Blood of scholars has no value in karachi

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Above a list of religious people was posted.

How many do you think had a chance to defend themselves of Takfiri charges and how many had arms in their hands when killed and how many resisted arrest?

Lal Masjid issue has been discussed before and has nothing to do with this thread.

Your posts have suggested that just by calling people takfiris they deserve to die.

Rather, prove it in open trials and don't worry about what an anchor or politician say IF the accused are really found to be criminals.

By the way, hate speech by itself does not justify being murdered.

Even if the hadit was for the later time, who is to know which group is actually creating fitna in whose interpretation?

Please do not use 'religion' to kill people.

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No I did not said that accusation of being Takfeeries deserve killing. I was saying that people who do Takfeer to kill, deserve killing. As for people who got killed, I do not know them personally or know what they use to preach. I am not even justifying their killing. I was just saying that, if (note: IF) they are involved in hate speech, then they are cause of killing, and if those who may have got affected by their speech may have killed them.

Obviously, those who killed them were not state functionaries and thus state taking action (what I wrote) do not even apply to these killings that is happening in Pakistan.

[Actually, if people who got killed were innocent victims then no doubt their killing is regrettable and condemnable ... buy I do not know the background, other than that, the seminars they were associated to, their are many claims that they preach hate, Takfeers, and killing]

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OK I am getting somewhat clear on what you wanted to say.

Still, the bold part is objectionable since on one hand these people who do takfiri act are to be condemned and the act is wrong but on the other hand, that still does not justify killing them.

Otherwise, the *very same reason they are being condemned for is actually being used to kill them. *

Killing of these people is not justified and should be condemned strongly. Regardless of who does it.

Putting them in jail after trying them is what needs to be done and should be an accepted practice.

**Since we really do not know who was preaching hate and we do know a whole lot of these people were killed without any due process, death of these individuals should NOT be considered justified.

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my post would be a bit dis organized therefore please bear with me.
brother saleem you need to research more.
this filth i find mostly in subcontinent. what used to be schools of thought had become religions or sect just because love of iditos for religions.
i had no intention but this description of sects prompted me to.

in islam there are around four major school of thought and all are correct please correct me if i am wrong somewhere.
1) hanafi
2) hanbali
3) maliki
4) shafi
4) Jafaria: iman hanifa was student of hazrat jafar and imam shafi was student of imam hanifa :) .
before if one student wanted to switch from one madhab to other he wasnt allowed to do so and asked to do his best where he is because all belived all are right.

now barelvis and deobandis and subsect/school of thought from branch of Hanafi madhab are creation of subcontinent i wont call them right but there is rivalry and hate for each other in their beliefs and in that sometimes both went too far.
so as for aqeedah both have sae foundation but stuck in Noor and Bashar rest you can judge.

as for wahabis they came out of hanbali school of thought and you cant say they are wrong or deviant unless you are blind barelvi because it challenges it to the core.

frankly speaking i am not deobandi nor barelvi but i find some explanations shirk, fasad, and errors probably before becoming practising i was stuck in same arguments.
i also hate the way you are projecting one as truth and other as lie.
whereas i find many errors in barelvi ageedah as you had mentioned.
starting with what i know and i think is right based on my understanding.

1) firstly if you say deobandis belive Allah is sitting on chair is wrong and abhorrant, no ulema can claim that may be you heard somewhere or read where it was meant just to describe.

2) as for their belief on prophet i find them perfectly logically and correct he was a human and himself said, and he passed away and his grave is in mediana but he was special Human being whom Allah loved, we love we love him and respect him more than we do for our parents.
does it matter whether he was basher or noor what matters is his message.

