By Alexander Athos.
From 9/11 to Kentucky, San Bernardino, Paris, Brussels, all these terrorist attacks didn’t happen in a vacuum. Terror attacks since 9/11 of the Islamist kind are almost always sanctioned or inspired by a Wahhabi Salafi hate preacher in a mosque, prayer hall or on-line.
Although Pakistani cleric Roshan Zamir Abbassi and Nizaam Ali were apparently in regular communication with the 3 San Bernardino Salafist terrorists including Farook whose parents are Pakistani, during June 2015 Chattanooga terrorist attack by fellow Salafi Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, these Salafist preachers deny any culpability to either terror attacks on American soil. Abassi simply says he taught ‘Arabic’ at the mosque. He was most proud of students (like Farook) who could memorize the Qur’an in Arabic). As for intimacy with the killer Abassi says “I never knew him” . See Article The FBI say that Abbassi and Farook exchanged 36 texts. It has been reported that Abbassi is part of a larger group of radicals called the
Ali shrugged it all off by saying “He would come and pray here with us, he was a very simple person, very nice”
The Dar-al-Uloom al-Islamiya of America mosque in San Bernardino is known to be a radical Salafi indoctrination venue although there is yet no direct evidence of radicalization of the San Bernardino shooter from this mosque. Nevertheless it was the place where the San Bernardino co-murderer Syed Farook sought spiritual guidance as well as the Islamic Center of Riverside before he and his wife made hundreds of pipe bombs and amassed a massive arsenal of weapons and carried out their massacre at a social services centre in December 2015 killing 14 and injuring 21.
Known Muslim Brotherhood laced Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has hired sophisticated media spokesmen to speak for this Wahhabi mosque. Since December 2015, Journalists posed the question over half a dozen times, to three different spokesmen from the organisation. The reply that kept coming, in different forms, was “no comment”See Article.
The Wahhabi influence at Dar Al Uloom Al-Islamiyah can hardly be denied given Farook’s ability to learn Arabic and memorize the Koran then go to Saudi Arabia to hook up with and marry fanatic wife and soon to be co-murderer Tashfeen Malik. Malik is linked to a Canadian Islamic school the Al-Huda Institute(run by notorious Farhat Hashmi) that promotes Saudi Wahhabist ideology.
Nevertheless in typical denial and ‘PC’ mode, the Obama administration’s Attorney General Loretta Lynch echoed Obama’s remarks in Washington , cautioning the public that investigators did not know “if this was workplace rage or something larger or both.”See Article
Interestingly just like Farook took off to Saudi Arabia before starting his bomb making factory in his garage, so too Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez , the Kentucky jihadist also went overseas just prior to his terror attacks. He went t ‘visit’ Asaad Ibrahim Abdulazeez Haj Ali whose lawyer lawyer Abdel Qader al-Khatib,is a prominent lawyer for the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan). The FBI should look for possible spiritual sanctioners of the Kentucky terror attacks too. People to question would include Ihsan Bagby. Bagby is an associate professor of Islamic studies at the University of Kentucky. He is also head of the Kentucky chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-KY) and former board member of CAIR’s national Board for 20 years. CAIR is a front for the Muslim Brotherhood. Bagby is general secretary for the Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA) and on the Council of theIslamic Society of North America’s Fiqh Council (ISNA) based in Plainfield Indiana. Notably MANA’s leader is the Wahhabi maniac Sirhaj Wahhaj implicated with the murderous Blind Sheik and the 1993 WTC bombings. Also of interest would be Sheik Ossama Bahloul graduate of Al-Azhar University in Cairo. Al-Azhar is the center of Sunni Salafism, and a hotbed of Muslim Brotherhood ideology and organization.
The Wahhabi connection to the extreme puritanical sect of Islam in Pakistan and India is through the Deobandi sect and the Dar Al Uloom/ Jamia Uloom ul Islamia seminaries in particular. The seminaries propagates the Deobandi trend of Sunni Islam and were founded along the lines of Darul Uloom Deoband.
