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(surah Al-Imran,ayat-104)
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Fatwa Issued Against Pakistan's President for Shaking Hands With Sarah Palin and "Repeated Praise of a Non-Muslim Lady Wearing a Short Skirt".....

 

LAHORE: The prayer leader of the infamous Lal Masjid in the heart of Islamabad has issued a decree against President Asif Zardari for publicly making indecent gestures towards the American Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palinduring their Washington meeting, saying the act was un-Islamic and Zardari has shamed the entire Pakistani nation.

Delivering a sermon at the Lal Masjid the other day, the prayer leader Maulana Abdul Ghafar, who is a close relative of the fanatic Red Mosque cleric Maujlana Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who was killed by security forces during Operation Silence in July 2007, said that President Zardari's indecent gestures, filthy remarks and repeated praise of a non-Muslim lady wearing a short skirt is not only un-Islamic but also unbecoming of a head of state of a Muslim country.

He said that the manner in which Zardari shook hands with Sarah Palin and expressed his deep desire to hug her is intolerable and shameful."We are fighting the American war in our country and thousands of our people have been killed just to please Uncle Sam. Therefore, we demand that the military operation in the Pak-Afghan tribal areas be immediately stopped as it is creating hatred amongst the general public against the Pakistan army", he added.

Zardari's Palin flirt earns him a fatwa

Amir Mir

Monday, September 29, 2008  03:24 IST

Lal Masjid cleric dubs Pak Prez's gestures un-Islamic.

LAHORE: The prayer leader of the infamous Lal Masjid in the heart of Islamabad has issued a decree against President Asif Zardari for publicly making indecent gestures towards the American Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin during their Washington meeting, saying the act was un-Islamic and Zardari has shamed the entire Pakistani nation.

Delivering a sermon at the Lal Masjid the other day, the prayer leader Maulana Abdul Ghafar, who is a close relative of the fanatic Red Mosque cleric Maujlana Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who was killed by security forces during Operation Silence in July 2007, said that President Zardari's indecent gestures, filthy remarks and repeated praise of a non-Muslim lady wearing a short skirt is not only un-Islamic but also unbecoming of a head of state of a Muslim country.

He said that the manner in which Zardari shook hands with Sarah Palin and expressed his deep desire to hug her is intolerable and shameful. "We are fighting the American war in our country and thousands of our people have been killed just to please Uncle Sam. Therefore, we demand that the military operation in the Pak-Afghan tribal areas be immediately stopped as it is creating hatred amongst the general public against the Pakistan army", he added.

The Lal Masjid prayer leader then went on to say that the Pakistan Army soldiers dying in US-backed military operations against fellow Pakistanis and Muslims in Waziristan tribal region were omitted from the list of martyrs. It is pertinent to mention that the late Lal Masjid prayer leader Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi was one of the signatories to a similar religious decree, issued by prominent Pakistani clergymen three years ago in which Pakistan Army soldiers dying in US-backed military operations against fellow Pakistanis and Muslims in Waziristan tribal region were omitted from the list of martyrs.

The clerics were forbidden from leading funeral prayers for them. Offended by the fatwa, the government had filed cases against Rasheed Ghazi and some other clerics and gagged the media from publishing the text of the religious decree. However, no action has so far been taken against Ghazi's successor who is issuing similar controversial decrees.
 Reply:   SNL interviews Sarah Palin: Pakistani guys hugged 'Literally'
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Katie Couric (Amy Poehler): How did the world leaders you met, react to you Sarah Palin (Tina Fey): Oh! they embraced me both figuratively "¦. and a couple of 'them' Pakistani guys 'literal

SNL interviews Sarah Palin: Pakistani guys hugged 'Literally'

Katie Couric (Amy Poehler): How did the world leaders you met, react to you
Sarah Palin (Tina Fey): Oh! they embraced me both figuratively "¦. and a couple of 'them' Pakistani guys 'literally'

Couric / Palin Open McCain Says Palin's Pakistan Statement Not Policy


Only a day after the McCain-Obama debate, Senator McCain's running mate Governor Sarah Palin seemed to partially contradict McCain on Pakistan in an encounter with a student in Pennsylvania. While she did say she believes in "working with [President] Zardari to make sure that we're all working together to stop the guys from coming in over the border." Upon further questioning, she also went on to say that if it is necessary to strike cross the border to "stop the terrorists from coming any further in, absolutely, we should,"

She was answering an impromptu question posed by Temple graduate student Michael Rovito, who approached her to inquire about Pakistan.

"How about the Pakistan situation?," asked Rovito, who said he was not a Palin supporter. "What's your thoughts about that?"

"In Pakistan?," she asked.

"What's going on over there, like Waziristan?"

"It's working with [President] Zardari to make sure that we're all working together to stop the guys from coming in over the border," she told him. "And we'll go from there."

Rovito wasn't finished. "Waziristan is blowing up!," he said.

"Yeah it is," Palin said, "and the economy there is blowing up too."

"So we do cross border, like from Afghanistan to Pakistan you think?," Rovito asked.

"If that's what we have to do stop the terrorists from coming any further in, absolutely, we should," Palin replied.

Later, McCain made it clear that Palin did not represent his policy position on Pakistan.

"She was in a conversation with some young man," McCain said during an interview today on ABC's "This Week." "She understands and has stated repeatedly that we're not going to do anything except in America's national security interest and we are not going to, quote, announce it ahead of time."

McCain said Palin's exchange was not an official policy statement.

"I don't think most Americans think that that's a definitive policy statement made by Governor Palin," McCain said.

It's clear from this incident that Sarah Palin and John McCain have not quite gelled as a team yet. But if you look at some of Joe Biden's statements during the Democratic primary campaign, you would also think that he does not agree with Obama on Pakistan policy. Given the extreme difficulty of the issues in Pakistan, it is understandable that their thinking is still evolving. However, in such situations, the mindset of the person on top of the presidential ticket is what really counts. The vice president has some influence on policy but the ultimate power of the final decision rests with the person elected president.


 
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