Youth violence in

Pakistan
Who is right & who is wrong?
 Overview
 The history of Pakistan
 Discrimination: the case of violence
 The history of Pakistan
 The Madrassas System
 The number of Madrassas
 The major conflict
 Israel and Islam: History
 Christianity and Islam: Crusade
 Islamic worldview of Jihad
 Terrorism vs. Jihad
 Islamic brotherhood
 The affects of Islamic teaching on education
 Male dominated culture
 Christian Teaching: Love
 Conclusion
 The History of Pakistan
 Pakistan came into being on August 14, 1947, after the
partition of the sub-continent of India, which was under
British Rule due to the political struggle of various political
leaders. The country was founded on the principle of Islam,
therefore the constitutions says “The Islamic republic of
Pakistan.”
 Islam is the official state religion, Islamic Sahriah law is
being enforced as the supreme law of the Land; therefore,
the judicial, legislative and executive branches are working
under the Shariah law.
 All of Pakistan’s laws are being modified and reframed
according to the injunctions of the Quran, which is the Holy
Book of Muslims. The present constitution, political system
and government are undemocratic.
 Discrimination: the case of
violence
 An Islamic theocracy is prevailing in Pakistan today. Under
this system, the non-Muslims in Pakistan have neither equal
political, socio-economical status, nor equal access to
available opportunities in order that they might play a
leading role in the national set-up.
 In Pakistan, the most outcast people are Christians. Since
there are no Jews, the Muslims target Christians.
 97 percent of the population is Muslim and 3 percent are
minorities including Christians and Hindus.
 Under the penal code, desecration of the Koran is
punishable by life imprisonment.
 Any insult to the Prophet Muhammad is punishable by
death.
 Blasphemy laws and Violence
 Churches and Christian towns are
burnt in name of blasphemy laws.
 Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
 A militant Islamist organization and the largest sectarian
outfit in the country.
 The prime targets are the Shi’a community and Iranian
interests in Pakistan.
 SSP was formed on September 6, 1985 with the core
mission of targeting Shi’as, whom the group believes are
non-Muslims.
 The Pakistani authorities are well aware that the SSP has
received considerable financial and logistical assistance
from Saudi intelligence.
 The SSP has considerable influence on various political
parties.
 Jamaat-Islami and the Jamaat-Ulema-e-Islam are now main
political parties associate with SSP.
 Other Militant Islamist
Organizations in Pakistan
 Sipah-e-Muhamammad Pakistan, is a militant
Shi’a organization
 Tehrik-Nifqh-e-Jafaria is a main Shi’a politico-
religious party.
 Apart from attacking each other they are involve
din world terrorism.
 The Shi’a Sunni conflict in Pakistan predates the
emergence of SSP, there has been a major
escalation in sectarian violence since the anti-
Shi’a riots in Lahore of 1986.
 The SSP is also a byproduct of the Zia ul-Haw (a
dictator) regime, which tried to create an Islamist
counter to pro-democracy forces in the country.
 After assuming power, Zia ul-Haq encouraged the formation
of the Militant organizations against non-Muslim in order to
scuttle the influence of the people’s Party and Zulfikar Ali
Bhutto, who was a Shi’a president of the Pakistan.
 Most of the bomb and grenade attacks in Pakistan are
believed to have been carried out by sectarian or al Qaeda
linked militants.
 Madrasas run by banned sectarian and jihadi groups
operate freely countrywide and continue to provide foot
soldiers to radical Islamist organizations, for the jihads in
Afghanistan and Kashmir and to al-Qaeda linked terror
groups.
 The Madrassas System
 In the 1980s, the
madrassas urged their
students to go fight the
Soviet infidels in
Afghanistan. In 1997, Mr.
al-Haq the president of
Pakistan closed Haqqania a
well known madrassa for a
while to send the
madrassa's students to
help the Taliban take
control of Afghanistan from
the warlords who were
destroying the country.
 The traditions of Islam talks
about Madrassas System.
 radical madrassas operate
in many corners of the
globe
 Americans should know three things about the madrassas in
Pakistan—they are free, effective, and many espouse radical
Islamic ideology. Poverty prevents many Pakistanis from
purchasing materials—books, for example—needed to attend public
schools. The allure of a free education therefore is potent.

