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Taliban, Sipah-e-Sahaba of Pakistan and other Al-Queda related groups are the Khawariji enemies of Islam

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In a previous post on LUBP, it was discussed that religious fanatics and terrorist of the Taliban, Sipah-e-Sahaba (ASWJ-LeJ) etc do not represent majority of peaceful Sunni Muslims. Sunni Muslims of Pakistan reject Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan

In this post, we explain that Taliban, ASWJ-LeJ and their other Takfiri affiliates and apologists are real enemies of Islam and world peace. This pattern is growing all over the Muslim world especially in placed of conflict like Syria and Libya.

Hamza Yousaf, famous American Sunni Muslim scholar, thus describes that Kharijjites (Khawarij) are the real enemies of Islam and Muslims.

The will be young and Brainwashed From Sahi Bukhari and Muslim

More Hadeeth from Sahi Bokahri and Muslim describing various Khawarij traits.
people who will recite the Quran but it will not go beyond their throats, and they will go out from (leave) Islam as an arrow darts through the game’s body.’ ” (Book #84, Hadith #68)

Their Salat will seem to put your Salat to shame, but they will have no love in their hearts and their Salat is not worthy.

They will say some good things and raise some good slogans but in reality will be cold blooded killers.


They are the worst of people, several hadeeth references.

They are killers of innocent Muslims.

Adapted from: LUBP



Amnesty International and HRW are constantly remiss in reporting Shiite massacres in Pakistan – by Dr. Muhammad Taqi

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Related posts:

An open letter to Amnesty International from concerned citizens of Pakistan

Pakistani Shias and other rights activists protest the misrepresentation of Shia massacres by Human Rights Cartel

Amnesty’s statement masks Deep State’s role in Shia massacres in Pakistan

Petition: Silence of Human Rights Organizations on Shia Genocide in Pakistan

Shia genocide: what’s in a name?

Is it Shia genocide or is it the genocide of the ethnic Hazaras of Quetta? What about the Gilgiti, Balti and Peshawari Shia then, or the Pashtun Shia of the Turi and Bangash tribes? Is it genocide at all? Why call it genocide when the state is allegedly not involved or supporting the perpetrators? And so continues the debate over the semantics of mass murder. As much as the killers are calm, cool, collected and calculated; the response is disjointed, if any at all, and the responders disparate and bickering.

Last year, I had noted in these pages that human rights activists, for various reasons, balk at calling the wholesale killings of the Pakistani Shia as genocide. But it is not just the nomenclature. The fact is that the two major international human rights organizations, viz Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are constantly remiss in reporting in a timely manner the atrocities perpetrated against the Pakistani Shia. For example, the recent massacre of the Shia at Babusar Top was widely reported by the international media and condemned even by the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, but not so much as a denunciation has been issued by these two outfits. I understand that it might not be a grand scheme to not record and report the systemic slaughter of the Shia underway in this country but it certainly is disconcerting to note such omissions. The two groups have a dismal record of reporting the four-year siege of the Shia of upper Kurram and their deaths in thousands. If the idea of highlighting an issue is to chronicle it in a ‘country report’ the following year, then clearly there is a level of dysfunction in these outfits that should raise a flag.

I had also previously noted that a working definition provided by Professors John Thomson and Gail Quets serves as a useful template in Pakistan’s case. Thomson and Quets had stated: “Genocide is the extent of destruction of a social collectivity by whatever agents, with whatever intentions, by purposive actions, which fall outside the recognised conventions of legitimate warfare.” For all intents and purposes, the Shia of Pakistan constitute a social collectivity that has been under a systematic assault by non-state actors operating outside the norms of conventional and legitimate warfare, while the state has either stood idle or even worse, aided and abetted the perpetrators. The intensity of the atrocities has varied over roughly the last 27 years but the intent has clearly been to identify and, wherever possible, physically eliminate the Shia. This is not to say that the Shia are being thrown into gas chambers but let it be very clear too that for the systematic killings of a community to qualify as genocide, every single one of its members does not have to die.

The man who coined the term genocide, Raphael Lemkin, had taken great pains to note, “Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is indented rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be disintegration of the political and social institutions of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.” Lemkin’s work dealt predominantly with the Jewish population but subsequent scholars expanded the target populations from a nation or ethnicity to include political or religious groups and even social classes.

Article II of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide thus states: “Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious groups as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Article III of the same Convention goes on to list the following acts as punishable: a) Genocide; b) conspiracy to commit genocide; c) direct and public incitement to commit genocide; d) attempt to commit genocide; e) complicity in genocide.

The simple point is that to prevent and/or contain genocide, it has to be identified and named correctly. The viciousness of the atrocities against the Shia is incremental. From the inception of the first openly anti-Shia terrorist outfit in 1985 to a plethora of such gangs today, thousands of Shia have perished at their hands and scores have fled their locales and, when possible, the country. Those who live and stay behind, live in a state of constant fear. For the first time in the history of Pakistan many Shia, in areas where their numbers are smaller, have now been forced to conceal their religious identity or at the very least not announce it. In the event that their physical characteristics are a giveaway, as in the case of Quetta’s Hazara population, the ethnic dimension is an added risk that cannot be averted. Many Hazara thus face a double ethno-religious whammy in their already ghettoised environs.

The chances, unfortunately, are that the situation for the Shia of Pakistan is going to get worse before there is even a possibility of any improvement. They would be well advised to coordinate with other vulnerable groups as similar forces persecute and eliminate them. But more importantly, the Shia community of Pakistan has to come up with an indigenous leadership and advocates. When media misrepresents or obfuscates information about mass murders, human rights activists and honest witnesses hold its feet to the fire. But when advocacy groups get cold feet or are derelict in reporting in an honest and timely manner, the victim communities must bring forth their own Raphael Lemkins. The debate over semantics perhaps cannot be resolved but at least an honest first draft of an unfortunate history can be preserved.

The writer can be reached at mazdaki@me.com. He tweets at http://twitter.com/mazdaki

Source: LUBP


Saudi Arabia Paying UK Trained Terrorists Up To $3,000/Mo To Jihad Against Syria – by Alexander Higgins

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Exclusive rebel interviews detailing Saudi Arabia’s Salafi Jihad operations reveal details Uncle Sam doesn’t want you to know and the media won’t tell you.

First hand accounts of rebel operations reveal Saudi Arabia is funding terrorists recruited from Salafi schools who are answering an open call from the Saudi Prince’s anointed Prophet’s to wage Jihad against Syria.

These terrorists aren’t afraid to brag that they are answering Prophet’s call to Jihad revealing how volunteers inside Saudi Arabia’s Salifi schools are being to be flown to military garrisons inside Turkey where they are given weapons and explosives training by UK special forces.

Once their training is complete they are provide weapons by the UK Commandos who in turn smuggle them inside Syria were they meet up with their commanders to receive further orders.

The article also takes a detailed looked into these western supported Al Qaeda aligned terrorists by examining their ideology and history while reporting on providing details on the life of the Saudi Jihadists living inside the war zone.

Story Highlights:

  • Saudi Arabia Paying Terrorists Up To $3,000/Mo To Jihad Against Syria
  • UK commandos are training the Jihadi terrorists in Turkey military garrisons, supplying them with weapons and then smuggling them into Syria where they await further command.
  • The Terrorist are responding to an open call for Jihad issued to all Saudi’s by the Saudi Prince Bandar Bin Sultan anointed Prophet Sheik Ahmad Al Qaseer.
  • The rebels being trained in Turkey are Saudi Salafi Jihadists are the minority sect of fundamentalist Islam extremists that includes Al Qaeda and many Islamic Jihad groups.
  • The Prophet’s Jihad targets all “infidels” including not only Christians but the Shiite and Sunni Muslims that together make up nearly 95% of all Muslims who don’t follow their strict fundamentalist interpretation of Islam.
  • The Saudi Arabia government directly recruiting Jihadists from their Salafi schools paying Jihadists $5,000 to join and a monthly salaries of $1,500-$3,000 a month.
  • Additional bonuses are paid for each infidel killed. $750 for the murder of a Shiite, $500 for a Sunni and $350 for all others.
  • Those who kill 5 infidels are promised entry to Paradise and reportedly earn an actual Passport To Paradise issue by the Saudi Prince and forwarded to the terrorists for the Good Deeds.
  • Saudi Arabia is providing full support for family members left at home including housing and schooling.
  • Terrorists who volunteer to Jihad in Saudi Arabia are flown to the Turkey military for weapons and bomb training.
  • Similar recruiting, training, and smuggling operations are being ran out of Lebanon where the Prince’s Prophet has separate training camps set up.
  • Salafi Jihadists from Libya, Qatar and other Arabic nations also being paid to answer the Prophets call to Jihad.

The video above shows Salafi terrorists in Libya destroying a holy Muslim shrine using rocket-propelled grenades and other incendiary devices.

Prior to the scenes shown in the video several people inside the shrine were brutally murdered by the terrorists and more shockingly the attack took place under the order, participation and full protection of the Libya government.

Salafi Jihadism extends to includes the Al Qaeda ideology and its followers.

Salafi Jihadists make up less than 1% of the world’s nearly 2 billion Muslims but due to covert backing by the US and the UK they are now the fastest growing Islamic movement in the world.

Most notably the US and its NATO allies supported the Salafi Jihad to overthrow Gaddafi in Libya and then handed the Jihadists control over Libya once Gaddafi fell.

These are the same terrorists the United States declared to be the enemy of the War on Terror and used as a pretext to invade Iraq in 2003.

After the successful sacking of Libya, the United States is now backing these terrorists to overthrow the Syrian government.

Now you know that the terrorists commonly called Al Qaeda are formally known as Salafi Jihadists.

They are being trained, funded and armed by the United States and the United Kingdom directly and via proxy throw nations such as Libya, Lebanon, NATO member Turkey and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia among others.

As PBS Frontline notes:

The Salafist Movement

An examination of the ideology that has inspired the global jihad and the emergence of its most dangerous incarnation.

When Gilles Kepel was researching a book about the origins of the global jihad movement back in the 1980s, he recalls rarely coming across Muslim fundamentalists known as “Salafists” living in Europe. “The ones who were prevalent … were totally apolitical and they didn’t deliver theoretically or in terms of doctrine,” he says.

Salafism is an ideology that posits that Islam has strayed from its origins. The word “salaf” is Arabic for “ancient one” and refers to the companions of the Prophet Mohammed. Arguing that the faith has become decadent over the centuries, Salafists call for the restoration of authentic Islam as expressed by an adherence to its original teachings and texts. “Salafists originally are supposedly not violent,” Kepel explains. “They are not advocating the revolt against one who holds power, against the powers that be. They are calling for re-Islamization at the daily level.”

By the mid-’90s, Kepel saw an alarming change among Europe’s Muslims. Increasingly he was coming across Salafists who had embraced jihad — in other words, who felt violence and terrorism were justified to realize their political objectives. Kepel explains that when Salafists, who tend to be alienated from mainstream European society, meet and mingle with jihadists, it fuses into a volatile mixture. “When you’re in the state of such alienation you become easy prey to the jihadi guys who will feed you more savory propaganda than the old propaganda of the Salafists who tell you to pray, fast and who are not taking action,” he says. “And this is why the [Islamist terrorists] who had been arrested were often good Salafists in the beginning.”

Kepel labeled these Muslim fundamentalists “Salafist jihadists”, a term that he extends to include the followers of Al Qaeda. Salafist jihadists are now a burgeoning presence in Europe, having attempted more than 30 terrorist attacks among E.U. countries since 2001.

While European counterterrorism experts recognize that Salafist jihadism is an ideological movement with deep religious and historical roots, they feel that their counterparts at the FBI and American intelligence agencies don’t share this understanding. “I began using the word Salafi and Salafists in 1997 in meetings in Washington and nobody raised the word and asked what does it mean,” says Xavier Raufer, a Paris-based expert on Islamic terrorism who has close ties to France’s intelligence community. “And I used it and wrote it many times, and the first response they had was when Ahmed Ressam [who planned to attack Los Angeles International airport] was arrested in 1999. I had a friend in Washington who called me and said, ‘What is that word you were using, “Salafist?”‘ They didn’t know that such a thing existed.”

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Who are the terrorists? Now you know.

Like clockwork the western media went into damage control following this attack and a string of attacks against several Muslim Holy sites over the weekend.

For example, the Associated Press report on the string of attacks on Huffington Post reports that ‘It was not immediately know who was responsible for the attacks’ and while only hinting the Salafi Jihadists may be behind the attack.

The article also points out that the Police blocked of the road to the shrine while the attacks were occurring and instead of try to stop the attacks were seen protecting a nearby hotel because those are the orders they were given.

Then in a fit of cognitive dissonance the author contradicts himself misleading readers into believing there were no police to stop the attack.

“Following the civil war, Libya has been largely without a military or police force and has relied on disparate militias to provide security and protect government installations.”

It mentions the government has officially condemned the attack and a journalist has called for a complete investigation.

However the Huffington Post article intentionally leaves out many shocking details while paying more attention to justifications of the attacks by trying to imply that these were some satanic worship sites.

“The campaign appears to be aimed mainly at shrines revered by Sufis, a mystical order whose members often pray over the tombs of revered saints and ask for blessings or intervention to bring success, marriage or other desired outcomes. Hard-line Salafi Muslims deem the practice offensive because they consider worshipping over graves to be idolatry.”

To be clear, the Salafis do consider such practices as paganism and satanic however the AP article clear distorts the facts by claiming this is a mystical practice.

To put this in a western perspective it is no different from the way Catholic worship of the saints and such practice is not only widespread in Catholicism but throughout many branches of Islam.

Instead of watering down what happened the Associated Press should have devoted more attention to some of the horrendous details of the attacks.

For example even Al-Jazeera, a notoriously pro-Salafi news outlet, even admits that not only did the Salafis carry out the attack but that the killed several people inside the shrine before the shrine was razed to the grounds.

Of course, Al-Jazeera spins the story by claiming the people worshiping inside the fired on the Salafis in an attempt to defend the shrine and were killed by the ‘revolutionaries’

A little critical thinking puts serious doubts to such claims.

For example are we really supposed to believe that people go to pray over their Saints graves while armed?

In any case this a big detail that the Associated Press leaves out.

Another huge detail is Libya’s Interior minister resigned in protest over the attack due to reports that the government ordered the attacks and then security forces surrounded the area and prevent anyone from intervening.

