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Tajik jihadist denounces mullah for saying there is no jihad in Syria

May 28, 2014 7:56 am By Robert Spencer

Hoji Mirzo IbronovOnce again we see a jihadist claim the mantle of Islamic authenticity, and rebuke a Muslim opponent on Islamic grounds. This contradicts the prevailing dogma in the West, that the jihadists have twisted and hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam, and actually have no authentic Islamic justification for their actions. Mainstream analysts never bother to explain this cognitive dissonance. Note also that the jihadist “urges Tajiks to give Ibronov a ‘tooth-breaking response.'” Behind the rebuke is a threat — which is one chief reason why we don’t see more genuinely reformist Muslims.

“Tajikistan: Mullah’s Remarks On Jihad Spark War Of Words,” by Farangis Najibullah, RFE RL, May 28, 2014:

(RFE/RL) — A video has appeared on the Internet that purports to show a Tajik militant in Syria condemning a pro-government mullah’s stance on the issue of jihad.

The four-minute clip features a self-described militant angrily denouncing remarks made by prominent Tajik mullah Hoji Mirzo Ibronov, who recently expressed concern that young Tajiks were being brainwashed and recruited to fight alongside Islamist rebels in Syria.

In an exclusive interview with RFE/RL’s Tajik Service published on May 14, Ibronov argued that there was no jihad, or holy war, in Syria, despite the claims of those intending to lure Tajik migrants to join the fight.

A video posted on the Russian social-media site Odnoklassniki this week features a bearded man — surrounded by some two dozen gun-wielding masked men — directly countering Ibronov’s claim.

Speaking in colloquial Tajik, he accuses the mullah of misleading people. “The mullah says, ‘There is no jihad in [Syria].’ I didn’t believe Hoji Mirzo would say such things until I listened to his voice,” the man says. “How can you say there no jihad here? Children are being killed here.”

The man accuses Ibronov of being a servant of the government in Dushanbe. “Today you say you’re the government’s mullah. What government? The government that is against Allah’s laws?” he asks. “People should understand you’re wearing a mask of Islam.”

He then urges Tajiks to give Ibronov a “tooth-breaking response.”

Thought To Be Working In Russia

The speaker is the only one among the 22 men in the video who is not wearing a black mask. While there are trees and the sea in the background, it’s not clear when and where the footage was recorded.

However, an Interior Ministry official said on condition of anonymity that the authorities were aware of the video and investigating it.

The official said the purported Tajik “militant” speaking on the video has been identified by the authorities as Nusrat Nazarov, a 38-year-old resident of the Charmgaroni Poyon neighborhood of the southern town of Kulob. According to the official, Nazarov is wanted by police for his involvement in drug dealing.

Nazarov has also been identified by his family members and neighbors. The family said it believed Nazarov, who is married and has three children, was working as a migrant laborer in Russia.

It is also not known if the men in the video are Tajik. However, the man identified as Nazarov appears to be speaking on behalf of all of them.

Ibronov: ‘Not A Jihad’

In his interview, Ibronov expressed concern that recruiters were using propaganda videos, religious sermons, and financial incentives to lure “undereducated” and “impoverished” Tajik migrants in Russia to fight in Syria.

The mullah said the Syrian war was a political and geopolitical conflict, not a jihad, as foreign militants fighting against the regime in Damascus describe it.

Media reports claim there are some 190 Tajiks fighting against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad….

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  1. Jay Boo says

    May 28, 2014 at 9:03 am

    Obama’s madrassa education has him doing the wagging one finger routine as well.
    Old habits are hard to break.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/files/2012/12/Obama_0490e_image_1024w.jpg

    Even Hillary doesn’t do this, that I know of.

  2. mortimer says

    May 28, 2014 at 9:58 am

    “Wearing a mask of Islam”? That apparently means that ‘moderate Muslims’ are not Muslims but ‘hypocrites’ (munafiqeen) who only give lip service to Islam but actually want a secular government, rather than normative Islamic theocracy.

    The jihadists are speaking for orthodox Sunnite Islam.

  3. dumbledoresarmy says

    May 31, 2014 at 4:32 am

    Wherever there are Muslims, there is Jihad, one way or another.

  4. Nematullo says

    Jun 6, 2014 at 12:02 am

    The government can’t stop islam.

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