Saudi Arabia bankrolled many groups due to oil money while the USA backed them.
This was cold war politics. Religious radicals were supported to keep communists in check now that the cold war has ended these radical groups have long overstayed their welcome.
Pakistan was hit hard the most due to the aftermath of the Afghan war when the Soviets retreated.
A lot of people tend to blame Zia Ul Haq. Zia Ul Haq may not have been a pleasant man but without him Pakistan would not be nuclear and not where it is today. Despite Pakistan suffering from numerous terrorist attacks, corruption along with poverty not to mention India waging a proxy war against them. It is a wonder that the country survived this long.
Funny how Al Qaeda went from helping Afghanis fight the Soviets into a group that would start killing innocent people and start a global war again aka the War on Terror which would get Afghanistan and Iraq invaded after that decades of a shitshow that would claim thousands of Muslim lives and Non Muslim lives.
Shows once again how the oppressed can become the oppressors.
Right on everything brother, except the Afghan war.
ALQ like Daesh are all creations of the same people. I need not state it again and again.
Mujahideen of Afghanistan who defended Afg, Iran, and Pakistan from USSR were heroes.
The one going to Jannat is the one who never came in this world and who was in her womb. Committing Suicide will only earn you HELLFIRE. Suicide is the worst of all sins and is forbidden in Quran and Islam. The one who commits suicide doest even know two cents about Quran and Islam teachings. All the good deeds which the person committed are erased and worst he will die of the same suicide which he committed in this world again and again and again as a punishment in the afterworld till the day of judgment. So he or she gained nothing but hellfire. Our ideology is the best for us !!! Just like your ideology is the best for you. Remember what you did in Gujrat and what you are doing in Kashmir and poor people who are killed for cows!!! Remember !!!
Suicide bombing is an act, it is not the same as suicide and similar to how German and Japanese pilots at the last stages of WW2 sacrificed themselves to take down Allied planes and ships.
The thing which is haram and blame-worthy in Islam is the act of killing civilians. If one dies in this endeavor, he goes straight to Hellfire, no exceptions.
I will give you an example: both Taliban and pro-US groups like TTP, NDS used suicide bombing against each other in the war in Afghanistan. Mostly they targeted each other’s bases or soldiers. This is warfare.
The attack in SL is heinous because it targeted non-combatants, who were innocent bystanders not involved in any conflict with anyone.
It was an easy soft target, and could have easily been LTTE rather than Daesh.
Muslims, at large, cannot be held to account for several reasons.
1. Daesh are not Muslims, but Khwarij
2. There is no conflict, no grievance which Muslims of SL have against Christians.
3. Muslims are already under threat by Buddhist terrorist mobs led by radical monks who have attacked Muslim businesses, encouraged boycott of Muslims under “No Halal” slogans, and pressured SL gov to be tougher on Muslims by mobilizing the public
4. Every Muslim is not responsible for the acts of anyone who claims to be Muslim, let alone a deviant heresy like Daesh with known connections to Israel/US
We need to cure this cancer within our ranks and stop being in denial mode and stop blaming everyone else for this S***. If you want to teach your kid about your religion, Teach him/her yourself instead of outsourcing to Franchises. Nothing Good comes from them.
Did these terrorists come from your sect? I was unaware of that.
Here we go again blame anyone but the terrorists, man you are truly a scum its no wonder people like you give more ammo to Islamophobes. You're clogged from balls to brain and you don't even realise how dumb you come across when you keep writing about your make belief conspiracy theories.
Nowhere did I defend these terrorists who targeted innocent Christians.
Don’t try to play off your own hate of Islam and Muslims on me.
Learn to be civil and discuss the topic at hand.
I agree with you.
And I say this again and again : almost all terrorists/extremists from among Muslims are "educated" and generally well-off. They fall victim to the sweet-worded brainwashing of the Tableeghi Jamaats. The TJ is the first step towards religious radicalism, therefore it has to be dismantled.
On PDF, we find members like
@war&peace and
@AfrazulMandal who are probably victims of the brainwashing of the TJs and they must begin to see reason and rationality.
Every single person here has their own synopsis on the situation, and their own group whom they blame but the fact is obvious.
These people had an agenda, which we do not know. They did not represent the Muslim community of SL.
Atleast,
@war&peace and I have been consistent in our analysis of the situation.
Accept it or not, but bigger forces are at play here than just Daesh.
SL is a battleground state for China-Pakistan and India-US.
Many people want to see SL pivot right wing Islamophobic, most of all India and Burma.
There is a reason they are flooding social media with fake news of historical Muslim atrocities against Buddhists, etc.
Conclusion is that we need zero tolerance of hate speech in Islam. Any Imam gets away with murder in public speeches. You let people take an inch and soon they will take the whole foot.
Not only Islam, but hate speech should not be allowed by Buddhists, Hindus, Christians (West,) or Jews as well.
It should be universal, but Muslims are more often the victims of hate speech and hate crimes all over the globe than vice versa.
Islamophobia unites many disparate people all around the world. A helpless Muslim minority is an easy punching bag and scapegoat for all a nations’ problems.
From the West, Europe, Christian Africa, Russia, Israel, India, Burma, and even some “Muslim” states like BD, it is the newest popular trend.
They are depressed, suicidal, misfit Muslims being used by everyone like a cheap profilactic. Are you expecting these creatures to bring Kashmir back for you?
They, Daesh, are cold-blooded, well trained killers on a mission. They did their job well in Syria and Iraq, having learned from the best experts in Israel.
They were instrumental in US involvement in Syria and global support for PKK.
They pushed hard to defeat the Taliban with full US/NATO blessings but failed miserably.
Every Pakistani and Afghan will tell you that.
We have been watching US evacuate Daesh fighters from Taliban clutches over and over in the past few years.
Game is up, we know who is responsible for these terrorist acts.