Iraq Archive

سب باغی ایک جیسے نہیں ہوتے۔ سید عون عباس:  تیونس میں ایک ماسٹرز کئے ہوئے لڑکے نے جب اپنے حقوق نہ ملنے پر خود کو آگ لگائی تو اس آگ نے صرف اس نوجوان ہی کو نہیں جلایا بلکہ پورے تیونس میں یہ آگ پھیل گئی، اور برسوں
ISIS’s role in the destruction of Sunnis of Iraq – by Patrick Cockburn: Yet for all Mahmoud’s (an Iraqi Sunni) passionate sense of injustice, his belief that the government is irredeemably anti-Sunni is only part of the story. Sunni and Shia have both used mass violence against one another’s communities in the
From Tunisia to Iraq, Afghanistan to Egypt, Salafi and Deobandi terrorists are enemies of culture and civllization – Robert Fisk: Coming from a group which has burned and bulldozed churches and Islamic shrines in Iraq, axed 3000-year old statues in the Mosul museum and boasted of destroying the ancient city of Hatra, the Tunis Tweet is a warning to
The IS behemoth, yet another Western project gone wrong – Murtaza Haider:   It is a typical summer flick, but it holds a great lesson for the global power politics. Hercules, released earlier in the summer, shows how the son of Zeus fights against tyrants only to realise later that he
Sectarianism in Iraq — is Pakistan watching? – Murtaza Haider: Iraq has descended into a full-blown civil war. The Jihadists have captured three towns and are marching on to Baghdad. They claim to have killed 1,700 prisoners in violation of Islamic and other laws governing warfare. They have also
Jummah mubarak, you ‘kafir’! – Ale Natiq:   Last Friday, nearly 150 Shias were killed and 400 wounded in triple suicide blasts that targeted the Shia community during the Friday congregational prayers in Yemen’s capital Sanaa. ISIS/ISIL claimed responsibility of the attack and a statement released
Sheikh Ibn Taymiyyah: Founder of excommunication and exclusion – Aamir Hussaini: Sheikh Ibn Taymiyyah is a very controversial figure in Muslim history. On the one side there are those who believe that he adopted Imam Ahmad bin Hanbals’ rigid, violent and Zahiriya (emphasizing on outward appearance) in Tauheed (‘the oneness’)
Yemen massacre of Zaidi Shias by the Salafi Al-Qaeda: It’s not ISIL and it’s not Sunni-Shiite Conflict – Juan Cole:   The massive twin bombings at mosques in the capital that shook Yemen on Friday, killing over 100 and wounding many more, were immediately claimed by Daesh (ISIS, ISIL). Since the mosques were largely attended by members of the
The Battle For Saudi Arabia : Royalty Fundamentalism and global Power:   پروفیسر اسد ابو خلیل امریکی یونیورسٹی میں پولیٹکل سائنس کے استاد ہیں اور وہ لبنانی نژاد عرب ہیں ، بیروت سے شایع ہونے والے عربی روزنامہ ” الاخبار” میں باقاعدگی سے آرٹیکل لکھتے ہیں اور کئی کتابوں کے
Perverse Pontification by Friedman of the NY Times: It is not just his selective, hypocritical and trite appropriation of other people’s bad ideas and analysis that endears Tom to the everyday douchebag. It his also the ability to switch comfortably between false humility and braggadocio while never
Open letter to Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz – by Ani Zonneveld: in this letter, Ani Zonneveld has correctly identified the major source of extremism, bigotry, intolerance and misogyny in the Muslim world. Instead of using vague and obfuscatory terminology like “Islamist”, she has correctly highlighted Saudi Wahabism as a major
Pakistan warns Turkey: Don’t make our mistakes: As Turkey was discussing the training and equipping of Syrian opposition militants in Turkey, Pakistan recalled its own painful experiences. In Islamabad, Al-Monitor asked Mushahid Hussein, the chairman of the Pakistani Senate’s Defense Committee, about his country’s role in Afghanistan and in
صدام حسین کی قبر اور لاش کے ساتھ داعش کا سلوک: صدام حسین نے ہمیشہ عراق کے شیعہ مسلمانوں اور لبرل سنی کرد مسلمانوں کے ساتھ حقیرانہ اور ظالمانہ سلوک کیا اور متعصب سنی اور سلفی عرب قبائل کو سنی کردوں اور شیعہ عربوں کے خلاف استعمال کیا – آج
Islamic State fighters in Iraq caught fleeing battlefield dressed as women: IRAQ: In an attempt to flee northern Iraq, Islamic State (IS) fighters have shaved their beards and dressed like women, Iraqi forces claimed.  A series of pictures have emerged, showing men wearing dresses and make-up in a bid to leave
Jerusalem Post Report: Israel treating al-Qaida ISIS Salafi Deobandi terrorists wounded in Syrian war: Israel has opened its borders with Syria in order to provide medical treatment to Nusra Front and al-Qaida fighters wounded in the ongoing civil war, according to The Wall Street Journal. The prominent American newspaper reported that Nusra Front,
Haider al-Abadi, not Qasem Soleimani, is the real hero of Iraq’s war against ISIS – by Abdul Nishapuri: In the background of the Iraqi Armed forces’ recent success against ISIS in Tikrit, some naive  Pakistani Shias are displaying pictures of Qasem Soleimani, Hassan Nasrallah, Khamenei while others are foolishly displaying flags and banners of Iran, Hezbollah etc.
