Religious extremism & fundamentalism & radicalism Archive

Selective muslim outrage & social identity theory – by Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi: As I write this, news of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) bombing UN protected schools in Gaza is making the rounds. The impunity with which Israel is carrying out war crimes, the impotence of world powers and the UN,
ایل یو بی پاک کی خبر سچ ثابت – راشد رحمان ایڈوکیٹ کے قتل میں دیوبندی اہل سنت والجماعت کے دھشت گرد ملوث ہیں -ملتان پولیس: نوٹ :تعمیر پاکستان ویب سائٹ نے راشد رحمان کے مئی کے مہینے میں ہونے والے قتل بارے اپنی خصوصی رپورٹ میں انکشاف کیا تھا کہ راشد کا قتل کا تعلق اس منظم مذھبی فرقہ وارانہ دھشت گردی سے ہے
Closet ASWJ supporter Ilmana Fasih obfuscates genocide of Sunni Sufis and Shia Muslims at the hands of Deobandis: “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”  ― John F. Kennedy In the week of Eid, Muslims worldwide were still reeling from the latest atrocities committed by
Noam Chomsky: General Zia ul Haq and Saudi Arabia destroyed Pakistan’s public education – by Dr. Abbas Zaidi:   Pakistan’s right wing journalists and educated classes proudly claim that it was because of General Zia ul Haq that Pakistan’s top educational institutions like the Lahore Grammar School and Beacon House came into existence. The argument they give
Two Shia Hazara men shot dead in Quetta – by Syed Ali Shah: A Pakistani policeman (L) stands guard at the site of an attack by unknown gunmen in Quetta. — File photo by AFP QUETTA: Two members of the Shia Hazara community were gunned down on Wednesday in Spini road area
عید کے دن تین اور شیعہ جوان تکفیری دیوبندی دہشت گردی کا نشانہ بن گیے: کویٹہ میں عید کے دن تکفیری دیوبندی لشکر جھنگوی سپاہ صحابہ کی دہشت گردی کا نشانہ بننے والے شیعہ ہزارہ سکاوٹس سید ذاکر حسین اور سید جواد وہ پہلے شیعہ نہیں ہیں جو تکفیری دیوبندی دہشت گردوں کی وحشت
تکفیری دیوبندیوں کی جانب سے پر امن زکری برادری پر حملہ: پاکستان کے صوبہ بلوچستان کے ضلع خضدار میں زائرین کی بس کو دھماکے میں نشانہ بنایا گیا جس کے نتیجے میں سات افراد زخمی ہوگئے ہیں۔ لیویز فورس کے مطابق زخمی ہونے والے زائرین ہیں جو کہ کوہ مراد
Response to posts about Ayatullah Ali Khamenei’s tweet: There have been some posts on LUBP criticizing Ali Khamenei’s tweet: “Today a number of ppl commit crimes against #Shias in the name of #Takfiri, but they’re not the main enemies. Everyone should be aware!” This tweet was criticized
Long march to Islamabad: Imran Khan tells army to stay neutral – by Dr. Hasan Askari Rizvi: BANNU/KOHAT: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Monday demanded the army should not support the government and stay neutral in his party’s August 14 rally.Imran threatened to file a murder case against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif if violence
اردو زبان کی عربا ئزیشن – از امجد اسلام امجد:   Source: http://www.express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1102341373&Issue=NP_LHE&Date=20140727
Spectacular strategies – by Waseem Altaf:     Sectarian killings continue to take their toll as four Ahmadis were murdered Sunday night in Gujaranwala while on Eid day a Shia named Ahsan Manzoor has been gunned down in Karachi.  So let us protest and save
Statement of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V (aba) following Gujranwala Attack:   World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community condemns killing of 3 Ahmadi Muslims On 27 July 2014, Ahmadi Muslims in Kachi-Pump in Gujranwala were attacked by local extremists in a sectarian attack. During the attack, 3 Ahmadi Muslims,
One of the oldest Christian communities has been destroyed as the Salafi ISIS Caliphate spreads – by Robert Fisk: For three years, the Arab revolutions cast “Palestine” and Palestinians to the fringe of memory in the Middle East. And now the new bloodbath in Gaza has pushed to the corner of our consciousness the continuing tragedy of the
