Re: north waziristan operation (Pakistan may khana jangi ka mansooba)
Chaudry sb you mean that we should not expose them and their master.
You mean we should keep our eyes close, let them attack on our cities just defend our country and in coming years wastes our billions of rupees and thousands of lives ? you mean the current policy should be continued as like last eight years.
Yar we will have to accept the reality that defence war against gorrila war is very difficult.
Chaudry sb san we das dyo ae "kharjiats" ki haighay ? hun ae na kehna jey aj tak nahi pata chalya tey fare hun jan key ki karo gai. :)
Khan Sahib, I never said that we should let them do whatever they are doing, fine if military operation was not the solution so is the table talk. I remember my first visit to swat, it was in 1996, I smelled the Taliban there at that time but unfortunately non of the rulers or the governments cared. Military operation was the last choice, just like a life saving drug. If there was a delay of one week, we would have become the slaves of Taliban, all of us. About the question you asked, who are kharijites:
The Kharijites, like so many religious reformers through history, asserted that Islam had strayed from the real directives established by Allah and that all those Muslims who failed to agree with their reforms were essentially outlaws and unbelievers. Like later extremists, they "excommunicated" Muslims who held to the mainstream. A "sinner" who fails to follow the laws of Islam is not simply an errant Muslim, but has ceased to be a Muslim at all.
As a consequence, the Kharijites declared jihad against the unbelieving, apostate Muslims who refused to follow what they considered the "true path" of Islam. They even engaged in violence and political assassination in order to advance their cause. One of their victims was Hazrat Ali (RA). Thus even from the very beginning, radical reformers engaged in violent opposition to the accepted leaders of the Muslim community.
The main issue which distinguished the Kharijites was the question of faith vs. practice - very similar to how Protestants and Catholics divided. For Kharijites the profession of faith - "There is no God but Allah; Muhammad (PBUH) is the prophet of Allah" - was not enough to make a person a Muslim. Instead, this profession had to be accompanied by righteousness and good works.
Thus, the Kharijites took the Quranic command "command the good and forbid the evil" in a very literal manner, something to be applied without exception. They have divided the world very strictly into the realm of "true Muslims" and the realm of "nonbelievers". Anyone who violates any religious rules is guilty of unbelief and thus liable for excommunication. Anyone guilty of breaking more serious religious rules is guilty of being an apostate and of treason, thus making them liable for execution.
