There’s No Such Thing as ‘Radical Islam.’ There Are Only Terrorists Who Are Muslim
ISIS is about as Islamic as the KKK is Christian. They just use religion. Their real agenda is political. Get with it.
How many Muslims does ISIS have to slaughter before people will stop calling the group “Islamic” anything? Seriously, can someone please tell me the number of innocent Muslim men, women, and children who have to die at the hands of ISIS before people will realize that ISIS is truly unIslamic and arguably anti-Islamic?
On Tuesday, we saw more of ISIS’s barbaric brutality on display with the release of the video depicting its killing of Jordanian Muslim fighter pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh. He was flying sorties as part of the U.S.-organized coalition to destroy ISIS.
What makes the killing of this man so noteworthy is not just the viciousness of his execution, but that it actually received national U.S. media coverage. We rarely see our media cover the Muslims killed by ISIS or al Qaeda. I often wonder, is it because some in the media feel that Muslims lives don’t matter? Or is it because they sense that collectively, most (though not all) Americans could care less about it when non-Americans are killed, so that translates into low ratings for these types of stories?
To be honest, how many have heard about the details of ISIS slaughtering of Muslims? In 2014 in Iraq alone, can you guess how many Muslims civilians—not fighters, civilians—ISIS killed? At least 4,325. ISIS is murdering an average 12 Muslim civilian men, women, and children every single day.
And these killings are not “collateral damage” deaths. Per a United Nations report released last September, ISIS targeted Muslims, both Sunnis and Shias, who refused to submit to it. We are talking a Sunni leader from the Salah ad Din province of Iraq beheaded (PDF) in August for refusing to swear allegiance to ISIS. Do you recall U.S. media wall-to-wall coverage of that beheading, like when Westerners were beheaded?
Three Sunni nurses were executed in Mosul for refusing to treat ISIS fighters. A Sunni imam in eastern Baquba was killed for simply denouncing ISIS.
And in neighboring Syria, per the London-based Syrian Human Rights Committee, in December 2014 alone, ISIS killed at least 49 civilians, executing almost all in front of their families.
Why do these facts matter? Because I think it makes it clear to any reasonable person that ISIS is not about the tenets of Islam. Their religion is power.
Those aren’t just my words. In September, more than 120 Islamic scholars and clerics wrote a letter to ISIS in both English and Arabic denouncing ISIS and its invoking of Islam to justify its horrific actions. They even explained in great detail how ISIS is violating the Quran and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, concluding that ISIS is truly unIslamic.
Yet these words don’t move many on the right in America, who continue to argue in essence: If a Muslim yells “Allahu Akbar” after committing any action, that absolutely means that their conduct is based on the faith. That is beyond simplistic—it’s idiotic.
And nearly as ludicrous is the claim by people like Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte, who stated on Fox News on Sunday that we need to call it “radical Islam” because we “have to define our enemy.”
Look, there’s no such thing as “radical Islam.” There is only one Islam. But there are radical Muslims. And there are Muslims who engage in terrorist acts. They are called terrorists. That is the proper way to describe them.
That is exactly what White House Press secretary Josh Earnest stated a few weeks ago when refusing to use the term “radical Islam” to describe al Qaeda or ISIS. As Earnest noted, it’s about “accuracy,” noting correctly that “these terrorists are individuals who would like to cloak themselves in the veil of a particular religion.”
Just read the ISIS magazine and you will see how they desperately seek to frame its battle with the United States as an “American crusade against Islam.” (PDF) That is why when Sen. Lindsey Graham recently called the fight with al Qaeda a “religious war,” I can only imagine these terrorists were high-fiving each other because he was parroting their words.
Using the word Islam in any way to describe ISIS or al Qaeda, or framing our fight as a religious war, is exactly what they want. It helps them recruit and raise funds. Let’s call ISIS—as well as al Qaeda—what they are. They are terrorists with a political agenda who are using the Islamic faith, not acting in accordance with it. That is our enemy. Now let’s defeat them.
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Muslims Must Confront Islamist Terror Ideologically: An Islamic Reformation Required
We seem to be living in an era of Islamist terror. Massacre of journalists in Paris has followed the massacre of children in Peshawar. Thirteen years after 9/11, the world is facing a more complex, more diverse and a more dangerous threat. While the world has focused on fighting the terrorists militarily, the challenge of their ideological narrative has gone essentially unchallenged.
The Jihadis have worked out a complete theology of violence, a coherent narrative of hate and intolerance, totalitarian and akin to fascism that is capable of attracting large numbers of gullible Muslim youth and desensitize them to human instincts of compassion and kindness. Normally, persuading someone to commit suicide should be the most difficult job in the world. But an army of suicide bombers emerge from Muslims societies, capable of untold cruelty, wherever and whenever some determined, resourceful group needs them. This is obviously the attraction and power of the Islamist ideology, vastly different from the understanding of Islam the overwhelming majority of Muslims have had for centuries.
Under mystical, Sufi influence, Muslims have prided themselves on having an inclusive, tolerant religion which came to reiterate and revalidate the truth of all previous religions. Muslims believe their religion is a blessing for mankind.
So when a supremacist, exclusivist, intolerant interpretation of Islam started being propagated with the establishment of Saudi-Wahhabi monarchy early in the last century, Muslims rejected it out of hand. But the phenomenal oil wealth and cold war imperatives helped the ideology spread rapidly. The international community did not hamper the process even after 9/11. Indeed it even created several new swamps for terrorists to prosper.
However, despite rapid radicalisation, many Muslims still remain moderate, firmly anchored in the Sufi traditions, who consider Islam a spiritual path to salvation, an ethical, moral standard to follow. They believe in modernity, inclusiveness, pluralism, gender equality and democracy. Prophet Mohammad called his community ummatan wasata, the median community, centred and balanced. Extremists have existed among Muslims throughout Islamic history. But ultimately, the peaceful majority has always defeated them. Hopefully, we will defeat the powerful Petrodollar Islam and its offshoot Jihadism too.
But this is easier said than done. Moderate Muslims are facing an uphill task. The methods Sufi saints used to spread moderate, mystical Islam cannot work in the internet age. Sufis used to emphasise the positive teachings of Islam and simply ignore the rest. But the age of brushing things under the carpet is gone.
Moderate Muslims have to think of new strategies. I believe that moderates must expose the radical ideology in all its perversity, and refute it, along with emphasising Islam's moral teachings.
Jihadism's enormous success in capturing Muslim imagination lies in the following core beliefs, among others.
a) For several centuries now Ulema have encouraged Muslims to develop an unquestioning belief in the Quran as an uncreated, divine book, almost like God.
This is a dangerous proposition. If Quran is created, that is, if it is a compilation of verses that came from time to time to guide the prophet as the need arose, the contexts of the verses become important and only verses that do not require a context to be understood assume universal applicability.
But if it is uncreated, as all the madrasas teach, then each and every verse is of eternal applicability and has to be followed without reference to the context. The very distinction between essential, constitutive part of the revelation and the contextual, instructive part is lost, making it easier for extremist ideologues to misuse the contextual as essential, the instructive as constitutive.
That is why all our madrasas that teach the uncreatedness of Quran are creating radical literalists who see no reason why they should apply their mind. So, If the Quran says somewhere, in whatever context, "kill the kafir," they can go out and kill the kafir, regardless of the fact that this exhortation was made in a certain historical context and was valid only for that time. No wonder all Jihadi ideologues quote a number of combative verses of Quran in their justification and use them for indoctrination of the gullible literalist. Unsurprisingly , they have an army of killers available who are prepared to make even suicidal strikes for killing innocent men, women and children, believing that they will be in heaven soon.
b) Great reverence is attached to Hadees or so-called sayings of the Prophet. Jihadi literature makes full use of a large number of possibly fabricated ahadees to further their cause. Compiled up to 300 years after the demise of the Prophet, Ahadees simply cannot represent authentic sayings of the prophet, though it is possible that the prophet said something like what is narrated in some of the ahadees.
No wonder, a number of apparently fabricated ahadees are used to justify indiscriminate killings of civilians as what is now called collateral damage (for instance, Bukhari Volume 004/Book 052, Hadees 256 or 019/4321), though there are also many more ahadees that prohibit such killings in any situation. Indeed another hadees (for instance, Bukhari, 021/010 (Mu’watta) prohibits not only killing "women or children or an aged, infirm person," but also asks not to "cut down fruit-bearing trees, destroy an inhabited place, slaughter sheep or camels except for food, burn bees and scatter them."
When God perfected our religion (Qur'an 5:3) in the last days of the Prophet, who are we to create new scriptures like Hadees centuries later?
c) Muslim scholars of all persuasions give Shariah divine status. In fact it is a man-made body of laws, codified by different ulema over a century after the Prophet's demise and has been changing since. There is no question of it's being divine.
The malaise of Islam is clearly far deeper. The problems are basic, fundamental to Islam. But ulema, the supposed custodians of faith, continue to be in denial.
What does the larger society do? I think the world needs to first inform itself of what is going on within the Muslim community. We should have credible surveys to find out the extent of radicalisation, monitor Friday sermons, study text books of different madrasas, and confront the ulema with the fundamental questions raised here. If the ulema really want to save Islam from being considered synonymous with terrorism, they should at least make the following commonsensical declarations, which are also consistent with the faith:
1. Quran is a created book of God, not divine as God Himself;
2. contextual, particularly militant verses, in Quran are no longer applicable to Muslims;
3. Hadees is not an Islamic scripture a la Quran.
4. Shariah cannot be considered divine.
What the ulema, intellectuals and politicians have done so far amounts to nothing more than a cosmetic endeavour; they have been hoping and perhaps praying that the issues will go away. But radicalism is deepening and intensifying. It is attracting more and more converts.
So clearly Muslim theologians will need to go beyond superficial statements, walk further in the direction of rationality, prepare a coherent theology of peace and moderation and propagate it among the masses of Muslims, if they want Islam to survive as a moderate religion, a moral standard, and a spiritual path to salvation rather than allow Islamic scriptures to degenerate into terrorist manuals.
If the ulema do not agree to walk their peaceful talk, the larger society should encourage and support those few moderate, progressive Muslims who are willing to go out on a limb, perhaps putting their heads on the chopping block in this process. This section should be able to go to the community directly, bypassing the ulema and campaign for sanity.
URL: http://www.newageislam.com/islam,terror ... d/d/100918
We seem to be living in an era of Islamist terror. Massacre of journalists in Paris has followed the massacre of children in Peshawar. Thirteen years after 9/11, the world is facing a more complex, more diverse and a more dangerous threat. While the world has focused on fighting the terrorists militarily, the challenge of their ideological narrative has gone essentially unchallenged.
The Jihadis have worked out a complete theology of violence, a coherent narrative of hate and intolerance, totalitarian and akin to fascism that is capable of attracting large numbers of gullible Muslim youth and desensitize them to human instincts of compassion and kindness. Normally, persuading someone to commit suicide should be the most difficult job in the world. But an army of suicide bombers emerge from Muslims societies, capable of untold cruelty, wherever and whenever some determined, resourceful group needs them. This is obviously the attraction and power of the Islamist ideology, vastly different from the understanding of Islam the overwhelming majority of Muslims have had for centuries.
Under mystical, Sufi influence, Muslims have prided themselves on having an inclusive, tolerant religion which came to reiterate and revalidate the truth of all previous religions. Muslims believe their religion is a blessing for mankind.
So when a supremacist, exclusivist, intolerant interpretation of Islam started being propagated with the establishment of Saudi-Wahhabi monarchy early in the last century, Muslims rejected it out of hand. But the phenomenal oil wealth and cold war imperatives helped the ideology spread rapidly. The international community did not hamper the process even after 9/11. Indeed it even created several new swamps for terrorists to prosper.
However, despite rapid radicalisation, many Muslims still remain moderate, firmly anchored in the Sufi traditions, who consider Islam a spiritual path to salvation, an ethical, moral standard to follow. They believe in modernity, inclusiveness, pluralism, gender equality and democracy. Prophet Mohammad called his community ummatan wasata, the median community, centred and balanced. Extremists have existed among Muslims throughout Islamic history. But ultimately, the peaceful majority has always defeated them. Hopefully, we will defeat the powerful Petrodollar Islam and its offshoot Jihadism too.
But this is easier said than done. Moderate Muslims are facing an uphill task. The methods Sufi saints used to spread moderate, mystical Islam cannot work in the internet age. Sufis used to emphasise the positive teachings of Islam and simply ignore the rest. But the age of brushing things under the carpet is gone.
Moderate Muslims have to think of new strategies. I believe that moderates must expose the radical ideology in all its perversity, and refute it, along with emphasising Islam's moral teachings.
Jihadism's enormous success in capturing Muslim imagination lies in the following core beliefs, among others.
a) For several centuries now Ulema have encouraged Muslims to develop an unquestioning belief in the Quran as an uncreated, divine book, almost like God.
This is a dangerous proposition. If Quran is created, that is, if it is a compilation of verses that came from time to time to guide the prophet as the need arose, the contexts of the verses become important and only verses that do not require a context to be understood assume universal applicability.
But if it is uncreated, as all the madrasas teach, then each and every verse is of eternal applicability and has to be followed without reference to the context. The very distinction between essential, constitutive part of the revelation and the contextual, instructive part is lost, making it easier for extremist ideologues to misuse the contextual as essential, the instructive as constitutive.
That is why all our madrasas that teach the uncreatedness of Quran are creating radical literalists who see no reason why they should apply their mind. So, If the Quran says somewhere, in whatever context, "kill the kafir," they can go out and kill the kafir, regardless of the fact that this exhortation was made in a certain historical context and was valid only for that time. No wonder all Jihadi ideologues quote a number of combative verses of Quran in their justification and use them for indoctrination of the gullible literalist. Unsurprisingly , they have an army of killers available who are prepared to make even suicidal strikes for killing innocent men, women and children, believing that they will be in heaven soon.
b) Great reverence is attached to Hadees or so-called sayings of the Prophet. Jihadi literature makes full use of a large number of possibly fabricated ahadees to further their cause. Compiled up to 300 years after the demise of the Prophet, Ahadees simply cannot represent authentic sayings of the prophet, though it is possible that the prophet said something like what is narrated in some of the ahadees.
No wonder, a number of apparently fabricated ahadees are used to justify indiscriminate killings of civilians as what is now called collateral damage (for instance, Bukhari Volume 004/Book 052, Hadees 256 or 019/4321), though there are also many more ahadees that prohibit such killings in any situation. Indeed another hadees (for instance, Bukhari, 021/010 (Mu’watta) prohibits not only killing "women or children or an aged, infirm person," but also asks not to "cut down fruit-bearing trees, destroy an inhabited place, slaughter sheep or camels except for food, burn bees and scatter them."
When God perfected our religion (Qur'an 5:3) in the last days of the Prophet, who are we to create new scriptures like Hadees centuries later?
c) Muslim scholars of all persuasions give Shariah divine status. In fact it is a man-made body of laws, codified by different ulema over a century after the Prophet's demise and has been changing since. There is no question of it's being divine.
The malaise of Islam is clearly far deeper. The problems are basic, fundamental to Islam. But ulema, the supposed custodians of faith, continue to be in denial.
What does the larger society do? I think the world needs to first inform itself of what is going on within the Muslim community. We should have credible surveys to find out the extent of radicalisation, monitor Friday sermons, study text books of different madrasas, and confront the ulema with the fundamental questions raised here. If the ulema really want to save Islam from being considered synonymous with terrorism, they should at least make the following commonsensical declarations, which are also consistent with the faith:
1. Quran is a created book of God, not divine as God Himself;
2. contextual, particularly militant verses, in Quran are no longer applicable to Muslims;
3. Hadees is not an Islamic scripture a la Quran.
4. Shariah cannot be considered divine.
What the ulema, intellectuals and politicians have done so far amounts to nothing more than a cosmetic endeavour; they have been hoping and perhaps praying that the issues will go away. But radicalism is deepening and intensifying. It is attracting more and more converts.