The Libyan interim interior minister has resigned, after members of the newly elected parliament accused his ministry of not doing enough to stop attackers who bulldozed a mosque and the shrine housing the grave of the great Malaiki Scholar Sheik Ahmed Zarooq.

Clearly for the interior minister to resign given such desecration is all but routine in Libya because is a fundamental tenet to Salafism means we are not talking about just anyone old grave and as such the attack has even made a buzz among Muslim blogs:

Zarruq’s grave has been desecrated In Libya

On Sunday 26th August 2012 The Salafis came at night 3 AM while people were sleeping and dug out the blessed resting place of Hazrat Shaykh Ahmad Zaruq Alayhi Rahma.

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

We Have Just Been Informed By Brothers In Libya that The Salafis Have Taken The Blessed Body of Shaykh Ahmad Zarruq Alayhi Rahma and They Have Dumped It At An Unknown Location and the Salafis are on their way to destroy the tomb of the Sahabi, Ruwayfi’ b. Thabit al-Ansari in Libya.

Why would the Associated Press leave out such a detail?

Al-Jazeera goes on to quote the President of Libya’s Congress who states that not only did government security forces protect the attack as reported by the AP but they also participated in the attack alongside the ‘revolutionaries’.

Al-Jazeera downplays the incident by claiming the government has condemned the attacks which were carried out by a lawless minority.

The truth is however, the lawless minority are the Salafi Jihadists and that lawless minority is now in control of Libya and comprise much of the Libya government.

Al-Jazeera also notes that Reuters reporter watched the Bulldozer leveling another shrine noting that police their also did nothing beside provide a security perimeter for the Salafi Jihadists.

If hadn’t read the blog post I quoted above then you also wouldn’t know from either the Al-Jazeera report or the Associated Press report that the terrorist actually stole the bodies of the saints from the tomb.

Instead Al-Jazeera does nothing more than mention the Reuters reporter stating “Inside the mosque, empty graves lay open in the rubble.”

Reuters quotes a Libyan government officials as saying the interior ministry authorized the attacks after discovering that ‘black magic’ was being practices by worshiping over the graves of the saints.

Al-Jazeera also takes up the same line as the Huffington post to attack the victims.

Al-Jazeera prints the terrorists propaganda that worshiping the graves, dancing, and building shrines commemorate important figures are part of an ‘idolatrous’ and ‘mysterious tradition’ and that other branches of Islam ‘should return to the simple ways followed by Islam’s Prophet Muhammad’ .

Al-Jazeera (again being pro-Salafi) goes on to note:

Libyan minister quits over Sufi shrine attack

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The official Libyan news agency LANA reported that Fawzi Abdel-Al submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib on Sunday.

[...]The attackers destroyed the mosque, which contained Sufi Muslim graves in the centre of Tripoli, a day after Sufi shrines in the city of Zlitan were wrecked and a mosque library was burned.

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In Zlitan, witnesses said that an armed group, claiming to be Salafis, carried out the assault on the Sufi shrine, the tomb of Abdel Salam al-Asmar, a 15th-century Muslim scholar.

The president of Libya’s newly elected National Congress, Mohamed al-Magariaf, called the prime minister to an emergency meeting on Sunday.

“What is truly regrettable and suspicious is that some of those who took part in these destruction activities are supposed to be of the security forces and from the revolutionaries,” Magariaf told reporters on Saturday night.

He did not elaborate on how security forces took part.

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A Reuters reporter saw the bulldozer level the Sha’ab mosque as police surrounded the site and prevented people from approaching and did not stop the demolition. Inside the mosque, empty graves lay open in the rubble.

“A large number of armed militias carrying medium and heavy weapons arrived at the al-Sha’ab mosque with the intention to destroy the mosque because of their belief graves are anti-Islamic,” a government official said.

He told Reuters that authorities tried to stop them but, after a small clash, decided to seal off the area while the demolition took place to prevent any violence spreading.

Sectarian attack

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A man who appeared to be overseeing the demolition told Reuters the interior ministry had authorized the operation after discovering people had been worshiping the graves and practicing “black magic”. The ministry was not available for comment.

“A group of criminals who have committed crimes against people inside and outside Zliten, entered and took cover in the mosque and fired at the revolutionaries,” Mohamed al-Teer, a witness, said.

“The revolutionaries fired back. They killed and captured some of them and the others escaped.”

The attackers also set fire to a historic library, reducing years of academic and religious writing to ash. [...]

One of Libya’s highest-profile cultural clashes since the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi has been between followers of the mystical Sufi tradition and ultra-conservative Salafis, who say Islam should return to the simple ways followed by its prophet.

Salafis have formed a number of armed brigades in Libya. They reject as idolatrous many Sufi devotions – which include dancing and the building of shrines to venerated figures.

The Sha’ab mosque in Tripoli housed close to 50 Sufi graves inside and, outside, the tombs of Libyan Sufi scholar Abdullah al-Sha’ab and a martyr who fought Spanish colonialists.

The Terrorist In A Christian Context

For many western’s the only way to put the absurdity into context use the analogy of Christianity.

These Salafi jihadists can be compared to Christian fundamentalists sect, such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses, from which a small group of people decide that they needed to turn to violence and terrorism to cleanse all other branches of Christianity of the satanic and pagan ways they followed.

Catholics are analogous to the Shiite Muslims, for example in Iran.

Catholics followed the scriptures and religious traditions not contained within the scripture.

Catholics for example worship the saints , follow the Pope and his subordinates, and participate in other customs such as Hail Mary’s and taking the Body of Christ.

These are all considered outright pagan or idolatrous mystical and even satanic black magic satanic traditions to Christian fundamentalists who argue such are the teaching of man not contained within the scripture and hence a sin against god.

The fundamentalists Christians are the non-catholic denominations of Christianity and analogous to the Sunni Muslim, for example in Saudi Arabia.

These branches of Christianity, such as Protestant, Baptist, and Lutheran branches, which following the text in their scriptures more closely and believe it is a sin to follow customs not explicitly in their scripture.

These fundamentalists vary widely in their interpretations of the scriptures ranging from some more catholic schools of thought.

These interpretations range from full believing in Trinity, to only believing that Jesus was the Savior and Son of God, all the way to believing that Jesus was not the son of God but an ordinary man and worshiping or even praying to him is a sin.

On the extreme end of the fundamentalists would be a sect very similar to the Jehovah’s Witness.

If you took the most extreme fundamentalists in this sect and agitated them into using violence and terrorism as part of Holy War in the name of God to purge the rest of Christianity of their ‘sins’ to restore Christianity to its original roots then you would have the Christian version of the Salafis.

These Christian Holy Warriors would kill other Christians they found wearing a Cross because the Cross and other symbols are considered idols.

They would burn down any Church that contains statues or paintings of historical religious figures such as the Mother Mary or The Saints because not only are these considered idols but worshiping in such places would by considered back magic satanic paganism.

Such places would be burned to the ground after the worshipers inside were systematically executed and their bodies were hung in public to send messages to others.

Places such as the Vatican would be destroyed as would the religious relics including and all of the ancient writings inside the Vatican’s vault.

The pope himself would be executed and if the killer did so in a suicide bombing he we be promised eternal life for giving his life for God.

In fact even worshiping Christ would be considered paganism a crime punishable by to serve the cause of purging impure Christians from the religion.

Declaring Christ is the Son of God would be blasphemy against the Church and again would punishable by death.

Not only would murder be conducted for such crimes but this would be the fate of your children.

A Victim of Islamic Jihad violence – This boy’s brain has entirely leaked from his severed skull

The Roots Of Salafi Jihadism

Scholars will argue that the roots of Salafism extend back to the time of Mohammed and the immediate generations that follow him.

In Islam, as with Judaism and Christianity, there has always been movements to return to the religion that has veered of its course to its roots.

The modern-day Salafi Jihadist however has much more recent roots.

Back during the time United States was fighting its revolution the America’s were not the only place the colonialist British Empire had it sites on.

The British also had their eyes set on the Middle East but at that time it under complete control of the Muslim Ottoman empire.

Map of the Ottoman Empire

Britain realized that Muslims would not fight one another because it was against their religion so they conjured up a plan to divide and conquer empire.

The British sent 9 spies into the empire to create a new interpretation of Islam that would pit the Muslims against one another under the guise of Jihad.

Under this new interpretation those who did not follow a strict fundamentalist interpretation of Islam were not considered Muslims.

This new interpretation not only allowed, but required, its followers to take up Jihad against the impure infidels to bring a pure Islam to entire world.

The founder of this new sect of Islam was Mohammed Abdul Wahhab and was done so under the influence of the British named Hempher.

With assistance from Hempher Wahhab was able to popularize his Islam purification ideologies and eventually made an alliance with the rich and powerful House of Ibn Saud, which is known today as the Saudi Royal family.

It was through Wahhab’s movement the House of Ibn Saud was able to quickly conquer much of Saudi Arabia using brutal tactics of terrorism.

The Saudi Royal Family provided the funding and the Wahhabi movement provided the foot soldiers with the extremist ideology that carry out the attacks

Wahhab’s alliance with the Saudi Royal family marked the start of 140 years of Saudi attacks on the Ottoman empire. and his movement became known as Wahhabism which the dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia and is alternately referred to as the revival of the Salafi revival movement .

Salafism, Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia and Al Qaeda

Modern day Salafist Jihadism was born from the writings of the Muslim Brother’s Hoods Sayyid Qutb who was imprisoned after the Muslim Brother Hood attempt to assassinate the Egyptian leader in 1954.

The Saudi Royal Prince

Those writings have become the intellectual underpinnings of the modern day Salafi Jihadists by glorify the teachings of the ideology of Wahhabi.

Through Jihad the Salafists want to spread their strict fundamentalists interpretation to the Islam to the entire world.

Al Qaeda adopted the Wahhabi teachings with Sayyid Qutb having a major influence on Bin Laden and his disciples.

The arrangement between the Wahhabis and the Saudi Royal Family haven’t changed since the Wahhabism started first started.

The tactics today are still the same employed by Wahhabi during the first Saudi Dynasty.

This is clearly seen in the first video in this article and as described by the corporate media reports..

Today however Salafi Jihadist groups include Al Qaeda and many Islamic Jihadist fronts .

Those familiar with Islam realize the many different names given to the various factions of Salafism serves only to obscure the fact the groups are all one in the same.

The many different names simply hide the truth from the West that they are all trying to accomplish the same goal of fulfilling Saudi Arabia’s Jihadi mission to impose Islam on the entire world’s population.

What the west is clearly aware of is Saudi Arabia spend hundreds of billions of dollars every year across the globe to promote the violent Salafism ideology that is predominant in Saudi Arabia and Quatar.

It is also clear that Saudi Royal family anoints the prophets who lead the Islamic Holy Wars the west is fighting against while the Saudi government directly provides the extremists with necessary funding to wage Jihad.

The Saudi Royal Family even funded the 9/11 terrorist attacks and just like the Prince anointed Bin Laden a prophet much the same way Sheik Qaseer has been anointed.

The Saudi Prince’s Prophet Calls For Jihad In Syria

In Syria, the Saudi Prince’s anointed Prophet Sheik Aahmad Al Qaseer continues in Bin Laden’s footsteps by openly declared Jihad.

The Prophet Al Qaseer has called upon all Salafists Muslims to join answer the call of Jihad in Syria.

One Saudi Jihadists tells me those recruited in Saudi Arabia are being paid $5000 to join the Jihad and other terrorist in Syria say they have been paid up to $10,000 to answer the call.

Jihadists recruited from within Saudi Arabia are being paid additional $1500 to $3000 per month and I am told those recruited from other nation’s are paid less.

This source tells me Saudi Arabia also provides full housing, welfare payments and schooling to family members the Jihadists leave behind to go kill the infidels in Syria.

Another source familiar with the Saudi Jihad tells me those who kill 5 or more infidels in Syria are promised admission to paradise.

Salafi Jihadist Passport To Paradise Issued By Saudi Prince

This source tells me that the Saudi Prince prints literally prints out Passports to Paradise.

The Passports to Paradise are then shipped to the Prophet who distributes them to those who earn them.

I was forwarded a link a photo to what is said to be one of the Passports to Paradise.

Sources say Saudi Arabia is also paying an additional $700 bounty for each Shiite killed.

Saudi Arabia also pays a $500 bounty for the murder of a Sunni Muslims that has refused to take up the Salafists cause.

A lesser bounty of $350 bounty is paid for each non-muslim that is killed.

Several sources have confirm that these Salafist terrorists are being paid for a monthly salary as well as additional bounties for each murder they commit.

I asked one source about the discrepancy between these quoted bounties these sources give and the bounties reported by Iran’s Press TV.

I am told that Press TV provides a simplified version of the bounty simply in as it applies to the context of Syria because many would simply not believe these bounties extend to targets beyond the Syrian forces or that these ‘bonuses’ are being paid by Saudi Arabia to kill Christians.

To be clear, Press TV reports do not conflict with what prices the quote above.

Press TV reports a bounty of $750 for each government soldier who are indeed Shiites and the lesser bounty of $350 for members of pro-government militias who sources tell are often nothing more than pro-Assad civilians.

I am told reports that these Salafis are targeting Christians and other less conservative and less fundamental Islamists are immediately dismissed as ‘Iranian propaganda’ and the story is not reported on.

My source tells me this is why Press TV does not mention attacks against these groups by the Salafi’s but assures me that Salafi Jihadists target all non Salafists, Muslim, Christian or otherwise.

A Salafi Jihadists tells me the Saudi Prince’s Prophet has set up his own recruiting and training camps in Lebanon.

Similar operations are in place in Libya which has already been placed under the control of the Salafist Jihadists by NATO.

Saudi Salifi Jihadists Trained By UK Commandos In Turkey

In country of NATO member Turkey a slightly different scenario is in place.

Once source has given me a complete detailed description of joining the Jihad from a school in Saudi Arabia.

This source tells me the Saudi people are all being told that “missioners” are needed in Syria.

I am told the Prophet’s call to Jihad is common knowledge and even “the scholars say to go.”

I asked if this source was asked to join or just decided to volunteer.

“The prophets say to go to war for the holy. Kill the infidel. There was no question.”

The school then gave the each that volunteered $5,000 and told them to will receive commands from their commanders once in Syria.

“Find them in mosques” this source was told.

This source then says the Jihadists were flown into Turkey.

Once in Turkey the new were greeted by UK commandos the source assumed to be from the Air force and cared not to ask.

