Sep 07 daily estimate via jim ball
In the West, the Saudi ideology of Wahabbism is well known for its extremism and intolerance. Less well known is the ideology known as Deobandi. This ideology is equally insidious, equally extremist. For the Deobandi ideology is the ideology of the Taliban…The Taliban's assumption of power in Afghanistan was barbaric: on September 27, 1996, they dragged former president Mohammed Najibullah from his refuge at a UN compound, and then publicly castrated, shot and hanged him and his brother. Beneath the swinging bodies, the Taliban grinned and waved their weapons ... The Taliban banned art, music, cinema, and prohibited children from flying kites or keeping pigeons as pets. Women were not allowed to venture outside without a male relative to chaperone them ...
Though a popular inspiration for Pakistani extremists, the Deobandi ideology gains its name from a town in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India . It is here at Deoband that the second largest Sunni seminary in the world exists…Women are regarded as intellectually inferior to males. On the subject of educating women, the Deoband believe that formal education for a girl should end at the age of eight. A Deobandi scholar, Abdul Basit Hamidi Qasmi, has argued that "worldly knowledge is not good for women and can be destructive for them". It is not surprising that even after their official "downfall" in 2001, the Afghan Taliban have killed people for educating girls ...
One of the principle doctrines of the Deobandi ideology is that it is a Muslim's duty to wage war (jihad) upon the enemies of Muslims, wherever they may be. National borders are inconsequential, and a student's loyalty should be to Allah before the country in which he lives ...
