Face of Jihadi ?

Face of Jihadi ?

Maulana Asim Umar’s book “Blackwater: The Army of Antichrist” calls for the dismemberment of the modern world itself. In “The Third World War and the Dajjal,” or Antichrist, he describes omens of the reign of the Devil, he says has crept up on us: “The propaganda during his time would be so ghastly that the truth would be presented as falsehood and the falsehood would be presented as the truth, and this twisted reality broadcast to the entire world.

The Dajjal, Maulana Umar continues, obtains power by obscuring the truth of our condition from us. “This so-called civilized world,” he writes, “is built on lies; so much so that even educated people take these lies to be the truth. Even if entire books were to be written about lies, propounded through the media of the disbelievers, their authors would soon tire”. This, he says, is precisely what is happening, as a result of “polices concocted by the Jews”.

“My Lord,” he wrote, “has declared that if jihad was not carried out, the earth would be filled with fasaad. “There is no fasaad greater than the world being ruled by man-made law instead of Allah’s law ! The action needed to secure this utopia was jihad, Maulana Umar said: “Whatever system dares to stand against the world of Allsh, and whatever way of life is implemented contrary to it, must be destroyed. This earth belongs to Allah, so only Allah’s system will be implemented upon it.”

In “Adyan ka Jang “(War of Faiths): Islam aur Democracy, he wrote: “Democracy is one of the evils that has had a bad impact on the Muslim nation, replacing the system of Allah with an alternative that gives powers to human beings, who are merely the creation of Allah. Democracy is evil and if you want to fight it, you have to destroy its four essential pillars: parliament, judiciary, civil bureaucracy and media.” Ideas such as these are, in fact, rooted in the Isamist intellectual tradition. In 1939, the patriarch of South Asian Islamism, Abul Ala Maududi, argued that the existence of Allah meant “no one has the right to appoint himself ruler of men, (or) to issue orders and prohibitions on his own authority. To acknowledge the personal authority of a human being as the source of commands and prohibitions is tantamount to admitting him as a partner in the power and authority of Allah.”  In Dajjal, he wrote, the tragedy of all Islamic societies is that they grow watching devilish Christian, Jewish and Hindu media. From childhood, our children are taught to dance to English and Hindi music. In fact, small children who are brothers and sisters are made to act in plays as husband and wife”. It is necessary, Umar wrote, for parents to ask “why they are educating their children in these Christian schools, instead of Islamic schools”. Finally, there’s paranoic nationalism: Umar claims the US is using the security firm Blackwater to fulfill a secret Jewish agenda to destroy Pakistan, which he claims was authored by the Zionist leader Davia Ben-Gurion.