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India-Pakistan
Kerala hit by another Islamic radicalisation wave: Time to act, its now or never
2021-12-23
[OneIndia] The back to back political murders in Kerala has once again thrown up the often spoken about subject in the state and that is radicalisation. Recently the state police sought a ban on the Malayalam translation of a 14th century book Mashari-Al-Ushaaq or the Book of Jihad which has been used in the state extensively by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
While many radical outfits have mushroomed in the state of Kerala, the origins of radicalisation in the state can be traced back to the 1980s when the Wahhabi ideology began making its way. The same problem was found in Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
 as well, but the ideology became deeply infested for a variety of reasons-one the lack of knowledge and two the lack of political will.
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  If Belisarius had killed that many during his Italian campaigns, he wouldn't have had any problems holding the conquests, instead of constantly having to circle back to re-take cities.

Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-12-23 16:35  

#6  How to say Byzantine Empire in Arabic
Arabic Translation
لإمبراطورية البيزنطية
al'iimbiraturiat albiznty
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651   2021-12-23 13:41  

#5  He pretty much killed 90% of the population of Italy trying to put the band back together...

BTW, at Justinian's time the eastern empire was mostly greek speaking. I think he was the last eastern emperor to speak latin.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2021-12-23 09:23  

#4  The Byzantines were the Romans -- Constantine moved the capitol to Byzantium, later Constantinople, and once the Western emperors fell (Romulus Augustulus being the last), the last remnant of the Empire was the East.

They (initially) spoke Latin, their legal code traced all the way back to the Republic, and they maintained a professional army longer. If it hadn't been for the first outbreak of the Black Death, Justinian may just have put the Empire back together -- at least around the Mediterranean.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-12-23 08:47  

#3  Sayyid Qutb died in 1966, but his followers could have been pushing his writings on the subject thereafter.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-12-23 08:46  

#2  In Muslim historical parlance, the Byzantines were known as Romans. To be fair, that’s also what they called themselves, if I understand correctly, Constantinople being their new Rome.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-12-23 08:37  

#1  I believe that the name Sayyid Quote should read Sayyid Qutb, the ultra-radical Egyptian Islamist. Also, the radical Islamist protagonist was not killed by Romans. He was killed in Egypt by troops of the Byzantine Emperor.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651   2021-12-23 08:03  

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