We are still often told that Islamic jihadis represent a mere tiny minority of extremists, and that most Muslims reject and even abhor jihad terrorism. But Syed Salahuddin says that a majority of Pakistanis support his jihad against India, and why wouldn’t they? They read the same Qur’an and follow the same Muhammad that Salahuddin does. Also, there are persistent rumors that his group has links to the Pakistani government’s Interservices Intelligence (ISI).
“‘We’re still training Kashmiris for jihad,’ Hizbul leader claims,” by F.M. Shakil, Asia Times, February 10, 2018:
The supreme commander of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), Syed Salahuddin – a Pakistan-based Kashmiri militant who was declared a global terrorist by US authorities last year – appears quite determined to take the Kashmir struggle forward to its “logical conclusion,” come what may. While Pakistan is under pressure from the Trump administration to clean up its act, Salahuddin remains as defiant as ever.
The US move against Salahuddin and his Kashmiri militant organization looks to have had zero impact. Salahuddin, labeled a ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorist’ (SDGT), simply laughs the designation off.
“Pakistan has just ignored the Trump administration’s wrong-headed decision of terming a ‘freedom fighter’ a ‘terrorist,’” which violates United Nations resolutions and the US Constitution,” he tells Asia Times in an exclusive interview. “Pakistan knows very well that a ‘mujahid’ cannot be a ‘terrorist,’ [and therefore] continues to provide ‘moral’ and ‘diplomatic’ support to the forces fighting for the right of self-determination in Kashmir.”
His assertion reinforces India’s claims that Pakistani authorities have been lending support to militant outfits in the region.
Pakistan issued a fatwa known as ‘Paigham-e-Pakistan‘ (“Pakistan’s message”) on January 16 this year. It empowers only Pakistan’s federal government, rather than militant groups, to announce holy wars (jihad). Terming the decree a “blessing,” Salahuddin’s response is to suggest that the government use it to declare a holy war in Kashmir….
When the armed militancy erupted in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in the 1980s, the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), a group of young Kashmiri men trained in Pakistan, played a leading role. As the Indian Army began to recover lost ground over subsequent years, the HM established itself as the most prominent Kashmiri militant group to operate in the Kashmir Valley. However, following major reverses, its influence waned, and the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) began to emerge. Unlike the HM, the LeT had mostly Pakistani cadres….
There have been rumors of links to Pakistan’s Interservices Intelligence (ISI) and Jamaat-e-Islami, a conservative political party. Salahuddin denies these but hastens to add that a majority of Pakistanis support HM’s cause. “We have ‘spiritual bonds’ with Jamaat-e-Islami and share its religious and ideological perception, but other than that HM has no link whatsoever with Jamaat-e-Islami,” he says….
elee says
A huge legacy of shame on Clement Attlee. Before him there was no Pakistan.
Ray Jarman says
Elee, I don’t understand your point. At the time Lord Mountbatten was working with both Jawaharlal Nehru and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, all parties knew that there had to be a compromise and India certainly faired well at the end in 1947. The English government was certainly not leaving without a settlement and I agree that Clemet Attlee was a complete idiot (I have many of my English friends why on earth would anyone vote out the great Sir Winston Churchill for the Labour Party) concerning India. With the advent of the UN, the pressure put on Great Britain, France and Niederland was enormous and as I said, India fared well. Pakistan could not even sustain its one state nationhood and internecine followed and Pakistan partitioned itself politically and thus Bangladesh which enhanced India’s security. Now India has an enemy on its western border viz. the eastern border with Bangladesh. Also if the 1947 agreement had stipulated that the entire land was to be under Indian auspiciousness, it would have had to fight not only wars with Pakistan, it would have had a terrible bloody civil war that would have probably forced the English to re-enter.
I have a special affinity towards Kashmir and its Hindu population as I was treated very kindly in 1970 while visiting and taking advantage of the fantastic skiing there. The food was soooooo gooooood and the hospitality was second to none but equal to everywhere in India. Subsequent Pakistani governments have proven that they believe that perfidy is acceptable, even in treaties in which they have no intention of upholding, as muhammad was told by Gabriel that allah was pleased. Also one must remember the muslim creed that goes like may we live here in peace, later they request that their sharia type laws be respected and lastly they demand autonomy which Kashmir perfectly illustrates. They are claiming that since they are the majority in many areas of Kashmir, that they should have hegemony over the entire state.