3) as for ayats for muslims and non muslims is again wrong please go through islam and history again.
ayats came to prophet sometimes in general and sometimes for particular event, there is nothing like some one referring one ayat for x and one for Y may be you heard a half argument or case whose backgroung you dont know.

now coming to:
"During life of a prophet, Allah does not make things directly attached to that prophet as part of religion, thus running between Safa-and-Marwa, stoning the devil, Qurbani … and all things associated with Ibrahim (AS) and bibi Hajra (AS) did not became part of religion for Ibrahim (AS) to follow in his lifetime. Nevertheless, Allah made them part of religion for Muslims. Similarly, even though birth of Prophet (SAW) is not part of Islam, if there would have been later prophet, most likely it would have become part of Allah’s religion."

how anyone knows whether it was part of islam at time or prophet or not but just to increase your knowledge Kufar at the time of jahiliya used to do tawaf so now what would you say about tawaf now.
Does it matter whether it was religion or not at that time, simply consider it a though a principle.

we people simply go out of limit and do shirk get errand in love of religion, prophet or a person that is what had happened.

shias, sunnis, deobandis, wahabis are schools or universities competing with each other why taking things too far and irony is our ulemas have larger ego than Hazrat Jaafar As Sadiq, Imam hanifa, imam Hanbal, and imam malik they didnt judge other but learnt and debated from each other but these kill each other.

some other facts you can not learn islam without knowing Arab culture.

mostly barelvis have one problem with wahabis and deobandis, that is they dont permit asking from graves i personally used to pray at mazars but alhmdullilah not now i do offer fatiha.

at time when there was drought in medina Hazrat umar who was khalifa took people of medina out of city and did the salat for rain he could have asked Prophet to ask Allah, so all of things like wasela etc dont count its just addition later on a thought or may be a pure thought Allah knows better.

as for shia hmm technically i wont comment on it would long debate, and have seriousssss differences but i think they are muslims like you and me i even met them on umra so if LEJ are run on saudi money they should know that fact that they are allowed to do hajj.

as for what you see shia sunni issue here is what i think happened.

as you can see mutation in sunni school of though same had happened in shia school of thought and if you know arab-persian history you would you see some elements of that rivalry in it as well and may get some answers.

my apologies if i made a mistake or made anyone angry or Sad

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The lack of ijtihad and debates between different schools of thoughts have led to increasing differences between them and contributed in the present chaos.

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Forget Karachi, where in the world does anyone actually care about such scholars? Seems the only ones who actually know the names of these scholars are the people who live in Karachi..

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The problem we are discussing here is exclusive to Pakistan so lets not get get confused and stretch it to the whole Islamic world. Ironically, India which is the birthplace of all of these sub-sects like Deobandis, Barelvis etc. is free from such problem. In the Muslim world, and for that matter within the world of Christianity, Judaism and other religions, debates between different factions is done by more conventional ways like through pens not guns. Within Islam there are different thoughts but thoughts inspired by Wahabhism lack temperament and are violent by nature which is a fact written about in details by academics from across the world. Movements that are close to, inspired, or funded by Saudi Arabia are bound to create problems if not managed. Just look at these movements from across the globe from Indonesia to Africa and you will see governments managing these goons and keeping them in check but in our country they have been trained and given weapons and used and called "strategic assets".

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^ I was talking exclusively in the context of Pakistan (the situation is the worst here), there's no debate going on between different schools of thought for a long time. Now the situation has gone beyond the 'strategic assets'. Every sect has misconceptions about the other which can't be resolved by closing the mind, ears, eyes and tongue.

However if we see within the context of the larger Islamic world we will see the Shia Sunni divide widening every where.

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A regular Pakistani is not hateful, sectarian bigot. Walking through our schools, universities, marketplace you will see people from various sects workings along and befriending and even inter marrying each other. If we have a right government that has the will to cut the lifeline of these rats then this problem can disappear in no time because this hate is imported and not within the fabric of our society.

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And that is good or bad?

Your post is very callous and shows indifference to the crimes against "such scholars".

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Depends on whether these scholars were peddlers of hate or of genuine knowledge. Considering the nature of the clergy, I suppose its better if their fame remains localized.

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That is not the issue. It is about the death of people who have been considered OR are considered religious.

No one has yet categorically proven them of being peddlers of hate.

