FIRST PERSON | Ghazala Wahab
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The End is Nigh
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Why some of the threats of Islamic terrorism are fantastical
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Ghazala Wahab
It is surreal how certain emails remain forever in cyberspace;
neither dying a natural death nor falling out of circulation. A few years ago,
when the US war in Afghanistan had run aground and the popular media was replete
with stories of rise of Jihadi terrorism, I |
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received an email with a strong message urging me to forward it to as many people possible to create awareness if I wanted to prevent Jihadi holocaust from scalding the world. Lending authenticity to the mail, the sender explained that though the origin of the mail is unknown, it is ostensibly written by a German psychiatrist, who would certainly know a thing or two about right-wing extremism. The so-called author of the mail, the sender claimed, was a holocaust survivor.
The lucidly written essay highlighted the power of a fanatic minority over the silent majority. Giving examples of the Nazi Holocaust, the Russian purges, the Japanese massacre of the Chinese before World War II, the writer wrote that it was irrelevant that Islam was a peaceful religion or that majority of Muslims were regular people, because it is the fanatics who rule. The evidence of the rise of Islamic fanaticism, according to the author, was the way ‘fanatics, who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa... are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave.’ His final warning was that if the world didn’t wake up now, ‘they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.’
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