 One of the biggest

Islamic university
survives on the
generosity of
benefactors, including
alumni, Saudis, and other
Arabs in the Persian Gulf
region. Its willingness to
take students who
cannot pay for their
education -- Haqqania
does not charge for food,
housing, or tuition -- has
great appeal
 The number of Madrassas
 The religious proliferation in Pakistan can easily be
illustrated by the number of established religious
institutions.
 In the 1950s, besides a few Shi'a madrasas there were 137
traditional Sunni madrasas in Pakistan.
 By 1971 there were close to 900 madrasas with about 3000
teachers and more than 30,000 regular students.
 The Afghan war boosted religious motivation to prevent the
flood of communism and the number of religious
institutions in Pakistan increased to 45,000.85 According to
one report, more than 17,500 madrasas are said to have a
pronounced sectarian orientation while 1500 are imparting
military training
 The major conflict
 Much of the conflict in the Middle East centers around
conflicts between Israel and the Arab world.
 Most of the people groups discussed in Genesis no longer
exist. The two who were promised numerous descendents
(Ishmael and Isaac) have numerous people who claim that
ancestry even today.
 The two groups who claim descent from
Abraham are still fighting for control of the land God gave
Abraham.
 Israel and Islam: History
 Islam is the fastest growing religion and the second largest
religion in the world.
the second largest religion in the world.
 Among every four humans in the world, one of them is
Muslim.
 Muslims have increased by over 235 percent in the last fifty
years up to nearly 1.6 billion. By comparison, Christians
have increased by only 47 percent, Hinduism, 117 percent,
and Buddhism by 63 percent. Islam is the second largest
religious group in France, Great Britain and USA (Muslims in
USA are 10 millions and Jews are 6 millions).
World population trends
 Brief History of Isreal
 Israel Conquered by Babylonians,
 Persians, Greeks, Romans (Wars in 70,
 132-135).
 In the 4th Century, part of the Byzantine
 Empire
 In 7th Century, captured by Muslims.
 1099 First Crusade recaptures
 Second Crusade in 1145 fails to extend
 Christianity and Islam: Crusades
 The main reason of enmity of Muslim and Christian is the
series of crusades against Islam.
 Muslim associate Christianity with Judaism.
 Muslim consider west as Christian and East as Muslim, this
division is also causes conflicts.
 1187 Crusaders lose Jerusalem
 1192 Third Crusade fails
 1202 4th Crusade against E. Orthodox
 1212 “Children’s Crusade”
 1229 6th Crusade (peacefully) regains
 Jerusalem (temporarily)
 1244 Muslims recapture Jerusalem
 1517 Ottoman Turks assume power
 1917 British control Palestine after WWI
 1947 UN Resolution for partition of Israel
 (Many Orthodox Jews oppose believing
 the restoration should wait for Messiah.)
 1948 Israeli troops conquer modern Israel
 1967 Six Day War extends Israel’s control
 to include West Bank and Gaza Strip.
 Islamic worldview of Jihad
 Jihad is the one of the five pillars of Islam.
 Every Muslim is commanded to fight for the sake of Islam.
 Modern extreme Islamic groups have taken the concept of
Jihad way too different.
 Now it is the commanded by “mullahs” the religious heads
to kill every one who is not from the same Muslim sect.
 It is all about power and authority.
 The recent incident of Lal Masjid in Pakistan where.
 The new generation of Muslims is brain washed. They are
taught and raised into an ignorant mindset that does not
consider differing opinions, but are instead indoctrinated to
react violently to any different belief systems.
 Several other factors like poverty, hunger, hatred, and
illiteracy contribute to terrorist activities which according to
Muslim it is their right to fight for what they do not have.
 Terrorism vs. Jihad
 Terrorism means violence, intimidate, terror campaign.
Different cultures and people define terrorism in different
way.
 According to West what Muslim s are doing is terrorism and
according to Muslims what West is doing is terrorism.
 To Muslim it is Jihad, a commandment from Allah to fight for
Islam and it is their duty to fulfill the commandment.
 Many Islamic student union were established in the name of
Allah to discipline student through Qur’an, in other words to
train them for violence, suicide bombing , fighting against
authorities and principalities of country.
 The President of Pakistan admitted this fact that the
meaning of Jihad as it is commanded by Qur’an has been
taken in a wrong direction, and he allied with the USA, has
been trying to get rid of these extreme terrorist
organizations.