When I had the opportunity to work at the US Consulate in Lahore in 2002, I was privileged to sit with some Pakistani diplomats to view the changing of the guard at the gate where one can enter to visit the other nation. It did not take long to experience the differing attitudes of the people of both nations. The Pakistanis were shouting what sounded like war chants as well as the God is Greater while on the other side of the wall I heard people singing happy songs and everyone seemed to be having a nice experience. I also asked the Pakistani captain of the guards if he and his soldiers had contact with the Indian soldiers to which he replied that they came together most afternoons to drink coffee and tea together. He told me that friendships had been established between the two sides but I do wonder if it is possible today with the trouble that has been occurring in Lahore in the last few years.
My main point is that I don’t think that Attlee can be blamed for the Pakistani problems as I think that many, maybe millions, of lives were saved from a civil war that most certainly would have occurred. One last note is that for excellent insight into the ongoing strife in Kashmir, a great website is KGS Nightwatch. It provides information regarding events around the world and its analysis is usually spot on especially in places such as Kashmir.
Peterson says
What nonsense are you talking? If Pakistan was not created the whole India would have been a Pakistan. Now the filth is isolated and you can handle with it. It was tacit support of US that gave Pakistan nuclear weapons and all the previous US governments were buying what Pakistan was dishing out to them.
Chand says
You are right, elee.
Great Britain deliberately created the concept of separate Muslim areas ever since anti British agitations intensified. ‘Divide and Rule’ became the official undeclared policy of the colonialists and the nation began to rip apart on religious lines. Before that there was not much of an urge among Hindus and Muslims to separate. They were living as neighbors all over the vast land, mostly peacefully, with occasional communal problems. Britain felt that a divided Indian nation would be easier to control, rule, subjugate.
Churchill, who disliked Indian Hindus more than the Muslims, gave covert support to Jinnah’s decision to ask for a Muslim separation. Churchill and many other Britishers never appreciated the confusing religion of Hinduism with their myriad gods, rituals and idols and preferred the monotheism of Islam.
When Britain realized that independence was inevitable, she purposely began supporting the idea of the geographical Pakistan and wanted to keep the Baluchistan port available in the future as a bulwark against Soviet expansionism or Communist influence in India. The Cold War had begun by then, post WW II.
This policy of supporting Pakistan against India continued post Indian independence and they were joined by the US and thus US-UK-Pakistan was pitted against USSR-India.
gravenimage says
True, Jay Boo–this is ridculous.
As if Muslims would have been good citizens of democratic India if only it had not been for perfidious Albion! sarc/off
Carolyne says
Bad Muslim
Good British
No one can deny that India was much better under English rule. Well I suppose they could deny it, but they would be wrong.
Sharyati says
In a way the creation of Pakistan is a boon for Indian Hindus. Yes i agree with that and i just do not blame Churchill being the monster he was for creating an artificial famine in India(. And note how Chand with his usual glib tongued approach brings in the idea that Churchill preferred Monotheism and how the Hindu faith is confusing. I doubt whether Churchill, a hardcore imperialist monster/murdered at heart had such theological considerations. Churchill was simply a downright racist and he hated anybody of brown skin, whether they were Muslims or Hindus did not matter. That is all to it. Also it was not as if though the Muslims did not want their own homeland. They thought of India as a land of the Naji(Impure) and wanted a pure land devoid of Hindu Kafirs The very name Pakistan(Pure land) is a testimony to Muslims/Jinnah’s intentions . @Chand if the Muslims were so patriotic and good why did they not oppose partition and show the middle finger to Churchill? Instead they just used the intentions of the British to divide India to their advantage.
