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Tue. Nov 12, 2002

Defying a Man's Last Request

Defying a Man’s Last Request – "Hundreds of activists from the student wing of Pakistan’s hardline Jamiat-e-Islami party marched through the streets in the central Pakistani town of Multan and threatened a strong reaction if the execution, by lethal injection, went ahead. ’If the United States wants to live in peace … then it has to reverse its decision about Aimal Kansi,’ one speaker said."

...and just allow Muslim fanatics to gun down Americans without pursuing punishment of any type. Only then will we ”live in peace.”

In addition to spreading the misinformation that Kasi will be hanged, the Pakistani Press must have missed the direct request of the man himself: "A Pakistani national facing execution next week for killing two CIA employees in 1993 says he hopes fellow Muslims do not retaliate against Americans if he is put to death. ’I’m not encouraging attacks against anybody,’ Aimal Khan Kasi said in a telephone interview yesterday from death row at the Sussex I State Prison in Waverly."

Though he’s not exactly repentant for his own actions, "Kasi said he did not agree with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. ’They were totally wrong. They were attacks against civilian people.’ " Apparently, if such statements were published in Pakistan, they might just issue a fatwah against him, since his request so clearly opposes the current sentiment, as expressed by the Jamiat-e-Islami party.