Jihadi media

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Jihadi media​

Ali K Chishti
General Musharraf said in 2005 that terrorist groups have “mushroomed in cities and recruit people openly, train them, collect donations and publish and distribute jihadi literature”. His claim may well be true with the number of jihadi publications fast multiplying

Our curriculum at private and state managed schools and madarssas uses propaganda to educate like the Urdu alphabet letters bey for bandooq (gun) instead of bakri (goat) and jeem for jihad instead of jahaz (ship)

Most of the jihadi literature or magazines are also sectarian in nature and carry out provocative and hate filled Q&A sessions against Shia, Ahmadiyya and even Agha Khani communities

Throughout the years, the number of jihadi writings has grown enormously in Pakistan. Nowadays, books and fatwas on any given subject related to jihadi thoughts can easily be found and downloaded from the internet. The business of jihadi literature which initially started to fund various Jihadis organisations in Pakistan now is used not just to spread certain propaganda but is often used to recruit potential jihadis, radicalise minds and even spread encoded messages. And it’s not limited to visual media alone. Our curriculum at private and state managed schools and madarssas uses the same propaganda to educate like the Urdu alphabet letters bey for bandooq (gun) instead of bakri (goat) and jeem for jihad instead of jahaz (ship). These jihadi public schools which adopts hate literature printed by banned organisations manufacture the Kasabs and Shezad Tanvirs of our world, who when asked about their identity, proudly call themselves Muslims first and Pakistani second. In reality they face a serious identity crisis. Thanks to such literature we are slowly creating millions of non-state actors whose handlers could prod them into doing anything by evoking emotions through misquoting even Quranic verses at times.

Jihadi media, a combo of journals, audio and CDs and the Web 3.0 which took off during the Afghan-Soviet. Its originated in 1962 when the a state functionary of the government, the Council for Islamic Ideology promoted the censorship of media and manufactured public opinion initially through radio Pakistan and later targeted curriculum where hate provoking literature was thrust into Pak-Studies and Islamiyat books. Thus the manufacturing of a set-public opinions using Iqbal’s lingo of ‘mard-e-momin’ and shaheen . In fact the man tasked by the Ayub regime to do this was Syed Ubaidul Islam, a veteran worker of Radio Pakistan who wrote the book titled, Idara-e-Moarraf-r-Islami (Islamic journalism) which created a new paradigm for journalism to mould Pakistani society according to an “Islamic ethos”. The idea was later taken up by the security establishment, especially during the Zia tenure when the ‘1 Muslim = 10 Hindus’ analogy was manufactured.

So bold have been militant Islamist organisations in Pakistan that they have started there own publishing houses spreading their own version of jihad via customised magazines and curriculum books which can be picked up from any news stand or book shops. It is estimated that some twenty six different publications are printed and distributed by various militant and banned Islamist organisations in Pakistan alone and over 12,000 schools and madarssas are teaching this hate to their students, mostly in Urdu and even in English for the new ‘generation-X’ crowd. These publications are specifically and deliberately targeted towards the youth with a heavy dose of pictures of mutilated bodies of Muslims around the world (obviously for a purpose as traditional Ahl-e-Hadith and Deoband views prohibit pictures).

Interestingly Dr Afia Siddiqui because of her sentence in the US was the favorite topic of jihadi magazines where numerous references have been made to her case by different groups, including Jaish-e-Mohammad in their weekly online magazine, Al-Qalam . The “arrest/torture of our innocent, Muslim sister by the infidels” rhetoric plays on the honor code and anti-western sentiments of young Pakistani men whom militant leaders aim to attract and recruit. Siddiqui was brought up again in a recent joint interview by Hakimullah Mehsud and Wali-ur-Rehman in October 2009; the video ended with the question “who will rescue our sister Dr Aafia Siddiqui from these Christian barbarians?” That the new TTP leadership via their own youtube channel and literature continues to use Siddiqui as subject matter to appeal to their audiences shows the extent of her importance to the Pakistani jihadi propaganda mill. At one Deoband mardarssa just outside Karachi Aafia’s mention was in the curriculum, portrayed as ‘Islam ki Beti’ (daughter of Islam).

Jamaat-ud Dawa, a parent organisation of banned Lashkar-e-Taiba, claims to sell more than 200,000 of its Majalah al Dawa magazines each-month and had an interesting chapter on Aafia Siddiqui. The author singles out Aafia Siddiqui, who has “her hopes hitched on us Muslims now.” Examples are given of “Fatima and Noor” who in their letters from Abu Ghraib prison claimed: “every day 10 U.S. soldiers assault/abuse us at one time.” Such melodrama!

The most interesting part of the whole jihadi media is that whatever acts the Government of Pakistan officially denies, these jihadi organisations take credit for and glorify such crimes in their respected literatures and web portals. Let’s take an example of previously published Jihad Times and Al-Hilal operated by Masood Azher’s organisation Jaish-e-Muhammad. They were banned and subsequently published under new names, Muslim Times and Al-Muhammad , and took full credit for the Indian parliament attacks in 2001 and the Indian Airlines flight 814 hijacking in 1999. In an article published in Jihad Times, Maulana Masood Azher’s brother took full responsibility of carrying out the hijacking and termed it, “the greatest achievement of Mujahideens.”