@Carolyne
I am not sure that British rule was good. Yeah you would say the Brits laid the railway, postage etc etc.The British perpetrated a holocaust much before the Nazis. They created artificial famines like the one given here http://www.tehelka.com/2014/06/remembering-indias-forgotten-holocaust/. Four million died in it. See the ghastly photos the Brits took during the period at https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/
Here are the complete list of famines that happened in just the last 120 years of British rule https://yourstory.com/2017/08/british-raj-famines/. Not one famine happened in post Independent India this last 70 years or so. Before the Brits came famines of this magnitude were unheard off in the medieval ages. Check out the works of Greek travelers like Megasthenes and the Italian travelers Marco Polo and the Chinese guy Huan Tsang. They speak glowingly of the prosperity of India. Read the writings of Columbus another murderer and arsonist who killed many Indians, women and Children included, when he came to India and stayed in the port town of Calicut.. You will see how he hankered for the riches of the “Indies”. Read the account of the 2 Englishmen(Thomas Rowe? I forget) that came to court of the Indian Kings. They themselves are embarrassed by their own penury compared to the richness found in the Kings court.
What you say is just wishful thinking Carolyne without a semblance of truth.
Sharyati says
Sorry a mistaken fact
“Read the writings of Columbus another murderer and arsonist who killed many Indians, women and Children included, when he came to India and stayed in the port town of Calicut..”
I meant Vasco Da Gama not Columbus. My bad!!!
Guy Forester says
The people of San Bernardino, Redlands, and the surrounding communities are very familiar with this mindset. Send him a hellfire missile first chance you get Mr. President.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Yes, They are freedom fighters against fascist Hindu barbarians Who have been killing muslims because they refuse to worship idols of durga goddess and Dharma. Ï Will send prayers from the Quran to get the Satan in them running and track him down so that no magic Will Come out of them again
CogitoErgoSum says
Ibrahim, I am trying to tell you that Satan and the Quran are linked. The spirit who spoke to Muhammad was evil and it frightened him. It loved his fear and fed upon his fear. The spirit that appeared to Muhammad loved the taste of his terror.
Now, God didn’t frighten Moses with the burning bush. He didn’t frighten the little boy Samuel (see 1 Samuel, chapter 3). Look at 1 Kings, chapter 19:7-11. Elijah was not afraid of the spirit that spoke to him ……. in a gentle whisper. Muhammad was terrified by the spirit that he encountered ….. which did not come from God.]
Sometimes the obvious is the most difficult to see.
CogitoErgoSum says
Oh, I left out the most important verse from 1 Kings 19 …. verse 12 states, “After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.”
The gentle whisper was the spirit of God speaking to Elijah.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
No, Mr Cogitoergosum, what you Call holy spirit or holy ghost is exactly the Satan the cursed one. There is no spirit representing voice of God or His breath known as holy spirit. It is a pagan idea from mithraism inspired by thé Satan.
CogitoErgoSum says
Well, I suppose it is logical that you would think that way since Islam is a religion inspired by Satan and not by God. Your idea of God is based upon a deception perpetrated by the greatest deceiver all. Your God is one who values fear above love. But that is something you will ultimately have to discover on your own. I hope you gain more knowledge in your journey through life and that you will have the wisdom to understand what comes your way. When all the sound and fury has passed, the whispering voice will be heard ….. if you want to listen to it.
ElderlyZionist says
Ibbi, habibbi, I’m so sorry I wasn’t able to help you move that 40 million naira from your deceased uncle the cabinet minister’s secret bank account to a safe location in the US where we could both enjoy it, as you so generously suggested. I know you’re in a hurry to get your college boy self out of Nigeria, because we know boko haram! Haram! Your Amir Abubakr will not accept your weak cowardly internet jihad as an excuse for your fitna. You had better get moving.
LeftisruiningCanada says
🙂
gravenimage says
Talk about projection! Hindus do not force Muslims to convert to Hinduism–it certainly happens the other way around, though.
I have heard a lot of Muslim excuses for the Jihad in Kashmir–Hindus forcing Muslims to convert to Hinduism has never been one of them.
In the end, it is just another Jihad land grab against the Infidels.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
It means you dont know the agenda of fascist Hindu barbarians that for one to be an Indian hé must be an Idol worshiper as national identity. you support them because you worship the same Satan you Call holy spirit.
LeftisruiningCanada says
you think it’s good to kill idol worshipers don’t you ibrahim?
you want to kill them all, don’t you ibrahim.
so long as you shake all the peepee out, then you’re clean.
