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'''Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP)''' or Clerical Party of Pakistan is a political party participating in the government.  
'''Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP)''' or Clerical Party of Pakistan is a political party participating in the government.  


In 1998, a JUP leader signed Osama bin Laden's fatwa declaring war against Crusaders and Zionists, essentially the U.S.
In 1998, a JUP leader signed Osama bin Laden's fatwa declaring war against Crusaders and Zionists, essentially the U.S.<ref name=Jihad98>{{citation
| title = Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders; World Islamic Front Statement
| date = 23 February 1998
| author = Shaykh Usamah Bin-Muhammad Bin-Ladin; Ayman al-Zawahiri, amir of the Jihad Group in Egypt
Abu-Yasir Rifa'i Ahmad Taha, Egyptian Islamic Group; Shaykh Mir Hamzah, secretary of the Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-Pakistan; Fazlur Rahman, amir of the Jihad Movement in Bangladesh
| url = http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm}}</ref> calling for [[jihad]] against "Crusaders and Jews", and, specifically, Americans. <blockquote>The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim. </blockquote>
 
In 2009, however, it organized a conference of [[ulema]], which condemned [[suicide attack]]s as contrary to Islamic law, and attacked the [[Taliban]]-aligned insurgency as bad for Pakistan and supporting its enemies. U.S. attacks on militants, however, were also condemned as violating Pakistan's sovereignty. It supported the all-parties conference called by Prime Minister [[Yousaf Raza Gillani]].<ref name=Dawn>{{citation
|  title = Suicide attacks are un-Islamic: Ulema
| author = Syed Irfan Raza
| date = 18 May 2009 | journal = Dawn (Pakistan)
| url = http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/12-suicide-attacks-are-un-islamic-ulema--bi-10}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}

Revision as of 11:28, 14 June 2009

Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP) or Clerical Party of Pakistan is a political party participating in the government.

In 1998, a JUP leader signed Osama bin Laden's fatwa declaring war against Crusaders and Zionists, essentially the U.S.[1] calling for jihad against "Crusaders and Jews", and, specifically, Americans.

The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim.

In 2009, however, it organized a conference of ulema, which condemned suicide attacks as contrary to Islamic law, and attacked the Taliban-aligned insurgency as bad for Pakistan and supporting its enemies. U.S. attacks on militants, however, were also condemned as violating Pakistan's sovereignty. It supported the all-parties conference called by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani.[2]

References

  1. Shaykh Usamah Bin-Muhammad Bin-Ladin; Ayman al-Zawahiri, amir of the Jihad Group in Egypt Abu-Yasir Rifa'i Ahmad Taha, Egyptian Islamic Group; Shaykh Mir Hamzah, secretary of the Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-Pakistan; Fazlur Rahman, amir of the Jihad Movement in Bangladesh (23 February 1998), Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders; World Islamic Front Statement
  2. Syed Irfan Raza (18 May 2009), "Suicide attacks are un-Islamic: Ulema", Dawn (Pakistan)