Attack on girls’ school: Moral brigade’s act condemned in NA

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Attack on girls’ school: Moral brigade’s act condemned in NA Published: October 12, 2011

ISLAMABAD:
The attack on a girls’ school in Rawalpindi by seminary students echoed in the National Assembly on Tuesday, but Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the ruling party in Punjab and opposition in the parliament, did not denounce the incident.

However, Speaker Fahmida Mirza condemned the attack by the ‘moral brigade’ at Municipal Committee’s Model High School for Girls in Satellite Town, Rawalpindi last Friday. She sought complete record of the tragic incident and urged the Punjab government to take notice of the incident.

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Around 60 masked men carrying iron rods barged into a girls’ school in Rawalpindi on Friday and thrashed students and female teachers, pressing them to “dress modestly and wear hijabs”. The police refused to register an FIR. A police official of the New Town Police Station, requesting anonymity, said that they were under “strict instructions to do nothing”.

The Speaker constituted an inquiry committee under Khurshid Shah, a senior politician of the Pakistan People Party (PPP), to collect the facts about the terror incident. The lawmakers were told that Advisor to Prime Minister on Human Rights, Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, wrote a letter to the District Coordinator Officer Rawalpindi on the issue and sought his response to why the police did not register a criminal case against the culprits.

MNA Shahnaz Wazir Ali termed the barbaric incident a “shameful action”. She said that Rawalpindi is the third largest city of the Punjab where this incident happened but it was “awful” that no inquiry into the matter was conducted by relevant authorities so far. “If we could not protect our daughters, then it is meaningless to talk about constitution,” she said.

Fouzia Habib, another PPP MNA, said, “Rawalpindi is my city and it is horrible to hear that such a terrible operation was conducted against hundreds of minor school girls.”

Earlier, the Station House Officer (SHO) of the New Town Police Station, Ijaz Hussain Shah, justified the assault by saying that it was not an offence as the masked men were protesting the conviction of the assassin of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer. “They also attacked other educational institutions,” he insisted.

SHO Shah did not make any comment on why the police were reluctant to take any action against the seminary students who were involved in the attack on the school.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 12th, 2011.

 

[Developereo]

I am speechless. This is getting surreal -- like watching some horror movie.

 

[hembo]

I am speechless. This is getting surreal -- like watching some horror movie.

The most apalling thing was:

~~snipped~ pressing them to “dress modestly and wear hijabs”. The police refused to register an FIR. A police official of the New Town Police Station, requesting anonymity, said that they were under “strict instructions to do nothing”.

and this:

Earlier, the Station House Officer (SHO) of the New Town Police Station, Ijaz Hussain Shah, justified the assault by saying that it was not an offence as the masked men were protesting the conviction of the assassin of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer. “They also attacked other educational institutions,” he insisted.

 

[SQ8]

None of us have the courage to go out there, to that seminary.. and burn it down.

 

[Developereo]

The most apalling thing was:



and this:

I don't even understand the logic. So someone is angry at the Qadri verdict, and they take it out by beating schoolgirls?

This should be on all Pakistani news channels, like the Swat video.

 

[Zarvan]

None of us have the courage to go out there, to that seminary.. and burn it down.

Sir do if you can but remember the aftermath of LAL MASJID OPERATION around 2000 Suicide Blasts of each scale

 

[Solomon2]

I don't even understand the logic. So someone is angry at the Qadri verdict, and they take it out by beating schoolgirls?

Who's going to stop them? You? The police? Why should they bother, isn't it true that those arrested will be released by a judge and then the policemen will fear for their lives?

My guess it that all over Pakistan officials are rationalizing reasons not to oppose militancy. Where can the courage to oppose it possibly come from?

 

[Zarvan]

Who's going to stop them? You? The police? Why should they bother, isn't it true that those arrested will be released by a judge and then the policemen will fear for their lives?

My guess it that all over Pakistan officials are rationalizing reasons not to oppose militancy. Where can the courage to oppose it possibly come from?

Sir because to oppose them you need moral authority and moral authority can come by implementing Islam and if you will not do it people will start rising on their own and will try to do on their own that will create more trouble than doing any thing good so what governments need to do is implement Islam completely and than take on those who create Fitna

 

[Solomon2]

Sir because to oppose them you need moral authority -

Exactly!

and moral authority can come by implementing Islam -

Isn't that what the mullahs and the Sauds think they have been doing for the past thirty years? Have we not experienced the great and massive ills that result from their respective approaches?

