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Qaeda for intifada in Bangladesh?
Message posted last month; authenticity not confirmed; govt cautious
Qaeda for intifada in Bangladesh?
An audiovisual message purported to be from al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged the Muslims in Bangladesh to wage an intifada (popular uprising) to confront the “crusader onslaught against Islam”.
Posted in Jihadology.net, the message alleged thousands of people were being killed in the streets of Bangladesh for protesting the “collusion of the anti-Islam secular government with a bunch of transgressing secularists”.
"I invite you to lead the masses in a vast and inclusive popular uprising (intifada) whose tide dose not recede, nor its dynamism subsides, until the Shariah of Islam governs the land of Islam, instead of being governed over,” it went on.
Titled “Bangladesh: A Massacre behind a Wall of Silence”, the message was released on January 14, but it surfaced in the media only yesterday.
In it, the voice of an unseen narrator is placed over still images including Zawahiri's and video clips along with English subtitle. Not a single shot does show the al-Qaeda chief speaking on camera.
Jihadology, which describes itself as a clearinghouse for Jihadi source materials, said this was a new message of Zawahiri and it was presented by As-Saḥab, known as the media house of al-Qaeda.
The Daily Star could not independently verify the authenticity of the message.
The government was communicating with counterterrorism partners like the US and the UK to verify whether the voice was indeed of Zawahiri, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam told this newspaper yesterday.
Zawahiri, an Egyptian physician, took the helm of the much-feared global militant organisation after US Navy SEALS killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011.
The audiovisual material starts with photographs from the May 5, 2013 Hefajat-e Islam rally in Dhaka and the subsequent crackdown by law enforcers on it.
"A massacre of Muslims is being carried out these days, and the Muslim world is totally oblivious to it. The western media is colluding with the killers to belittle its significance and hide the facts," the message said.
“Hundreds of callers to the religion and scholars are also facing hardships, manhunts, imprisonment, trials, death sentences and life imprisonments without any guilt,” it said.
"My Muslim brothers in Bangladesh, I invite you to confront this crusader onslaught against Islam, which is being orchestrated by the leading criminals in the subcontinent and the West…
The release went on, "Bangladesh is the victim of the conspiracy in which the agents of India, the corrupt leadership of the Pakistan army, and treacherous power hungry politicians of Bangladesh and Pakistan, who are always prepared to sacrifice everything for the sake of fulfilling their ambitions and desires, were all equal participants."
Turning to the Liberation War, 1971, the message said, "Their purpose was not independence from Pakistan, stopping the aggression against the people of Bangladesh, or getting rid of military rule in Pakistan." The real purpose was weakening the Muslim Ummah in the subcontinent, the release claimed.
Bangladesh is being turned into "a subjugated surrogate of India", it also said.
"Those who massacred the Muslims in Bangladesh only yesterday are the same people who are massacring the Muslims in Pakistan today. Similarly, those who allied with India against Pakistan by claiming that they sought to defend the honour and sanctities of Bengalis are the same people who are attacking the sanctities, beliefs, honour, lives and properties of Bengalis today."
While accusing the media for downplaying the alleged attacks, he also criticised the West for remaining "unmoved".
The events in Bangladesh enjoy the blessings of both India and America, "since their interests in fighting Islam overlap, and this is why their bilateral relations are becoming stronger day by day".
When people of Afghanistan, Mali, and Somalia "decide to implement” Shariah", "they are then met with a full-fledged military onslaught, in which the leading international criminals and their local surrogates take part".
"But when Salman Rushdie, Taslima Nasrin and Ali Rajib Haider insult Islam, the Prophet of Islam (pbuh), and the beliefs of Islam, they are treated as heroes who must be defended, honoured, and given awards," said the al-Qaeda chief.
Comparing the situation in Bangladesh with the attacks on Muslims in Myanmar, he said, "The events in Bangladesh and Burma are not too distant from the oppression and killings of Muslims in Kashmir or the racial cleansing in Assam, Gujarat and Ahmadabad either."
