WRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/50868
There is a case to be made for the plight of the Muslim underclass in
India just as there is a case to be made for the plight of the Black
underclass in USA. But Jaffor Ullah seems to have merely used it as an
excuse to whitewash vicious crimes of Pakistan-based terrorist
outfits. I invite Jaffor Ullah to watch the following and see for
himself how much he sounds like Pakistan's Zaid Hamid:
http://www.hotklix.com/?ref=content/152704
In fact, Jaffor Ullah has tried to be even more loyal than the king in
his asinine write-up. Not even Pakistan's President is denying the
Pakistani connection to the Mumbai carnage. In fact the Pakistan
President's appeal to India has been not to allow "non-state actors
from Pakistan" to hijack Pakistan-India relations.
The prime suspect for the carnage is the infamous Wahabi terrorist
outfit "Laskar-e-Taiba" which incongruously translates into "army of
the pious". Knowledgeable Pakistanis (including Pakistan's current
Ambassador to USA, Hussain Haqqani) have no illusions about this
vicious group. Here is Hussain Haqqani's article on Laskar-e-Taiba:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140676/posts
The Ideologies of South Asian Jihadi Groups (Laskar-e-Taiba)
By Hussain Haqqani
The most significant jihadi group of Wahhabi persuasion is
Lashkar-e-Taiba (The Army of the Pure) found ed in 1989 by Hafiz
Muhammad Saeed. Backed by Saudi money and protected by Pakistani
intelligence services, Lashkar-e-Taiba became the military wing of
Markaz al-Dawa wal-Irshad (Center for the Call to Righteousness).
Saeed created a large campus and training facility at Muridke, outside
the Pakistani metropolis of Lahore. After the U.S. froze
Lashkar-e-Taiba's assets and called for it to be banned, Saeed changed
his organization's name in Pakistan to Jamaat-ul-Dawa (the Society for
Preaching). Pakistani authorities have been reluctant to move against
either Lashkar, which continues to operate in Kashmir, or
Jamaat-ul-Dawa, which operates freely in Pakistan. Lashkar-e-Taiba and
Jamaat-ul-Dawa scaled down their military operations against India to
help Pakistan honor its commitments to the U.S. and India. But Saeed
remains free and continues to expand membership of his organization
despite divisions in its leadership.
Under U.S. pressure, General Musharraf placed Jamaat-ul-Dawa on a
watch list in November 2003.
Lashkar-e-Taiba has adopted a maximalist agenda for global jihad
though its operations so far have been limited to Kashmir. The group
justifies its ideology on the basis of the Quranic verse that says,
"You are obligated to fight even though it is something you do not
like" (2:216). Extrapolating from this verse, the group asserts that
military jihad is a religious obligation for all Muslims. The group
then defines the many circumstances in which that obligation must be
carried out.=2 0
For example, a Markaz al-Dawa wal-Irshad publication titled Hum Jihad
kyun Kar rahe hain? (Why Are We Waging Jihad?), declares the United
States, Israel and India as existential enemies of Islam. It lists
eight reasons for Jihad:
1) to eliminate evil and facilitate conversion to and practice of Islam;
2) to ensure the ascendancy of Islam;
3) to force non-Muslims to pay jizya (poll tax, paid by non-Muslims
for protection from a Muslim ruler);
4) to assist the weak and powerless;
5) to avenge the blood of Muslims killed by unbelievers;
6) to punish enemies for breaking promises and treaties;
7) to defend a Muslim state; and
8) to liberate Muslim territories under non-Muslim occupation.
This list of itself is sufficient to justify a virtual state of
permanent jihad. "Have all the obstacles to observing the faith in the
world been removed?" the unnamed author asks rhetorically, adding that
non-Muslim dominance of the global system makes jihad necessary. "Is
the current world order that of kafirs (unbelievers) or of Muslims? Is
the global economic system according to the wishes of Allah, which
requires the end of interest and usury?" Jihad is described as
essential to ensure ascendancy of Islam and to create circumstances
whereby non-Muslims would either convert to Islam or pay jizya. Fur
thermore, all major powers have broken their pledges to Muslims made
at one time or another, for which they must be punished, runs the
argument. "Are Muslims not being mistreated all over the world? Are
not weak Muslim men, women and children calling for help against
oppression from India, Kashmir, Philippines, Chechnya, Russia, China,
Bosnia and several other parts of the world? … Burma's Muslims are
under attack from Buddhists, who expel them from their homes … Israel
has pierced the dagger of its existence in the heart of the Arabs."
The Markaz/Lashkar/Jamaat-ul-Dawa movement construes Muslim
territories under non-Muslim occupation in the broadest sense.
"Muslims ruled Andalusia (Spain) for 800 years but they were finished
to the last man. Christians now rule (Spain) and we must wrest it back
from them. All of India, including Kashmir, Hyderabad, Assam, Nepal,
Burma, Bihar and Junagadh were part of the Muslim empire that was lost
because Muslims gave up jihad. Palestine is occupied by the Jews. The
Holy Qibla-e-Awwal (First Center of Prayer) in Jerusalem is under
Jewish control. Several countries such as Bulgaria, Hungary, Cyprus,
Sicily, Ethiopia, Russian Turkistan and Chinese Turkistan … were
Muslim lands and it is our duty to get these back from unbelievers.
Even parts of France reaching 90 kilometers outside Paris and some of
the forests and mountains of Switzerland were home to Muslim mujahidin
but are now under the occupation of unbelievers."
Some of20the arguments and claims might appear historically incorrect
or practically impossible but this does and will not deter a
closely-knit jihadi group from raising funds, organizing cadres and
fielding militants or terrorists in pursuit of a broadly defined
global jihad aimed at the revival of Islam's global ascendancy and
eventual domination.
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