Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Harmony In Islam

Harmony, a certain simultaneous reaction, a coordination, a general agreement, a concord, accord, agreement, unity of purpose, unison of action appears to have been reached in that part of the Islamic world resident in the Middle East and parts of east Asia. To the faithful, modest in their generosity and belief that Islam is the religion of peace and understanding, brotherhood and amity, the kind of harmony that now evidences itself throughout the regional ummah is not what they might wish to acknowledge.

But it cannot be denied. From Afghanistan to Pakistan, Libya to Syria, Iraq to Iran, Qatar to Saudi Arabia, Lebanon to Jordan -- oh of course Turkey and Egypt also -- the Muslim world is alight with sectarian animosity of a volume so deeply embedded that reciprocal slaughter becomes the order of the day. In Baghdad, as for example, a bomb planted near a soccer field killed a dozen people on Sunday, wounding another 24.

The news reports speak of "militant" attacks; perhaps they mean, although they studiously avoid articulating it -- Islamist terrorism? Since the beginning May such violence has annihilated one thousand Iraqis. It is speculated that 'tensions' occasioned by the civil war in Syria have succeeded in persuading those jihadists who have not yet moseyed over the border into Syria to practise their skilled trade in Iraq, first.

In Pakistan three areas of the country on Sunday were targeted by bombs, killing about 50 people. Twin blasts took place near a Shiite mosque in Quetta where 28 people died, including nine women and several children. A hand grenade was the cause of the first blast enticing people to run toward the mosque to aid those impacted by the grenade, only to fall victim themselves to the detonation of an explosive by a suicide bomber.

In the infamous North Waziristan tribal area comprising a sanctuary for Afghani and Pakistani Taliban as well as Al-Qaeda "militants", a roadside bomb inconveniently for the army, struck a convoy, killing four soldiers. Also in the northwest, a car bomb exploded as a convoy of paramilitary troops passed the outskirts of Peshawar, killing 17, wounding dozens.

In Egypt, thousands of people have converged on various squares in the country's cities to declare their lack of confidence in the Muslim Brotherhood and the continued reign of President Mohammad Morsi who believes that a diabolical plan has been hatched between the old Mubarak diehards and the Egyptian military to restore the old rule and remove a duly democratically elected government from power.

He will not resign, taking a page out of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's book in his Islamicization plan for Turkey, in a kind of concerted dance with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. In Syria, Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah, aided by Iran's Republican Guard al Quds force are slowly destroying Homs and parts of Damascus to completely dislodge the disloyal opposition, as Shia and Sunni compete for the approval of Allah, each claiming to be doing him honour.

There is, at least, unity of purpose in that area alone; whether in the moderate or the fanatical camp, Shia or Sunni, all are dedicated to the call of Islamic jihad.

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