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*** 29-Nov-17 World View -- Pakistan government totally capitulates to hardline Islamist TLYRAP Barelvi sect mob

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com

• Pakistan government totally capitulates to hardline Islamist TLYRAP Barelvi sect mob
  
• Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah of Pakistan (TLYR or TLYRAP) has roots in Barelvi sect and murder of Salman Taseer
  
• North Korea ballistic missiles threaten 'everywhere in the world'
  

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**** Pakistan government totally capitulates to hardline Islamist TLYRAP Barelvi sect mob
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Hardline Islamist sit-in in Islamabad last week (Pakistan Today)

For several weeks, cities across Pakistan were paralyzed
with major roads blocked by a mob of
thousands of Islamists in a sit-in, escalating into clashes with
thousands of police. The sit-in and riots were triggered by a phony
blasphemy charge last month against a government minister, Zahid
Hamid, for supposedly being responsible for modifying the wording of a
government oath, omitting the name of Mohammed.

After weeks of chaos, on Tuesday, the government totally capitulated
to the demands of the mob, which was led Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool
Allah of Pakistan (TLYR or TLYRAP), a small Islamist political party
coming from the hardline, dangerous Barelvi sect.

The terms of the capitulation are as follows:

• "Federal Law Minister Zahid Hamid, under whose ministry the
  controversial amendment to the Constitution was introduced, should
  resign from his position immediately."
  
  
• "The report prepared by Senator Raja Zafarul Haq-led committee
  to be made public within 30 days and whoever is named in the report
  for being responsible for the change in the election oath to face
  strict action under the law." TLYRAP wants to target other
  government ministers, and make the same blasphemy charges against
  them, with the same outcome.
  
  
• "Protesters arrested between November 6 until the end of the
  sit-in from across the country to be released within one to three
  days. The cases registered against them and the house arrests be
  ended." Some protesters were arrested for violent destruction of
  property or for attack police. They will have to be released with no
  charges.
  
  
• "An inquiry board, which will include TLYR representatives,
  will be established to probe and decide what action to take against
  the government and administration officials over the operation
  conducted by security forces against protesters on Saturday, November
  25. The inquiry should be completed within 30 days and action will be
  taken against those found responsible. ..." There will be a
  kangaroo court to bring charges against police officials trying to end
  the riots.
  
  
• "The federal and provincial governments will determine and
  compensate for the loss of government and private assets incurred from
  November 6 until the end of the sit-in."

The agreement has been only partially successful in ending the sit-in.
The sit-in has ended in the capital city Islamabad and the adjoining
city Rawalpindi. However, a TLYRAP splinter group is demanding the
resignation of other ministers, and is refusing to end the sit-in in
the major city of Lahore, and so parts of that city remain paralyzed.
Geo TV (Pakistan) and Pakistan Today and Geo TV (Pakistan) and Dunya News (India)

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**** Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah of Pakistan (TLYR or TLYRAP) has roots in Barelvi sect and murder of Salman Taseer
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Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah of Pakistan (TLYR or TLYRAP) is a
small political group of hardline Islamists. It was little known
until it led the recent violent sit-in and forced the government to
capitulate to its demands. Media sources do not suggest that they're
a terrorist group linked to the Pakistani Taliban (TTP), but they do
advocate an extreme and radical "Sharia law" takeover of Pakistan's
government.

In particular, they advocate the complete elimination of the
persecuted Ahmadi Muslim sects in Pakistan, and possibly the Sufis as
well. The phony blasphemy charge was based on an accusation that the
modification of the oath would favor the Ahmadis.

TLYRAP came out of nowhere as a political group, but as Muslims they
come the Barelvi Sect, an offshoot of Sufism. They would probably
still be almost unknown today, but they were handed a gift last year
when Mumtaz Qadri, a Barelvi, was executed for murdering Salman Taseer
in 2011.

Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab province in Pakistan, was shot
28 times in broad daylight in an open marketplace on January 4, 2011.
The killer was his bodyguard, Mumtaz Qadri. The motive, as described
by Qadri, was to punish Taseer for objecting to Pakistan's blasphemy
laws, and for calling for the release of a Christian woman, Asia Bibi,
who was in jail facing execution for violating the blasphemy laws.
Qadri was finally executed last year, but not before he became a
national hero for killing Taseer over a phony blasphemy charge.

Qadri was not just a national hero, but he was a Barelvi hero, and
it's that execution that led to the rise of TLYRAP. Since Qadri
justified his murder of Taseer with a phony blasphemy charge, the
TLYRAP political movement is based almost entirely on phony blasphemy
charge. Any politician that TLYRAP targets can be found to have said
or done some random thing that can be turned into a phony blasphemy
charge, and that's how the recent sit-in came about.

Pakistan as a country is becoming increasingly radicalized by Barelvi
extremism, and since some of the TLYRAP militants were armed with
weapons such as stones and bats, they are now becoming militarized.
Pakistan Today and Al Jazeera and Huffington Post(9-Jan) and La Voix Du Nord and Hudson Institute(19-Oct-2011)

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**** North Korea ballistic missiles threaten 'everywhere in the world'
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North Korea on Wednesday morning fired a ballistic missile from an
area north of Pyongyang. The missile was launched almost vertically,
so that it would reach a high altitude, but would not travel beyond
the Sea of Japan. If used in an actual attack, it would be launched
closer to a 45 degree angle, which could carry it as far any part of
the United States mainland, according to several analysts.

According to physicist David Wright, co-director of the Union of
Concerned Scientists Global Security Program:

<QUOTE>"If these numbers are correct, then if flown on a
standard trajectory rather than this lofted trajectory, this
missile would have a range of more than 13,000 km (8,100 miles).
Such a missile would have more than enough range to reach
Washington, DC, and in fact any part of the continental United
States."<END QUOTE>

Secretary of Defense James Mattis said:

<QUOTE>"[The tests threaten] world peace, regional peace and
certainly the United States."

It went higher, frankly, than any previous shots they've taken.
It's a research and development effort on their part to continue
building ballistic missiles that can threaten everywhere in the
world basically."<END QUOTE>

President Donald Trump made an apparent threat,

<QUOTE>"We will take care of it.

It is a situation that we will handle."<END QUOTE>

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina said:

<QUOTE>"If we have to go to war to stop this, we will. If
there’s a war with North Korea, it’d be because North Korea
brought it upon itself, and we’re headed toward a war if things
don’t change."<END QUOTE>

There are some things about the ballistic test that we don't know:

• We don't know if the missile carried any payload. If the
  missile was "empty," then it would not travel as far with a
  payload.
  
  
• We know that North Korea has developed nuclear weapons, but we
  don't know whether they've developed the miniaturization technology
  necessary to fit a nuclear weapon in the nose of a ballistic
  missile.

There's another thing we don't know: We don't know what Trump meant
when he said, "We will take care of it."

North Korea's objective for the past 25-30 years was to develop
nuclear missile capability that could be used to attack the
U.S. mainland, and use it as leverage to threaten South Korea and
Japan, and he's now very close. Wired and Reuters and San Diego Union Tribune

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• North Korea crisis: Would the United States sacrifice Los Angeles for Seoul? (18-Oct-2017)
  

KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Pakistan, Islamabad, Zahid Hamid, Lahore,
Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah of Pakistan,
TLYR, TLYRAP, Barelvi sect, Salman Taseer, Mumtaz Qadri,
Sufis, Ahmadis, Asia Bibi,
North Korea, David Wright, James Mattis, Lindsey Graham

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