Newer versions of jihadi literature are an even better read where the emphasis of authors is obdurately on two topics, democracy and secularism. In Zerb Momin, a hardcore and hard to find exclusive magazine of jihadis the authors claim that democracy ‘hurts and damages Islam’. They state that it pervades Muslim rules and ‘gives unbelievers power over Muslims’. This is also why the authors reject setting up ‘one’s own political party or entering parliament’. Secularism has been mentioned in dramatic terms as well; the “worship” of the idol of secularism is ‘responsible for moral decay in the Muslim world’s educational facilities’ and hampers ‘the spread of Islam’s message, leads to the persecution of Islamic preachers’ and, interestingly, leads to ‘the cancellation of the duty to perform jihad’. Most of the jihadi literature or magazines are also sectarian in nature and carry out provocative and hate filled Q&A sessions against Shia, Ahmadiyya and even Agha Khani communities.

While Pakistani government did take steps to curb jihadi literature after 2005, there is irrefutable evidence of Pakistan’s double speak and play where it is proved on numerous occasions that the government has actually promoted, aided and circulated certain jihadi magazines. A former top intelligence official said, ‘It is what we call, “funding proxies” and since it is hard to fund one suitable jihadi organisation directly due to tighter monetary control and surveillance, the easiest way is to print 100,000 copies of a publication, buy it off for a set price, and then distribute it.”

The best example of jihadis using media were seen on the 1st of October when Osama Bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda chief finally broke his silence in an eleven minute audio tape titled, “Stop the Method of Relief Work” (which has a rather bizarre meaning). The message from the Sheikh as described by an Arabic media website as, “that the floods were Allah’s punishment against the Pakistani people for not following Islamic law”.

The author is a political analyst specialising in counter-terrorism and can be reached out at akchishti@hotmail.com

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[PakSher]

These jihadi groups have caused more harm to the muslims then anybody else.

 

[seekers]

is that dirty jihad(fisad) running by fisadi organization has any match with Sunnat of RASOOL ALLAH(SAWW)??
All the Ghazwat in command of RASOOL ALLAH(SAWW) was defensive except Fatheh MECCA.This was just one occasion when Muslims had made offensive move but without dropping a single blood drop.

Sorry to say organizations name Ahlesunnah wal jammat(sipah shahba covering name) and other fisadi org. has no concern with Sunnah of RASOOL ALLAH(SAWW).
These are the people who are worshiping their own self(nafs) and doing shirk (Qurran surrah Ibraheim)

 

[ajtr]

Jihadi media is booming

By Ali K Chishti

The media is viewed by terrorist organisations as one of the fronts of jihad against their enemies. The media platform most favoured by activists and supporters of jihadis is both the print and the electronic media with a large presence on the Internet as well. These jehadis disseminate their message via various websites, magazines and disks in different languages targeting diverse audiences worldwide. While such organisations also utilise the media for military and operative purposes for services of jihadi fighters in the field, their primary use of this medium is for indoctrination and propaganda. Most of these messages available online can be picked up cheaply from almost any newsstand throughout Pakistan despite there being a strict ban and monitoring system in place by various intelligence agencies on such literature. Among the 80-odd publications that suspected militant organisations are putting out are 18 weeklies, 40 fortnightlies and 22 monthlies. The publications are frequently published in Urdu with a heavy dose of Arabic and some English thrown in for good measure to cater to all social circles in Pakistan. “We are selling a copy from Rs 5 to Rs 10,000 for those who want to support our organisations since funding and collection is restricted,” a top Kashmiri jihadi leader proudly announced.

Interestingly, while strict interpretation of Islam does not allow pictures to be posted, this jihadi or extremist magazine makes a point to ignore that specific law and print mutilated pictures of Muslims around the world from Kashmir to Palestine and from Iraq to Afghanistan to make a point as to how Muslims are being treated around the world. “All is fair in love and war,” a jihadi quoted John Lyly’s ‘Euphues.

In another magazine, which was specifically dedicated to Aafia Siddiqui in a piece entitled “Rescuing the Prisoners”, a certain Miss Hamam writes about how Muslims around the world are imprisoned by infidels. Later, Miss Hamam, who is a writer from Pakistan, continues about how thousands of Muslim daughters and sons are ******* in jails and how it is the duty of all Muslims to fight for the causes of Kashmir, Palestine, Uzbekistan, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.

While numerous references have been made to the Aafia Siddiqui case by various jihadi organisations including Jaish-e-Muhammad’s Al-Qalam, the issue of drone attacks and secular liberals working on American and Zionist agenda eats up most of the jihadi literature’s agenda.

