According to\u00a0al-Gharaoui, a member of\u00a0the Iraqi Parliament\u2019s Security Committee, the new initiative may lead to\u00a0a further division in\u00a0the Muslim society and deepen the split between\u00a0various courses of\u00a0Islam. The coalition, which includes Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey, among\u00a0other nations, was created \u201cto counteract terrorism, which became a threat to\u00a0the interests of\u00a0the Islamic nation,\u201d according to\u00a0an official statement of\u00a0Riyadh authorities.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nAccording to the Defense Minister of\u00a0Saudi Arabia, Muhammad bin Salman Al Saud,\u00a0the coalition will fight not only against\u00a0Daesh, but\u00a0also against\u00a0other terrorist groups. It is unclear what exactly he means by \u2018other terrorist groups\u2019. The Saudis did mention one militant group though: Hezbollah. This is alarming as Hezbollah has been fighting for Palestinians and offering resistance to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. They are not viewed as a \u2018terrorist\u2019 group like the Daesh, rather looked upon with respect amongst the oppressed Muslims. It would be better for Saudis to first ask Iraqi and Palestinian Muslims what they think about Hezbollah before labeling them as terrorists!<\/p>\n
If this military coalition is expected to serve any purpose, it must include all Shia Muslim countries as well. The Muslim world is incomplete without Iran, Syria, Iraq, Bahrain and Lebanon. It is ironical that the countries most infested with ISIS\/Daesh, like Iraq and Syria, are not included in this military coalition! Who is Saudi Arabia fooling?<\/p>\n
As a Sunni Muslim, it is painful for me to see the way we were pushing Shia Muslims away from us. They are our brothers and we should bridge the gaps instead of highlighting the minor differences we have them. Have we forgotten the lesson of peace and unity that our Prophet PBUH preached all his life?<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t have any hope of any intelligent or reasonable response from Pakistan\u2019s political leadership; the ones who are incapable of handling their own country properly cannot be expected to lead the whole Ummah at times of crises. I do, however, expect Pakistan\u2019s military leadership to be watchful while being part of any coalition that aims to target other Muslim countries or sects. These are truly the most testing times for the Ummah and we see the situation worsening gradually. The only hope of salvation is by returning to our Deen and the message of Quran, but we deliberately choose to ignore it.<\/p>\n
What to say about other Muslim countries when the so-called \u2018custodian\u2019 of \u2018Harmain Shareefain is the biggest supporter and abettor of terrorism in the world! It is sickening and revolting to see that they would rather support the Zionist and Apartheid state of Israel than the Muslim Shia Iran! They would rather support the cut-throats of Daesh Khawarij then support the Shia Muslim, Bashar al Assad, who is still, by the way, the legitimate ruler of Syria, however despotic or dictatorial he may be, is a separate debate altogether.<\/p>\n
No country has the right to interfere in the internal matters of any other sovereign state. Whether it is the USA, the so-called super power of the world or KSA, the so-called leader of Ummah, none of them has the right to run every country the way they want! They do not have the right to bring a regime of their choice in other countries. Period. If we have any sense of dignity and integrity as human beings, we, the countries silently watching, should call their bluff.<\/p>\n
Time of empty rhetoric is long gone. We do not need another \u2018Organization of Islamic Cooperation\u2019 which failed miserably to do what was expected of it. Those countries, who have been openly giving aid to terrorists just so they could topple the leadership of the rival countries, have not done any service to Islam or the world. Such countries need to show with their actions that they will no longer support terrorists but rather support those neighbouring Muslim countries that they have been bombing!<\/p>\n
Are we as human beings content to see new videos of gruesome executions released repeatedly by the monsters of ISIS? Are we content to see daily the children in schools and hospitals being bombed in Syria, Yemen and Palestine? Because if all of this is acceptable to us, then we do not have the right to inhabit this planet anymore, and it\u2019s only poetic justice that we all kill ourselves in senseless wars over pointless issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cVerily, God does not change men\u2019s condition unless they change their inner selves.