Ray Jarman says
I suggest you read (if indeed you can read words with more than one syllable) the accounts of your wonderful religion of peace’s benevolence it showed to the Hindus and Sikhs from 800AD to 1700AD. I guess they thought that only killing 400,000,000 (four hundred million in case you don’t know how to read numerically written symbols) was being kind and showing good will. Destroying Hindu temples was also a sign of good will showed to the people that you had not slaughtered. I used to think that Mao in the name of Communism was the all time mass murderer until reading a book that I would mail to you if I had your address, “The Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie. You know him, he is the man upon whom your benevolent religious leaders placed a fatwa. After reading his account of the slaughter, I did some research and he did not even come close to telling the true horrific atrocities that your cult of peace has committed.
Sharyati says
Indians need to be idol worshipers and we are killing Muslims for not worshiping goddess durga and Dharma ?? Where on earth did you get this Ibrahim you liar?Show me your source that says “Hindus in India murdered Muslims for their refusal to worship goddess Durga!!!!” My god i want to LMAO!!!. Do you even know the meaning and profundity of the word Dharma? You are an idiot with a brain of a camel!!! You send prayers through the Quran to driver out satan??You really deserve to live in the 7th century.
Now do you know many Hindus including me are atheists? Yet we can be orthodox Hindus do you know that?A fact that your camel brain is flummoxed with isn’t it not? Please do not demean yourself by being the jester of this group.!!!
MFritz says
Don’t feed the troll.
ElderlyZionist says
Can I just kick him in the azz a few times? He’s so green and lumpy, he’s irresistible.
6woods says
But he’s so much fun to feed…he’s so monumentally stupid (like all muzzies). Ibby-trolling makes my day!
6woods says
Hey, Ibby, is that you in the picture? You’ve told us before how handsome you are, but I had no idea you’re this dreamy. You must be beating those goats off with a stick!
LeftisruiningCanada says
Very likely.
Indiana Tom says
. “Pakistan knows very well that a ‘mujahid’ cannot be a ‘terrorist,’ [and therefore] continues to provide ‘moral’ and ‘diplomatic’ support to the forces fighting for the right of self-determination in Kashmir.”
Sounds like a statement from the Ministry of Truth and Love. Orwellian Doublespeak.
Indiana Tom says
Need to really dump Pakistan.
mortimer says
While most Pakistani say they disapprove, about 15% of them approve of terrorist organizations.
15% is a general figure of support for terrorist groups that is found in Muslims in many countries, even the West.
The figure 15% is the same number that comes up when we ask how many Muslims are attending the mosque. About 15% attend.
Is the 15% that attend the mosque the same group that supports terrorism? A study should be done to identify if that is the case!
gravenimage says
Over half of Muslims in the United States want to see Shari’ag imposed. This is the final aim of all Jihad.
Eric jones says
ISI has been guilty from its inception. It help to facilitate 911. As for Mr. Saluhuddin he looks like something from a horror movie. He is a definite pre-human! It must be great to believe in a religion that justifies you killing, raping and robbing. What a rush.
Eric
Relic says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3unLoDbawTU
gravenimage says
Kashmir jihad leader: “Pakistan knows a ‘mujahid’ can’t be a ‘terrorist,’” says most Pakistanis support his jihad
……………………
More proof that when most Muslims say they “oppose terrorism” they are not talking about Jihad, but abou those who dare defend against Jihad.
Sarah says
Holy crap, Syed Salahuddin looks like Saul Berenson went rogue whilst in captivity in Pakistan/Afghanistan and grew a beard and turned for the other team, aka Brody style.
Yes, I’m only up to midway through Season 4. Do not pass any spoilers my way, people.
All jokes aside, this is just yet another hopelessly inbred, hopelessly primitive, hopelessly pointless waste of oxygen who is frothing at the mouth in outrage over an ideology that was peddled by a warmongering camel rider from over 1400 years ago.
Just another complete waste of oxygen and finite resources.
Valkyrie Ziege says
; Does shaving, and getting a proper hair-cut,
require too much hand/eye coördination?
Carolyne says
I recently read an article, and I can’t recall if it were on the internet or a magazine, about the 10 worst results of incestuous breeding. The Pakistanis have practiced this for centuries, sometimes as close as uncle-niece. As a result, a considerable number of Pakistanis suffer from microcephaly , i.e. small heads with the resultant small brains and lack of normal intelligence. This happened in ancient Egypt, too, and one can see the results in King Tut, whose parents were brother and sister. He had club foot, an elongated skull and scoliosis, among other ailments.
