The Mujahedeen Shura Council also announced, following the assassination of the three young men in Hebron, that it had commenced its military operations in the West Bank. It confirmed in a communique that the eliminated cell was but the tip of the iceberg. A person knowledgeable in Salafist affairs who requested anonymity told Al-Monitor that the statement made use of non-jihadist expressions, such as “fearless” and “lionhearted,” which prove that it is a “fabrication.”…

Eccentricity marks the path to heaven or hell. Take the Takfiri rebels trying to overthrow Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria. They have chopped off the heads of their enemies, eaten a few human entrails, massacred Christians and Alawites – the Damascus government, of course, has done its share of civilian bloodletting and war crimes – and even gone to war on the Kurds. But of all the activities of the al-Qa’ida/al-Nusra/Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria insurgents in Syria, surely the weirdest has been an iconoclasm worthy of both Henry VIII and the Taliban: the destruction of shrines, tombs and the statues of poets and caliphs…..

….the jihadists are closer than the Islamic Front readily acknowledges, and that the al-Qaeda affiliates are now inseparable from the rebellion. One of the key figures in the Syrian Rebel Front, Jamal Maarouf, who commands the Syria Martyrs Brigade, has agreed to al-Nusra acting as a go-between in a dispute between his militia and the Islamic Front…..

Two high-profile killings within a 10-day span in Pakistan in November, followed by a U.S. drone strike at a Haqqani-run seminary (interestingly another 10 days later), have exposed the cracks and suspicions running between militant networks with strongholds in the Pakistani tribal areas…….

“They understand that they are the future and, therefore, need to be exposed and indoctrinated to the cause,” he said. It explains why some groups operate age-based training camps that start with “cubs” and progress to “lion scouts” for older teens and adults……

The resolution exposed exactly how divided Pakistan’s elected parliamentarians (some parties including the PPP refused to sign it) are on an issue that affected Pakistan in its entirety and more importantly, it also highlighted that 42 years later, Pakistan is still unable to understand the dynamics of what caused the break- up....

In fact, recent polls show that a significant majority of Pakistan’s youth are inclined to say “I am a Muslim” when asked the simple question “who are you?” rather than “I am a Pakistani”? This contrasts sharply with Muslims elsewhere in the world who are more likely to stress their nationality over their religion, eg, Arabs, Saudis, Malaysians, Chinese, Palestinians, Kuwaitis, Emiratees, Iranians, etc. Indeed, even Muslims in India would answer “Indian” rather than “Muslim”. Why are we Pakistanis different from our fellow Muslims in other nation states?....

Better known as the “Butcher of Mirpur” for the rapes and massacres he committed, Abdul Quader Molla was a leader of thousands of Islamist paramilitaries known as “Razakars” (volunteer corps).They worked hand-in-hand with the Pakistan army that was carrying out a systematic genocide of the Bengali people in the dark days of 1971….

The long silence held by most of the international public and supranational entities on the plight for justice to those who lost their lives in the 1971 genocide was unexpectedly in stark contrast to uproar following the aftermath of the Bangladeshi authorities’ announcement of the re-establishment of criminal court procedures against genocide perpetrators. Heads of foreign states, the press, diplomacies and even associations that purportedly defend human rights have reacted negatively to the resumption of the Bangladeshi criminal court procedures.  ...

After all, why must the government or the ruling party have the temerity to go after the Jamaat, an organization which now shows all the signs of turning into a terrorist outfit? The monopoly for ferocity, or so it appears, ought to be the Jamaat’s alone. Its activists ought to have all the right in the world to wield machetes and hack away at people because these Awami people have the gall to ask that the Jamaat be dealt with severely over the murder and mayhem it has been engaged in for long…..

The rebel forces, using guerrilla tactics, have not been subdued as easily as the army expected. Isolated and apparently uncoordinated, the rebels have nonetheless bogged down the Pakistan army in many places by the systematic destruction of roads and railways, without which the army cannot move. The 9th Division for one was hopelessly behind schedule. Now the monsoon threatens to shut down the military operation with three months of cloudbursts......

Quader Molla was guilty as sin. The fact that the prosecution may not have done the best job of proving it does not in any way lessen his crime or justify his exoneration. He has received the justice he deserved. The disquiet that I feel is not on behalf of Quader Molla, but on behalf of his victims. They deserved better…..

Right after the execution, Gonojagoron Mancha (People's Resurgence Platform) activists burst into cheers and celebrations in Dhaka city's Shahbagh, the location of sustained protests demanding justice for the War Crimes. Gonojagoron Manhca spokesperson Imran H. Sarker declared, "The execution of Quader Mollah is a tribute to the country's three million martyrs."....

To the souls of our martyrs, we say — as dawn breaks in all its insistence — that it is time to refashion the old dream of a democratic, secular and egalitarian society they nurtured in their lifetime. We mean to redeem the old promise, in this December of revival and reawakening......

Thousands of families of unfortunate Muslims, many of them refugees from Bihar who chose Pakistan at the time of the partition riots in 1947, were mercilessly wiped out. Women were raped, or had their breasts torn out with specially fashioned knives. Children did not escape the horror: the lucky ones were killed with their parents; but many thousands of others must go through what life remains for them with eyes gouged out and limbs roughly amputated. More than 20,000 bodies of non-Bengalis have been found in the main towns, such as Chittagong, Khulna and Jessore. The real toll, I was told everywhere in East Bengal, may have been as high as 100,000; for thousands of non-Bengalis have vanished without a trace......

The second time I was ashamed of myself was when we killed the founder of our country. Because after the war of independence, I (a nine-year-old) came to understand what a country means to a man, even to a boy. Our elders used to chant stories of “that time in history,” full of iconic personalities across the world. Bangladesh wasn’t an exception in producing a global hero. He was murdered before our eyes and the entire nation seemed nonchalant…….

Bangladesh emerged strong and independent from a blood bath in 1971. Those who played a major role in leading the massacre have been detained, prosecuted and are in the process of being punished for committing genocide and serious crimes against humanity under international law....

One post asks the Pakistan government to seek an explanation from Bangladesh and instigates it to launch an attack on Bangladesh. According to another post, the 'cruel silence of Pakistan army' on the execution is a crime. At 8:50pm, they posted an official statement quoting Molla’s wife: “I am proud that I am the wife of a Jamaat cleric.”.....

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Today, we do not gloat over Mollah’s execution. But we do expect some crucial lessons of history to be learned from his sorry end — that freedom always wins, that repression does not last, that the wheels of justice may turn slowly but turn they certainly do. We salute our three million martyrs — we do obeisance to the founding fathers of our sovereign republic — we rededicate ourselves anew to the cause of a democratic, liberal and secular Bangladesh once more in this dawn of triumphant justice.....

And it isn’t only militias affiliated with the Western-backed Free Syrian Army or Islamist militias profiting from the chaos and lawlessness to plunder and smuggle, extort and kidnap—the villainy is also being perpetrated by al Qaeda-affiliated jihadists, who present themselves as paragons of strict Islamic virtue and argue the spate of executions they have presided over are done to enforce morality……

This reaction from our former prime minister beats our wits as to how the chair of a large political party such as BNP didn’t know about these acts. She has been the chief executive of Bangladesh more than once. She formed an alliance with Jamaat-e-Islami, fully anticipating the consequences. And these acts of burning buses and uprooting railroads have been going on for quite some time now....