Saudi Arabia is set to donate $118 million to set up 560 model mosques across Bangladesh. This comes a year after PM Sheikh Hasina's Saudi Arabia visit where she King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, the Dhaka Tribune reported. The mosques will be able to accommodate at least 450,000 men and over 30,000 women for daily prayers and will have lodging space for more than 2,000 foreign guests and libraries.The model mosques project also aims to provide primary education to more than 150,000 children and conduct digital registrations for the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. The Saudi government has also agreed to donate money to establish a permanent campus for the Islami Arabic University in Bangladesh.
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No nuclear bomb can match the most fatal biological weapon in the world, the human womb.
Ever
since becoming the leading petroleum producer in the world, Saudi Arabia has
been funding madrassas/seminaries of Wahabism, a doctrine of Sunni Islam
founded by Mohammed Ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-92),
which stressed the abandoning of
veneration of saints, the seeking of their intercession (including the intercession of Mohammed), and the visiting of
their tombs, , declaring that their domes or
shrines should be destroyed, as this is shirk or idolatory. As an opposer of
innovation, he advocated a return to what he saw as the purity of the first
generation of Islam, the salaf and the teaching of any school of law. His ideas
were deeply influenced by the teachings of Ibn Taymiyah (1263-1328), who saw
the state as an adjunct of religion and opposed discursive theology.He wanted
Islam to be purged of all “impurities” that had been acquired in later
generations. Wahhabism has also been called "a particular
orientation within Salafism", or an ultra-conservative, Saudi brand of
Salafism. But most of its devout followers reject
the term wahabi and want to be called Salafis, as indeed Salafism and Wahabism
have all but become one. One should remember that Salafis give just two options
to polytheists- Convert or die. The dhimmi status (second class citizen status
under Sharia for non muslims) is only for other people of the book ie
Christians and Jews (Every major Islamic terrorist organization from Al Qaeda
to Daesh, has its base in Salafi/Wahabi ideology)
Eventually, al Wahab formed a pact with a local leader Muhammad
bin Saud, and this alliance between the descendants of both al Wahab and bin
Saud proved to be a long and durable one. Just a little more than 150 years
later, the house of Saud, thanks to the backing of the British , formed the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932. Today Ibn Abd Al-Wahhab's teachings are the
official, state-sponsored form of Sunni Islam in Saudi Arabia.
The US
State Department has estimated that over the past four decades Riyadh has
invested more than $10bn (£6bn) into charitable foundations in an attempt to
replace mainstream Sunni Islam. To give an idea of the massive efforts, more
than 1,500 mosques were built around the world from 1975 to 2000 paid for by
Saudi public funds. As per reports , The Saudi ministry for religious affairs
printed and distributed millions of Qurans free of charge, along with doctrinal
texts that followed the Wahhabi interpretation. In mosques throughout the world
"from the African plains to the rice paddies of Indonesia and the Muslim
immigrant high-rise housing projects of European cities, the same books could
be found", paid for by Saudi Arabian government.
This
petro Islam has wrecked havoc in the world, particularly south east Asia, where
nearly three fourths of the world’s muslims reside. Its real damage began in 1980, when US government funded
mujahideen to fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Saudi influence entered
Pakistan during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan with CIA backing ,in the form of funds for madrassas
and mosques in Pakistan (18000 Deobandi madrassas were set up across Pakistan
by CIA ) in order to create and train mujahedeen to fight godless
communists.After the war was over, ISI got a readymade supply of thousands of
rabid jihadis to be unleashed in a new dar ul harb:- Kashmir.
Petro
Islam’s beginning can be traced back to 1973, when the embargo by Organization
of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries on US and NATO countries for support of
Israel during the Yom Kippur War stopped Israel’s counter offensive. (Oil
barrel rates had nearly tripled as a result). Saudis viewed petroleum reserves
as a gift of god, and have relentlessly worked towards replacing every
nationalist movement in Muslim world with Islam and to bind the muslim world
into a single creed of Wahabism. This petro dollar funded wealth is also being
used to buy the world’s media (which is the reason you will never hear any
critique of Islam or Muslims or Islamic terrorism) and political lobbying
around the world (which is the reason why you will see just about every major
leader rushing to scream “terror has no religion” after every terrorist
attack.)
Saudi
funded semenaries are hell bent on purging the local influences on Muslims of
the given region. It has started showing , with respect to attire, or even in
lessening of the Persian vocabulary in daily converstations (Ramadan, instead
of Ramzan. Allah Hafiz instead of Khuda Hafiz. Salat instead of Namaz, etc).
