بِسۡمِ اللّٰہِ الرَّحۡمٰنِ الرَّحِیۡمِ
In the Name of Allah, the Rahman, the Merciful
الصلاة والسلام عليك يا سيدي يا رسول الله
وعلى آلك واصحابك يا سيدي يا نور الله
Back in December, 2024, when Syria was finally liberated from the terrible Baathist—Alawite regime, I wrote: “Whoever the new Syrian government is they would be wise to curtail the agency of the minorities in that country, as the minorities naturally sided with the brutal but secular dictatorship. An aggressive policy of Sunnification is required for Syria so as to ensure that such a situation of a heretical minority gaining power in that country is never again repeated. And we know that the Nusairi so-called Alawites were only empowered as a consequence of the policy of the French imperialist in the twentieth century. As I have explained, the heretical minorities naturally ally with the external enemies of Islam as they feel it is necessary to secure their own existence and prosperity at the expense of the Sunni Muslim majority.”
Now since the fall of the Assad regime, Alawites and pro-Assad elements in western Syria, particularly in the Latakia and Tartus regions, launched an insurgency in which they have ambushed and killed countless security forces of the new government and their allies. In response to this terrorism, the pro-government security forces moved in on the troubled regions to neutralize the Alawite threat. The sectarian conflict reached its zenith in March, 2025, but has since cooled down and law and order has been restored. Then in late April to early May, 2025, the Druze stirred dissension in southern Syria, rising up in open rebellion against the new Syrian government. The Zionist State backed their Druze pawns and launched several strikes against the new Syrian government.
All of this demonstrates the lethal danger posed by heretical groups, the Zanadiqah, such as the Nusayris (Alawites), Druze, Batinis (Isma’ilis), etc. In Syria, the Druze and the Kurdish Marxists are openly allied with the Zionist State, whose enmity to Islam and the Muslims is not hidden from anyone.
Whereas in the past God commanded, in the Torah and via some of the ancient Israelite Prophets like Moses, Joshua and Samuel, the eradication of various pagan nations from the Holy Land, in our time it is the extermination of the Zindiq sects that is divinely sanctioned. Yesterday it was the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, Jebusites and Amalekites and today it is the Alawites/Nusayris, Druze, Ismailis/Batinis, Zikris, Bahais, Yazidis, Bektashis, Ahmadis/Qadianis, etc.
Certain parts of the Muslim World today are more prone to the threat of these and other heretical sects. The threat to the Sunni Muslims of Syria, who comprise four-fifths of the overall Syrian population, has already been laid bare.
In neighboring Iraq, the Twelver Shi’ah, Rafidis who blaspheme against the Prophet’s successors, wives and companions رضى الله عنهم and believe the Holy Quran has been corrupted, form the majority, about three-fifths, of that country. Since the Americans liberated Iraq in 2003 from the Baathist regime of Saddam, the Shi’ite clergy and Shi’ite religious parties have been totally empowered through the ballot. Since coming to power, the Shi’ite dominated government of Iraq, in coordination with Shi’ite militias backed by Iran, effected an ethnic cleansing of Sunni Muslims from much of Baghdad. Today, the situation of the Sunnis in Iraq is precarious, and they have essentially been relegated to the status of second class citizens.
Moving east to Iran, the Twelver Shi’ites form the overwhelming majority of that country since the Safavids beginning in the 16th century imposed Shi’ism upon the Iranians who were once predominantly Sunni. Still, about one-tenth of Iran is Sunni, predominantly belonging to the Kurdish, Baloch and Turkmen ethnic minorities. They have been sidelined and marginalized, particularly since 1979 when Khomeini seized power and established Wilayat al-Faqih—a Shi’ite theocracy in which the clergy govern the country in the name of the mythic Twelfth Imam.
Further east to Afghanistan, the state of affairs is significantly better. The Taliban, or Islamic Emirate, have been in control since liberating Afghanistan from American occupation about four years ago. Despite considerable ethnic heterogeneity, the vast majority, about nine-tenths, is Sunni. The Hazara community, a Turco-Mongol ethnic group that settled in central Afghanistan centuries ago, are predominantly Twelver Shi’ah. Historically, they have posed a security threat to Afghanistan, but they were pacified during the reign of the great Emir Abdul Rahman Khan, and by the original Taliban in the 1990s. The restoration of Taliban governance ensures that the Hazara Shi’ites remain under necessary surveillance. Yet this community should not be underestimated. During Syria’s devastating civil war, tens of thousands of Hazara fighters, organized as the Liwa Fatemiyoun, had their entry facilitated into Syria by the Iranians, and were used as cannon fodder to cause much bloodshed against the Sunni Muslims.
