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Saturday, June 16, 2012

The three in-famous Kasabs of Pakistan, all of them religious crackpots!, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam,Terrorism and Jihad
The three in-famous Kasabs of Pakistan, all of them religious crackpots!
The name’s Kasab
By Nadeem F. Paracha
09 18th, 2009

What’s with this name, Kasab (sometimes also spelled with a Q)? There have been three (in) famous Kasabs in Pakistan – and all of them religious crackpots!

First there was one Yusuf Kasab who was arrested by the police in the early 1990s and accused of committing ‘blasphemy’ by proclaiming that he was a prophet. He was killed by a fellow inmate while awaiting trail in jail.

Then there is Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani terrorist and jihadi who was involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Incidentally, the mass murderer was the only attacker captured alive by police and is currently in Indian custody.

The third Kasab is yet another mad-faith-crank. He’s Sher Muhammad Kasab, a frontline butcher of the Takreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) who was recently arrested by the Pakistan Army.

Of course, all these crackpots having a similar surname is no more than a coincidence, but it sure is a meaningful concurrent.

Because if one chronologically follows the exploits of all the Kasabs, he can draw a fairly interesting narrative about the madness of Islamic fanaticism that until recently had threatened to rip society and the country apart.

Yusuf Kasab, the so-called ‘false prophet’ may have been a victim of the ‘blasphemy’ trend - unfolded by General Ziaul Haq’s myopic laws and warped ‘moral’ antics in the 1980s, that has seen a number of self-righteous fanatics accusing Christians and fellow Muslims alike for committing ‘blasphemy.’

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