Bilawal is target now: Lal Masjid cleric

The Daily Times of Pakistan quoted Taliban cleric Maulana Mohavya Irshad, from the Lal Masjid, or red mosque, as saying,

"Bilawal is a target now...." "I don’t know much about Bilawal. I only know he is a liberal person which is a deviation from Islam. True Muslims will not allow him to go against Islam." "These true Muslims will be horrified to see an image of Bilawal dressed as the devil while standing besides a pretty girl at a decadent party at Oxford University."

While many folks try to point fingers at Musharraf for Bhutto's assassination, we have leading Taliban clerics all but pointing fingers at their next target. We have Al Qaeda and The Taliban initially claiming credit for Bhutto's assassination, but given the uproar that followed her death, these elements have since not formally taken credit. Yet, we again have leading Taliban figures coming forward threatening death to her son, Bilawal.

While Musharraf's government has not handled the assassination properly, nor has Zardari, who initally refused an autopsy on Bhutto and recently rejected Musharraf’s offer of a probe by Scotland Yard and demanded that a United Nations commission should conduct the investigation into his wife’s death.

Now we have reports of seven suspected suicide bombers having entered Rawalpindi and Islamabad to sow the seeds of more unrest.

Pakistan created the Taliban and tacitly supported Al Qaeda in its borders. It now is quickly becoming the second central front in their global jihad. One can only hope that the PPP and Musharraf can put their differences behind them and work to fight a common enemy.

True Muslims should not be "horrified to see an image of Bilawal dressed as the devil", instead they should be horrified of the numerous devils in Al Qaeda and the Taliban within their boarders.