India lost to Pakistan in one of the first “super 12” cricket matches of T20 World Cup. It was neither a decisive match nor one as important as the semi-finals or the final, but the passion felt by the people of both countries always makes India vs. Pakistan a match of immense interest. Still, a mere 20-over-match shouldn’t have been such a widely discussed issue, but the Islamization of cricket is indeed a serious matter that needs to be discussed and dealt with.
Even before the match started, a former Pakistani cricketer known for being an Islamic hardliner dreaming of Ghazwa-e-Hind, Shoaib Akhtar, broached the two-nation theory that justified the creation of Pakistan, taking pride in it right before the start of the match. It was irrelevant to bring up the bloody past that saw the butchering of hundreds of thousands of Hindus right before a match, but once again, you can take a Pakistani player out of Pakistan, but you can’t take the Islamist out of him. And this fact was repeatedly evident on the field as well.
After India lost to Pakistan in this T20 World Cup match, Pakistani commentator and former cricketer Bazid Khan, while exchanging words in a post-match presentation ceremony with the Pakistani captain Babar Azam, remarked, “Lekin kufr to toot gaya” (The kaffirs have been finally destroyed), to which Azam replied, “yeh Allah Ka Kaam Hai” (All because of Allah).
The phrase kufr toot gaya comes from the Islamic axiom, “Laye us butt ko iltija kar ke, kufr tuta khuda khuda karke,” meaning, “Idols prayed to by kafirs (non-Muslims) were finally broken, seeking the Muslim god and Islam won.”
It is beyond one’s imagination or understanding that a derogatory term, “kufr,” used by Muslim hardliners to denounce non-believers, would be used by the presenter of the International Cricket Council (ICC) at the stadium during a formal conversation intended for public consumption. It is outrageous and deplorable, and so is the fact that the ICC management has not taken any action against Bazid Khan for his blatant bigotry. This establishes that the ICC lends the jihadis their platform, allowing them to convey their innate hatred for non-Muslims.
Further, former Pakistani cricketer Waqar Younus praised cricketer Mohammad Rizwan, in a televised discussion on the match, for performing namaaz (Islamic prayer) on the ground in between Hindus, and stated it was a very special thing for him.
On Sunday, October 24, Pakistani Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad called the victory of Pakistan over India a “victory for the Muslim world.” He also claimed that Indian Muslims supported the Pakistani team.
“I want to congratulate the whole of Pakistan on this resounding victory (against India in T20 Qualifier match). I salute the Pakistan team for decimating its arch-rival in an exemplary display of grit, determination and courage. Pakistan has showcased its righteousness before the Muslim world. This is the only India Vs Pakistan match that I could not attend owing to ministerial work,” said the overjoyed Pakistani minister. He also announced that he had directed the Traffic Department to remove barricades in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, so that the people of Pakistan could celebrate, concluding his statement with “Pakistan Zindabad. Islam Zindabad.” Long live Pakistan, Long Live Islam.
Muslims celebrated not only in Pakistan, but also in India. Multiple videos have surfaced from Muslim neighborhoods in several Indian cities, exposing their joy over the victory of India’s arch-rival. Muslims shot off fireworks and kept the Indian sky bright throughout the night in Delhi’s Seemapuri area, Bihar’s Gopalganj, Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur, and parts of Gujarat.
There were enthusiastic celebrations throughout Kashmir, but noteworthy were the celebrations in multiple higher education institutions. Students of SKIMS Medical College, in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir also celebrated India’s defeat by Pakistan in the T20 match, with great exhilaration. Police have confirmed that Kashmiri students at the Bhai Gurdas Institute of Engineering and Technology in Sangrur, Punjab were also cheering for Pakistan during the India-Pakistan match, and raising “azadi” slogans (anti-India, secessionist slogans).
These students are pursuing medical and engineering degrees in institutions funded by the Indian government, and funds come from the taxes paid by the Indians, largely the Hindus. But that doesn’t keep these Muslim professionals-in-the making from cheering for the rival country.
Not only students, but some Muslim teachers in India are supporting India’s Islamic neighbor rather than India itself. Nafisa Atari, a teacher at Neerja Modi School in Rajasthan’s Udaipur, was unabashed in sharing her support for Pakistan. The charitable trust running the school decided to terminate the teacher, after which she clarified that she was just “joking.”
The Muslims who cheered for Pakistan are living as regular civilians in India, but their true sentiments betray them every once in a while, as on occasions such as this. When India was partitioned in 1947 and an Islamic Pakistan was formed on the land taken from India, these people’s parents and grandparents decided to stay “secular” and thrive in India, benefiting from Indian society and deciding its policies at the ballot box, but deep in their hearts of hearts, they will always be Muslims supporting Pakistan, for Islam in itself is a nation, the identity of which negates every other identity.