'GOVT NOT FRIGHTENED'
Bangladesh has worked with different countries to combat terrorism and gradually built its capacity to deal with the issue in the last five years, State Minister Shahriar told The Daily Star.
"Our efforts and successes in the arena of counterterrorism have been praised by many countries and international platforms. I hope that our partners will continue cooperating with us in this regard."
He alleged the BNP-Jamaat alliance was making political efforts to belittle Bangladesh and it has been instigating international terrorist organisations like al-Qaeda by its irresponsible comments and activities.
The opposition alliance has chosen the path of terrorism as it failed to do anything democratically, Shahriar said. "They carried out terrorist activities before the parliamentary election and now they are issuing threats through the international terror groups like al-Qaeda."
BNP leaders in Brussels urged the European Union to suspend Bangladesh's trade privileges in the market but their effort went futile, said the state minister.
The recent filing of a complaint against Bangladesh with the International Criminal Court (ICC) was also not by coincidence, he added.
British lawyer Toby Cadman, who represented the Jamaat-e-Islami, filed the complaint on February 14, urging the ICC to conduct an investigation into "the persecution of political foes by the government".
The complaint was filed 10 days after BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a press briefing cited imaginary figures of unnatural deaths. "The complaint quoted those imaginary figures," Shahriar said.
Asked about the government's next course of action regarding the complaint, he said, "We have learnt about it unofficially and are preparing to respond to it. We will prove that the accusation is false once the ICC informs us of it formally."
Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury said the government was neither taking the so-called al-Qaeda threat lightly nor giving it too much importance. "The government is not frightened by the threat."
Meanwhile, State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan told the BBC Bangla service that he had not heard of the audio message but "I would say regarding this that we are always alert to the matter and that we will never allow the rise of terrorism in our country."
Asked about the post, Senior Home Secretary CQK Mustaq Ahmed said they are looking into it.
Also, Director General of the Rapid Action Battalion Mokhlesur Rahman said the al-Qaeda chief's so-called statement did not go with the real picture in Bangladesh. “The situations in Bangladesh and Afghanistan are not the same."
The law enforcement agencies are always ready to deal with such threats, the official added.
For discussion purposes below I am going to completely ignore the fact that Al-Qaeda is merely an American-controlled organization to destabilize primarily Muslim countries and also to threaten non-Muslim rivals of the US such as Russia and China. So let us imagine they really are an independent terrorist organization.
1. If Al-Qaeda threaten Bangladesh ever again then insha'Allah it will be one of the last things that they ever do.
2. Al-Qaeda is a failure.
- They have control over 0 Muslim states.
- Their ideology is rejected by the vast majority of Muslims.
- Even in the heavily conservative tribal Pashtun areas (forget about more modernized urban areas of the Muslim world) Pashtuns there find rule by Al-Qaeda connected groups too extreme.
- They are in hiding like cowards
- Their leader has been killed
- They have been crushed in Saudi Arabia
- They have been crushed in Algeria
- They have been crushed in Indonesia
- They have been defeated in Russia (Chechnya)
- They have been expelled from Kabul which is now led by a democratically elected government.
- They have been defeated in Iraq which is now led by a mainly Shia-government.
- They have no power in Egypt where even the less radical Muslim Brotherhood is defeated.
- They have no power in Turkey where the Turkish army would smash them to pieces if they ever tried anything.
- They are nothing in Morocco.
- They are being defeated in Syria where the major cities are run by the government.
- They are nothing in central Asia i.e. Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrzyghia, Tajikistan.
- They are nothing in Iran besides a few Balochi rebels.
- They are nothing in Jordan which is run by a pro-western half-English King.
In other words 13 years after 9/11 in 2001 they have achieved "zero", and their ideology is held in disgust and revulsion by the vast majority of Muslims worldwide.
