(Shaikh Muhammad Bilal)
Color revolution is a term denoted by
academics and the international media to describe various movements that
developed in Europe particularly in the former communist countries since the
early 2000s. Color revolutionaries
employ both nonviolent civil resistance simultaneously with violent struggles
to achieve the goal of overthrowing the ruling regime which is perceived to be corrupt
and totalitarian. These movements generally adopt a specific color as their
symbol and involve multiple stakeholders including NGOs, INGOs, diplomatic
missions, etc in organizing creative non-violent resistance and violent
struggles. However, the post color revolution results have been far more
catastrophic and devastating for the economy and highly disillusioning for the
general masses. Military experts from leading countries consider these color
revolutions as a new form of warfare or subversion and sabotage in the garb of
popular revolution.
In the Islamic world, the most prominent
proponent of attracting attention to any socio-political cause is religion.
Connect Islam with any cause and the results would be explosive with global
implications. When Daish emerged in Iraq it was considered as another terrorist
and violent non-state actor, however its ideologues including its leadership
were eyeing for gigantic consequences for Islamic countries globally. Color
revolutions or new form of waging war controlled from complex situation centers
reached the Islamic world in the shape of Arab spring but did not have any
significant military – political implications. A slight divergence in state
continuity by Arab Spring happened but still majority of the regimes not only
survive but prevailed. The project of political ideals leading to revolution in
the Islamic world subsided due to being rejected by the populace. This
political process was well analyzed by Daish and its affiliates reaching a
conclusion that to overthrow governments in Islamic countries it had to
challenge the religious scholars of all the Muslim countries of the world
especially the Salafi Ulema of Arab World. Challenging and de-legitimization of
Saudi Ulema who are revered globally by Muslims would result in Daish gaining a
coherent foothold and legitimize its actions in overthrowing regimes in Muslim
countries. To pursue this aim, Daish replaced political ideals with religion.
Its declaration of the Caliphate was to attract disillusioned youth from Muslim
countries to its cause and it received widespread support during the start of
its nefarious designs.
The declaration of the Caliphate was backed
by utter ridicule of the Salafi Ulema and aimed directly at the common Saudi
masses to create in them symptoms of revolt against their own state. The
results were exceptional as psychopaths, self proclaimed religious zealots,
criminals, etc all were now given an opportunity and unwittingly were
fulfilling the agenda of Daish and the global conspirators of causing
destruction of the Islamic countries especially of Saudi Arabia and capturing
the most sacred places of the entire Muslim world, Makkah and Medina. There overt
vision of Caliphate is in fact guised under this very aim. The narrative of Muslims
do not kill Muslims and Caliphate can never be founded on the blood of the
Muslims has been replaced and buried. Daish’s activities, areas under its
control and the areas of its brutal and barbaric operations are overwhelmingly
in Muslim countries with just sporadic incidents in Europe that too conducted
or claimed to gain worldwide notoriety through the mainstream media which
feverishly proclaims Daish as the Islamic State, a Caliphate and thus giving
them legitimacy to pursue their interests.
However, Daish’s lone successes has been only
that it’s narrative has been connected to the Salafi teachings (the mainstream
religious ideology in Saudi Arabia) out of complete ignorance of the edicts
issued by Saudi Ulema on it being apostate. This preplanned preposition of
Daish gaining a foothold in the global media was a success while rejection of
Daish by the Ulema who deliberated to the Muslims and the international
community as working against the universality of peace and coexistence being
rejected. It was this victory of its narrative being connected to Saudi /
Salafi ideology a victory which resulted in Daish spreading its tentacles
physically out of Iraq, Syria and beyond and psychologically attracting
fascinations from Muslims with lack of in-depth religious knowledge, and of
fear among non- Muslims. If this false narrative of Daish which was purposely
in sowed by it would have been rejected at the start and the edict of its
denunciation given its true projection, their barbarity could have been halted
and rolled backed.
There is a requirement that to turn the tide against
Daish, the edicts of the council of grand muftis of Saudi Arabia be the
narrative against it. These edicts project the universality of peace and
coexistence while utterly rebukes and rejects terrorism in all its
manifestations. This has been realized only after the true activities of Daish have
become clear that it was trying to adorn itself in the robes of Islam in order
to deceive the people, violate sanctities, commit large scale plunder, finally now
it is on the run and on the verge of being extinct.
Why Daish targets Saudi Arabia including the
Saudi Ulema and why does it not target the Zionists in Israel? The true
destructive potential of Daish lies in undermining the foundations of Saudi
Arabia as a cornerstone of the modern Middle East. And it must be understood
that at the moment the West which is allied to Saudi Arabia, is almost doing nothing
about it. It is just sitting back and watching. In its publications including
Rumyiah, Dabiq and Naba, Daish usually explains its version of the Islamic law
(sharia) and it considers Muslims as its targets and not non- Muslims
especially Israel which is occupying force of sacred places astonishingly are not
the priority targets. This smells of a greater plot of regime change through
religious fundamentalism as a differential tool to color revolutions elsewhere.
If one analyzes the essence of the articles in the publications, Daish
considers the destruction of the Jewish state does not prevail over the
"jihad against the godless regimes of Muslim countries”. So only the
liberation of Islamic holy places in Saudia Arabia – Makkah & Medina and
ousting the Saudi dynasty from power is the only priority of their movement
which it has branded as “struggle of the faithful”.
This struggle of the faithful according to
Daish leadership works according to a well defined secret plan. In 2014, after
the Israeli military operation "Enduring rock" against Islamic
terrorists who control the Gaza Strip, a spokesman of the Daish justifying the
inaction of the organization, who has not come to the aid of Palestinians,
confirmed that the destruction of Israel is part of jihad. However, he said Daish
works according to plan, and there are a number of steps that need to pass
before starting a confrontation with the Jewish state. Currently the initial
stage is to bring down regimes especially in Saudia Arabia and to challenge
their ulema so that their de-legitimization within their own country and
globally occurs at a rapid pace and then Daish’s fills in the religious ideological
vacuum left due to this de-legitimization.
In the current situation, DAISH’s promotion of hate against
Salafi/Wahabi Ulema of Arab World is the most worrisome for the Muslims all over
the world. The rejection of violent extremist narrative of DAISH by
Imam-e-Kaaba, Sheikh Abdul Rehman Al-Sudais, Sheikh Abdul Aziz, the Grand Mufti
of KSA and other senior Salafi/Wahabi Ulema is very troublesome for Abu Bakr
Al-Baghdadi. As DAISH projects itself as a force fighting a war on the behalf
of Muslim World and its ideology is exploitive of sectarian sentiments of
Sunnis, many radicalized individuals are trapped to join it. Therefore, it’s
the utmost duty of the Sunni Ulemas to create awareness in general public about
the evil designs of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and DAISH.
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