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Fitna - The dialogue (Paperback)
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Fitna - The dialogue (Paperback)
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This tiny booklet is meant to highlight the nature of theological
dialogue between two middle managers, one representing the
Pakistani Taliban faction and the other representing the ISI
(Pakistani Inter-services Intelligence). Pakistani Taliban are an
offshoot of the Afghani Taliban which the ISI had armed and
nurtured to take control of Afghanistan in the vacuum left by the
withdrawal of the Russian Army. The dialogue is my translation of a
dialogue captured in two videos given below, in Urdu taken probably
during the first operation against the Pakistani Taliban in the
Tribal Areas. What makes the confrontation extremely engaging is
because both protagonists are well versed in Islamic and national
history of Pakistan. Constantly during the dialogue the ISI Handler
seems to be reaching out to the rebellious Talibani leader by
giving him an olive branch over and over again. The Talibani leader
on his part comes across as mocking and deriding his former master,
repeatedly rejecting all conciliatory efforts of the former
partners. This dialogue should be listened by all Urdu listeners as
the translation below cannot do complete justice to the very
interesting and logical dialogue. I believe that the Talibani
theology represents a very rigid form of Islamic thought which
simply believes that all the world belongs to Allah as he is the
absolute master, and that all creatures are His slaves, and that
the Qur'an represents His law which is incumbent on all of His
slaves. Actually, this definition is pretty common across most
Islamic strands, the real difference with the Talibani theology is
that they believe that anyone not following the letter of Qur'an,
automatically becomes an apostate (Murtid) thus an enemy of Islam.
They therefore thus justify their war against the 'Islamic Republic
of Pakistan'. Another observation I made is that the particular
Islamic historical events mentioned in the dialogue below are not
well known among the majority popular brand of Sunni Islam.
Talibans also consider themselves to be Sunni but they seem to use
certain contentious aspects of Islamic history like the Masjid
al-Dirar event as an analogy (dalil), which is rarely discussed
almost unknown among most practising Sunni Muslims. The Taliban
therefore, have been able to forge together a variant of Islamic
theology without any known Ulema, or extensive literature of their
own. Instead they tend to quote these neglected or greyed events
from the Islamic history as proofs of their actions, justifying
suicide bombings, arbitrary killing of their enemies whether Muslim
or non-Muslim, to great effect. The Taliban seem to have embraced
end-justifies-the-means strand employed within Islam right from the
time of the Prophet and still used today by all current Islamic
movements of today. Within Islam there is no real centralised
canonical order akin to Catholics in Rome or Protestants with their
Church of England, which leaves the field wide open for any Muslim
scholar to start churning out fatwas (religious injunctions) in
huge numbers. Just a cursory glance in some of the scholars
mentioned in the dialogue below roughly reveal around 2000 fatwas
per scholar, which is a pretty high number to control. Such a high
amount of fatwa churn provides ample resource for anyone to justify
their actions, which I hope will be pretty obvious for anyone
reading the dialogue below. As the dialogue is accessible on the
internet, I shall try and provide all references from the WWW by
asking Sheikh Google in blue, details of link are given at the end
of the dialogue.
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