Infidel says
In the meantime, the Indian cricket team, that had never knelt before, finally did so in this match in solidarity w/ BLM, even though here, the NFL and others seem to have forgotten it and moved on. And in doing so, they opened a can of worms. I saw several people condemn them for expressing solidarity w/ BLM while not saying a word about the Bangladeshi Hindus persecuted and slaughtered earlier this month during Durga Puja
Former Indian cricketers from Kapil Dev to Mahendra Singh Dhoni were all patriots, but the current team under Virat Kohli consists of several woke players, including himself. Kohli has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, such as putting out sponsored messages on Pinterest offering to tell people how to celebrate Diwali, while his wife, a Bollywood actress, was in the news last year for doing an Amazon show that was pretty anti-Hindu and anti-Sikh
Indian cricket fans need to stop being excited about India-Pak matches, and appreciating real quality cricketers. Unfortunately not many left these days, since all the greats that we had from 2000 to 2015 have retired, and not been succeeded by a great bunch
gravenimage says
Just nuts, Infidel.
Fitna says
Muslims possess the most loathsome qualities humans can have. They’re petty, vile, no sense of sportsmanship or comradery. It’s about childish victories of their retarded religion over the unbelievers.
As Robert often asks, can we expect Muslims to become loyal, productive members of our society and the Muslims resoundly tell us ‘no’ they never have and never will. Their worthless, pathetic lives constantly revolve around Islam and nothing else.
The best thing we can do is to remove all Muslims from free countries. We don’t need them and they bring nothing but problems and conflict. I wouldn’t keep religious fanatics as friends, why would I want them in my country, esp. when they’re ready to cause violence and warfare for their evil death cult?
tim gallagher says
Disgusting stuff from these Pakistani Muslim scumbags. Pakistan should have been thrown out of international cricket ages ago. Afghanistan, despite the Taliban being in charge, are also allowed to play in this tournament. This tournament is being played in United Arab Emirates so I guess this type of Muslim shit would be popular with the local Muslims there as well. You have nasty crap like this from the Muslim Pakistanis, and you have Afghanistan allowed to play in this tournament, and yet the main controversy so far has been Quinton de Kock’s refusal to take the knee in support of BLM. I’m not a huge fan of cricket these days, but I’m far more interested in the upcoming Series of matches between Australia and England in Australia this summer and the local Australian 20 over Big Bash cricket matches rather than this nasty type of garbage from these Pakistani wankers. Pakistan should be out of the game and, obviously, Afghanistan as well.
gravenimage says
Pakistani Cricket has also been plagued with scandal–most common have ball-tampering and match fixing.
*Far* more disturbing than this was the death of Pakistani coach Bob Woolmer during the 2007 World Cup held in the West Indies after Pakistan lost to Ireland. He was found strangled to death in his hotel room. Woolmer was English, and also coached South Africa and club teams in the UK. His likely murder has never been solved.
tim gallagher says
I would have thrown Pakistan out of international cricket because of all those terrible things we read about here at Jihad Watch, gravenimage. Non-Muslims are treated terribly in that loathsome, backward country, Pakistan. Zero human rights. Back in the 1960s South Africa was rightly thrown out because of the apartheid regime back then. What you mentioned there about the other scandals had led me to remember them. Yeah, gambling and match fixing. Aren’t these Muslims just so wonderfully pure? Is gambling allowed in islam? Absolute hypocrites I suspect. I sort of very vaguely remembered Bob Woolmer’s death but I thought it was a heart attack or something. I didn’t recall that he was murdered. I may be getting a bit of Joe Biden’s disease these days with my memory. At least I’m not trying to run a country.. I suppose if Pakistan got thrown out, definitely afghanistan and Bangladesh should follow. Probably South Africa because of the terrible chaos in that country these days and white farmers being murdered. Anyway, it’ll never happen it seems. I suspect it is all about money and who drags lots of money into the sport of cricket.
gravenimage says
Time, here’s more on Bob Woolmer from an article written for the tenth anniversary of his death:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/39282939
The Jamaican police may not be the most professional in the world–but whether that means that their determination of murder was rash or that their never finding the killer meant the case was botched is still unclear.
But Pakistanis were burning Woolmer’s effigy in the streets even though this seemed like a pretty routine loss. Disturbing stuff, in any case.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for that, gravenimage. It is a good report. I suspect that Woolmer was murdered because someone lost a lot of money on the surprise defeat by Pakistan. I have always thought that going off to coach Pakistan is probably a pretty dangerous (maybe crazy) thing to do. Several former Australian players seem to have gone over to Pakistan to do that job. I guess the money is very good. From memory, a former Australian player, Geoff Lawson, went over there, but he didn’t get into any trouble and made it back to Australia safely. I dislike islam and that country so much that it is a job I wouldn’t go near. Woolmer sounded like a very pleasant person from that report so it is a terrible thing for him to be murdered like that.
gravenimage says
Actually, Tim, Pakistan had a pretty spotty record over all in 2007. Besides Ireland, they also lost to South Africa, West Indies, Sri Lanka, and India–some of these more than once.
I think it was more simply that they lost than that they were not expected to lose.
tim gallagher says
If Pakistan kept losing games, gravenimage, then I guess it could have been some enraged Pakistani that murdered Woolmer, if he was murdered (and he probably was). So many reports here at Jihad Watch show those raving loony type mobs in Pakistan baying for blood, so I suppose it is not a huge surprise. What a disgrace for anyone to be murdered over sport. I like sport, but it isn’t that important that anyone should be harmed, let alone killed, over it. To some people though, whether for national pride, or Islam’s pride, or because they bet on sport and often lose big money on the results, it is something that does lead to violence. Some Pakistani, from a distance, could have paid someone to murder Woolmer. We’ll never know for sure. Pakistan should have been kicked out of international cricket ages ago because that country trashes the human rights of all non-Muslims.
gravenimage says
Seems grimly likely, Tim.
Aussie Infidel says
Thank you GI for enlightening me too about the death of Bob Woolmer – in retrospect, it would appear that likely he was murdered. What a nasty, supremacist, theocratic attitude to have infected the game of cricket. Of course sport has always stirred support for national teams, but usually with a spirit of friendly rivalry. But Muslims don’t have that worldview – their Quran tells them that they are “the best of people”, and those kafirs across the border – those infidel Indians (who they once conquered and ruled with an iron rod) – are “the worst of people”. As Tim Gallagher said, if it was right for South Africa to have been thrown out over the apartheid issue, Pakistan should also be thrown out for politicizing the game. I think a lot of the blame for this attitude can be laid at the feet of their PM and former cricket captain Imran Khan who seems to treat non-Muslims with contempt.
Islam has no place in a civilized society; and equally, it has no place in sport.
gravenimage says
I don’t know for certain that Woolmer was murdered, but it certainly looks like it. That there were violent riots in Pakistan and burning of the coach in effigy shows how unhinged the Muslim reaction was.
Infidel says
Tim
After the Taliban took over, the ACB cancelled Afghanistan’s tour of Australia due to the Taliban ending the Women’s cricket team in Afghanistan. They should actually take it to the ICC and force the issue, so that all ICC members follow suit. After that, chances are likely that Pakistan (and maybe even Bangladesh) will oppose such a ban and keep sending or hosting Afghan teams, in which case, it should be easier to throw them out as well
I’m in 2 minds about the T20 format. I was usually a fan of Test cricket that produced results, as opposed to 5-day drawfests. Fifty over limited overs internationals were and are fine, although some of the older cricketers like Sir Richard Hadlee hated it. When T20s were introduced, I had a new disdain of them, given how they simultaneously catapult reckless batting and great fielding, but ruin bowling.
However, both the IPL and the Big Bash seem to have resurrected the Kerry Packer series of 1978-79, and have ended up being the most entertaining cricket, when the leagues, by introducing overseas players, have injected high quality into the teams and also improved international camaraderie b/w players, particularly ones playing for the same leagues. International matches look pretty dull, by comparison, since players are forced into their home teams, instead of being freely traded b/w teams. As somebody once noted, sports is a socialist enterprise: if one has a single team hovering way over others, that sport gets less entertaining and sells less seats or gets lower TV ratings
tim gallagher says
You are right about what the ACB should have done about the Afghanistan issue, Infidel. I was pleased when they cancelled the game against Afghanistan. I mean how could anyone find the Taliban acceptable. I wasn’t all that impressed when the ACB gave as the reason that they were cancelling the game against Afghanistan as being because women aren’t allowed by the Taliban to play cricket . I would have just said the taliban are a bunch of satanically evil monsters, in many different ways, and that’s why the game is cancelled. I watch a bit of test cricket and will watch a bit of the upcoming tests against England, but, maybe life is too short when you are old like me, so I don’t watch a lot of it. I like the Big Bash these days. Lots of action. Probably a bit like a Rugby League games, my favourite sport these days, whcih has lots of action usually, although I do like to watch that Masters golf tournament at Augusta each year (well, the last couple of rounds of it). It is on the TV when you get up in the morning out here so it is great to watch. I play a bit of golf so I enjoy watching a bit of that. By the way, last summer when India beat Australia, it was interesting but Australians I know were pretty pleased that India won. I thought the Australian team had become pretty nasty a while back, so I wasn’t that surprised. You are right about how, if one team gets too good for the rest, it is bad for the sport. It used to happen in Rugby League a while back, so they brought in some measures to try even things up, mainly by allowing each team to have around the same amount of money to spend on players.