 Islamic brotherhood
 When Muhammad started his ministry, he called all Muslims
brothers and Qur’an says “you are a brother to each other,”
Therefore, all Muslim are brothers. Regardless of their
racial, ethnic, and national differences they consider each
other brothers.
 When America attacks on any Islamic country the Muslim of
Pakistan kill Christians in Pakistan, they burn the churches
and Christian town to take revenge of what America does
with their Islamic brothers.
 In Afghan wand Iran war, many Pakistani went to
Afghanistan and Iraq to fight for their brothers with the
passion of brotherhood.
 Muslim have a big misconception that America and
England are the head of Christianity just as Saudi Arabia is
head of Islam.
 The Afghan war from the time of Soviet Union pushed two
million Afghan refugees into Pakistan, and many of them, in
dire poverty, have put their sons in the care of the less
selective madrassas.
 Since the settlement of Afghan refugees in Pakistan, many
madrassas have been started to train students for worldly
knowledge as well as Qur’anic knowledge which include the
concept of Jihad. Many terrorist organization's leaders are
the product of these madrassas.
 The U.S. State Department’s 2006 Country Report on
Terrorism has called Pakistan “a major source of Islamic
extremism and a safe haven for top terrorist leaders”.
 The affects of Islamic teaching on
education
 Qur’an certainly teaches about the importance of
education, matter in the fact Islam is more strict than any
other religion regarding literacy.
 In Islam the authority of a teacher is more higher than
parents.
 But the teachings of Que’an bring every one under a
judgment (legalism), where Islam encourage worldly
knowledge it discourage to practice the modern ways of the
world.
 The strict teaching of “Sunah” the traditions of Muhammad,
has been taken over reactively, which has produced a
sense of intensive violence in order to retain the purity of
religion to pass on to next generation.
 Schools in Pakistan are forced to use Islamic material in
their curriculum.
 Male-dominated culture
 Pakistan is a male dominated culture which belittle or
condone violence against girls and women.
 Violence is used as a tool for imposing male power. Girls
themselves often regard violence as inevitable and feel
powerless to complain.
 Violence against girls are many and complex. They relate to
deeply embedded structural inequalities and dominant
ideologies that perpetuate beliefs and attitudes that
discriminated against girls and women.
 Violence against girls manifest its effects in low enrolment
of girls in schools, poor performance at school, high dropout
rates, teenage pregnancy early marriage.
 Violence or the fear of violence is an important reason for
girls not attending school, besides being in itself an
infringement of girls’ rights, violence is also denying girls
their right to education.
 Violence against girls takes many forms including rape,
sexual harassment, intimidation teasing and threats. It
affects all girls, regardless of age, race, class, caste or
location. Poverty, war and long journeys to school put girls
at additional risk.
 Girls are also very vulnerable when they have to walk long
distances to school, particularly in rural and poor urban
areas.
 In Pakistan, girls in secondary school become more
vulnerable because secondary schools are few and situated
far from villages.
 In Pakistan , government has intervened at primary school
level by establishing separate schools for girls, with female
teachers, “to overcome families reservations.”
 In Pakistan sexual violence against girls is a norm. Girls
seemed to accept violence inflicted on them through
schools and on the way to schools as an extension of what
hey face with their families, therefore nothing to complain
about.
 In Pakistan the peak age for sexual violence against girls
was between twelve and eighteen.
 Christian Teaching: Love
 Since Islam once ruled over most of the world, and still is
the most rapid growing religion in world, they strongly
believe that one day they will restore their Islamic empire.
They will hate every power that stands in the way of their
destiny or dream to rule over the world.
 Christ said “Whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn
to him the other also.”
 In John Chapter 17, when Christ was praying to His father
His main focus was on love.
 Christ showed us His love through His secrifice.
 The greatest commendment is this that Love your God and
love your neighbour.
 Christianity based on love.
 Conclusion
 Hatred produces hatred and love produces love.
 The love of Christ is more stronger then any weapon.
 The word of God is sharper than any double edge sword.
 Forgiveness is greater than revenge. Christ forgave those
who crucified Him.
 If some one relies on God, and let Him take care of
everything then He is able to deliver from death even.
 In the light of the Word of God we know that God is
sovereign and He rules.
 To reduce all kinds of violence, there is huge need of good
education institutions.
 The international community should intervene and force
Pakistani Government to change the blasphemy law. Also,
all kind of extreme Islamic organizations should be
abandoned and Madrassas should be replaced with good
education centers.
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