{"id":13292,"date":"2011-09-23T02:30:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T07:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13292"},"modified":"2011-09-21T23:48:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T04:48:58","slug":"military-curbs-religious-groups-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/23\/military-curbs-religious-groups-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Curbs Religious Group&#8217;s Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an international paper called, interestingly enough, <em>The Hindu<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawateislami.net\/home.do?web=force\">Dawat-e-Islami<\/a> has attracted the attention of the Pakistani military after a policeman apparently from that group was accused of assassinating a governor.\u00a0 As a result, the military has<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>decided to curtail the activities of a proselytising organisation in their ranks after intelligence reports warned that its growing influence in the armed forces would have serious implications.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dawat-e-Islami, which literally means &#8220;invitation to Islam,&#8221; claims <!--more-->to be a &#8220;religious non-political organization,&#8221; and appears to advocate for the Sunni sect of the Islamic faith.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/article2446970.ece\">The article indicates<\/a> they have not previously been the focus of attention due to their &#8220;non-violent religious views.&#8221;\u00a0 Indeed, many news events of the Barelvi movement, which Dawat-e-Islami represents, indicate they are frequently the victim of violence.<\/p>\n<p>The military indicates the renewed attention is not unique.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is nothing new. We have zero tolerance for all such organisations within the military,&#8221; the official said.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged that Dawat-e-Islami has a following in the armed forces but said this was not unusual.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The official&#8217;s next statement is sometimes unique outside of Western nations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You can\u2019t stop individuals practicing their own religious beliefs if they are not violating the military discipline,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an international paper called, interestingly enough, The Hindu, Dawat-e-Islami has attracted the attention of the Pakistani military after a policeman apparently from that group was accused of assassinating a governor.\u00a0 As a result, the military has decided to curtail the activities of a proselytising organisation in their ranks after intelligence reports warned that its growing influence in the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2234,2233,44,2,672,10,171],"class_list":["post-13292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-barelvi","tag-dawat-e-islami","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-pakistan","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}