[nukkad] Poor Musharraf

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Dear Nukkies
            Looks like poor Musharraf may not be able to sleep with his wife 
if the edict issued by London based Muslim cleric Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed 
is implemented in toto. It states

"Gen Musharraf has now become an apostate and a security problem. Under 
Islamic law, his wife is no longer allowed to sleep with him and his life 
has no sanctity,"


Well perhaps this is the first and only time I sympathise with his plight.




Bye


Netgeek
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A leading Muslim cleric in London has issued a fatwa (religious edict) 
against Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, declaring him an apostate and 
thus giving religious sanction for a Muslim believer to kill him in defence 
of the faith.

"Musharraf will have a lot of problems internally," said the Syria-born 
Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed. "I think a general is going to kill him and get 
rid of him. It's a matter of time."

Bakri Mohammed, a founder of the Al-Muhajiroon and Al-Khalifa movements in 
the United Kingdom, also warned of instability in South Asia.
The fatwa, which virtually amounts to a death warrant against General 
Musharraf, was signed and issued on September 18, the same day that the 
former Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence chief, Lt Gen (retd) Hamid Gul, 
warned that Gen Musharraf risked a civil uprising if he maintained his 
support for the United States.

"The decision to support America under pressure is that of the military 
leadership, not of the army as an institution. The nation will never accept 
it," Gen Gul is reported to have said.

On the same day, demonstrators held a rally outside the Pakistani high 
commission in London, protesting against Gen Musharraf's decision to support 
the US against the Taleban in Afghanistan, where Osama bin Laden resides.

In an exclusive interview with India Abroad, Mohammed clarified that the 
fatwa was issued because Gen Musharraf had invited American forces to 
Pakistan to attack Afghanistan. "To invite non-Muslim forces to set foot on 
Muslim land is a complete crime," he said.

"Gen Musharraf has now become an apostate and a security problem. Under 
Islamic law, his wife is no longer allowed to sleep with him and his life 
has no sanctity," declared the cleric.

Mohammed, however, insisted that he had not sought the Pakistan president's 
death. "I have not said 'go and kill him'. I have only said that his actions 
have made him an apostate, and anyone who supports him is also an apostate," 
he remarked.

He said Muslims in Pakistan should not obey Gen Musharraf. "If they [the 
Pakistanis] believe Musharraf is a traitor, they should put him on trial and 
punish him as defined by Islam," he declared.

The fatwa, claimed Mohammed, has also been signed by an unnamed cleric in 
London, Sheikh Mohammed Aldali in Syria, Sheikh Ibrahim Awad in the United 
Arab Emirates, religious scholars from the shariat (religious) court in 
Lahore, and Sheikh Mohammed Fadlallah from Beirut, patron of Lebanon's 
extremist Hizbollah.

The fatwa is described as 'kafir harbi murtad'. A translation, left on the 
door of the Pakistani high commission in London, states: "If Muslims ally 
with the kafirs [non-believers], supply them weapons, praise them, formulate 
or sign contracts with them, or assist them in military action to kill other 
Muslims in any way, such Muslims become apostates.

"Allah has warned us against this crime, saying, 'The punishment of those 
who wage war against Allah and His apostle and strive to make mischief in 
the land is only this: that they should be murdered or crucified or their 
hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be 
imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the 
hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement'."

Bakri Mohammed said Gen Musharraf was guilty of "permitting American forces 
to use Muslim land, prostituting Pakistan's air, sea, land to US forces to 
bomb 26 million Muslims in Afghanistan".

He defined Muslim land thus: "Any country where Islam has entered or where 
there are Muslims living, that is a Muslim land."
"Therefore an attack on Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, or Palestine is 
an attack on Muslims. The Taleban are Muslims, they are not some people who 
have come from the moon," he said.

The cleric added, "Muslims are a brotherhood. Anybody who attacks the 
Taleban attacks Muslims. If they are attacked, it is obligatory for all 
Muslims to stand together with full support -- verbal, physical, financial."

Asked the difference between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, which allowed 
American forces on its soil in the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq, Bakri 
Mohammed replied, "Both instances are wrong, but in the case of Saudi 
Arabia, foreign troops were there to help and defend, not fight (sic). In 
Pakistan's case, they called non-Muslim forces to come and fight against 
Muslims."

Describing Gen Musharraf as a "foolish man", Bakri Mohammed said, "He wants 
to prove that he is a civilised person and can solve economic problems and 
thus become closer to the West. He knows he will soon go because of the 
coming elections and nobody supports him at all. If the people rise up 
against him, he will use force to show the West he is moderate and a copy of 
Mustapha Kemal [founder of modern Turkey], who destroyed the Islamic state 
[of Turkey] in 1924. "Musharraf will destroy fundamentalists just to show he 
is part of the international community."


http://www.rediff.com/us/2001/sep/19ny8.htm







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