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About 2,000 Islamist women gathered at the radical Red Mosque in the Pakistani capital and vowed to raise their children for holy war, only a few days ago when the lives of 18 people were taken at a rally by a suicide bomber. Yet, people haven’t learned their lessons. Today, there was a large gathering at the Red Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan.

The Red Mosque is a place of worship by radical and extremist Muslims. The Red Mosque and an adjoining women’s madrasa, or religious school, had for years been a bastion of militant support in Islamabad and the clerics and their followers had waged an increasingly defiant campaign to enforce Taliban rule.

Several thousand men attended a similar rally on Sunday to mark the anniversary of the July 10 commando raid that ended a week-long siege that began when gunmen from the mosque clashed with police.Shortly after the Sunday rally ended, a suicide bomber attacked police who had been guarding the gathering killing 18 people, all but three of them policemen.

Mainly, this large gathering was attended by women. This is an interesting yet frightening sight. These women have made a vow to raise their children for jihad. Yup, these women are going to teach their children to become radical Islamists. Get used to it. Yes, Pakistan still has the problem of Islamic extremism.

Chanting slogans of “jihad is our way”, burqa-clad women, some with babies, listened to fiery speeches from the daughter of the mosque’s jailed cleric on the eve of the anniversary of a commando raid on the complex in which more than 100 people died.

“Our mujahideen laid down their lives for the enforcement of the Islamic system in Pakistan. We are left behind to carry forward their mission

The crowd was responding with shrill chants of:

“we are ready” and “al jihad”. “We should prepare our children and men for jihad”
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“We are not terrorists. Islam does not teach terrorism … America and its stooges are terrorists”

“We are holding this rally to tell the world we are alive and in high spirits. Islam can never be wiped out. It grows more after martyrs shed their blood.”

My question is, Is America Listening, will this be discussed in the 2008 US Presidential Elections

The political situation in Kashmir valley is reminiscent of the events of 1990, when lakhs of Kashmiri Muslims came out on the streets shouting themselves hoarse with “Hum kya chahte Aazadi” (we want independence). Ostensibly, these protests are against Indian “moves” to change the demography of Kashmir and a mass movement to preserve its ecology, as Mufti Mohammed Sayed and his Hurriyat masters would have the gullible press and ill informed Indian leadership to believe. None of these causes will stand close scrutiny. The protests are well orchestrated and thoughtfully timed to serve a purely political purpose. That Mufti is merely his master’s ( Hurriyat) voice is, by now, well known and widely documented. Remember the last Assembly elections? It was an open secret that PDP was supported by the militants. Sometimes their support was so brazen that opposing candidate’s movement and campaigning in a given area would be seriously threatened by Jihadis ,whereas Mehbooba and her candidates would not only be provided security by them, but even the crowds would be brought to her public meetings, by employing coercive methods to frighten the common people in favor of PDP.
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