This source stated the training occurred with about 30 other Jihadists at a Turkish garrison near an Air Force base in Turkey who were given weapons and bomb making training.

Once training was complete the Jihadists were all issued standard weapons to take into source.

This source was issued a Browning 45 mm pistol, a Barret sniper rifle and an MP5.

The Jihadists were blind-folded and put on a caravan of mules along with additional weapons, again at an undisclosed location near a Turkish airport.

In the middle of the night they UK commandos snuck them approximately 5 miles inside the border were met rendezvous with vehicles that picked them up.

Additional weapons and ammunition were carried in on other mules and transported separately away from the rendezvous location in a truck

This source tells me she was sent to a location that had about 10 other people from the school this source was recruited from.

Upon meeting up with other Jihadists brought in from other locations including Lebanon and Libya.

They talk about the Prophets open call for Jihad and people being discussing the pay for joining Jihad.

Thus source insists they all joined for the Holy cause of Allah and goes onto tell of others inside Syria being paid up to $10,000 to join.

These Salafist Wahhabi terrorists do not try to hide their motives.

They even record themselves chanting in the streets of Syria so the words of their Prophets can be made true and the Sheik can be brought to power.

The western media at the same time plays these videos without audio telling the viewers these are peaceful protestors demanding basic human rights.

But the actual audio shows them chanting ‘Death to the infidels’ for the glory of their prophet.

Their prophet has even declared when he is put in power every last infidel remaining will have their bodies chopped up into pieces and fed to the dogs.

All these things clearly indicate the level censorship the secret place are placing on the corporate media and the information that is entering the United States.

Life As A Jihadist In Syria

According to sources, life as a Jihadist in Syria is much more pleasant and comforting than life inside Saudi Arabia.

The monthly salaries go a long way to obtain comfortable living spaces.

The Jihadists on the ground are not left without the comforts of woman either as Woman are also being paid to join the cause.

Often they are used as messengers to communicate between different Jihadi factors.

The companionship of a woman also helps the Jihadists move about with less scrutiny from Syrian government security forces.

Foreign forces are collecting intelligence for the jihadists and there is often much time in between communications and actual orders which are issued from command and control.

An Iraqi woman who joined the Jihad from Saudi Arabia tells on night she say one of the rebel commanders “naked with his pants on.”

She continues, “The veil was removed from the head, my belt as not undone and I closed my legs”.

What do you mean by “closed your legs,” I asked, “Did he rape you?”

“No,” she replied, “I liked him. We made love softly. But, it was not complete”.

“He was young and a symbol of the Glory War” says insisting she was read to war, but he said he needed her fFor the Jihad because she is a Glory woman.

She fell and love with him and thought they would marry but that didn’t happen.

“I was thinking it is a love and that will marry” but after sometime “I became pregnant with [the rebel commander]” (named removed to protect this Woman’s identity).

She then says she was sent to other rebels continuing to work as a messenger.

Additional Sources:

The Salafi Movement – PBS Frontline

Who or what is a Salafi? Is their approach valid?- Mas’ud Ahmed Khan

MSNBC: Saudi Arabia Tied To 9/11 Attacks – Alexander Higgins

Shaykh Ahmad Zarruq’s grave has been desecrated In Libya – Seeker Of The Sacred Knowledge

The Wahabbi Movement – Islamic Study Center, Leicester England

Reining in Riyadh – The New York Post

Memoirs Of Mr. Hempher, The British Spy To The Middle East – Spiegel, German Newspaper

Further Reading:

Should We Arrest D.C. Politicians for Supporting Al Qaeda? – Alexander Higgins

Brookings Admits NATO Responsible For Al Qaeda Operations In Syria – Alexander Higgins

Caught: Staged CNN Syria Interviews Faked By Activist Danny – Alexander Higgins

The Wahhabis – From the Book Terrorism and the Illuminati

Wahhabism and Wahhabi Islam: How Wahhabi Islam Differs from Sunni, Shia Islam – About.com

The First Saudi State – Wikipedia

Salafi Jihadism – Wikipedia

Wahabbism -Wikipedia

Source: Alexander Higgins Blog


Takfiri militants from Pakistan are fighting in Syria with an anti-Semitic cause – by Kapil Komireddi

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Takfiri Deobandi group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan has sent hundreds of militants for Jihadist operations in Syria

What began as a limited but genuine people’s uprising against a kleptocratic dictatorship has now been overtaken by a Saudi-backed project to destabilize Syria. Last week it was reported that Turkish Airline is flying Takfiri militants of Al-Qaeda from Pakistan to Syrian borders. Now, Kapil Komireddi writes in an Israeli newspaper (Haaretz) to explain that Israel and Jews will not be better off if Saudi-funded Takfiri militants are able to install an Islamist government in Damascus. Kapil too confirms the presence of Pakistani trained Jihadists in Syria.

What will happen in Syria? The answer to that question holds immense significance for Israel. Yet, preoccupied with Iran’s nuclear program, Israel is neglecting the more immediate threat to its security that’s crystalizing on the other side of the Golan Heights. What began as a limited but genuine people’s uprising against a kleptocratic dictatorship has now been overtaken by a Saudi-backed project to destabilize Syria.

Bashar Assad, like his father Hafez, was never a friend of Israel’s – but nor was his worldview shaped exclusively by antagonism toward the Jewish State. The foreign fighters seeking his ouster, on the other hand, receive sustenance from a medieval theocracy that, in the words of John R. Bradley a preeminent Middle East expert who predicted the Egyptian revolution as early as 2009 “spews out a kind of anti-Semitic hatred not known since the Nazis.”

The results of Saudi Arabia’s tireless efforts were on display in Al-Midan, a suburb in southern Damascus where I recently interviewed rebel fighters. Mateen, a fighter who claimed to have traveled from Afghanistan, shared his ideas for Syria’s future after ridding it of the Assad dynasty.

“We have to build a society of respect and brotherhood in accordance with the Prophet’s commandments,” he told me in Urdu. [Majority of Takfiri Deobandis and Salafists are trained in Pakistani under the patronage of Pakistan Army and Saudi-funded Deobandi-Salafi seminaries.] “We will treat non-Muslims kindly, but we have a big fight against the Jews ahead of us. We will take that up, God willing.” This manifesto for the future was identical – almost word for word – to what Yahya Mujahid, a senior leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based outfit charged with carrying out the Mumbai attacks in November 2008, told me in Lahore in 2009: that the LeT would take up the “fight” with the Jews after “liberating” Kashmir from Indian rule. One was a Kashmiri, the other a Pashtun; neither had met a Jew in his life. But both were united by a deep hatred, completely alien to their richly syncretic native cultures, exported by a distant Wahhabi monarchy that has suffused countless young minds in Islamic seminaries across South Asia with a fervor for jihad against non-Muslims.

This evangelical effort is now being replicated on an even more ambitious scale in Syria. The result is that a once-pluralistic society has descended into sectarian chaos. In the province of Homs alone, rebel fighters have driven some 80,000 Christians out of their homes. The opposition fighters have even carried out beheadings, a phenomenon unknown to Syrians. Young Shi’ite and Christian women, who mix freely with men in Damascus, told me they had to cover their faces and assume fake Sunni identities when traveling through rebel-held areas.

The man currently being groomed by Saudi Arabia as a possible replacement for Assad is Manaf Tlass, a high-ranking official in the Syrian army and a once-close friend of Assad’s, who fled Syria in July with the help of French intelligence. Tlass has now adopted the vocabulary of the “moderate,” but his family history should be of concern to Israelis. Tlass’ father, Mustafa, a former Sunni defense minister who wielded tremendous clout under Hafez Assad, is something of a scholar. I came across one of his best-sellers, “The Matzah of Zion,” in Damascus this summer. Complete with a lurid cover depicting ravenous Jews draining the blood of a Christian priest into a large bowl, the book attempts to revive the blood libel.

None of this has prevented some Western friends of Israel from advocating American intervention in Syria as a means to weakening Iran’s influence in the region. Deposing Assad, former Assistant Secretary of State James Rubin argued in Foreign Policy in June, would “help Israel and help reduce the risk of a far more dangerous war between Israel and Iran.”

Israel should be wary of its overzealous friends. Damascus has certainly played a deeply corrosive role in its neighborhood, turning Syria into a haven for Hezbollah. Still, as Israel’s former ambassador to Washington, Itamar Rabinovich, wrote in 2006, Syria’s alliance with Iran was never absolute, and a peace deal between Tel Aviv and Damascus was not impossible. On a state visit to New Delhi in 2008, Assad admitted to Indian officials that arriving at an enduring settlement with Israel was his topmost priority.

Even if Assad were to succeed in suppressing the opposition, he would find it impossible to unify the country. Regardless of the outcome of this war, the prospect of an Israeli settlement with Syria looks dead for now. But the likelihood of conflict for Israel can only increase if the clamor in the West to arm and fund the Syrian opposition is not countered. This is a crisis engineered by Saudi Arabia – and, despite outward appearances, Israel should not overlook Riyadh’s enduring role as the purveyor of the most noxious anti-Israeli ideologies in the Muslim world. A proliferation of Saudi dependencies in the region, even if they serve the purpose of weakening Iran in the short term, will pose severe dangers to Israel’s security in the future.

We have been here before – most glaringly in the 1980s, when the prospect of humiliating the Soviet Union in Afghanistan trumped every concern about arming the Taliban. Israel must now ensure that its best allies in the West don’t end up creating a launching pad for the most implacably anti-Israeli Islamists who have congregated in Syria. Otherwise, as John R. Bradley recently warned in Britain’s Jewish Chronicle, Israel may find itself “confronting an even more determined, uncontrollable and fanatical enemy than the Assad regime has ever proved to be.”

Video: Christians being slaughtered by Saudi-USA sponsored Takfiri militants in Syria

RT talks to mother Agnes Mariam, founder of monastery in Qara in Syria and witnessed what the people went through when the first sparks of trouble ignited the war. As FSA militants, many of whom are foreign Salafists, gain more territory and a multitude of militias, jihadists and criminals join the fight against Assad regime, reports of serious human rights abuses committed by armed opposition elements are on the rise.

Al Jazeera Reporter resigns and speaks the truth about Syria

Christians in Syria Fearful of FSA – Patriarch Exposes FSA Terrorists

FSA Takfiri clerics call for genocide of minorities in Syria

Foreign ‘jihadi’ fighters present in Syria – logistically supported by the USA

Syria’s unique Christian heritage

Source: LUBP


Saudis Plan to Raze the Harem of Prophet Mohammed PUBH – by Ali Taj

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Alarming news stories in Russian and English papers while the Muslim world keeps quiet about sacrilegious attacks on Islamic heritage. People of all faiths should unite and and demand a new approach to management of the Holy Mecca and Medina. This is not at all unexpected, Saudi Wahhabi Fatwas openly call for destruction of Islamic history.  The goal of Saudi Monarchy is no different than the Abbasids or Omayyads  more power to the King as Caliph of the Muslim world. To achieve this the extreme ideology must be spread and the tolerant history destroyed.

An ”idealistic” approach to redefining custodianship of the holy lands

The custodianship of the holy lands in Mecca and Medina can be taken from the hands of the al-Saud clan and their Wahhabi clergy class and instead a new custodianship can be defined. But this will require a world-wide campaign from Muslims belonging to every Islamic school of thought and every country and region in the world. This in itself is a rather ”idealistic” approach and may have a lot of ”show-stoppers”. But nevertheless a new custodianship can be defined on the basis of following guidelines:
  • As a starting point, the al-Saud family may stay in power and control the whole country save Mecca and Medina.
  • All the affairs of the holy places in Mecca and Medina shall be governed under the control and supervision of an international governing body similar to OIC consisting of representatives of all the Muslim countries (and Islamic schools of thought) and countries like India, Russia, USA and EU that have considerable Muslim populations.
  • The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia shall have its members included in the international body to facilitate the  organisation of the holy lands and may get some extra revenue for that.
  • All the revenue, profit and expenditure related to the pilgrimage  will be managed by the governing body.
  • The governing body shall have a panel of ulema (clergymen) representing all the Islamic schools of thoughts and it will make sure that no specific ideology is imposed on any local or guest pilgrim.
  • There shall be rotating president-ship of the governing body, just like the EU model, so that every country with Islam as the state religion can become its president for a specific period of time. The members of USA, EU, Russia, India etc may be accommodated in other positions like vice-president etc.
  • All the congregational prayers in the holy sites shall be led by clergymen of different Islamic schools of thought on a weekly-rotating basis.
  • The Saudi government will process the visa applications and collect all the revenue related to it. But the fees will be reduced to a reasonable level.
  • The Saudi government will be paid for all the expenditures coming from its own budget.
The above guidelines, no matter how ”idealistic” they may sound, can give a hope to more than a billion Muslims around the world that one day the holy sites in Mecca and Medina may belong to all the Muslims and not only to a wicked monarchy relying on the support of the clergymen following the  ”literalist” Wahhabi ideology. The purpose of the above guidelines is to spark a discussion and debate. One can only hope that some time in the future the holy lands of Mecca and Medina will become safe, welcoming, open and accommodating for every Saudi and non-Saudi Muslim.

Saudi Arabia to raze Prophet Mohammed’s tomb to build larger mosque

Courtyard of the Prophet Mohammed Mosque in the Saudi holy city of Medina (AFP Photo / Mahmud Hams)

Courtyard of the Prophet Mohammed Mosque in the Saudi holy city of Medina (AFP Photo / Mahmud Hams)

The key Islamic heritage site, including Prophet Mohammed’s shrine, is to be bulldozed, as Saudi Arabia plans a $ 6 billion expansion of Medina’s holy Masjid an-Nabawi Mosque. However, Muslims remain silent on the possible destruction.

Work on the Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina, is planned to start as soon as the annual Hajj pilgrimage comes to a close at the end of November.

After the reconstruction, the mosque is expected to become the world’s largest building, with a capacity for 1.6 million people.

And while the need to expand does exist as more pilgrims are flocking to holy sites every year, nothing has been said on how the project will affect the surroundings of the mosque, also historic sites.

Concerns are growing that the expansion of Masjid an-Nabawi will come at the price of three of the world’s oldest mosques nearby, which hold the tombs of Prophet Mohammed and two of his closest companions, Abu Bakr and Umar. The expansion project which will cost 25 billion SAR (more than US $6 billion) reportedly requires razing holy sites, as old as the seventh century.

