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October 7, 2006

Pakistan: Earthquake Orphans Indoctrinated By Islamists

The massive earthquake of October 8 last year, with an epicenter 50 miles north northeast of Islamabad, caused massive loss of life. Following the initial deaths of about 50,000 in Pakistan alone, the villages in the north of the country were badly served by the Pakistani authorities. As a result, the Islamists of Kashmir were more successful at reaching victims and setting up makeshift hospitals.

India offered the use of its helicopters, but Musharraf's arrogance meant that he refused this aid unless Pakistani pilots operated them. The earthquake took place only four days into Ramadan, and led to claims that the catastrophe was Allah's punishment for sin, including the sin of not hating Israel enough.

Islamist groups set up small field hospitals in the immediate aftermath of the quake, where Musharraf's official emergency services had failed. They also provided food relief. Among these groups were Jamat-ud-Dawah and its affiliate group Isara Khidmat-e-Khalq. These two groups were designated as terrorist organisations by the US at the end of April. Jamat-ud-Dawah, also spelled Jama'at-ud Da'awah, was founded by Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, who also founded the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba or LeT (Army of the Pure).

The US urged Pakistan to outlaw Jamat-ud-Dawah, but Musharraf's government refused. The US, and every analyst except those in the Pakistani government, claim that Jamat-ud-Dawah funds terrorism in Kashmir and is a sponsor of LeT.

Jamat-ud-Dawah, despite its patronage in Pakistan, is extreme in every sense of the word. It has been involved with the abduction and sale of young Christian boys. The boys were held at Mudrike, near Lahore in the Punjab, where Jamat-ud-Dawah has its headquarters, before being sold to gangs for begging.

This week, Rediff.com and Southeast Asia Analysis Group reported Jamat-ud-Dawah as being responsible for a death warrant against Pope Benedict XVI, for his Regensburg address.

The Jamaat-ud-Dawa has declared death to Pope Benedict and said that in today's world blasphemy of the Holy Koran and the Prophet has become a fashion. The leaders of the Jamaat were speaking at a Martyrs' Islamic Conference in Karachi. Prominent Jamaat leader Hafiz Saifullah Khalid said that in the present circumstances, jihad has become obligatory for each Muslim. Muslims are being declared terrorists and our battle for survival has already started. The Muslim world has rejected the Pope's apology and decided to continue protests and demonstrations in big cities.

The Jamat-ud-Dawah is not the only group which receives charity money to "help earthquake victims" and then channels the funds towards sponsoring terrorism. A group called Muslim Charity and another called Crescent Relief, both based in Britain, are suspected of funding Kashmiri terrorism.

And in every disaster of magnitude, there will always be orphans. Young, defenceless, they are perfect blank pages upon which Islamists can engrave their militant ideology. And sure enough, Jamaat-ud-Dawah is helping orphans, but also encouraging them to follow its militant and uncompromising theology.

And in an assembly at one orphanage run by Jamat-ud-Dawah, little children recite a little song: "When people deny our faith, ask them to convert, and if they do not, destroy them utterly."

Today's Telegraph reports on the Islamists exploiting the victims of the earthquake, which happened a year ago tomorrow. The author of the article, Isambard Wilkinson, spoke to Qazi Mahmood-ul Hassan, who runs the Jamia Dar-Uloom al Islamia madrassa in Muzaffarabad. He said that he had 55 orphans in his care.

His madrassa is Deobandi, following a strict interpretation of Sunni Islam. It worked last year in relieving earthquake victims, with the assistance of the Al-Rashid Trust. This group was designated as a terror sponsor by the US Treasury on September 23, 2001. It was designated by the UN on October 6, 2001.

The Al Rashid Trust has been funding the Taliban (also Deobandi in ideology) since 1999 and is linked to terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed (Army of Mohammed).

Qazi Mahmood-ul Hassan states that hundreds of other orphans are in the care of other madrassas and also the Jamat-ud-Dawah, saying: "These people have taken orphans. They have a target of convincing people to accept their ideology."

An unnamed professional, who works with Jamat-ud-Dawah in Muzaffarabad claims that most of the group members he had met were former jihadists who had been engaged in Kashmir and Afghanistan. At one Jamat-ud-Dawah hospital, he claims that the head of security is called "Mr Bomblast" on account of his bomb-making experience.

The man said: "I do not trust them. They bring books in favour of jihad for the patients to read and preach a hard-line form of Islam. They do not allow radio or television on the wards."

Abdullah Muntazir, a spokesman for Jamat-ud-Dawah said: "We are not preaching extremism. Perhaps we have influenced people but they were already committed to Islam." Muntazir denies that his group takes care of orphans.

The Pakistan government has completely failed in its earthquake relief, abnegating the task of rebuilding the lives of earthquake survivors to charities of dubious integrity. By doing this, it has given Islamist extremists such as Jamat-ud-Dawah carte blanche to exploit the victims' plight, and to exploit for terrorist ends charity funds, donated with goodwill by well-wishers.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 7, 2006 5:24 PM

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