So clearly Muslim theologians will need to go beyond superficial statements, walk further in the direction of rationality, prepare a coherent theology of peace and moderation and propagate it among the masses of Muslims, if they want Islam to survive as a moderate religion, a moral standard, and a spiritual path to salvation rather than allow Islamic scriptures to degenerate into terrorist manuals.
If the ulema do not agree to walk their peaceful talk, the larger society should encourage and support those few moderate, progressive Muslims who are willing to go out on a limb, perhaps putting their heads on the chopping block in this process. This section should be able to go to the community directly, bypassing the ulema and campaign for sanity.
URL: http://www.newageislam.com/islam,terror ... d/d/100918
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Muslim Democrats of the World, Unite!
The time has come to turn the tables on the hijackers and set a new course for Islam in the 21st century. Our future, as peace-loving Muslim democrats, is at stake.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/felix-mar ... l?ir=India
The time has come to turn the tables on the hijackers and set a new course for Islam in the 21st century. Our future, as peace-loving Muslim democrats, is at stake.
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Opening a Pandora’s box in Bangladesh
The movement towards fundamentalist ideologies is weakening the voices of the liberals
How did my beloved nation of Bangladesh become so intolerant? At only 31 I am saddened that this is not the Bangladesh I grew up in. Like most families, we grew up with the arts. We played music, danced or painted. Our ears were filled with Rabindranath Tagore’s music, while our dreamy eyes saw us as the next Zainal Abedin. Through the ages, beloved Sufi singers known as Bauls have wandered from village to village singing songs of inclusion, pluralism and tolerance. But no longer. Why has this society become so intolerant? Why can’t our children go safely to school? Why can’t we express our opinions?
The education sector is filled with madrasas, which are funded by the Middle East. The institutions hardly monitor or evaluate how the fund is being utilised. Of the two categories of madrasas, approximately 64 million people are currently enrolled in 18,100 Qwami madrasas nationwide. These are excluded from the government’s national education system; hence the curriculum has never been monitored. These madrasas are heavily influenced by imported Wahhabi principles, which are conflicting to the indigenous traditional principles fostered by subsequent Sufi movements. A World Bank report has stated that 82 per cent of the teachers in these madrasas are untrained; they are merely alumni of the same system. Given the exclusion from the national education system, there are limited career choices for the graduates. They can choose meagre jobs. But the more lucrative, safer choice is to become a teacher in a madrasa or work as Imams in religious congregations. Thus, a self-perpetuating cycle of fundamentalists is created. The number of alumni who have travelled across the nation to become religious preachers is staggering. These Imams shape the mindset of millions who come to the mosque through Khutbah (sermons).
The overall impact of this has been a growing radicalism that has penetrated every socio-economic layer of society. Imams have been able to have great leverage that would have been unthinkable 43 years ago, when the desire to celebrate nationalism led to the creation of this nation. A display of the Imams strength was seen on May 5, 2013, when 5,00,000 people gathered on the summons of Hefazat-e-Islam in Dhaka to call for the hanging of atheists. The 13-point demand of the group would have drastically shrunk the secular space in Bangladesh. Its aim is to transform Bangladesh into an Islamic state, replicating the model of many Middle Eastern nations. What is more surprising is the endorsement of such demands by political parties. Most political parties have, in the past, formed either formal or informal alliances with Islamists for their own gains.
This Middle Eastern approach, rather than Bengali one, is alien to us. This approach rejects the arts, which has been an integral part of our society through the centuries. With shrinking of creativity comes the reduction in space for free thinking and tolerance for such a level of religiosity that many do not feel there is anything wrong with the killing of diverse voices such as Avijit Roy’s or Professor Humayun Azad’s. We are at the opening of a Pandora’s box. There is great diversity of voices, but the violence of fundamental thinking is alarming. Roy was not the first victim; there were bloggers such as Ahmed Rajib Haider (Thaba Baba) who was killed post the Shahbag protests in February 2013.We have failed to deliver justice not only to our most vulnerable free thinkers, but to the common man too.
Today people are frustrated and tired of the status quo and think that an escape to the Shariah rulings, will help overcome discord and injustice and bring about peace and harmony. This is a winning battle for the fundamentalists.
Bangladesh is not yet a fragile state like Afghanistan or even Pakistan. But it has to assure social and economic justice to build an inclusive society. If it fails to do so, the large population will remain nonchalant to fundamentalists who have the potential to take over the nation and enforce the social welfare and justice that was promised to the citizens. The movement towards fundamentalist ideologies is weakening the voices of the liberals.
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/o ... epage=true
The movement towards fundamentalist ideologies is weakening the voices of the liberals
How did my beloved nation of Bangladesh become so intolerant? At only 31 I am saddened that this is not the Bangladesh I grew up in. Like most families, we grew up with the arts. We played music, danced or painted. Our ears were filled with Rabindranath Tagore’s music, while our dreamy eyes saw us as the next Zainal Abedin. Through the ages, beloved Sufi singers known as Bauls have wandered from village to village singing songs of inclusion, pluralism and tolerance. But no longer. Why has this society become so intolerant? Why can’t our children go safely to school? Why can’t we express our opinions?
The education sector is filled with madrasas, which are funded by the Middle East. The institutions hardly monitor or evaluate how the fund is being utilised. Of the two categories of madrasas, approximately 64 million people are currently enrolled in 18,100 Qwami madrasas nationwide. These are excluded from the government’s national education system; hence the curriculum has never been monitored. These madrasas are heavily influenced by imported Wahhabi principles, which are conflicting to the indigenous traditional principles fostered by subsequent Sufi movements. A World Bank report has stated that 82 per cent of the teachers in these madrasas are untrained; they are merely alumni of the same system. Given the exclusion from the national education system, there are limited career choices for the graduates. They can choose meagre jobs. But the more lucrative, safer choice is to become a teacher in a madrasa or work as Imams in religious congregations. Thus, a self-perpetuating cycle of fundamentalists is created. The number of alumni who have travelled across the nation to become religious preachers is staggering. These Imams shape the mindset of millions who come to the mosque through Khutbah (sermons).
The overall impact of this has been a growing radicalism that has penetrated every socio-economic layer of society. Imams have been able to have great leverage that would have been unthinkable 43 years ago, when the desire to celebrate nationalism led to the creation of this nation. A display of the Imams strength was seen on May 5, 2013, when 5,00,000 people gathered on the summons of Hefazat-e-Islam in Dhaka to call for the hanging of atheists. The 13-point demand of the group would have drastically shrunk the secular space in Bangladesh. Its aim is to transform Bangladesh into an Islamic state, replicating the model of many Middle Eastern nations. What is more surprising is the endorsement of such demands by political parties. Most political parties have, in the past, formed either formal or informal alliances with Islamists for their own gains.
This Middle Eastern approach, rather than Bengali one, is alien to us. This approach rejects the arts, which has been an integral part of our society through the centuries. With shrinking of creativity comes the reduction in space for free thinking and tolerance for such a level of religiosity that many do not feel there is anything wrong with the killing of diverse voices such as Avijit Roy’s or Professor Humayun Azad’s. We are at the opening of a Pandora’s box. There is great diversity of voices, but the violence of fundamental thinking is alarming. Roy was not the first victim; there were bloggers such as Ahmed Rajib Haider (Thaba Baba) who was killed post the Shahbag protests in February 2013.We have failed to deliver justice not only to our most vulnerable free thinkers, but to the common man too.
Today people are frustrated and tired of the status quo and think that an escape to the Shariah rulings, will help overcome discord and injustice and bring about peace and harmony. This is a winning battle for the fundamentalists.
Bangladesh is not yet a fragile state like Afghanistan or even Pakistan. But it has to assure social and economic justice to build an inclusive society. If it fails to do so, the large population will remain nonchalant to fundamentalists who have the potential to take over the nation and enforce the social welfare and justice that was promised to the citizens. The movement towards fundamentalist ideologies is weakening the voices of the liberals.
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/o ... epage=true
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Facing The Jihadist Challenge: Muslims Need To Refute Jihadis’ Xenophobic, Supremacist, Millenarian Thesis And Focus On Islamic Pluralism, Says Sultan Shahin At UNHRC In Geneva
Mr. President,
Facing the brutalities of Islamist terror, while President Obama will not go beyond calling it violent extremism, the head of Sunni Islam's oldest seat of learning, Jamia al-Azhar admitted in a counter-terrorism conference in Mecca that extremism was caused by “corrupt interpretations of Quran and the sayings of Prophet Muhammad”, and Islamic curriculums needed to change.
This call for reform, coming from Jamia Al-Azhar, is gratifying. But a half-hearted approach to reform will not work. The problems Muslims face are very basic and cannot be solved with mere tinkering with text-books. The global Muslim community will have to introspect. One question repeatedly asked, for instance, is about the contextual verses of the holy Quran that are utilised by Jihadists to brainwash our youth. Jihadists present these contextual verses as an eternal guide for Muslims.
The truth is these verses came to guide the prophet in the strife imposed upon him in the early years of Islam. They are not supposed to guide our conduct today. But hardly any scholar would come out and say this in so many words. This is what gives the Jihadists their power. If we can't even talk about constitutive and contextual verses of Quran and the difference between their relevance for us today, then how can we face the enormous challenge posed by Jihadists.
Similar challenge is posed by the sayings of the Prophet quoted by the Jihadists to support their brutal, intolerant, xenophobic, supremacist, millenarian thesis. The so-called Islamic State, in particular, does this most adroitly. But what authenticity can one claim for a so-called saying that was collected two centuries after the demise of the prophet. Almost six hundred thousand of such purported sayings were discarded by the scholars in the early centuries of Islam. How can we allow Jihadists to disturb world peace on accounts of such fanciful legends? But we Muslims will have to come out and question the Jihadist thesis from every available forum. Only then we can face this challenge.
However, I am gratified that some moderate Muslims have begun to think seriously about countering jihadist ideology. So far we were in denial, finding it difficult to see any connection between terrorism and some interpretations of Islam that have been propagated widely in the last few decades. Even the international community has not clamped down on the teaching and export of extremist text books from West-friendly Arab countries to madrasas around the world.
It's not just the vice-chancellor of Jamia Azhar but others too that are now calling for reformation in Islam, something that was being done so far in a consistent and methodical manner only on Islamic website New Age Islam. Indeed, New Age Islam remains banned for the last two years in Pakistan for countering the Jihadist theology of violence being propagated on over 150 Jihadi publications in that country.
Thus it is gratifying that several other Muslims from different parts of the world are now coming out to demand introspection and change. Four well-known Muslim intellectuals, for instance, have appealed to all Muslim political and religious leaders to stand up and support what they term "democratic Islam." They have called for a conference in France early next year that would "define the contours of a progressive interpretation of Islam firmly grounded in the 21st century."
Tariq Ramadan, Anwar Ibrahim, Ghaleb Bencheikh and Felix Marquardt have called for a clear-eyed diagnosis of Islam's current plight and want to develop a fundamental critique of Islamic culture and religion.
Mr. President,
The questions they ask need to be answered. For example, why have the regular calls for "an Islamic Renaissance" largely gone unanswered? Why did the "uncompromising critical analysis of the Quran and the prophetic traditions," launched at the beginning of the 20th century, not lead to a lasting Islamic path to modernity? Why are innovative reformers who are looking for a connection between modernity and Islamic norms and values often forced to stand on the edge of society, fighting a losing battle?
What the ulema, intellectuals and politicians have done so far amounts to nothing more than a cosmetic endeavour; they have been hoping and perhaps praying that the issues will go away. But radicalism is deepening and intensifying. It is attracting more and more converts as we can see from the hundreds of boys and even girls running away from well-appointed homes in the West to the battlefields in Iraq and Syria.
So clearly Muslim theologians will need to go beyond superficial statements, walk further in the direction of rationality, prepare a coherent theology of peace and moderation and propagate it among masses, if they want Islam to survive as a moderate religion, a moral standard, and a spiritual path to salvation rather than allow Islamic scriptures to degenerate into terrorist manuals.
If the ulema do not agree to walk their peaceful talk, the larger society should encourage and support those few moderate, progressive Muslims who are willing to go out on a limb, perhaps putting their heads on the chopping block in this process. This section should be able to go to the community directly, bypassing the ulema and campaign.
Some of the most important issues that need to be tackled immediately related to the concepts of Jihad and Takfir (declaring a Muslim apostate). The so-called Islamic State declares in its latest propaganda magazine called Dabiq (7thissue): Islam Is The Religion Of The Sword, Not Pacifism says: Allah has revealed Islam to be the religion of the sword, and the evidence for this is so profuse that only a zindīq (heretic) would argue otherwise." In justification, among others, it quotes profusely from Mohammad Ibn-e-Abdul Wahhab's theological mentor Ibn Taymiyyah who said: “THE BASIS OF THE RELIGION IS A GUIDING BOOK AND SUPPORTING SWORD.” [Majmū’a Al-Fatāwā Ibn Taymiyyah].
Then it quotes, seemingly militant Qur'anic verses from Sura Al-Anfāl: 12], .[At-Tawbah: 5], [At-Tawbah: 29], [Al-Hujurāt: 9]” [Al-Mā’idah: 54], [Al-Hadīd: 25], and their interpretations from Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr to justify its thesis.
The core beliefs of the so-called Islamic State emanate from the following statements that constitute the cornerstones of Wahhabism-Salafism:
“Even if the Muslims abstain from Shirk (polytheism) and are Muwahhid (believer in oneness of God), their Faith cannot be perfect unless they have enmity and hatred in their action and speech against non-Muslims.
------ Shaikh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab, Majmua Al-Rasael Wal-Masael Al-Najdiah 4/291
“Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam, regardless of the country or the nation which rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a state on the basis of its own ideology and programme, regardless of which nation assumes the role of the standard-bearer of Islam or the rule of which nation is undermined in the process of the establishment of an ideological Islamic State.
"Islam requires the earth — not just a portion, but the whole planet.... because the entire mankind should benefit from the ideology and welfare programme [of Islam] ... Towards this end, Islam wishes to press into service all forces which can bring about a revolution and a composite term for the use of all these forces is ‘Jihad'. .... The objective of the Islamic ‘jihad’ is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system and establish in its stead an Islamic system of state rule.”
----- Abul A'la Maududi in Jihad fil Islam
One of the most influential Jihadist ideologues today Mohammad Al-Maqdisi explains the Wahhabi central theory of Al-Walaa' Wa Al-Bara, maintaining and expressing hatred and enmity towards all non-Wahhabi Muslims and Others, in this way:
"Showing the disavowal (Barrah) from the polytheists (Mushrikeen) and their false deities.
"Openly declaring disbelief in them and their gods and their methodologies and their laws and their legislation of shirk (polytheism).
"Openly demonstrating the enmity and hatred towards them and their ranks and conditions of disbelief (kufr), until they return to Allah and leave all of that while having disavowal (Barrah) from it and disbelieving in it."
Mr. President,
One would imagine that the followers of Islam who believe, and many certainly do, that Islam is a religion of spirituality, peace, coexistence and tolerance, would be up in arms against the Islamic State. But while routine denunciations from some sections do come occasionally, there is no outrage visible in the Muslim society. The world cannot help noticing that while tens of thousands of Muslims come out on streets to demonstrate the moment there is an allegation of so-called blasphemy against any one, hardly any Muslim would protest at the myriad brutalities perpetrated by Islamist terrorists.
Clearly there is something wrong, some disconnect, some deeper and more complex phenomenon at work than what can be understood from a superficial look at the issue. Instead of expressing outrage, we find thousands of Muslim young men and women running from their comfortable homes, private schools and cushy jobs to fight and join in the brutalities of the so-called Islamic State. Some 12,000 Muslim young men and women are said to have joined so far from 80 countries. Clearly they accept the IS thesis that "Islam Is The Religion Of The Sword, Not Pacifism." Clearly they accept the millenarian, end-time predictions found in the so-called sayings of the Prophet. The inescapable conclusion is that this romanticism may be connected with how Islamic education shapes the Muslim mind in the absence of a counter-narrative.
