Which illustrates yet again that the object of jihad is to establish Sharia.
Sufi Mohammad agrees with Syed Moinullah Shah, but for different reasons.
“Pro-Taliban cleric says jehad “˜not mandatory” in Kashmir,” from Press Trust of India, May 4 (thanks to Anang):
Islamabad: Contradicting militant groups” claim that they were engaged in “˜jehad” in Kashmir, a hardline Pakistani cleric, who brokered a peace deal between Taliban and NWFP government, has said jehad is “not mandatory” in the state as people there are not demanding Sharia.
Hardline cleric Sufi Mohammad, the chief of the banned Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Sharia Muhammadi, said the Kashmiris are demanding a state and not Sharia or Islamic law. “Therefore, jehad is not mandatory in Kashmir.”
“Today there is no place in the world where “˜jehad bil qataal” (holy war) is taking place,” Muhammad said in an interview with Geo News channel. He said that Sharia prohibited the stopping of vices through the use of force.
He also said democracy is “˜kufar” (infidelity) and backing democratic forces is useless. “Even I do not offer prayers under pro-democracy people,” the cleric said.