3. The idiots who created the video message follow an essentially Pakistani narrative of Bangladeshi independence and this reflects as I say the essentially anti-Bangladeshi nature of much of the global "Islamist" network which see Bangladeshi independence as illegitimate and Bangladesh's existence is illegitimate.
The truth is Bangladeshi independence has been a success.
a: Bangladesh now has 6% economic growth per year and since 2008 has had the highest rate of growth in the world accumulatively along with Brazil, China, Turkey and Singapore.
b: Bangladeshi health care standards have improved dramatically that even the Economist such rates of progression in health care are unparalleled in human history besides the Meji period in
Japan.
c: Militarily Bangladesh is far stronger than it was under Pakistan when Bangladesh (East Pakistan) was essentially neglected e.g. in the 1965 India-Pakistan war the Pakistanis left East Pakistan undefended.
Bangladesh now runs a centre to train international soldiers in UN peace keeping.
It has a 0.2-3 million regular army and reserve volunteer force of 6 million.
d: Politically Bangladesh as an independent entity can promote its own interests as an independent state rather than being a de facto colony of Pakistan as per pre-71.
I could continue and elaborate but the fact is Bangladeshi independence has been a success and it is only Pakistani nationalists and Pakistano-philic "Islamists" that are against it.
4. Bangladesh is ready for Al-Qaeda and we already executed terrorist Bangla bhai a few years ago.
The BNP party of Khaleda Zia must publicly and strongly denounce this Al-Qaeda threat to Bangladesh or it means that they implicitly support them. Khaleda Zia herself has been involved in violence including the August 21 2004 massacre of opposition leaders in Dhaka.
The Pakistani-backed Khaleda Zia.
They also refuse to cut ties with the Jamaat e Islami terrorist organization, a violent anti-Bangladeshi party.
Anyway we Bangladeshis are ready for Al-Qaeda and we will pulverize Al-Qaeda dogs to pieces and give them a good beating just as how the Algerians and Indonesians have done so.
We are not Pakistan where Al-Qaeda/Taliban have murdered 50,000 Pakistanis.
Indonesian army. Indonesia is the richest country in the Muslim world with a massive defence industry self-sufficient in many key defence sectors. Indonesia has crushed Al-Qaeda.
Moroccan army. Morocco is the most peaceful and stable country in North Africa where Egypt and Tunisia have experienced a revolution, Sudan has been divided, Libya has experienced civil war and Algeria has experienced decades of terrorism. Elite troops of Moroccan soldiers under Franco were key in winning the Spanish civil war for nationalist forces and Moroccan Berbers of the Riff under the legendary Abdul Karim Khattabi (rahmatullahi 'alaih) defeated two global colonial powers Spain and France simultaneously. Abdul Karim al-Khattabi and his tactics were the role model for both Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam and Che Guevara.
Moroccans also ruled Spain and North Africa during the Al-Murabitun dynasty. It is reported that King John of England sent envoys to the Moroccans saying he would convert England to Islam if the Moroccans sent an army to support him. In other words the Moroccans were known for being tough fighters.
Al-Muwahid Moroccan Empire.
Al-Murabitun Moroccan Empire.
Abdul Karim al-Khattabi (rahmatullahi 'alaih).
Another thing which will anger Al-Qaeda fanatics is that one of the Bangladeshi ministers mentioned in the article above is a woman.
Bangladesh's minister for agriculture, Matia Chowdhury.
Al-Qaeda bring it on dogs!
The Algerians have smashed you.
The Jordanians have smashed you.
The Indonesians have smashed you.
Your only hideout is in Pakistan where you are supported by Imran Khan, Nawaz Sharif, PML-N, Jamaat e Islami and the ISI.
We Bengalis will give you such a beating that you will cry for decades like your Pakistani heroes do even now about their defeat and humiliation at our hands in 1971.
We will co-operate with our brothers in Morocco, Indonesia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt to crush you and your disgusting, barbaric terrorist ideology.
Message posted last month; authenticity not confirmed; govt cautious
Qaeda for intifada in Bangladesh?
