Thursday, January 15, 2015

Is Daesh New Kid on the Block?

By:      Aasef Chauhdry
 
Daesh or ISIS is talk of the town these days. Till few days back they were heard fighting and committing atrocities only in Iraq, Syria. However, recently they have been reported extending their activities in the neighbouring countries as well. It has become a fashion to join or promote any group that surface, taking the name of Islam. These days such groups gain overnight popularity. People would talk about them promote them and even many cases blindly join them, without even going into their background or history. More than a decade back, exactly this thing happened when Al Qaeda came into being. The militants belonging to Al Qaeda were termed as the heroes of Islam who were fighting against anti-Muslim forces. Nevertheless, with the passage of time the group’s follies exposed them and gradually their popularity graph started falling down.

As a consequence of Afghanistan Jihad, following the popularity and effectiveness of genuine Afghan Taliban, the militants in the tribal belt and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa adopted the name of Pakistani Taliban. The masterminds behind them were certainly the forces who had vested interests in Pakistan and categorically the tribal belt to achieve their goals. They purposely and wickedly gave these terrorists the name Taliban just to confuse the world and bring a bad name to the genuine Taliban who attained fame of their just cause and fight for the liberation of Afghanistan. These so-called Pakistani Taliban who were proven playing into the hands of the American, Indian, Iranian, Afghan and British intelligence agencies, started the terrorists activities throughout the country. They killed innocent people and played with the lives of thousands of inopportune Pakistanis. Beside this the blast and suicidal attacks on the military installations and other set-ups left no doubt about their loyalties.

With the passage of time, on the same very issue the differences between various factions within the Taliban organisation developed. There were folks who believed in dialogues and only targeting the military points but there were others also who wanted to disrupt the routine national life. Finally much talked Taliban met their horrible felt. on one hand they were severely punished by the armed forces that made them run from pillar to post, may that was Swat or it is Waziristan while on the other hand they disunited hence lost the control. their horrible fate was a nightmare for the masters who were dreaming to dismember Pakistan. Those ignorant who wanted to fight it as their own battle are doing so and are being punished at the hands of armed forces in operation Zarb-e-Azb whereas, those who are puppets in the foreign hands have found a new cozy lap of Daesh.

Recently, some of the thrown out cases like ex-TTP spokesperson Shahid Ullah Shahid along with five senior commanders of Orakzai Agency, Kurram Agency, Khyber Agency, Hangu and Peshawar announced their allegiance to terrorist group Islamic State of Daesh. I wonder if they know that what this ISIS or Daesh is all about, however, if they know at all then it comfortably exposes their linkage and affiliations. These new ‘faithful soldiers’ of the Daesh State, besides distributing literature / pamphlets, are also wall chalking in Peshawar to join and support the group. No wonder, if in many cases even AbuBakar AlBaghdadi would know even, about these volunteers of the “State”.

A hectic media war is intensely going on to prove Daesh good and prove them bad. Someone recently posted a footage where foreign analysts are bashing ISIS and blaming them to be the agents of Israeli Secret Service. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152619864314262. But ironically the ill informed public unwittingly and without realizing the consequences are playing into the hands of the enemy by doing wall chalking and pasting posters in Daesh’s favour, here and there in the country. There are some authenticated reports that the most controversial organization of Daesh in Mosul want to rewrite the Holy Quran, removing various verses which the organization allege is distorted and incorrect; according to the “Afaq Al-Iraq” channel from private sources. After seeing the clip posted above, no doubt left about the origin of ISIS elements. As reported by the site of “Al-Mowaten” members of Daesh continued by saying the verses they wish to remove we’re placed by corrupt distorted clerics to serve other religions and sects such as Christianity and others. The report stated that the chapters which the organization of Daesh wishes to alter include the chapter of “Al-Kafiroon” and verses of purification.

TTP has been weighed down by bitter internal rivalries over the past year, with the influential Mehsud tribal faction of the group refusing to accept the authority of Mullah Fazalullah. ISIS, in an effort to extend its global reach, could exploit these rivalries to its advantage, wading into a region ripe with fierce anti-Western ideology and full of young unemployed men ready to take up guns and fight for Islam. The vulnerability appears to be dangerous meriting condemnation by the entire nation.

By terming killing of innocent people as anti Islam, Pakistan Ulema Council has appealed to youth not to join extremist organization of ISIS, which promote violence for their vested interests. Saudi Grand Mufti also called these terrorists as Khawarij, calling Muslim leaders to hit them hard. Those who still have any doubt about Daesh’s love for Islam, may like to follow this link and watch the clip. http://tune.pk/video/4263550/daesh-and-real-islam-is-religion-for-violence-and-hurt-humans

The order of the day is that the terrorists are enemies of Islam and all their activities are entirely anti Islam. There are no two opinions about that. Another hard fact is that terrorists are in the state of panic due to successful military operation against them which has broken their back bone. By announcing allegiance with ISIS they intend to muster financial and psychological support. It’s high time that the government of Pakistan must employ their all sources to create awareness among the crowds to make them aware about the reality of this suspicious group. At the same time our media must play its important and vital role to warn people and stop them from playing into the hands of Pakistan’s enemies.

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