Moving north into Central Asia, the former Soviet Republics, while the population is predominantly Sunni, many are only nominally so. Since the early eighteenth century, the Russians had been conquering and colonizing Muslim Central Asia. Thus, centuries of Russian colonial rule, and then brutal Soviet repression, coerced the Turkic Muslim peoples of Central Asia to secularize and become detached from their Faith. When the USSR collapsed, the Central Asian Republics attained independence but their rulers were former Soviet agents, part of a Russified elite class who maintained the repressive atheistic policies. In summary, the state of affairs for Islam in the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia is quite dismal at the moment. While there is not a problem of sectarian heresy there per se, there is an equally if not more dangerous presence of secularists and atheists whom the sincere Sunni Muslims have to contend with.
The dynamics in Pakistan are radically different. Firstly, it has a massively large population of about 250 million people. The vast majority of Pakistanis are Sunni Muslims, but there is a significant minority of Twelver Shi’ah, and other heretical sects like Isma’ilis, Ahmadis/Qadianis, Zikris, Nurbakhshis, and a rapidly growing number of Hadith-rejecters. Though most parts of Pakistan Sunni Muslims are in the majority, there is one area where non-Sunnis predominate, namely, Gilgit-Baltistan. This administrative area has a crucial location, bordering China and Indian occupied Kashmir, and a small population of about two million. Sunni Muslims are less than one-third of the population, while two-fifths are Twelver Shi’ah, a quarter are Isma’ili, and about six percent belong to the obscure Nurbakhshi denomination. The sectarian demography of Gilgit-Baltistan is concerning in light of active efforts by the Indian intelligence agencies to destabilize the region. Non-Sunni sects and heretical groups are easily manipulated by the external enemies of Islam and foreign powers to cause a headache to the State and central government. The manner in which the Zionists have made the Druze their pawns in southern Syria could potentially be replicated by Hindu India vis-à-vis the Shi’ite sects in Gilgit-Baltistan. Already their are stirrings of separatism in Gilgit-Baltistan and growing anti-State sentiments among the non-Sunnis there. It would be wise for the Pakistani State to revive the policy of the pious Zia-ul-Haq رحمة الله عليه who facilitated the settlement of Sunni Muslims into the Northern Areas from mainland Pakistan, in order to dilute the native Shi’ites there. As for the Ahmadis/Qadianis, a sect that believes in the false prophet Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, since they were officially declared a non-Muslim minority in 1974, the internal threat they posed to Pakistan has been drastically reduced. Due to the passionate efforts of the Sunni Ulama, the Pakistani masses socially boycott the Qadianis and keep them in check. This has motivated the Qadianis to covertly back social and political trends in Pakistan that seek to secularize the state and society. The Qadianis remain behind the scenes while employing useful idiots on their behalf to do the dirty work of campaigning for secularity and actual secularism. Large numbers of Qadianis have fled Pakistan and sought asylum abroad, especially in Europe, where they lobby European and American governments to go against Pakistan’s interests. Perhaps the most dangerous flashpoint in Pakistan is the backwater province of Baluchistan, where there is an ongoing separatist insurgency which is increasingly using methods of terrorism targeting civilian settlers from other provinces like Punjab. The Baluch separatists are rabid in their hatred for the Pakistani State. They tend to have a Marxist and secular outlook, despite some of them nominally professing Sunni Islam. These Baluch separatists are openly supportive of Hindu India and Zionism. They also have a soft corner for the heretical Zikris, since the latter are “fellow” Baluch ethnics, and follow a religious understanding that is indigenous to the area. This sect should therefore be strictly monitored, and like Gilgit-Baltistan, there should be a policy of aggressive Sunnification, through both proselytism and settlement of conservative and loyalist Sunni Muslims from other provinces.
Since Hasina’s Awami League government collapsed in Bangladesh in early August, 2024, the forces of secularism and atheism in that country have been on the defense. Thankfully, Bangladesh is an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim country, though about eight percent of Bangladeshis are Hindu. The Hindu presence is concerning since they would naturally be more loyal to India and also fiercely opposed to the project of political and cultural Islamization of Bangladesh. Nevertheless, the lack of any significant presence of heretical sects means Bangladesh’s transition to becoming more Islamic is potentially smoother.
Like Bangladesh, the Muslim countries of Indonesia and Malaysia are probably lacking any significant internal armed conflict because the populations are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim with no significant presence of heretical sects, particularly Shi’ites. There are some New Age cults that are expanding their presence in Indonesia, and the schools of Ulama there are generally liberal. The conservative and traditionalist Sunni Muslims should look to Afghanistan and Pakistan for strategies to wage the all important culture war against the diabolical forces of liberalism, pluralism and feminism.
Brother, why are you so full of hatred and bitterness towards other sects? Do you seriously believe that the biggest threat to the Muslim Ummah are these sects and not the weak leaders of states such as UAE, Behrain, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco that have already accepted the Zionist state while Iran still stands defiantly against that same Zionist state?