The Saudis insist that colossal expansion of both Mecca and Medina is essential to make a way for the growing numbers of pilgrims. Both Mecca and Medina host 12 million visiting pilgrims each year and this number is expected to increase to 17 million by 2025.

Authorities and hotel developers are working hard to keep pace, however, the expansions have cost the oldest cities their historical surroundings as sky scrapers, luxury hotels and shopping malls are being erected amongst Islamic heritage.

A room in a hotel or apartment in a historic area may cost up to $ 500 per night. And that’s all in or near Mecca, a place where the Prophet Mohammed insisted all Muslims would be equal.

“They just want to make a lot of money from the super-rich elite pilgrims, but for the poor pilgrims it is getting very expensive and they cannot afford it,”Dr. Irfan Al Alawi of the Islamic Heritage Research Foundation, told RT.

A general view of the Prophet Mohammed Mosque in the Saudi holy city of Medina (AFP Photo / Mahmud Hams)
A general view of the Prophet Mohammed Mosque in the Saudi holy city of Medina (AFP Photo / Mahmud Hams)

Jabal Omar complex – a 40 tower ensemble – is being depicted as a new pearl of Mecca. When complete, it will consist of six five star hotels, seven 39 storey residential towers offering 520 restaurants, 4, 360 commercial and retail shops.

But to build this tourist attraction the Saudi authorities destroyed the Ottoman era Ajyad Fortress and the hill it stood on.

The Washington-based Gulf Institute estimated that 95 percent of sacred sites and shrines in the two cities have been destroyed in the past twenty years.

The Prophet’s birthplace was turned into a library and the house of his first wife, Khadijah, was replaced with a public toilet block.

Also the expansion and development might threaten many locals homes, but so far most Muslims have remained silent on the issue.

“Mecca is a holy sanctuary as stated in the Quran it is no ordinary city. The Muslims remain silent against the Saudi Wahhabi destruction because they fear they will not be allowed to visit the Kindom again,” said Dr. Al Alawi.

The fact that there is no reaction on possible destruction has raised talks about hypocrisy because Muslims are turning a blind eye to that their faith people are going to ruin sacred sites.

“Some of the Sunni channels based in the United Kingdom are influenced by Saudi petro dollars and dare not to speak against the destruction, but yet are one of the first to condemn the movie made by non Muslims,” Dr. Al Alawi said.

Muslim pilgrims walk in the courtyard of the Prophet Mohammed Mosque in the Saudi holy city of Medina (AFP Photo / Mahmud Hams)
Muslim pilgrims walk in the courtyard of the Prophet Mohammed Mosque in the Saudi holy city of Medina (AFP Photo / Mahmud Hams)

Medina: Saudis take a bulldozer to Islam’s history

Authorities are building a mosque so big it will hold 1.6m people – but are demolishing irreplaceable monuments to do it

FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 2012

Three of the world’s oldest mosques are about to be destroyed as Saudi Arabia embarks on a multi-billion-pound expansion of Islam’s second holiest site. Work on the Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina, where the Prophet Mohamed is buried, will start once the annual Hajj pilgrimage ends next month. When complete, the development will turn the mosque into the world’s largest building, with the capacity for 1.6 million worshippers.

But concerns have been raised that the development will see key historic sites bulldozed. Anger is already growing at the kingdom’s apparent disdain for preserving the historical and archaeological heritage of the country’s holiest city, Mecca.  Most of the expansion of Masjid an-Nabawi will take place to the west of the existing mosque, which holds the tombs of Islam’s founder and two of his closest companions, Abu Bakr and Umar.

Just outside the western walls of the current compound are mosques dedicated to Abu Bakr and Umar, as well as the Masjid Ghamama, built to mark the spot where the Prophet is thought to have given his first prayers for the Eid festival. The Saudis have announced no plans to preserve or move the three mosques, which have existed since the seventh century and are covered by Ottoman-era structures, or to commission archaeological digs before they are pulled down, something that has caused considerable concern among the few academics who are willing to speak out in the deeply authoritarian kingdom.

“No one denies that Medina is in need of expansion, but it’s the way the authorities are going about it which is so worrying,” says Dr Irfan al-Alawi of the Islamic Heritage Research Foundation. “There are ways they could expand which would either avoid or preserve the ancient Islamic sites but instead they want to knock it all down.” Dr Alawi has spent much of the past 10 years trying to highlight the destruction of early Islamic sites.

With cheap air travel and booming middle classes in populous Muslim countries within the developing world, both Mecca and Medina are struggling to cope with the 12 million pilgrims who visit each year – a number expected to grow to 17 million by 2025. The Saudi monarchy views itself as the sole authority to decide what should happen to the cradle of Islam. Although it has earmarked billions for an enormous expansion of both Mecca and Medina, it also sees the holy cities as lucrative for a country almost entirely reliant on its finite oil wealth.

Heritage campaigners and many locals have looked on aghast as the historic sections of Mecca and Medina have been bulldozed to make way for gleaming shopping malls, luxury hotels and enormous skyscrapers. The Washington-based Gulf Institute estimates that 95 per cent of the 1,000-year-old buildings in the two cities have been destroyed in the past 20 years.

In Mecca, the Masjid al-Haram, the holiest site in Islam and a place where all Muslims are supposed to be equal, is now overshadowed by the Jabal Omar complex, a development of skyscraper apartments, hotels and an enormous clock tower. To build it, the Saudi authorities destroyed the Ottoman era Ajyad Fortress and the hill it stood on. Other historic sites lost include the Prophet’s birthplace – now a library – and the house of his first wife, Khadijah, which was replaced with a public toilet block.

Neither the Saudi Embassy in London nor the Ministry for Foreign Affairs responded to requests for comment when The Independent contacted them this week. But the government has previously defended its expansion plans for the two holy cities as necessary. It insists it has also built large numbers of budget hotels for poorer pilgrims, though critics point out these are routinely placed many miles away from the holy sites.

Until recently, redevelopment in Medina has pressed ahead at a slightly less frenetic pace than in Mecca, although a number of early Islamic sites have still been lost. Of the seven ancient mosques built to commemorate the Battle of the Trench – a key moment in the development of Islam – only two remain. Ten years ago, a mosque which belonged to the Prophet’s grandson was dynamited. Pictures of the demolition that were secretly taken and smuggled out of the kingdom showed the religious police celebrating as the building collapsed.

The disregard for Islam’s early history is partly explained by the regime’s adoption of Wahabism, an austere and uncompromising interpretation of Islam that is vehemently opposed to anything which might encourage Muslims towards idol worship.

In most of the Muslim world, shrines have been built. Visits to graves are also commonplace. But Wahabism views such practices with disdain. The religious police go to enormous lengths to discourage people from praying at or visiting places closely connected to the time of the Prophet while powerful clerics work behind the scenes to promote the destruction of historic sites.

Dr Alawi fears that the redevelopment of the Masjid an-Nabawi is part of a wider drive to shift focus away from the place where Mohamed is buried. The spot that marks the Prophet’s tomb is covered by a famous green dome and forms the centrepiece of the current mosque. But under the new plans, it will become the east wing of a building eight times its current size with a new pulpit. There are also plans to demolish the prayer niche at the centre of mosque. The area forms part of the Riyadh al-Jannah (Garden of Paradise), a section of the mosque that the Prophet decreed especially holy..

“Their excuse is they want to make more room and create 20 spaces in a mosque that will eventually hold 1.6 million,” says Dr Alawi. “It makes no sense. What they really want is to move the focus away from where the Prophet is buried.”

A pamphlet published in 2007 by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs – and endorsed by the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Abdulaziz al Sheikh – called for the dome to be demolished and the graves of Mohamed, Abu Bakr and Umar to be flattened. Sheikh Ibn al-Uthaymeen, one of the 20th century’s most prolific Wahabi scholars, made similar demands.

“Muslim silence over the destruction of Mecca and Medina is both disastrous and hypocritical,” says Dr Alawi. “The recent movie about the Prophet Mohamed caused worldwide protests… and yet the destruction of the Prophet’s birthplace, where he prayed and founded Islam has been allowed to continue without any criticism.”

Mecca and Medina in numbers

12m The number of people who visit Mecca and Medina every year

3.4m The number of Muslims expected to perform Hajj (pilgrimage) this year

60,000 The current capacity of the Masjid an-Nabawi mosque

1.6m The projected capacity of the mosque after expansion

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/medina-saudis-take-a-bulldozer-to-islams-history-8228795.html

In addition to destroying Islamic history and archaeology Saudi Arabia is exporting its fundamentalist thinking world wide. This is growing world wide extremism, terrorism and fundamentalism. Saudi Wahhabis were considered a heretical cult. British agents armed them to take down the Ottoman Empire.

The Roots Of Salafi Jihadism

Scholars will argue that the roots of Salafism extend back to the time of Mohammed and the immediate generations that follow him.

In Islam, as with Judaism and Christianity, there has always been movements to return to the religion that has veered of its course to its roots.

The modern-day Salafi Jihadist however has much more recent roots.

Back during the time United States was fighting its revolution the America’s were not the only place the colonialist British Empire had it sites on.

The British also had their eyes set on the Middle East but at that time it under complete control of the Muslim Ottoman empire.

Map of the Ottoman Empire

Britain realized that Muslims would not fight one another because it was against their religion so they conjured up a plan to divide and conquer empire.

The British sent 9 spies into the empire to create a new interpretation of Islam that would pit the Muslims against one another under the guise of Jihad.

Under this new interpretation those who did not follow a strict fundamentalist interpretation of Islam were not considered Muslims.

This new interpretation not only allowed, but required, its followers to take up Jihad against the impure infidels to bring a pure Islam to entire world.

The founder of this new sect of Islam was Mohammed Abdul Wahhab and was done so under the influence of the British named Hempher.

With assistance from Hempher Wahhab was able to popularize his Islam purification ideologies and eventually made an alliance with the rich and powerful House of Ibn Saud, which is known today as the Saudi Royal family.

It was through Wahhab’s movement the House of Ibn Saud was able to quickly conquer much of Saudi Arabia using brutal tactics of terrorism.

The Saudi Royal Family provided the funding and the Wahhabi movement provided the foot soldiers with the extremist ideology that carry out the attacks

Wahhab’s alliance with the Saudi Royal family marked the start of 140 years of Saudi attacks on the Ottoman empire. and his movement became known as Wahhabismwhich the dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia and is alternately referred to as the revival of the Salafi revival movement .

Salafism, Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia and Al Qaeda

Modern day Salafist Jihadism was born from the writings of the Muslim Brother’s Hoods Sayyid Qutb who was imprisoned after the Muslim Brother Hood attempt to assassinate the Egyptian leader in 1954.

The Saudi Royal Prince

Those writings have become the intellectual underpinnings of the modern day Salafi Jihadists by glorify the teachings of the ideology of Wahhabi.

Through Jihad the Salafists want to spread their strict fundamentalists interpretation to the Islam to the entire world.

Al Qaeda adopted the Wahhabi teachings with Sayyid Qutb having a major influence on Bin Laden and his disciples.

The arrangement between the Wahhabis and the Saudi Royal Family haven’t changed since the Wahhabism started first started.

The tactics today are still the same employed by Wahhabi during the first Saudi Dynasty.

This is clearly seen in the first video in this article and as described by the corporate media reports..

Today however Salafi Jihadist groups include Al Qaeda and many Islamic Jihadist fronts .

Those familiar with Islam realize the many different names given to the various factions of Salafism serves only to obscure the fact the groups are all one in the same.

The many different names simply hide the truth from the West that they are all trying to accomplish the same goal of fulfilling Saudi Arabia’s Jihadi mission to impose Islam on the entire world’s population.

What the west is clearly aware of is Saudi Arabia spend hundreds of billions of dollars every year across the globe to promote the violent Salafism ideology that is predominant in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Source: Saudi Arabia Paying UK Trained Terrorists Up To $3,000/Mo To Jihad Against Syria – by Alexander Higgins

The deadly sand fly… – by Brig Mehboob Qadir

Before the advent of this paralysing strain of religious virus in the subcontinent, particularly in the ‘Ziaist’ Pakistan, most shades of Islam were peacefully cohabiting here

Desert is a formidable stilling basin that can soak up volatility and bite in the human beings. It is also a great teacher in patience, determination in adversity and self-reliance against odds. It could even pass on a pinch or two of equanimity to the deserving. However, those are measures of a different scale and are directly proportionate to the capacity of each receiving vessel. Moses came out of the desert stronger in heart and soul whereas Alexander the Great lost experienced soldiers and his life crossing one. There is the third dimension to the desert that is more mundane, more physical. It is want, loneliness, dearth, disease, hunger and thirst. It deals with helplessness of waste, inevitable of aridity and uselessness of expanse. In that useless expanse is found a flying insect, which is universally known as the sand fly and is dreaded globally. This poisonous insect bites unsuspecting but careless victim and the effects begin to appear after six weeks of hatching. An ulcer forms where it had stung and then it begins to expand. It takes long to heal and leaves a permanent ugly scar behind. A sand fly can travel hundreds of miles on the back of wild grazers and attack men out of the blue.

This is not intended to talk about how dreadful a sand fly could be but it reminds one of a similar and vastly deadlier, soul-ulcerating menace that has hit the careless but unsuspecting fellow Pakistanis emanating from the hard crusted Najdis of Saudi Arabia. I am referring to the spiteful Wahabist-Salafist cult that has invaded Pakistan first by stealth, then on invitation, through complacence and finally, outright bribe. There have been two routes that it followed, both willing accomplices in their crime against our wonderfully adjusted and socially balanced belief system and trusting people. The petro-dollar grabbing mullah and power hungry, illegitimate rulers like late General Zia were the co-conspirators and willing accomplices in this despicable plot against the people of Pakistan and the region.

Before the advent of this paralysing strain of religious virus in the subcontinent, particularly in the ‘Ziaist’ Pakistan, most shades of Islam were peacefully cohabiting here. Followers of other religions like Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Parsis and even Jews were neither threatened nor discriminated against. We had calm and mutual peace in our different religions and among various sects in Islam as a result of thousands of years of adjustment. After the attack of this black locust from the desert of Najd, it was never going to be so for a long time to come as they slow poisoned our minds and scorched our social landscape comprehensively against growth of reason, tolerance and coexistence. That we were to learn at a regrettably huge and continuing human, diplomatic and material cost.

