Women Power

If you understand Urdu then please watch the video.

Female students of Jamia Hafsa seminary, backed by male students of other Madrassas, prevailed on the Islamabad police after a daylong showdown here on Wednesday.
The trouble started when the seminary students and teachers, supported by their patrons in Lal Masjid, decided to take the “community correction role” in their hands and kidnapped an old woman, her young daughter and daughter-in-law on Tuesday night blaming them for “immoral activities” in the area. [Source]

Adil Najam at Paksitaniat has raised concerns at this deplorable condition of law and order in Pakistan.

The hostage-taking by women students from Jamia Hafsa in Islamabad of the residents of a house that they allege is a brothel is not just another act of vigilantism and a breakdown of governance; it is also a manifestation of a nation divided against itself. Coming at a time when the legitimacy of the government is at its lowest after the recent fiasco of the Chief Justice’s removal, the powers in Islamabad seem to have little ability and even less stomach to address the criminality of this act given their own recent actions. What we are seeing now are the signs of a society without direction, a state without control, a government without legitimacy.

Another report at Islamabad Metroblog

Here is what sunnipath blog has to say

Situations such as this, the shaykh said, are very dangerous, because Islam is a religion of law, and it commands its followers to abide by the law and to remain within its limits. When there are problems with the government, its laws, or the enforcement of those laws, then it is a believer’s duty to take all legal means possible to seek to rectify matters. But one cannot take the law into one’s own hand, as this is contrary to the Shariah and a recipe for lawlessness, crime, and vigilantism and it creates very dangerous precedents. This is a case of one problem being dealt with in ways that create many other problems.

This post will be updated as things unfold.

Videos of interview with the students and teacher of Jami’ah Hafsa. A student talks about how the Pakistani police force mistreated the Muslimahs, even using tear gas and plastic bullets on them! They justified their stand based on the fact the famous hadeeth that one should stop an evil by force, if not not by words and if not even that then he/she should condemn that act within his/her heart. The videos are in urdu:

Thanks to Mohib for digging out the videos.

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