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Bangladesh Terror Nightmare. What Is The Truth Behind It And Why This Is So Dangerous?

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Published on: July 2, 2016

So what is the scoop in South Asia and who was behind these gunmen who stormed a restaurant popular with expatriates in the diplomatic quarter of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka today? Security officials in Bangladesh denied a report by ISISĀ that 24 people were dead in the assault.

The media is telling us thatĀ ISIS is behind the attack. After all,Ā ISIS English-languageĀ magazineĀ DabiqĀ carried an interview earlier this month with their purported leader in Bangladesh, Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif, whoĀ claimedĀ that the countryĀ had become its base of operations in South Asia.

In 2013 alone, 84 bloggers in Bangladesh have beenĀ serially hacked to death in their homes by Islamists with no links to ISIS. Now they are telling us the terrorists are ISIS. So what is the truth?

BRIEF HISTORY
PerhapsĀ a briefĀ history on how all this started and why this is so dangerous will clearĀ the runway for people to understand how bad things are. The overwhelming majority of South Asian Muslims practiced several variations of Sufi Islam. AfterĀ the decline of theĀ worst persecutor of Hindus, the Muslim Mughal Empire, in the eighteenth century, and with the rise and introduction of British rule,Ā religious tolerance was applied by Muslim rulers who still presided over South Asian kingdoms, whereĀ the majority of their subjects were Hindus.

But, like in the Middle East, instead of outlawing Islam, the Muslim scholars and muftis enjoyed a position of relative prestige. Jihadi movements in South Asia have grown out of these Islamic revivalist movements and have been used by countries like Pakistan to bolster its national identity against IndiaĀ and toĀ stage anti-Soviet Jihad in Afghanistan.Ā The Jamaat-e-Islami (founded byĀ Abul Ala Maududi 1903-1979) grew, as well, and wasĀ similar to the Arab Muslim Brotherhood, operating forĀ decades as a political party, a social welfare organization, and a pan-Islamic network sponsoring JihadĀ in Afghanistan and Kashmir. They wereĀ recipients of major funds from Saudi Arabia, which later sprouted the Wahhabi groups in South Asia, including Bangladesh.

It was truly the struggle between the two superpowers, the U.S. and Russia, in Afghanistan that opened the pandoraā€™s box of the only willing body to carry out a struggle by support from the U.S against the Russians in Afghanistan, and it wasĀ these Islamists who were willing participants to do Americaā€™s bidding.

It was these several jihadi groups, whichĀ emerged over the last two decades in Pakistan and Kashmir, that spread into parts of IndiaĀ andĀ Bangladesh.

SO IS THE TERROR ATTACK IN BANGLADESH FROM ISIS?
Ever notice how, these days, whatever Islamists do, the media waits for ISIS to take credit, and the media approves and believes them? ISIS plays a game: it watches any attack by lone-wolves and the media plays along to accept the claims. The Orlando attacks, for example, cannot directly be linked to ISIS except that the terrorist praised ISIS. In other words, many of these grassroots followers of Jamaat-e-Islami, Taliban in Bangladesh and the whole of South Asia, and others (even lone wolves in the U.S.) have eitherĀ pledged allegiance to ISIS or are praising ISIS, giving it credit without any real links.

How about the San Bernardino attack? It was from Bangladesh that we haveĀ Rafia Sultana Farook, the mother of theĀ San Bernardino terrorists andĀ her connectionsĀ with theĀ Jamaat-e-IslamiĀ created byĀ Abu Aā€™la Maududi,Ā in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.Ā This, in fact, isĀ the same connection that Hillaryā€™s aid, Huma Abedinā€™s parents (also from Pakistan)Ā were involved with this movement,Ā which we documented extensively.

Shoebat.com has even warned about the rise of terrorism in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. and predicted theĀ outcome in aĀ report: ā€œThere Is A War Between ISIS And The Taliban. ISIS Is Winning And Is Quickly Advancing Into Nuclear Pakistan And Troubled Afghanistan.”Ā In the report, and contrary to analysts’ predictions that a showdown between ISIS and Taliban was imminent, we wrote:

SomeĀ western media saysĀ that the Taliban declared war on ISIS,Ā after the Afghan Taliban-fearing ISIS popularity had branded ISISā€™s self-declared caliphate as ā€œillegitimateā€ and refused to declare allegiance to its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Fact is, it was ISIS that declared war on the Taliban and isĀ expanding into Afghanistan and Pakistan in lightening speed.

