Ganga Singh Wahabi Hogaya!

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Re: Ganga Singh Wahabi Hogaya!

@Iconoclast

Oversimplification always leads to errors brother.

I often see this portrayal of Sufis as subcontinental, deobandi as wahabised, arabised militant, in Pakistani English press. Its far from truth.

Truth is that religious sects and political affiliations DO NOT go together. Sufis have been jihadis as much as non-sufis. Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi was sufi. Imam Shamil of Chechniya was sufi. Mehdi Sudani was sufi.

In Pakistan movement some sufis were with British, others were against, some deobandis were with Quade Azam some were against. Militancy always has a political side.

I agree that Sufis got rebel in their nature against the cruelties and injustice in their own era. Like in Sindh we got Shah Inayat of Jhok Sharif who fought for farmer’s rights. The portrayal of Sufis as monks having nothing to so with world is oversimplified. When I talked about conversion of Pashtun society from sufi values to deobandi Jihadi psyche, I meant change in overall attitude to accommodate others which are reflected by incidents like destruction of Rehman Baba’s mazar. But again as you said things are not that simple, we can’t say that its just deobandi thought of school which show a behavior against plural society. We all want to get rid of people who have different point of views and practices.