Also on the target are the Muslims among the thousands of migrant labourers from India, Pakistan and
Bangladesh to the Gulf states. A huge
number of them return radicalized, feeling hostile in their own country. The
sands of gulf become more influential than the aroma of the soil that they have
been born in.
The
Wahabi and Deobandi influence has been steadily growing in Pakistan, and you
can judge the hell it has made out of the country by the fact that a mere
accusation of blasphemy, no matter how frivolous it is, is enough to
permanently destroy anyone’s life.
In
Bangladesh too, the generally followed Hanafi and Sufi school of Islam is at
odds with the petro dollar Wahabi one. The Bangladesh Jamat e Islami and
parties similar to it make it very clear that their sole objective is imposing
Sharia in the country and put end to ‘evils’ like genders mixing, western
attire, education of women, music, popular arts and above all, implementation
of Koranic punishments . More and more Bangladeshi women are wearing black
burqas,as it makes them feel ‘safer’. In
addition to Hindu massacre, an untold number of secular bloggers, dissidents
and even LGBT activists have been butchered in broad daylight , and it has no
signs of reducing. Already, it is a strong base for Pakistan’s ISI, a safe
haven for separatist outfits like ULFA and NSCN factions, and now rising Daesh
base. In the words of a religious scholar in Dhaka University, "After all
Bangladesh, a Muslim country, you get oil on a concession price from the Middle
Eastern countries and they don’t come free. So, if Saudi Arabia is giving oil,
Saudi Arabia would definitely want that some of their ideas to come with
oil."
In
the words of Taslima Nasreen (somewhere around 2015):-
“The Islamization of Bangladeshi society began in the
1980s. Vast sums of money from the Middle East have been sent to make
Bangladeshi Muslims more radical. Numerous mosques and madrasas (institutions
of Islamic religious studies) have been built in the country for indoctrinating
young boys and converting them into terrorists.
These mosques and madrasas are breeding grounds for
Islamic fundamentalists and terrorists.
In the 1970s and 80s, there weren't many Bangladeshi
girls and women wearing hijabs and burqas. But in recent years, the extremist
Wahhabi culture has unfortunately invaded Bangladesh. And it has replaced an
innocent form of Islam that was practiced by my grandparents with political
Islam, which is really unfortunate.
The Awami League is no more a secular party. It is more
like the Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami. The Awami League has a group under
the name ulema league, which is comprised of Islamic fundamentalists who
approve the killing of free thinkers and liberals.
Members of Jamaat-e-Islami have been joining the Awami
League because they share more or less the same ideology. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has not issued
any statement so far against the brutal killings of progressive and secular
writers.
Instead, she warned free thinkers that they must not cross
the limit and hurt the religious feelings of people. Her government passed a
law which is against freedom of expression. Atheist writers and bloggers are
increasingly becoming victims of a dangerous provision of Section 57 of the
Information and Communication Technology Act.”
To
be fair, Bangladesh Awami League govt has been cracking down on Islamic
militants very effectively. But these efforts seem poised to be washed away in
the tsunami of Saudi petro dollars.
India
is nowhere insulated from this threat. Billions of dollars pouring from Saudi
Arabia has seen radicalization in Muslim youth in large numbers. Terrorist
organizations like SIMI and Indian Mujahideen are merely two examples of it. Hundreds
of religious violence incidents in UP, WB, Kerala and ofcourse Kashmir which
the liberal media generously funded by petro zakat will always try to cover up
bear testimony to the fact that we need to stop this practice of feeding the
lion in hope that it wont eat us. We have seen prayers for Osama bin Laden in
Kolkata by thousands, or a midget like Burhan Wani being elevated to a martyr,
or a suicide bomber like Ishrat Jehan promoted to a ‘’victim” of the Indian
state.
Even
after a thousand year constant war, India has not been Islamized. And more
importantly, the Islamization of Muslims in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
isn’t complete. There is no moral Islamic police here, imposing dressing norms,
whipping unchaperoned women, segregating both genders, carrying out beheadings
or amputations of criminals and stoning of adulterers. Petro Islam wants to
change all that , it wants to make the likes of Osama bin Laden as the role
model of Indian Muslim youth and want them all to be cannon fodder for the
likes of Daesh. No Saudi is getting killed in global jihad. Its the Pakistanis,
Afghans, Iraqis, Indians , Syrians etc that are dying.
We as a
society need to grow a spine, and stop the influx of this poison in our
country’s veins. Instead of appeasing the ‘’holy men’’, we need to call out
their lies, simply by saying that we don’t need filth like Osama bin Laden to
be promoted as a role model when we have APJ Abdul Kalam.
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