Vice Chancellor of Jamia al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb has done well to point in the direction of educational reform. While introspection, brainstorming, reformulation of thoughts on a variety of issues, involving the global Muslim community will of necessity be a long-drawn affair, educational reform should begin immediately. The text books being used at the moment are hundreds of years old, prepared in different eras and with very different purposes in mind. Saudi text books that are relatively modern and being exported to the Muslim world in large numbers have been specifically designed to create hatred for other religious communities and non-Wahhabi sects of Islam.
I had pointed this out in one of my previous oral statements in the Council too. A mere look at some quotations from Saudi text books for impressionable young minds will tell us why so many youths, particularly from Saudi Arabia and other countries where these texts are taught are leaving their homes and schools for doing what they consider Jihad in the so-called Islamic State. In a celebrated study of Saudi school text books titled “Teaching Islam," Professor Eleanor Abdella Doumato comments:
"After proclaiming that there is only one Islam for all and there is no room for other interpretations, the schoolbooks lead to the message that philosophy and logic lead to schism, and are therefore especially to be avoided."
Doumato quotes a couple of paragraphs from the text of (10b: 14) and (10b: 15).5 and comments further:
“The message is that intellectual debate and individual reasoning must be sacrificed on the altar of communal harmony and political unity. The lesson is literally a textbook illustration of what Khaled Abou El Fadl describes as the anti-intellectualism of contemporary Saudi Islam's "supremacist, puritanical orientation," which retreats to the "secure haven of the text," where it can safely dissociate itself from critical historical inquiry (El Fadl 2003). ...
“One chapter, in the tenth-grade Tawhid textbook (the unrevised edition), titled the "Call [Da’wah] of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab," describes the progenitor of Najdi Islam as the historical rectifier of deviations in the peninsula, drawing a parallel between al-Shaikh, as he is known in Saudi Arabia, and the Prophet Muhammad. The lesson explains that Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (hereafter MIAW) came as a mercy from God to renew the religion of this Umma, his call for renewal fitting an established pattern: the Prophet Muhammad was sent by God to renew for mankind the creed that had been altered by deviations and innovations over time.”
But what did Mohammad ibn-e-Abdul Wahhab teach and what is being taught to our children today across the Islamic world and indeed, even in the West? One of the most important lessons in these text books is expressed through the concept of Al-Walaa' Wa Al-Bara (which essentially means showing loyalty towards Wahhabi Muslims and bearing enmity towards everybody else).
Let me again quote from this chapter of Teaching Islam;
“The hostility toward the outsider expressed through Al-Walaa' Wa Al-Bara has a history, and the recipients of Wahhabi enmity shift over time. For example, David Commins (2002) shows that the duty to bear enmity was used to rally resentment against the Ottoman Turks in the 1880s. In contemporary Saudi Tawhid schoolbooks, the objects of enmity range from Jews, non-Wahhabi Muslims to Western civilization in general. …
“The textbook used in 2002 explains that anyone who practices non-conformist thought or action among Muslims should not only be corrected but also despised. Non-Muslims are not to be befriended or tolerated; nor can they be simply ignored. They are to be hated. "It is a law of Tawhid that one should show loyalty to the Unitarian (Muwahhid, Wahhabi) Muslim and bear enmity toward his polytheist (Sufi, Non-Muslim) enemies," says the text. ...
10 "The place of Al-Walaa` Wa Al-Baraa` has great standing in Islam," the lesson says, "as the Prophet said: 'The strongest bond of belief is loving what God loves and hating what God hates,' and with these two one gains the loyalty [Wilaayya] of God" (10b: 110). The lesson elevates enmity for the sake of God above the pillars of Islam: "[T]he Prophet said: 'Whoever loves for the sake of God and hates for the sake of God and shows loyalty for the sake of God and enmity for the sake of God, he will achieve the loyalty of God by that, and unless he does so, no worshipper will ever find the taste of faith even if he is excessive in prayer or fasting — (10b: 110).
“Who are the polytheist enemies against whom the monotheist Muslim must bear enmity? To MIAW (Abdul Wahhab), polytheist enemies were other Muslims, especially the Ottoman Turks, Shi`a, Sufis, and anyone who wore amulets or practiced magic. The school text specifies new ways to become an enemy, explaining why Muslims must be alert to show hostility toward the offender. Student should recognize hypocrisy (al-Mudaahana) when they see it. If a person socializes with moral deviants but thinks himself immune to their 'deviancy, he's being hypocritical, and by not breaking off relations with them and showing them hatred he is showing disloyalty to God (10b: 111). The poof text is the story of Abraham, who broke off from those who did, not believe in the one God but instead worshipped idols."11
“In the Fiqh and Hadith texts, imitating the Kuffar (unbelievers) is presented as morally corrupting. Women who dress like foreigners, for example, invite temptation and corruption, so the fabric of Muslim women's dress must be thick enough not to show any skin and wide enough to conceal the contours of the body, and the face must be covered to protect her personality. Imitating the Kuffar is an insult to God because Muslims are supposed to love what God loves and hate what God hates. If a Muslim joins in holiday celebrations with the Kuffar or shares with them their joys and sorrows, he is showing them loyalty (10b: 118). To say Id Mubarak happy holiday) to the Kuffar is as bad as worshipping the cross; it's a worse sin against God than offering a toast with liquor; it's worse than suicide and) worse than having forbidden sex (Artikab Al-Farj Al-Haram); and many people do it without realizing what they have done (10b: 118).
“Imitating the Kuffar by using the calendrical designation "A.D." instead of the Hijra year is another problem, because A.D. evokes the date of Jesus' birth and shows an affinity with unbelievers. At Christmas time, Muslims are not to dress like the Kuffar or exchange gifts or attend a feast or display ornaments. The holidays of the Kuffar should be like any other day for Muslim. As Ibn Taimiyya said, "Agreeing with the Ahl al-Kitab (People of the Book) on things that are not in our religion and that are not the customs of our ancestors is corruption. By avoiding these things, you cease supporting them." Some even say, the lesson warns, that if you perform a ritual slaughter on their day, it's as if you slaughtered a pig.
“The textbooks evoke the past as a warning for the present. A section of the chapter called "Judgment About Making Use of the Kuffar in Employment and Fighting and Things Like That" quotes Ibn Taimiyya as saying, "Knowledgeable people know that the protected people among the Jews and Christians (ahl dhimma min Yahood wa Nasara) wrote to people of their own religion giving secret information about the Muslims" (10b: 119). The principle is to not to cooperate with or trust the Kuffar:
"O you who believe! Do not take for intimate friends those other than your own people; they do not fall short of inflicting loss upon you; they love what distresses you; vehement hatred has already appeared from out of their mouths, and what their breasts conceal is greater still" (Quran 3:118).
“One should not employ an unbeliever if there is a Muslim who can do the job, and if they're not needed, one should never hire them because the Kuffar can never be trusted (10b: 121). Nor should a Muslim accept employment from an unbeliever, for a Muslim should never be in a position of subservience to the Kuffar, who would surely show him disrespect. Nor should he be put in a position requiring him to deny his religion.
“A Muslim should not live permanently among Kuffar because his faith will be compromised and that is why God required Muslims to migrate from a land of unbelief (Bilad al-Kufr) to a land of belief (Bilad Al-Islam). As for those who would rather work for the Kuffar and live among them, this is - the same as showing loyalty to them and agreeing with them. This is apostasy from Islam. And whether one were there out of greed or for comfort, even were he to hate their religion and protect his own, it is not allowed. Beware of the worst punishment. (10b: 121)
“The chapter warns against music, laughter, and singing. ... Proscriptions on joyous behaviours, according to the text, are meant to encourage Muslims to invest all their being in thoughts of God and not expend energy in frivolous activities. However, the significance of such proscriptions shifts to contemporary concerns about the new enemy, the cultural invasion from the West. The "worst kind of imitating the Kuffar" is becoming so preoccupied with the unimportant things the Kuffar have promoted in their own societies that Muslims neglect to remember God and to do good works, for God says: "Oh you who believe! Let not your wealth, or your children, diverts you from the remembrance of God" (Quran 63:9; 10b: 124). The lesson explains that the Kuffar (infidels) assign value to unimportant things because, absent religious faith, their lives are empty.
“What are these unimportant things? First, there are the performing arts, such as singing and playing instruments, dancing, and theatre and cinema, which are visited-by people who are lost from the truth. Then, there are the fine arts (Al-Funun Al-Jamila), such as painting, drawing, and sculpture. (Despite the prohibition on art, some schools in the [Saudi] kingdom do offer art classes.) Then there are sports, which are sometimes more important to youth than remembering God and obeying him; sports cause youth to miss prayers and ignore school and household obligations. Whether such behaviours are permitted or not, the Muslim nation today should save its energy for dealing with challenges from its enemies: "Muslims have no time to waste on insignificant activities" (10b: 124-125).
“Forbidding celebrations of birthdays, especially the birthday of the Prophet, and prohibitions against fine and performing arts are all part of the modern fabric and the historical legacy of Wahhabi culture. ”It’s hostility to any human practice that would excite the imagination or bolster creativity," says (Dr. Khaled Abou) El Fadl (2003), is "perhaps the most stultifying, and even deadly, characteristic of Wahhabism." Anything that suggests a step toward creativity," he says, "constitutes a step toward Kufr [infidelity]."
http://www.newageislam.com/islam,terror ... m/d/101940
Mr. President,
Facing the brutalities of Islamist terror, while President Obama will not go beyond calling it violent extremism, the head of Sunni Islam's oldest seat of learning, Jamia al-Azhar admitted in a counter-terrorism conference in Mecca that extremism was caused by “corrupt interpretations of Quran and the sayings of Prophet Muhammad”, and Islamic curriculums needed to change.
This call for reform, coming from Jamia Al-Azhar, is gratifying. But a half-hearted approach to reform will not work. The problems Muslims face are very basic and cannot be solved with mere tinkering with text-books. The global Muslim community will have to introspect. One question repeatedly asked, for instance, is about the contextual verses of the holy Quran that are utilised by Jihadists to brainwash our youth. Jihadists present these contextual verses as an eternal guide for Muslims.
The truth is these verses came to guide the prophet in the strife imposed upon him in the early years of Islam. They are not supposed to guide our conduct today. But hardly any scholar would come out and say this in so many words. This is what gives the Jihadists their power. If we can't even talk about constitutive and contextual verses of Quran and the difference between their relevance for us today, then how can we face the enormous challenge posed by Jihadists.
Similar challenge is posed by the sayings of the Prophet quoted by the Jihadists to support their brutal, intolerant, xenophobic, supremacist, millenarian thesis. The so-called Islamic State, in particular, does this most adroitly. But what authenticity can one claim for a so-called saying that was collected two centuries after the demise of the prophet. Almost six hundred thousand of such purported sayings were discarded by the scholars in the early centuries of Islam. How can we allow Jihadists to disturb world peace on accounts of such fanciful legends? But we Muslims will have to come out and question the Jihadist thesis from every available forum. Only then we can face this challenge.
However, I am gratified that some moderate Muslims have begun to think seriously about countering jihadist ideology. So far we were in denial, finding it difficult to see any connection between terrorism and some interpretations of Islam that have been propagated widely in the last few decades. Even the international community has not clamped down on the teaching and export of extremist text books from West-friendly Arab countries to madrasas around the world.
It's not just the vice-chancellor of Jamia Azhar but others too that are now calling for reformation in Islam, something that was being done so far in a consistent and methodical manner only on Islamic website New Age Islam. Indeed, New Age Islam remains banned for the last two years in Pakistan for countering the Jihadist theology of violence being propagated on over 150 Jihadi publications in that country.
Thus it is gratifying that several other Muslims from different parts of the world are now coming out to demand introspection and change. Four well-known Muslim intellectuals, for instance, have appealed to all Muslim political and religious leaders to stand up and support what they term "democratic Islam." They have called for a conference in France early next year that would "define the contours of a progressive interpretation of Islam firmly grounded in the 21st century."
Tariq Ramadan, Anwar Ibrahim, Ghaleb Bencheikh and Felix Marquardt have called for a clear-eyed diagnosis of Islam's current plight and want to develop a fundamental critique of Islamic culture and religion.
Mr. President,
The questions they ask need to be answered. For example, why have the regular calls for "an Islamic Renaissance" largely gone unanswered? Why did the "uncompromising critical analysis of the Quran and the prophetic traditions," launched at the beginning of the 20th century, not lead to a lasting Islamic path to modernity? Why are innovative reformers who are looking for a connection between modernity and Islamic norms and values often forced to stand on the edge of society, fighting a losing battle?
What the ulema, intellectuals and politicians have done so far amounts to nothing more than a cosmetic endeavour; they have been hoping and perhaps praying that the issues will go away. But radicalism is deepening and intensifying. It is attracting more and more converts as we can see from the hundreds of boys and even girls running away from well-appointed homes in the West to the battlefields in Iraq and Syria.
So clearly Muslim theologians will need to go beyond superficial statements, walk further in the direction of rationality, prepare a coherent theology of peace and moderation and propagate it among masses, if they want Islam to survive as a moderate religion, a moral standard, and a spiritual path to salvation rather than allow Islamic scriptures to degenerate into terrorist manuals.
If the ulema do not agree to walk their peaceful talk, the larger society should encourage and support those few moderate, progressive Muslims who are willing to go out on a limb, perhaps putting their heads on the chopping block in this process. This section should be able to go to the community directly, bypassing the ulema and campaign.
Some of the most important issues that need to be tackled immediately related to the concepts of Jihad and Takfir (declaring a Muslim apostate). The so-called Islamic State declares in its latest propaganda magazine called Dabiq (7thissue): Islam Is The Religion Of The Sword, Not Pacifism says: Allah has revealed Islam to be the religion of the sword, and the evidence for this is so profuse that only a zindīq (heretic) would argue otherwise." In justification, among others, it quotes profusely from Mohammad Ibn-e-Abdul Wahhab's theological mentor Ibn Taymiyyah who said: “THE BASIS OF THE RELIGION IS A GUIDING BOOK AND SUPPORTING SWORD.” [Majmū’a Al-Fatāwā Ibn Taymiyyah].
Then it quotes, seemingly militant Qur'anic verses from Sura Al-Anfāl: 12], .[At-Tawbah: 5], [At-Tawbah: 29], [Al-Hujurāt: 9]” [Al-Mā’idah: 54], [Al-Hadīd: 25], and their interpretations from Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr to justify its thesis.
The core beliefs of the so-called Islamic State emanate from the following statements that constitute the cornerstones of Wahhabism-Salafism:
“Even if the Muslims abstain from Shirk (polytheism) and are Muwahhid (believer in oneness of God), their Faith cannot be perfect unless they have enmity and hatred in their action and speech against non-Muslims.
------ Shaikh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab, Majmua Al-Rasael Wal-Masael Al-Najdiah 4/291
“Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam, regardless of the country or the nation which rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a state on the basis of its own ideology and programme, regardless of which nation assumes the role of the standard-bearer of Islam or the rule of which nation is undermined in the process of the establishment of an ideological Islamic State.
"Islam requires the earth — not just a portion, but the whole planet.... because the entire mankind should benefit from the ideology and welfare programme [of Islam] ... Towards this end, Islam wishes to press into service all forces which can bring about a revolution and a composite term for the use of all these forces is ‘Jihad'. .... The objective of the Islamic ‘jihad’ is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system and establish in its stead an Islamic system of state rule.”
----- Abul A'la Maududi in Jihad fil Islam
One of the most influential Jihadist ideologues today Mohammad Al-Maqdisi explains the Wahhabi central theory of Al-Walaa' Wa Al-Bara, maintaining and expressing hatred and enmity towards all non-Wahhabi Muslims and Others, in this way:
"Showing the disavowal (Barrah) from the polytheists (Mushrikeen) and their false deities.
"Openly declaring disbelief in them and their gods and their methodologies and their laws and their legislation of shirk (polytheism).
"Openly demonstrating the enmity and hatred towards them and their ranks and conditions of disbelief (kufr), until they return to Allah and leave all of that while having disavowal (Barrah) from it and disbelieving in it."
