Iraq Archive
Extricate Wahabi/Deobandi ISIS cancer from body politic – by Fawaz Turki: The four-minute, 40-second video was unendurable and the horror it depicted was beyond redemption: James Foley, a young American journalist abducted in Syria in 2012 and not heard from since last Tuesday, is shown kneeling in a desert setting
Saudis Must Stop Exporting Salafi Extremism – by Ed Husain: ALONG with a billion Muslims across the globe, I turn to Mecca in Saudi Arabia every day to say my prayers. But when I visit the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, the resting place of the Prophet
Indonesia president says Islamic State ’embarrassing’ Muslims: The president of the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, Indonesia, has called the actions of Islamic State militants “embarrassing” to the religion and urged Islamic leaders to unite in tackling extremism. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the scale of the
British Muslims blame jihadi subculture after beheading video – by Kate Holton and Raheem Salman: LONDON/BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A British Muslim leader called for action on Thursday to tackle a jihadi sub-culture after an Islamic State video showed a suspected Briton beheading U.S. journalist James Foley, held hostage in Syria. In Washington, U.S.
Expect exponential increase in home grown terror, thanks to the internet – by Ali Abbas Taj: While we appreciate Secretary Kerry and the administration finally seeing the light on the dangers of funding and arming Syrian rebel, now manifested as ISIS, it cannot be emphasized enough that this is an ideology that the world
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mayhem in Mesopotamia: A mess of extremist Salafi Deobandi hatred – by Agha Jafri: What began in Syria during the spring of 2011 as a simple uprising by a few so-called rebels has blossomed into a brazen and bloody movement led by the Salafi cabal, housed in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and
How does the “Sunni vs Shia” prism explain the Genocide of Christians and Yazdis by Wahabi/Deobandi ISIS – by Syed Riaz Al-Malik Hajjaji: Those were the days when ISIS was known by a different set of vowels and consonants like FSA. Back then they were just chewing on Shia livers, massacring Christians and attacking Sunni Kurds. Who would have thought
Iraq crisis: West’s ‘mandate’ limited by national borders – and don’t dare mention oil – by Robert Fisk: In the Middle East, the first shots of every war define the narrative we all dutifully follow. So too, this greatest crisis since the last greatest crisis in Iraq. Christians fleeing for their lives? Save them. Yazidis starving on
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
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
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
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
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
US actions in Iraq fueled rise of a rebel – by Tim Arango & Eric Schmitt: BAGHDAD — When American forces raided a home near Falluja during the turbulent 2004 offensive against the Iraqi Wahabi/Deobandi insurgency, they got the hard-core militants they had been looking for. They also picked up an apparent hanger-on, an
‘Thank God for the Saudis’: ISIS, Iraq, and the Lessons of Blowback – by Steve Clemons: “Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar,” John McCain told CNN’s Candy Crowley in January 2014. “Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar, and for our Qatari friends,” the senator said once again a month later,
British ‘Primark jihadist’ killed fighting for Wahabi/Deobandi Islamic State – by Martin Evans: A former Primark worker from Portsmouth has become the latest Briton to be killed in the Middle East fighting for the feared Jihadist group Islamic State. Muhammad Hamidur Rahman, 25, whose father runs an Indian Restaurant travelled to
Isis Salafi Wahabi militants ‘buried alive Yazidi women and children in attack that killed 500’ – The Independent: Militants in north-western Iraq have buried women and children alive during their offensive against the Yazidi ethnic minority, according to Iraq’s minister for human rights. The bodies were reportedly found in a mass grave in the wake of
داعش فی العقول والقلوب ۔ ناھض حتر – از عامر حسینی: ناھض حتر عرب دنیا کے ایک معروف دانش ور ہیں اور انھوں نے روزنامہ “الاخبار بیروت”کی تازہ اشاعت میں ایک مضمون “داعش فی العقول و القلوب”کے عنوان سے لکھا ہے اس مضمون میں انھوں نے بنیادی خیال یہ پیش
عراق کی مظلوم یزدی اقلیت پر داعش کے سلفی وہابی خلیفہ ابوبکر کے مظالم – فہمیدہ ریاض: عراق میں شدت پسند گروہ داعش (نام نہاد اسلامی ریاست جس کا خلیفہ ابو بکر سلفی بغدادی ہے) کی غارت گری میں ایک ایسی کمیونٹی کے قتال کا بھی زکر حال ہی میں آیا جن کا نام “یزیدی ”
Najaf takes in Christians displaced by Wahabi/Deobandi Islamic State – Al-Monitor: NAJAF, Iraq — After Christians were forced to leave Mosul and other areas that fell under the control of the Islamic State (IS), Kurdish and Shiite dominated cities opened their doors to receive them. Religious authorities adopted stances
Wahabi/Deobandi Extremists in Iraq Seize 3 Towns From Kurds and Threaten Major Dam: BAGHDAD — Wahabi/Deobandi extremists seized control of three towns in northern Iraq on Sunday after fierce battles with Kurdish security forces, sending thousands of people fleeing to the nearby mountains and threatening the country’s largest dam. In
Salafi/Deobandi islamic state seizes small towns In Iraq’s north – by Ahmed Rasheed and Raheem Salman: BAGHDAD, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Islamic State fighters seized control of Iraq’s biggest dam, an oilfield and three more towns on Sunday after inflicting their first major defeat on Kurdish forces since sweeping across much of northern
Humanisation of ISIS will not work – by Ali Wahab: In mid June 2014, news started circulating of the capture of Mosul, a city of nearly 2 million inhabitants in Northern Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, referred to as Isil. Not only news