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Deobandis in Pakistan divided on ISIL terrorist Abu Bakar’s Caliphate – ABNA Report: On the other side Tahir Ashrafi, a Deobandi cleric, has said that Mulla Omar was already chosen as commander hence he will decide whether to accept Baghdadi as Caliph or not. Eminent figures of Deobandi sect of Pakistan divided
Dr Qadri’s Inqilab March isolates takfiri Deobandi terrorist outfits and ringleaders – ABNA Report: Revolution March of Sunni-Shia allied parties, isolated notorious takfiri terrorists of banned Sipah-e-Sahaba and its affiliates such as ASWJ and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, and other fanatics. Revolution March of Sunni-Shia allied parties, isolated notorious takfiri terrorists of banned Sipah-e-Sahaba and its
Deobandi cleric Tahir Ashrafi explains his position in response to Yasser Latif Hamdani’s allegations: Editor’s note: We are cross posting the article by Daily Times which explains the position of Allama Tahir Ashrafi about Ahmadiyya activist Yasir Latif Hamdani. The article uses terms like “Qadiyani” for Ahmadiyya Muslims which is a derogatory term
The Islamic State in Iraq – implications for Pakistan – by Najmuddin A Shaikh: The writer was foreign secretary from 1994-97 and also served as Pakistan’s ambassador to Iran (1992-94) and the US (1990-91) The Iranians, as much as the Americans, have, alongside the Iraqis, breathed a sigh of relief, as rendered
Wahabi/Deobandi ISIS bans philosophy, chemistry in Syria schools: A terror organization that issues its own passports Editor’s note: The news that ISIL has banned philosophy as a subject at schools should not come as a surprise. Philosophy is also banned in Saudi Arabia under Wahabbism (a branch
The Sunni Barelvi vs Takfiri Deobandi sectarian angle of Dr Qadri’s Inqilab March – by Waqar Gillani (The News): With Dr Tahirul Qadri leading a significant portion of Sunni Barelevi faction and his 34-year-long struggle to bring about a change in the system, the sectarian dimensions of his religio-political movement cannot be ignored. However, after the June
2,520 PTI, PAT activists in 27 Punjab jails – by Faisal Ali Ghumman: LAHORE: As many as 2,520 office-bearers and activists of Pakistan Awami Tehreek and Tehreek-i-Insaf detained under 3-MPO ahead of ‘Inqilab’ and ‘Azadi’ marches across Punjab, are still languishing in 27 jails of the province and will remain there till
Syrian Rebel Commander says he Collaborated with Israel – by Elhanan Miller: Sharif as-Safouri, abducted by Al-Nusra Front in July, confesses to receiving antitank weapons in return for protecting the occupied Golan Heights border. August 14, 2014 “ICH” – “Times Of Israel” — A Free Syrian Army commander, arrested last month
Our generational struggle against a Wahabi/Deobandi poisonous ideology – by Christopher Hope: The West is embroiled in a generational struggle against a poisonous brand of Islamic extremism that will bring terror to the streets of Britain unless urgent action is taken to defeat it, David Cameron warns today. Writing in
عمران خان نے پشتونوں پر دیوبندی مسلک کےفرقہ وارانہ غلبے کو کمزور کر دیا ہے – ہارون رشید: روزنامہ دنیا میں اپنے کالم میں سینئر صحافی ہارون رشید نے کہا ہے کہ عمران خان نے پشتونوں پر دیوبندی مسلک کے فرقہ وارانہ غلبے کو کمزور کر دیا ہے اور بلا تفریق مذھب، مسلک، نسل، تمام سنی، شیعہ،
Is America’s relationship with Saudi Arabia broken beyond repair? – by Martin Chulov: Barack Obama arrives in Riyadh seeking rapprochement with an aggrieved Arab ally whose interests are increasingly at odds with its key western backer. The president’s flying visit – no more than an evening in the Saudi king’s palace –
A letter from Grand Ayatollah Sistani turned the tide against Iraq’s leader – by Loveday Morris: BAGHDAD — The handwritten letter from Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani was personally signed and stamped, and for Iraq’s embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, it spelled the end. “I see the need to speed up the selection of a
What is the most blatant lie taught through Pakistan textbooks? – Herald Exclusive: Nationalism and patriotism in Pakistan are contested subjects. What makes us Pakistanis and what is it that makes us love our land and nation? The answers to these questions vary widely depending on who is being asked. A large
UK PM Warns of terror state on Europe’s doorstep: David Cameron has warned that if the Islamic State’s onslaught continues Europe will be facing a “poisonous” terrorist state on the shores of the Mediterranean. The Prime Minister said urgent action needs to be taken to defeat the extremist
Dawn: Model Town tragedy: Court rules case be registered against Nawaz, Shahbaz and 19 others: LAHORE: A sessions court in Lahore has ordered police to register murder charges against 21 individuals – including Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif – over violence that took place in Lahore’s Model Town in June.
