Really an affliction, but why the innocent Muslim masses are left helpless to experience this torment? No doubt it was nothing else but cruelty and brutality of the despotic rules in the Muslim countries that caused emergence of extremist ideas which now plague almost entire Muslim world. Military dictator Pervez Musharaf sew the seeds of thorny problems by toeing the line of his American masters and whole of the nation has to reap the crop of venomously demonstrated extremist acts. In result Pakistani forces and nation have paid the price of around 45 thousands civilian and military lives to resist this venomous wave of violent behaviour.
Al-Nahdha Party in Tunisia and Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt had been, for a long time, subject to the pitilessness of three successive dictatorial periods? They have not lost their patience and are determined to keep on the line of moderation in their policies. Their workers, in spite of going through every kind of maltreatments, could not be swayed by fanatical political and religious views leading to belligerence.They have their firm resolve to make while the extremists are bent on to break. Now when moderate Islamists are in power, is it not strange that from one side they are challenged by the secularists and remnants of the former dictators and on the other hand illogical and insane stingy attacks of the religious element, Salafi school of thought, are going on unflaggingly?
If we have a look on fundamental thoughts of the Salafi school of thought, there are many Ahadith of Sahee Muslim which prevent from taking arms against the rulers to overthrow them. Some of our Muslim theologians of the modern ages have laid stiff terms for bringing change. In the modern ages we find provisions for change. In democratic system there are ways to mould the public opinion in someone's favour is a thing we should not let it go wasted with exibition of our unpopular and our un-egalitarian thinking.
Actually what is wrong with these negative elements is that their ideologic stomachs have gone in disorder. They have lost their ability to digest democracy. All noble norms of tolerance, dialogue and understanding have got gushed out of their minds. During the long period of dictatorship when not only the first, second and third row of the An-Nahdha Party in Tunisia and Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt but ordinary sympathizers of them were tyrannized most of the activists of Ansar Al-Sharia and Salafis were either used their ideological choice of not rising against the tyrant system and remain silent or they remained deep underground. Now, instead they had extended their cooperative hands towards the Islamic minded parties to build whatever was destructed by the dictators, by inciting the peaceful minded citizens of the society to discord, dissension and civil strife they are out to freeze the democratic system and create an unending Fitna which, in sight of the Quran is greater than killing. (والفتنة أكبر من القتل)
Munir Ahmed Khalili
Detail of the News
Tunisia's Islamist premier Ali Larayedh vowed tough action against Ansar al-Sharia on Monday after bloody clashes between police and members of the radical Salafist group, hinting at a shift in government policy.
Tunisia has been rocked by waves of violence blamed on militant Islamists since its January 2011 revolution, and Larayedh reacted angrily to the latest unrest, which erupted after the authorities banned the group's annual congress.
At least one protester was killed and 15 police hurt, with victim due to be buried later on Monday in Ettadhamen, the poor Tunis suburb and renowned Salafist stronghold where Sunday's clashes broke out.
Ansar al-Sharia and a police source said a second protester was also killed, but the interior ministry said his death was not linked to the clashes, while the Salafists insisted neither victim belonged to their movement.
Larayedh said around 200 Salafists were arrested and vowed firm action against the group considered close to Al-Qaeda that he linked for the first time to "terrorism," prompting analysts to see a possible shift in government policy.
"Those proven to have nothing against them will be released, but those found to have been involved in violating the law will be prosecuted," he told AFP during a visit to Doha.
"Ansar al-Sharia is an illegal organisation which defies and provokes state authority," Larayedh told Tunisian state television last on Sunday.
"It has ties to and is involved in terrorism," added the former interior minister and stalwart of the ruling Ennahda party.
The moderate Islamist party has been sharply criticised for failing to prevent a surge in attacks by hard line Islamists since the mass uprising that toppled Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and of being too lenient towards the Salafists.
But faced with the threat of two armed jihadist groups hiding near the Algerian border, it has hardened its stance, banning the Salafists' planned congress on Sunday in the holy city of Kairouan after their leader threatened "war" against the government.
Analysts say the prime minister's comments late on Sunday may signal a turning point.
"It is a change of language. Larayedh has never before used this term for Ansar... reserving the word terrorist for the groups" which Tunisia's army is hunting on the Algerian border, said Michael Ayari from the International Crisis Group think-tank.
It remains to be seen whether the premier's words will be followed by actions, with Ayari pointing out that dozens of Salafists were arrested after an attack on the US embassy in September and most of them freed several months later.
"The words count, but we still can't say that the policy has changed, that they mark a point of no return, and that the Ansar al-Sharia activists will now be arrested for belonging to the movement, for their political identity," he added.
But Ansar al-Sharia's leader Abu Iyadh, a former Al-Qaeda fighter in Afghanistan whose real name is Saif Allah Bin Hussein, was defiant in a message posted online Sunday, apparently taped before the day's violence.
"God knows well that I would like to have been with you at the moment when you opened a shining page in the history of our nation. You have shown the entire world that your efforts cannot be defeated despite the persecution of your leaders," he said.
The audio recording was posted on the group's Facebook page.
Abu Iyadh has been on the run since September, after the attack by Islamist protesters on the US embassy in Tunis that he is accused of having orchestrated and which left four assailants dead.
Salafists advocate an ultra-conservative brand of Sunni Islam, and they have benefited from the regional security vacuum that accompanied the Arab Spring uprisings.
Ansar al-Sharia is considered the most radical of the extremist groups that have emerged in Tunisia since the 2011 revolution.
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