Killing of Children in Gaza Palestine by Israel July 2014

 The United Nations Human Rights Council agreed to launch an international inquiry into human rights violations that it says may have been committed during Israel's ongoing military operation in Gaza.

UN human rights body to investigate claims of Israeli violations in Gaza

UN's human rights chief says Israel has not done enough to protect civilians while also condemning attacks by Hamas

An Israeli air strike on Wednesday leaves buildings blazing in the Shajaiyeh area of Gaza City. Photograph: Adel Hana/AP

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has agreed to launch an international inquiry into violations that may have been committed during Israel's latest military offensive in Gaza.
Navi Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, warned earlier that Israel may have committed war crimes in its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, where hundreds of Palestinian civilians have been killed in the past two weeks.
Pillay told an emergency debate at the UNHRC in Geneva that Israel had not done enough to protect civilians.
"There seems to be a strong possibility that international law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes," Pillay said, citing air strikes and the shelling of homes and hospitals. The killing of civilians in Gaza, including dozens of children, raised concerns over Israel's precautions and its respect for proportionality, she said.
She also condemned Hamas, the Islamist movement that rules Gaza, and other armed Palestinian groups, for their "indiscriminate attacks" on Israel.
At the end of an emergency session, the 47-member Geneva state forum adopted a resolution presented by Palestinians by a vote of 29 states in favour, one against (the United States) with 17 abstentions (including some European Union members).
Pillay's comments, in a debate held at the request of Egypt, Pakistan and the state of Palestine (which has observer status at the UN), were in response to a resolution calling for an investigation into the Gaza campaign, launched on 8 July with the declared objective of halting rocket fire into Israel.
The UN human rights council body has a majority that is pro-Palestinian. Israel only recently rejoined it after a 20-month boycott.
The resolution called for the urgent dispatch of "an independent, international commission of inquiry" to investigate "all violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip".
On past precedent, Israel would be highly unlikely to cooperate with any such investigation. That was its position with the Goldstone investigation into its Operation Cast Lead offensive of 2008-09, which killed about 1,400 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Israel rejected that report as prejudiced and full of errors, and dismissed the charge that it had a policy of deliberately targeting civilians.
Pillay also called for an end to the blockade of Gaza, the underlying reason for the conflict and an issue that will have to be tackled if any ceasefire is to endure.
Israel's envoy to the UNHRC, Eviatar Manor, responded to Pillay's comments by accusing Hamas of committing war crimes and insisted that Israel was acting as any other state would in seeking to defend its citizens. "There can be no moral symmetry between a terrorist aggressor and a democracy defending itself," he argued.
Hamas, he said, was a terrorist organisation, not the Salvation Army. It was responsible for civilian casualties because it was using people as "human shields".
Riyadh Malki, the Palestinian foreign minister, appealed to the international community for Israel to be held accountable for its actions in Gaza. "How many martyrs must die before Israel puts an end to its aggression?" he asked.
Pillay, whose term at the UNHRC is due to end shortly, has been active in trying to highlight the issue of war crimes committed in Syria. But she has failed to overcome divisions in the UN security council, which have prevented attempts to get the Syrian government referred to the international criminal court.

Political situation always disturb the civil society of Pakistan

Pakistan is a place where every one have found followers for his/her movement or revolution.now a days Mr.Tahirul Qadri trying to change Pakistan.Please study here about Pakistan.what is here to change? How we change? what is changeable?How many movements standing for change?who are strong here etc.I like to write about the communities of Pakistan they are trying to change on own ways of life and their backgrounds.Residents of Pakistan majority of Muslims but there are many cults.they have different school of thoughts and beliefs.they can not unite on one platform for revolution.DEOBANDIS 60%,SHIAS 15%,BARELVIS 35%,AHLEHADITH 5%,MOHDADI(Jamiat Islami) 20%(almost deobandis including) and LIBERALS 70%(claiming one of above beliefs but not like practices) etc......

