Why are they saying terrible things about Tahir ul Qadri?
Note: Here’s a sample of those criticizing Tahir ul Qadri: https://lubpak.com/archives/239195/comment-page-1#comment-361123
Related post: Why did Pakistani plutocrats go hammer and tongs at #TahirulQadri – by Ayaz Amir
The entire media and right wing politicians have been demonizing Tahir ul Qadri for being an enemy of democracy and an American agent bent upon destroying the Pakistan society. But the truth is different. They are against him for the following reasons:
1. He glorifies Imam Hussain and denounces Yazid. Since Pakistan’s right wing leaders including Nawaz Sharif have embraced Saudi version of Islam, which glorifies Yazid, they have to defend Islam. Otherwise they will lose their regular doze of billions of dollars.
2. The Taliban and the al-Qaeda are pro-Yazid. They even name their children after Yazid. Shahbaz Sharif has publicly called the Taliba “Our brothers”.
3. Just like Yazid, these right wing politicians hate the power of the masses. Imam Hussain stood for the masses.
4. He is not an obscurantist mullah like the ones we see on TV supported by the likes of Nawaz Sharif. He is a PhD in Islamic studies and has been a professor at the Punjab University.
5. He infuriated the Islamofascists by giving a fatwa that a murdered woman’s blood money is equal to that of a man’s
6. He is hated by Saudi Arabia. He applied for a stay in Saudi Arabia where he wanted to do research. The Saudi government refused to let him in. He challenges Saudi-sponsored Deobandi-Wahhabi hegemony in Pakistan.
7. He is on the hit list of the Taliban (and Takfiri Deobandi affiliates LeJ-ASWJ). The Islamofascist politicians are partners-in-crime with the Taliban.
8. He regards Shias as Muslim. He is always accompanied by a Shia scholar. In his movement there is a great Shia presence. The Shias respect him so much that he is regularly invited to address their religious meetings. How can the Islamofascists accept such a man?
9. He wrote a landmark 600-page book in which he proved that suicide bombing was forbidden in Isla. The Taliban issued a fatwa to kill him for writing the book.
10. He has built thousands of schools where education is free and stipends are given to almost all students. The Taliban destroy schools. They hate him for building schools.
11. He is in favor of women’s education. He has built schools for women. The Taliban and the Islamofascist politicians do not want women to get educated. They argue that the best place for a woman is confined within her house.
12. He declared that Salman Taseer was wrongly killed. Islamofascists celebrated his assassination.
13. He has written hundreds of books. Islamofascists proudly burn books. One journalist once wrote: “The only book I found in Nawaz Sharif’s living room was a telephone directory.”
14. His greatest sin is that he wants a true democracy in Pakistan where people’s voice can be heard. The ruling elite of Pakistan cannot forgive this sin.
Excellent article, Jehangir Hafsi! Khodafez, Tahir ul Qadri!
Agreed. Tahir ul Qadri’s biggest “crime” is that he glorifies Imam Hussain (RA, AS). Hussain is hero for any freedom fighter who is little aware of history. Dr. Qadri’s love for him and Ah-lul Bait is enough to make him the tallest figure among contemporary Barelvi scholars. May Allah protect him.
Tahirul Qadri did what opposition leaders fail to do
Saeed Ahmed and Khalid Iqbal
Saturday, January 19, 2013
From Print Edition
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Rawalpindi
People from different walks of life congratulated chief of Tehrik Minhajul Quran (TMQ) Dr. Tahirul Qadri, and his determined and committed supporters.
They termed the long march and sit-in a grand success. Dr. Tahirul Qadri proved that demands could be met even through peaceful way instead of adopting the path of violence. By holding historical long march and making sit-ins, Tahirul Qadri along with his lovers achieved what opposition leaders failed to do. In this context, the people specifically mentioned the name of Imran Khan, chief of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf.
Shahid Mahmood, resident of Lalazar, said that even Imran Khan a year ago while protesting took out a long march against the government. However, Imran Khan did not achieve his task because he didn’t look determined and committed as after making speeches the protesters disbursed. However, Dr Tahir Qadri stuck to his mission and did not move an inch from the site of the long march until the leaders of the federal government and its allies approached him for talks and accept his agenda. It is quiet a big achievement, he stated.
Risalat Abbasi, a government servant, lauding the long march and sit-in by tens of thousands said that the participants did not deter to any threat of terrorism, rainy and chilly weather and other odds like lack of facilities.
Referring to the emotional words used by Dr. Tahir Qadri, Advocate Arshad Mahmood, said that it happens when one gets infuriated after being fed up of the wrong policies and bad governance. Qadri raised his voice for the rights of people, fought for it till the last minute and in the end achieved the task, which he pledged on number of occasions.
A housewife, Khalida Waseem of New Harley Street, told this scribe that sitting for more than four days is not easy job and that too by large number of women and children, braving chilly and cold weather and feeling the threat of terrorist act.
The participants along with their leader did not care for their lives and remained on the venue of Jinnah Avenue for four long days. They were there only for saving the country and its people from looters, plunderers, robbers and thieves who have destabilised everything by leaving nothing even in institutions of PIA, Railways, Power Units. Factories and Industries are closed due to excessive loadshedding of power and gas. People are deprived of ‘roti’, ‘kapra’ and ‘makan’ because of present corruption, she observed.
The community of traders, shopkeepers and intellectuals also paid tributes to Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri for coming out on roads along with thousands of his supporters to bring revolution in the country. Leaders like Imran Khan and Sheikh Rashid just stress upon the people to take to streets for achieving their rights. Whenever, people staged protest demonstrations against power and gas loadshedding, none of these leaders joined them to express solidarity instead of remained busy in giving interviews to print and electronic media for achieving their vested interest, the traders of Syedpur Road stated. However, Dr Qadri despite receiving threats to his life, act boldly and proved as a rock for the government and its allies, said Arshad Abbasi, a trader in the Commercial Market.
However, those opposed the ‘long march’ termed it a deal between the government and Dr Qadri without achieving any objective. The sit-in tensed the situation and paralysed life of common man, especially for those living in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, they said.
Muhammad Imtiaz Abbasi, a local, said that the government cleverly handled the situation to make Dr Qadri part of the present set-up. “What Qadri achieved for poor public who faced all odds in the federal capital for four and a half days,” he asked.
Muhammad Nouman, a student, said that tens of thousands of people participated in the sit-in for a change but what kind of change Dr Qadri has brought for them.
Shakila Fatima, a banker, said that majority of poor was expecting relief through Qadri’s revolution. They were sure that all their basic needs including ‘atta’, petrol, gas, electricity etc. would be available easily and at cheaper rates but they got nothing except deal between the government and Qadri, she said.
Niaz Ahmed, a lawyer, said that several women and children in the sit-in faced severe cold and even hospitalised. They faced odds for a change in the country through their beloved leader ‘Qadri’. They were expecting that Dr Qadri would not shake hand with looters of the country who deprived the people even from all basic needs.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-6-155131-Tahirul-Qadri-did-what-opposition-leaders-fail-to-do