Express Tribune: Model Town violence: Lahore court orders FIR against PM Nawaz Sharif, Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif: LAHORE: An additional district and sessions court on Saturday directed the police to register an FIR against the prime minister, Punjab chief minister, deputy inspector general of police operations and 18 others, including politicians and police officials, in the deaths
Death anniversary of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan being celebrated today (August 16): Lahore, Pakistan: Death anniversary of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan being celebrated today (August 16). Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan died on August 1997 due to kidney failure and an era of Qawwali and mystic music was buried with
Have we misunderstood the threat from ISIS? – by Professor Gareth Stansfield,: Christian men forced circumcised in Mosul Having sent special forces to assess the humanitarian threat from ISIS in the Sinjar Mountains, the United States now says situation was not as bad as feared. But this assessment ignores the existential
Deobandi TTP outfit claims responsibility for attack on airbases in Quetta – by Syed Ali Shah: QUETTA: The Ghalib Mehsud faction of the outlawed Takfiri Deobandi Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack on the Samungli and Khalid airbases in Quetta in which 12 militants were killed by security forces. Ghalib Mehsud is the
Syria crisis: British rapper turned Isis fighter posts image of himself holding severed head: A successful British rapper who left his west London home to join Isis in Syria is reported to have posted a photograph of himself holding a severed head on Twitter. Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 23, reportedly uploaded the image
Wahabi/Deobandi students hand out Isis leaflets on Oxford Street in attempt to get British Muslims to join jihad: Police were today probing leaflets handed out in the West End by radical students encouraging British Muslims to join the Islamic State (Isis). Dozens of the leaflets were circulated on Oxford Street last night saying it is the
IS emerges from radical Wahabi/Deobandi Islamic jurisprudence – by Shukur Khilkhal: The Islamic State (IS) did not originate from barbaric communities or prehistoric peoples. In fact, instead it is a fundamentalist Islamic group stemming from the core of radical Islamic jurisprudence. The organization adheres literally to the fatwas and
عمران خان اور طاہر القادری کا مقابلہ کرنا نواز شریف کے بس کی بات نہیں -از ارشاد عارف: Source: http://jang.com.pk/jang/aug2014-daily/12-08-2014/col13.htm
If the Nobel Peace Prize can be handed to Obama, why not hand it to the Israeli Defence Force? – by Robert Fisk: Now I know that the Israeli Defence Forces are famous in song and legend. Humanitarian, courageous, self-sacrificing, restrained, willing to give their own lives for the innocents among their enemies, etc, etc. Leon Uris’s Exodus – a racist,
Crisis in the Middle East: The end of a country, and the start of a new dark age – by Patrick Cockburn: Iraq has disintegrated. Little is exchanged between its three great communities – Shia, Sunni and Kurd – except gunfire. The outside world hopes that a more inclusive government will change this but it is probably too late. The main
اکثریت پر امن بریلوی سنی مسلمان ، سعودی وہابی حمایت یافتہ نواز حکومت کی دہشت گردی کا شکار: روزنامہ ڈان کی رپورٹ کے مطابق پنجاب حکومت نے بدھ کو پاکستان عوامی تحریک کے رہنما طاہر القادری پر عوام کو ” تشدد پر اکسانے ” کا مقدمہ قائم کر دیا – یہ مقدمہ فیصل ٹاؤں تھانے میں
LRB: For America, Britain and the Western powers, the rise of Isis and the Caliphate is the ultimate disaster – by Patrick Cockburn: As the attention of the world focused on Ukraine and Gaza, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) captured a third of Syria in addition to the quarter of Iraq it had seized in June.