Mr. President,
One would imagine that the followers of Islam who believe, and many certainly do, that Islam is a religion of spirituality, peace, coexistence and tolerance, would be up in arms against the Islamic State. But while routine denunciations from some sections do come occasionally, there is no outrage visible in the Muslim society. The world cannot help noticing that while tens of thousands of Muslims come out on streets to demonstrate the moment there is an allegation of so-called blasphemy against any one, hardly any Muslim would protest at the myriad brutalities perpetrated by Islamist terrorists.
Clearly there is something wrong, some disconnect, some deeper and more complex phenomenon at work than what can be understood from a superficial look at the issue. Instead of expressing outrage, we find thousands of Muslim young men and women running from their comfortable homes, private schools and cushy jobs to fight and join in the brutalities of the so-called Islamic State. Some 12,000 Muslim young men and women are said to have joined so far from 80 countries. Clearly they accept the IS thesis that "Islam Is The Religion Of The Sword, Not Pacifism." Clearly they accept the millenarian, end-time predictions found in the so-called sayings of the Prophet. The inescapable conclusion is that this romanticism may be connected with how Islamic education shapes the Muslim mind in the absence of a counter-narrative.
Vice Chancellor of Jamia al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb has done well to point in the direction of educational reform. While introspection, brainstorming, reformulation of thoughts on a variety of issues, involving the global Muslim community will of necessity be a long-drawn affair, educational reform should begin immediately. The text books being used at the moment are hundreds of years old, prepared in different eras and with very different purposes in mind. Saudi text books that are relatively modern and being exported to the Muslim world in large numbers have been specifically designed to create hatred for other religious communities and non-Wahhabi sects of Islam.
I had pointed this out in one of my previous oral statements in the Council too. A mere look at some quotations from Saudi text books for impressionable young minds will tell us why so many youths, particularly from Saudi Arabia and other countries where these texts are taught are leaving their homes and schools for doing what they consider Jihad in the so-called Islamic State. In a celebrated study of Saudi school text books titled “Teaching Islam," Professor Eleanor Abdella Doumato comments:
"After proclaiming that there is only one Islam for all and there is no room for other interpretations, the schoolbooks lead to the message that philosophy and logic lead to schism, and are therefore especially to be avoided."
Doumato quotes a couple of paragraphs from the text of (10b: 14) and (10b: 15).5 and comments further:
“The message is that intellectual debate and individual reasoning must be sacrificed on the altar of communal harmony and political unity. The lesson is literally a textbook illustration of what Khaled Abou El Fadl describes as the anti-intellectualism of contemporary Saudi Islam's "supremacist, puritanical orientation," which retreats to the "secure haven of the text," where it can safely dissociate itself from critical historical inquiry (El Fadl 2003). ...
“One chapter, in the tenth-grade Tawhid textbook (the unrevised edition), titled the "Call [Da’wah] of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab," describes the progenitor of Najdi Islam as the historical rectifier of deviations in the peninsula, drawing a parallel between al-Shaikh, as he is known in Saudi Arabia, and the Prophet Muhammad. The lesson explains that Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (hereafter MIAW) came as a mercy from God to renew the religion of this Umma, his call for renewal fitting an established pattern: the Prophet Muhammad was sent by God to renew for mankind the creed that had been altered by deviations and innovations over time.”
But what did Mohammad ibn-e-Abdul Wahhab teach and what is being taught to our children today across the Islamic world and indeed, even in the West? One of the most important lessons in these text books is expressed through the concept of Al-Walaa' Wa Al-Bara (which essentially means showing loyalty towards Wahhabi Muslims and bearing enmity towards everybody else).
Let me again quote from this chapter of Teaching Islam;
“The hostility toward the outsider expressed through Al-Walaa' Wa Al-Bara has a history, and the recipients of Wahhabi enmity shift over time. For example, David Commins (2002) shows that the duty to bear enmity was used to rally resentment against the Ottoman Turks in the 1880s. In contemporary Saudi Tawhid schoolbooks, the objects of enmity range from Jews, non-Wahhabi Muslims to Western civilization in general. …
“The textbook used in 2002 explains that anyone who practices non-conformist thought or action among Muslims should not only be corrected but also despised. Non-Muslims are not to be befriended or tolerated; nor can they be simply ignored. They are to be hated. "It is a law of Tawhid that one should show loyalty to the Unitarian (Muwahhid, Wahhabi) Muslim and bear enmity toward his polytheist (Sufi, Non-Muslim) enemies," says the text. ...
10 "The place of Al-Walaa` Wa Al-Baraa` has great standing in Islam," the lesson says, "as the Prophet said: 'The strongest bond of belief is loving what God loves and hating what God hates,' and with these two one gains the loyalty [Wilaayya] of God" (10b: 110). The lesson elevates enmity for the sake of God above the pillars of Islam: "[T]he Prophet said: 'Whoever loves for the sake of God and hates for the sake of God and shows loyalty for the sake of God and enmity for the sake of God, he will achieve the loyalty of God by that, and unless he does so, no worshipper will ever find the taste of faith even if he is excessive in prayer or fasting — (10b: 110).
“Who are the polytheist enemies against whom the monotheist Muslim must bear enmity? To MIAW (Abdul Wahhab), polytheist enemies were other Muslims, especially the Ottoman Turks, Shi`a, Sufis, and anyone who wore amulets or practiced magic. The school text specifies new ways to become an enemy, explaining why Muslims must be alert to show hostility toward the offender. Student should recognize hypocrisy (al-Mudaahana) when they see it. If a person socializes with moral deviants but thinks himself immune to their 'deviancy, he's being hypocritical, and by not breaking off relations with them and showing them hatred he is showing disloyalty to God (10b: 111). The poof text is the story of Abraham, who broke off from those who did, not believe in the one God but instead worshipped idols."11
“In the Fiqh and Hadith texts, imitating the Kuffar (unbelievers) is presented as morally corrupting. Women who dress like foreigners, for example, invite temptation and corruption, so the fabric of Muslim women's dress must be thick enough not to show any skin and wide enough to conceal the contours of the body, and the face must be covered to protect her personality. Imitating the Kuffar is an insult to God because Muslims are supposed to love what God loves and hate what God hates. If a Muslim joins in holiday celebrations with the Kuffar or shares with them their joys and sorrows, he is showing them loyalty (10b: 118). To say Id Mubarak happy holiday) to the Kuffar is as bad as worshipping the cross; it's a worse sin against God than offering a toast with liquor; it's worse than suicide and) worse than having forbidden sex (Artikab Al-Farj Al-Haram); and many people do it without realizing what they have done (10b: 118).
“Imitating the Kuffar by using the calendrical designation "A.D." instead of the Hijra year is another problem, because A.D. evokes the date of Jesus' birth and shows an affinity with unbelievers. At Christmas time, Muslims are not to dress like the Kuffar or exchange gifts or attend a feast or display ornaments. The holidays of the Kuffar should be like any other day for Muslim. As Ibn Taimiyya said, "Agreeing with the Ahl al-Kitab (People of the Book) on things that are not in our religion and that are not the customs of our ancestors is corruption. By avoiding these things, you cease supporting them." Some even say, the lesson warns, that if you perform a ritual slaughter on their day, it's as if you slaughtered a pig.
“The textbooks evoke the past as a warning for the present. A section of the chapter called "Judgment About Making Use of the Kuffar in Employment and Fighting and Things Like That" quotes Ibn Taimiyya as saying, "Knowledgeable people know that the protected people among the Jews and Christians (ahl dhimma min Yahood wa Nasara) wrote to people of their own religion giving secret information about the Muslims" (10b: 119). The principle is to not to cooperate with or trust the Kuffar:
"O you who believe! Do not take for intimate friends those other than your own people; they do not fall short of inflicting loss upon you; they love what distresses you; vehement hatred has already appeared from out of their mouths, and what their breasts conceal is greater still" (Quran 3:118).
“One should not employ an unbeliever if there is a Muslim who can do the job, and if they're not needed, one should never hire them because the Kuffar can never be trusted (10b: 121). Nor should a Muslim accept employment from an unbeliever, for a Muslim should never be in a position of subservience to the Kuffar, who would surely show him disrespect. Nor should he be put in a position requiring him to deny his religion.
“A Muslim should not live permanently among Kuffar because his faith will be compromised and that is why God required Muslims to migrate from a land of unbelief (Bilad al-Kufr) to a land of belief (Bilad Al-Islam). As for those who would rather work for the Kuffar and live among them, this is - the same as showing loyalty to them and agreeing with them. This is apostasy from Islam. And whether one were there out of greed or for comfort, even were he to hate their religion and protect his own, it is not allowed. Beware of the worst punishment. (10b: 121)
“The chapter warns against music, laughter, and singing. ... Proscriptions on joyous behaviours, according to the text, are meant to encourage Muslims to invest all their being in thoughts of God and not expend energy in frivolous activities. However, the significance of such proscriptions shifts to contemporary concerns about the new enemy, the cultural invasion from the West. The "worst kind of imitating the Kuffar" is becoming so preoccupied with the unimportant things the Kuffar have promoted in their own societies that Muslims neglect to remember God and to do good works, for God says: "Oh you who believe! Let not your wealth, or your children, diverts you from the remembrance of God" (Quran 63:9; 10b: 124). The lesson explains that the Kuffar (infidels) assign value to unimportant things because, absent religious faith, their lives are empty.
“What are these unimportant things? First, there are the performing arts, such as singing and playing instruments, dancing, and theatre and cinema, which are visited-by people who are lost from the truth. Then, there are the fine arts (Al-Funun Al-Jamila), such as painting, drawing, and sculpture. (Despite the prohibition on art, some schools in the [Saudi] kingdom do offer art classes.) Then there are sports, which are sometimes more important to youth than remembering God and obeying him; sports cause youth to miss prayers and ignore school and household obligations. Whether such behaviours are permitted or not, the Muslim nation today should save its energy for dealing with challenges from its enemies: "Muslims have no time to waste on insignificant activities" (10b: 124-125).
“Forbidding celebrations of birthdays, especially the birthday of the Prophet, and prohibitions against fine and performing arts are all part of the modern fabric and the historical legacy of Wahhabi culture. ”It’s hostility to any human practice that would excite the imagination or bolster creativity," says (Dr. Khaled Abou) El Fadl (2003), is "perhaps the most stultifying, and even deadly, characteristic of Wahhabism." Anything that suggests a step toward creativity," he says, "constitutes a step toward Kufr [infidelity]."
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Islamic Scholars Promote Sharia as an Alternative to Extremism
MECCA, Saudi Arabia — To combat extremist ideologies, Islamic scholars and researchers meeting in Mecca last month urged Muslim governments to tackle poverty, overhaul school curriculums — and get back to religion.
In particular, they counseled strict, Muslim religious observance of the kind practiced in Saudi Arabia. “Apply Islamic Shariah in all life’s affairs,” they recommended, referring to Islamic law, which they said had the capacity to “accomplish justice, maintain dignity, uphold rights and meet the aspirations of the people.”
The state-sanctioned conference, called “Islam and Countering Terrorism,” was an effort by the Saudi government to burnish its anti-extremist credentials and promote its religious establishment as an alternative to the savage leadership of the Islamic State.
Yet, the conference itself highlighted the contradiction at the heart of the Saudi effort: Amid worthwhile talk of outreach to youth and fighting corruption, there was almost no mention of the Saudi monarchy’s decades-long role in aggressively spreading its strictly conservative religious ideology — a creed that itself has provided inspiration for leaders of the Islamic State, the militant group often referred to as ISIS, ISIL or by the Arabic acronym Daesh.
Arab leaders have vigorously condemned the Islamic State and some, like Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, have reacted by vowing to restore moderation to religious discourse and thought. But the denunciations by the region’s autocrats and monarchs have rarely been accompanied by deeper self-criticism about the role played by state policies in fueling radicalism, according to analysts.
The nature of the conference amplified the character of Saudi doctrine. It was held in Mecca, a city non-Muslims are forbidden from entering, and there was not a single woman among the hundreds of participants. Shiite Muslims, who make up more than 15 percent of Saudi Arabia’s population, also were excluded, reinforcing criticism of a narrow, sectarian outlook.
“The biggest challenge for the kingdom is terrorism,” said Maj. Gen. Mansour Turki, the spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry. “We are a major target.”
That ideology has come under withering scrutiny: Human rights advocates have pointed to a spate of beheadings and other executions this year in Saudi Arabia, for crimes like drug smuggling and murder, as evidence of practices barely distinguishable from those of the militants.
“Their idea of a soft approach is more religion — more religion with specific interpretations supported by the state, The idea of reforming the state via less religion is not even on the radar.”
A prominent Saudi scholar criticized the lack of action after similar conferences, saying, “Many people have stopped listening to us.”
FULL ARTICLE :-
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/world ... ngine&_r=1
MECCA, Saudi Arabia — To combat extremist ideologies, Islamic scholars and researchers meeting in Mecca last month urged Muslim governments to tackle poverty, overhaul school curriculums — and get back to religion.
In particular, they counseled strict, Muslim religious observance of the kind practiced in Saudi Arabia. “Apply Islamic Shariah in all life’s affairs,” they recommended, referring to Islamic law, which they said had the capacity to “accomplish justice, maintain dignity, uphold rights and meet the aspirations of the people.”
The state-sanctioned conference, called “Islam and Countering Terrorism,” was an effort by the Saudi government to burnish its anti-extremist credentials and promote its religious establishment as an alternative to the savage leadership of the Islamic State.
Yet, the conference itself highlighted the contradiction at the heart of the Saudi effort: Amid worthwhile talk of outreach to youth and fighting corruption, there was almost no mention of the Saudi monarchy’s decades-long role in aggressively spreading its strictly conservative religious ideology — a creed that itself has provided inspiration for leaders of the Islamic State, the militant group often referred to as ISIS, ISIL or by the Arabic acronym Daesh.
Arab leaders have vigorously condemned the Islamic State and some, like Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, have reacted by vowing to restore moderation to religious discourse and thought. But the denunciations by the region’s autocrats and monarchs have rarely been accompanied by deeper self-criticism about the role played by state policies in fueling radicalism, according to analysts.
The nature of the conference amplified the character of Saudi doctrine. It was held in Mecca, a city non-Muslims are forbidden from entering, and there was not a single woman among the hundreds of participants. Shiite Muslims, who make up more than 15 percent of Saudi Arabia’s population, also were excluded, reinforcing criticism of a narrow, sectarian outlook.
“The biggest challenge for the kingdom is terrorism,” said Maj. Gen. Mansour Turki, the spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry. “We are a major target.”
That ideology has come under withering scrutiny: Human rights advocates have pointed to a spate of beheadings and other executions this year in Saudi Arabia, for crimes like drug smuggling and murder, as evidence of practices barely distinguishable from those of the militants.
“Their idea of a soft approach is more religion — more religion with specific interpretations supported by the state, The idea of reforming the state via less religion is not even on the radar.”
A prominent Saudi scholar criticized the lack of action after similar conferences, saying, “Many people have stopped listening to us.”
FULL ARTICLE :-
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/world ... ngine&_r=1
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Britain’s most senior Muslim officer says potency of Islamist propaganda means some five-year-olds believe Christmas is forbidden
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/m ... lice-chief
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/m ... lice-chief
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WATSUP MSG :-
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wearing shoes is allowed in a mosque
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this act of praying inside kaba is a classic move by the new king to emphasize his importance in the islamic world and gain popuarity amongst the tribes in KSA and gulf region. it is a mili-bhagat strategy between fundamentalist ulema / mutawa clans and saud royals to maintain the grip on the region by controlling the mecca-medina religious sentiments.
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How sure we are that this picture was taken inside the Kaaba?
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he is standing inside kaba , btw which masjid allows shoes? wahabi can go to any extent to defend their saudi masters its just same like how abde goes against Quran to defend their masters.araz5253 wrote:wearing shoes is allowed in a mosque
Shame on wahabi and their followers.