We see the results of incestuous breeding in many Muslim countries with the resultant low IQ. I believe this is one of the reasons Muslims do not exhibit common sense in much of their lives. They do not have common sense.
Politicianophobia says
Ibrahim is the thighing master.
gravenimage says
Ewwwwww!
Seriously, though, he has affirmed that pious Muslims can rape little children. *Ugh*.
JR says
I suggest that Ibrahim read the Bhagavat-gita sections on the Paramatma, the Supersoul, who as an expansion of God within the heart of every living entity is the eternal witness and sanctioner of our activities, the E. Indian equivalent of the in-dwelling spirit described as the Holy Spirit in Christianity. Alas, Islam does NOT teach introspection, rather it mainly teaches ritualistic, institutionalized lust, hatred and deceit, so precious few Muslims ever come to the point of even entertaining the thought of listening to the grand voice within.
Sharyati says
JR i would rather Ibrahim not pollute the Bhagavat Geetha and stay miles away from it. Let him concentrate on his own desert war and sex manual AKA the Quran. To read the Bhagavat Geetha requires a spiritual maturity and Ibrahim cannot muster it. And oh if ever he replies to this post i know what it would look like
“Dirty Hindu barbarian Sharyati!! Idol worshipper!! I will driver Krishna out as he is the very embodiment of Satan”
A pretty boringly predictable guy!!!
JR says
Sharyati, Thanks for your comment. I hold out hope even for one such as Ibrahim. We can defeat ibrahim’s (and Islam’s) rant about idol worshippers, because as we know the murthi (deity) is not an idol, but rather an authorized (by parampara, disciplic succession) image meant to help ignorant souls, who cannot directly see God, begin to understand that God (Krishna) ultimately is sac-cid-ananda vigraha, the eternal, personal embodiment of Being, Knowledge and ultimately Bliss. He is no mere formless spirit meant to carry out the foul, self-motivated interests of despicable men, but rather the Original Pure Supreme Entity meant to be lovingly served by all. We can also show Ibraham at least one example that does constitute an idol, the Golden Calf, which the Hebrews, in their ignorance, concocted, and Moses condemned There is a vast difference between an idol and a murthi.
Sharyati says
Well JR i really appreciate your good intentions. But sorry my mind has been hardened by seeing with my own eyes practical incidents, w.r. to both Abrahmic religions(Xtianity and Islam) that call us Idol worshipers. Without understanding the basic concept that it is we alone who have gone from the worship of the Absolute formless Brahman as found in the Upanishads and intuited in yogic nirvikalpa samdhi and the Murti worship commonly practiced in temples. We are spanning the entire gamut of possible god conceptions that can be envisioned by humans. We are not too stupid to think that the Murti like for example a stone or metal idol of Krishna is Krishna himself but a a point of concentration of all divine energies. How naive these Abrahamics can be especially Muslims who want to kill us !!!
I for one would not bother about the likes of these Abrahamics/Ibrahim’s and leave them to their own ways unless they want to interfere in mine, in which case i would prefer to follow the panchatantra or Arthashashtra or the Hitopadesha. These manuals of state craft talk of four ways to resolve a conflict Sama(Talk and end the conflict), Dana(Bribe your enemy or mollify him with gifts), Bheda(Create rifts in the enemy ranks), dhanda(warfare). As far as India is concerned we have followed the first 3 for 1000s of years to no avail and i am now for the 4th one now. Yes i do know the difference between idol and murthy. But when the likes of Ibrahims start to attack us, then i am not for showing love or restraint. Did not Krishna in the Bhagavat Geeta tell Arjuna to take his weapons and fight like a man when all the 3 options i earlier mentioned failed, instead of cowering like a eunuch? Enough is enough!!!
Sharyati says
Pakistan since its inception is an Islamic state and as such is a Jihad enabler/coordinator. The issuing of an internal fatwa is all just an eye wash and internally the ISI and the army pats the backs and gives a loving belly rub to these guys. All variously named groups are just of the same Islamic parent stock. So Syed is just talking the plain truth and the Indian government ought to understand the Pakistani civilian government(If such a thing exists) is as complicit in Jihad as any of those groups. It should formulate a more belligerent policy against these guys and finish them off.