Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
Meanwhile, a number of courageous journalists in India have come under various forms of intimidation because of their praiseworthy stand against radical Islam. For the ‘crime’ of exposing the notoriety of radical Muslims in India, OpIndia editors and courageous journalists Ajeet Bharati and Nupur J Sharma are facing ridiculous charges pressed by police, while another courageous Indian journalist named Sudhir Chaudhary, is facing series of threats and harassments from the Islamists, jihadists and some other notorious anti-India elements. Orchestrated attacks of the jihadists and their cohorts started on the editor-in-chief of India’s most popular news channel Zee News, Sudhir Chaudhary immediately after he had reported on various types of jihad and exposed modus operandi on the jihadists on his TV show. Even those so-called secular-liberal media are mad on these journalists and they too are continuing media assaults on these anti-jihadist journalists. For a secular country like India, which also is world’s largest democracy, attacks on the journalists and intimidation are totally unacceptable. Most importantly, the role of so-called secular-liberal media outlets in India is deplorable. Instead of defending fellow journalists, they are sadly collaborating these nasty conglomerates of radical Islam and jihad.
Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is desperately looking for taking revenge on India for the ‘crime’ of stopping the members of notorious Tablighi Jamaat from implementing its nefarious bid of spreading coronavirus amongst millions of Hindus as part of Tablighi’s coronajihad.
AQAP has already issued a statement exhorting Indian Muslim “scholars” to come together and wage jihad against India. In the statement, this Islamic terror outfit said, “The entire world is watching and doing nothing about it. When Muslims fight back, the law and the Indian government brutally attack them by using their criminal police and mobs.
“The US is supporting India. Donald Trump visited India and got a huge welcome as India aimed to get a green signal from him to attack Muslims. We, the Qaeda in Arab, condemn the Indian government and announce our support to Muslim brothers. It’s an international war against Muslims. So, don’t wait for help from kafir [infidel]. They won’t help or support you. Ask your Muslim scholars and fight back. Protect your religion and families along with mujahedeen”.
Al Qaeda’s call was immediately answered by Zakir Naik, one of the most vocal supporters of Osama Bin Laden and Islamic terrorism in India. Sitting in Malaysia, Zakir Naik has released a video message, calling upon the Islamic countries across the globe to collect data of non-Muslims in India who criticize Islam and arrest them when they land up in their countries and try them under the blasphemy law.
In the video going viral on social media, this pro-jihadist notorious radical Muslim preacher says that he would request all the Kuwait lawyers to collect a database of all non-Muslims in India who have ever passed any negative remarks or abused or ‘attacked’ Muslims or Islam, and keep it stored in their computer. Next time when these non-Muslim Indians visit any gulf country, be it Indonesia, Dubai, Kuwait, or Saudi Arabia, they should be identified, booked, and tried under the laws.
“The rich non-Muslims travel to Gulf and different Muslim countries. If these Muslim countries have data of these people attacking or spreading venom against Muslims, they should arrest them under their (own) law once they enter their territory,” said Naik.
The video was first posted on Pakistani-American preacher Yasir Qadhi’s YouTube channel on 23rd April, 2020.
Notorious preacher Zakir Naik is currently living in Malaysia after fleeing India. He is facing charges in India of provoking communal disharmony and indulging in unlawful activities that incited terror in the country. He also is accused of playing a key role behind Islamic terror attacks in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Meanwhile, a number of courageous journalists in India have come under various forms of intimidation because of their praiseworthy stand against radical Islam. For the ‘crime’ of exposing the notoriety of radical Muslims in India, OpIndia editors and courageous journalists Ajeet Bharati and Nupur J Sharma are facing ridiculous charges pressed by police, while another courageous Indian journalist named Sudhir Chaudhary, is facing series of threats and harassments from the Islamists, jihadists and some other notorious anti-India elements. Orchestrated attacks of the jihadists and their cohorts started on the editor-in-chief of India’s most popular news channel Zee News, Sudhir Chaudhary immediately after he had reported on various types of jihad and exposed modus operandi on the jihadists on his TV show. Even those so-called secular-liberal media are mad on these journalists and they too are continuing media assaults on these anti-jihadist journalists. For a secular country like India, which also is world’s largest democracy, attacks on the journalists and intimidation are totally unacceptable. Most importantly, the role of so-called secular-liberal media outlets in India is deplorable. Instead of defending fellow journalists, they are sadly collaborating these nasty conglomerates of radical Islam and jihad.