This massacre of our culture, faith and great social values by Wahabist Saudis is a massive crime against humanity and people of Pakistan. In the traditions of Peninsular Arab, a guest is not expected to stay more than three days; thereafter, he must set off to the next destination or pay for his expenses and for good reason. In the subcontinent, we had so much in plenty and therefore, have always been generous to a guest, never ask him to leave unless he himself decides to go. Barren Najd and fertile Indus-Gangetic plains were and are two completely incompatible and vastly different worlds. Let alone us, they have never been able to reconcile with the more civilised Iraqis, Egyptians or Iranians next door to date. There is no way that their value system, social references and more importantly, mental imagery of social panorama can ever match and mix with ours. That is why this latest Arab re-conquest of Pakistan has resulted in a cultural genocide destroying our lovable traditions, easygoing popular fairs, happy folk festivals and of our inclusive and magnanimous lifestyle. Theirs is a mechanical, dehydrated and a rather stiffer version of Islam. What they can never understand and therefore, would remain averse to is that matters of faith are never mechanical; they belong to the sublime and the superior aesthetic self. It is extremely personal and never regimented. Try as much as they may but they can never understand how much one is in communication with God, at which affectionate wavelength, from which calling station, and how much honey is flowing between the two. For them religion and belief is black and white with no room for the huge humanity outside or the better ones inside. They refuse to grant that God is everybody’s and not a Wahabist monopoly. He is not a mathematical sum or a measurable quantity. God is where one could reach Him and not where you place Him.
Source: http://worldshiaforum.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/the-deadly-sand-fly-by-brig-mehboob-qadir/

The Imam of Kaaba visited India in 2011 and was reminded of the Saudi family promise to make sure that the management of Mecca and Medina  belongs to all Muslims. A promise made in 1925 as a written agreement to appease the Muslims of India who were disturbed by the role of Wahhabis in  destroying the last Caliphate of Muslisms, the Ottomans.

 Reaction of some Indian Muslim Communities:

Since the worldwide Muslim majority do not subscribe to the Wahhabi ideology, the claim of Arshad Madani of the Jamiat-e-Ulama-e-Hind that “Sheikh Al Sudais is the highest religious leader of the Muslims” is misleading. In the Indian sub-continent too the Wahhabis have so far made only a limited dent among the Muslims. Deobandi, Tablighi Jamaat, Ahle Hadees and the Jamaat-e-Islami sects do not constitute more than 15 to 20% of the total population of the community. In fact Wahhabis due to their reputation of destroying all the sacred graveyards and mausoleums including those of Prophet’s family in Mecca are hardly acceptable to a majority of the Muslims..

Similarly Barelvi Muslims who constitute largest group of Muslim population in Indian sub-continent maintain that “Mecca Imam does not represent the Sunni Muslims of the world and he is not our leader”. They condemned the visit of the Imam in India on the plea that it was “Wahhabi-Deobandi nexus to popularize Wahabi extremist Ideology in Indian Subcontinent” (http://sunninews.worldpress.com/2011/03/). They also “expressed grave concerns over the false propaganda run by Urdu Media to show the Imam as most revered personality of Islamic world”. They even demanded the Mecca Imam for a clarification on the treaty made between Indian Muslim leaders and the Saudi Kingdon in 1925 in which king Abdul Azeez (Ibn Saud) had promised to hand over Mecca, Medina and other cities of Hijaj under the custodianship of a united body of world Muslim leaders after the establishment of peace in the region but the treaty has so far not been followed. They also asked the Imam to convey this message of Indian Muslims to Saudi king Abdullah. (Ibid).
source: http://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2011/05/mecca-imams-visit-to-india-some.html


All India Shia Board slams Pakistan government for Shia genocide in Pakistan – by Abdul Nishapuri

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Source: Times of India

LUCKNOW: The All India Shia Personal Law Board (AISPLB) has condemned attacks on Shia Muslims, Hindus and Sikh natives in Pakistan. Addressing reporters, spokesperson of AISPLB, Maulana Yasoob Abbas said that Pakistan had anti-Islamic polices, which are responsible for atrocities on Hindu and Sikh communities in the country.

“We condemn the series of bomb blasts took place in the cities of Pakistan targeting Muharram processions carried out by Shias and ongoing atrocities on Hindus and Sikhs,” Yasoob told TOI. He announced that the AISPLB would carry out a massive protest in the state capital against killings on December 17. “Rally will be carried out from Nakkhas towards Vidhan Sabha against the anti-Shia and minorities policy of Pakistan. We have invited number of organisations and clerics to join the protest,” he shared.

Yasoob alleged that though the government of Pakistan claims to provide better protection and security to the minorities there, but all those are false claims, which can be assessed through the figures of killings taken place in past some years. “Pak government should improve the security scenario in the country and should wipe of the terrorist organisations, which were stained with the blood of innocent lives,” he added. (tnn)

Previous protests

Previously in April 2012, tens of thousands of Shia and Sunni residents of Indian administered Kashmir (Kargil District) protested against Shia genocide in Pakistan, particularly in Gilgit Baltistan (Pakistan administered Kashmir). According to an estimate, at least 20,000 Shia Muslims of all ethnic backgrounds (Gilgiti, Balti, Pashtun, Hazara, Punjabi, Muhajir, Sindhi, Baloch etc) have been killed by Takfiri Deobandi militants known as Sipah Sahaba Taliban (SST), some of whom are nurtured as strategic assets by Pakistan army for cross-border Jihadist activities in Kashmir and Afghanistan. (Source:World Shia Forum)

Video: Massive protests in Kargil and Ladakh against Shia genocide in Pakistan

Slogans during the protests:

Hukoomat-e-Pakistan Murdah Baad (Death to Government of Pakistan)
Insani Huqooq Kay Alambardaro Sharm Karo (Shame on champions of human rights)
Yazidiat Murdabad (Down with Yazid and his followers)
Gilgit Baltistan Kay Mazloomor, Hum Tumhare Saath Hain (Victims of genocide, we are with you!)

A protester in Indian-administered Ladakh: “We have been facing terrorism since last 1400 years. We have prevailed and will prevail, Inshallah.”

Source : http://criticalppp.com/archives/232993


#ShiaGenocide: After killing 21 paramilitary soldiers in Peshawar, Deobandi militants kill 40 Shias in Mastung

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Mastung, Balochistan: Only a few hours Deobandi militants of Sipah Sahaba Taliban (SST) killed 21 paramilitary soldiers in Peshawar (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), they have attacked a convoy of three buses carrying Shia pilgrims from Quetta to Iran at Darinagar (Mastung, Balochistan) on Sunday 30 Dec 2012. At least 40 persons including twelve women and six children were killed and twenty five wounded in a bomb attack.

Only two days ago, Aurangzeb Farooqi Deobandi, a militant leader of Siph Sahaba Taliban in Karachi had threatened Shia Muslims of Pakistan with death and destruction. Details can be found here: http://criticalppp.com/archives/235607

Mastung Deputy Commissioner Tufail Baloch said that one of the buses carrying 43 passengers was completely gutted, while the other one was partially damaged in a targeted attack, leaving nineteen pilgrims dead and twenty five injured.

Later bomb disposal squad said that a vehicle laden with 70/80 kilograms of explosives parked on the roadside was exploded though a remote control device.

Rescue teams arriving at the scene of incident shifted the injured to Civil Hospital, while the Levies and the police collecting evidences and completing other formalities.

In 2012 alone, more than 620 Shia Muslims have been killed by Deobandi militants of Sipah Sahaba Taliban (SST). In total, more than 20,300 Shia Muslims have been killed in the last few decades what is being increasingly described as slow motion Shia genocide.

In addition to killing Shias, the Deobandi militants have also killed a large number of Sunni Barelvis (Sufis), Ahmadis, Christians etc. They have also attacked and killed a large number of policemen and army soldiers. However, Pakistan army chief General Kayani remains indecisive and has refrained from taking much needed military action against Deobandi militants of Sipah Sahaba (in settled areas) and Taliban (in tribal areas).

Source : LUBP

پاکستان کے صوبہ بلوچستان کے علاقے مستونگ میں شیعہ مسلک سے تعلق رکھنے والے زائرین کی بسوں کو نشانہ بنایا گیا ہے جس کے نتیجے میں چالیس افراد ہلاک اور پچیس زخمی ہوئے ہیں۔ بلوچستان کے سیکریٹری داخلہ اکبر حسین درانی نے بتایا کہ زائرین کی تین بسیں کوئٹہ سے ایران جا رہی تھیں جب ان کو نشانہ بنایا گیا۔

پشاور میں اکیس فوجی جوانوں کو شہید کرنے کے کچھ گھنٹوں کے بعد سپاہ صحابہ طالبان کے تکفیری دیوبندیوں نے بلوچستان میں مستونگ کے مقام پر ایران جانے والی شیعہ زائرین کی ایک بس کو بم دھماکے سے نشانہ بنایا بس میں پینتالیس سے زیادہ شیعہ زائرین سوار تھے جن میں سے چالیس کے شہید ہونے کی تصدیق ہو چکی ہے

دو دن قبل کراچی میں سپاہ صحابہ طالبان کے رہنما اورنگزیب فاروقی دیوبندی نے پاکستان کے شیعہ مسلمانوں کو قتل اور تباہ کرنے کی دھمکی دی تھی فاروقی دیوبندی کے الفاظ میں شیعہ گنتی بھول جائیں گے دو دن کے اندر اس نے اپنا وعدہ پورا کر دیا

یاد رہے کہ صرف رواں سال میں 620 سے زیادہ شیعہ مسلمان سپاہ صحابہ طالبان کے دیوبندی دہشت گردوں کے ہاتھوں شہید ہو چکے ہیں شیعہ نسل کشی میں شہید ہونے والے شیعہ مسلمانوں کی کل تعداد بیس ہزار تین سو سے تجاوز کر چکی ہے

سپاہ صحابہ طالبان کے ہاتھوں ہزاروں سنی بریلوی، احمدی، مسیحی بھی شہید ہو چکے ہیں اسی دہشت گرد گروہ نے ہزاروں پولیس والوں اور فوجیوں کے خون بھی بہایا ہے لیکن پاکستان کے موجودہ فوجی چیف جنرل اشفاق کیانی دیوبندی جہادیوں کے لیے نرم گوشہ رکھتے ہیں اور ان کے خلاف آپریشن کرنے سے کتراتے ہیں

صوبائی سیکریٹری داخلہ نے بتایا کہ کوئٹہ سے پینتیس کلومیٹر دور مستونگ کے علاقے درینگڑھ میں یہ واقعہ پیش آیا۔ صوبائی سیکریٹری داخلہ نے بتایا کہ ان بسوں کے راستے میں ایک سوزوکی گاڑی میں بم نصب کیا گیا تھا۔

انہوں نے بتایا کہ زحمی ہونے والوں میں چار خواتین بھی شامل ہیں۔ ان کا کہنا تھا کہ دھماکے کے بعد بس کو آگ لگ گئی اور مکمل طور پر جل گئی۔ ڈپٹی کمشنر نے مزید بتایا کہ ہلاک ہونے والوں کی لاشیں جل چکی ہیں جس کے باعث شناخت میں مشکل ہو رہی ہے۔
بم ڈسپوزل سکواڈ کا کہنا ہے کہ یہ ریموٹ کنٹرول دھماکہ تھا اور اس میں ساٹھ سے ستّر کلو بارودی مواد استعمال کیا گیا تھا۔
اس سے قبل صوبائی سیکریٹری داخلہ نے کہا ’ان تین بسوں میں سے ایک بس بم دھماکے کے زد میں آئی اور مکمل طور پر تباہ ہو گئی۔‘

ان کا کہنا تھا کہ بسوں کے اس قافلے کے آگے پیچھے لیویز کا سکواڈ تھا۔ ایک سوال کے جواب میں ان کا کہنا تھا کہ یہ خودکش دھماکہ نہیں بلکہ یہ بم گاڑی میں نصب کیا گیا تھا۔

ایک عینی شاہد وزیر خان نے بی بی سی کو بتایا کہ ایک بس مکمل طور پر جل گئی ہے۔ تاہم ان کا کہنا تھا کہ اس وقت یہ معلوم نہیں کہ اس بس میں کتنے لوگ سوار تھے۔

عینی شاہد نے کہا کہ ایسا لگتا ہے کہ کار بم حملہ کیا گیا ہے کیونکہ ایک چھوٹی گاڑی کا انجن بھی جائے حادثہ پر پڑا ہوا ہے۔


Killing Shia through false job advertisement – by Ali Taj

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This is the story of a young man by the name of Fiaz Hussein. His only fault, Hussein was is his name. He had completed his Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and recently got married. Faiz responded to a newspaper advertisement for a job opening. He was immediately called for an interview in Peshawar only to discover that the whole thing was a facade to identify him as a shia and kill him.

The so called free media of Pakistan does not report such stories. They protect the killers. The killers are very well known Takfiri Deobandi Saudi funded Sipah Sahaba Talibaan.

Shout out to Barack Hussein Obama : be careful your middle name is also Hussein.

Source : https://www.facebook.com/shiakilling3/posts/468469939856316



Takfiri Deobandis united against sectarian violence? – by Haseeb Ahmed

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Qari Usman Deobandi condemned sectarian terrorism in the country.
Ironically sitting next to him was Aurangzeb Farooqi Deobandi, head of
ASWJ-LeJ terrorists in Karachi.

Taqi Usmani Deobandi is concerned about security of Deobandi clerics
and activists. Not a single word on 21,000 Shias, thousands of Sunnis,
hundreds of Ahmadis, Christians etc killed by ASWJ,LeJ,Taliban and
other Takfiri Deobandi militants.

Mufti Taqi Usmani is the same person who treats Muawiya and Yazid as
Ameer-al-Momineen. Mufti Zarwali and Aurangzeb Farooqi openly chant
Kafir Shia slogans.