So if the people most highly educated in Islam can't implement Islam without great suffering, isn't that some sort of clue? Could it mean that humans are imperfect and unable to implement Islam properly and are therefore morally compelled to implement a system they know works instead - Western-style democracy?

 

[Developereo]

Who's going to stop them? You? The police? Why should they bother, isn't it true that those arrested will be released by a judge and then the policemen will fear for their lives?

My guess it that all over Pakistan officials are rationalizing reasons not to oppose militancy. Where can the courage to oppose it possibly come from?

The thugs claim to be angry because a judge upheld the law in the Qadri verdict.

The media needs to get on board and light the fire under the politicians' as$. The Pakistani public was galvanized after the Swat video.

This is not about the blasphemy law, Islam, or anything else. It's about rule of law. Whatever various groups want, they must pitch their case within the law.

 

[SQ8]

Sir do if you can but remember the aftermath of LAL MASJID OPERATION around 2000 Suicide Blasts of each scale

I think it should be done.. Lal masjid was a one off deal.
There should be multiple repeats of Lal masjid within a week.
Aik dafa har mohalley mein aik aik mullah mar ke khambey se tang do..
phir kissi ki himmat ho do dekho.
Ye saarey churion waley mard hain.. in se insaanon wali umeed nahin rakhni chahiye.

 

[DV RULES]

Open fire over these religious thugs.

 

[Zarvan]

I think it should be done.. Lal masjid was a one off deal.
There should be multiple repeats of Lal masjid within a week.
Aik dafa har mohalley mein aik aik mullah mar ke khambey se tang do..
phir kissi ki himmat ho do dekho.
Ye saarey churion waley mard hain.. in se insaanon wali umeed nahin rakhni chahiye.

Sir this was done in turkey what happened and also in Tunisia in Both countries Mullah are coming back very easily and who threw them are now facing trials sir it can't work in Muslim Societies it will fail and fail miserably Islam will rise because its destiny and all the traitors will run away because that is destiny

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Open fire over these religious thugs.

Yes sir and thousand more will be produced

 

[ANG]

Hi, I cannot seem to understand some of the comments in this discussion. Force a strict religious view on a country of 190MM? What a myopic view. Will that create jobs in Pakistan, will it erase that nation's debt, will it educate people, will it produce more doctors/engineers? It will probably simple make more inbred people.

Moreover look at history, Iran, Lebanon, they became fundamentalist and look at them now? Their standard of living is lower than it was back before their so called revolutions in the 70s. Forcing religion, any religion, has always been a disaster on any nation. History is full of those examples.

This is one of the reason, India and Bangladesh are leaving Pakistan behind, in terms of economic growth. Both nations, have secular establishments.

Now getting back to the point, these so called moral vigilantes are nothing more than inbred cavemen. All of them should be lined up and shot. They have no right to enforce their backward views on anyone. It there are repercussions for this action, that the government of Pakistan should crack down even harder on these seminary students, and all over the nation.

In regards to bomb blasts, that is also due to lack of enforcement. Crack down on the fundamentalists, and cutoff their materials. There was an article in Dawn, mentioning, anyone could walk up to a store and buy fertilizer, a key ingredient in the blasts in Pakistan.

 

[Zarvan]

Hi, I cannot seem to understand some of the comments in this discussion. Force a strict religious view on a country of 190MM? What a myopic view. Will that create jobs in Pakistan, will it erase that nation's debt, will it educate people, will it produce more doctors/engineers? It will probably simple make more inbred people.

Moreover look at history, Iran, Lebanon, they became fundamentalist and look at them now? Their standard of living is lower than it was back before their so called revolutions in the 70s. Forcing religion, any religion, has always been a disaster on any nation. History is full of those examples.

This is one of the reason, India and Bangladesh are leaving Pakistan behind, in terms of economic growth. Both nations, have secular establishments.

Now getting back to the point, these so called moral vigilantes are nothing more than inbred cavemen. All of them should be lined up and shot. They have no right to enforce their backward views on anyone. It there are repercussions for this action, that the government of Pakistan should crack down even harder on these seminary students, and all over the nation.

In regards to bomb blasts, that is also due to lack of enforcement. Crack down on the fundamentalists, and cutoff their materials. There was an article in Dawn, mentioning, anyone could walk up to a store and buy fertilizer, a key ingredient in the blasts in Pakistan.

Sir what if their so called backward views are according to Islam Sir In Muslim countries Islam is the only law acceptable other wise it will be chaos and people will rise up to implement shariah on their own which will create more anarchy