‘Jihadi’ Jake Bilardi – from Australian suburban schoolboy to Islamic State suicide bomber:   How did a bright student and aspiring journalist from suburban Melbourne become a hardened militant and suicide bomber for Islamic State in Iraq? LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: How does a bright teenager and student of politics from Australian suburbia
German official says Saudi Arabia top ‘terror exporter’ in Mideast: A senior German official has called for the reconsideration of Germany’s arms exports to Saudi Arabia, describing the monarchy as the leading exporter of terrorism in the Middle East. Vice President of the German Parliament (Bundestag) Claudia Roth put
Western and Wahhabi channels give sectarian colour to Iraqi Shia and Sunni united front against ISIS:   Western TV channels eg BBC, CNN along with Salafi Wahhabi channels Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya are parroting the ISIS-AlQaeda-ASWJ propaganda describing Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and Popular Mobilisation Units as sectarian Shia militas. These idiots or thugs
ISIS: Christians Worse Than Murderers: Editor note: There are now increasing voices in the international media who are using specific terminologies like Wahabi, Salafi and Deobandi to identify the guiding ideologies of violent facist groups like ISIS, Boko Haram, Taliban, Al Nusra and ASWJ-LeJ
Award winning Jewish journalist exposes Israel’s policy of backing ‪‎ISIS‬ aka Syrian rebels: Not a soul could help but be outraged by the two recent atrocities that the Islamic State (IS) has unleashed upon the world. The first of these was the immolation of Jordanian fighter pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh on Feb. 3,
Islamic State of Salafis and Deobandis: Celebrating death not life – Tahir Kamran (The News):   “IS celebrates death, not life” was a statement from a young Jordanian colleague who works on Middle Eastern politics. Despite being visibly distressed and shaken over the gruesome killing of the Jordanian pilot, Moaz al-Kasasbeh, who was burnt
Patrick Cockburn: Private donors from Gulf oil states helping to bankroll salaries of up to 100,000 Isis fighters: Islamic State is still receiving significant financial support from Arab sympathisers outside Iraq and Syria, enabling it to expand its war effort, says a senior Kurdish official. The US has being trying to stop such private donors in the
Isis in Iraq: Britain has no plan for tackling the militants, and no idea who’s in charge – Patrick Cockburn: The traumatic experience of Britain’s participation in the 2003 Iraq war led the Government to have as little to do with the country as possible. By the spring of 2014, as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Hello Pakistani “liberals”, Deobandi apologists and false neutral club: Care to read this comment by Rahul Sharma?: Rahul Sharma said: Just a thought, all the criticism of the Iraqi Shia, for their majoritarian attitudes flies in the face of how they participate and recognise the common humanity of the Christians that are left in their territories,
British grammar schoolboy turned teen Deobandi jihadist Shabazz Suleman waiting for ISIS’s orders to attack the West: A teenage former grammar schoolboy who went to Syria has warned that Deobandi and Salafi Wahhabi Isis has “many” extremists “just waiting for the order to do attacks on the West”. Shabazz Suleman Deobandi, a former pupil of Royal
The Perils of Embedded Journalism: How Jürgen Todenhöfer ends up glamourising ISIS:   In his interviews with ISIS which he highlighted on  ABC and CNN as well as his own Facebook note, German Journalist Jürgen Todenhöfer  glamourises ISIS and misrepresents their “success”.  His reporting is a example of poor journalism which lacks
From these terrified men what can we expect? – Ayaz Amir: The country’s two leading politicians are now Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan (mercifully not anymore Asif Zardari, and even more mercifully not the likes of Khursheed Shah). Nawaz Sharif is terrified of the Taliban and not in a hundred
Jordanian Fighter Pilot captured by ISIS: Malfunction or Malice?: Fahwad Al-Khadoumi (nsnbc) :  On Wednesday, ISIS claimed that it downed a Jordanian fighter jet near the city of al-Raqqah, displaying photos of the captured pilot. The Jordanian Air Force confirmed the capture of the pilot and his identity,
ISIS ‘launches new chlorine gas attack’ in Iraq’s Anbar – report: Islamic State militants have reportedly shelled a city in the western Iraqi province of Anbar with chlorine gas-imbued missiles, media reports citing security sources say. The attack is said to have targeted a district with trapped and starving civilians.
