Can Jihadis be dismissed as
common criminals or should their wide acceptance as puritans worry
Muslims? Is this an ideological issue or a mere law and order problem?
By Sultan Shahin and Ghulam Mohiyuddin
30 May 2014
Dear Naseer Ahmed Saheb (Observer),
[As the points you have made raise larger issues and more readers need to be involved in it, I am starting a new thread to discuss it. This is in response to your comment that is being given below, following this comment]
You actually heard me saying that Taliban and Boko Haram and other Islamist terrorists are not merely criminals to be dealt with by law and order machineries. That terrorists are criminals goes without saying. Of course, law and order apparatus of those countries where they commit crimes deals with them and indeed international community is also engaged in finding intelligence about their activities, catching them and bringing them to book. If you think they are not diligent enough, you can write an article, and get it published even on New Age Islam.
However New Age Islam doesn't run any government. It doesn't head any law and order machinery. So, while as citizens, all crimes concern us and we cry at every kidnapping, rape or murder that happens anywhere on the planet, we don't write about them because we are not dealing with crime and punishment issues except as much as it concerns Islam and the Muslim community, particularly with reference to Islamic ideology. Crimes committed in the name of Islam are what interest us.
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