You seem to know more. Then why not post who actually were hate peddlers among who died.

Never generalize.

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Junaid001: First of all, it is nice that you want to discuss, as we learn from discussion, obviously discussion with open mind is best way of knowing and learning. Now coming to your post:

I wish you read my post carefully as than you would have got answer to many things you wrote.

Anyhow coming to your post, I think you are confusing fiqh with sect. Hanafi, Hanbali, Maliki, Shafi and Jafri are not sect. They are all fiqhs.

Fiqh is to do with laws.

Sect is related to Aqeedah (beliefs), though sometime Aqeedah could affect fiqah.

Shariah are the laws coming from Quran and Sunnah. They are mostly broad based and there is little difference about Shariah laws amongst all fiqhs.

All differences in laws between different Fiqhs (or Mazhab) are in Fiqh laws. Fiqh laws are driven from Shariah laws (coming from Quran and Sunnah), and laws that came due to Ijtihad and Ijmah.

Example: It is Shariah law that a husband can give talaq to his wife. It is also Shariah law that 3 talaq makes divorce final, and after divorce there is period of iddat (3 months)

Now fiqhs make things different. For instance:

Hanafi fiqh: 3 talaq can be given by husband at one sitting and without any witness, followed by iddat. Though, preferred method is to give talaq at different occasions with time period in between.

Jafira Fiqh: 3 Talaq has to be given on three different occasions and in front of at least two witnesses. Iddat follows. In Fiqh Jafria, if one gives as many talaq on one sitting, it would be considered as one talaq (in Hanfi fiqh, Talaq would become final once number reaches 3).

Similar differences are there with other fiqhs. For instance:

Hanafi fiqh: There is Zakat on gold regardless of the purpose it is possessed.

Maliki fiqh: There is no Zakat on gold or gold jewellery that is kept for personal use, and not for business (this is different than Hanafi fiqah)

As for Aqeedah … I am leaving Deobandis, Wahabis, etc out for a moment, as then we will find many differences … on the other hand, I have already mentioned their aqeedah (what I know) in my previous post:

Most Aqeedah of Shia and Sunni are same. Though there are some differences, for instance:

Sunni Aqeedah is that, Imams Shia talk about were guided but not Masoom and that only Prophets are Masoom (one who could not do sin or wrong)
Shia Aqeedah is that, Imams Shia talk about were/are Masoom (could not do sin or wrong).

Sunni Aqeedah is that, Imam Mehdi would appear during end time and would lead Muslims.
Shia Aqeedah: Imam Mehdi is already born, is present and guide selected people, and would come during end time to lead Muslims.

Political differences (though it is nothing to do with Aqeedah, but it is major difference):

Sunni believe is that, first 4 Khalifs were correctly there and that they were there as will of Allah (and that is obvious, as without will of Allah, nothing happens).

Shia believe is that Hz Ali (RA) should have been Khalifa, and that others deprived his right, and thus were usurpers.

Spurious differences: Most Sunni believe that anything that is done by first 4 Khalifs is part of Islam, thus Muta that (according to some hadith) was abolished by Umar (RA) or Tarawiah that got started by Umar (RA) is part of Islam. Shia reject this modification claiming that Umar (RA) had no right to modify Islam, and thus consider Muta as part of Islam whereas Tarawiah as not part of Islam.

Even though Sunni believe that Ali (RA) was wali-Allah, they do not make this believe a necessary part of faith, whereas Shia does.

As for Deobandis, even though they claim to follow Hanafi fiqah just like Sunnis, they have entirely different aqeedahs (as what I mentioned in my earlier posts).

Now few questions that you asked:

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before if one student wanted to switch from one madhab to other he wasnt allowed to do so and asked to do his best where he is because all belived all are right.
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That was never true. People should follow what they believe, not what is imposed on them (and they are personally responsible of their beliefs on judgment day).