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Egypt to remove books of Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn Baz and Ibn Uthaymeen from all mosques
The Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowments have launched a campaign to remove the books of scholars that belong to the Salafi movement from all mosques in Egypt.
Names of scholars whose books are to be removed or confiscated:-
– Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab
– Imam Ibn Taymiyyah
– Sheikh Ibn Baz
– Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen
– Sheikh Abu Ishaq al-Huweini
– Sheikh Mohamed Hussein Yacoub
– Sheikh Mohammed Hassan
They have already confiscated 7000 books and CDs from mosque libraries in Cairo, Alexandria and Giza. The authors of these materials include:
– Sheikh Wagdi al-Ghoneim
– Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi
– Sheikh Muhammad al-Maqsood
– Yasser al-Burhami
– Sheikh Abu Ishaq al-Huweini
– Sheikh Mohamed Hussein Yacoub
– Sheikh Mohammed Hassan
The ministry’s department is currently launching an inspection campaign on mosques and libraries in all provinces, to make sure they are free of any books and media calling for “militancy and extremism”.
http://www.doamuslims.org/?p=3861
The Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowments have launched a campaign to remove the books of scholars that belong to the Salafi movement from all mosques in Egypt.
Names of scholars whose books are to be removed or confiscated:-
– Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab
– Imam Ibn Taymiyyah
– Sheikh Ibn Baz
– Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen
– Sheikh Abu Ishaq al-Huweini
– Sheikh Mohamed Hussein Yacoub
– Sheikh Mohammed Hassan
They have already confiscated 7000 books and CDs from mosque libraries in Cairo, Alexandria and Giza. The authors of these materials include:
– Sheikh Wagdi al-Ghoneim
– Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi
– Sheikh Muhammad al-Maqsood
– Yasser al-Burhami
– Sheikh Abu Ishaq al-Huweini
– Sheikh Mohamed Hussein Yacoub
– Sheikh Mohammed Hassan
The ministry’s department is currently launching an inspection campaign on mosques and libraries in all provinces, to make sure they are free of any books and media calling for “militancy and extremism”.
http://www.doamuslims.org/?p=3861
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How Saudi funded Rs 1,700 crore for Wahabi influence in India
Last year violence broke out near a Mosque in Bommanhalli, Bengaluru and what was being termed as minor tiff was in fact a case of some youth trying to impose the Wahabi preachings.
When the seniors in the administration of the Mosque opposed these youth, there were clashes in which 4 persons were injured seriously.
In another incident that occurred in Maharashtra, Wahabi scholars bribed some members of the Mosque and attempted taking over the administration. While the Muslims in many states have opposed the Wahabis tooth and nail, success for the Saudi Arabia sponsored Wahabis was highest in Kerala.
These are instances that could be read with the recent Wikileaks documents which suggested that Saudi Arabia is worried about the growing influence of Iran over India and the outreach by Tehran to the Shia community was worrying. The Muslim World League also requests Saudi Arabia to establish Wahabi centres in India to counter the threat from the Shias.
How Saudi Arabia set up Wahabi centres in India?
Saudi Arabia realizes that the Shias in India are a threat to the dominance of the Sunni community. India houses a large number of Shias and this according to the Saudis gives Iran an upper hand in India. However for Saudi the Sunnis in India have not followed the violent Wahabi style of Islam and there are many seniors in the Muslim community who will not allow that to happen.
The only way Saudi could instill a radical thinking in the minds of the Sunni Muslims in India was by the establishment of Wahabi centres. The Wahabis are an extremely orthodox set of Sunni Muslims. There are several Muslims in India who subscribe to the Wahabi view.
As a first step, Saudi sent in several Wahabi preachers into India an Intelligence Bureau report states. The years 2011 to 2013 alone saw a record number of 25,000 Wahabis coming to India and conducting seminars in various parts of the country. With them they brought in Rs 1700 crore in several installments and used it to propogate the Wahabi style of Islam.
Wahabism found success in Kerala:
The drive by Saudi to impose the Wahabi culture in India has not been entirely a success. The highest rate of success that they have witnessed is in Kerala.
This is a lot to do with the fact that there is a large population of people who go to Saudi in search of employment. Many in Kerala have welcomed with open arms the Wahabi style of preaching and this has let the Saudi controlled lot take control over nearly 75 Mosques in the state.
The newer Mosques that are coming up in Kerala are also constructed in the manner in which they done in Saudi Arabia.
This is just one small indicator of how much people of the state are willing to follow the radical style preached by the Wahabi scholars. Moreover the inflow of funds into Kerala from Saudi is the highest when compared to any other part of the country.
It was in Kerala that one got to see posters mourning the death of Osama Bin Laden and also a prayer for Ajmal Kasab after he was hanged. Intelligence Bureau officials tell OneIndia that a large number of youth appear to be attracted to this radical style of Islam, but also add that there are some elders who are trying to oppose it.
The Wahabi rule book in India:
Each time a Wahabi preacher comes to India, he comes in with a rule book. What they intend to do is ensure that the rule book is circulated in the Mosques.
However when the administration of the Mosques have opposed this it has led to clashes. The rule book has a set of guidelines which need to be adhered to failing which the horrific Sharia law would be imposed.
Here are a couple of guidelines that have been set as per the Wahabi rule book:
• Shrines shall be forbidden
• Every Muslim woman should wear purdah or be subject to severe punishment
• Men have to compulsorily grow beards
• Women should not be allowed to work. Exception can be made only if the family is in need.
• Men and women should not mingle together in public.
• No weeping loudly at funerals.
• Abide by the Shariat law; every offence committed shall be punishable under this law.
• All men should wear trousers which are above their ankles.
• No laughing loudly or listening to music; no dancing or watching television.
Wahabi universities being set up:
The Saudi sponsored Wahabis are aiming to set up their own education system in India as well. Out of the total Rs 1700 crore that has been earmarked for the cause, Rs 800 crore is being spent on setting up Universities in different parts of the country. One such university was seen in Andhra Pradesh as well. Over all they propose to set up 4 such universities which will only cater to Wahabi preachings.
With the take over of the existing Mosques becoming extremely difficult, they have earmarked Rs 400 crore to set up 40 Mosques adhering only to Wahabi preachings in different parts of the country.
A sum of Rs 300 has been been earmarked to set up Madrasas while the remaining Rs 200 crore has been set aside as miscellaneous costs which also would include bribes to paid off to Mosque authorities as was seen in Maharashtra.
The birth of the Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith:
The birth of the Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith took place in India in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. As a first step they wielded their influence on the various Mosques which began preaching the Sharia law as mandated by the Wahabis.
The next stop was Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh following which they began wielding influence heavily in Kerala. The Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith was the umbrella body which oversaw the flow of Wahabi scholars into India. The same outfit is also making efforts to spread their ideology into Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and until last year Karantaka.
Read more at: http://www.oneindia.com/india/wikileaks ... 87820.html
Last year violence broke out near a Mosque in Bommanhalli, Bengaluru and what was being termed as minor tiff was in fact a case of some youth trying to impose the Wahabi preachings.
When the seniors in the administration of the Mosque opposed these youth, there were clashes in which 4 persons were injured seriously.
In another incident that occurred in Maharashtra, Wahabi scholars bribed some members of the Mosque and attempted taking over the administration. While the Muslims in many states have opposed the Wahabis tooth and nail, success for the Saudi Arabia sponsored Wahabis was highest in Kerala.
These are instances that could be read with the recent Wikileaks documents which suggested that Saudi Arabia is worried about the growing influence of Iran over India and the outreach by Tehran to the Shia community was worrying. The Muslim World League also requests Saudi Arabia to establish Wahabi centres in India to counter the threat from the Shias.
How Saudi Arabia set up Wahabi centres in India?
Saudi Arabia realizes that the Shias in India are a threat to the dominance of the Sunni community. India houses a large number of Shias and this according to the Saudis gives Iran an upper hand in India. However for Saudi the Sunnis in India have not followed the violent Wahabi style of Islam and there are many seniors in the Muslim community who will not allow that to happen.
The only way Saudi could instill a radical thinking in the minds of the Sunni Muslims in India was by the establishment of Wahabi centres. The Wahabis are an extremely orthodox set of Sunni Muslims. There are several Muslims in India who subscribe to the Wahabi view.
As a first step, Saudi sent in several Wahabi preachers into India an Intelligence Bureau report states. The years 2011 to 2013 alone saw a record number of 25,000 Wahabis coming to India and conducting seminars in various parts of the country. With them they brought in Rs 1700 crore in several installments and used it to propogate the Wahabi style of Islam.
Wahabism found success in Kerala:
The drive by Saudi to impose the Wahabi culture in India has not been entirely a success. The highest rate of success that they have witnessed is in Kerala.
This is a lot to do with the fact that there is a large population of people who go to Saudi in search of employment. Many in Kerala have welcomed with open arms the Wahabi style of preaching and this has let the Saudi controlled lot take control over nearly 75 Mosques in the state.
The newer Mosques that are coming up in Kerala are also constructed in the manner in which they done in Saudi Arabia.
This is just one small indicator of how much people of the state are willing to follow the radical style preached by the Wahabi scholars. Moreover the inflow of funds into Kerala from Saudi is the highest when compared to any other part of the country.
It was in Kerala that one got to see posters mourning the death of Osama Bin Laden and also a prayer for Ajmal Kasab after he was hanged. Intelligence Bureau officials tell OneIndia that a large number of youth appear to be attracted to this radical style of Islam, but also add that there are some elders who are trying to oppose it.
The Wahabi rule book in India:
Each time a Wahabi preacher comes to India, he comes in with a rule book. What they intend to do is ensure that the rule book is circulated in the Mosques.
However when the administration of the Mosques have opposed this it has led to clashes. The rule book has a set of guidelines which need to be adhered to failing which the horrific Sharia law would be imposed.
Here are a couple of guidelines that have been set as per the Wahabi rule book:
• Shrines shall be forbidden
• Every Muslim woman should wear purdah or be subject to severe punishment
• Men have to compulsorily grow beards
• Women should not be allowed to work. Exception can be made only if the family is in need.
• Men and women should not mingle together in public.
• No weeping loudly at funerals.
• Abide by the Shariat law; every offence committed shall be punishable under this law.
• All men should wear trousers which are above their ankles.
• No laughing loudly or listening to music; no dancing or watching television.
Wahabi universities being set up:
The Saudi sponsored Wahabis are aiming to set up their own education system in India as well. Out of the total Rs 1700 crore that has been earmarked for the cause, Rs 800 crore is being spent on setting up Universities in different parts of the country. One such university was seen in Andhra Pradesh as well. Over all they propose to set up 4 such universities which will only cater to Wahabi preachings.
With the take over of the existing Mosques becoming extremely difficult, they have earmarked Rs 400 crore to set up 40 Mosques adhering only to Wahabi preachings in different parts of the country.
A sum of Rs 300 has been been earmarked to set up Madrasas while the remaining Rs 200 crore has been set aside as miscellaneous costs which also would include bribes to paid off to Mosque authorities as was seen in Maharashtra.
The birth of the Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith:
The birth of the Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith took place in India in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. As a first step they wielded their influence on the various Mosques which began preaching the Sharia law as mandated by the Wahabis.
The next stop was Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh following which they began wielding influence heavily in Kerala. The Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith was the umbrella body which oversaw the flow of Wahabi scholars into India. The same outfit is also making efforts to spread their ideology into Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and until last year Karantaka.
Read more at: http://www.oneindia.com/india/wikileaks ... 87820.html
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India: Wahhabi Taliban onslaught on Sunni Muslims - Clean-shaven Muslim’s daughter killed, 4 injured
http://www.newageislam.com/islamic-shar ... ured/d/709
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Man Beaten Up For Skipping Friday Prayers in an Indian Village: Rise Of ISIS Ideology Impacts India Too
Recently, the dead body of a man was prevented from being buried in a Muslim graveyard in a village near Saharanpur in India. Now a man was beaten up for skipping Friday prayers. According to reports, a man called Naiyar in a village called Pathanpurva in Bahraich district did not go to the mosque to join Friday prayers. Three men from the same village named Salim, Jamil and Kalim charged him with a fine of Rs 100 for skipping Friday prayers. Naiyar promised to pay the penalty within a few days. The three again demanded the penalty amount on Saturday evening. Naiyar refused to pay the money. A heated argument followed which turned into a fight. In the ensuing fight more than 18 people including women were injured. A heavy picket of police has been posted in the village to prevent any untoward incident.
Enter the Mufti of nearby village. Though the mufti of madrasa Jamia Ashrafia of a nearby village called Chhoti Takiya condemned the incident saying that it was wrong on the part of the three men to charge Naiyar with a fine for not offering prayer, he said only a mufti had the right to fine a person for skipping Namaz. Flaunting his knowledge of the English phrase, the mufti said that no Tom, Dick and Harry had the right to put a penalty on anyone not offering Namaz. Therefore, he believed that a mufti can charge anyone for skipping Namaz and can recommend physical or financial punishment for him.
It seems the ISIS-Taliban ideology is catching up fast even in remote Indian villages. Recently, two young boys of 18 years were beheaded by the ISIS police for breaking the fast in a market place. People have been ordered to grow beard and women have been told to cover themselves from head to toe in the ISIS caliphate, as it happened in Taliban's Afghanistan.
http://www.newageislam.com/current-affa ... o/d/103723
Recently, the dead body of a man was prevented from being buried in a Muslim graveyard in a village near Saharanpur in India. Now a man was beaten up for skipping Friday prayers. According to reports, a man called Naiyar in a village called Pathanpurva in Bahraich district did not go to the mosque to join Friday prayers. Three men from the same village named Salim, Jamil and Kalim charged him with a fine of Rs 100 for skipping Friday prayers. Naiyar promised to pay the penalty within a few days. The three again demanded the penalty amount on Saturday evening. Naiyar refused to pay the money. A heated argument followed which turned into a fight. In the ensuing fight more than 18 people including women were injured. A heavy picket of police has been posted in the village to prevent any untoward incident.
Enter the Mufti of nearby village. Though the mufti of madrasa Jamia Ashrafia of a nearby village called Chhoti Takiya condemned the incident saying that it was wrong on the part of the three men to charge Naiyar with a fine for not offering prayer, he said only a mufti had the right to fine a person for skipping Namaz. Flaunting his knowledge of the English phrase, the mufti said that no Tom, Dick and Harry had the right to put a penalty on anyone not offering Namaz. Therefore, he believed that a mufti can charge anyone for skipping Namaz and can recommend physical or financial punishment for him.
It seems the ISIS-Taliban ideology is catching up fast even in remote Indian villages. Recently, two young boys of 18 years were beheaded by the ISIS police for breaking the fast in a market place. People have been ordered to grow beard and women have been told to cover themselves from head to toe in the ISIS caliphate, as it happened in Taliban's Afghanistan.
http://www.newageislam.com/current-affa ... o/d/103723
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Some interesting quotes I found on the net :-
Imported Saudi text books contain lessons in xenophobia, intolerance, exclusivism, supremacism and hatred of and enmity towards all non-Wahhabis, as mandated by Mohammad ibn-e-Abdul Wahhab. A mere look at some portions of Saudi text books meant for impressionable young minds will tell us why so many youths, particularly from Saudi Arabia and other countries where these texts are taught are leaving their homes and schools for doing what they consider Jihad in the so-called Islamic State.
