Thursday, February 22, 2007

al-Ace is the place with the Hateful Hardware Guy


About the Muslim Shooter of Zil-e-Huma (pretty, wasn't she?) He owns a hardware store. Oh, and is "fired by a passion to purge society of women who defy Islamic customs."

I killed her because she was un-Islamic.

Muhammad Sarwar, the killer belongs to Ahle Hadith, a local religious vigilante group, and had allegedly killed four prostitutes in 2002, but who was acquitted for want of evidence.

About Ahl-Hadith: (source:wICKipedia. editing:Dinah) Ahl Hadith is an Islamic school of thought emerging in South Asia in the 1830's. Its members reject the Sunni schools of Islamic law emphasizing what members say are the original principles of Islam ala the Salafists.

I guess that's what the police meant when they said this about the hateful hardware guy:

"Police said that Sarwar has "his own interpretation of Islam". Sarwar told interrogators that he was fired by a passion to purge society of women who defy Islamic customs. "

More about those Middle Class Islamic family values:
"Sarwar owns a hardware shop in Gujranwala and has nine children - four sons and five daughters. He had ordered his wife and daughters to stay at home and veil their faces."

Oh, and about Ahl-i Hadith?
"There is an active branch in Great Britain with over forty mosques and community centres throughout the country. Members established a head office in Birmingham since 1975.

With tentacles back to Pakistan:
There is a central executive committee (Majlis-e Amal) which seeks to guide the Ahl-i Hadith establishment in Pakistan.

I think the Pakistan crowd's site is here.

The UK bunch is here. According to their site they are living in the Dar-ul-Harb and loving it. They state:
Islam is also the basis of the civilisation and the politics of the state. The teachings of Islam provide guidelines for the betterment of life, in this world as well as life in the hereafter. Islam does not inculcate in it's followers priesthood and celibacy. It is not an escape from the material life or it's difficultis (sic)and comforts. Islam is not a faith which allows it's followers to be blindly faithful to the inherited customs and the primitive rites of the ancestors.

They even have their own constitution:
Markazi Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith has its own Constitution which outlines the ways and methods to be adopted by the Jamiat for furthering its objective.

And they proudly state: This constitution is accepted and recognised by the Charity Commission. I was able to find two organizations. This one. And this one.

This is wrong on so many levels.