And a month later, in August 2015,Ā we warned:

ISIS evenĀ anointed a former Taliban leader, known asĀ Hafiz Saeed KhanĀ (akaĀ Mulla Saeed Orakzai), as their new overload in southern Asia and the sub-continentĀ calledĀ ISIS Khorasan, an offshoot of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadiā€™s militant group, which now spans Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, andĀ Bangladesh, as well as some parts of Central Asia.Ā The installation of Saeed, a formerĀ Tehrik-i-Taliban PakistanĀ (TTP), automatically makes him one of the most powerful warlords in the Middle East. All this adds to theĀ Black FlagsĀ prophecy from Khorasan. Westerners need to take heed to these very serious developments, but we predict they will not until its too late.

It was only in November 2015 that theĀ media began to realizeĀ ISIS was steeped in Bangladesh.

But the truth is ā€œThe bottom line is Bangladesh has plenty of local, (often unaffiliated), militants and radicals happy to stage attacks in ISISā€™s name,ā€ said Michael Kugelman, South Asia associate at The Wilson Centre in Washington D.C., using an acronym commonly used for Islamic State. In Bangladesh, we have two main groups: Ansar-al-Islam (which pledges allegiance to al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent ā€œAQISā€) and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (which pledges allegiance to ISIS).Ā We also haveĀ Ā Shaykh Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif, the self-styled amir of ISIS in Bangladesh, which is radicalising and recruiting prospective jihadis in India, Pakistan, and Myanmar. ISIS is cooperating withĀ Wilayat Khurasan, an offshoot in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Khurasan has links with the Pakistani Jihadis, which isĀ a major concern.

But the problem is not only in Bangladesh. The presence of ISIS is now 100%Ā confirmed by the Pakistani government, as well, and they have the allegiance of TalibanĀ groups thatĀ is truly a disturbing news and is likely to have serious consequences for a country like Pakistan that is already in turmoil, due to incompetent governance, economic crises, and political tension. However, this is not the sole reason behind ISIS’s desire to start operations in Pakistan.Ā There are multiple encouraging points that brought ISIS to the country that is already in turmoil. Large parts of Pakistan, Baluchistan, and FATA are at the age of bifurcations. ISIS’s support to the freedom fighters of Baluchistan and jihadis of FATA will accelerate the freeing process of these provinces, which will eventually become bases for ISIS in the region.

To title ISIS as theĀ Islamic State in Iraq and Syria,Ā or to say that it has weakened in the Levant, is a myth, and the nameĀ will soon get a facelift.Ā ISIS does not have to reside solely in Iraq and Syria alone. It is all across the Muslim world, magnetizing a litany of major terrorist organizations to give theĀ Bayā€™atĀ (allegiance) and join under ISIS, such asĀ Jund al-KhilafahĀ (Soldiers of the Caliphate, In North Africa),Ā Ansar al-ShariahĀ (Libya), portions of theĀ TalibanĀ (Pakistan),Ā The Islamic Movement of UzbekistanĀ (Pakistanā€™s North Waziristan),Ā Al-Tawhid BattalionĀ (Pakistan, Afghanistan), many fromĀ Al-NusraĀ (Lebanon) andĀ Al QaedaĀ in the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen),Ā Ansar al-TawhidĀ in the Land of Hind (India),Ā Anį¹£Är Bayt al-MaqdisĀ (Sinai), andĀ Jund al-KhilafahĀ (Egypt).

Therefore, we must not view that we have an ISIS problem, but an Islam and a caliphate problem.

CONCLUSION
So hereā€™s the scoop. Understand that the truth isĀ between the lines. In Istanbul, the attackers wereĀ 22 people from Russia, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan.Ā ISISĀ previously jumped on the bandwagon to claim responsibility for theĀ 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, yet it remainedĀ silent on the murder of 41 people in Istanbul.

Why?

ISIS forces want Ankara to believeĀ that the possibility was Turkeyā€™s enemy, theĀ Kurds, as responsible, and by that, Turkey ratchets up its escalation against ISIS’s enemy #1, the KurdsĀ in northern Syria. ISIS and Turkey have a similar agenda. One (ISIS) wants a mini-Caliphate to grow by using grassroots and Wahhabism, while the other (Turkey) wants a grand caliphate to grow by using its NATO and military might and its moderate Sufi version of Islam. Two different approaches to the same goal. But what we must understand is that a caliphate is the natural hegemony the Muslim world understands and supports, which will ultimately make Turkey the victor.