But what did Taqi-ad-Deen Ahmed Ibn-e-Taimiyya and Mohammad ibn-e-Abdul Wahhab teach and what is being taught to our children today across the Islamic world and, indeed, even in the West? One of the most important lessons in these text books is expressed through the concept of "Al-Walaa' Wa Al-Bara" (which essentially means showing loyalty towards Wahhabi Muslims and bearing enmity towards everybody else). "Ibn-e-Taimiyya" taught Muslims supremacism, intolerance of others and exclusivism. He says:
"Whoever does not consider the Jews and Christians to be disbelievers and does not hate them is not a Muslim according to the consensus of the Muslims. One's ignorance of this [rule] does not excuse him. Rather, he is a disbelieving Apostate." - "Ibn Taymiyyah" (Majmu al-Fatawa 27/264)
Eighteenth century scholar of Najd Mohammad Ibn-e-Abdul Wahhab adopted and refined Ibn-e-Taimiya's extremist thoughts that demanded complete intolerance of any other interpretation of Islam. He said:
“Even if the Muslims abstain from Shirk (polytheism) and are Muwahhid (strict believer in oneness of God), their Faith cannot be perfect unless they have enmity and hatred in their action and speech against non-Muslims (for Wahhab this term includes all those Muslims who are non-Wahhabi). ------ "Shaikh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab", Majmua Al-Rasael Wal-Masael Al-Najdiah 4/291
Indian scholar and founder-ideologue of Jamaat-e-Islami "Maulana Abul A'la Maududi" explains his vision in these words:
“Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam, regardless of the country or the nation which rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a state on the basis of its own ideology and programme, regardless of which nation assumes the role of the standard-bearer of Islam or the rule of which nation is undermined in the process of the establishment of an ideological Islamic State.
"Islam requires the earth — not just a portion, but the whole planet.... because the entire mankind should benefit from the ideology and welfare programme [of Islam] ... Towards this end, Islam wishes to press into service all forces which can bring about a revolution and a composite term for the use of all these forces is ‘Jihad'. .... The objective of the Islamic ‘jihad’ is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system and establish in its stead an Islamic system of state rule.” ----- "Abul A'la Maududi in Jihad fil Islam"
The most influential radical ideologue "Sayyid Qutb" said:
"Islam is not confined to this (mere beliefs and worship rituals). (Fee Zhilal Al-Quran [English trans.], 7/125]
"Those who think that this religion will confine itself to preaching and to the explanation of its message when the forces of evil try to put every type of impediment in its way have little understanding of its true nature." [Fee Zhilal Al-Quran [English trans.], 7/182
"We must not be intimidated by the Orientalists' attacks on the concept of Islamic jihad, or allow the pressure of world political powers to weigh heavily on us, so as to seek justification for jihad that do not fit with the nature of Islam." [Fee Zhilal Al-Quran [English trans.], 7/21]
"We acknowledge allegiance only to an Islamic leadership that strives to re-establish Islam in practical life, dissociating ourselves from all other types of society and leadership." [Fee Zhilal Al-Quran [English trans.], 7/143]
Teaching Islam: Saudi School Text Books
Let me quote from a chapter on Saudi education from a celebrated study of Islamic education titled “Teaching Islam" by Professor Eleanor Abdella Doumato:
"It is a law of Tawhid that one should show loyalty to the Unitarian (Muwahhid, Wahhabi) Muslim and bear enmity toward his polytheist (Sufi, Non-Muslim) enemies," says the text. "The place of "Al-Walaa` Wa Al-Baraa" has great standing in Islam," the lesson says, "as the Prophet said: 'The strongest bond of belief is loving what God loves and hating what God
hates,' (10b: 110). The lesson elevates enmity for the sake of God above the pillars of Islam: (10b: 110).
“Who are the polytheist enemies against whom the monotheist Muslim must bear enmity? To MIAW (Mohammad Ibn-e-Abdul Wahhab), polytheist enemies were other Muslims, especially the Ottoman Turks, Shi`a, Sufis, and anyone who wore amulets or practiced magic. The school text specifies new ways to become an enemy, explaining why Muslims must be alert to show hostility toward the offender. (10b: 111).
“In the Fiqh and Hadith texts, imitating the "Kuffar" (unbelievers) is presented as morally corrupting. Women who dress like foreigners, for example, invite temptation and corruption, so the fabric of Muslim women's dress must be thick enough not to show any skin and wide enough to conceal the contours of the body, and the face must be covered to protect her
personality. Imitating the Kuffar is an insult to God... (10b: 118). To say Eid Mubarak happy holiday) to the Kuffar is as bad as worshipping the cross; it's a worse sin against God than offering a toast with liquor; it's worse than suicide and) worse than having forbidden sex (*Artikab Al-Farj Al-Haram*); (10b: 118).
“Imitating the Kuffar by using the calendrical designation "A.D." instead of the Hijra year is another problem,..... As Ibn Taimiyya said, "Agreeing with the Ahl al-Kitab (People of the Book) on things that are not in our religion and that are not the customs of our ancestors is corruption." ...
“One should not employ an unbeliever if there is a Muslim who can do the job, ... (10b: 121). Nor should a Muslim accept employment from an unbeliever, for a Muslim should never be in a position of subservience to the Kuffar, .. A Muslim should not live permanently among Kuffar because his faith will be compromised and that is why God required Muslims to
migrate from a land of unbelief (Bilad al-Kufr) to a land of belief (Bilad Al-Islam). (10b: 121)
“The chapter warns against music, laughter, and singing. ... The lesson explains that the Kuffar (infidels) assign value to unimportant things because, absent religious faith, their lives are empty.
“What are these unimportant things? First, there are the performing arts, such as singing and playing instruments, dancing, and theatre and cinema, which are visited-by people who are lost from the truth. Then, there are the fine arts ("Al-Funun Al-Jamila"), such as painting, drawing, and sculpture. (10b: 124-125).
“Forbidding celebrations of birthdays, especially the birthday of the Prophet, and prohibitions against fine and performing arts are all part of the modern fabric and the historical legacy of Wahhabi culture. ”It’s hostility to any human practice that would excite the imagination or bolster creativity," says (Dr. Khaled Abou) El Fadl (2003), is "perhaps the most stultifying, and even deadly, characteristic of Wahhabism." Anything that suggests a step toward creativity," he says, "constitutes a step
toward Kufr [infidelity]."
Imported Saudi text books contain lessons in xenophobia, intolerance, exclusivism, supremacism and hatred of and enmity towards all non-Wahhabis, as mandated by Mohammad ibn-e-Abdul Wahhab. A mere look at some portions of Saudi text books meant for impressionable young minds will tell us why so many youths, particularly from Saudi Arabia and other countries where these texts are taught are leaving their homes and schools for doing what they consider Jihad in the so-called Islamic State.
But what did Taqi-ad-Deen Ahmed Ibn-e-Taimiyya and Mohammad ibn-e-Abdul Wahhab teach and what is being taught to our children today across the Islamic world and, indeed, even in the West? One of the most important lessons in these text books is expressed through the concept of "Al-Walaa' Wa Al-Bara" (which essentially means showing loyalty towards Wahhabi Muslims and bearing enmity towards everybody else). "Ibn-e-Taimiyya" taught Muslims supremacism, intolerance of others and exclusivism. He says:
"Whoever does not consider the Jews and Christians to be disbelievers and does not hate them is not a Muslim according to the consensus of the Muslims. One's ignorance of this [rule] does not excuse him. Rather, he is a disbelieving Apostate." - "Ibn Taymiyyah" (Majmu al-Fatawa 27/264)
Eighteenth century scholar of Najd Mohammad Ibn-e-Abdul Wahhab adopted and refined Ibn-e-Taimiya's extremist thoughts that demanded complete intolerance of any other interpretation of Islam. He said:
“Even if the Muslims abstain from Shirk (polytheism) and are Muwahhid (strict believer in oneness of God), their Faith cannot be perfect unless they have enmity and hatred in their action and speech against non-Muslims (for Wahhab this term includes all those Muslims who are non-Wahhabi). ------ "Shaikh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab", Majmua Al-Rasael Wal-Masael Al-Najdiah 4/291
Indian scholar and founder-ideologue of Jamaat-e-Islami "Maulana Abul A'la Maududi" explains his vision in these words:
“Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam, regardless of the country or the nation which rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a state on the basis of its own ideology and programme, regardless of which nation assumes the role of the standard-bearer of Islam or the rule of which nation is undermined in the process of the establishment of an ideological Islamic State.
"Islam requires the earth — not just a portion, but the whole planet.... because the entire mankind should benefit from the ideology and welfare programme [of Islam] ... Towards this end, Islam wishes to press into service all forces which can bring about a revolution and a composite term for the use of all these forces is ‘Jihad'. .... The objective of the Islamic ‘jihad’ is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system and establish in its stead an Islamic system of state rule.” ----- "Abul A'la Maududi in Jihad fil Islam"
The most influential radical ideologue "Sayyid Qutb" said:
"Islam is not confined to this (mere beliefs and worship rituals). (Fee Zhilal Al-Quran [English trans.], 7/125]
"Those who think that this religion will confine itself to preaching and to the explanation of its message when the forces of evil try to put every type of impediment in its way have little understanding of its true nature." [Fee Zhilal Al-Quran [English trans.], 7/182
"We must not be intimidated by the Orientalists' attacks on the concept of Islamic jihad, or allow the pressure of world political powers to weigh heavily on us, so as to seek justification for jihad that do not fit with the nature of Islam." [Fee Zhilal Al-Quran [English trans.], 7/21]
"We acknowledge allegiance only to an Islamic leadership that strives to re-establish Islam in practical life, dissociating ourselves from all other types of society and leadership." [Fee Zhilal Al-Quran [English trans.], 7/143]
Teaching Islam: Saudi School Text Books
Let me quote from a chapter on Saudi education from a celebrated study of Islamic education titled “Teaching Islam" by Professor Eleanor Abdella Doumato:
"It is a law of Tawhid that one should show loyalty to the Unitarian (Muwahhid, Wahhabi) Muslim and bear enmity toward his polytheist (Sufi, Non-Muslim) enemies," says the text. "The place of "Al-Walaa` Wa Al-Baraa" has great standing in Islam," the lesson says, "as the Prophet said: 'The strongest bond of belief is loving what God loves and hating what God
hates,' (10b: 110). The lesson elevates enmity for the sake of God above the pillars of Islam: (10b: 110).
“Who are the polytheist enemies against whom the monotheist Muslim must bear enmity? To MIAW (Mohammad Ibn-e-Abdul Wahhab), polytheist enemies were other Muslims, especially the Ottoman Turks, Shi`a, Sufis, and anyone who wore amulets or practiced magic. The school text specifies new ways to become an enemy, explaining why Muslims must be alert to show hostility toward the offender. (10b: 111).
“In the Fiqh and Hadith texts, imitating the "Kuffar" (unbelievers) is presented as morally corrupting. Women who dress like foreigners, for example, invite temptation and corruption, so the fabric of Muslim women's dress must be thick enough not to show any skin and wide enough to conceal the contours of the body, and the face must be covered to protect her
personality. Imitating the Kuffar is an insult to God... (10b: 118). To say Eid Mubarak happy holiday) to the Kuffar is as bad as worshipping the cross; it's a worse sin against God than offering a toast with liquor; it's worse than suicide and) worse than having forbidden sex (*Artikab Al-Farj Al-Haram*); (10b: 118).
“Imitating the Kuffar by using the calendrical designation "A.D." instead of the Hijra year is another problem,..... As Ibn Taimiyya said, "Agreeing with the Ahl al-Kitab (People of the Book) on things that are not in our religion and that are not the customs of our ancestors is corruption." ...
“One should not employ an unbeliever if there is a Muslim who can do the job, ... (10b: 121). Nor should a Muslim accept employment from an unbeliever, for a Muslim should never be in a position of subservience to the Kuffar, .. A Muslim should not live permanently among Kuffar because his faith will be compromised and that is why God required Muslims to
migrate from a land of unbelief (Bilad al-Kufr) to a land of belief (Bilad Al-Islam). (10b: 121)
“The chapter warns against music, laughter, and singing. ... The lesson explains that the Kuffar (infidels) assign value to unimportant things because, absent religious faith, their lives are empty.
“What are these unimportant things? First, there are the performing arts, such as singing and playing instruments, dancing, and theatre and cinema, which are visited-by people who are lost from the truth. Then, there are the fine arts ("Al-Funun Al-Jamila"), such as painting, drawing, and sculpture. (10b: 124-125).
“Forbidding celebrations of birthdays, especially the birthday of the Prophet, and prohibitions against fine and performing arts are all part of the modern fabric and the historical legacy of Wahhabi culture. ”It’s hostility to any human practice that would excite the imagination or bolster creativity," says (Dr. Khaled Abou) El Fadl (2003), is "perhaps the most stultifying, and even deadly, characteristic of Wahhabism." Anything that suggests a step toward creativity," he says, "constitutes a step
toward Kufr [infidelity]."
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The Ideology behind ISIS Banning Traditional Taraweeh Prayers and Celebration of Eid-ul-Fitr: Ibn-e-Taimiya and Abdul Wahhab's Arguments against All Celebrations in Islam
This year, the ISIS or DAESH completely banned Celebration of Eid-ul-Fitr, the most sacred Islamic festival, in its territory. They argued, “Eid (a festival which fosters love and peace) was never a part of Islam”. Clearly, this argument is along the line of thinking of ISIS’s self-proclaimed Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who once proclaimed: “Islam has never been a religion of peace, not even for a single day. It has always been a religion of war and strife”. (Incidentally, Indian Ulema, as Ulema elsewhere, did not condemn or even oppose this statement.) In fact, any festival of love, peace, mercy and harmony has never been a part of the Islam that ISIS and its affiliates profess and practice. Hence, they could not tolerate anyone celebrating Eid and rejoicing in its festivities, particularly in Iraq and Nigeria.
Notably, when the self-styled caliph of extremist Muslims, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, resisted the celebration of Eid, disassociating Islam from its spirituality, he gave us clear signs. He made us understand that those vehemently opposed to the concept of celebration in Islam are on the path of al-Baghdadi’s Jihadism, not of Prophet Muhammad’s Islam. It is important to understand that the terror outfit ISIS and its affiliates are far more than ‘Muslim militants’ or just ‘political Islamists’. They have larger and more dangerous aims for which they have harnessed their allies such as Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Boko Haram in Nigeria and Jabhat ul Nasra in Syria and others in different parts of Arabia. They aim at establishing a ‘Kharijite state’, and not an ‘Islamic state’. For all their barbarism and violent extremism in the Muslim lands, the one and only ideology can be held responsible; the Kharjism.
Earlier, the hardcore and puritanical Jihadist cult, ISIS had banned the traditional Taraweeh prayers during Ramadan on similar religious grounds. It is worth reflecting that both beautifully spiritual practices, Eid and Taraweeh, are vehemently opposed by the IS, while the mainstream Islamic scholars unanimously agree upon their religious legality. Now, it is not difficult to see how the religion of the ISIS jihadists goes completely against the spirit of the mainstream Muslims. Concisely, al-Baghdadi’s faith is at the loggerheads with the Prophet Muhammad’s Islam.
According to Kurdish news source Rudaw, ISIS issued a warning to the residents of its occupied lands to strictly abstain from the prayers of Eid. The warning was a direct result of ISIS scholars’ opinion that such a practice never existed during the time of the prophet Mohammed (pbuh). They claimed that the practice was a fad invented by Saudis. Consequently, ISIS flogged nearly eight Arab sheiks, who had dared to challenge the ban, publicly.
Not only Eid, ISIS and the ilk have an acute problem with every celebration, be it greater Eid, Eid ul Fitr, or lesser Eid, Eidul Adha, not to speak of festivals of other faith traditions. The reason is not difficult to see. All these celebrations in Islam are harbinger of love, peace, compassion, tolerance, pluralism and the values of diversity that they cannot emulate. This is precisely why the radical outfit warned Muslim residents of Iraq not to engage in any way in the celebration of Eid al-Fitr at the end of the month of Ramadan.
Nevertheless, the hapless Muslim dwellers of the Arab lands occupied by the ISIS did not have the joy of celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr this year. Regrettably, these lands have witnessed grave violation of human rights and universal Islamic values due to Baghdadi’s misrepresentation of Islam and misinterpretation of the Quran. This resulted into the inhuman and un-Islamic ban on the Eid celebration. It is substantial evidence that the ISIS’s ideology of Islam has no roots in the age-old traditional Islam, professed by the mainstream Muslims the world over. Similarly, the ultra-radical ban on the prayers and festivities of Eid is antithetical to the established traditions of the holy Prophet (pbuh).
