Increasing attention to Deobandi terror in Pakistani and international media
There is evidence of an increasing attention to the Deobandi identity of terror in Pakistani and international media. This is encouraing.
LUBP has a useful archive on media discourse on Deobandi terrorism: https://lubpak.com/archives/tag/media-discourse-on-deobandi-terrorism
Some recent examples from the last two weeks (Jan 24 to 8 Feb, 2014) are provided below:
Pakistan Today, 8 Feb:
ASWJ looking to hire CEO Shia Genocide
Jhang – Our Genocide Correspondent: Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) formerly Sipah-e-Sahaba, is looking to hire a new CEO for its Shia Genocide project, after Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) leader and former CEO Malik Ishaq was promoted to the designation of ‘Global Terrorist’ by the US. The ASWJ is now looking for someone who is competent enough to fill those massive shoes.
“We’re looking for someone who can follow the sectarian, apostatising, violence brewing footsteps of Mr Ishaq. The ideal candidate should be a Takfiri Deobandi, whose life is dedicated to excommunicating the Shias. He should be a staunch believer in the fact that his own religious sect is the only branch of Islam that is true Islam. He should have the passionate desire to kill everyone who disagrees with this branch,” an ASWK spokesman said.
Interested applicants should contact ASWJ through social media, or start chanting anti-Shia slogans in Jhang and they would be shortlisted.
Fox News: 8 Feb 2014
Founded by Maulana Abdul Haq just after Pakistan gained independence in 1947, the seminary propagates Deobandi, a revivalist and anti-imperialist movement of Sunni Islam formed in reaction to the Britain’s colonization of India.
The seminary’s chancellor, Maulana Samiul Haq, 76, and son of the founder is regarded as the “Father of the Taliban” and is widely viewed as a key to any peace deal to be negotiated between the terror groups and the U.S. and Pakistan.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/02/08/at-pakistans-taliban-u-jihadists-major-in-anti-americanism/
BBC 6 Feb:
Major Mohammad Amir is a former official of the ISI intelligence service who once gave training and logistics to the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Maj Shah belongs to a religious family. His father founded a seminary which preaches the hardline Deobandi and Wahhabi strain of Sunni Islam. The Pakistan Taliban chief Maulana Fazlullah received his religious education at the school.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26072034
New Indian Express, 5 Feb:
The Darul Uloom madrassa in the village of Chislehurst, modelled after India’s Darul Uloom Deoband, seeks to produce “an Islamic elite who will rule the Muslim world” — as reported by British Indian journalist Edna Fernandes, who also reported that music, drama and modern foreign languages are deemed un-Islamic and Shakespeare is seen as evil for dealing with subjects like love and revenge. Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam of Darul Iftaa, an Islamic institute in Leicester, delivers fatwas such as: driving a taxi is forbidden by Islam because it may entail taking passengers to a pub. Such fatwas impinge on individual freedom, a fundamental basis of modern societies.
Dawn, 25 Jan:
Munawar Hasan said that religious forces, especially Deobandi clerics should step forward and pave way for dialogue with Taliban to save the country and also to prevent the emergence of a wrong image of Islam. “Since a majority of the Taliban belongs to the Deobandi school of thought, it was for the Deobandi Ulema to take up this responsibility,” he said.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1082440/no-shariah-through-suicide-attacks-no-peace-through-airstrikes
Daily Times, 22 Jan:
Since its very birth, Pakistan has favoured the Deobandi school. This favour touched new heights during the ‘darkest ages’: the years of General Ziaul Haq who was a puritan Muslim himself in addition to being a protégé of the Wahabi state of Saudi Arabia. Under Zia’s policies, the Deobandi (read Wahabi) version of Sunni Islam was inculcated in the youth and children through public schooling and a network of Deobandi madrassas. The textbooks for Pakistan Studies, Urdu and other subjects were filled with lessons on Deobandi scholars and there was no mention of the other schools.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/opinion/22-Jan-2014/talibanisation-of-society-and-state-of-denial
Examples from Twitter:
And now that they (Deobandis) are exposed, they have started using another tactic on social media and that is to make fake accounts on twitter and use friendly language like “dear”, “brother” , “please be united” , just to mislead innocent barelvi sunnis on social media to gain support. Otherwise on ASWJ’s official accounts, everyone can see their unethical, illiterate, uneducated language and threats they openly use to give to barelvesunni/shia twitter users. Even the so called peace full Deobandis needs to prove that they DO NOT support ASWJ’s terrorists, Lej, SSP,TTP (remember they are one but using different names) and Deobandi Maulanas should give some fatwa against Deobandi terrorists!
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