Infidel says
Tim
Both the Australian and Indian teams have devolved. India had their greatest batting lineup in the 00s and Australia had arguably their greatest team during the same period. The retirements of so many – Warne, McGrath, Tendulkar, Dravid, Ponting, Hussey, et al has dragged both sides down: England, after about 50 years, is once again the world’s #1 cricketing force
I was shocked when I read last year that the ACB had cancelled its Australia Day celebrations (happens to coincide w/ India’s independence day) due to the George Floyd protests which were totally irrelevant outside the US. India wasn’t in the kneeling group then, but this week showed a different side of them. At any rate, since I’m no longer an Indian citizen, I feel no patriotic duty to root for a team whose captain wants to destroy Diwali and virtue signal the population all the time
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, Infidel. You are right about the players these days being not as good as some of those stellar teams from a few years back. I’m not a huge nationalist myself and I’m happy to see England doing well. I tend to like certain players who seem to be good people as well as being good players. I used to enjoy those great West Indian teams back in the 1970s and 1980s. Just great athletes to watch. It didn’t bother me that they continually beat Australia back then. I get sick of all this political crap that seems to be foisted onto sport these days. I heard a comment on the radio a couple of days back where a caller said that you used to go to sport to just forget about political crap and have a good time and now you go to a game and you get all this politically correct garbage shoved down your throat. I think it is making quite a few people not bother with sport at all these days.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Tim. I used to be a big baseball fan, but the “political correctness” and “wokeness” is rampant there–and it isn’t even the worst sport for this. The whole thing is just sad.
tim gallagher says
I still like some sports, gravenimage, but only the actual game itself and watching good athletes playing the sports I like. I stopped going to games ages ago, apart from going to one Rugby League match this past season with one of my sisters, because she hadn’t been to a game and wanted to check a game out, just to check out the atmosphere and the ground, which was close to where she had recently bought a house, but otherwise I watch the games on TV. When the PC crap is on, before the game, I change channels and then go back when the actual game is on. I won’t waste my time watching the annoying crap that often is on before the game.
gravenimage says
I like going to games–or I used to. And my husband is among other things a sports writer. But this stupidity has runined it for me. Hope it changes–but I’m not holding my breath.
john smith says
Spot on Fitna
somehistory says
mozlums are always refusing to play sports against Jews….one-on-one, and team sports.
If I was a sport’s competitor, or if I owned a team of players….I would refuse to play any game, any day, any time, any year, with mozlums from any country.
People don’t need to give in to this evil slime.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
Muslims are actually petrified of losing “fair and square” against Jews, either one-on-one or as a team.
somehistory says
Thank you, James.
They shouldn’t be given any time by any team. Whatever the *reason* they refuse to play with the Jews.
gravenimage says
So true.
gravenimage says
Muslim commentator calls Indians ‘kaffir’ on broadcast as Muslims in India cheer Pakistan’s cricket victory
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So much for Muslims in India actually considering themselves Indian.
Then, this from this commentator is deeply disturbing–“kaffir” doesn’t just mean non-Muslim, but basically translates to ‘filthy infidel’.
Infidel says
Sanjay DIxit – a political commentator in India who once interviewed RS – has a cliche that ‘Pakistan is not a territory: it’s an idea’. Once one grasps that, one gets why a lot of Indians refer to muslim enclaves as ‘mini-Pakistans’.
sidney penny says
Jihad – Past, Present and Future | RobertSpencer and Sanjay Dixit
Streamed live on Mar 7, 2021
The Jaipur Dialogues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmMY2trLyqM
Relic says
‘Jammu and Kashmir’
sidney penny says
“a former Pakistani cricketer known for being an Islamic hardliner”
I thought you were going to say Imran Khan the current PM of Pakistan.
gravenimage says
I can see why you’t think that…
Saptarshi Chakraborty says
A BRUTAL EYE OPENER FOR CRICKET FANS : PAKISTANI CRICKETERS AND HISTORY OF SPEWING VENOM AND HATRED FOR NON-MUSLIMS
“The best thing, what Rizwan did, Mashallah, he offered the Namaz on the ground surrounded by Hindus, that was really something very very special for me.”
