Combating takfiri terrorism, key entry for any dialogue

There is a need to fight the takfiri mentality and unify efforts to face attempts to distort Islam. The western powers are trying to undermine Islam through supporting a takfiri mentality that brought the Wahabi mentality. The false interpretations of religious concepts cause their destructive role in igniting religious sedition among the spectrums of the society.

The political differences should not be a platform for religious disputes as any sedition will be in the interest of the Muslims’ enemies. The Muslim world should shrug off the West’s media propaganda on Syria and stand by the Arab nation in confrontation of the American Zionist projects being hatched against the Arab and Islamic nations.

The West’s hostility towards Syria is clear because Syria is being punished for supporting the resistance. This war against Syria is to punish it for its long embracement of the resistance and support for the Palestinian people to restore their legitimate rights usurped by Israel.

The Islamic world should work hand in hand through the Islamic unity conference to spread the culture of amity and fraternity in the human communities and confront the thought that promotes for killing and takfiri thinking supported by the petro-dollar states, especially Saudi Arabia which has been allying with Israel to carry out the Zionist project in the region. The princes of Al Saud have been offering funds and weapons to the al-Qa’eda linked terrorist organizations that are carrying out acts of killing, destruction and vandalism against Syrian people and their public and private properties. The Foreign Minister of Al-Saud considered supporting the armed terrorist groups as a religious duty while neither Saud al-Faisal nor any member of the Saudi ruling family considered fighting Israel as a religious duty during the past 66 years.

Syria is stronger and more immune than the enemies and takfiri terrorists. The conspirators who substituted their identities and sold them to the outside have no home, no identity or dignity.

All forms of systematic terrorism, practiced by the takfiri terrorist groups and funded by a number of states, try to affect Syria’s stability and unity, but Syrian people will eventually overcome the conspiracy and defeat the enemies of Syria. Syria has been facing a war over almost three years in which the Syrian people have stood up in the face of terrorists coming from 83 countries and will achieve victory thanks to the high awareness of the Syrian people and their strong national unity.

The current stage the Islamic nation is going through is the most serious that needs solutions to the nation’s problems of disunity and terrorism. So the Arab and Islamic nations should unify in confronting the takfiri thought, because it seeks to destabilize the whole Arab and Islamic world. The enemies of Islam are seeking to sow sedition and discord and deepen them among the people of the Islamic nation. For this reason, the Muslims should unify their ranks to confront the takfiris and foil their attempts to stain the tolerant image of Islam. If any country would think that by supporting the terrorists it could increase its influence and topple a government in the region it is one hundred percent mistaken, because those who draw the sword of terrorism will not be able to ward it off against them. The Gulf Sheikhdoms that are offering unlimited financial and military support to the takfiri terrorists operating in Syria will not be able to confront these terrorists when they return to their indigenous homeland in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The same thing goes for some European states which exported terrorists to Syria. Many European officials have expressed concern over the return of terrorists to France, Germany and other states that exported terrorists to Syria.

The religious institutions in Syria, especially the grand Mufti of the Republic Dr. Ahmed Bader Eddin Hassoun have been warning against the devastating effect of the takfiri thought which aims, among other things, to destroy the time-old peaceful co-existence Syria has been enjoying since time immemorial.

The takfiri terrorists in Syria have vandalized churches in Ma’loula on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. The terrorists removed the bells of all the churches, burned the crosses, and stole a bronze statue of Christ. The ancient Christian town of Ma’loula has been a scene of fierce fighting for months and many of its citizens have escaped to safer parts of the country including Damascus.

Last December 2012, the foreign-backed militants abducted several nuns from the Mar Takla Orthodox Convent in Ma’loula.

Combating takfiri terrorism is the key entry for any dialogue and a main condition to move to the political track to solve the crisis in Syria. The Syrian people’s top concern is to stop the bloodshed, expel the takfiri terrorists and protect the state institutions against the sabotage acts carried out by these armed terrorist groups.

Combating terrorism on the Syrian ground is the responsibility of the Syrian state and the Syrian army.  The Syrian army continues conducting successful clean-up operations in several areas across Syria, inflicting heavy losses on foreign-backed takfiri terrorists. Syria is facing terrorism on behalf of the region and the entire world. All the world countries should comply with the international resolutions on counterterrorism, particularly resolution no. 1373, and prevent the passing, training and harbouring of terrorists and the storing and transporting of weapons.

There is a need to strictly confront the takfiri and Wahabi movements, and a need for establishing an international coalition to strike takfiri terrorism as well as an Islamic alliance to confront the Wahhabism as the problem in the relation among the religions is the takfiri Wahhabism whose sole aim is to destroy Islam and perpetuate the Israeli occupation of the Arab territories.

K.Q.