(Karak district) 25 miles from the Afghan border in the Pakistani
village of Teri. A violent Islamist mob descended on a 101 year old Hindu
temple and proceeded to demolish it after a rally by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F party which promoted
the view that the construction of an unrelated building next door to the temple
was actually the expansion of the Hindu temple and after the usual suspects
wound up the crowd as only the faithful can be riled up across the world, they descended
on the Temple in which to raise it to the ground.
The interesting thing about all this, is that the Jamiat
Ulema-e-Islam-F party is the political arm of the Deobandi Islamist movement
and as such has set up shop in the UK where they control approximately 600 of the 1500 mosques there. Now I stated interesting
and the reason for that is the Deobandi movement seeks to return to the basics of Islam as practised
in the time of Mohamed (The founder of Islam) , wishing to purify it from
amoral and materialistic Westernizing influences, The version of Islam it
teaches is in many ways similar to Wahhabism – both movements are Sunni,
puritanical and highly intolerant of people who disagree with them – but there
are also important differences: the two groups follow different schools of
Islamic jurisprudence, to take one example, and while the Wahhabis have the
money, the Deobandis have the numbers.
Pakistan: Yet another Hindu Temple has been burnt to the ground by Islamists under the guidance of a Mullah at Karak ,KPK province.
— Arun Pudur (@arunpudur) December 30, 2020
Thousands of temples have been destroyed in Islamic states. Yet for one illegal mosque in India so much push back?pic.twitter.com/rVkeaNTwBT
The Afghan and Pakistani Taliban movements originated in
Deobandi madrasas and a study of Pakistani police data on 2344 people convicted
on terrorism charges between 1990 and 2009 found that 90.5 per cent of them
were Deobandis. The would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid had Deobandi connections,
as did the 2006 transatlantic airline bomb plotters and two of the 7/7
attackers.
Funny enough the loudest voices across the Uk when a mosque
is denied retrospective planning permission belongs to the same people who have
no problem knocking down churches, Hindu temples and Shia mosques in Paksitan..
If you can access BBC sounds here is a most interesting radio report:
