The Speaking Tree

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan I The Speaking Tree I December 21, 2014

On December 16, 2014, a group of militants entered the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, and mercilessly gunned down about 150 students and teachers. The terrorist outfit released a photograph of the six-members who carried out the attack. A banner in the background reads as follows: La ilaaha illallah — There is no god, but One God. By this demonstration, the people who carried out the attack have themselves given us the criterion on which to judge their act.

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan I The Times of India I December 18, 2014

On December 16, 2014 a barbaric incident occurred in Peshawar. Seven terrorists of Tehrik-e-Taliban launched an attack on the Army Public School. The militants were clad in the uniform of the Frontier Corps and entered the school from the rear. They stormed the premises and held it in a nine-hour siege. During this time they moved from classroom to classroom, killing about 141 people, 132 of them students, and injuring hundreds.

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan I TOI I December 12, 2014

There is an English proverb, ‘The end justifies the means’. Perhaps, there is another more relevant principle which may be expressed thus: ‘The end justifies the beginning.’ It is the end result that proves whether the beginning was right or wrong.

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan I TOI I November 11, 2014