An audiovisual message purported to be from al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged the Muslims in Bangladesh to wage an intifada (popular uprising) to confront the “crusader onslaught against Islam”.
Posted in Jihadology.net, the message alleged thousands of people were being killed in the streets of Bangladesh for protesting the “collusion of the anti-Islam secular government with a bunch of transgressing secularists”.
"I invite you to lead the masses in a vast and inclusive popular uprising (intifada) whose tide dose not recede, nor its dynamism subsides, until the Shariah of Islam governs the land of Islam, instead of being governed over,” it went on.
Titled “Bangladesh: A Massacre behind a Wall of Silence”, the message was released on January 14, but it surfaced in the media only yesterday.
In it, the voice of an unseen narrator is placed over still images including Zawahiri's and video clips along with English subtitle. Not a single shot does show the al-Qaeda chief speaking on camera.
Jihadology, which describes itself as a clearinghouse for Jihadi source materials, said this was a new message of Zawahiri and it was presented by As-Saḥab, known as the media house of al-Qaeda.
The Daily Star could not independently verify the authenticity of the message.
The government was communicating with counterterrorism partners like the US and the UK to verify whether the voice was indeed of Zawahiri, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam told this newspaper yesterday.
Zawahiri, an Egyptian physician, took the helm of the much-feared global militant organisation after US Navy SEALS killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011.
The audiovisual material starts with photographs from the May 5, 2013 Hefajat-e Islam rally in Dhaka and the subsequent crackdown by law enforcers on it.
"A massacre of Muslims is being carried out these days, and the Muslim world is totally oblivious to it. The western media is colluding with the killers to belittle its significance and hide the facts," the message said.
“Hundreds of callers to the religion and scholars are also facing hardships, manhunts, imprisonment, trials, death sentences and life imprisonments without any guilt,” it said.
"My Muslim brothers in Bangladesh, I invite you to confront this crusader onslaught against Islam, which is being orchestrated by the leading criminals in the subcontinent and the West…
The release went on, "Bangladesh is the victim of the conspiracy in which the agents of India, the corrupt leadership of the Pakistan army, and treacherous power hungry politicians of Bangladesh and Pakistan, who are always prepared to sacrifice everything for the sake of fulfilling their ambitions and desires, were all equal participants."
Turning to the Liberation War, 1971, the message said, "Their purpose was not independence from Pakistan, stopping the aggression against the people of Bangladesh, or getting rid of military rule in Pakistan." The real purpose was weakening the Muslim Ummah in the subcontinent, the release claimed.
Bangladesh is being turned into "a subjugated surrogate of India", it also said.
"Those who massacred the Muslims in Bangladesh only yesterday are the same people who are massacring the Muslims in Pakistan today. Similarly, those who allied with India against Pakistan by claiming that they sought to defend the honour and sanctities of Bengalis are the same people who are attacking the sanctities, beliefs, honour, lives and properties of Bengalis today."
While accusing the media for downplaying the alleged attacks, he also criticised the West for remaining "unmoved".
The events in Bangladesh enjoy the blessings of both India and America, "since their interests in fighting Islam overlap, and this is why their bilateral relations are becoming stronger day by day".
When people of Afghanistan, Mali, and Somalia "decide to implement” Shariah", "they are then met with a full-fledged military onslaught, in which the leading international criminals and their local surrogates take part".
"But when Salman Rushdie, Taslima Nasrin and Ali Rajib Haider insult Islam, the Prophet of Islam (pbuh), and the beliefs of Islam, they are treated as heroes who must be defended, honoured, and given awards," said the al-Qaeda chief.
Comparing the situation in Bangladesh with the attacks on Muslims in Myanmar, he said, "The events in Bangladesh and Burma are not too distant from the oppression and killings of Muslims in Kashmir or the racial cleansing in Assam, Gujarat and Ahmadabad either."
