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Hundreds of Women in Pakistan chanting for Jihad

by Sanjay Jha | July 9, 2008 at 11:06 pm

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Hundreds of burka-clad women gathered at Red Mosque in the Pakistani capital Islamabad to demand for muslim seminary. The women chanted jihadi songs and also said that they would prepare their children and men for jihad.

The raid on the mosque last year by Pakistani army triggered a series of revenge suicide bombings and other attacks by militants across Pakistan, killing hundreds of people.

Hundreds of Islamist women have held a protest outside the Red Mosque in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, to demand the reconstruction of a seminary.
It was destroyed in July 2007 when Pakistani troops stormed the building to evict armed militants.
The protesters - some carrying babies - shouted slogans in support of jihad (holy war) and heard fiery speeches.
More than 100 people were killed in the fighting to evict militants who had taken sanctuary there, the army said.
'Jihad'
"Our mujahideen [fighters] laid down their lives for the enforcement of the Islamic system in Pakistan. We are left behind to carry forward their mission," Umme Hassan, the daughter of former chief cleric Abdul Aziz, told the rally within the mosque's compound.
He was arrested during the siege last year as he tried to evade capture by slipping through a police cordon dressed as a woman.

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Barry ORegan

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at 06:33 on July 10th, 2008

Sanjay Jha, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Mothers stating they will prepare their sons and husbands for jihad to kill others, including innocents speaks volumes of their preference for death over life. Jihad, perhaps another way to weed out the idiots to the detriment of others who are in their path.

One wonders why they just all don't drink purple Kool Aid, ala Jim Jones flock, that would make a much better Jihad, and world statement.

René

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at 08:57 on July 10th, 2008

Sanjay Jha, I like this story. It's good stuff.

René

at 08:59 on July 10th, 2008

They're in burkas? How do you know it is women under those black bags? Skeptical!

Anonymous (not verified)

at 14:04 on July 10th, 2008

this is really scary, sanjay. If women really were doing this, they might have been forced to by husbands and fathers. under threat of dishonoring their wishes. And getting beaten, stoned to death, or beheaded. And those poor children, brainwashed?