President Obama announced the death of Osama Bin Laden Sunday, May 1. Harris Zafar, the US national spokesperson for Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, discussed how the Muslim community is reacting to this news, and answered your questions about possible retaliations.
Pakistan has a lot to answer for. What's worse?: That they absolutely had no idea that OBL was hiding in a compound in an affluent area near Pakistan's military academy and Islamabad, or that elements of the govt/military/intel have known for some time that he was there and were protecting him.
Harris Zafar:
You are absolutely right that Pakistan has many questions they need to answer. How did bin Laden live in a safe haven of a mansion so near their capital?
We have known that the Pakistani government has been infiltrated by radical clarics for decades. And they succomb to extremists and their radical ideology. Pakistan needs to take a real close look at itself. They are one of the only countries to have an anti-blasphemy law and use it to persecute Muslims and non-Muslim.
Source/Credit: The Washington Post World. Conversations, Live Q&A's. May 2, 2011
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