– Waqar Younis
“if all Muslims start showing their Muslim-ness, not one human on earth will remain a non-Muslim”.
– Inzamam -ul- Haq
“There are 6 billion non-Muslims in the world. They all are going to burn in hellfire. It’s Muslims’ duty to save them by converting them to Islam, It’s our duty to convert the planet to Islam ”
– Saeed Anwar
“If Pakistani Muslims start living life as per Islam, there will be no non-Muslim left in entire Pakistan. No non-Muslim can enter Jannat ever. But Allah will send even a worst criminal Muslim to Jannat (all Taliban, ISIS!).”
– Mohd. Yusuf (earlier Yusuf Youhana)
“He reverted to Islam, starting reading Quran, started following the faith. started Before converting, his average was around 40. After conversion, his average skyrocketed to 70-80. When his career ended, he finished with 52. When I asked him (Yousuf) he said it was by the grace of Allah”.
– Saqlain Mushtaq , citing the example of Mohammed Yousuf claiming that Yousuf’s average doubled because he started following Islam.
“Ghazwa-e-Hind is mentioned in our sacred books. We will first capture Kashmir and then invade India from all sides for Ghazwa-e-Hind,”
– Shoab Akhtar , in an interview shedding light on his dreams of Ghazwa-e-Hind.
“Taliban is pro-women “ — Shahid Afridi
Pakistan is a rogue state. Period. If big players like Inzamam and Saeed Anwar that rubbed shoulders with other legends of the game can be indoctrinated to such an extent, imagine the commoners in Pakistan. Their hatred for India and non-Muslims cannot be gauged. For them, cricket is a way to way Jihad and impose Islam on non-muslims.
source : https://tfipost.com/2021/10/pakistan-has-been-pushing-cricket-jihad-for-decades-waqar-is-just-another-chapter/?fbclid=IwAR24-ErxbdfyojN9OXMp4rD1l2v7PVifxpRK5AeRFCxy-qoCQj4fMByOSx8
Infidel says
India already no longer takes Pakistani players, and other leagues, like the Big Bash and Carribean Premier League should stop signing in any Paki cricketers
gravenimage says
if all Muslims start showing their Muslim-ness, not one human on earth will remain a non-Muslim”.
– Inzamam -ul- Haq
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I doubt that this means that Muslims are presenting such great role models–more likely it means that Muslims “showing their Muslim-ness” are threatening Infidels with violence if they don’t convert to Islam.
Infidel says
I actually am interested in this: are there any hadiths that have any references to Ghazwa-e-Hind?
gravenimage says
Infidel, I found this:
” ‘Allah has saved two groups of my Ummah from the hellfire; the group that will invade Al-Hind (the subcontinent) and the group that will be with Eesa (Jesus), the son of Mariam.’”
https://theprint.in/opinion/everyone-misinterprets-ghazwa-e-hind-but-a-jamiat-scholar-explains-what-it-really-means/301686/
But no one cites what collection of Hadiths this is from–so I don’t know if it is considered “Sahih” (reliable). I’m not even sure if the “Prophet” knew about the existence of India or not.
StevenRSA says
Remember how Dean Jones was vilified for, off-air in the commentary box, referring to Hashim Amla as a terrorist? Will we see a similar reaction here? I doubt it.
Infidel says
Dean Jones – may his memory be eternal – was completely justified! Amla asked to not wear a sneaker that had an alcohol brand on it, stating that it was unislamic. But they cracked down on Quinton de Kock for not wanting to kneel w/ the team, and the head of the SACB is wondering whether or not he is an antiracist! How is it any business of the SACB what their individual cricketers think?
StevenRSA says
Correct, Hashim Amla was exempted from displaying the logo of one of the sponsors, South African Breweries, on the basis of it being against his religion. I’m sure his piety did not extend to refusing the portion of his salary accruing from the sale of South African Breweries products. And it is no business of Cricket South Africa to dictate anything to players that is not related to cricket.
sidney penny says
“in 1947 and an Islamic Pakistan was formed on the land taken from India, these people’s parents and grandparents decided to stay “secular” and thrive in India, benefiting from Indian society and deciding its policies at the ballot box,”
Yes, Double face Pakistan was created ( carved out of India ) so that all the Muslims in India in 1947 would move to Pakistan but many did not.