Obama is mute on his friendly ally Saudi Arabia, whose Salafists are the inspiration and fund-raisers for the Deobandi/Wahabi militias of Iraq and Syria – by Robert Fisk: He wouldn’t bomb Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s bloody caliphate when it was butchering the majority Shia Muslims of Iraq. But Barak Obama is riding to the rescue of the Christian refugees – and the Yazidis – because of “a potential
Rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria: This is the Arab world’s Salafi-Jihadi moment – by Shadi Hameed: A believer in the possibilities of coexistence, Sayed Kashua is, or perhaps was, the most prominent Arab-Israeli author writing in Hebrew. Punctured with staccato prose, his column on leaving Jerusalem, perhaps forever, was a beautifully written, heartbreaking admission
‘Jihadist’ flag flown at entrance of East London housing estate: A black flag, bearing white Arabic inscriptions similar to those flown by Jihadis, was mounted at the entrance of a housing estate in Canary Wharf’s East London early this week. Surrounded by an array of Palestinian slogans and
Australian PM appalled at decapitated head photo: A shocking image of what is believed to be the young son of an Australian man holding a decapitated head in Syria shows how barbaric the Islamic State “terrorist army” is, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Monday. Abbott
Syria’s Military: Last Man Standing? – by Florence Gaub: Not long ago, every defection from Syria’s armed forces was hailed as yet another sign that the country’s military was about to collapse—and with it, the regime as a whole. In a dramatic public countdown, Al Jazeera installed
India shaken by case of Muslim men missing in Iraq – Mansi Choksi & Ellen Barry: KALYAN, India: For more than a decade, as alienated young Muslim men from all over the world left home to fight on the side of Islamists in distant conflicts, it has been a truism that they were not
‘F*** off Jew!’ What I was told when I photographed a ‘jihadist’ flag flying in London – by Ted Jeory: I WAS told this morning by a community activist in east London to be kind in this article to the Bengali Muslim youths who threatened violence last night…and who told me to “F*** off Jew, you’re not welcome here.”So
Nawaz Sharif is unfit to govern Pakistan – by Cyril Almeida: IT’S happening. It really is. Scorched earth. Pyrrhic victory. Cutting off nose. Shooting in the foot. The custodians of democracy have done what the anti-democrats wanted. Lahore feels like a war zone. Fuel is unavailable. Roads are shut.
Wahabi/Deobandi militants in Iraq are widely loathed, yet action to curb them is elusive – by Somini Sengupta: UNITED NATIONS — Its fighters have seized oil fields, held water supplies hostage, and commandeered heavy artillery that the United States once supplied to a friendly government in Iraq. In late July, they decapitated Syrian soldiers, put their
Could ISIS retaliate against the West? – by Paul Cruickshank: The U.S. air strikes carried out Friday against ISIS are likely to have one unintended consequence: immediately increase the terrorist threat in Europe and the United States, Western counter-terrorism officials tell CNN. Within hours of U.S. military jets and
Jamhooriat running scared and wolves at the door – by Ayaz Amir: Imran Khan stands isolated. Tahirul Qadri is a shady character and is of no account. If both these propositions are correct what is the government’s problem? Why is it so out of breath? If Shahbaz Sharif’s interview to
An open letter to murderers of minorities – by Zara Hafeez: Attacks against minorities have spiked in recent months to degrees that are callous and merciless. PHOTO: FILE Dear ruthless, relentless and barbaric attackers of the minorities in my country, I‘d like to start by asking you about what
Holy War Arrives in Germany – by Soeren Kern: “Never before have the sympathizers of Islamic terror appeared so openly in Germany.” — Editorial, Westfalen-Blatt. “Anyone who thought the civil war in Syria or the barbarity of the Islamic State in Iraq does not affect us, you are