ReplyDeleteSecondly, I find it funny, the way that you call all Shias Rafidhi. Because, by that logic, all Sunnis should be Nasibis. Do you see how stupid that is? And for your information, NO. NOT ALL SHIA ARE RAFIDHI. AND NO. The overwhelming majority of the Shia do NOT believe that the Quran was corrupted. In fact, the ones who say such blasphemous things are called out as KUFFAR BY THE SHIA ULAMA THEMSELVES.
Thirdly, if you treat everyone equally and give every ethnic group the same fundamental human rights and justice, then you will not have to worry about stuff like the Hindu population going against you in Bangladesh or the Shias in Gilgit Baltistan betraying their country, Pakistan. Giving basic rights to a group does not mean that you have to agree with their ideology. It is just basic respect for human life.
Also, closely monitoring and keeping an eye on a specific group of people who are your fellow citizens and countrymen just because of their religion or sect within a religion, will simply decimate any trust that they might have towards the state because that very same state, which should be protecting their rights is treating them like foreign spies or agents.
Fourthly, let me just say that forcibly changing the demographic of an area for your political and sectarian agenda is a disgusting and vile idea, even if you call it "Sunnification." It is no different from ethnic cleansing and racial genocide.
Furthermore, how dare you call that tyrant dictator "pious"? His Islamisation seems more like political expediency than a well-thought-out system. His personal beliefs did not stop him from taking part in the Black September killings of Palestinians in Jordan where he was posted as a brigadier from 1967 to 1970. When he wanted Bhutto framed for murder he asked Mian Tufail Mohammad, then head of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), to provide him with four people willing to testify that Bhutto paid them to kill a dissident politician. He promised Tufail, by one account swearing on the Quran, that these witnesses would be pardoned after Bhutto was hanged. They were hanged immediately after Zia had gotten rid of Bhutto. That is when JI distanced itself from him.
I agree with you that the Qadianis are still a bit hostile towards the Governments in Pakistan and that the Nousehris and the Qadiyanisare both not even Muslims. However, honestly speaking, after reading your article, I just got the feeling that you are an extremely toxic, sectarian Sunni, who just wants people of other sects to die off somewhere so that only the Sunni branch of Islam remains. I wonder what you think about the sects within the Sunni branch, you know, the Berailvis, the Deobandis, the Ahl e Hadith, etc.
I hope, for your sake, that you open your mind and read the books of Hadith like Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim yourself so that you can see that how much the sectarian so-called Ulama have misguided us all.
I would like to respond to you point by point:
Delete1. You said, “Brother, why are you so full of hatred and bitterness towards other sects? Do you seriously believe that the biggest threat to the Muslim Ummah are these sects and not the weak leaders of states such as UAE, Behrain, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco that have already accepted the Zionist state while Iran still stands defiantly against that same Zionist state?”
My view on the danger of heretical sects is not based on any feeling of bitterness but is a result of a cool and calculated analysis, especially of the history of some of these sects, a history of persecution of the Sunnis, violent bloodshed, and collaboration with the external enemies of the Muslims. Yes, I also acknowledge the harm that the Ummah has sustained as a consequence of certain governments and states like the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and others. I have written extensively on that topic on some other articles on this blog which you might want to read. It is not the topic of this particular article though. While it is true that Iran, in the apparent at least, has done some things to annoy the Zionists and therefore recently incur their wrath, the crimes against Sunni Muslims Iran has abetted in Iraq and Syria, and to a lesser extent in Lebanon and Yemen, can’t be washed away by its anti-Zionist stance and activity.
2. You said, “Secondly, I find it funny, the way that you call all Shias Rafidhi. Because, by that logic, all Sunnis should be Nasibis. Do you see how stupid that is? And for your information, NO. NOT ALL SHIA ARE RAFIDHI. AND NO. The overwhelming majority of the Shia do NOT believe that the Quran was corrupted. In fact, the ones who say such blasphemous things are called out as KUFFAR BY THE SHIA ULAMA THEMSELVES.”
By definition a Nasibi is someone who bears enmity to the Prophet’s Household, the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them. Therefore, if someone is a Nasibi he is no longer a Sunni by definition, because the creed and method of Sunni Islam is to love and respect the Ahl al-Bayt, especially the Prophet’s wives (mothers of the Believers) and the people of Kisa (Panjtan Pak). Therefore, you will never find a single Sunni who is a Nasibi. Ironically, it is the Shi’ah who are Nawasib since they curse many of the Prophet’s wives, especially sayyidatuna A’ishah and sayyidatuna Hafsah radi Allahu anhuma. I agree that not all Shi’ah are Rawafid, but those that aren’t are an insignificant minority. The vast majority of Shi’ites, both their clergy and their laity, are guilty of Rifd, although to different extents. The very fact that Fatimah, Ali, Hasan and Husain are extremely common names among Sunnis, but that virtually no Shi’ite is named Umar, Uthman, Talhah, Zubayr, Khalid, A’ishah or Hafsah proves that the Shi’ites are Rafidis and have a narrow, sectarian mindset.
