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The Savagery of Fundamentalist Islamists
Dt: 25/8/14
The Savagery of Fundamentalist Islamists
Dr T.H.Chowdary*
When homo –sapiens, that is, human beings evolved from their ancestors monkeys and apes they were savagers . There used to be murderous inter-tribal battles . The victorious used to behead the defeated and the leader of the victorious tribe used to sport a garland of skulls. Such savagery survived among the Dayaks, a primitive tribe in Malaysia till the 1940s . The Dayaks were exterminated by the government of Malaysia in the late 1940s.
2. This fact of history comes to memory when we read about Pakistan’s soldiers beheading the Indian soldiers caught from across the line of control in J&K and the recent beheading by the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL); of the US journalist James Foley. The ISIL is also beheading; hundreds of Yazidis a 4000 -year old religious group in the territory of north-west Iraq and Syria. When the Islamist foreigners like Mohammed Ghori invaded India , they had the savage practice of beheading thousands of defeated soldiers and making pyramids of their heads for exhibition in the city -centers in order to strike terror among the natives. Similarly, when Ahmed Abdali of Afghanistan and Nadirshah of Iran invaded India, they too beheaded thousands of Hindus & Sikhs who fought them their heads dripping with blood were assembled into pyramids and exhibited for days . In the after -math of the 2nd battle of Paniput in 1556, the young Akbar was urged by his word Byram Khan to cut off the head of Hemu the defeated Hindu General . By that act Akbar was told that he would become a Ghazi and would go to the highest level of heaven according to their faith. Throughout the history of Islamist conquests in India and elsewhere it was an accepted and venerable practice for the Islamist conquerors to behead the defeated if they did not accept conversion to Islam. It appears that this is a sanctioned jihadi practice which has been surviving throughout the history of Islamist conquests in several parts of the world.
3. This savagery of the Islamist jihadis is in full operation by the newly established Caliphate of Abu Bakr Al Bagdadi and the armies of the ISIL Yazidis who are about a million in numbers live in and around Sinjar in north-west Iraq astride Syria. Their land has come under the occupation of ISIL which ordered that the Yazidis should convert to Islam or face death or expulsion from their land .
4. The Christians in the same territory ( a few from Andhra Pradesh are also working there ) since they belong to the Book are given the choice of conversion are expulsion. They are not being beheaded as the Yazidis who are not either Christians or Muslims but follow a faith with elements from Sanatan Dharma, Zorastrianism and even Islam.
5. It is not very surprising that not one Muslim organisation in this country has condemned the genocidal and savage actions of the Islamists of the ISIL in fact the ISLM includes India in the territory to be conquered for the Caliph. The venerable cleric of the very old Islamic organisation Darul-ul-Uloom of Lucknow has sent a message of approval and sympathy and support to the ISIL in its jihad to establish the caliphate for the entire umma. It is reported that 500,000 Muslim residents of India have expressed willingness to go and fight. In the ranks of the ISIL and a few thousands from Maharashtra have already applied for visas to go to Iraq and join the ISIL armies. The ISIL is murderous of not only Yazidis and Christians but also Muslims of the Shia sect. The ideological allies of the ISIL in Pakistan have been day after day bombing and killing shias and this Shia- Sunni slaughter is going on also in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and in some other places.
6. Another curious thing is that while some Muslim organisation in Hyderabad & elsewhere and their congenital allies, communist and leftist intellectuals are calling upon India to condemn Israel its defensive war against the Hamas and Hijbullah ( party of god) in Gaza they have no word to denounce or disapprove what the ISIL jihadi armies are doing to Yazidis, Christians and even to Shias . India’s Muslim organsiations which brought Rohingyas, (the illegal infiltrators into Myanmar now expelled from there) for re-settlement in Delhi & Hyderabad, are stony -silent about the massacres of Yazidis (and Shias) in Iraq-Syria .
7. Bharat has given refuge and shelter to the persecuted in the world - Jews in the first century , and Parsis in the 8-10 centuries . It is giving refuge to Tibetan exiles . The Yazidis are, according to some accounts, nature -worshippers like Hindus. Many rituals of theirs are Hindus. It is most appropriate the first fully Bhratiya government headed by Sri Narendra Modi exerts itself to bring to India’s safety the persecuted and imperilled Yazidis. In the first instance it must raise this issue of Islamist persecution and genocide of religious minorities by the ISIL, before international bodies like the UN.
8. It will be a great service to humanity if India exerts itself to bring the imperilled Yazidis and give refuge to them in this sacred land in the spirit of our sanatan dharma. Nationalist and true intellectuals and humanists in the country must call upon the Muslim residents of India and the Islamists governments and the member countries of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) to raise their voice against the savagery of the fundamentalists operating in the name of Islam which is held to be a religion of peace. Peace should not be only among one sect of believers of that religion. Peace must be universal to encompass people of all faiths and all lands. Bharat’s espousal of the case of Yazidis will signal to the world that it is on the path of becoming a Jagadguru once again. (990 words)
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