Radical Islamism and Jihad
Kill a human being who does not share your faith and voila, as per your religious gurus, you have earned the title of ‘ghazi’ My 12-year-old son is a Muslim. He knows the Namaz, reads the Quran with a teacher, and recites the Kalima before going to sleep. He understands the basic concepts and has no problem lowering the sound of TV when one is saying prayers,...
An application was moved to the area police of Uncha Mangat claiming Kassoki villagers’ demands of the removal of Quranic verses and religious text from Ahmadi graves in the graveyard on Hafizabad-Sheikhupura Road. The applicants threatened of religious clashes and bloodshed if this was not done.
Islamist extremist fatwas in Pakistan are not restricted to the jihad against the kafirs. In an almost paranoiac act of hatred, a cleric in the Pakistan's Punjab province, on June 12, 2012, warned that a jihad would be launched against polio vaccination teams, even as the World Health Organisation (WHO) expressed concern at the re-emergence of the disease across the country....
On the surface, Britain seems like an unlikely location for the seat of the caliphate. However, many Islamist groups and individuals have called for the establishment of the caliphate, or Khilafat from and in the United Kingdom. Hizb ut-Tahrir, or the Party of Liberation, established in Palestine in the early 1950s, found a platform in Britain from which to preach and spread its non-violent path to ‘true Islam’....
As thousands of Sunni terrorists from Britain, the Arab world, the Maghreb, and South Asia converged on the outskirts of Syria’s most populous city, Aleppo, planning a violent confrontation, the Syrian military was poised to counter the terrorist offensive. According to some analysts, the battle for Aleppo is a decisive one for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad....
Violence is No Jihad
By Dr M.Ghitreef Shahbaz Nadwi, New Age Islam
Jihad in true sense, is a Divine boon for humanity, it is a sacred peaceful struggle in the way of God. As its root word suggests, for Jihad (جهاد) is derived from the root جَهَدَ meaning to do an utmost struggle for a cause. Allah says in Quran: وجاهدهم به جهادا كبيرا (and do a greatest jihad with them (Makkans) by the Quran). Needless to say that Quran is not a sword or a gun it is a word of God....
ONE IS a tailor. Another is a college student. They are young, bold and come from different localities of Sopore town in north Kashmir. But the dots that connect the disparate group imply that they are the local recruits of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). So far, the LeT had mostly relied on foreign fighters to battle Indian forces in Kashmir. ... Taliban’s possible resurgence could inspire Kashmiri youth to pick up arms once again....
ABU JUNDAL’S capture may appear exciting to many Indian analysts with him providing more information that links the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) with the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, but it has not impressed Pakistan’s security establishment, which seems committed to allow LeT to flourish in the country. In fact, the State is allowing greater space to LeT chief Hafiz Saeed and many others like him to legitimise their presence in the society.....
What really happened is still murky. Reuters said it was a suicide bomber working as a bodyguard for Assad's inner circle. Agence France-Presse reported it was a suicide bomber detonating his belt. Beirut's Al-Akhbar said it was a planted bomb. Same for Lebanon's Al-Manar TV - detailing it was a 40-kilogram bomb…..
Today's killing of Assad officials raises uncomfortable questions about the meaning and justifiability of Terrorism. Indeed, even if this kind of attack were directed at Western-supported tyrannies in the region — such as, say, Saudi Arabia or Bahrain — the Terrorism label would be widely applied by mainstream Western outlets....
Extremist imams and jihadists infiltrate peaceful Muslim lands, uprooting religious customs that have existed for centuries. The recent spate of attacks on Muslim historic and religious sites in the ancient city of Timbuktu calls to mind the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan over a decade ago. The Salafist militias that have lately overrun Timbuktu and Mali are obliterating a rival tradition within their own faith....
A centuries-old mosque being pulled down with pick-axes, shovels and hammers. Remind you of something? December 6, 1992, the day Babri Masjid was razed to the ground by Hindu kar sevaks. India went up in flames that day, and it is still nursing some of the wounds it then incurred. Almost the entire history of Islamist terrorism in India is traced back to―and justified by―what happened in Ayodhya 20 years ago. Our Saudi-trained Wahhabi ulema called upon our young to answer back in kind. Much the same is happening today in Timbuktu, northern Mali―only on a grander scale. A number of mosques and other Islamic shrines are being flattened by a horde of religious zealots in this historic “city of 333 saints”. ...
If it were possible for Islam to sue anyone for defamation and constant assaults on its image, many of its so-called followers would perpetually find themselves in the dock. All the combined efforts of the enemies of the faith may not have visited as much damage on its pristine image as caused by its own misguided, overzealous followers.
As if we didn’t have enough of the madness and havoc wreaked by Al-Qaeda and assorted fellow travelers in the name of Islam over the past decade and half, we now have to contend with the lunatics of Mali’s Ansar Dine, the so-called defenders of faith, and Nigeria’s Boko Haram. Ansar Dine, a group comprising Tuareg rebels and Al-Qaeda extremists, has outraged everyone including Muslims everywhere by destroying several centuries-old shrines, including a 15th century mosque in Timbuktu.
Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate helped develop the theoretical framework that led to the apparent discovery of the subatomic “God particle” last week, yet his legacy has been largely scorned in his homeland because of his religious affiliation. It’s a sign of the growing Islamic extremism in his country. Adbus Salam, who died in 1996, was once hailed as a national hero for his pioneering work in physics and work that guided the early stages of Pakistan’s nuclear program. Now his name is even stricken from school textbooks because he was a member of the Ahmadi sect....
It is no longer shocking to hear the news of desecration of local shrines by radical Islamists in the Malian town of Timbuktu It is part of a general trend within radical Islam and has shown its ugly face from time to time in the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas and blowing up of shrines and Sufi divines in Pakistan. And let us not forget that the most audacious and frightening of such assaults started with the Wahhabis taking over control of Saudi Arabia and trying to dismantle the mausoleum of Prophet Muhammad in which they could only partly succeed....