Friday, July 4, 2025

The Bizarre Use Of Quranic Terminology Bunyan Al Marsoos By Pakistan In A Modern War Caused By Its Proxy Terrorism Is A Serious Insult To Islam And Its Traditions, NAI Editor Sultan Shahin Tells The UNHRC At Geneva

By Sultan Shahin, Founder-Editor, New Age Islam 3 July 2025 Full text of Oral Statement submitted by Sultan Shahin (Full name: Syed Sultan Ahmad Jilani), Special Representative of Asian-Eurasian Human Rights Forum (AEHRF) at 59th session of the Human Rights Council, 16 June to 11 July 2025, though it couldn't be delivered in person due to paucity of time allotted by the Council to NGOs on the list of speakers, on account of other pressing engagements. Item 9: ID with the SR on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance NGO: Asian-Eurasian Human Rights Forum (AEHRF) Date: 3 July 2025 Mr. President, The Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2024 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/79/456, para. 31)] 79/160 “acknowledges that discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion or belief in all its forms and manifestations, including neo-Nazism, Islamophobia, Christianophobia and antisemitism, is a threat to social cohesion, not just to those racial and ethnic groups that are their direct target.” May I highlight the fact, Mr. President, that one of the signatories to the UN Human Rights Charter itself practices Islamophobia, Christianophobia, antisemitism and xenophobia in the form of a related intolerance of Hinduphobia too. On 09 August 2024, experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination raised questions on Blasphemy Laws of Pakistan. Committee Expert and Country Rapporteur Mr. Yeung Sik Yuen said Blasphemy laws, which involved insulting the religion or religious figures, were a matter of great preoccupation in Pakistan. The Committee had received reports of persons belonging to ethnic minority groups being falsely accused of blasphemy or otherwise killed or physically attacked before fair trial, including five members of the Ahmadiyya community who were arrested under blasphemy charges in January 2023 for publishing and selling an alleged altered version of the Holy Quran. On Mar 26, 2025, The Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) released a damning report on the first quarter of 2025, spotlighting a sharp rise in victimisation rates and challenges faced by religious minorities like Christians, Hindus and Ahmadis in Pakistan. HRFP President Naveed Walter, said: "Religious minorities in Pakistan are easier targets for attacks, murders, blasphemy charges, abductions, forced conversions, and forced marriages." He pointed to a surge in incidents since January 2025, citing cases like Wasif Masih, Javed Masih, Ariha Gulzar, Shahnaz Bibi, Mehwish Nazir and so on. These also involved cases of abduction of young Hindu and Christian girls, forcible conversion to Islam and marriage with abductors. Farhan Javed Masih. (Christian Daily News-Morning Star News courtesy of family) ----- Fourteen-year-old Christian girl Ariha Gulzar ----- Also, Mr. President, a new form of Islamophobia was noticed being practiced by Pakistan recently. I would like to draw the attention of Islamic nations represented in the Council to the use of purely Islamic and Quranic terminology like Bunyan al Marsoos by Pakistan to describe a modern war caused by proxy terrorism. This is bizarre, to say the least, and a serious insult to Islam and its traditions. Even the Pakistani Islamist ideologue, Maulana Abul Ala Maududi, founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, and considered the father of Political Islam, refused to accept the Pakistani proxy terrorist incursion in the state of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947-48 as Jihad. He asked Pakistan to declare war against India and fight, if it wanted to capture the state that had legally acceded to India. Mr. President, Among the challenges of globalisation is the ease with which proxy wars can be waged by one nation against another through terrorism by non-state actors. While proxy wars in the Middle East and North Africa have attracted some international attention, South Asia has not. India has been facing such a proxy war and terrorist onslaught for the last 45 years. Now that the world has seen that proxy wars can turn into actual wars involving deadly modern, 5th generation fighter jets, between two-nuclear-armed nations, I hope the world community will pay urgent attention to the severe violation of human rights by proxy terrorist groups engaging in their nefarious activities in India. Thank you, Mr. President URL: https://www.newageislam.com/the-war-within-islam/quranic-terminology-bunyan-al-marsoos-proxy-terrorism-traditions/d/136067 New Age Islam, Islam Online, Islamic Website, African Muslim News, Arab World News, South Asia News, Indian Muslim News, World Muslim News, Women in Islam, Islamic Feminism, Arab Women, Women In Arab, Islamophobia in America, Muslim Women in West, Islam Women and Feminism

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