'GOVT NOT FRIGHTENED'
Bangladesh has worked with different countries to combat terrorism and gradually built its capacity to deal with the issue in the last five years, State Minister Shahriar told The Daily Star.
"Our efforts and successes in the arena of counterterrorism have been praised by many countries and international platforms. I hope that our partners will continue cooperating with us in this regard."
He alleged the BNP-Jamaat alliance was making political efforts to belittle Bangladesh and it has been instigating international terrorist organisations like al-Qaeda by its irresponsible comments and activities.
The opposition alliance has chosen the path of terrorism as it failed to do anything democratically, Shahriar said. "They carried out terrorist activities before the parliamentary election and now they are issuing threats through the international terror groups like al-Qaeda."
BNP leaders in Brussels urged the European Union to suspend Bangladesh's trade privileges in the market but their effort went futile, said the state minister.
The recent filing of a complaint against Bangladesh with the International Criminal Court (ICC) was also not by coincidence, he added.
British lawyer Toby Cadman, who represented the Jamaat-e-Islami, filed the complaint on February 14, urging the ICC to conduct an investigation into "the persecution of political foes by the government".
The complaint was filed 10 days after BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a press briefing cited imaginary figures of unnatural deaths. "The complaint quoted those imaginary figures," Shahriar said.
Asked about the government's next course of action regarding the complaint, he said, "We have learnt about it unofficially and are preparing to respond to it. We will prove that the accusation is false once the ICC informs us of it formally."
Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury said the government was neither taking the so-called al-Qaeda threat lightly nor giving it too much importance. "The government is not frightened by the threat."
Meanwhile, State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan told the BBC Bangla service that he had not heard of the audio message but "I would say regarding this that we are always alert to the matter and that we will never allow the rise of terrorism in our country."
Asked about the post, Senior Home Secretary CQK Mustaq Ahmed said they are looking into it.
Also, Director General of the Rapid Action Battalion Mokhlesur Rahman said the al-Qaeda chief's so-called statement did not go with the real picture in Bangladesh. “The situations in Bangladesh and Afghanistan are not the same."
The law enforcement agencies are always ready to deal with such threats, the official added.
For discussion purposes below I am going to completely ignore the fact that Al-Qaeda is merely an American-controlled organization to destabilize primarily Muslim countries and also to threaten non-Muslim rivals of the US such as Russia and China. So let us imagine they really are an independent terrorist organization.
1. If Al-Qaeda threaten Bangladesh ever again then insha'Allah it will be one of the last things that they ever do.
2. Al-Qaeda is a failure.
- They have control over 0 Muslim states.
- Their ideology is rejected by the vast majority of Muslims.
- Even in the heavily conservative tribal Pashtun areas (forget about more modernized urban areas of the Muslim world) Pashtuns there find rule by Al-Qaeda connected groups too extreme.
- They are in hiding like cowards
- Their leader has been killed
- They have been crushed in Saudi Arabia
- They have been crushed in Algeria
- They have been crushed in Indonesia
- They have been defeated in Russia (Chechnya)
- They have been expelled from Kabul which is now led by a democratically elected government.
- They have been defeated in Iraq which is now led by a mainly Shia-government.
- They have no power in Egypt where even the less radical Muslim Brotherhood is defeated.
- They have no power in Turkey where the Turkish army would smash them to pieces if they ever tried anything.
- They are nothing in Morocco.
- They are being defeated in Syria where the major cities are run by the government.
- They are nothing in central Asia i.e. Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrzyghia, Tajikistan.
- They are nothing in Iran besides a few Balochi rebels.
- They are nothing in Jordan which is run by a pro-western half-English King.
In other words 13 years after 9/11 in 2001 they have achieved "zero", and their ideology is held in disgust and revulsion by the vast majority of Muslims worldwide.
3. The idiots who created the video message follow an essentially Pakistani narrative of Bangladeshi independence and this reflects as I say the essentially anti-Bangladeshi nature of much of the global "Islamist" network which see Bangladeshi independence as illegitimate and Bangladesh's existence is illegitimate.