1.DEOBANDIS. Deobandis is a term used for a revivalist movement in Sunni Islam (Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah). It is centered primarily in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and has recently spread to the United Kingdomand has a presence in South Africa. The name derives from Deoband, India, where the school Darul Uloom Deoband is situated. The movement was inspired by the spirit of scholar Shah Waliullah (1703–1762), while the foundation of Darul Uloom Deoband was The movement developed as a reaction to British colonialism in India, which was believed by a group of prominent Indian scholars — consisting of Rashid Ahmad Gangohi,Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi, Shah Rafi al-Din, Sayyid Muhammad Abid, Zulfiqar Ali, Fadhl al-Rahman Usmani and Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi — to be corrupting the Islamic religion. They therefore founded an Islamic seminary known as Darul Uloom Deoband. From here the Islamic revivalist and anti-imperialist ideology of the Deobandis began to develop. Gradually Darul Uloom Deoband became the second largest focal point of Islamic teachings and research after the Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. Through organisations such as Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind and Tablighi Jamaat its ideology began to spread and the graduates of Darul Uloom Deoband from countries like Saudi Arabia, China and Malaysia opened up thousands of madrasas throughout South Asia, specifically in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

A large group of Deobandi scholars opposed Pakistan being established along sectarian lines, particularly the demands of Muhammad Ali Jinnah's Muslim League for the Partitionof British India into Muslim and non-Muslim sections.[8] The Deobandi movement advocated a notion of a composite nationalism according to which Hindus and Muslims constituted one nation.

Beliefs

http://www.darululoom-deoband.com/english/

The Deobandi movement sees itself as a maslak, or scholastic tradition, situated within orthodox Sunni Islam. It grew out of the Islamic scholastic tradition of Medieval Transoxania and Mughal India, and it considers its visionary forefather to be Shah Waliullah al-Dihlawi, the celebrated Indian Islamic scholar and thinker of the eighteenth century.

2.SHIAS:The Shia represent the second largest denomination of Islam and adherents of Shia Islam are called Shias orthe Shi'a as a collective or Shi'i individually. Shi'a is the short form of the historic phrase Shīʻatu ʻAlī (شيعة علي)meaning "followers", "faction" or "party" of Muhammad's son-in-law and cousin Ali, whom the Shia believe to be Muhammad's successor in theCaliphate. Twelver Shia (Ithnā'ashariyyah) is the largest branch of Shia Islam and the term Shia Muslim is often taken to refer to Twelvers by default. Shia Muslims constitute 10-20% of the world's Muslim population and 38% of the Middle East's entire population.

Shi'i Islam is based on the Quran and the message of the Islamic prophet Muhammad attested in hadith recorded by the Shia, and certain books deemed sacred to the Shia (Nahj al-Balagha).[3][4] Shia consider Ali to have been divinely appointed as the successor to Muhammad, and as the first Imam. In the centuries after the death of Muhammad, the Shia extended this "Imami" doctrine to Muhammad's family, the Ahl al-Bayt ("the People of the House"), and certain individuals among his descendants, known as Imams, who they believe possess special spiritual and political authority over the community, infallibility, and other quasi-divine traits.

Although there are myriad Shi'i subsects, modern Shi'i Islam has been divided into three main groupings: Twelvers, Ismailis andZaidis.

Beliefs

Imamate

Succession of Ali

(MS Arab 161, fol. 162r, AD 1309/8 Ilkhanid manuscript illustration) Shia Muslims believe that just as a prophet is appointed by God alone, only God has the prerogative to appoint the successor to his prophet. They believe God chose Ali to be Muhammad's successor, infallible, the first caliph (khalifa, head of state) of Islam. Muhammad, before his death, designated Ali as his successor.

Ali was Muhammad's first cousin and closest living male relative as well as his son-in-law, having married Muhammad's daughterFatimah. Ali would eventually become the fourth Muslim (sunni) caliph.

After the last pilgrimage, Muhammad ordered the gathering of Muslims at the pond of Khumm and it was there that Shi'a Muslims believe Muhammad nominated Ali to be his successor. The hadith of the pond of Khumm was narrated on 18th of Dhu al-Hijjah of 10 AH in the Islamic calendar (March 10, 632 AD) at a place called Ghadir Khumm, located near the city of al-Juhfah, Saudi Arabia.

Deffernces between SHIAS AND SUNNI

Religious Leadership

Shia Muslims believe that the Imam is sinless by nature, and that his authority is infallible as it comes directly from God. Therefore, Shia Muslims often venerate the Imams as saints and perform pilgrimages to their tombs and shrines in the hopes of divine intercession.

Sunni Muslims counter that there is no basis in Islam for a hereditary privileged class of spiritual leaders, and certainly no basis for the veneration or intercession of saints. Sunni Muslims contend that leadership of the community is not a birthright, but a trust that is earned and which may be given or taken away by the people themselves.

3.BARELVIS
Ahmed Raza Khan Fazil-e-Barelvi 1856 –1921 CE or 10/10/1272__25/02/1340 AH, born & died Bareilly, UP), popularly known as Aala Hazrat, was a Hanafi Sunni, the leader of the Sunni Muslims and founded theBarelvi movement of South Asia. Raza Khan wrote on numerous topics, including law, religion, philosophy and the sciences. He was a prolific writer, producing nearly 1,000 works in his lifetime.