But, the most worrisome incident took place when a Khalistan backed terrorist called Sudhir Chaudhary from the United Arab Emirates, day after Zee News editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary was in headlines after receiving threats from Pakistani terrorists for reporting on various kinds of jihad.
The Khalistani in UAE stressed on Sikh referendum 2020 saying that it will happen and they will establish Khalistan. The Zee News played the recording in which the Khalistani says, “Punjab does not belong to someone’s father. And the Referendum will anyway happen. No one can stop Khalistan to establish”.
It may be mentioned here that, notorious terror don Dawood Ibrahim’s D-Company has business interests with members of the UAE royal family for many years. It was already reported that Pakistani spy agency Inter-Service Intelligence has a heavy presence in the Emirates, wherefrom it has been continuing its anti-India activities as well as activities in favor of various terrorists and jihadists outfits.
According to Zee News reports, a Pakistani man called its editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary and warned him to stop showing jihad related news or face the consequences. The call was made via WhatsApp. Following this call, this Indian journalist reportedly has received numerous calls from Pakistan.
Though I am not sure about Indian journalist Sudhir Chaudhary’s understanding and knowledge on jihad and jihadist groups, the anti-jihadist forces in South Asia need to remember, Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) are competing with each other for recruitment of jihadists, while both are using Tablighi Jamaat as the recruitment front desk.
We need to note; radical Islamists invoke Hadith (the saying of the Prophet Mohammed) to prophesize a great battle in India between the “true believers and non-believers”. These references in the Hadith to the Ghazwa-e-Hind (battle of India) infuse South Asia with importance as a battleground in the efforts to create an Islamic Caliphate resembling the social order that existed at the time of the Prophet Muhammad.
The Hadith predicting the great battle for India is often referred to as the Ghazwa-e-Hind Hadith, various versions of which have been recycled each time a Muslim leader or would-be conqueror attempted to raise an army to invade India.
In one version of the Hadith, attributed to Thawban, a freed slave of the Prophet Muhammad, “the Messenger of Allah said: there are two groups of my Ummah whom Allah will free from the Fire: The group that invades India, and the group that will be with Isa bin Maryam”.
Isa bin Maryam is the Quranic name of Jesus, whose return to earth alongside the Mahdi is held in Islamic tradition to be a seminal event of the end of time.
Throughout the 1990s, Pakistani official media also encouraged discussion of the Ghazwa-e-Hind Hadith to motivate jihadists. In fact, every major Pakistan-based jihadi group that launched terrorist attacks across the border claimed that their operations were part of the Battle for India promised by the Prophet.
Pakistani spy agency has always been extremely enthusiastic in spreading Ghazwa-e-Hind amongst the Muslims in South Asia, with the ulterior motive creating a massive anti-India notion amongst the Muslim populace. But, no one has ever challenged the legitimacy of either Ghazwa-e-Hind or those hadith. Every counter-terrorism expert in the world though will blame hadith as the main element behind Islamic terrorism, but none of them are challenging the very legitimacy of either Ghazwa-e-Hind or any other hadith books, although, a large segment of the Islamic scholars think – hadith was created by several individuals or groups with political or otherwise motives, and it has no connection with Islam or the Prophet. In other words – they consider hadith as “totally fake”.
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is an internationally acclaimed multi-award-winning anti-jihadist journalist, counter-terrorism specialist and editor of Blitz. His Twitter handle is salah_shoaib.
