'Father Of The Taliban' Assassinated Which Is Sad Because He Seemed Like Such A Great Guy

Great ‘resting terrorist face’ on that guy. He was born for the role, but he really could have become anything…

The Father of Aviation, The Father of Paintball, The Father of Ass Eatin’ SZN… There were so many fun “Fathers” he could have chosen to be but he decided to live his life like a coward, spreading hate, death, fear & lies across Pakistan in the name of a religion he participated in hijacking.

So I have to say, I wasn’t devastated when I read that he was assassinated. Unchecked for decades, he ran ‘madrassas’ near the Afghanistan border that took young men in & radicalized them into the Taliban forces. At the time, that was a bit good for us because Afghanistan was giving Russia a run for their money (& we were giving them the money to do it), but in the long run that didn’t work out so great for us, eh? ::sigh:: But that’s a whole other ball of wax so back to the story..

From Times Now News:

Maulana Samiul Haq, a Pakistani religious scholar and a former senator, was assassinated on Friday. His family said Samiul Haq was stabbed to death at his home in Rawalpindi city. Samiul Haq was known as the ‘Father of the Taliban’ and was the chief of the hardline political party, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Sami (JUI-S).

Samiul Haq, who was also the head of the Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Akora Khattak, was regarded as the ‘Father of the Taliban’ as he had taught some of the leaders of the Afghan Islamist movement.

Last month, the religious leader was called upon by a high-level delegation from Afghanistan, asking him to play a role in resolving the Afghan crisis.

Samiul Haq has been killed in the midst of protests by religio-political parties over the (Pakistani) Supreme Court’s move to acquit a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, on blasphemy charges. Samiul Haq’s son said the cleric was not able to join the protest due to road blockades and had come back to his home in Rawalpindi.

That’s another wild story all on its own.. From The Washington Post:

Some of the demonstrators and their leaders have demanded that Bibi be put to death. The peasant woman in her early 50s was charged with blasphemy after arguing with some Muslim workers in a field in 2009. She was convicted and sentenced to death. The high court overturned those rulings, prompting some protesters to demand that the justices be killed and that the army rise up in mutiny.

It’s a shame that Haq won’t be able to join the lovely protests calling for the death of an elder peasant woman and it’s not because of roadblocks. Now he’s just the Taliban’s dead-beat(en) dad. Heyyyo. Am sure he’ll be missed.