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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Sunday, February 28, 2016
A Case For Extirpating Wahabism
By Izeth Hussain –February 27, 2016
Verily God will not change the condition of men, till they change what is in themselves. – Koran – Sura 13 verse 14.
The main purpose of this article is to point out that there might be a
case for action by Muslims, as well as non-Muslims constituting the
international community as a whole, towards extirpating Wahabism and
all its clones from off the face of the earth. I choose the word
“extirpating” advisedly to mean a process of rooting out so that
Wahabism will never ever again manifest itself on this earth. I have
been provoked into arguing this case by the anti-Shia hate campaign for
which our mosques have been misused over several weeks. I cannot see the
slightest justification for this hate campaign. We have a small
community of Shias in the form of the Borahs who have always had
excellent relations with our Sunni Muslims consisting of the Moors, the
Malays, and the Memons, and also with non-Muslim Sri Lankans. In
addition there are a few hundred non-Borah Shias here, who took to
Shi-ism mainly because they were enthused by Iran’s 1979 Revolution.
They could be the target of the Wahabi hate campaign. But, as far as my
enquiries reveal, they have not been aggressively pushing a Shia agenda
nor have they been using unethical methods to increase their ranks.
What, then, is the explanation for the
entirely gratuitous and utterly irrational anti-Shia hate campaign that
has been sustained for several weeks, desecrating our mosques in the
process? The question is an important one, because the answers to it
could constitute some of the reasons why Wahabism should be extirpated.
Part of the explanation is the intolerant and totalitarian mind-set of
the Wahabis. They hold that not only non-Muslims but professing Muslims
such as the Sunnis and the Shias – in short all those who don’t abide by
Wahabi tenets – are in reality non-Muslims and should therefore be put
to the sword. But according to the well-entrenched belief system of all
non-Wahabi Muslims the shahada – the confession of faith that there is
only one God and Mohammed is his Prophet – suffices to make a person a
Muslim, and that is not something that should be questioned. The fierce
fanatical intolerance of the Wahabis means that they cannot live in
peaceful accommodation with other Muslims. They have been busy
dismantling Sunni Islam in Sri Lanka, now they want to eliminate
Shi’ism, and next they will want to destroy the Sufi orders that have
traditionally structured orthodox Islam in Sri Lanka. Only the
Kharijites of early Islam showed a like intolerance. They were quickly
banned by other Muslims. It is time to ban the Wahabis.
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