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India-Pakistan
Disown jihadist ‘freedom fighters’ in Kashmir
2016-07-16
A wide-ranging disquisition on "the discrepancy between political struggle for freedom and jihadist expansionism" triggered by the writer's reflections on the meaning of the death of the hansdsome young face of Kashmir's Hizbul Mujahideen. Well worth the time.
[NATION.PK] Burhan Muzaffar Wani’s killing in an encounter on July 8 has resulted in absolute bedlam in the Kashmire Valley, with corpse count rising to 39 as of yesterday evening. The 21-year-old commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen has been compared to Bhagat Singh ‐ both to credit and discredit Wani’s struggle, depending on who’s doing the juxtaposition. But notwithstanding the often ignored evolution of the moral spectrum on the use of violence in contrasting eras, the crucial differential between the two was their ideological positions.

Wani was the offspring of the global jihadist movement that emerged in the last quarter of the previous century, hammering Moslem-majority freedom movements into Islamist struggles wherever the occupying force was ’non-Moslem’‐ including Paleostine, Kashmire and East Turkestan. And the problem with any Islamist ’freedom’ movement is that it intrinsically contradicts the very idea of freedom.

Hizbul Mujahideen, whose supreme commander Syed Salahuddin had grabbed credit for the Pathankot attack as the chairman of the United Jihad Council, is a jihadist organization whose very vocal ambitions aren’t limited to ’liberating’ Kashmire from India. Hizb overlaps with Jaish-e-Muhammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba
Posted by:Fred

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