Beliefs

Ahmed Raza Khan's beliefs regarding Muhammad include:

Muhammad, although human, possessed a noor (light) that predates creation.This contrasts with the Deobandi view that Muhammad was insan-e-kamil ("the complete man"), a respected but physically typical human.

He is haazir naazir (can be present in many places at the same time, as opposed to God, who is everywhere by definition).

God has granted him ilm-e-ghaib (the knowledge of the unseen).

Raza Khan wrote:

We do not hold that anyone can equal the knowledge of Allah Most High, or possess it independently, nor do we assert that Allah’s giving of knowledge to the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) is anything but a part. But what a patent and tremendous difference between one part [the Prophet’s] and another [anyone else’s]: like the difference between the sky and the earth, or rather even greater and more immense.

—Ahmed Raza Khan, al-Dawla al-Makkiyya (c00), 291.

4.Ahle Hadith.

Ahl al-Hadith :The people of hadith) or (Așḥāb al-ḥadīṯ, is a term that has been used to refer to many Islamic movements (both historical and modern) that emphasize the use of hadith in Islam. It refers to the adherent's belief that they are not bound by taqlid (as are Ahl al-Rai, literally "the people of rhetorical theology"), but consider themselves free to seek guidance in matters of religious faith and practices from the authentic hadith which, together with the Qur'an, are in their view the principal worthy guide for Muslims.

In the contemporary sense, it refers to a reformist movement.The term Ahl al-Hadith is often used interchangeably with the termSalafi or as a branch of the latter movement.The Ahl al-Hadith are often called Wahhabis by their adversaries, though the movement itself claims to be distinct from Wahhabism. The movement has the most adherents in the Indian subcontinent, where it possesses some notable distinctions from the Salafi movement, most of whose adherents are found in the Arab world andIndonesia. The combined number of adherents in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan are estimated to range between 59-64 million.In the modern era, the movement draws both inspiration and financial support from Saudi Arabia

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Practices

Like other Islamic movements, the Ahl al-Hadith are distinguished by certain common features and beliefs. The men tend to have a particular style of untrimmed beard often considered a visual indicator. In regard to ritual acts of Muslim worship, the movement's practices are noticeably different from the Hanafi legal school which predominates in South Asia; the men hold their hands above the navel when lined up for congregational prayer, raise them to the level of their heads before bowing, and say "amen" out loud after the prayer leader.Due to their reliance on the Qur'an and Hadith only and their rejection of analogical reason in Islamic law, the modern-day Ahl al-Hadith are often compared to the older Zahirite school of Islamic law, with which the Ahl al-Hadith consciously identify themselves.

While their educational programs tend to include a diverse array of Muslim academic texts, few adherents of the movement ascribe themselves to one school of Muslimjurisprudence, placing a greater emphasis on personal responsibility to derive judgments and ritual practice. While the movement's figureheads have ascribed to the Zahirite legal school, with a great number of them preferring the works of Yemeni scholar Shawkani, the generality of the movement is described as respecting all Sunni schools of Islamic law while preferring to take directly from the Qur'an, prophetic tradition and consensus of the early generations of Muslims.] While the movement has been compared to Salafist movement in Arab nations and been branded as Wahhabist by the opposing Barelwi movement, the Ahl al-Hadith remain similar to yet distinct from Salafists.

5.Jamaat-e-Islami: ( JI) is a socially conservative, Islamist political party. Its objective is to make Pakistan an Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. JI opposes concepts such as capitalism, liberalism, socialism and secularism as well as practices such as offering bank interest. It promotes Islamic democracy as part of its main agenda. JI is a vanguard party: its members form an elite, with "affiliates" and then "sympathizers" beneath them. The party leader is called an ameer.

JI was founded in Lahore in 1941 (then part of British ruled India) by the Muslim theologian and socio-political philosopher, Abul Ala Maududi.[4] In 1947, JI moved its operations to West-Pakistan after Independence.)(Members who remained in India, formed an independent organisation called Jamaat-e-Islami Hind).

In 1971, during the Bangladesh Liberation War, JI opposed the independence of Bangladesh. However, in 1975, it established a new branch, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in the new nation. The JI maintains close ties with other international Muslim groups

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6.Liberals  

Some groups are liberals mind inPakistan but they have claims any one beliefs of above sectors but don't like to practices.