By S. Arshad, New Age Islam
03 May 2019
The ISIS which came to prominence in 2014
with its caliphate in Syria and Iraq wielded a severe blow to Islam and
destroyed the image of Muslims in the eyes of the non-Muslims of the world. It
destroyed mausoleums and Mazars of important Islamic personalities and even
destroyed the graves of holy prophets. It encouraged promiscuity among Muslims
and promoted illicit sex among Muslims in the name of its so called jihad. Many
Muslim girls and women lost their purity by joining the ISIS. The terror outfit killed many innocent
Muslims and non-Muslims in thousands and oppressed many innocent tribes whom
Muslims had failed to convey the message of Islam. Instead of admitting their failure in
conveying the message of Islam, the ISIS held these tribes responsible and
killed them and abducted their women and raped them.
The most painful and unfortunate part of
this gory episode was that many Muslim organizations and Islamic scholars
accepted them as the flag bearers of Islam and accepted Baghdadi as their
Khalifa. Some of them even addressed him as Amirul Mominin. However, after the
government of India on demand of New Age Islam and other right minded people
banned the ISIS in India and the forces fighting the ISIS in Syria and Iraq
successfully defeated them, the Muslim organizations, scholars and Urdu press
stop glorifying them and last month the US announced that it had totally
destroyed the so-called caliphate of Baghdadi. The humanity had taken a sigh of
relief in the thought that after the Al Qaida, the ISIS had also been destroyed
and it will not be able to damage Islam and Muslims of the world any more.
But the terror attacks in churches and
hotels in Sri Lanka a couple of days ago killing more than 300 innocent
worshippers and holidayers and damaging churches has made it clear that the
ISIS was down but not out. The latest news reports suggest that the ISIS
has claimed responsibility for the eight attacks in Sri Lanka. Initially it was
suspected that the terrorist organization of Sri Lanka, National Tawheed Jamat
was behind the attacks but a press release by the mouthpiece of the ISIS, Amaq,
has claimed that the people associated with Tawheed Jamat were with the ISIS.
It means that the ISIS had provided support to the organization. This indicates
that the ISIS had spread its tentacles in Sri Lanka and may have its members in
other countries of Asia too.
The ISIS has said that the attacks were
made in retaliation against the attacks on Muslims in mosques in New Zealand in
March. The attacks had drawn huge condemnation from the world and Muslims had
drawn sympathy. Both Muslims and non-Muslims
particularly Christians had condemned the attackers who was a
radicalized Christian and the Prime Minister of New Zealand had expressed her
deep anguish and condemnation over the heinous crime. Growing Islamophobia was blamed for the
attacks and the Muslims the world over had praised the Prime Minister Jacinda
Ardern for her tough actions against the culprits. For the moment, the Muslims the world over
were seen as victims and not as the perpetrators of terrorism as is generally
the perception about them thanks to the black deeds of terrorist and extremist
organizations like the ISIS, the Taliban, Boko Haram, Al Shabab,
Jaish-e-Mohammad etc.
But the Sri Lanka terror attacks by a
terrorist organization of Sri Lanka with the active support of the ISIS has
destroyed the euphoria among the Muslims by killing more than 300 innocent
Christians and other non-Muslims. Some of them are Indians. The attacks smack
of the modus operandi of the Al Qaida who tried to win the sympathy of the
Muslims by conducting terror attacks on emotional issues close to the hearts of
the Muslims. For example, the Al Qaida conducted the attack on Charlie Hebdo to
win sympathy of the Muslims. Similarly, the ISIS aided the attacks on the
Christians of Sri Lanka to win the sympathy of the Muslims of the world at a
time their caliphate has been destroyed and they are trying to reclaim their
lost ground among the Muslims. By
claiming that they took the lives of more than three hundred Christians to
avenge the killing of 50 Muslims in New Zealand, they want to show to the
Muslims that they are the well wishers of the Muslims and will take action when
they are hurt.
But this strategy will not work for them as
it did not work for Al Qaida. Muslims have rejected them and do not need
them. Muslims have realized that terror
outfits like the ISIS or National Tawheed Jamat are enemies of Islam and have
done them irreparable damage to Islam and Muslims.
It has also to be seen now that the ISIS
have claimed responsibility for the heinous crime, how the Islamic
organizations and Islamic scholars of India and the world react to it. Those
Islamic scholars who had vociferously condemned the attack on New Zealand
Muslims blaming Islamophobia will once again find it difficult to condemn the
ISIS because they had praised and glorified the ISIS in 2014 until the
government had banned them. It is expected that these black sheep will
circulate conspiracy theories giving clean chit to the ISIS. Muslims should
realize for once and for ever that until they reject extremist ideology and
outfits in any garb, the world will see many recurrences of incidents like
Christchurch and Colombo. Muslims must reject extremist thought and extremist
interpretations of the Quran and Hadith.
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