The truth is Bangladeshi independence has been a success.
a: Bangladesh now has 6% economic growth per year and since 2008 has had the highest rate of growth in the world accumulatively along with Brazil, China, Turkey and Singapore.
b: Bangladeshi health care standards have improved dramatically that even the Economist such rates of progression in health care are unparalleled in human history besides the Meji period in
Japan.
The most dramatic period of improvement in human health in history is often taken to be that of late-19th-century Japan, during the remarkable modernisation of the Meiji transition. Bangladesh’s record on child and maternal mortality has been comparable in scale.
c: Militarily Bangladesh is far stronger than it was under Pakistan when Bangladesh (East Pakistan) was essentially neglected e.g. in the 1965 India-Pakistan war the Pakistanis left East Pakistan undefended.
Bangladesh now runs a centre to train international soldiers in UN peace keeping.
It has a 0.2-3 million regular army and reserve volunteer force of 6 million.
d: Politically Bangladesh as an independent entity can promote its own interests as an independent state rather than being a de facto colony of Pakistan as per pre-71.
I could continue and elaborate but the fact is Bangladeshi independence has been a success and it is only Pakistani nationalists and Pakistano-philic "Islamists" that are against it.
4. Bangladesh is ready for Al-Qaeda and we already executed terrorist Bangla bhai a few years ago.
The BNP party of Khaleda Zia must publicly and strongly denounce this Al-Qaeda threat to Bangladesh or it means that they implicitly support them. Khaleda Zia herself has been involved in violence including the August 21 2004 massacre of opposition leaders in Dhaka.
The Pakistani-backed Khaleda Zia.
They also refuse to cut ties with the Jamaat e Islami terrorist organization, a violent anti-Bangladeshi party.
Anyway we Bangladeshis are ready for Al-Qaeda and we will pulverize Al-Qaeda dogs to pieces and give them a good beating just as how the Algerians and Indonesians have done so.
We are not Pakistan where Al-Qaeda/Taliban have murdered 50,000 Pakistanis.
Indonesian army. Indonesia is the richest country in the Muslim world with a massive defence industry self-sufficient in many key defence sectors. Indonesia has crushed Al-Qaeda.
Moroccan army. Morocco is the most peaceful and stable country in North Africa where Egypt and Tunisia have experienced a revolution, Sudan has been divided, Libya has experienced civil war and Algeria has experienced decades of terrorism. Elite troops of Moroccan soldiers under Franco were key in winning the Spanish civil war for nationalist forces and Moroccan Berbers of the Riff under the legendary Abdul Karim Khattabi (rahmatullahi 'alaih) defeated two global colonial powers Spain and France simultaneously. Abdul Karim al-Khattabi and his tactics were the role model for both Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam and Che Guevara.
Moroccans also ruled Spain and North Africa during the Al-Murabitun dynasty. It is reported that King John of England sent envoys to the Moroccans saying he would convert England to Islam if the Moroccans sent an army to support him. In other words the Moroccans were known for being tough fighters.
Al-Muwahid Moroccan Empire.
Al-Murabitun Moroccan Empire.
Abdul Karim al-Khattabi (rahmatullahi 'alaih).
Another thing which will anger Al-Qaeda fanatics is that one of the Bangladeshi ministers mentioned in the article above is a woman.
Bangladesh's minister for agriculture, Matia Chowdhury.
Al-Qaeda bring it on dogs!
The Algerians have smashed you.
The Jordanians have smashed you.
The Indonesians have smashed you.
Your only hideout is in Pakistan where you are supported by Imran Khan, Nawaz Sharif, PML-N, Jamaat e Islami and the ISI.
We Bengalis will give you such a beating that you will cry for decades like your Pakistani heroes do even now about their defeat and humiliation at our hands in 1971.
We will co-operate with our brothers in Morocco, Indonesia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt to crush you and your disgusting, barbaric terrorist ideology.