Female Islamic students abduct 'brothel owner'
Female Islamic students on an anti-vice drive have abducted an alleged brothel owner and locked her up at their fundamentalist seminary in the Pakistani capital Islamabad.
Authorities have arrested four of the seminary’s teachers in connection with the abduction.
With jihadist songs playing on the loudspeakers of a neighbouring mosque, about 200 students staged a protest at the school today demanding their release.
Abdul Rashid Ghazi, vice-principal at the seminary, threatened jihad, or holy war, unless the women teachers were freed.
“These vulgarities (brothels) are destroying society and the decree says that in this situation, jihad is the only way,” he said, without specifying what that would entail. “They (police) have arrested our respected, veiled teachers for a corrupt woman.”
Authorities are holding negotiations with school administrators to hand over the woman to police but they are “being unreasonable,” the officer said.
The Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad and associated seminaries have a reputation for preaching hard-line Islam, and links to an outlawed militant group. Their defiance of the government has exposed its failure to regulate Pakistan’s thousands of religious schools, even in the federal capital.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
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