Today, as reported by the BBC, tens of thousands of people have protested in the Pakistani city of Karachi against a radical mosque and its religious schools in Islamabad.

BBC News,
Karachi protest at Sharia mosque

The protest organisers, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), branded the mosque "religious terrorists".

The MQM is largely supportive of the policies of President Pervez Musharraf.

MQM leader Altaf Hussain told Sunday's rally by telephone from London via loudspeakers: "Islam is a religion of peace and there is no place in it for using force or terrorism.

"The people of Islamabad are insecure and under threat due to the activities of these religious terrorists."

Aziz of course blames all these vices on the influence of the West from General Musharraf's 1999 coup and the straying from Islamic principles since then. One may wonder what his true motives may really be since video shops and brothels already existed way before Musharraf came along. It seems to me that he is merely using the vice as a pretext to finally make Pakistan into another Talibanish hellhole.

Before anyone starts thinking to themselves that here we finally have "moderate" Muslims protesting against terror tactics, think again: the MQM has had a violent past and is likely protesting that some other terror group is vying for power and they would prefer if only they were in charge. Things are not always as they appear.

Ever since Saudi Arabia began financing madrassas outside its own borders, there have been movements from students of those schools to push an Islamic agenda in secular Muslim countries. Recently there have been protests in Turkey over an Islamic-leaning prime minister becoming the country's president. [Al Jazeera]

Saudi money has even showed up lately lining the pockets of former President and current idiot Jimmy Carter whose recent insane remarks about Israel can be explained away by the fact that he's been shamelessly bribed to take a hard-line Islamic view of the Middle East.

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