The first Islamist ideologue who formed a theological ground to ban celebrations of any kind was the 14th century scholar Ibn Taymiyyah. He declared, for the first time in the Islamic history, an uncompromised war on the concept of celebration in Islam terming it ‘Bidah’ (an unlawful innovation in Islam). His Fatwas opposed the age-old Islamic tradition of celebrating the Eid-e-Milad (Prophet’s birthday), the Urs celebration (Sufi saints’ birthdays) and visitation of the holy shrines, including that of the Prophet himself. Ibn Taimiyya denounced all these celebrations declaring them ‘blind imitation of the Christian worship’ and despised them as different forms of ‘idolatry’.
Walking in the "puritanical" path of Ibn Taymiyyah, Mohammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab, the founder-ideologue of Wahhabism, declared the notion of celebration in Islam as null and void. He not only despised it as Haram (forbidden) and Bidah (unlawful innovation), rather, he went some steps ahead and stated that anyone who even entertains ‘doubt or hesitation’ in his or her acknowledging this particular narrative of Islam is Mubah al-Dam (whose blood is allowed to be shed) and Wajib ul Qatl (whose killing is mandatory). This was the first time when the practice of celebration was declared bad enough to deprive a man of immunity of his property and life. Since then, the hardcore followers of the Takfiri doctrine, influenced by Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, began to hate and kill the fellow Muslims as ‘Mushriks’ (infidels) should they engage in the celebration of any kind. The adherents of the puritanical, radical Wahhabism/Kharjism thus banned all eventful occasions permitted and practiced in Islam, including religious festivals, spiritual celebrations, Prophet Muhammad's birthday, and even the events of Isaal-e-Sawab (invocation for the dead loved ones) pilgrimages to the holy shrines, special Islamic sites and mosques.
Clearly, there is no distinction between Wahhabism and ISIS in this respect, as in several others. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s order to wantonly kill all those who celebrated Eid was no different from Ibn Abd al-Wahhab’s fatwa that whosoever engages in the above-mentioned celebrations “should be killed, their wives and daughters violated, and their possessions confiscated”. Including non-Muslims, the list of celebrators deserving to be killed included the Sufis, the Shias and other Muslim sects, whom Mohammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab declared Kafirs and Mushriks (unbelievers and infidels) and Wajib ul Qatl (deserving to be beheaded). Is the ISIS’s cruelty of flogging the celebrators of Eid not based on the same theological ground? Similarly, is al-Baghdadi’s self-proclaimed caliphate not completely identical to Ibn Abdul Wahhab's doctrine of "One Ruler, One Authority, One Mosque”?
Now, of course, it is very plain to understand why Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the caliph of the extremist Jihadists vehemently banned the celebration of Eid and killed Muslims praying during the Eid. It was abhorred by al-Baghdadi because it was a prime time for the Muslim world to reclaim the essential messages of Islam: love, in place of hatred; patience, in place of anger; forbearance, in place of warfare; coexistence and inclusiveness, in place of exclusivism and intolerance; and pluralism, in place of supremacism.
At the end of this story, I would want to reproduce quite a relevant and a moving excerpt from Harun Yahya's, popularly known as Mr. Adnan Oktar, Live Conversation on A9TV dated February 5, 2015:
“There is the kind of Islam advocated by ISIS and the Islam we preach. The world embraces the Islam that we preach but the world responds to the Islam preached by ISIS via airstrikes. This is not the kind of Islam that people can live by. Nevertheless, the Islam we preach will save the world... (In this Islam) there is love, peace, brotherhood, goodness, beauty, arts, aesthetics. Women are made as pearls in men’s crowns. Women are free, kids are free, young boys are free. There is joy everywhere. But in the traditionalist, ultra-orthodox conception of Islam, everything is grave, everywhere is a place of torment, having just enough to keep body and soul together, it is the other name of devastation.... (According to this mindset) beheading, butchering, cutting off a man’s head and showing it around are considered 'normal'. Blood is everywhere; there is starvation, misery, cries everywhere. Hunger, misery, obnoxious, un-aesthetic scenes, corruption; these are the horrible things peculiar to a great majority of ultra-orthodox Islam.”
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This year, the ISIS or DAESH completely banned Celebration of Eid-ul-Fitr, the most sacred Islamic festival, in its territory. They argued, “Eid (a festival which fosters love and peace) was never a part of Islam”. Clearly, this argument is along the line of thinking of ISIS’s self-proclaimed Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who once proclaimed: “Islam has never been a religion of peace, not even for a single day. It has always been a religion of war and strife”. (Incidentally, Indian Ulema, as Ulema elsewhere, did not condemn or even oppose this statement.) In fact, any festival of love, peace, mercy and harmony has never been a part of the Islam that ISIS and its affiliates profess and practice. Hence, they could not tolerate anyone celebrating Eid and rejoicing in its festivities, particularly in Iraq and Nigeria.
Notably, when the self-styled caliph of extremist Muslims, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, resisted the celebration of Eid, disassociating Islam from its spirituality, he gave us clear signs. He made us understand that those vehemently opposed to the concept of celebration in Islam are on the path of al-Baghdadi’s Jihadism, not of Prophet Muhammad’s Islam. It is important to understand that the terror outfit ISIS and its affiliates are far more than ‘Muslim militants’ or just ‘political Islamists’. They have larger and more dangerous aims for which they have harnessed their allies such as Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Boko Haram in Nigeria and Jabhat ul Nasra in Syria and others in different parts of Arabia. They aim at establishing a ‘Kharijite state’, and not an ‘Islamic state’. For all their barbarism and violent extremism in the Muslim lands, the one and only ideology can be held responsible; the Kharjism.
Earlier, the hardcore and puritanical Jihadist cult, ISIS had banned the traditional Taraweeh prayers during Ramadan on similar religious grounds. It is worth reflecting that both beautifully spiritual practices, Eid and Taraweeh, are vehemently opposed by the IS, while the mainstream Islamic scholars unanimously agree upon their religious legality. Now, it is not difficult to see how the religion of the ISIS jihadists goes completely against the spirit of the mainstream Muslims. Concisely, al-Baghdadi’s faith is at the loggerheads with the Prophet Muhammad’s Islam.
According to Kurdish news source Rudaw, ISIS issued a warning to the residents of its occupied lands to strictly abstain from the prayers of Eid. The warning was a direct result of ISIS scholars’ opinion that such a practice never existed during the time of the prophet Mohammed (pbuh). They claimed that the practice was a fad invented by Saudis. Consequently, ISIS flogged nearly eight Arab sheiks, who had dared to challenge the ban, publicly.
Not only Eid, ISIS and the ilk have an acute problem with every celebration, be it greater Eid, Eid ul Fitr, or lesser Eid, Eidul Adha, not to speak of festivals of other faith traditions. The reason is not difficult to see. All these celebrations in Islam are harbinger of love, peace, compassion, tolerance, pluralism and the values of diversity that they cannot emulate. This is precisely why the radical outfit warned Muslim residents of Iraq not to engage in any way in the celebration of Eid al-Fitr at the end of the month of Ramadan.
Nevertheless, the hapless Muslim dwellers of the Arab lands occupied by the ISIS did not have the joy of celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr this year. Regrettably, these lands have witnessed grave violation of human rights and universal Islamic values due to Baghdadi’s misrepresentation of Islam and misinterpretation of the Quran. This resulted into the inhuman and un-Islamic ban on the Eid celebration. It is substantial evidence that the ISIS’s ideology of Islam has no roots in the age-old traditional Islam, professed by the mainstream Muslims the world over. Similarly, the ultra-radical ban on the prayers and festivities of Eid is antithetical to the established traditions of the holy Prophet (pbuh).
The first Islamist ideologue who formed a theological ground to ban celebrations of any kind was the 14th century scholar Ibn Taymiyyah. He declared, for the first time in the Islamic history, an uncompromised war on the concept of celebration in Islam terming it ‘Bidah’ (an unlawful innovation in Islam). His Fatwas opposed the age-old Islamic tradition of celebrating the Eid-e-Milad (Prophet’s birthday), the Urs celebration (Sufi saints’ birthdays) and visitation of the holy shrines, including that of the Prophet himself. Ibn Taimiyya denounced all these celebrations declaring them ‘blind imitation of the Christian worship’ and despised them as different forms of ‘idolatry’.
Walking in the "puritanical" path of Ibn Taymiyyah, Mohammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab, the founder-ideologue of Wahhabism, declared the notion of celebration in Islam as null and void. He not only despised it as Haram (forbidden) and Bidah (unlawful innovation), rather, he went some steps ahead and stated that anyone who even entertains ‘doubt or hesitation’ in his or her acknowledging this particular narrative of Islam is Mubah al-Dam (whose blood is allowed to be shed) and Wajib ul Qatl (whose killing is mandatory). This was the first time when the practice of celebration was declared bad enough to deprive a man of immunity of his property and life. Since then, the hardcore followers of the Takfiri doctrine, influenced by Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, began to hate and kill the fellow Muslims as ‘Mushriks’ (infidels) should they engage in the celebration of any kind. The adherents of the puritanical, radical Wahhabism/Kharjism thus banned all eventful occasions permitted and practiced in Islam, including religious festivals, spiritual celebrations, Prophet Muhammad's birthday, and even the events of Isaal-e-Sawab (invocation for the dead loved ones) pilgrimages to the holy shrines, special Islamic sites and mosques.
Clearly, there is no distinction between Wahhabism and ISIS in this respect, as in several others. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s order to wantonly kill all those who celebrated Eid was no different from Ibn Abd al-Wahhab’s fatwa that whosoever engages in the above-mentioned celebrations “should be killed, their wives and daughters violated, and their possessions confiscated”. Including non-Muslims, the list of celebrators deserving to be killed included the Sufis, the Shias and other Muslim sects, whom Mohammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab declared Kafirs and Mushriks (unbelievers and infidels) and Wajib ul Qatl (deserving to be beheaded). Is the ISIS’s cruelty of flogging the celebrators of Eid not based on the same theological ground? Similarly, is al-Baghdadi’s self-proclaimed caliphate not completely identical to Ibn Abdul Wahhab's doctrine of "One Ruler, One Authority, One Mosque”?
Now, of course, it is very plain to understand why Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the caliph of the extremist Jihadists vehemently banned the celebration of Eid and killed Muslims praying during the Eid. It was abhorred by al-Baghdadi because it was a prime time for the Muslim world to reclaim the essential messages of Islam: love, in place of hatred; patience, in place of anger; forbearance, in place of warfare; coexistence and inclusiveness, in place of exclusivism and intolerance; and pluralism, in place of supremacism.
At the end of this story, I would want to reproduce quite a relevant and a moving excerpt from Harun Yahya's, popularly known as Mr. Adnan Oktar, Live Conversation on A9TV dated February 5, 2015:
“There is the kind of Islam advocated by ISIS and the Islam we preach. The world embraces the Islam that we preach but the world responds to the Islam preached by ISIS via airstrikes. This is not the kind of Islam that people can live by. Nevertheless, the Islam we preach will save the world... (In this Islam) there is love, peace, brotherhood, goodness, beauty, arts, aesthetics. Women are made as pearls in men’s crowns. Women are free, kids are free, young boys are free. There is joy everywhere. But in the traditionalist, ultra-orthodox conception of Islam, everything is grave, everywhere is a place of torment, having just enough to keep body and soul together, it is the other name of devastation.... (According to this mindset) beheading, butchering, cutting off a man’s head and showing it around are considered 'normal'. Blood is everywhere; there is starvation, misery, cries everywhere. Hunger, misery, obnoxious, un-aesthetic scenes, corruption; these are the horrible things peculiar to a great majority of ultra-orthodox Islam.”
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The author says that according to isis eid celebrations were introduced by the saudis. Then says that wahhab was against eid celebrations. But we refer.to the saudis as wahhabis dont we? So what kind of wahhabis are the saudis? The celebrating kind?
This author is full of bullshit. Infact almost all authors on this website newageislam are enemies of islam.
This author is full of bullshit. Infact almost all authors on this website newageislam are enemies of islam.
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The Economics of Islamic Fundamentalism in Bangladesh
Radical Islam in Bangladesh is represented by the Jamaat-e-Islami, its numerous sister organizations, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), and to a lesser extent the Jatiya Party. During the liberation war, the Provisional Government of Bangladesh had forbidden all types of religion-based politics. But Mujibur Rahaman made a serious mistake when, in 1974, he declared a general amnesty for all wartime criminals. Taking advantage of it, the JeI leaders who had fled to Pakistan again came back to the newly independent Bangladesh. Ziaur Rahaman, Mujibur’s successor, banished the idea of secularism from Bangladeshi constitution and H.M.Ershad, the next president, made Islam the state religion. When Khaleda Zia became president, she took JeI as her alliance partner. That was the beginning of the long march towards radical Islam in Bangladesh.
According to Abul Barkat, Professor of Economics at Dhaka University, the Jamaat-e-Islami has created a ‘state within state’ and an ‘economy within economy’ in Bangladesh. In his opinion, the Jamaat has now established itself in almost every sector of the Bangladeshi economy- from large financial institutions to household-level micro credit organizations, from madrasas to mass media, and from big trading houses to non-governmental organizations. Barkat has calculated that Jamaat’s net annual profits from such ventures amounts to about $278 million, and the largest chunk – 27.5 percent – comes from banks, insurance, and leasing companies. Next comes the NGOs which contribute 18.7 percent; 10.5 percent comes from trade and commerce; 10.1 percent from pharmaceutical industries and health care institutions; 9.4 percent from education sector; 8.8 percent from real estate business; 7.3 percent from transport; and 7.7 percent from media and information technology business.
Of all the major political parties in Bangladesh, the BNP and the Jamaat-e-Islami have the strongest business lobbies and, ironically, persons accused of crimes against humanity during the liberation war dominate these lobbies in both parties. However, with the death sentence to Mir Quasem Ali, a business tycoon and central executive committee member of the Jamaat, there is a possibility that its political trajectory might change a bit. Apart from Mir Quasem Ali, Jamaat’s business lobby is represented by Abdur Razzak, also a suave barrister, though he represents a weaker faction and there is a strong possibility that Jamaat will try to bolster its business empire even if Mir Quasem Ali is not around.
Nearly ten percent of its total annual net profit of $278 million goes towards funding the party’s political activities. It has also been calculated that this ten percent can sustain nearly 600,000 cadres. Since the support base of the Jamaat is increasing, its business activities may also increase proportionately. However, the Jamaat-controlled economy is growing at a faster pace than the national economy. While the former’s annual rate of growth now stands at the 9 percent mark, that of the mainstream economy is only 6 percent. Abul Barkat has calculated that from 1975 to 2012, Jamaat has earned a profit of 11 billion dollars.
Mir Quasem Ali, the Jamaat central executive committee member and an infamous character, was the director of the Islamic Bank of Bangladesh Ltd. (IBBL), Jamaat’s principal financial arm. The IBBL has been involved in illegal activities for a long time. In 2006, the Bank of Bangladesh, the country’s top regulatory institution for the financial sector, had slapped a heavy penalty on the IBBL under the purview of the Money Laundering Act. The beneficiary of such illegal acts of the IBBL was no doubt the Jamaat-e-Islami. It is interesting to note that the IBBL was founded in 1975 at the initiative of Fuad Abdullah Al Khatib, the Saudi ambassador to Bangladesh. This was when Mujibur Rahaman had just been murdered and Ziaur Rahaman, the next president, had busied himself effacing all signs of secularism and religious pluralism from the body polity of Bangladesh.
Apart from the IBBL, Jamaat is in control of fourteen other banks. But the IBBL is its principal arm for survival. It has now become one of the three largest banks in South Asia, with sixty percent of its shares held by Saudi individuals and institutions. Among the rest, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, and Qatar have prominence. Recently the bank has further spread its tentacles in the Islamic world by tying up with the Al Razee bank of Saudi Arabia. It is therefore clear that the battle will not be easy for Hasina. Jamaat has recently entered into the insurance sector as well, entering into a collaboration agreement with the Far Eastern Islamic Insurance Corporation.