Now you claim that the Shi’ah Ulama have themselves made takfir of anyone who believes the Quran is corrupted. Please give me the name of a single such Shi’ite scholar who issued a fatwa that believing the Quran is corrupted is kufr and that anyone who held this belief is a kafir. You will be hard pressed to find a single such Shi’ite scholar, since the senior jurists and scholars of your sect actually held this belief of Tahrif al-Quran.
3. You said, “Thirdly, if you treat everyone equally and give every ethnic group the same fundamental human rights and justice, then you will not have to worry about stuff like the Hindu population going against you in Bangladesh or the Shias in Gilgit Baltistan betraying their country, Pakistan. Giving basic rights to a group does not mean that you have to agree with their ideology. It is just basic respect for human life. Also, closely monitoring and keeping an eye on a specific group of people who are your fellow citizens and countrymen just because of their religion or sect within a religion, will simply decimate any trust that they might have towards the state because that very same state, which should be protecting their rights is treating them like foreign spies or agents.”
DeleteAs far as basic human rights for minorities are concerned, all Sunni Muslim countries have ensured them, both theoretically and practically. However, from an Islamic perspective, non-Muslim minorities do not have the right to proselytize their religions. I say that certain minority groups, which have a history or a considerable likelihood of collaborating with an external enemy, should certainly be strictly monitored and that is a very reasonable thing. As for heretical sects that fall under the Zindiq category, they actually do not have the right to live in an Islamic state, but are to be dealt with as apostates. Shi’ite literature itself confirms that Amir ul-Mu’minin Ali al-Murtada, radi Allahu anhu, imprisoned the heretic Ibn Saba for three days, but when the latter failed to recant Amir ul-Mu’minin had him burnt alive.
4. You said, “Fourthly, let me just say that forcibly changing the demographic of an area for your political and sectarian agenda is a disgusting and vile idea, even if you call it ‘Sunnification.’ It is no different from ethnic cleansing and racial genocide.”
That which you call disgusting and vile was carried out by the sectarian Shi’ite government and sectarian Shi’ite militias against the Sunni Muslim minority in Iraq beginning in 2006. And likewise, that is what the Alawite-Baathist regime of Assad did in Syria against the Sunnis with material assistance from Iran and its Shi’ite proxies like Hezbollah.
From a religious Sunni Islamic perspective, I do not consider such “ethnic cleansing” inherently unethical. The Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, ordered the expulsion of non-Muslims, including Jews and Christians, from all of Arabia. According to the Bible, God ordered the ethnic cleansing of pagan Canaanite tribes and nations from the Holy Land. So it may be “disgusting and vile” from a secular perspective, but not necessarily from an Islamic one.
5. You said, “Furthermore, how dare you call that tyrant dictator ‘pious’? His Islamisation seems more like political expediency than a well-thought-out system. His personal beliefs did not stop him from taking part in the Black September killings of Palestinians in Jordan where he was posted as a brigadier from 1967 to 1970.”
DeleteYou mentioned Black September, but why is it called that? Because it was the month in which the PLO terrorists attempted to assassinate the Muslim King of Jordan. The PLO, consisting of both secularist Fatah and the Marxist PFLP, was attempting to overthrow the Jordanian government. Zia ul-Haq, may Allah have mercy on his soul, performed his religious and moral duty in defending the Jordanian government from such terrorism and rebellion. Rather than condemn him, I honor him for his actions in Jordan.
6. You said, “When he wanted Bhutto framed for murder he asked Mian Tufail Mohammad, then head of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), to provide him with four people willing to testify that Bhutto paid them to kill a dissident politician. He promised Tufail, by one account swearing on the Quran, that these witnesses would be pardoned after Bhutto was hanged. They were hanged immediately after Zia had gotten rid of Bhutto. That is when JI distanced itself from him.”
Please present any evidence for such a serious allegation against President Zia ul-Haq.
7. You said, “I wonder what you think about the sects within the Sunni branch, you know, the Berailvis, the Deobandis, the Ahl e Hadith, etc.”
There are no “sects” within Sunni Islam, only variant schools of jurisprudence and thought whose differences are subsidiary and not fundamental. Barelvi and Deobandi are merely different schools of Ulama within Sunni Islam whose differences are minor. As for the Ahle Hadith, the extremist Wahhabis among them who make Takfir and declare majority of the Ummah “mushrik” should not be considered Sunni.