Lal Majid: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED

A Dark Day In Pakistan: What Is The Reality Of the Lal Mosque Massacre
Sep 06, 2007

By Ahmed Al-Marid | Jihad Unspun
A new video produced in Pakistan has been released that asks some very tough questions about the Lal Mosque Massacre that was the catalyst for the impending meltdown of the Musharraf government. Produced in Urdu, here are some English highlights from the film that follows as the next news item.



The film starts of by introducing Lal Mosque, or the Red Mosque as it is commonly referred to, as one of the biggest and finest Islamic university in Pakistan where thousands of students, both male and female were getting their education. These children were as young as 10 years old and many of them were poor and orphaned. The children were taught religion as well as computer skills.



History has witnessed that Islam and Islamic teachings have always being protected by these schools.




The Musharraf regime began razing mosques in Islamabad in 2007 under pressure from the US and all religious schools protested. But the so-called Muslim government ignored this protest and continued this campaign. Under a host a varying excuses, they razed seven historic mosques in Islamabad and so to make this protest effective, female students of Jamia Hafsa, the female section of red mosque, took control of a government library.



The so-called government and its servants tried to stop all these protests but when they failed, they surrounded the Red Mosque on July 3, 2007. A propaganda campaign was launched against it using the dutiful media that claimed the following:



• Foreign fighters were inside the mosque

• The mosque had tunnels and bunkers inside it

• Adbul Rasheed Ghazi has kept women and children on gunpoint inside the mosque.

• Adbul Rasheed Ghazi was responsible for the failure of negotiations with the Musharraf regime.



In the film, a newscaster asks (Shaheed) Abdul Rasheed Ghazi:




Newscaster: “You said you have few licensed guns inside but government said a rocket was fired on armored personnel carrier?”



Ghazi: “We don’t have any rockets or anything but I’m sure when we all die inside, they will put rockets as well as atomic bomb inside saying we had it in here. That’s why I was saying media people should have been here to see what’s really going on here.”



But as time passed, it was proven that all propaganda by the government was based on lies. Those who were declared foreign fighters were found out to be Pakistani nationals. Those students who came out of the school never said they were captives.



Later in the film, a TV presenter asks a female student:



Newscaster: “Its said that you were inside the mosque because of pressure put upon you by Abdul Rasheed Ghazi or did you think your being inside was right? What do you say about it?”



Girl: “We were not inside under any kind of pressure. It was a school. I went there to study. I used to study quran from morning to evening, I used to memorize quran, our books were open when we ran out due to shelling by army, we don’t remember we closed our books or not. (crying).”




All the claims of tunnels and bunkers proved to be wrong. And the reality of the negotiations came into light.



A scholar who was in negotiations says in the film that a draft agreement was agreed to by all sides but Musharrafs envoy returned a brand new and different draft and then the negotiations failed.



What was the student’s crime???? Was protesting on razing of mosques a crime for which they were burnt alive? Who killed and injured these Islamic students and nationals of Pakistan? Who is this person who speaks like an enemy to us? (The film shows Musharraf’s picture)



Another girl on the film says:



Girl: “Where are our little sisters, our friends, our fellows? When we came out we had 100 bodies of girls inside. Parents call us and tell us that they haven’t found their daughters. Ninety five of our brothers were dead when we came out. We counted them with these very hands. Please believe us these hands were covered in blood when we came out. Are we not daughters of our nation?? If we are then why is Red mosque red with our blood? What was our crime?”



The other points the film raises are:




• If negotiations were not a drama then why did Musharraf veto it at the end?

• If the women and children were captives inside then why they didn’t speak about it when they came out?

• Why weren’t the burn dead bodies shown to media?

• If only 102 people died then where did the 1500 girls go?



The films ends with the question: Who will answer all these questions???



The film “A Dark Day In Pakistan: What Is the Reality Of The Red Mosque Masscare” follows as the next news item. (JUS)