KARACHI, May 21: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain on Saturday asked Muslims to pay attention to the sermons delivered by ulema condemning the suicide attacks and acts of terrorism. Mr Hussain stressed that suicide attacks and other related acts of terrorism had been declared as religiously improper act, the Muslim world should manifest peaceful means to express their sentiments. He stressed that the Muttahida was against all forms of terrorism and believed in sectarian harmony and support equal treatment for the religious minorities and complete protection to their places of worship.
He said that Islam considered murder of a Muslim or a non-Muslim without justification as murder of humanity. He was critical of those clerics who according to him interpreted Islam contrary to its spirit and essence to misguide innocent people for their vested interests. He stressed that such clerics should not taint the image of Islam by distorting its jurisprudence to serve their vested interests.
The Muttahida chief appealed to leaders of all the countries to win over the hearts and minds of the people through dialogue, understanding and harmony, instead of exercising oppression and brutality.
Meanwhile, in a brain-storming session with the London-based party cadre on the influence of society on mind and ideological movement, Altaf Hussain said that a social order based on rights and justice with equal opportunities would become cohesive and strong.
He said that the message of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) was to eradicate imperialism and injustice from this world because imperialism reduced ordinary people to the rank of slaves. He said that MQM subscribed to the same philosophy, as it believed that feudal landlords were not superior, in any way, to the tillers of land and peasants, because Pakistan was not a fiefdom of the landed aristocracy. He said that his party was committed to get rid of the tyranny of this privileged class of just two per cent Pakistanis. The first requirement, in this crusade, was to make the toiling masses conscious of their rights and their place in society; he said adding that his party followed that path in Sindh.
“We did the same in Sindh. We insisted on its toiling masses to believe that they had a right over the land they belonged to. Despite our obvious handicap of shortage of resources, we have been successful in bringing down the walls of hatred among the people of Sindh. They are in the process of getting united,” said Mr Hussain.
“We ought to inform the 98 per cent underprivileged Pakistani masses that the feudals, the chieftains, the waderas, the generals belong to the same clan of exploiters, even though their dialects or social mores may be different from each other. If these exploiters of the people can get together on one platform why can’t the exploited people do the same?” he questioned.
He stressed the need for understanding that seeds of differences among the exploited were sown deliberately by the vested interest. Those who suffer were the victims of the feudal conspirators.
The MQM chief said that it was impossible for an ideological movement, sworn to social change through constant preaching and education, to remain unaffected by the social ambience around them.
Therefore, the need for ideological workers was to remind them of their campaign and its objectives and goals, he said.
The will power is the only effective weapon to shield the worker against the forays of negative perceptions from the social ambience surrounding him.
