ISIS Bloodbath In Moscow Again Reminds Muslims Of Their Wrong Understanding Of Terrorist Organisations
By
New Age Islam Staff Writer
23 March
2024
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People Were Killed By The ISIS In Its Attack On A Concert Hall In Moscow
Main
Points:
1. The ISIS
claimed responsibility for the attack.
2. A music
concert was held in the Crocus City Hall of Moscow.
3. Five ISIS
terrorists stormed the concert hall and opened indiscriminate firing.
4. More than
one 145 persons were reported injured.
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Russian law enforcement officers stand guard near the burning Crocus
City Hall concert venue following a shooting incident outside Moscow [Maxim
Shemetov/Reuters]
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The Moscow
attack by the ISIS came at a time when some important developments have taken
place both in Russia and in the Middle East. Putin won the Presidential
election and strengthened his grip over power and Ukraine, backed by the NATO
led by the US is at the verge of defeat vis a vis Russia. Secondly, Russia
along with China and Algeria voted against the Security Council Resolution
urging an immediate ceasefire resolution brought by the US. Thirdly, Russia's
growing influence in the Middle East and the creation of a power bloc
comprising Russia, China and Iran threatens its economic and military goals in
the oil rich region. The axis of this power bloc is Basharal Assad's Syria that
has survived Arab Spring and Saudi-US conspiracies to topple Assad during the
last ten years.
One may
recall Saudi Arabia's intelligence minister Bandar Bin Sultan's urgent visit to
Russia and his meeting with Putin during which he had said to Putin that his
country was in control of the ISIS and other terrorist organisations active in
the Middle East and that if Putin continued to support and protect Syria, he
would unleash them against Russia and allow them to carry out terrorist attacks
in Russia to disrupt Sochi Olympics scheduled to be held in February 2014.
Bandar had met Putin in December 2013 when the civil war in Syria and Iraq was
raging and the US and Saudi Arabia were trying hard to destroy Syria and topple
Assad. The,US had even prepared a conspiracy to attack Syria on the pretext of
Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons (WMD) in the same way the US destroyed
Iraq accusing it of having weapons of mass destruction.
The attacks
by the ISIS on a concert hall in Moscow may be seen in the same backdrop. Putin
had then refused to be blackmailed by the Saudi minister and ordered his army
to be on 2-minute mode and had threatened that if the US attacked Syria, Russia
would attack Saudi Arabia.
The twin
attacks in a cemetery in Tehran in January that killed more than 100 people
speaks of the desperation of the Saudis and the US over the growing power of
Iran-China-Russia block with its axis in Syria. Already the ISIS is fighting on
behalf of the US against the pro-Iran and pro-Syria militant groups in Iraq and
Syria taking its mask totally off its face. First it attacked a mass gathering
in Iran and now it attacked another mass gathering in Russia. The message is
clear: Do not meddle in Arab waters.
That the US
issued a statement saying that the attacks in Moscow were not planned by
Ukraine immediately after the attack speaks of the worries of the US. The US
wants Russia to look at the attack from the point of view of the Middle East
and not from the Ukrainian point of view. Perhaps, the objective of the attack
waa to create an anti-Putin public opinion within Russia as it did in Iran
against Putin's expansionist foreign policy especially its policy in the Middle
East. Russia and China's indirect interference in Gaza has made matters worse
for Israel. The stalemate in Gaza has intensified anti-Netanyahu protests in
Israel and the US is now playing power tactics to save Netanyahu by brokering a
ceasefire in Gaza and ensuring the release of hostages. Biden had planned a
Kuwait-llike operation to rescue the hostages with the help of a Security
Council Resolution that would permit his allies to use force in Gaza and rescue
the hostages. Russia's veto spoiled Biden's plans. Hence the desperation. Until
now, the US opposed the use of the words 'immediate ceasefire' in Security
Council draft resolutions and only talked of humanitarian pauses. But yesterday
it threw a bait with the proposal of immediate ceasefire to get a Security
Council resolution for a military operation. The US' plea to build a temporary
port on Gaza shore had already created doubt about Biden's plans.
What
actions Putin will take after the Moscow attacks is any body's guess but one
can be sure of a heightened confrontation between the US and Russia both in
Ukraine and Middle East. As for the Muslims, they should now realise that the
ISIS was not an Islamic organisation out to establish a caliphate but a proxy
terrorist organisation of the US and its western allies to be used for
achieving its political and military goals.
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