Red Mosque reopens, immediately taken over by jihadis; Update: 12 dead in suicide bombing outside mosque
posted at 9:38 am on July 27, 2007 by Allahpundit
Funny in a set-up/punchline kind of way. Musharraf’s hands are tied by the ol’ moderate/extremist whipsaw: the logical thing to do would be to demolish the mosque and deprive the jihadis of a rallying point, but if he does that then the local non-jihadists will be outrageously outraged by his blasphemy. He’ll have to install a permanent security cordon around the complex instead, thereby forcing the jihadis to go seize another mosque so that the whole stupid process can repeat.
It’s a test of wills. And the first test is to see what color the building’s roof ends up as.
A chaotic situation unfolded on the streets outside the mosque complex Friday, with an angry crowd of hundreds watching as young men climbed onto the roof to chant jihadist slogans and repaint parts of the building red, after the government had painted it a soft yellow. The men also hung the Red Mosque’s old, signature black flags from the building’s minarets, and threatened to take over a nearby market.
Earlier, a group of extremist activists had blocked a cleric recently appointed by the government to lead the mosque from delivering his Friday sermon–traditionally the focal point of the Muslim holy day.
Instead, the group demanded the return of Maulana Abdul Aziz, the mosque’s former leader, who was arrested while trying to flee the compound dressed in a burqa in the first days of the siege. Aziz’s younger brother Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who was the mosque’s deputy leader, was killed during the commando raid…
Security forces initially appeared to be keeping their distance from the mosque on Friday. But armored personnel carriers later moved in, and troops began firing tear gas cannisters in an attempt to disperse the crowd.
At least one bomb has already gone off a quarter-mile away. 4 dead, 30 wounded. Here’s some video I found on LiveLeak of some of the mosque’s most loyal patrons discussing their plans for the future. They skew even younger than this, if you can believe it.
Update: They came to play. I wonder how old the bomber was.
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If we didn’t do it every thing would be OK. Let all convert and have peace on earth… as long as you convert to the right kind of Islam.
Gwillie on July 27, 2007 at 9:44 AM
Didn’t Pakistan just test a cruise missle? I mean sometimes the guidance systems has some bugs in it and they have been known to go erratic on occasion….
/just saying accidents happen
LakeRuins on July 27, 2007 at 9:46 AM
“Dey don’t learn so good, do dey?”
mojo on July 27, 2007 at 9:47 AM
mojo on July 27, 2007 at 9:47 AM
They’re Muslims, what do you expect?
doriangrey on July 27, 2007 at 9:51 AM
Brainwashing has it’s consequences. Similar to the way the Neo-Libs have done on a daily basis for the past 6 1/2 years against Bush. The constant hate on a daily basis, constant charges of corruption, Bush lies every day, Bush is stupid, etc.over and over. You can tell the talking points are taking hold with the lesser informed because they repeat the message over and over without a singe fact to support their position. Fighting the war in Iraq is almost as tough as fighting the war at home. When the Red Mosque is filled with fanatics, just flush it again.
volsense on July 27, 2007 at 9:55 AM
A shame that the Red Mosque wasn’t completely destroyed along with all the inhabitants. It’s nothing more than a cancer, dangerous if allowed to grow and contaminate.
Princeps on July 27, 2007 at 9:58 AM
Yep. Stupid is as stupid does.
Jaibones on July 27, 2007 at 10:00 AM
how can any sane person believe that God wants little children to saw off heads. This cult is so gruesome and evil its sickening
Keli on July 27, 2007 at 10:16 AM
Yes, that is a good analogy. Much like this war that we’ll need to be fighting for a long time, Islamists are the excrement of all mankind who will need flushing from time-to-time.
CliffHanger on July 27, 2007 at 10:23 AM
Use it like roach bait, fill ‘er up, wait a bit and empty it out.
Alden Pyle on July 27, 2007 at 10:47 AM
Those sporty black niqabs being popularized by the Red Mosque are catching on here in the US too – saw plenty of them yesterday. Judging from the voices emanating from them, it was Americans, not immigrants wearing tham.
forest on July 27, 2007 at 10:54 AM
Rope-a-dope? If I’m going up against the gov’t, I’m sure not moving back into my HQ after the gov’t has been in there “remodeling”.
RushBaby on July 27, 2007 at 11:05 AM
Outlaw ISLAM!!!
Golfer_75093 on July 27, 2007 at 11:08 AM
AllahSatan has these people wrapped around his little finger.infidel4life on July 27, 2007 at 11:22 AM
A little normalcy would do wonders for these Pakistani kids. Otherwise their fate is set in stone.
captivated_dem on July 27, 2007 at 11:35 AM
Yah, like sort of a “roach motel” approach to Islam. The jihadis check in… but they don’t check out.
*heard in the background* R A I D !!! …boom
Mojave Mark on July 27, 2007 at 11:55 AM
because its in the koran..la la la la
Locrian on July 27, 2007 at 12:22 PM
Bad strategy. It’s like burning the house down to prevent a disease from spreading.
You treat the disease. The disease here is caused by radical Imams.
If these Imams mysteriously died every time one of them started preaching violent jihad, the surviving Imams would eventually learn to put a sock in it.
Kristopher on July 27, 2007 at 12:57 PM
So the Red Mosque fills up with radicals and the Pakistanis have to fight a pitched battle which kills a bunch of jihadis. What’s bad about that? Am I missing something?
And really, a suicide bombing is just the Islamist way of christening a new mosque, kinda like we break bottles of champagne on a new battleship.
Geez, do I have to ‘splain EVERYTHING!?
Tantor on July 27, 2007 at 1:04 PM
Can’t we kidnap these idiots & perform a lobotomy on them. Then they can really walk around like zombies.
nick on July 27, 2007 at 1:07 PM
Remind me again why we think killing children is bad? It evident in that video that when God called upon the Israelites to kill even the women and children in the Promised Land that there was a reason for it, Evil knows no bounds. Those children, just as these children are evil and need to be destroyed.
Tim Burton on July 27, 2007 at 1:57 PM
Too late the Koran has already done that.
We need to think how order is kept in Islamic countries. It’s all the same. A brutal dictator kills everybody who disagrees with him. See, it really is the religion of peace. Peace through death of your adversaries.
Mojave Mark on July 27, 2007 at 3:43 PM
Wow, there was a Storm Trooper burka thing there for a second.
Could Darth Vader be behind this?
The Berlin wall was to keep people from escaping communism. The US/Mexico wall is to keep criminals and terrorists out of the USA. The Pakistani wall should be built to keep all these Islamic head cases and their head sawing kids in.
Hening on July 27, 2007 at 4:15 PM
The Mosque of the Red Death.
profitsbeard on July 27, 2007 at 5:03 PM
What’s so hard to figure out here. Close the Mosque, board it up, station armed guards around the perimeter with orders not to take any crap and wait till the nutroots get other things on their minds like killing large amounts of their own kind.
NEMETI IN SYRACUSE on July 27, 2007 at 5:07 PM
But the dims use the word jihadi like it’s nothing. To describe a political opponent. When they won’t use GWOT. Not even shock anymore
PowWow on July 27, 2007 at 6:01 PM