Above picture taken in 2011, Shaikh Abdur Rahman Al-Sudais, the Imam of Haram in Makkah, paid a historic visit to Darul Uloom Deoband accompanied by the Saudi Ambassador to New Delhi.
The Chancellor of Darul Uloom Haqqania in Akora Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan is Maulana Sami ul Haq of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam.
The Pakistani Deobandi seminary has been dubbedThe University of Jihad due to the methods and content of instruction along with the future occupations of its alumni.
These Deobandi seminaries spew forth thousands of Salafi fanatics who school and indoctrinate thousands of Muslim youth in Madrassah and prayer halls all around the world usually funded by Saudi Arabia the home of Wahhabi extremism. These Wahhabi-Deobandi institutions play a major role in helping establish and sustain a number of jihadi organisations, includingHarakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan(SSP).
These seminaries were originally founded to counter British cultural onslaught not in a dissimilar way as Boko Haram is now violently opposed to any form of Western Education.
To counter what was seen to be a British plan to enslave India culturally, they planned to establish a revolutionary institution that would impart knowledge as well as enthuse fervour among students to fight against oppressive forces. Darul Uloom Deoband, the most eminent Islamic learning centre thus was established on 21 May 1866. Maulana Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi(1832-1879), the founder of ‘Darul Uloom’ (house of knowledge) at Deoband, later on outlined the purpose of establishing the institution in the following words:
“The English have perpetrated boundless acts of tyranny against the Muslims for their fault, if at all it was a fault, of the uprising in 1857 and their relentless endeavour for the independence of this country thereafter. They have left no stone unturned to plunder and obliterate the Islamic arts and science, Muslim culture and civilization. Endowments of Muslim educational institutions have been confiscated and as a result state funded schools have been virtually closed. It is therefore, necessary to adopt other method instead of relying upon the old system of endowments.”
In 2015 the European Parliament refused to meet a delegation of Pakistani MP’s that included Al Haq. One wonders whether this snub may have enraged some fellow Wahhabi-Deobandi ‘travellers’ to commit terror attacks in Europe such as the recent Brussels bombings. ul-Haq is part of the hard-line Islamist alliance that forms a strong bloc in Pakistan’s lower house. Some have speculated the Deobandi hard-liners were involved in many acts of terror and assassination including that of Benazir Bhutto. Nevertheless Pakistan’s ambassador in Brussels, Saeed Khalid, expressed disappointment at the EU’s snub of their spiritual leader. Mr ul-Haq’s advice for the Pakistani and Afghan students was to wage holy war until the “evil force” is defeated according to BBC reports
Maulana Sami ul Haq is also chairman of the Pakistani Defence Council.
ul Haq heads his own political movement, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Sami (Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI). More importantly however he is at the apex of the ideology of the elites that control Pakistan and also the insurgents in Afghanistan because he is also chair of Darul Uloom Haqqania, the pre-eminent Deobandi Islamic seminary for Pakistan and Afghanistan. This institution is the ‘font’ of current religious orthodoxy in Pakistan and Afghanistan of what it means to be a good Muslim. This same institution is the alma mater of several Taliban leaders such as Mullah Omar. As many of the top jobs in government, military and Intelligence are products of or strongly influenced by Darul Uloom Haqqania and the ideologies it promotes, it would be impossible to understand Pakistani domestic or foreign policy or even the machinations of Afghan politics and insurgency without an understanding what Darul Uloom Haqqania or JUI stands for.
Ul Haq said at the DPC Rally:
“All religious parties will guide the nation on national issues… US must refrain from attacking our sovereignty and recognize Pakistan as an atomic power just like India… (the current situation) was an Armageddon between good and evil.”
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO PAKISTAN AND WHY IT MATTERS TO THE WEST?
So if FBI investigations did unearth a link between the Wahhabi Salafi mosques in California and the San Bernardino terror attacks it would be no surprise to many analysts who understand the Deobandi and Wahhabi connection to terror networks or devotees radicalized by them.
In the light of the recent horrific Easter Attacks by Deobandi fanatics in Pakistanand their Salafi ‘bros’ in Brussels, one can see that the preachers of hate have trained their devotees well.
