties condemn terrorism
Pakistani religious parties condemn terrorism
“The country is passing through its worst time of history,” Fazal said at JUIF convention in Peshawar last month. “Even the bearded and the turbaned people are being attacked.”
The most revered religious leader of the region, Maulana Hassan Jan, was an early victim of terrorism. He was killed in September 2007 after issuing an Islamic decree that labelled suicide bombings as haram, or forbidden by Islam.
“Apart from the martyrdom of Hassan Jan and attacks on the JUI-F chief, we have lost about18 activists in two suicide attacks and a bombing in the Qisa Khwani bazaar in April last year,” said Abdul Jalil Jan, the spokesman for JUI-F Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). “Dozens of our workers were killed in Swat and the tribal areas as well”.