Sunni Barelvi Muslims have asked Sipah Sahaba (ASWJ) to refrain from
misusing the name of Ahle Sunnat.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/2013/02/130206_karachi_strike_call_rwa.shtml

وفاق المدارس العربیہ کےمولاناحنیف جالندھری صاحب کی علامہ غازی اورنگزیب
فاروقی صاحب سےانکی رہائش گاہ پرملاقات. آئندہ ھرمعاملےمیں ساتھ
چلنےکاعزم. علماءکی شھادت پراظہارتشویش
آج جامعہ علوم الاسلامیہ (بنوری ٹاؤن) میں 70 سے زائد جیّدعلماء کرام کا اجلاس ہوا.
دیوبند مکتبہ فکر تمام جماعتوں کے قائدین نے شیخ الحدیث مولانا سلیم اللہ
خان صاحب کے ہاتھ پر بیعت کرکے نئی تحریک کا اعلان کردیا
علماء کرام اور طلباء کے پے درپے قتل عام پر جامعۃ العلوم الاسلامیہ
علامہ بنوری ٹاؤن میں آج دیوبند مکتب فکر کی تمام جماعتوں کا مشترکہ
ہنگامی اجلاس ہوا، جس میں شیخ الحدیث مولانا سلیم اللہ خان ،ڈاکٹر عبد
الرزاق اسکندر،مفتی اعظم پاکستان مفتی رفیع عثمانی،مفتی تقی عثمانی،علامہ
اورنگزیب فاروقی کے علاوہ دیگر جید اکابر ین کی مشاورت سے فیصلہ کیا گیا
کہ آئندہ سے تمام دیوبند کی جماعتوں کا ایک مشترکہ پلیٹ فارم ہوگا، اور
عہد کیا کہ آج سے تمام دیوبند کی جماعتیں مل کر اس عالمی سازش کا مقابلہ
کریں گی،
پہلے مرحلے میں جمعہ کو ہڑتا ل کا اعلان کیا گیا، جس میں دیوبند مکتبہ
فکر تمام جماعت جمعیت علماء اسلام،اہلسنت والجماعت،انصار الامہ،جماعت
الانصارمل کر اس ہڑتال کو کامیاب بنائیں گے،دوسرے مرحلہ پرتمام کراچی کے
مدارس دینیہ اپنے اپنے علاقوں میں علماء اور طلباء کوسڑکوں پر درس و
تدریس کا آغاز کریں گے، مولانا سلیم اللہ خان کے ہاتھ پر بیعت کرتے ہوئے
تمام جماعت کے قائدین نے عہد کیا کہ وہ اب مرحلہ وار اس تحریک کو آگے
بڑھائیں گے۔
علماء ،طلباء ،مذہبی کارکنوں اور عام شہریوں کے قتل ،مساجد و مدارس پر
حملوں کے خلاف مرحلہ وار احتجاجی تحریک اور8فروری کوہڑتال ،گورنر اور
وزیر اعلیٰ سندھ کی برطرفی کامطالبہ کیا جائے گا۔

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جامعہ علوم الاسلامیہ
(بنوری ٹاؤن) میں میں 70 سے زائد علماء کا اجلاس ختم…..
اھلسنت کی مسلسل ٹارگٹ کلنگ اورحکومتی ظالمانہ رویے کےخلاف بروزجمعہ 08
فروری کو کراچی میں پھیہ جام ھڑتال ھوگی.مولانا ڈاکٹرعبدالرزاق اسکندر
علامہ اورنگزیب فاروقی
قاری عثمان صاحب کی پریس کانفرنس…

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Asia Human Rights Watch condemns Takfiri Islamofascists’ planned Shia bloodbath in Sindh – by Najami Dandu

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Editors note: So called independent media remains under the thumb of the black sheep of the ISI and continues to paint a FALSE picture to international media and human rights groups. A large part of liberal media is controlled by the black sheep within the ISI. To portray a face of Pakistan to the West that is disturbing but not beyond redemption. Media personalities come to social media and tweet about cricket matches when hundreds die the same day. No human being can be so callous hence the only explanation is the co option by the agencies to protect their proxies. Therefore we must whole heatedly appreciate and welcome this rare report form the Asia Human Rights watch exposing the Takfiri Deobandi Millitants while the fake liberal elites tweet about cricket or any other narrative to protect the jihadi proxies of their masters.

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Though the police have exonerated all five persons falsely accused of committing blasphemy they have failed to take any actions for their protection. This is particularly important as no action whatsoever has been taken against their accusers who are members of the militant Ahle Sunnat Waljamat. Regrettably this is another example of the policy of appeasement of the government towards religious fundamentalists who want to mold society to their way of thinking. It is likely that in the coming days, weeks and months Shia places of worship will come under attack and many people will be killed in unnecessary and unprecedented sectarian strife.

Five villagers, including four young men, were implicated in a false case of committing blasphemy by a banned Islamic militant group. On January 22, a number of armed persons from Ahle Sunnat Waljamat, the new version of the banned militant organization, the Sipahe Sahaba, tried to provoke sectarian violence in Chandia village, Hyderabad district. They appeared on the streets of Hyderabad city, the second largest city of the Sindh province, and started firing their weapons into the air, compelling the shopkeepers to close their businesses.

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The act of hooliganism continued for two days. They were demanding that the five Shia persons from Chandia Goth who burned the effigy of Hazrat Umer, the second Caliph of Islam (very dear to the Sunnis who are opposed to Shia sect) be handed over to them. The five persons, Mr. Akram Chandio, 50, Master. Fayyaz Chandio, 16, Mr. Ayaz Chandio, 23, Mr. Shakil Chandio, 23, Mr. Mushtaq Chandio 22, were booked by the police on the complaint of committing blasphemy and were charged with 295-C and 298- A of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).  Two persons including a child, Fayyaz, were arrested but the other three young men, Ayaz, Shakil and Mushtaq, were not arrested as they were participating in a workshop conducted by a NGO at Karachi. The people of the village handed over the two accused to the police to avoid any attacks on the villagers.

The police conducted their investigation and found that no such incident had ever taken place in the village. The First Information Report (FIR) was made ‘C class’, which means that no crime has been committed and the police investigation was sent to the Anti Terrorist Court for final withdrawal.

It is appreciated that the local police carried out their duty independently and found that the case of blasphemy was fictitious. However no case has been registered against the bigots, particularly the divisional commander of Ahle Sunnat Waljamat (ASWJ), for registering a false complaint before the police and misusing the Blasphemy law in an attempt to instigate sectarian strife. The authorities must be happy that the police have averted the bad situation and avoided sectarian killings and bloody attacks on religious places. Perhaps the government of Sindh is too naïve to understand that once the blasphemy is charged it will never be taken back by the fundamentalists, even if the court exonerates the accuse of charges of blasphemy, and ultimately the victims are murdered or have to leave the country.

There are many examples where the accused persons were murdered after release from the courts and even a judge of the Anti Terrorist Court had to leave the country after receiving threats from religious bigots when he announced the death sentence on the killer of the former governor of Punjab, Mr. Salman Taseer.

The Muslim commander of the ASWJ and his militants are still operating to send a message to the people of Chandia village who are predominantly Shia and have burned down the Alam of Hazrat Abbas, a symbol of the Shia sect. They had also threatened the villagers that when the situation turned in their favour they would return. The four young men accused of blasphemy are living in fear and avoid going outside their village as they find they are being followed by mysterious persons. Furthermore, any person from the Chandia village is suspected of being a Shia and is therefore a potential target.

There is a strong need to provide protection and safety for the residents of Chandia village and the Shiites in the province. Firm action must be taken by the authorities so as to prosecute the divisional office bearers of the ASWJ for filing the false case of blasphemy in an attempt to create sectarian violence.

In Balochistan province extremists were successful in creating sectarian killings which, over the course of three years has led to the deaths of 800 Shia Muslims (the Hazara community) and to date the government has been unable to control the violence. Similar extremist groups, elated by the success in Balochistan are now attempting to create a similar situation in Sindh province. The incident of Chandia village is just a rehearsal for the bloodshed they plan to unleash.

It has been consistently reported that the government of Pakistan is turning a blind eye to the religious extremist who, for the sake of their uncivilised and biased cause, would create a bloodbath within the country.

The authorities must take strong precautionary steps to stop the sectarian violence in the interior of Sindh province before this bloodbath takes place.

http://www.humanrights.asia/news/ahrc-news/AHRC-STM-038-2013


Allama Nasir Abbas’s murder: Joint charter of demands by Shia and Sunni protesters in Lahore

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Urdu version: شیعہ نسل کشی کے خلاف لاہور میں دھرنا دینے والے شیعہ اور سنی مظاہرین کے مشترکہ مطالبات http://lubpak.com/archives/296867

News report (Lahore, 16 Dec 2013): At present, thousands of Shia, Sunni, Ahmadi, Christian and other Pakistanis are part of a huge sit-in (dharna) outside Lahore’s Governor House. The protestors, including members of the Shia party MWM and the Sunni party (Sunni Ittehad Council) and others, have presented the following list of demands in the wake of continued assault by banned Deobandi terrorist outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba ASWJ on Pakistanis of all faiths and sects.

In the meanwhile, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif is personally contacting TV channels and newspapers to ensure total blackout on the coverage of the Lahore sit-in against Shia genocide.

Allama Nasir Abbas was shot dead by Sipah-e-Sahaba aka Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamat (SSP-ASW) assassins on Sunday 15 December 2013 in Lahore. The hate-mongers of the SSP-ASW have been given a free hand by the provincial government of Shahbaz Sharif.

Only a couple of days before Allama Nasir Abbas’ assassination, leaders of the SSP-ASWJ made hateful speeches against the Shias and called for their apostatization. In the wake of the assassination of Allam Nasir Abbas, members of Shia and Brelvi Sunni communities have come up with the following demands:

1. The killers of Allama Nasir Abbas should be apprehended immediately and brought to justice.

2. The Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah who is a great supporter of the banned Deobandi terrorist outfit SSP-ASWJ should be suspended. The Shahbaz government should stop aiding and supporting all Deobandi outfits which are involved in terrorism. Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan is a key supporter of the banned terrorist outifts SSP and TTP. He too should be suspended.

3. Ahle Sunat Wal Jamat (ASWJ) is another name of the banned Sipa-e-Sahaba Pakistan. The ASWJ should be banned because it is in fact SSP. The ASWJ leaders should not be allowed to be appear on TV and spit venom against non-Deobandi Pakistanis. The Deobandi assault on the Shias must not be named “a Shia-Sunni probem”. Sunnis have nothing to do with the Shia genocide. It is the Takfiri Deobandis who have been murdering Sunnis, Shias, Chriastans, and Hindus.

4. In Punjab, hundreds of innocent Shias, Sunnis, Christians, and Ahmadis have been imprisoned in the name of fake charges though nothing has ever been proved against them. These innocent people should be released immediately and those policemen and agency men responsible for torturing them should be punished for their illegal acts of torture. Their backers should also be brought to justice.

5. Those responsible for attacking the Shia-Sunni Ashura procession in Rawalpindi should be brought to justice. People like Ahmad Ludhianvi, Mullah Amanullah, Mullah Ashraf Ai, Adnan Kakakhel, Muavya Azam Tariq, Khadim Dhilon, and Masroor Jhangvi should be brought to justice for planning and executing hundreds of thousands of innocent Pakistanis.

6. Those Takfiri terrorists of the SSP-ASWJ who have been sentenced to death by various courts should be sent to the gallows to set an example to their fellow terrorists. Justice delayed is justice denied.

7. A compensation of at least Rs. 1 milion be provided to each Sunni, Shia, Ahmadi, Christian victim of terrorism by banned Deobandi outfits ASWJ-SSP and TTP. At least one member of the deceased’s family must be offered a government job. At least Rs. 0.5 million be paid as compensation per person to all those injured in Deobandi terrorism. Their treatment must be taken care of, free of cost, by the provincial government.

8. Shrines of Sunni Sufis, churches, temples and Shia and Sunni mosques should be given security. Selected members of the victim communities should be given anti-terrorism training and equipment, so they can assist law enforcement agencies against the Deobandi terrorists.

9. A high-level judicial commission should be instituted to find out the SSP-ASWL links with Pakistan’s secret service agencies. Those found responsible for aiding and abetting terrorists should be brought to justice.

Shias, Sunnis, Ahmadis, Christians, and Hindus are united against the Deobandi assault on the soul of Pakistan. Their leaders should come out in unison and send the world a message of solidarity against Deobandi Islamofascism.

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Wahhabi/Deobandi Impact: Influence of Wahhabi/Deobandi Islam on the Indian Muslim community is growing – by Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta

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THE PHENOMENON of Islamist terrorism has received considerable attention in recent times. Pointing to a trend of increasing radicalisation of Indian Muslims, Indian intelligence has expressed concern that it is becoming a paramount national security issue. However, in looking at Islamist fundamentalism as one of the causes for communal polarisation in the country, many observers tend to portray the Muslim community as a homogeneous group. The Muslim society is equally worried about the growing radicalisation of Indian Muslims.

In fact, the increasing influence of radical streams, especially Wahhabism/Deobandi, within Islam; the rising Islamophobia across the world; and the strengthening of Hindu nationalist forces in India are issues that are frequently debated among Indian Muslims. The growth of radical Islamist streams became visible only in the past two decades. The unprecedented polarisation of the political environment in the aftermath of the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992 not only broke a long history of communal harmony in India but also gave rise to insecurities in both Hindu and Muslim societies. Fundamentalist groups in both societies, interested in creating communal disharmony, found ample scope for the radicalisation of the youth. Communal riots have erupted before 1992, but systematic campaigns to polarise religious groups gained currency only post-Babri Masjid.

The influence of Wahhabi/Deobandi Islam in the Indian Muslim community started growing around this period. Indian Muslims have a long tradition of Sufi Islam or what is called the Barelvi tradition. A milder form of Wahhabism exists in the subcontinent in the form of the Deoband theological school, which commands a large following but has always coexisted with other forms of Islamic traditions. This has made Islamic practices in India dynamic and syncretic. No wonder then that many sections of the Muslim community have resisted the strict code of conduct and practice of a “puritanical” religion advocated by the Wahhabis/Deobandis.

The time when Wahhabism was trying to get a foothold in India was also a time when the Muslim community was trying to strategies its resistance and highlight its concerns. The secular section of the community believed that in order to contain the growing radicalization, the insecurities among Muslims would have to be addressed. A large section of the community believed that the problems could be resolved within the democratic framework of the Indian state, a reflection of the faith it reposed in India’s secular ethos. This has been the legacy of the Indian state since the founding of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in 1969, in which many Muslim-majority countries participate. A second group of Muslims doubted the Indian state’s intentions to resolve the problems facing the community and campaigned against its inconsistency in upholding secularism. It challenged the Indian state within the constitutional and secular framework, by seeking political action through civil society groups. These groups also canvassed for Hindu-Muslim unity in the face of an adverse environment. The third group, comprising clerics belonging to a few revivalist schools and some Western-educated Muslims, denounced the capacity of the state to be secular altogether and believed that only the true practice of Islam could redeem the community. It is among members of this group that Wahhabism, a revivalist movement founded by the 18th century theologian Abd al-Wahhab in Saudi Arabia, started to gain ground.