If information from across the border is to be believed, then the Jamaat has already begun taking steps to safeguard its financial interests and line up the next generation of leaders should Matiur Rahaman Nizami and Mir Quasem Ali actually be hanged. For over 40 years, Mir Quasem was Saudi Arabia’s ‘ money man’ in Bangladesh and it’s quite probable that pressure pour in from the Islamic world of West Asia and the Middle East to stop his execution. He had taken refuge in Saudi Arabia after the birth of Bangladesh. After coming back in 1974, he immediately got a job in the IBBL and soon became its director.
Jamaat-e-Islami has another financial arm named the Islamic Bank Foundation (IBF) which can be called an affiliate of the IBBL. It oversees the projects of the IBBL. Profits from these projects and interests from foreign donations go to IBF accounts in the IBBL. Mir Quasem Ali happens to be the chief of the IBF as well as the national (Bangladesh) director of a Saudi Arabia -based non-governmental organization named Rabeta-al-alam-al-Islami. Rabeta, along with other NGOs like the Kuwait Relief Fund and the Al-Nahiyan Trust of Saudi Arabia, used to run many projects in Bangladesh. Abul Barkat, the Professor of Economics at Dhaka University, has calculated that the Islamic fundamentalism-controlled economy in Bangladesh amounts to 8.62 percent of the nation’s developmental budget and 1.54 percent of the national export earnings.
http://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/the- ... angladesh/
Radical Islam in Bangladesh is represented by the Jamaat-e-Islami, its numerous sister organizations, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), and to a lesser extent the Jatiya Party. During the liberation war, the Provisional Government of Bangladesh had forbidden all types of religion-based politics. But Mujibur Rahaman made a serious mistake when, in 1974, he declared a general amnesty for all wartime criminals. Taking advantage of it, the JeI leaders who had fled to Pakistan again came back to the newly independent Bangladesh. Ziaur Rahaman, Mujibur’s successor, banished the idea of secularism from Bangladeshi constitution and H.M.Ershad, the next president, made Islam the state religion. When Khaleda Zia became president, she took JeI as her alliance partner. That was the beginning of the long march towards radical Islam in Bangladesh.
According to Abul Barkat, Professor of Economics at Dhaka University, the Jamaat-e-Islami has created a ‘state within state’ and an ‘economy within economy’ in Bangladesh. In his opinion, the Jamaat has now established itself in almost every sector of the Bangladeshi economy- from large financial institutions to household-level micro credit organizations, from madrasas to mass media, and from big trading houses to non-governmental organizations. Barkat has calculated that Jamaat’s net annual profits from such ventures amounts to about $278 million, and the largest chunk – 27.5 percent – comes from banks, insurance, and leasing companies. Next comes the NGOs which contribute 18.7 percent; 10.5 percent comes from trade and commerce; 10.1 percent from pharmaceutical industries and health care institutions; 9.4 percent from education sector; 8.8 percent from real estate business; 7.3 percent from transport; and 7.7 percent from media and information technology business.
Of all the major political parties in Bangladesh, the BNP and the Jamaat-e-Islami have the strongest business lobbies and, ironically, persons accused of crimes against humanity during the liberation war dominate these lobbies in both parties. However, with the death sentence to Mir Quasem Ali, a business tycoon and central executive committee member of the Jamaat, there is a possibility that its political trajectory might change a bit. Apart from Mir Quasem Ali, Jamaat’s business lobby is represented by Abdur Razzak, also a suave barrister, though he represents a weaker faction and there is a strong possibility that Jamaat will try to bolster its business empire even if Mir Quasem Ali is not around.
Nearly ten percent of its total annual net profit of $278 million goes towards funding the party’s political activities. It has also been calculated that this ten percent can sustain nearly 600,000 cadres. Since the support base of the Jamaat is increasing, its business activities may also increase proportionately. However, the Jamaat-controlled economy is growing at a faster pace than the national economy. While the former’s annual rate of growth now stands at the 9 percent mark, that of the mainstream economy is only 6 percent. Abul Barkat has calculated that from 1975 to 2012, Jamaat has earned a profit of 11 billion dollars.
Mir Quasem Ali, the Jamaat central executive committee member and an infamous character, was the director of the Islamic Bank of Bangladesh Ltd. (IBBL), Jamaat’s principal financial arm. The IBBL has been involved in illegal activities for a long time. In 2006, the Bank of Bangladesh, the country’s top regulatory institution for the financial sector, had slapped a heavy penalty on the IBBL under the purview of the Money Laundering Act. The beneficiary of such illegal acts of the IBBL was no doubt the Jamaat-e-Islami. It is interesting to note that the IBBL was founded in 1975 at the initiative of Fuad Abdullah Al Khatib, the Saudi ambassador to Bangladesh. This was when Mujibur Rahaman had just been murdered and Ziaur Rahaman, the next president, had busied himself effacing all signs of secularism and religious pluralism from the body polity of Bangladesh.
Apart from the IBBL, Jamaat is in control of fourteen other banks. But the IBBL is its principal arm for survival. It has now become one of the three largest banks in South Asia, with sixty percent of its shares held by Saudi individuals and institutions. Among the rest, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, and Qatar have prominence. Recently the bank has further spread its tentacles in the Islamic world by tying up with the Al Razee bank of Saudi Arabia. It is therefore clear that the battle will not be easy for Hasina. Jamaat has recently entered into the insurance sector as well, entering into a collaboration agreement with the Far Eastern Islamic Insurance Corporation.
If information from across the border is to be believed, then the Jamaat has already begun taking steps to safeguard its financial interests and line up the next generation of leaders should Matiur Rahaman Nizami and Mir Quasem Ali actually be hanged. For over 40 years, Mir Quasem was Saudi Arabia’s ‘ money man’ in Bangladesh and it’s quite probable that pressure pour in from the Islamic world of West Asia and the Middle East to stop his execution. He had taken refuge in Saudi Arabia after the birth of Bangladesh. After coming back in 1974, he immediately got a job in the IBBL and soon became its director.
Jamaat-e-Islami has another financial arm named the Islamic Bank Foundation (IBF) which can be called an affiliate of the IBBL. It oversees the projects of the IBBL. Profits from these projects and interests from foreign donations go to IBF accounts in the IBBL. Mir Quasem Ali happens to be the chief of the IBF as well as the national (Bangladesh) director of a Saudi Arabia -based non-governmental organization named Rabeta-al-alam-al-Islami. Rabeta, along with other NGOs like the Kuwait Relief Fund and the Al-Nahiyan Trust of Saudi Arabia, used to run many projects in Bangladesh. Abul Barkat, the Professor of Economics at Dhaka University, has calculated that the Islamic fundamentalism-controlled economy in Bangladesh amounts to 8.62 percent of the nation’s developmental budget and 1.54 percent of the national export earnings.
http://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/the- ... angladesh/
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THE HYPOCRITES :
These Wahabis cry Shirk, Shirk at the drop of hat and are demolishing Islamic holy sites left, right and centre in Saudi Arabia but have no problem in building temples in their countries and are not averse to joining Hindus in idol worshipping !! Shame on these 2 faced lunatics !!
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THE HYPOCRITES :
These Wahabis cry Shirk, Shirk at the drop of hat and are demolishing Islamic holy sites left, right and centre in Saudi Arabia but have no problem in building temples in their countries and are not averse to joining Hindus in idol worshipping !! Shame on these 2 faced lunatics !!
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Gulam Bhai
Temple is being built in Dubai not in SA. Fellow doing Aarti in one of picture and is Hindu businessman and has been granted citizenship. He dresses and speaks Arabic.
This picture in Face Book with multiple posts.
Temple is being built in Dubai not in SA. Fellow doing Aarti in one of picture and is Hindu businessman and has been granted citizenship. He dresses and speaks Arabic.
This picture in Face Book with multiple posts.
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Whatsapp messages only create sensationalism. I have seen people sending false and fake messages, images, videos believing that they are true. Won't do a little google search to see if it is true or authentic. All this creates sensationalism, hatred and divide. Not good!
Muslim First wrote:Gulam Bhai
Temple is being built in Dubai not in SA. Fellow doing Aarti in one of picture and is Hindu businessman and has been granted citizenship. He dresses and speaks Arabic.
This picture in Face Book with multiple posts.
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I received a feedback from a Bahraini national that the dignitaries shown in 2nd, 3rd and last photographs are from Bahrain upper council and one of them is the king of Bahrain Sheikh Hamad.Muslim First wrote:Gulam Bhai
Temple is being built in Dubai not in SA. Fellow doing Aarti in one of picture and is Hindu businessman and has been granted citizenship. He dresses and speaks Arabic.
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ISLAMABAD: Preaching teams (Tableeghi Jamaats) as well as those who are not permanent residents of the area are likely to be barred from entering mosques of cantonments and defence and security institutions across the country, it was learnt here on Monday.
“Security agencies have been suggesting such measures from time to time in the past in view of the growing terrorism. It has happened in the past that junior officials of the Pakistan Air Force got one-year-long leave on the pretext of accompanying the preaching groups, but when they were later arrested, it transpired that they had in fact been training with different militant groups,” a senior security officer told The News on condition of anonymity.
The officer said that the most important and consensus revelation made by the people so far arrested and interrogated for their alleged involvement in different terrorism acts was that their militancy grew on religious grounds more than all other factors. He said that after the killing of Osama bin Laden, the country faced the most serious threat from internal terrorism, which had already started.
The News has already published a report following the recent Charsadda attack about the intentions of the terrorist groups of avenging the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. According to the report, al-Qaeda and its affiliates have already announced that they would avenge the death of their leader in a very cruel manner.
“Security agencies of the country look much worried about the deteriorating law and order situation in the country. The problem would not be resolved by mere issuance of security warnings and alerts about the possibility of terrorism incidents in the wake of the killing of Osama,” the security officer commented.
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Wahabi dogs killing each other now
Members of the Takfiri Daesh militant group have reportedly executed nearly two dozen of their own terrorists in Iraq’s conflict-stricken western province of Anbar over 'espionage.'
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/09/1 ... ion-Units-
Members of the Takfiri Daesh militant group have reportedly executed nearly two dozen of their own terrorists in Iraq’s conflict-stricken western province of Anbar over 'espionage.'
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/09/1 ... ion-Units-
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When people of Muslim heritage challenge fundamentalism
Karima Bennoune shares four powerful stories of real people fighting against fundamentalism in their own communities — refusing to allow the faith they love to become a tool for crime, attacks and murder. These personal stories humanize one of the most overlooked human-rights struggles in the world.
http://www.ted.com/talks/karima_bennoun ... es#t-12521
Karima Bennoune shares four powerful stories of real people fighting against fundamentalism in their own communities — refusing to allow the faith they love to become a tool for crime, attacks and murder. These personal stories humanize one of the most overlooked human-rights struggles in the world.
http://www.ted.com/talks/karima_bennoun ... es#t-12521
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Saudi Arabia Has 100,000 Air Conditioned Tents That Can House 3 Million People Sitting Empty Yet Has Taken Zero Refugees
While Europe takes the burden of the migrant crisis
While European countries are being lectured about their failure to take in enough refugees, Saudi Arabia – which has taken in precisely zero migrants – has 100,000 air conditioned tents that can house over 3 million people sitting empty.
The sprawling network of high quality tents are located in the city of Mina, spreading across a 20 square km valley, and are only used for 5 days of the year by Hajj pilgrims. As the website Amusing Planet reports, “For the rest of the year, Mina remains pretty much deserted.”
The tents, which measure 8 meters by 8 meters, were permanently constructed by the Saudi government in the 1990’s and were upgraded in 1997 to be fire proof. They are divided into camps which include kitchen and bathroom facilities.
The tents could provide shelter for almost all of the 4 million Syrian refugees that have been displaced by the country’s civil war, which was partly exacerbated by Saudi Arabia’s role in funding and arming jihadist groups.
However, as the Washington Post reports, wealthy Gulf Arab nations like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and others have taken in precisely zero Syrian refugees. Although Saudi Arabia claims it has taken in 500,000 Syrians since 2011, rights groups point out that these people are not allowed to register as migrants. Many of them are also legal immigrants who moved there for work. In comparison, Lebanon has accepted 1.3 million refugees – more than a quarter of its population.
While it refuses to take in any more refugees, Saudi Arabia has offered to build 200 mosques for the 500,000 migrants a year expected to pour into Germany.
Saudis argue that the tents in Mina are needed to host the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, but given that the Arabic concept of Ummah is supposed to offer protection to all Muslims under one brotherhood, surely an alternative location could be found so that Mina can be repurposed to house desperate families fleeing war and ISIS persecution?
While Europe is being burdened by potentially millions of people who don’t share the same culture or religion as the host population, Gulf Arab states refuse to pull their weight, resolving only to throw money at the problem.
The likelihood of the Saudis inviting Syrian refugees to stay in Mina is virtually zero, but the thousands of empty tents serve as a physical representation of the hypocrisy shared by wealthy Gulf Arab states when it comes to helping with the crisis.
http://www.infowars.com/saudi-arabia-ha ... -refugees/
While Europe takes the burden of the migrant crisis
While European countries are being lectured about their failure to take in enough refugees, Saudi Arabia – which has taken in precisely zero migrants – has 100,000 air conditioned tents that can house over 3 million people sitting empty.
The sprawling network of high quality tents are located in the city of Mina, spreading across a 20 square km valley, and are only used for 5 days of the year by Hajj pilgrims. As the website Amusing Planet reports, “For the rest of the year, Mina remains pretty much deserted.”
The tents, which measure 8 meters by 8 meters, were permanently constructed by the Saudi government in the 1990’s and were upgraded in 1997 to be fire proof. They are divided into camps which include kitchen and bathroom facilities.
The tents could provide shelter for almost all of the 4 million Syrian refugees that have been displaced by the country’s civil war, which was partly exacerbated by Saudi Arabia’s role in funding and arming jihadist groups.
However, as the Washington Post reports, wealthy Gulf Arab nations like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and others have taken in precisely zero Syrian refugees. Although Saudi Arabia claims it has taken in 500,000 Syrians since 2011, rights groups point out that these people are not allowed to register as migrants. Many of them are also legal immigrants who moved there for work. In comparison, Lebanon has accepted 1.3 million refugees – more than a quarter of its population.
While it refuses to take in any more refugees, Saudi Arabia has offered to build 200 mosques for the 500,000 migrants a year expected to pour into Germany.
Saudis argue that the tents in Mina are needed to host the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, but given that the Arabic concept of Ummah is supposed to offer protection to all Muslims under one brotherhood, surely an alternative location could be found so that Mina can be repurposed to house desperate families fleeing war and ISIS persecution?
While Europe is being burdened by potentially millions of people who don’t share the same culture or religion as the host population, Gulf Arab states refuse to pull their weight, resolving only to throw money at the problem.
The likelihood of the Saudis inviting Syrian refugees to stay in Mina is virtually zero, but the thousands of empty tents serve as a physical representation of the hypocrisy shared by wealthy Gulf Arab states when it comes to helping with the crisis.
http://www.infowars.com/saudi-arabia-ha ... -refugees/
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wahabi knows their days are counted on face of earth and if they allow sunnni or shia in large number they will lose kingdom in 3 days.
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Sakena Yacoobi: How I stopped the Taliban from shutting down my school
When the Taliban closed all the girls' schools in Afghanistan, Sakena Yacoobi set up new schools, in secret, educating thousands of women and men. In this fierce, funny talk, she tells the jaw-dropping story of two times when she was threatened to stop teaching — and shares her vision for rebuilding her beloved country.
http://www.ted.com/talks/sakena_yacoobi ... =education
When the Taliban closed all the girls' schools in Afghanistan, Sakena Yacoobi set up new schools, in secret, educating thousands of women and men. In this fierce, funny talk, she tells the jaw-dropping story of two times when she was threatened to stop teaching — and shares her vision for rebuilding her beloved country.
http://www.ted.com/talks/sakena_yacoobi ... =education