About 60 Deobandi and Sunni Muslim scholars to Meet in Hyderabad, India, To ‘Save’ Youth From ISIS Influence
Feb 23, 2016
For the first time in India, about 60 Muslim scholars, mostly from the Deobandi and Sunni faith from across the country, will be assembling in Hyderabad on Tuesday to pass a resolution condemning the dreaded Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (IS). They will give a call to the Muslim youths against getting attracted to the outfit.
Though the community leaders have already been issuing statements separately and holding counselling sessions in the mosques during Fridays and Sundays, they realised the need to give a united call and strongly condemn the IS activities that they feel are bringing bad repute to Islam.
All India Muslim Personal Law Board secretary Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani and Khalil Ahmed have taken the initiative to bring the scholars together through an international conference on “Life and Teachings of Prophet Mohammed and The Determined Stand of Muslims against Islamic State (DAESH) and Its Threat to Humanity”. Sources told Mirror that the platform would chalk out programmes to educate the community youths how the ISIS deeds are against Islam and the Quran.
While the Narendra Modi government has been trying to get closer to Sunni sub-sect of the community that is dominant in the country, Deobandhis, who do not believe in practices like offering prayers at Dargahs and believe that Allah is the only God and that there are no mediators in between, has remained untouched by the government in its initiatives to protect Indian Muslim youths from the influence of IS. Home Minister Rajnath Singh held a meeting last month to call upon the community leaders and scholars to prevent the youths from getting attracted to the IS.
Hyderabad has lost one youth, Atif Mohammed Waseem, who got attracted to the IS and died while working for it in Syria in April last year. About a dozen youths have been stopped by intelligence agencies when they were on their way to Libya. They are all under constant intelligence watch. The IS, which declared India as its target, has been trying to lure the youths through networking sites and through its offline mechanisms.
Last month, Jamaat-E-Islami Hind (JIH) chief Jalaluddeen Umri termed youths getting attracted to the IS as useless fellows (bevakoofs).
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) party president Asaduddin Owaisi too has issued statements condemning the IS, its philosophy and activities. He said only two dozen youths from the large community had got attracted to the dreaded ideology of the IS.
In August last, as many as 1,050 Muslim scholars, Muftis and Imams had issued a joint fatwa against the IS. They wrote a common letter to the UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon strongly condemning the IS deeds and declaring it as an anti-Islamic outfit.
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As Soldiers Fought Terrorists in J&K, Mosques nearby Hailed Mujahid
M Saleem Pandit | TNN | Feb 23, 2016
PAMPORE: A large swathe around the Pampore encounter site resounded with praise for ‘Mujahid’ (holy warriors) from loudspeakers as Indian security forces fought terrorists holed up in a building for three days.
Mosques in localities like Frestabal, Drangbal, Kadlabal and Sempora played recordings throughout Monday eulogising the terrorists. Slogans like ‘ Jaago, jaago subah hui’ besides pro-Pakistan ( Jivey, jivey Pakistan!) and pro-Azadi (‘ Hum kya chahatey: azadi’) blared from the mosques’ loudspeakers.
Hundreds of youth assembled across the rivulet at the site of the encounter in the Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI) building, with clashes reported with security forces in their bid to cross the stream to try and physically prevent the security forces from launching combat operation against the terrorists. Sempora is a mere 15 km from Srinagar.
Police and paramilitary forces prevented the crowd from crossing the rivulet by firing tear gas shells from boats. In return, angry youths pelted cops with stones in a locality near Sempora, sources said.
Intelligence agencies, sources said, were taken aback by loud speakers blaring encomium on the terrorists. However, the police could not enter the mosques to stop these recordings, possibly supplied by Pakistan in recent months, said an IB source.
The entire Pulwama district, including the separatist hotbed of Tral, observed a complete shutdown on Monday in “solidarity” with the holed-up terrorists, stated posters put up by the separatists.
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Certainly a good move which should be appreciated. But question is how? Would they reject the trend which first issue the fatwa – e. – kufr and then fatwa e. Wajibul qatal ! Will they tell that ” there is no compulsion in the matter of faith ” ( they believe that this ayat is no relevant after the permission of Jehad ) ? Will they declare that Islam not only validates the best moral values of religions, but also accepts religious diversity when says ” your religion is for you, mine is for me ” ? Will they condemn that ideology which says ” kill that kafir and reserve a berth in the heaven ” ? Will they strongly declare that difference of opinions does not mean that he has been deprived from all basic rights? Will they condemn all those Pakistani moulvies who are speeding hatred? If they are really serious that Muslim youth donot join terrorist organizations, that ideology should be rejected which opens the door for terrorist organizations, which makes a youth intolerant, which spreads hatred and justify the murder of innocents.