Attack on Gurudwara in Kabul Is An Act of Terrorism, Not Approved by the Quran or the Prophet
ISIS's Attack
Proves Its Desperation
Main
Points:
1. 2 people,
one Sikh and one Taliban member were killed in the attack.
2. Attacking
innocent pilgrims in a Gurudwara is a terrorist act.
3. The ISIS is
a group of criminals.
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By
New Age Islam Staff Writer
21 June
2022
Two people were killed and at least seven others injured in the attack.
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The Terrorist
Attack on A Gurudwara
Karte
Parwan in Kabul Afghanistan has once again demonstrated the desperation of the
ISIS. The attack resulted in the killing of two people, one Sikh and one
Taliban member on 19 June, 2022. The ISIS claimed responsibility for the
attacks and tried to justify it by saying that the attacks were in response to
the blasphemous remarks against the prophet of Islam.
However,
the attacks on Sikhs and the Hindus in Afghanistan by the ISIS or the Taliban
are not new. In March 2020, a suicide bomber affiliated to the ISIS-Haqqani
Network had attacked Gurudwara Har Rai Saheb in Kabul. 25 people were killed
and 8 were injured.
In 2018,
the ISIS had attacked a Sikh congregation in Jalalabad and claimed
responsibility. Then it had said that the attacks were in response to Indian
government's action in Kashmir.
In March
2020, the ISIS had attacked the swearing in ceremony of Ashraf Ghani. One of
the militants arrested after the attacked was found to be associated with
Pakistan's ISI.
Sikh Group Marks One Year Of Attack On Gurudwara In Kabul, Pays Tribute
To Lost Lives/ Photo: Outlook
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The role of
Pakistan's ISI cannot, therefore, be ruled out in the recent Gurudwara attack.
Pakistan's policy of strategic depth in Afghanistan has had a setback as after
coming to power with the help of Pakistan and the US, the Taliban have refused
to kowtow before Pakistan and have made overtures to India.
The ISIS's
argument in favour of the attack was that it was in response to the remarks
made against the prophet does not hold water because in 2018, it had said that
it attacked Sikhs because the Indian government persecuted Kashmiris in the
Jammu and Kashmir. In both the cases Afghan Sikhs and Hindus were not involved.
Islam does not approve of killing innocent people for the fault of others.
The remarks
have been made by two politicians of India and they will be prosecuted under
the blasphemy law of India. The Muslims of India have condemned the remarks and
peacefully protested against it and demanded legal action against them. Islamic
countries have taken diplomatic steps over the issue. Attacking a Gurudwara and
the members of the Sikh community in Afghanistan cannot be justified from any
angle under the Islamic law. It's an act of terrorism and a crime against
humanity. The Quran has categorically said that killing an innocent person is
akin to killing the entire humanity and saving an innocent person is akin to
saving the entire humanity. How can the ISIS justify the killing of a Muslim
who was killed in the attack on the Gurudwara?
The Quran
also says that no one will bear the burden (of the sins or crimes) of others.
How can innocent Sikhs or Hindus of Afghanistan or of any country for that
matter be killed for the persecution of Kashmiris in India? This is the same
line of thought of some Hindutva groups in India who 'punish' Muslims of India
for the alleged persecution of Hindus by Muslim kings centuries ago. How can
the ISIS claim to be different from them?
By killing
innocent minorities in a Muslim majority country, the ISIS have committed
blasphemy against the holy prophet. The security and protection of the
minorities of a Islamic country is the religious responsibility of the Islamic
government and according to the Quran, the ISIS are a group of Mufsideen
(rioters) because they are not a part of the government and have been
committing Fasad in violation of the law of the country and in violation
of the principles of the Quran. According to the law laid down by the Quran,
they should be either summarily executed or their hands and legs should be
amputated from the opposite sides. Will the Taliban that claims to follow
sharia punish the ISIS militants in this way?
The attacks
seem more to be a result of political and diplomatic discomfiture of Pakistan
vis a vis India's growing influence in Afghanistan. The relations of Pakistan
with Afghan Taliban are on a down slide since Afghan came to power in
Afghanistan last August. The TTP, a militant outfit that shares the ideology of
Taliban has intensified militancy in Pakistan during the last ten months. 170
attacks have been carried out in Pakistan by the TTP militants from September
2021 to May 2022. About 10,000 TTP terrorists have been taking shelter in
Afghanistan's areas bordering Pakistan. Pakistan has been asking Taliban to
flush out the TTP militants from its land and crackdown on them but the Taliban
have showed a soft approach to them. The Taliban is more interested in
brokering peace between them and Pakistan.
On the
other hand, the Taliban have demonstrated a willingness to work with India in
trade and security fields. On June 2, a delegation of India's external Affairs
Ministry met Afghan Minister in Kabul, Mulla Yaqub, the son of Mulla Omar and
talked on various issues including bilateral trade. The Indian delegation had
visited Afghanistan to oversee the delivery of humanitarian assistance in the
country. During a press briefing the Afghanistan Minister was asked if his
government would be interested to send Afghan soldiers to India for military
training, he said that his government was willing to send its soldiers to India
for training.
It should
be noted that before Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, India trained Afghan
security personnel in counter-terrorism, jungle warfare, signals, intelligence
gathering and information technology.
MOI, Afghanistan shared a video in which the Taliban officials can be
seen meeting Afghan Sikhs at Gurudwara and holding a discussion (Screenshot)
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On February
4, 2022, the Afghan embassy had said that 80 young Afghan cadets who recently
graduated from Indian military academies had been offered a 12-month training
course in effective English communication for business and economic
co-operation programme. The Afghan government lauded India's offer.
India has
also tried to rehabilitate the officers and security personnel of Afghanistan
associated with the previous government who are afraid of returning to
Afghanistan due to fear of persecution by the current Taliban government
because of their loyalty to the previous government. The Taliban government
have assured them that they will welcome them in their new government.
It is also
important that the Taliban government did not take a harsh stand against India
on the issue of remarks against the prophet. This was a hint that the Taliban
do not want to antagonise India at a time it has been beleaguered by a number
of problems on national and international level.
This is the
cause of a heart burn for Pakistan. The attacks on the Gurudwara in Kabul two
weeks after the visit of the Indian delegation to Afghanistan speaks of this
heart burn.
The ISIS
who were hailed by a section of imprudent Islamic organisations and scholars as
the flag bearers of caliphate have turned into a group of mercenaries who
sometimes fight for Turkey's Erdogan in Azerbaijan, sometimes for Russia's
Putin in Ukraine and sometimes by Pakistan in Afghanistan. The ISIS's terrorist
activities in the name of Islam, therefore, strongly condemned by the Muslims.
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