In the last few years, ISIS has established a benchmark of savagery unparalleled in recent history. Worst of all is the nonchalant way they try to prove everything they do is backed by shariah. 

The burning alive of the pilot was not the lone act of savagery perpetrated by this terrorist group. They have killed a large number of fellow Muslims across Syria and Iraq who stood against them and tried to stop them in their mindless pursuit of a utopian government that has no justification from the religion. 

They killed a large number of Yazidi –a minority faith in Iraq –and they executed 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya. 

After keeping silent until facts about the group emerged, Muslims have condemned the group, its actions across West Asia and also the ideology that is driving the group. 

Muslim scholars of all hues have said that the killings and burning alive of captives is completely illegal in Islam. The Islamic State is also an illegal entity. Many have also said that such organisations have nothing to do with religion and that they should be dealt with as a terrorist organisation by respective governments. 

The Urdu media in India has taken the lead in denouncing the terrorist outfit. While writing in Inquilab that is published from more than a dozen cities across India Aijaz Zaka Syed says, “The burning alive of the Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh has completely bewildered the whole of Middle East. 

Daesh (Islamic State acronym used in Arabic) has created a sense of shock and awe among the inhabitants of the area. The basic aim of Daesh is not just to create a sense of terror and fear among the minds of Arab nations and their Western allies, but also to attract other sections of criminals living across the region who can be of some support to the outlawed organizations in carrying out terror acts in future.”

“More than a millennia old Al-Azhar University of Cairo has demanded a similarly tough punishment for the savages who perpetrated the crime. Azhar scholars have likened Daesh to a demonic cult and the head cleric of the largest center if Islamic learning in Cairo has said they should be given matching punishment that has been prescribed for such criminals in Qur'an. Qatar-based International Association of Islamic Scholars headed by renowned Islamic scholar Yusuf Al-Qardawi has called it a criminal act. The Association says that neither this organization represents Islam in any manner, all its actions demean the image of Islam,” says Zaka in his detailed piece.

There are many who claim that ISIS is an America/ CIA project and that CIA may be using the same old ploy that it deployed against communist/ left leaning organizations throughout South America, Asia and even in countries like Greece where they denied left leaning organizations to come to power. Though the US may not be directly responsible for the creation of ISIS but it certainly created the atmosphere.

Noam Chomsky, the renowned linguist and author in a recent article says, “I think it’s accurate — that the US created the background out of which ISIS grew and developed. Part of it was just the standard sledgehammer approach: smash up what you don’t like…The attack is compared by many Iraqis to the Mongol invasion of a thousand years earlier. Very destructive. Hundreds of thousands of people killed, millions of refugees, millions of other displaced persons, destruction of the archeological richness and wealth of the country back to Sumeria.”

Chomsky further says the US did everything to create sectarian division in Iraq. Both Shias and Sunnis lived and had close relations to the extent of intermarriages, but the American policy created a Shia and a Sunni Bagdad. 

“One of the effects of the invasion was immediately to institute sectarian divisions. Part of the brilliance of the invasion force and its civilian director, Paul Bremer, was to separate the sects, Sunni, Shi’a, Kurd, from one another, set them at each other’s throats. Within a couple of years, there was a major, brutal sectarian conflict incited by the invasion” writes Chomsky.

 

 

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