The reason that there is no effort to destroy Jihadist movements is that each political figure from ISIS, from Turkey to the U.S., uses the situation for a political advantage. CIA Director John BrennanĀ saysĀ the attack in Istanbul ā€œcertainly bears the hallmarks of ISILā€™s depravity,ā€ however, and heĀ wouldĀ ā€œbe surprised if Daesh [ISIS] is not trying to carry out that kind of attack in the United States.”

This propaganda supports U.S. government agenda in the Middle East to ratchet up its struggle with the other superpower, Russia. The truth is that what sprouted the Islamist agenda is the struggle between the U.S. and Russia over Afghanistan. All that the U.S. had to do was to let Russia have Afghanistan and we would not see all these problems today.

Nothing ever changed, and, in fact, politics love ISIS. When it comes to the Orlando massacre, it’s brownie points for the LGBT. When it comes to Erdogan, it’s because of the need to combat ISIS that NATO has to comply with Turkeyā€™s demands. When it comes to Japan, ISIS serves Shinzo Abeā€™s agenda to militarize Japan. When it comes to the Kurds, their state needs to be established, since they are persecuted by ISIS.

ISIS, as it turns out, is the best thing for agenda-driven policies since sliced bread.

But such attitude of ā€œdo little about ISISā€ has major consequences. First of all, it is not only ISIS that is the problem. It was from theĀ Ansarā€™s ranks (AQIS) thatĀ former army major Syed Mohammad Ziaul Haque, who went into hiding after heĀ plotted to overthrow the government in 2011. Military officers switch sides to join JihadiĀ groups.

And if you think the situation in Iraq and Syria is being resolved soon, think again: it is spreading to South Asia. Today, 98% of Pakistanis support Jihad, and they have no problems with all the blood and gore thatĀ ISIS spills.

ISIS (and its other affiliates) is now camped in South Asia. The black standard of the Islamic State has been popping up all over; from urban slums to Taliban strongholds, the ISIS logo and name have appeared in graffiti, posters, and pamphlets, and a cluster of militant commanders in Pakistan declared their allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the caliph of the Islamic State as ISIS’s presence there increases by the day.

But the one trillion dollar question is will the world leaders secure Pakistanā€™s nuclear weapons from falling into the hands of Jihadis? It doesnā€™t look like it, and the prospects of ISIS gaining nuclear bombs are very likely, as the news from Pakistan reveals.Ā To ensure that no nuclear weapons falls into the hands of Jihadis, there isĀ only one option:Ā the US must take control of Pakistanā€™s nukes and disarms Pakistan, as the West should have disarmed Muslim nations from Islam. But is this scenario even feasible? Hardly. Only Christ will do this.

The problem in the West is that it’s comparing the ISIS problem with its predecessor Al-Qaeda, so the western news consumers are not paying as much attention to how fast the Islamic State is moving, and itā€™s not wasting time like al-Qaeda did before – it’s moving in lightening speed.

ISIS is moving quickly. Commanders from ISIS are currently in Baluchistan, gainingĀ allegiance of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Baloch freedom movement. This happened just a few weeks after a group of TTP, under Maulana Fazlullah, voiced support for the terror group and swore allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. It was not only Maulana Fazlullah who teamed up with ISIS: theĀ local group, calledĀ Jamaatul Ahrar, also declared its support for ISIS. Jamaatul Ahrarā€™s leader, Ehsanullah Ehsan, was quoted by Reuters as saying: ā€œWe respect them. If they ask us for help, we will look into it and decide.ā€ According to the Daily Mail, the spokesperson of TTP and six senior figures have declared loyalty to ISIS.

ā€œThe message theyā€™re trying to convey is they are brutal to their enemies, and they are righteous in their cause,ā€ says Karl Kaltenthaler, an expert on the rise of Islamic extremism and professor at the University of Akron. ā€œIf you mess with them, youā€™re going to pay a high price, and they will stop at nothing to achieve the triumph of their vision for Islam.ā€

And while this goes on, there is little time left, and the situation for Christians in Pakistan will be dire for Rescue Christians to move as fast as possible to rescue enslaved Christians. One can imagine that when ISIS rules regions in North Pakistan, Christian persecution will be unlike anything we have ever seen.

Article reposted with permission from Shoebat.com

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