Source/Credit: Ahmadiyya Times
By Imran Jattala | December 8, 2011
Faisalabad: In view of the sensitive Muharram event, various district administrations undertook preventive measures in Faisalabad and vicinity, in Punjab, Pakistan .
Some administrators issued orders placing firm restrictions on mullas [clerics] on entering their districts or on their speaking in public.
The aim is to minimize the sectarian mischief they create on this occasion, the authorities have asserted.
“64 respected clerics [Ulama Karam] banned from entering Faisalabad for two month,” a leading right-wing Urdu-daily Nawa-i-Waqt of Pakistan lamented in its headline of November 24, 2011.
“32 others forbidden to speak in public [Zuban Bandi],” the paper further complained.
“DCO Nasim Sadiq issued orders to maintain peace and religions harmony during Muharram,” the report said listing the names of all the banned clerics.
The newspaper listed the “respected clerics” with their nicknames - more suitable for gangsters and thugs, it was learned.
The nicknames reported by Nawa-i-Waqt are “descriptive of their personality and communal conduct,” it was comented.
One of the listed mulla, for example, is Riaz Hussain Toka. Toka is a kind of chopper, more closely likened to a machete. Another calls himself Toofani, or a tornado.
Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah, a cleric from Lahore has added the word ‘Atom Bom’ to his name.
It is noteworthy that most of the listed radical clerics are routinely permitted to address and lead anti-Ahmadiyya rallies in nearby Rabwah where numerous such rallies are held every year to antagonize the town's resident from a minority Muslim sect..
--‘Ulama Karam’ on leash – for the present only
-- Ahmadiyya Times
-- By Imran Jattala | follow on twitter: @IJattala
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