Iran-US is the only coalition that makes sense to defeat ISIS – by Ali Abbas Taj:     There is immense pressure on both sides, Iran and the USA, to continue on a path of diplomatic confrontation. For the United States, there is a concerted effort by the sectarian Salafist Saudi/Qatari/Turkish lobby to scuttle any
The Saudi King who fought the wrong wars:   There is one man for whom Hosni Mubarak’s acquittal will come as welcome relief: his friend and fellow potentate King Abdullah. Such was the Saudi King’s anxiety about Mubarak that he has nudged the Egyptian military to be
داعش کے تکفیری خوارج اور مسلمانوں کا قتل عام۔ خرم زکی:   یوں تو داعش کے تکفیری خوارج اور ان کے  “خلیفہ” ابو بکر البغدادی لعنتی الخارجی پر بہت کچھ لکھا جا رہا ہے اور گویا یوں ہے کہ مسلمانوں کی چودہ سو سالہ تاریخ اپنے آپ کو دہرا رہی
Analysis: Why it matters that ISIS is not ‘a Sunni outfit’ as reported: Iraq: the last opportunity to counter Islamofascism? IT SEEMS the Western media remains confused about who ISIS are. They are still being labeled a ‘Sunni’ outfit, but it is certain they are Salafi/Deobandi jihadists fighting against both Shias and
Despite controversy, religious art increasingly popular in Iraq: Painter Mohammed Hetlr has been preoccupied with drawing and painting sacred Shiite figures from Iraq and around the world. He has been making good money selling his work and, in an interview with Al-Monitor, said that he considered his
War against Isis: British Deobandi Jihadist Abu Rumaysah taunts police and heralds new ‘generation’ of terrorist as he parades ‘newborn son’ in Syria:   Abu Rumaysah appears as a talking head throughout a 20-minute programme for Aljazeera – at one point being identified simply as ‘a British Muslim’ A British jihadist who skipped bail to join Isis in Syria has taunted police
ISIS developing “colonies” as Deobandi and Wahhabi fanatics join in droves: Editor’s note: We are cross-posting views by various intelligence analysts on a surge in acceptance of the ISIS Caliphate in several Muslim countries. This is dangerous trend is most apparent in Libya where Wahhabi and Deobandi Jahadis were used
ISIS women – Takfiri Wahhabi and Deobandi ideology is radicalizing Muslim women in the West: Time:   Last March 11, was a normal Thursday morning for the Ali Mehenni family, or so Kamel Ali Mehenni thought when he dropped off his 17-year-old daughter Sahra at the train station on her way to school. It was
Europe and ISIS, an islamic state within the old continent:   CAIRO — “One day, not long from now, Europe will wake up to a nightmare.” I made this comment to friends during a 2012 visit to Europe. They swiftly dismissed it. Yet just two years later, with supporters of
Erdogan’s ‘New Turkey’ drifts towards isolation:   There is an old saying in Turkish: “The Turk has no friend but the Turk.” As this country drifts towards isolation under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the proverb is ringing uncomfortably true. During his 11 years