Anyhow, for most Muslims who have no knowledge or time to search and do not have enough knowledge or intelligence to do ijtihad, they should follow accepted ways that they inherited, and that is to stick with fiqah they were born with. This is not because they have to, but because it is safe way for them (to get guided by laws formulated by past scholars). On the other hand, if one is convinced (not being opportunist, but feel convinced about a law to be truer), then they can pick and choose fiqah laws from different schools.

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now barelvis and deobandis and subsect/school of thought from branch of Hanafi madhab are creation of subcontinent i wont call them right but there is rivalry and hate for each other in their beliefs and in that sometimes both went too far.
so as for aqeedah both have sae foundation but stuck in Noor and Bashar rest you can judge.

as for wahabis they came out of hanbali school of thought and you cant say they are wrong or deviant unless you are blind barelvi because it challenges it to the core.
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Deobandi is created in subcontinent, but Barelvis are not. Barelvis is just a name given to Sunnis in subcontinent just to differentiate them from Deobandis who also claim themselves Sunnis.

As for Wahabis and Deobandis, they claim they are following fiqah of Imam Hambal and Imam Abu Hanifa, but that is nothing to do with Aqeedah, as fiqh is not Aqeedah.

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frankly speaking i am not deobandi nor barelvi but i find some explanations shirk, fasad, and errors probably before becoming practising i was stuck in same arguments.
i also hate the way you are projecting one as truth and other as lie.
whereas i find many errors in barelvi ageedah as you had mentioned.
starting with what i know and i think is right based on my understanding.
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I am not projecting one as truth and other as lie. I only put down differences in Aqeedah of Sunni with Aqeedah of Deobandis, and later justified Aqeedah that is mine (something I have to as my right ... and I would appreciate if others would justify theirs so that I can also see their argument and learn).

Coming to 3 points you mentioned:

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1) firstly if you say deobandis belive Allah is sitting on chair is wrong and abhorrant, no ulema can claim that may be you heard somewhere or read where it was meant just to describe.
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It may be shocking to you, but that is fact (as far as I know), that is, Wahabis as well as Deobandis believe that Allah is sitting on his chair somewhere in heaven.

Actually, even though both claim that Allah is above sky sitting on chair, Wahabi are antrhopomorphists (Mujasamiah ... that is, one who believes Allah is like human and has body parts like 2 hands, 2 feet, fingers, face, thighs, eyes, etc ... or in other words, have made Allah an idol having human shape) but deobandis avoid that.

Sunni (and Shia too) believe that all such body parts mentioned in Quran are metaphorical, and that Allah has no form as form needs space to determine perimeter of body, and Allah is beyond space. In same way, to sit on chair an entity needs body and perimeter of that body, that needs space, and Allah is beyond space as space itself is creation of Allah.

You can ask Deobandi Ulemas, but if you want to see yourself (as I am putting down an example here), just pick up Urdu translation of Quran by Ashraf Ali Thanvi or translation by any Deobandi Scholars (or Wahabi scholars), and check translation of ayah:

Quran 50:16 (Yusuf Ali) It was We Who created man, and We know what dark suggestions his soul makes to him: for We are nearer to him than (his) jugular vein.

You will see how they would add in front of 'Jugular vein' or in front of 'nearer to him' … (by our knowledge), (through angel), etc … as if Allah lacks ability to say clearly and needed their input to clear things.

Reality is that, Allah says that he is closer than Jugular vein and that contradicts their beliefs (as to them, Allah is far above in sky sitting on chair), so just to justify their belief that if Allah is saying he is closer to a person’s jugular vein, they add (put their words in between sayings of Allah), through Angel or knowledge that Allah gets through angel, so to change the meaning in accordance to their beliefs.

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2) as for their belief on prophet i find them perfectly logically and correct he was a human and himself said, and he passed away and his grave is in mediana but he was special Human being whom Allah loved, we love we love him and respect him more than we do for our parents.
does it matter whether he was basher or noor what matters is his message.
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Prophet (SAW) was human, no doubt. But what is human?

Human is actually a body made of clay, that is immaterial. Anyhow, in this respect, Prophet (SAW) was Bashar, but what about his Ruh?

