Beheading Islam in Peshawar: The eerie silence of Islamic scholars, Radical Islamism and Jihad, NewAgeIslam.com

Radical Islamism and Jihad

Beheading Islam in Peshawar: The eerie silence of Islamic scholars

By Dr. Shah Alam Khan

The news of beheading of two Sikh youth in the Peshawar region of Pakistan has not come as a surprise to the world. What more can we expect from a rabid race of Talibanis, born and brought up on the fodder of hate and violence. The news in fact brings to light the hollow rhetoric of the Pakistani establishment when they claim to have contained the menace of Taliban.

What surprises me is the eerie silence of the Muslim ulema in the subcontinent (particularly in India) in their condemnation of this cowardly act of appalling brutality. Where are those who leave no opportunity to condemn what is inconvenient to them, no matter how comfortable it might be to Islam in general and Muslims in particular? What happens to all those voices which grow louder at times of trivial issues which they think place Islam in danger? What more danger can await a religion than accusation of the kind which we see after such heinous atrocities? When can the Islamic ulema realize that acts such as these are the ones which actually put Islam in danger.

The blood of innocents in Palestine is mourned. The brutalities of Narendra Modi’s pogrom in Gujarat were mercilessly damned. Then what happens when it’s time to condemn the most bigoted and rabid of Muslims? By being mum to the brutalities of Taliban the Muslim ulema are giving voice to those who perpetrate violence. What justification can we give to the condemnation of the likes of Modi and Sharon in future? What message is passed on to those who stand and fight for the cause of underprivileged and minorities in this country? Shouldn’t this usual tale of the ‘victim becoming the perpetrator’ be put to rest once and for all?

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Taliban threat on rise in Karachi: MQM chief Altaf, Islam,Terrorism and Jihad, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam,Terrorism and Jihad

Taliban threat on rise in Karachi: MQM chief Altaf

Altaf said, “We will not bow our heads before Taliban terrorists, rather we will face them. The conspiracy of Talibanisation is on the rise in Karachi and MQM activists should remain mentally and physically prepared to face hard times ahead.” Altaf was addressing a Workers Convention at Lal Qila Ground, Azizabad. During his telephone address, the MQM chief said that Islam espouses a message of peace and brotherhood and does not support terrorism in any form. On the contrary, the ‘religion of peace’ condemns acts of cruelty and brutality, said Altaf, who lives in London in self-imposed exile.

Ignorance: The MQM leader said: “Terrorists strangle innocent men and women, old and young and burn down female educational institutions in the name of Islam. This is ignorance. The Holy Prophet (PBUH) said that ‘it is obligatory for every man and woman to get education’.” He urged intellectuals and writers to tell the masses about ‘conspiracies of Talibanisation’. The country is going through a crisis, he said, adding that its sovereignty will be threatened if the ‘menace of Talibanisation’ was not curbed. The MQM has fulfilled it duty by informing people about the impending threat time and again, he said. “The people here [in Pakistan] were Muslims and are Muslims. What kind of Muslims do they [the Taliban] want to make us? Actually, they [the Taliban] want to bring the shariah of the Kalashnikov into force but people will not tolerate such a forced shariah,” Altaf said.

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Talibanisation of Pakistan: The NWFP could break away, Islam,Terrorism and Jihad, NewAgeIslam.com

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Talibanisation of Pakistan: The NWFP could break away

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has been warned by his coalition partners that Pakistan could lose its restive North West Frontier Province (NWFP) to the Taliban because of Islamabad’s "blind following" of the US-led global war on terror. "The situation in the NWFP is extremely worrisome as Wednesday’s meeting of (Pakistan’s ruling) coalition partners was warned in plain words that (it) was on a fast track of breaking away from Pakistan because of Islamabad’s blind following of Washington’s war on terror," the News reported on Friday.

"I am telling you that the Frontier province is breaking away from Pakistan," the newspaper quoted Maulana Fazlur Rehman of the junior coalition partner Jamiat-ul-Ulama-i-Islam (JUI) as saying during the meeting. Maulana Fazlur Rehman "did not understand the rationale for putting the integrity of our own country at risk just to please the United States," the News said.

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