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Last week, we had possibly the most important global event of the year with the Lal Masjid Siege in Islamabad, Pakistan. A little background for those not familiar with it. There were two sides, the Pakistan Army together with Pakistan Special Forces versus Lal Masjid students. The Pakistani government forces moved in to the Lal Masjid college/Mosque after the Lal Masjid students ransacked, burned, and looted the Ministry of Environment building in Islamabad.

Now before you jump to conclusions, these students are extremists, strong backers of the Taliban, and the type of people who believe in covering women head to foot, keeping women subjugated, banning contraceptives, alcohol, and pretty much, any fun. They’re hateful people from the core, the type of people the world would be better off without. I don’t say that lightly either.

One of the pillars of Islam is Charity. The Lal Masjid students have no compassion. They’re for banning everything, and completely full of hate. I want to make it clear that these people will be a really bad representation of Islam.

Pakistan is a country we’ll need to look at more closely. Whether you like it or not, they have nuclear weapons. Their leader is Musharraf, who is a Progressive and wants to move Pakistan into the 21st century. Lal Masjid idiots want to fight that, and move Pakistan back into the Medieval days. Hey, I liked those Lord of the Rings movies too, but that’s a fantasy world. The true Medieval days sucked, and everyone was poor.

Lal Masjid also launched an assassination attempt on Musharraf. If they had managed to assassinate him, the world, especially India, would be in serious trouble. You’d have a revolution between Progressives and Extremists, and it could go either way. If the Extremists took power, you’d have a country that was even more scary than North Korea.

America’s role in all this

This is the tricky part. We give foreign aid to Musharraf, and Musharraf assists us in the “War on Terror.” If we get too cozy with Musharraf, he looks like an American puppet to a lot of Pakistani citizens. But if we drop foreign aid, we risk him falling out of power and the Extremists taking over. It really is a delicate situation.

The Pakistani people are intelligent and progressive. I’ve partied many times with Pakistanis and they’re a lot of fun. The thing is, there’s a very strong undercurrent of Islamic Extremism in Pakistan, and there’s a chance it could go the way of Afghanistan, which before the Russians moved in was a Progressive nation, where you’d see bars (yes, the type that serve alcohol) right next to a Mosque, which is a good thing. You also saw a lot of female Doctors, Lawyers, Nurses, and Politicians. After the Russians lost that war, the Extremists took over, and you no longer saw bars, and women became practically slaves.

I do not have the answer, my friends. All I can do is hope that Musharraf stays in power for the time being, and his successor is Progressive. The fight must be won within Islam itself. If we aid the Progressives too much, the Extremists would use that against them for popular opinion. So it really is a delicate situation.

I’m hoping the Progressives stay in power. I have no sympathy whatsoever for the Lal Masjid morons. During the siege, anywhere from 75 to 350 of them died, depending on which source you want to believe. Good riddance I say. I don’t think Americans have any idea just how bad these people are because we don’t have anything to compare them to today. Yes, the KKK is evil, but it’s such a small scale relatively.

I’m looking forward to the day when Christians, Muslims, Jews, Atheists, Pagans, Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, or whatever can live together peacefully. People like the Lal Masjid whackjobs will do everything in their power to stop that day. That’s why they need to be stopped.

She sums it up

A female student, requesting anonymity, said, “How can you allow someone to start running around and enforcing sharia through kidnappings, threats and attacks the way Ghazi was?”

Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lal_Masjid_siege