As far as ‘Ruh’ inside a human is concerned, that is real person. These Ruhs are of different types and have different status. For instance, you yourself have a Ruh in human body, but if Allah put your Ruh in camel than you would become camel, still your Ruh would be same.

Similarly, as far as body is concerned, Prophet (SAW) was human while in this world, but his Ruh, that is real him, was something no human can equal, neither any angles could come close. It is this Ruh of Prophet (SAW) that we talk about, that is Ruh full of Noor, Ruh that was created by Allah much before Allah created anything.

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3) as for ayats for muslims and non muslims is again wrong please go through islam and history again.
ayats came to prophet sometimes in general and sometimes for particular event, there is nothing like some one referring one ayat for x and one for Y may be you heard a half argument or case whose backgroung you dont know.
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I think you need to read Quran carefully. Anyhow, let me give you an example.

Allah talks about Kuffar who use to worship idols. They use to ask idols considering them as God or entity who had authority and power of their own and act independent of Allah. So, Allah tells kuffars that not to ask these idols as they have no power and could give them nothing. Such Ayahs cannot apply to Muslims, because Muslims never ask any idol considering them as God (with their own power and authority). When Muslims go to pious people, be they dead or alive, to ask, these Kharjees accuse them of idolatry using such ayahs that came for Kuffars.

You would say that why such ayahs cannot apply on Muslims?

Simple reason is that, Muslims continuously confesses that they do not believe on anything as God except Allah, so that means, whoever they ask, they ask as entity Allah may have given power to fulfil their needs, but not God with power of their own. It is different than Kuffar, who use to ask idols believing that their idols have power of their own.

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how anyone knows whether it was part of islam at time or prophet or not but just to increase your knowledge Kufar at the time of jahiliya used to do tawaf so now what would you say about tawaf now.
Does it matter whether it was religion or not at that time, simply consider it a though a principle.
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I wish you should have read my post carefully. What I wrote is that, all what Muslims practice as anniversary events during ‘Hajj’ was not made obligatory on prophets (or person) who initially done those act. As for kuffars of Arabia practicing same acts before Islam, then it is fine, as they were themselves not originator of those acts [it was Ibrahim (AS) and Bibi Hajra (AS) those acts got originated]. Later, children of Ismael (AS) started performing these act on anniversary is understandable.

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we people simply go out of limit and do shirk get errand in love of religion, prophet or a person that is what had happened.
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A Muslim cannot do Shirk. Apart of hadith where Prophet (SAW) said that he is not worried that Muslims would do shirk, there is another reason for that too, that is, Kalma-e-Shahadah every Muslim reads in daily prayers, and believes on Kalma-e-Shahadah too.

Believing that there is ‘no god but Allah’ means, whatever a person does, that person cannot do Shirk (it is impossible thing to do with such belief). So, whatever any person from outside perceives, if a Muslims ask some entity for anything, he would only ask that entity not as God but as creation of Allah (as, with believe that ‘there is no god but Allah’, that entity could not be Allah for that person).

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mostly barelvis have one problem with wahabis and deobandis, that is they dont permit asking from graves i personally used to pray at mazars but alhmdullilah not now i do offer fatiha.
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Barelvis have no problem with Wahabis or Deobandis. It is Wahabis and Deobandis who have problems with Islam, Prophet (SAW), Muslims of past and present, practices of Muslims, and their resting places (Mazars).

What right Deobandis and Wahabis have to permit or not permit Barelvis or anyone regarding anything they would like to do?Is it, just because these Wahabis and Deobandis do not agree with Barelvies due to their own (deviant) understanding and beliefs of Islam, they consider they have right to stop other Muslims practicing what other Muslims believe? What do they think of themselves, are they Allah or Prophet of Allah to judge Muslims and their beliefs?

It is theirs' these attitudes of ignorance (trying to become Thekadar of Islam and trying to impose their version of Islam over others using force) that is creating all fitna and fisad in Muslim world. I fear the day Muslims would start retaliating aggressively against them.

