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Ulema convention
opposes 'Sharia by force'
PESHAWAR, April 17: A convention of some 2,000 scholars,
teachers and administrators representing over 1000 madressas
across the country on Tuesday declared suicide attacks
un-Islamic and opposed enforcement of Sharia by force.
Organized by JUI-F, the convention also declared illegal and
un-Islamic threats to hairdressers against shaving off beards
and attacks on video shops in the name of Islam and curbing
obscenity.
The meeting of scholars adopted a joint declaration containing
six resolutions. In one of the resolutions, the scholars and
ulema disapproved acts of subversion carried out recently in
many parts of the country by some extremists.
They also opposed issuing letters containing threats to video
shops, barbers and administrations of schools for girls.
The declaration said that some invisible forces had committed
suicide attacks against administration of an Islamic country
causing harm to innocent Muslims.
"Such violent acts are not only against the law of the land,
these acts of subversion are also against Shariat. This cannot
be supported," the declaration said.
NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani, provincial ministers and
heads of seminaries from the NWFP, Fata, Karachi, Islamabad,
Lahore and other parts of the country attended the convention.
The declaration said: "JUI-F believes in political,
constitutional and democratic struggle to implement Shariat
across the country. But the party workers and students of
seminaries should stay away from all the conspiracies being
hatched in the name of Islam.
"Heads of all seminaries are requested not to indulge themselves
in such conspiracies and focus only on learning activities.
Religious institutions should only be used for educational
activities."
One of the resolutions said that the country had been built in
the name of Islam and it was the government's responsibility to
take action to eliminate indecency and immorality in order not
to provide opportunity to non-state elements to take law into
their hands.
The declaration, signed by prominent clerics, including Mualana
Fazlur Rehman, said that people were being instigated to rush to
Islamabad and participate in Jihad. "Masses are being instigated
through provocative statements, pamphlets, telephonic address
and slogans to provoke them.
Source: The Dawn
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