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Quran 13:11<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The recent announcement of an \u2018Islamic\u2019 Military Coalition by the Defense Minister of Saudi Arabia has raised some questions. The first thing that hits home is the fact that no Shia Muslim country is a part of this Islamic Coalition. I am all for a strong military coalition that has representation from all Muslim countries. This coalition on the other hand, does not include \u2018all\u2019; on the contrary, it sidelines some countries on the basis of sectarian differences. One wonders why the Ummah keeps on playing in the hands of Zionists and dividing itself on the basis of sects. Why this \u2018Islamic\u2019 military coalition comprises of only Sunni Muslim countries? Are we so blind that we cannot see that this military coalition of \u2018Islamic\u2019 states will further the divide between Sunnis and Shias? Sputnik International\u00a0also reported on this sectarian selection of Muslim countries: According to\u00a0al-Gharaoui, a member of\u00a0the Iraqi Parliament\u2019s Security Committee, the new initiative may lead to\u00a0a further division in\u00a0the Muslim society and deepen the split between\u00a0various courses of\u00a0Islam. The coalition, which includes Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey, among\u00a0other nations, was created \u201cto counteract terrorism, which became a threat to\u00a0the interests of\u00a0the Islamic nation,\u201d according to\u00a0an official statement of\u00a0Riyadh authorities. According to the Defense Minister of\u00a0Saudi Arabia, Muhammad bin Salman Al Saud,\u00a0the coalition will fight not only against\u00a0Daesh, but\u00a0also against\u00a0other terrorist groups. It is unclear what exactly he means by \u2018other terrorist groups\u2019. The Saudis did mention one militant group though: Hezbollah. This is alarming as Hezbollah has been fighting for Palestinians and offering resistance to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. They are not viewed as a \u2018terrorist\u2019 group like the Daesh, rather looked upon with respect amongst the oppressed Muslims. It would be better for Saudis to first ask Iraqi and Palestinian Muslims what they think about Hezbollah before labeling them as terrorists! If this military coalition is expected to serve any purpose, it must include all Shia Muslim countries as well. The Muslim world is incomplete without Iran, Syria, Iraq, Bahrain and Lebanon. It is ironical that the countries most infested with ISIS\/Daesh, like Iraq and Syria, are not included in this military coalition! Who is Saudi Arabia fooling? As a Sunni Muslim, it is painful for me to see the way we were pushing Shia Muslims away from us. They are our brothers and we should bridge the gaps instead of highlighting the minor differences we have them. Have we forgotten the lesson of peace and unity that our Prophet PBUH preached all his life? I don\u2019t have any hope of any intelligent or reasonable response from Pakistan\u2019s political leadership; the ones who are incapable of handling their own country properly cannot be expected to lead the whole Ummah at times of crises. I do, however, expect Pakistan\u2019s military leadership to be watchful while being part of any coalition that aims to target other Muslim countries or sects. These are truly the most testing times for the Ummah and we see the situation worsening gradually. The only hope of salvation is by returning to our Deen and the message of Quran, but we deliberately choose to ignore it. What to say about other Muslim countries when the so-called \u2018custodian\u2019 of \u2018Harmain Shareefain is the biggest supporter and abettor of terrorism in the world! It is sickening and revolting to see that they would rather support the Zionist and Apartheid state of Israel than the Muslim Shia Iran! They would rather support the cut-throats of Daesh Khawarij then support the Shia Muslim, Bashar al Assad, who is still, by the way, the legitimate ruler of Syria, however despotic or dictatorial he may be, is a separate debate altogether. No country has the right to interfere in the internal matters of any other sovereign state. Whether it is the USA, the so-called super power of the world or KSA, the so-called leader of Ummah, none of them has the right to run every country the way they want! They do not have the right to bring a regime of their choice in other countries. Period. If we have any sense of dignity and integrity as human beings, we, the countries silently watching, should call their bluff. Time of empty rhetoric is long gone. We do not need another \u2018Organization of Islamic Cooperation\u2019 which failed miserably to do what was expected of it. Those countries, who have been openly giving aid to terrorists just so they could topple the leadership of the rival countries, have not done any service to Islam or the world. Such countries need to show with their actions that they will no longer support terrorists but rather support those neighbouring Muslim countries that they have been bombing! Are we as human beings content to see new videos of gruesome executions released repeatedly by the monsters of ISIS? Are we content to see daily the children in schools and hospitals being bombed in Syria, Yemen and Palestine? Because if all of this is acceptable to us, then we do not have the right to inhabit this planet anymore, and it\u2019s only poetic justice that we all kill ourselves in senseless wars over pointless issues. \u201cVerily, God does not change men\u2019s condition unless they change their inner selves.\u201d\u00a0Quran 13:11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,691,593],"tags":[850,822],"class_list":["post-9228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-activism-middleeast","category-montorder","tag-middle-east-politics","tag-voice-of-the-east"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9232,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions\/9232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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