By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: Jamaat e Islami Hindi (JIH) has expressed its “serious concern” that the Muslim world is passing through a “very dangerous period of turmoil”. In a press conference held on Saturday at it’s headquarter in the capital, JIH leaders noted that the Muslim countries are becoming victims of internal strife, external intervention and instability which is seriously affecting the lives of their populations.
The death toll in Syria is touching 2 lakh figures while about one third of Syria’s population is suffering from internal and external displacement, JIH noted. While they condemned the ‘external interventions’ by Western forces from Egypt to Libya, and an attempt at trifurcating Iraq, they also expressed their concerns at the rise of extremist forces like Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
JIH office (Courtesy: wikimedia)
“The emergence of ISIS or Daish, appears to be a result of internal strife and external conspiracies. ISIS has captured a big portion of Iraq and Syria and has been indulging in large scale atrocities, which has given a bad name to Islam and the very concept of Islamic state or pan-Islamic Khilafat,” a statement by JIH read.
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind shares the widespread concern and anxiety of the Muslims all over the world on this dangerous state of affairs.
Jamaat thinks that one of the basic reasons of this situation is lack of ‘Shooraiyat’ and democratic spirit in the Muslims countries plus impositions of dictators upon the Muslim countries by Western countries.
“The western powers never allowed the genuine representative of people in Muslim countries to come to force and manage the affairs of the people. Now primarily it is the responsibility of the citizens of the Muslim countries to bring about the genuine change through peaceful and democratic means from within the countries,” the statement read, adding that that “the Quran and Sunnah of the Prophet (PBUH) would be the guiding principles in this struggle.”
While urging the Western powers to stop supporting dictators, JIH also appealed to the rulers of the Muslim world to realize the changing times, and should adjust themselves with the popular aspirations of its citizens.