Badshahi Mosque, the Largest Mosque in Lahore
The Huffington Post | By Kira Brekke
What goes on behind the walls of Pakistan’s most religious schools is kept relatively secret. However, BBC journalist Mobeen Azhar gained unprecedented access, allowing him to explain to HuffPost Live what he described as the “Arabizing of Pakistan.”
Azhar had a plan when he first arrived at Islamabad’s infamous Red Mosque seminary: behave like a visitor and build trust very slowly. By making it “quite clear” he was a BBC journalist, he thinks those at the seminary were “pleased” to have a platform from someone potentially “sympathetic to what they were teaching,” he told host Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani on Wednesday.
Soon after, however, Azhar realized that instead of teaching a “softer” type of Islam which is traditional in Pakistan, the Red Mosque was teaching Wahhabi Islam, a much more socially conservative type of Islam from Saudi Arabia.
“Lots of people now are becoming much more Arabized,” he said. “You see on the streets of Pakistan, for example, people are now dressing like Arabs. Lots of people are rejecting traditional Pakistani identity, and I think it comes down to an identity crisis. I also think there’s an influx of Saudi money, and we can’t understate the effect that’s having.”
There are “hugely problematic” consequences for this conservative move, and Azhar explained that many of the school’s alumni have joined extremely religious and right-wing political parties, or have even become prominent members of the Pakistani Taliban.
“Many people who’ve graduated from these particular schools, you know, have gone on to do abhorrent things, like praise Osama Bin Laden,” Azhar said. “So it is a huge problem, and it certainly does need regulation.”
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At an event at the Badshahi Mosque [Lahore] recently a federal minister was present when extremely unseemly words were used for the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace). The government seems to have joined the mullah against the Ahmadis and has thus created a very perilous situation. Therefore, Huzur said, a lot of prayers should be offered for the protection of the life and property of each Pakistani Ahmadi from all evil. Pakistani Ahmadis have always prayed, they should continue to do so and Ahmadis all over the world should also pray for them. Similarly there are surges of persecution in India and in Indonesia. Currently elections are being held in these countries. Prayers should be made for fair and just governments to come to power. Huzur said Ahmadis in Kazakhstan are also being harassed by governmental organisations; prayers are needed for them as well.
Huzur prayed that may God bestow each Ahmadi all over the world with His grace and may they all receive the beneficence of the attribute of Al Lateef. Ahmadis should pray, may Allah keep everyone protected.
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