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With the potential for hate and ensuing violence being so high where these scholars are concerned, I think a healthy skepticism of their kind is not a bad thing. I tend to be cautious of anyone who considers themselves "expert" on matters of faith as a general rule until proven otherwise.

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I agree with most of your post, but in the end I feel that you consider Barelvis to be muslims and have removed the other sects from the religion. Dont you think this is the exclusive right of Allah to decide?

There are good and bad people in all sects/madhabs, these people have been living together for the past thousands of years. What has happened now? I do not think that there are major differences between various sects. This is basically a proxy war between Iran and Saudia in which most of the Islamic world has become a theater. Having said that I believe we (the people of the affected countries) are also equally to blame as we do not try to debate with those having differing views, the easiest way out for the past many years to declare anyone who is different to be a kafir, mushriq or biddati.

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If I personally compare Deobandi and Barelvi schools of thought, I can see some differences but personally I dont see any major difference. For the time being lets leave Barelvis aside and discuss about Deobandis:

Most of Deobandis are peaceful and follow the tableeghi jamaat, but then we have some groups like SSP/LEJ, TTP and JEM etc. I am leaving aside LET as they are Ahl e Hadith.

Lets see the creation of these groups for better understanding:

1) SSP - established in 1980's, and the reason for its creation were two fold. Firstly some people among the sunnis were feeling uneasy with the sudden hyper activity of the shias in the country in the wake of Iranian revolution. Secondly it was established in Jhang which is a sunni majority area where the landlords were shias. Basically it was a middle class revolt against the landlords of the area. This seems to be a part of the wider Saudi-Iranian proxy war, but I'll not speculate about the role of Pakistani military establishment (Zia ul Haq regime) in its creation.

2) JEM - Related to Kashmir Jehad, so no rocket science required to find out who created the organization.

3) TTP - offshoot from our 'strategic assets' in Afghanistan. When the state tried to stop them from interfering in Afghanistan this organization came into being.

Most of these groups have been militarized by the state itself to pursue its foreign policy objectives. People have been brainwashed during the past 35 years. When the government tried to stop them from bringing mayhem to neighboring countries, they started their terrorist activities within the country. With the result the polarization has increased manifolds and the avenues of reconciliation and debates between different schools of thought closed. For the reconciliation Deobandis would have to play the biggest role, the peaceful majority should vocally disassociate themselves from the militant groups and stop them from using their name in bringing bad name to the religion itself.

If the Islamic groups don't stop this cycle of violence we could see many people getting out of the religion itself and becoming atheists.

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Proxy war between them may be in Middle East but not in Pakistan. By implicating Iran and Saudis, you are making it a war between shia and sunnis. But in reality there is only one side that has been calling all other Muslims kafir. These people are khawarij. And they are killing BOTH shias and sunnis (mostly Barelvis).

Your comment about Iran may have been understandable if these takfiri khawarij were only killing shias. But we all know that it is not the case.

This comment is also proven false when we see the history of sectarian killings in Pakistan. Saudis started blaming Iran of unrest in the Middle East only when Yemeni Zaidis rose up against their government. That was the start of this blame-game. But sectarian killings of shias and Barelvi sunnis have been happening in Pakistan since long. These killings started after Soviet withdrawal and after Taliban took control of Afghanistan.
So it is obvious who started this terrorism. And it is obvious that this phenomenon is TOTALLY home-grown.


These takfiri khawarij are not just against shias, but against ANYONE who disagrees with them. They consider them kuffar. And their definition of a kafir encompasses those who support democracy, Pakistani government, Barelvi sunnis, shias ... and they will even kill Deobandi sunnis who don't agree with their hateful violent ideology of killing people.

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This was a thread that i once started to find out more about SSP/LEJ. http://www.paklinks.com/gs/indo-pak-history/560424-lashkar-e-jhangvi.html

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Read about the reasons cited for creation of LEJ. Secondly we can see whats happening in Syria, and Iraq etc.