India must isolate Pakistani radicals and army establishment

[Asadullah Syed]

Radical Islamism & Jihad	Wednesday, 16 Sep 2009
	Islamist terrorism, the ideology of the supremacy of Islam and the Tablighi Jamaat?
	The threat of Islamist terrorism was not recognised at the time but the ideology of the supremacy of Islam was present in Kysar’s fundamentalism and “no compromise” attitude. The problem with this 'extremist' sect is not that it proselytises, but it seems to have so little contact with the outside world. He's right in that the Tablighi Jamaat copy Muhammad in all his customs, even it is reported, eschewing beds for sleeping and toothbrushes for cleaning teeth; they use a twig. But he is wrong about their interest in non-believers, indicating the serious religion "blind spot" that bedevils coverage of world affairs now. If it were the duty of the Tablighi Jamaat to convert non-believers, there might be a freer debate than there is. -- Jenny Taylor The TJ is said to have 80 million followers around the world and wants to build a so-called mega mosque in Newham, east London.  A combination of factors has caused increasingly alarm in Britain about the Tabligh. What I wanted to know was why they were building a new ‘global headquarters’ – as it’s been called - in London. -- Jenny Taylor I attended one of those meetings as a reporter in August 1989 and heard young men decry the evils of drink, discos and “free intermingling of the sexes”. One called Kysar, then aged 19, told me: “Islam isn’t a religion where you can only adopt part of it. You have to adopt the whole Islamic viewpoint on society. There can be no compromise with the divine system revealed to us.”. -- Sean O'Neill 1 Comments		More...
Current affairs The Baloch perspective The Baloch are not half as well integrated with the rest of Pakistan as, say, those hailing from Sindh. Their elected leaders at the centre and in the province do not enjoy the same representative status as do leaders from other provinces. The reason is that when the 2008 elections took place, Balochistan was in the grip of turmoil and Baloch nationalists had boycotted the polls. As for the building of Gwadar port and the coastal highway by the Musharraf regime, nationalists allege, with some weight in their argument, that these projects have largely bypassed local communities. Sliding law and order has kept the Baloch at bay from job opportunities created at the port and the labour employed at the port is mostly from Sindh. -- Murtaza Razvi More... Radical Islamism & Jihad India must isolate Pakistani radicals and army establishment India must choose which Pakistan it wants to support, and which it wants to isolate and hopefully defeat over time. Clearly, we must work to erode the credibility and legitimacy of Pakistan's armed forces establishment whose very reason to be is its festering animosity towards India. Islamic fundamentalists are the second group to be opposed. It is not mere coincidence the two are aligned in vicious opposition to India and subvert by coordinated, violent means any move to improve bilateral relations. Pakistan-bashing, on which some sections of India's political spectrum and media thrive, strengthens the hands of these two groups. Nothing serves their purpose better than a bellicose India flexing muscles and vocal chords against Pakistan which they claim to represent. The reaction to Sharm el-Sheikh must have been music to their ears. -- Rajiv Kumar More... Books and Documents Eight years later, slew of fascinating books on 9/11 9/11 still excites our imagination of jihadis and their joyless world. Journalists living and working out of Pakistan and Afghanistan paint a bleak, gloomy picture It was Benazir versus Nawaz for two decades before Gen Musharraf added himself to the mix. Razvi’s description of the dictator-President is sympathetic, showing Gen Musharraf as a man who tried hard to change the system, change himself, even change the military-civilian equation, and utterly failed at all three. He may now face a trial for treason, certainly, the last hasn’t been heard from Pakistan’s former President just yet. With indications that Gen Musharraf may (re)turn to Pakistani politics once the moratorium on his entry expires (two years since he gave up the uniform) in November, this book has a renewed relevance. -- Suhasini Haidar More... Urdu Section Following the Quran a must for the survival of humanity By Yusuf Rampuri   More... Islamic Ideology INDONESIA: STONE AGE OR SPACE AGE? A provincial decision on adultery doesn’t characterize the whole country Indonesia will be the 7th largest economy in the world by 2045, bigger than Japan, the UK or Germany, says a Standard Charter Bank Report, September 2nd entitled Indonesia: Asia´s Emerging Powerhouse.  And Indonesia will probably have to be a nuclear power by then to meet high volume demand for clean energy. It is perhaps a good thing that an outgoing defeated provincial parliament of yesterday´s men in Aceh have made such a stupid decision. They clearly don’t care or are not aware of the impact this will have on the reputation of Indonesia or Islam. A recent report in the UK Sunday Times (26.07.09) confirmed that voluntary use of shariah law to resolve family and commercial disputes is increasingly common, with non-Muslims starting to use it to solve business problems in the Muslim community. -- Terry Lacey More... Islamic World News Muntadhar al-Zeidi, Iraqi shoe thrower who attacked Bush, released U.N. Finds Signs of War Crimes on Both Sides in Gaza International Music Week would start in Baku this week Obama Rejects Afghanistan-Vietnam Comparison New York City Police Department 'clarifies' report on radical Islam Iran Agrees to New Talks with 6 Global Powers Al-Qaida target killed in US Somali strike Afghan's presidential candidate calls for criminal enquiry Are Islamic Financial Products Taxable In Nigeria? Israel grants immunity to soldiers over misdeed Sheikh-ul-Islam: We will not be able to take even 2000 people to Hajj Trouser-woman’s case shows Arab violations  KARACHI: Muslims urged to do more for Palestinians ABU DHABI — Terror Funding Case verdict Likely on Oct. 12 Islamist legal warfare or "lawfare”: Libel tourism overshadowed threat to free and open discourse on radical Islam, terrorism, and its sources of funding Growing Islamophobia in London is dangerous Compiled by Aman Quadri More.

Asadullah Syed