doors for the terrorists to kill as many people as they liked only if they were clean shaven, wearing trousers and shirts and not Shalwar Kameez, since then they would not be tried in military courts or called as terrorists.
The amendment would give license to kill to everybody who is not supporting a beard and is not wearing a cap, adding that, it will also open doors for secular elements to continue their terrorism by wearing a turban, cap and shalwar Kameez to put blame on religious people, he maintained.
He said the nation would not forgive those who are trying to thrust dictatorship in the name of democracy. He lamented that rulers had betrayed Pakistan ideology despite that they claim themselves to be successors of those leaders who created Pakistan. He said the JI had suggested that in the official amendment, the words “religion” and “sect”, should be replaced by “educational institutions”. The JI chief stressed that a list of those convicted in terrorism cases should be prepared to ascertain how many of them had been studying at the seminaries and how many were associated with mainstream colleges and universities.
He said whoever advised the prime minister to focus the amendment on religion, seminaries and mosques was actually his enemy and has opened a new front against the PM comprising over three millions students of seminaries and their families. He warned that such a confrontation would never be beneficial for national unity and security. He said actually the real issues forcing common people to take the law into their hands were price hike, unemployment, injustices and concentration of wealth into few hands. Siraj said civil war and conflicts were going on in as many as thirteen Muslim countries where Muslims were shedding the blood of other Muslims. He said that by closing the doors of democracy, the people had been driven to the gun. He said that imposing an opinion on someone by force was un-Islamic. However, he advised the Islamic forces to continue their struggle with firm resolve and perseverance, equipped with the power of argument and knowledge.
He said entire nation condemned terrorism and added that the JI had offered greatest sacrifices for the security of the country. However, he said the government had sown the seeds of hatred and reaction by targeting religion in particular. He said after the Peshawar tragedy, all political and religious parties had demonstrated great unity and understanding and given full mandate to the rulers to adopt every possible step to uproot terrorism. However, the government had targeted the seminaries and religion instead of terrorism.