The Nation’s editorial: Sunnis must distance themselves from the intolerant Salafi-Deobandi ideology of ISIS militants in Iraq:     Editor’s note: We commend the Nation for specifically identifying the Takfiri Salafi Deobandi ideology as the root cause of terror and destruction. Indeed Sunnis have to fight this evil  and not allow Salafi and Deobandi to misrepresent
Demise of Humanity – by Syed Farrukh Abbas:     Four members of the Ahmadi community, including Three females and an Unborn child were killed late Sunday and four others were severely injured when an angry mob attacked and burnt 8 houses in Gujranwala (Punjab) . Punjab
اب ’سنی‘ بھی اسلامک اسٹیٹ کے نشانے پر: شدت پسند تنظیم اسلامک اسٹیٹ آئی ایس نے صوبہ دیالہ میں سنیوں کے پانچ گروپوں کو 48 گھنٹے تک کا وقت دیا ہے۔ اس دوران ان گروپوں کو یا تو اسلامک اسٹیٹ میں شامل ہونے کے بارے میں فیصلہ
The end of Christianity in the Middle East could mean the demise of Arab secularism – by William Dalrymple:     An Iraqi security officer guards the Church of the Virgin Mary in the northern town of Bartala, near Mosul, in 2012. Photograph: Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images The past decade has been catastrophic for the Arab world’s beleaguered 12
Sick ISIS Salafi video emerges showing 50 beheaded Syrian Christian, Shia and Sunni Sufi soldiers being impaled on poles and held aloft in Raqqa city:   Deobandi/Wahabi militants have reportedly beheaded dozens of soldiers at a Syrian army base and mounted their heads on poles. Salafoi/Deobandi Extremists from the group Islamic State, previously known as ISIS, seized the base in the northern province of
Pakistan: Violent mob sets fire to Ahmadi homes in Gujranwala under police watch: While the local police watched, Ahmadi houses are set on fire by a Islamist mob in People’s Colony of Gujranwala town in the central Punjab, a Province of Pakistan. The incident stated in the late evening on Sunday, July
Kurdistan Tribune: Doctors Confirm ISIS Use of Chemical Weapon in Kobanê, Syria:   Local doctors and officials have confirmed that the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS) used some sorts of chemical weapon that instantly killed Kurdish fighters during clashes in Kobanê of Rojava northeast Syria. Kobanê Canton Health Minister
The last Jews of Baghdad: Just SEVEN remain (and they fear for their lives after being named by WikiLeaks):       WikiLeaks published diplomatic cables from Baghdad which named the individuals of the small Jewish community. And now the American Embassy is trying to locate any Jewish diplomats who could help the exposed individuals take part in
تبلیغی جماعت دیوبندی تکفیری دہشت گردوں کی حامی و سرپرست ہے: تبلیغی جماعت سے تعلق رکھنے والے مولانا طارق جمیل دیوبندی ویسے تو دنیا بھر کو اسلام کا پر امن چہرہ دکھانے کے لئے کبھی جنید جمشید کو مسلمان کرتے نظر آتے ہیں تو کبھی وینا ملک کو توبہ تائب
Fleeing Iraqi Christians find safe haven at the Shrine of Imam Ali:     Editor’s Note: The Western media and their Secular Sectarian sycophants deliberately obfuscated the rise of ISIS as a “Shia-Sunni” proxy war. No mention of Saudi Arabia, US and France who facilitated ISIS in Syria to overthrow the
Meet this young Saudi doctor who joined ISIS and killed 30 people in a suicide attack!:   A Saudi Salafi doctor joined ISIS as a suicide bomber and killed 30 people in an attack on a checkpoint south of Kirkuk. It is not clear how Faisal bin Shaman al-Aanzi died or was killed. According to
Britain has forgotten its debt to the Christians of Iraq – by Kate Maltby:   An armed man outside a cathedral in Kirkuk, Iraq. (Photo: AP) “Nineveh city was a city of sin. The jazzin’ and a-jivin’ made a terrible din.” So starts Michael Hurd’s Jonah-Man Jazz, the Sixties incarnation of a long
My brother, the suicide bomber: why British men go to Syria – by Randeep Ramesh:     The bomber The last time Abdul Waheed Majeed spoke to his family, it was on a crackling telephone line from Syria at the end of January. He had arrived six months earlier on an aid convoy organised
