{"id":171779,"date":"2016-12-21T00:04:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T18:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=171779"},"modified":"2016-12-26T12:13:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T06:43:37","slug":"isis-myiasis-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/isis-myiasis-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS Myiasis \u2013 Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Nishthar Idroos<\/a><\/span> –<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Nishthar<\/a>

Nishthar Idroos<\/p><\/div>\n

Time is palpably moving fast. President Obama\u2019s first inauguration was like yesterday. Eight years have elapsed since. \u201cThe Apprentice\u201d will officially take over the mantle of the Oval Office come January 2017. The 45th President of the United States of America.<\/p>\n

The world is changing and changing fast. Technology, education, health, dress – there is hardly anything in life that is not changing, some changes we like while others create fear and anxiety. The trailblazing socio-economic and political changes taking place globally, regionally and locally no different. It seems change itself is undergoing a profound change.<\/p>\n

Regardless apparitions of the past will continue to haunt the world, one such recalcitrant ghost is ISIS. It seems expert script writers are meeting President-elect Donald J Trump at his private golf course one after the other. Let\u2019s wish each one of them all the very best.<\/p>\n

The soccer ball with the four English letters ISIS<\/span><\/a> designed in bold letters will be soon passed on to Donald J Trump, let\u2019s wait and see how he\u2019ll navigate it. The way he manages will reveal the temper, tone and rhetoric with which other leaders and officials will subscribe and subsume to the official narrative of the day. Included in this distinguished panel of officials is none other than our own Minister of Justice the right honorable Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

We come back to the statement made by him in parliament purporting an intelligence report released one and half years ago allegedly stating that four Sri Lankans had joined ISIS. To date no prima-facie evidence had been produced to corroborate this.<\/p>\n

ISIS among other things is a game, a ploy to rule the world and plunder resources of Muslim countries.<\/p>\n

Not totally discounting or exonerating radical Muslims and their involvement but admittedly the picture reveals a different story. We shouldn\u2019t get too excited about the official position. It\u2019s also alleged by western experts that ISIS is an ingenious strategy of the western intelligence to flush out na\u00efve Muslim youth romancing a nostalgic epoch that immortalized martyrdom.<\/p>\n

Regardless whether it\u2019s a western conspiracy or not, the true and trusted scholars of Islam had done their part in exemplary fashion warning Muslim youth against all forms of extremism. Their sincere intention is to educate Muslims to the best of their ability and empower them with the right knowledge so that they are able to countenance the challenges adequately.<\/p>\n

Shaykh Abd Al-Muhsin Al-Abbaad is a major scholar from the city of Al-Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He issued a statement regarding the alleged khilaafah announced by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Following is a summary of the essential points:<\/p>\n

I think every Muslim youth wherever they may be must read the summarized points vis a vis ISIS put forward by the distinguished scholar.<\/p>\n