The Wahhabi movement denounced all the Islamic schools of jurisprudence which it thought wrongly interpreted the Quran. It championed Tauhid (the oneness of Allah) and argued against the Shafi, Hanafi, Maliki and Hanbali schools of jurisprudence. It advocated “going back” to the Quran and the Sharia (Islamic law). It described Islam as a “code of life” and not a religion, in the same way the Sangh Parivar describes Hindutva as “way of life”. The Wahhabis demanded a return to the Salaf (golden age of Islam, the caliphate). The movement found political patronage in Saudi Arabia, which continues to adhere to its principles. In the early 20th century, Wahhabism/Deobandism flourished with renewed vigour when Maulana Maududi, the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, and Sayyid Qutb, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood, espoused its ideals to form a “true Islamic society and considered proselytisation as true jihad”. Wahhabism/Deobandis considers the Western world and people from other religions Jahiliya (ignorant) and believes that fighting against them will lead one to Allah (God) because, according to Wahhabism/Debandism, only Islamic law can ensure a just society.

The majority of Muslims find this strand of Islam fundamentalist. Ali Mamouri, a theologian based in Iran, says: “The fundamentalists emerged not out of conservative circles but rather out of reformist movements which were aiming for an ‘Islamic awakening’. The goal of fundamentalism is to return to the ‘sacred text’, carefully executing what it says, without any interpretations, and rejecting the official, and more conservative, historical interpretations of it.”

It is not surprising that most militant Islamist outfits, such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jammat-ud-Dawa, draw their inspiration from the strict theology of Wahhabism/Deobandism. Embracing this insular approach towards Islam, these outfits justify severe punishments such as beheading, stoning to death and flogging of people who do not follow the Sharia. Wahhabis consider all modern governments illegitimate as they are an intervention in the workings of the Sharia.

With the passage of time, this tradition of Islam gradually lost acceptance except in Saudi Arabia, only to find new strength in the 1990s. “Saudi Arabia pumped millions of petrodollars into the madrasas and mosques of the subcontinent to propagate the Wahhabi theology,” Javed Anand, general secretary of Muslims for Secular Democracy and co-editor of Communalism Combat, told Frontline. “This led to the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and its influence travelled east for the ‘liberation’ of Kashmiri Muslims,” he added.

“No doubt the continued bleeding of Palestine, Bosnia and Chechnya provided extra charge to global jihad. But it is important to remember that Maududi had fore grounded global jihad on the Muslim agenda before the surfacing of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Qutub’s vision, too, was never limited to the solution of the Palestinian problem,” Javed Anand has written in an article in Seminar.

Observers have pointed out that Saudi Arabia’s brand of Islam was tacitly promoted by its most important ally, the United States. “We all knew it but it was exposed in the recent war on Syria. Recently, on the instruction of the U.S., Saudi Arabia stopped channeling Zakat’s [Islamic tax] fund to a few madrasas, which means that Washington controls where the money goes from Saudi Arabia. Recently, a Saudi Minister went on record saying that thousands of youth from his country have gone to Iraq to wage jihad. Both the U.S. and Israel are against Islamic fundamentalism but they shelter its most vociferous supporter, Saudi Arabia,” said senior journalist Md Ahmad Kazmi.

It is the promotion of Wahhabism/Deobandism in the Kashmir Valley that led to the bombing of Sufi Dargahs. The Wahhabis advocated a ban on music, a prominent feature of the subcontinent’s Sufi Islam, and issued directives to make the wearing of the Burqa by Muslim women compulsory. They also introduced new prayer rituals. “The attack on Charar-ei-Sharief and other Dargahs in the recent past can be contextualised within this Wahhabi campaign,” Md Ahmad Kazmi said. He said that the growing conflict between the Shia and Sunni sects could be attributed to the increasing influence of Wahhabism. “After the Islamic revolution of 1979 in Iran, the conflicts between Shias and Sunnis had decreased tremendously. The re-energising of Wahhabis in India is precipitating renewed conflicts. The Wahhabis teach that killing Shias will lead them [its followers] to Jannat [heaven],” he added. He pointed out that the influence of Wahhabism was spreading in the rural areas of north India and was leading to the destruction of Dargahs and Sufi shrines. (Wahhab had condemned the cult of saints, and shrine and tomb visits.)

Influence in South India

The influence of Wahhabism/Deobandism is much stronger in south India than in the north. Groups such as the Popular Front of India (PFI) and its political front, the Social Democratic Party of India, have gained considerable influence in Kerala and coastal Karnataka. Reports about the PFI running terrorist camps in northern Kerala surfaced last year, following which several PFI leaders were arrested. In July 2010, PFI activists reportedly chopped off a professor’s hand, apparently for preparing a question paper with blasphemous references to the Prophet Muhammad.

The PFI has been charged with kidnapping and also the murder of several Communist Party of India (Marxist) activists and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh workers in northern Kerala. Political observers have opined that Wahhabism/Deobandism in south India is an import from the Gulf region, where many south Indians have migrated for work.

One of the main activities of the Wahhabi groups in India is mobilisation of students groups in colleges. The PFI and its front organisations have begun to wield considerable influence in many private colleges. In their desire to take forward their understanding of puritanical Islam, they issue diktats against Muslim women who refuse to wear the Burqa. Rayana R. Kazi moved the Kerala High Court in 2010 seeking police protection after she received threatening phone calls asking her not to wear jeans and shirt. Similarly, Shirin Middya, a lecturer in Aliah University near Kolkata, was asked by the students union to wear a burqa if she wanted to teach. The students’ union even banned her from entering the university premises.

In Tamil Nadu, too, the influence of Wahhabism/Deobandism has increased in rural areas. The Tamil poet Salma said: “A woman writing is considered a sin. It was very difficult. People would come and threaten my family.” Pointing out that the level of intolerance had increased in recent years, she said that the Wahhabis advocate child marriage, discourage women from studying, and campaign among Muslim families to live according to the Sharia laws. “You cannot question the traditional way of divorce in front of them. They become militant,” she said.

The PFI is said to be an offshoot of the Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), which was banned in 2001. SIMI functioned as a student movement but bracketed Islam within the strict codes of Wahhabism/Deobandism.

“The nefarious nature of SIMI has been evident from the moment it emerged from the womb of the Jamaat-e-Islami in 1977. Character building to fight against the perceived twin evils of communism and capitalist consumerism with its ‘degenerate morality’ was the declared objective. But in less than a decade, this self-styled moral brigade metamorphosed into ‘the real inheritor’ of the legacy of the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, Maulana Abul Ala Maududi, who argued that all Muslims must strive for an Islamic state. True to its ideological mooring, in the ’80s, SIMI produced eye-catching stickers proclaiming ‘Secularism, NO; Democracy, NO; Nationalism, NO; Polytheism, NO; Only Islam’. These stickers adorned many Muslim homes and shops throughout India,” Javed Anand has said in one of his essays.

At its Mumbai meeting in 2001, SIMI for the first time declared that the time had come for Indian Muslims to launch an armed jihad to establish an Islamic caliphate. Posters issued by SIMI following the demolition of the Babri Masjid had declared: Ya Ilahi, bhej de Mahmood koi (Oh Allah, send us a Mahmud), in reference to the Turkish conqueror Mahmud of Ghazni.

“These groups, while trying to impose a strict Sharia code of conduct in Muslim households, are also changing the language of Indian Muslims. They advocate the use of Allah hafiz as a parting phrase as opposed to the traditional Khuda hafiz,” Kazmi said. Allah, an Arabic word for God, is considered appropriate by the Wahhabis as opposed to Khuda, which is a Persian word. “They ask [Muslims] to keep chanting Allah hoo to call God, but they are strictly against finding meaning in Quran or studying the history of Islam. They are trying to box the religion,” Kazmi added. Similarly, these clerical groups force Indian Muslims to address the Islamic holy month as Ramadan (which is Arabic), as opposed to Ramzan.

Hard-Line Teaching

The phenomenal rise of two Wahhabi groups,Deobandi Tablighi Jamaat and Ahle-Hadith, in the past five years is noteworthy. Tablighi Jamaat has been growing stronger, especially in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. This group is trying to appropriate the syncretic culture of “Aalmi Tablighi Ijtema” (world conference held in Bhopal), which attracts at least 10 lakhs of the faithful every year. Tablighi Jamaat wants to hold similar Ijtema in Raipur (Chhattisgarh) and Hyderabad. Tablighis reportedly also control the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) and most Waqf boards. Its members visit villages and hold congregations of local Muslims and propagate the group’s six-point programme. The six tenets are: Kalimah, which teaches Muslims to follow only Allah and no other God; Salat, which stresses the need to pray five times a day; Ilm and zikr, which invoke the Hadith; Ikram-e-Muslim, which stresses the need to respect other Muslims; and Dawah, which urges every Muslim to live according to the Islamic virtues practiced by the Prophet. Apart from this, the Jamaat encourages its followers to go on Khuruj, a conversion tour.

Such hard-line teaching is also preached by the Ahle-Hadith, which denounces all other traditions of Islam and claims to follow true Islam. It invokes Hadith, accompanied by the Quran, and is strictly opposed to the Sufi tradition. Both these groups promote a minimalistic lifestyle and irreverence towards other cultures.

Influence on Politics

The growing influence of Wahhabism/Deobandism is having considerable impact on the Indian political scene, especially south Indian politics. Parties such as the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) and the Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK), considered to be moderate parties, have started taking hard-line stances. The IUML recently supported the campaign for a separate Tirur district to be carved out of the existing Malappuram district.

This campaign was originally started by the SDPI in 2010 and subsequently it gained resonance in the Gulf region among the migrant Muslims of Kerala. The SDPI had originally demanded a new district comprising Tirur, Tirurangadi and Ponnani Taluks and some portions of the Chavakkad region in Thrissur district. This led to intense communal debates, especially between the upper-caste Nair community and the SDPI.

In another instance, the IUML quoted the Sharia in its circulars to demand that the marriageable age for Muslim girls be reduced from 18 years. The party leaders also declined to light lamps at public functions, claiming that it was a Hindu practice.

In Tamil Nadu, the TMMK has displayed aggression in its protests. It demanded a ban on Kamal Hassan’s Vishwaroopam and some other films ostensibly for being anti-Muslim. In 2008, it demanded that Muslims be allowed entry into a mosque located in a protected monument.

Kalanthai Peer Mohamed, the award-winning Tamil writer, commentator and observer of Muslim politics and culture, told The Hinduon August 5: “Within the TMMK itself, a radical wing emerged, led by the charismatic P. Zain ul Abideen, who formed the TNTJ [Tamil Nadu Tawheed Jamat]…. The TNTJ, largely a one-man show, eschews electoral politics and confines itself to its communal ideals. It blindly backs acts of omission and commission committed by the Arab world under the garb of Islam. When the whole world found the beheading of the Sri Lankan Tamil Muslim girl, Rizwana, revolting, Zain ul Abideen vociferously justified the act. It’s worrying that the community in Tamil Nadu does not have representatives who can articulate their voice in a reasonable manner within a broad humanistic and universalistic framework.”

Some political observers, however, say that parties such as the IUML and the TMMK have been courting and serving feudal interests of affluent Muslims. Behind most of the issues raised by them are the commercial interests of a few leaders of these parties. But the issues have subsequently been communalised. A case in point is the communalisation of the IUML’s campaign to start four universities in Malappuram district. It later turned out to be an effort to appease the real estate interests of the Muslim elite and some party leaders. A cause of concern for secular Muslims of Kerala is the increasing criminalisation of parties such as the IUML in recent years.

The electoral impact of these organisations and cultural fronts promoting “true Islam” has been minimal. However, several Wahhabi groups, such as the Gujarat Muslim Revenge Force, the Muslim Defence Force, and the Islamic Defence Force, were founded in the past decade. Most of these organisations engage in proselytisation activities. But there are no reports of their involvement in terrorist activities. Acting as the cultural vanguard of “true Islam”, these organisations invoke the sense of injustice among Indian Muslims and pave the way for their cultural assimilation. There is the possibility of working-class Muslims, already strained by poverty and injustice, getting carried away by such campaigns.

It would be inappropriate to say that the Wahhabis have been highly successful because they do face resistance from Sufi traditions. As opposed to the theories of Hindutva ideologues, it is the pluralistic practice of Islam in the subcontinent that acts as a strong defence against such insular radicalisation. Indian Muslims, not Hindus, are facing the brunt of such radical tendencies. However, if the Indian state fails to adhere to its secular ethos, a far worse situation could arise.

The anthropologist Irfan Ahmad noted in one of his papers on SIMI: “The formation of such illegal groups by a segment of Muslim population also points towards an affinity between the geography of riots and cartography of Islamist radicalism. Over 15% or 20% of SIMI’s members came from Maharashtra, Gujarat and U.P., States where the masculine, virulent Hindutva has far more impact, and which have a history of the worse riots in the past two decades.” It is, therefore, binding on the government to intervene positively to address the problems of Indian Muslims.

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Chips of The Same Block – by Agha Shaukat Jafri

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First it was the wicked Wahhabi government of Saudi Arabia, that decided quite recently, to furnish Antiaircraft Missiles to the so-called Syrian rebels so that a few more hundred or thousand innocent lives will be lost, and  most likely it will have no impact on a very formidable Syrian regime’s war machine. Now it is the turn of the  venomous Saudi Clergy which is equally cruel and criminal in their acts, it has been perpetrating from the onset of Syrian uprising. As a matter of record, during March, 2011, it was Saudi clergy as well as its religious foundations that raised the temperature of Syrian crisis by initiating the recruitment and deployment of Saudi and numerous foreign Jehadist fighters into Syria.

Many of us would recall as to how on February 23,2006, exactly eight years ago, in Sammarra, Iraq, the vicious and vindictive Wahhabi agents of Saudi Arabia financed, and collaborated with Iraqi Salafis in desecration of the holy Shrine of Hassan Askari (AS), the 11th Imam of Shia Athana Asharee Muslims. They abhor Shia faith and call Shia Muslims Kafir (Infidel) and Najis (Unclean). Their call for the destruction of holy shrine of Sayyedda Zaynab, therefore, is no surprise !

