Unpardonable Silence of Ulema as Bomb blasts and Suicide Bombings continue to torment Islamic Countries, trashing the image of Islam and Muslims
Suicide Bombings
In Indonesia And Afghanistan Have Killed Numerous People In The Last 10 Days
Alone, Though It Is A Continual Process. Some Kinds Of Attacks Keep Happening
All The Time. Islamist Terrorists Do Not Even Spare Worshippers In Mosques Or Students
In Madrasas Or Schools.
Main
Points:
1. A suicide
bomber blew himself up in a police station in Indonesia's Java killing a police
officer.
2. A bomb
exploded in Mazar Sharif in Afghanistan killing 7 people.
3. On December
2, 19 students were killed in an explosion in a madrasa in Afghanistan.
4. In August,
20 peple died in an explosion in a madrasa in Afghanistan.
5. In
September, 18 people including a cleric were killed in a bomb explosion in
Afghanistan.
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By
New Age Islam Staff Writer
9 December
2022
Dr Tahirul Qadri Declares Suicide Bombing
Totally Haram And Un -Islamic, Dr Zakir Naik Considers It Partly Permissible -
Permissible In Special Circumstances.
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Recently
leading Ulema of India and Indonesia had met in New Delhi and discussed ways to
fight extremism and terrorism in the Muslim society. The outcome of the meeting
was not known. The resolution taken up in the meeting was also not known. It
seems that it was a formal get together of Ulema in which sweet nothings were
whispered and exchanged with one another. Much was read into the meeting by the
Urdu media and Urdu journalists and columnists. But that the situation has
remained as grim as ever is evident from the fact that a suicide bomber blew
himself up at a police station in Java in Indonesia killing one police officer
and injuring several others on 7 December. The previous day, on 6 December, a
bomb planted on a roadside, targetting the bus carrying the employees of an oil
company exploded killing seven people.
On 3 December, a terrorist hurled a grenade on
a mosque when people had assembled to offer prayers. One person was killed and
20 people were injured in the attack. The attack is said to be the fallout of
tensions between tribals.
On December, 19 people including students were
killed in an explosion in a madrasa in Aibak district in Afghanistan. 23
persons have been injured.
On 28 November, 4 people killed in a bomb
explosion in a hotel near the Presidential palace in the capital of Somalia,
Mogadishu. Finance Minister of Somalia had a miraculous escape.
Bomb Blast: Huge blast in madrasa..
16 people killed.. 24 people injured | 16 people were killed in a huge
explosion in a madrasa in Afghanistan Telugu News
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All these
incidents show that suicide bombings and bomb explosions have become
commonplace incidents in Islamic countries. Most of the terrorist attacks go
unclaimed because the terrorists know that their act is un-Islamic and inhuman.
Still, no voice is raised condemning the attacks. The Islamic scholars and
muftis don't even issue fatwas against such attacks. In Yemen, a mosque was
attacked only because of tribal confrontation. It seems that sectarian differences
were at the root of the attack.
These are
some of the attacks that have taken place only in the last ten days. The ulema
of India and Indonesia had discussed ways to fight terrorism and extremism
without any framework before them. Those attacking mosques and madrasas in
Yemen and Afghanistan are Muslims. Children are killed in attacks in madrasas.
But no statement of denouncement was heard from collective Muslim religious
leadership.
In
Afghanistan, schools and madrasas of Hazara Shias have been attacked in the
past. Shias and Ahmadiyas have been declared Kafir by many Sunni Ulema
and even their slaughter has been declared permissible. The attacks on mosques
and madrasas are carried out due to sectarian confrontation and the fatwas of Kufr
issued by Ulema are behind such attacks. This is the reason Ulema remain silent
when a mosque and madrasa is attacked and Muslims including children are
killed. Some years ago, after Shia children had been killed after an attack on
a school van of Shias by the Taliban in Pakistan, a Taliban leader had said
that snake-lings will only grow up to be snakes. To the Taliban, Shias are
snakes and their children snake-lings whose heads deserve to be crushed
ruthlessly.
ISIS
enjoyed the overt and covert support of a section of Sunni Ulema as the enemy
of Shias and even a globally acclaimed Sunni scholar like Qaradawi supported it
openly during 2014.
Global Muslim
muftis and Ulema have failed to come together on religious extremism and
terrorism because their views are different on this issue. While Dr Tahirul
Qadri declares suicide bombing totally haram and un -Islamic, Dr Zakir Naik
considers it partly permissible -permissible in special circumstances. Now, the
ISIS and other terrorist organisations like the LTTE could have said they carry
out suicide bombings in special circumstances. The TTP may also say so.
The silence
of Ulema on suicide bombings and bombings in mosques, madrasas, market places
and police stations, therefore, betrays their ideological dilemma. If they
declare these incidents of violence haram, they will negate the fatwas and
opinions of their own or of their teachers. They also fear angry reactions from
their fellow sectarian Ulema if they make any out of the box statement on the
issue. Maulana Salman Nadwi was called ' Kutta ' (dog) and ' Ganda
Nutfa ' (man of illegitimate paternity) some time back by a junior Aalim
for expressing his views on Gadeer Khumm. (The Ghadīr Khumm
(Arabic: غَدِير خُم) refers to a gathering of Muslims to attend a sermon delivered
by Prophet Muhammad on 16 March 632 CE (18 Dhu al-Hijjah 10 AH) in which,
according to Shia belief, he is supposed to have anointed his cousin and
son-in-law Hazrat Ali as his successor)
Sectarian
and extremist ideology is at the root of much of the violence and bloodshed
taking place in Muslim societies today. It is an irony that children in
madrasas are killed by Muslims and mosques are attacked due merely to tribal (
sectarian) differences and the entire Muslim leadership remains dead silent.
This section comes out of hibernation when a non- Muslim makes a blasphemous
remark against the prophet pbuh or the Quran, though the Quran asks them to
ignore such things. They issue statements of condemnation and even provoke
Muslims to act against the 'enemy of Islam'. But they remain silent when Muslim
children are killed by Muslims on sectarian grounds though the Quran declares
such terrorists and extremists Mufsideen (mischief makers) and asks
Muslims to fight them and punish them.
The suicide
bombings and bomb explosions in mosques, madrasas, churches, hospitals and
religious processions will, unfortunately, continue in the time to come because
our Ulema have been caught in their own web of extremist ideology. They cannot
take a united stand against terrorism because of the ideological and sectarian
baggage they carry on their back. They will, however, continue to meet in New
Delhi or Jakarta to whisper sweet nothings into the ears of one another to
serve the political interests of their masters.
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