ISIS’s Salafi Jihadists seize Syria army base, behead soldiers: Editor’s Note: This contradicts the theories of “liberals” who often theorize that Assad regime and ISIS are hand in hand and the real heros of Syria are the “moderate opposition” of Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Speaking of the “moderate opposition”,
HRW: ISIS Salafi militants are abducting, killing, expelling minorities in Iraq:   The Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) is killing, kidnapping, and threatening religious and ethnic minorities in and around the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Since capturing Mosul on June 10, 2014, the armed Sunni extremist group
Sunni and Shia Muslims join Christians in declaring ‘I am Iraqi, I am Christian’, condemn Salafi ISIS’s violence against minorities:   Hundreds rallied (link is external) in Baghdad on Sunday to show solidarity with Christians who are being threatened by the Islamic State (IS) group in northern Iraq. Thousands of Christians in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city are being forced by
Purged by ISIS, Iraq’s Christians appeal to world for help:   Iraqi Christians are begging for help from the civilized world after Mosul, the northern city where they have lived and worshiped for 2,000 years, was purged of non-Muslims by ISIS, the jihadist terror group that claims to have
Pakistan’s Shia Under Attack – by Phelim Kine:     The group of around 300 Shia Hazara pilgrims who had been visiting religious shrines in neighboring Iran never knew what hit them. Within minutes after they arrived at the Pakistani border town of Taftan on June 9, the heavily armed gunmen
Do Shias have a future in Pakistan? – by Soha Jafri:   So far in Pakistan more than 10,000 Shias have been killed (in direct attacks only). PHOTO: AFP How this could be possible? I shook my head in disbelief. “Ibn-e-Raza has been shot dead!” the voice reiterated itself. How someone
افغانستان: دیوبندی طالبان کے ہاتھوں شیعہ ہزارہ برادری کے 15 افراد کا قتل: افغانستان کے وسطی صوبہ غور میں حملہ آوروں نے دو منی بسوں کو روک کر 15 افراد کو ہلاک کردیا ہے۔ صوبہ غور پولیس کے سربراہ کے مطابق جمعرات اور جمعے کی درمیانی رات کو مسلح افراد نے دو
Iraqi Turkmens ‘left for dead’ in desert:     Hürriyet Photo, Selçuk Şamiloğlu A humanitarian tragedy is unfolding in Iraq as Turkmens who fled the advance of the feared Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are now succumbing to the region’s scorching summer sun
Bahrain’s Shia Muslims Tense as Politicians and Preachers Pledge Allegiance to ISIS: Photo from the profile of Turky Albinali, a Bahraini scholar who joined ISIS @turky_albinali For Bahrain’s majority Shia Muslim population, five recent events in their small island country ruled by Sunni Muslim al-Khalifa monarchs have them on edge. These events involved powerful
On Prophet Younis’s tomb’s destruction in Iraq – by Wasif Rizvi:   Who built Nabi Younis’s tomb? Who protected it, revered it for centuries? I bet 99.99% of the western Christians/Jews were not aware of its existence prior to now. Iraq is a beautiful culture of preserving and revering heritage
دنیا بھر میں سلفی وہابی اور دیوبندی دہشت گرد خون کے پیاسے ہیں – از حسن نثار:     Source : http://jang.com.pk/jang/jul2014-daily/17-07-2014/col2.htm
The Deobandi roots of Taliban and Haqqanis – by Robert Young Pelton: The Taliban were originally the sons of Afghan refugees who had gone to school in the madrassas run out of the refugee camps that had sprung up along the border. Although it was normal for Afghans to attend school
Poll reveals that 92% of Saudi Salafis support ISIS:       The Sakina Campaign plans to carry out a scientific survey to determine the position of the Saudi public on the “caliphate” announced by the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria. This comes after the results
Australian Salafi Jihadist arrested in Lebanon: A prominent Australian jihadist who reportedly commanded 300 militiamen and orchestrated clashes in Syria has been arrested in neighbouring Lebanon. The arrest of Hussam Sabbagh in Lebanon’s second city, Tripoli, has again underscored the substantial involvement of Australians in