AN URGENT UPDATE: 


Well this plot has thicken a bit more, as one of our colleague noted from a reportage in today’s DAWN, a daily newspaper that come out of Karachi, Pakistan. It is now an established fact that the equipping Syrian rebels with Russian & Chinese Antiaircraft Missiles and other armaments is the blessing of Saudi Arabia, and that the Russian government has issued a warning to the Saudis to cease such practices. Saudis were caught redhanded, buying these armaments from Nawaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Pakistan.This deal was, quite recently transacted during the visit of Saudi crown prince and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The Saudis have their hands bloodied in Bahrain as well where almost 1400 Pakistanis were offered instant Bahraini citizenship and recruited in Bahraini Police to kill that State’s majority Shia population. 

Amid an escalation of the terrorist attacks on citizens and government buildings in the Syrian capital Damascus, the extremist Wahhabi clerics in Saudi Arabia have called for the destruction of holy shrine of Lady Zaynab.
The shrine is located in the neighborhood of Sayyida Zainab, which has seen rise of violence and terrorist attacks over the past few days.
On Saturday, youths armed with sticks and knives, formed committees to protect the holy shrine of Lady Zainab, Press TV reported.
According to the Arabic website of Al-Alam TV, the move is designed to encourage sectarianism inside Syria and pave the way for a full-scale civil war in the country.
Lady Zainab is the daughter of first Imam Ali (PBUH) and granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). She is regarded as a very noble figure by Shias around the world.
Syrian troops on Saturday regained control of most parts of the neighborhood after government forces launched an all-out offensive against the armed rebels across the capital.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011, with the Syrian government saying outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorists are the engine behind the violence.

False Sunni-Shia binary and obfuscation of the Deobandi identity of terrorists – by Michael Kugelman

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Apologists and proxies of the Bahraini Khalifa and the GCC are misrepresenting the Bahraini people's struggle for democracy as sectarianism and racism.

We have come across an article based on a speech of Michael Kugelman on Shia killings in Pakistan delivered at an event organized by the Wilson Center and Shia Rights Watch. The speech/article is very poor because it fails to clearly identify the Salafi-backed Deobandi terrorists responsible for Shia genocide in Pakistan who are also killing Sunni Barelvis, Christians and other communities. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/there-any-hope-for-pakistans-shias

It makes no mention of Sunni Barelvi genocide, and no mention of common Deobandi identity of terrorists who are not only killing Shias but also Sunni Barelvis, Christians, Ahmadis etc.

Beware of such activists who hide the Deobandi identity of ASWJ-TTP terrorists, present terrorists as Sunnis, construct false Sunni-Shia binary, or use generic or vague names for terrorists (Takfiri, Khariji, Wahabi, Sunni, Islamist) instead of pin-pointing their specific identity, i.e., Deobandi terrorists sponsored by Saudi Salafis/Wahabis.

A tribute to Jibran Nasir is a part of this presentation, the “liberal” who was recently seen attacking Shia activists a few days ago only because he was called out on blatantly removing the Shia identity of Hazaras and Deobandi identity of the terrorists in one of his articles in Express Tribune). His recent blog post in Express Tribune did not have a single mention of Shia identity of Ibtihaj and other Hazara victims of the Mastung massacre nor did he mention the Deobandi ASWJ identity of the terrorists who are killing Shias in Balochistan and other parts of Pakistan. Of course, he did not acknowledge that a number of Shias killed in the Mastung massacre originated from D.I.Khan (Khyber Pakhtunkwa). http://lubpak.com/archives/304015#sthash.lWWRLCd9.dpuf

With champions like these, there’s NO hope for Pakistan’s Shias:

The following presentation, entitled “Is There Any Hope for Pakistan’s Shias?” was delivered by Michael Kugelman at a February 24 conference called “The Role of Education in Implementing Social Justice: The Case of Shias Muslims.” The event was organized by Shia Rights Watch and American University, and held on the main campus of American University.

Good afternoon all. I’d like to thank Shia Rights Watch for inviting me to speak at this conference, which is so important for all the wrong reasons, given the troubled plight of the Shia in so many parts of the world. I’d also like to thank AU for hosting.

I’ll be talking about Shias in Pakistan. They constitute about 20 percent of Pakistan’s 180 million people. Pakistan is arguably one of the deadliest countries for Shias outside the Middle East. What’s particularly alarming is the rate of increase of Shia deaths in Pakistan in recent years. In 2012, at least 325 were killed. Last year, nearly 400 were. More and more commentators in Pakistan are now using the word “genocide” to describe their plight.

My comments will focus on the grim situation of Shias in Pakistan—a chief victim of the sectarian violence that, in my view, poses Pakistan’s greatest security threat. However, I will also identify some reasons for hope, and highlight some of the heroic efforts being made in Pakistan to curb sectarian violence against Shias.

Let me first highlight three reasons why Shias face such a grim situation in Pakistan, and why sectarian violence is such a big security threat. First is sectarian militancy’s broad reach. One of its most powerful practitioners, a terrorist organization called Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), has staged attacks in all four Pakistani provinces—something that few, if any, other Pakistani militant groups have done. LeJ gets plenty of help from the Pakistani Taliban, is increasingly targeting religious minorities and has claimed responsibility for a number of recent sectarian attacks. These tactics suggest a growing alliance between two of Pakistan’s most fearsome Sunni extremist organizations.

The second reason to fear for Shias in Pakistan is, quite frankly, public opinion. Few Pakistanis embrace the anti-state Pakistani Taliban’s vision of destroying the country’s political system, but many sympathize with the underlying views of sectarian extremists. In a recent Pew poll, 41 percent of Pakistanis said that Shias are not Muslims. In another poll, 60 percent of Pakistani youth contended that Ahmadis—who belong to another minority sect of Islam—are not Muslims. Punjab province governor Salman Taseer was assassinated in 2011 for his public opposition to Pakistan’s so-called blasphemy laws, which are often used to persecute religious minorities including Shias. Scores of Pakistanis—including many lawyers—rallied in support of Taseer’s assassin, at one point showering him with roses as he made his way to court. By expressing support for the basic ideas fueling sectarian violence, Pakistanis indirectly confer legitimacy on sectarian militants’ activities.

And the third and final reason why the plight of Shias in Pakistan is so alarming is that the Pakistani state has institutionalized sect-based discrimination. The second amendment of Pakistan’s constitution explicitly states that Ahmadis are non-Muslims. Not surprisingly, Pakistan has few laws that protect religious minorities—yet it does have the blasphemy laws, which produce the opposite effect. The assassination of Taseer has silenced much of the policy debate about religious minorities, and has made reform of the blasphemy laws—much less their elimination—a political nonstarter.

The most troubling aspect of the state’s complicity in sectarianism is the nexus between sectarian extremists and the security establishment. Human-rights groups believe Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the ISI, leverages these organizations to take on separatist insurgents in Balochistan province. There are also links between sectarian fighters and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)—the political party that has long run Punjab’s provincial government, and now leads the central government. In 2011, Punjab’s law minister admitted his government provided financial assistance to the family of LeJ’s supreme leader, Malik Ishaq. In 2012, he campaigned with the leader of Sipah-e-Sahaba, LeJ’s parent organization. Given that the PML-N’s bastion in Punjab is also the stronghold of most sectarian extremist groups, such linkages, while disturbing, are unsurprising.

Predictably, sectarian militants operate with impunity in Pakistan. Ishaq, the LeJ leader, lives freely in Punjab (he is periodically detained, before being promptly released). Suspects are rarely arrested, much less prosecuted. In 2012, after tombstones at Ahmadi cemeteries were desecrated, police took no action. In many cases, police refuse to come to the aid of victims. After a mob set fire to homes in a Christian neighborhood of Lahore this year, a report produced by Pakistan’s Human Rights Commission concluded that police had been aware of an arson threat in advance, yet neither preempted the attack nor sought to save the homes. Last month, according to media reports, as Christian women were paraded naked by an armed mob, police arrived only “after much time”—and offered little assistance. Later, a PML-N legislator ordered police to back off because the perpetrators supported his party.

So the Shia in Pakistan can’t expect much support from the PML-N-led government. It’s not like they enjoyed much support from Pakistan’s previous government, led by the Pakistan People’s Party (the party of the late Benazir Bhutto), though research has shown that Shias in Punjab have voted for the PPP as far back as the 1990s, because of the perception that it is more liberal and tolerant of religious minorities than are other parties). One might ironically assume that the Shias would get the most support from the Tehreek-e-Insaf Party (PTI), a conservative party led by ex-cricketer Imran Khan. The PTI, more so than the PML-N or PPP, has gone out of its way to condemn the country’s sectarian bloodshed and its chief instigators. After an LeJ bombing killed nearly 90 people in a Quetta market last year, Khan declared at a press conference: “I tell you by name, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi…there can be no bigger enemy of Islam than you.” He also accused the LeJ of exhibiting “the worst kind of enmity towards Islam.” Such strong language is rarely used by the PPP or PML-N. Khan has even endorsed Shia demands for targeted operations against religious militants.

The PTI is not in the governing coalition, though it does run the province in Khyber-Pahktunkhwa bordering Afghanistan. Still, it’s important to emphasize that the PTI has no plans to take aim at the root causes of sectarian violence. For example, reforming-much less repealing-Pakistan’s blasphemy laws is a move no political party in Pakistan dares make. Also, many Shias are suspicious of Imran Khan because of his support for talks with the Taliban and other gestures perceived as sympathetic to religious militants. Such suspicions intensify when high-ranking PTI officials share the stage with hardline Islamist figures- during rallies of the Pakistan Defense Council, a collective of conservative religious parties. A recent video produced by the Shia rights group ShiaKilling.com captures the contempt that Pakistani Shias harbor toward the PTI (and toward the PML-N as well). One Shia cleric (who admittedly does not appear to enjoy a large following) has even peddled an elaborate conspiracy theory involving Saudi Arabia and the ISI colluding to install Khan as the leader of a new “Saudi-Wahhabi Islamic State” of Pakistan.

Not surprisingly, Shias in Pakistan have  taken matters into their own hands and mobilized politically. Before last year’s national election, a collaborative of Pakistani Shia religious scholars announced that the establishment of a Shia Solidarity Council “to promote harmony” among the country’s Shias. It even registered as a political party, and contested elections, though it didn’t do particularly well, given its lack of resources and given the general tendency of Pakistani religious parties to fare poorly in elections.

Still, there is some reason for hope. Pakistanis are doing things to help Shias and other besieged minorities. I want to briefly highlight the contributions of three heroic Pakistanis; I had written about these three in an article for Foreign Policy several months ago. These are Pakistanis who not only deplore sectarianism, but have also taken dramatic steps to combat it (one of them lost his life for his efforts). Most critically, their countrymen have supported them.

First, Zahid Iqbal.

On the outskirts of Islamabad stands an extraordinary structure: Pakistan’s first sect-free mosque. Zahid Iqbal is the businessman behind it. “We don’t belong with any sect of Islam,” he told the Associated Press this summer. “We only belong to Islam.”

The mosque’s main prayer hall can accommodate 350 people. It also holds an inter-sect religious library, and will soon open a women’s section. A welcoming sign proclaims a message of tolerance: “This mosque does not discriminate between any sects and welcomes all Muslims.”

Iqbal has dispatched mosque officials to other mosques, where they preach messages of tolerance and unity. He has told me that he eventually plans to establish branches of the mosque elsewhere in Pakistan. “To me, Islam means Mercy, that is to do good to others,” he said in an email. “So, through this mosque I am trying to live up to this message of Islam.”

Second, Jibran Nasir.

Last fall, soon after more than 100 Christians were killed in an attack on their church in Peshawar, Christians and Muslims formed human chains around churches in several major Pakistani cities. Participants included muftis, Christian clergy, women, and children, and they displayed banners that proclaimed: “One Nation, One Blood.”

This campaign was led by Jibran Nasir, a Pakistani lawyer and activist who works for an organization called Pakistan for All. “The terrorists showed us what they do on Sundays,” he declared at an event in Lahore. “Here we are showing them what we do on Sundays. We unite.” The intention, he told me, is “to send out a message that every house of God whether a church, temple or synagogue is as sacred as a mosque and hence protection of these places of worship is the responsibility of every Muslim.” He says he was inspired by the human chains formed by Muslims to protect Coptic Christians praying in Egypt, another nation where religious minorities are often persecuted and attacked.

Nasir, who has also organized assistance for Shi’a victims of sectarian attacks, recently ran as an independent for a National Assembly seat representing Karachi. In official campaign videos and media interviews, he constantly condemned sectarianism. He also campaigned for Ahmadi rights — a nearly unfathomable cause for Pakistani politicians to take up. Ultimately, he wasn’t elected, but he vows to run again.

Third, and most tragically, Ghulam Mustafa.

Last August, extremists boarded a bus in Balochistan and killed more than a dozen Shi’as. They also gunned down Ghulam Mustafa, a Sunni passenger who dared to confront them. “Why are you doing this?” the 19-year-old student reportedly said to the gunmen. “Why do you want to kill these people? Islam doesn’t allow the killing of innocent people.” Shortly thereafter, Mustafa was led to the side of the road and executed alongside the Shi’a bus riders.

While these three young men have fought sectarianism directly, they have also had supporting casts — the staff that run Iqbal’s mosque and guide its worshipers; the participants in Nasir’s human chain campaign; and several other Sunni bus riders who, like Mustafa, refused to identify Shi’a passengers (according to several media accounts, two other Sunnis died along with Mustafa).

Such support extends across Pakistan more broadly as well. Iqbal told me that his mosque has not received a single threat, and that the overall response has been “encouraging and supportive.” Meanwhile, Nasir told me that his advocacy has generated ample support from numerous religious scholars. He has also revealed that three major political parties invited him to join their ranks — and continued to offer advice and support even after he declined.

I was struck by the responses I got to the article about these three men. Everyday Pakistanis contacted me and told me that these guys are heroes, and that they wish they could do what these men had done. Interestingly, I heard from an organization of retired servicemen, who told me they’ve been providing private security at besieged churches when the state refuses to do so.

More recently, after attacks on Hazara Shias earlier this year, I heard stories of common Pakistanis converging on hospitals where the wounded were, to offer support, gifts, and candy. These Pakistanis were not necessarily Shias themselves.

So clearly, sectarian tolerance has a constituency in Pakistan. To be sure, it’s a relatively small constituency, but it is one worth highlighting. For it to get larger, there needs to be more awareness of the plight of Shias in Pakistan—and for that, there needs to be more informational exchange and education, the very themes of today’s conference. Thank you.

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