The “arrest/torture of our innocent, Muslim sister by the infidel” rhetoric plays on the honour code and anti-western sentiments of young Pakistani men whom militant leaders aim to attract and recruit. Siddiqui was brought up again in a recent joint interview by Hakeemullah Mehsud and Waliur Rehman in October 2009; the video ended with the question “who will rescue our sister Dr Aafia Siddiqui from these Christian barbarians”? Speaking to Daily Times, one such young editor and a student of a major engineering university of Karachi, Adeel, who published what he describes as an Islamic magazine named Bazu-e-Mujahid, confirmed that he had over 7,000 subscribers from Karachi to the New York, who support his organization, which is fighting to enforce Caliphate in Pakistan.

In other such magazine, namely Al-Jehad, Mujhaid printed from Karachi and Jihad Kashmir printed from Rawalpindi, the literature is heavy on the virtues of dying for the cause of Islam. Emotionally wrought letters from the mothers and sisters of jihadi martyrs are meant to inspire. Many of the publications feature coloured pictures of arms and immunisation and present a “no-holds-barred” absolutist view of the world. The 2010 issue of Nawai Afghan Jihad included an article by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Azam Tariq, entitled “The Reality of the Waziristan Operation.”

Azam Tariq mainly talks about the recent military operation in Waziristan and the complicity of Pakistani politicians and special forces in importing and waging America’s war on Pakistani territory.

Like most TTP leaders, Azam underlines that theirs is a “defensive” jihad against the Pakistani regime. The image created is that of a hapless group being provoked into fighting an unwanted jihad. That is, against its own volition, the TTP must fight the Pakistani state and army.

While the cardinal enemy, and “target of all jihadi struggles”, is the US for it sits at the helm of all infidel nations, Pakistan’s “secular rulers” and their shameless submissiveness to the US has left the TTP with no choice but to fight the “domestic” infidels first.

The question that Azam then sarcastically asks is, “Where do the mujahideen find that elusive Aladdin’s lamp that will enable them to ignore the infidel’s (US) puppets in Pakistan and go straight after the beast itself?”

Two jihadi magazine’s and a newsletter named Haq-e-Awaz and Allah Commandos both published from Karachi celebrated the recent killing of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer and wrote in there editorial that “Qadri was the new hero of the ummah” and “anyone who betrays the ideology of Islam and Pakistan should be killed”.

A senior intelligence official of the Intelligence Bureau, who wished not to be named, told Daily Times, “There is a proper mechanism in place to monitor such hate-literature, but at times acting on it due to certain provisions in law that safeguard such hate literature makes them hard to actually be stopped.”

“If we stop one, two by another name crop out from nowhere,” confirmed an intelligence official. Interesting al Sahab productions, al Qaeda’s official media wing, confirm the close relationship between al Qaeda and the TTP, which have long been known. The release of multiple joint AQ-TTP messages from the al Sahab production outlet is nonetheless extremely significant. First of all, these developments indicate that al Qaeda has successfully seized the moment in the wake of the death of Baitullah Mehsud to dramatically increase its influence over the TTP. But this series of videos is perhaps also evidence of a decreasing willingness on al Qaeda’s part to remain in the shadows of its Pakistani partners as they unleash yet another bloody campaign of violence in Pakistan’s cities. For now the jihadi media is booming.


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[Sinnerman108]

Why does this have to be seen as point case ?

Jihad as some of us may know it was once promoted and was THE "hype" thing.

Propaganda poured out movies, literature, art which acknowledged and saluted the fighting spirit; that is the basic premise of my argument.

Once the threshold was raised, and public in general was made weary of the existence of evil abolishing tool called "jihad" well there was no stopping to it.
It flourished like any other industry, where the "media" and substance both fueled each others growth.

But this self cycle of growth was not self sustaining, since Jihad and the media need an active enemy; This active ENEMY was provided when the west opened it's media and now we are talking the likes of Baywatch, the Sleezy TV commercials, the revealing soap opera and Satan worshiping Rock icons...

Mind you, the western media was also suffering from the same disease as the new born Jihad concept.
USSR was gone, James Bond no longer had an enemy,
the world was tired of WW2 movies,

and there, like a miracle both of them found a reason for existence.
like an antagonistic pair, they work in opposite directions but support the single object; Violence.

The above premise and the subsequent argumentation provides reason and proof that what the "Liberals" are reaping now in the form of murder, threats and death are the very seeds they once sowed.

In this game, there are no winners, every one is a looser.

 

[Meengla]

See the video below. At the first 5-6 minutes are well reasoned arguments. This guy is charged up and passionate.
Important points. Some relate to media and so okay to post in this Topic:
1) Salman Taseer's murder, however tragic, is a moment of great pride for many Pakistanis because he followed to the true spirit of Islam by standing up for an innocent Christian lady and sacrificed his life for that.
2) In Pakistan's lower courts it is very difficult for judges to ignore blasphemy charges because of fear. After all, these judges have to leave their court-rooms and be in the larger society where there is real danger awaiting them.
3) Media as well as some political and religious leaders are criminally quiet because of the atmosphere of fear.
4) Some time in future the Pakistanis of tolerant type will be victorious against these 'Abu Jahls' who support Taseer's murder.


YouTube - TRIBUTE TO SHAHEED SALMAN TASEER