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2020-05-31 International-UN-NGOs
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Turkey, Pakistan, Malaysia and Qatar form troubling new alliance
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[Jpost] This emergent alliance is a reflection of a shift in power in the Islamic world away from its traditional Arab center.
The name of runaway Indian Salafi Islamist preacher Zakir Naik
Indian Islamic preacher, founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation, which doesn't rely very heavily on the scientific method. He is also the founder of the oxymoronic Peace TV channel through which he reaches 200 million viewers. He has been called an authority on comparative religion and the most influential Salafi ideologue in India , though usually by himself. Before becoming a public speaker, he trained as a physician. His preaching is currently banned in India, Bangladesh, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Antarctica. He is currently holed up in Malaysia, where he's not banned...
is little known in the West. Naik, founder of the Mumbai-based Islamic Research Foundation, is currently being pursued by the Indian authorities on charges of money laundering and hate speech.
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Naik is a popular Islamist preacher in his native country. He has been referred to as "perhaps the most influential Salafi ideologue in India" and "the world’s leading Salafi evangelist." His views on subjects such as homosexuality, apostasy and the Jews are as might be expected (the first two deserve the death penalty
 , the third "control America").
The Indian authorities note evidence that two of the seven holy warriors who carried out a deadly attack at a café in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on July 1, 2016, claimed inspiration from his teachings.
That would be the attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery, popular with the international community in Dhaka. It was a project of the ISIS-linked but Pakistan-funded Neo-JMB, a.k.a. New JMB after the Bangladeshi jihadi group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen. Shaykh Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif is the nom de guerre of their big turban, who may be Sajit Debnath aka Muhammad Saifullah Ozaki, the Japanese-Bangladeshi jihadi and former associate professor of Ritsumeikan University. In himself, the runaway preacher is of only passing interest. Naik’s activities are worthy of further note, however, because the list of his supporters and their activities on his behalf cast light on an emergent nexus in the Islamic world deserving of greater attention. This crystallizing alliance looks set to be of considerable consequence in the period opening up, not least for Israel and some of its partners in the region and beyond.
Fleeing from the Indian authorities, Naik has been the lucky recipient of permanent resident status in Malaysia. There, his case has become something of a cause célèbre. The Malaysian Islamic Party, which has four ministers in the current government, is vociferously opposed to acceding to Indian calls for his extradition.
Reports in a number of Indian media outlets claim that the (unusual) granting of permanent residency to the runaway preacher came as a result of a request from the government of Pakistain. The reports further suggest that "Pakistain is also using its relations with... The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
to provide funding to Zakir Naik."
Naik, for his part, has offered fulsome praise for Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
 ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
. Speaking to an Islamist group, headed by Bilal Erdogan, in 2017, the Indian preacher referred to the Ottoman Turkish leader as "one of the few Moslem leaders who has the guts to support Islam openly," adding: "Oh Moslem world, wake up.... May Erdogan be the next leader of the Moslem world."
THE DISPUTE around Naik casts light on the currently burgeoning relations between three significant Moslem countries — Turkey, Pakistain and Malaysia. This emergent alliance is a reflection of a shift in power in the Islamic world away from its traditional Arab center.
Ankara, Islamabad and Kuala Lumpur, with Qatar as an additional partner, today constitute an emergent power nexus, built around a common orientation toward a conservative, Sunni political Islam. This nexus is united as much by common enmities as by common affections. Its enemies, are India, Israel and (at the rhetorical level) the Christian West.
Its rivals within the diplomacy of the Islamic world, meanwhile, are Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, which has traditionally dominated the Organization of the Islamic Conference
OIC is an international organisation with a permanent delegation to the UN, with 57 member states. It represents all countries with substantial Moslem populations (as opposed to the Arab League, which excludes members not of the Master Race) except those which member countries block from joining. These include India, which has more Mohammedans than does Pakistain, whose membership is vetoed by Pakistain...
, the main pan-Islamic diplomatic body, and the UAE.
The crystallization of this new alliance has been apparent for some time. In late September 2019, Erdogan, Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad and Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan , who is the lightweight's lightweight...
met at the sidelines of the 74th United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
General Assembly in New York. The three agreed at that meeting to establish an English-language TV channel to combat ’Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
’ in the West.
Mahathir then sought to convene a summit in Kuala Lumpur, in December 2019, to identify, according to a blurb announcing the summit, "what has gone wrong — with a view to eventually reclaiming the Moslem world’s fame and glory of yore." Briefing the media in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on the summit, Mahathir suggested that "maybe, it can be regarded as the first step towards rebuilding the great Moslem civilization."
The countries invited to the Kuala Lumpur summit were Turkey, Pakistain, Qatar and Indonesia. Mahathir described the invited countries as "a few people who have the same perception of Islam and the problems faced by Moslems."
Subsequent Saudi pressure on Pakistain prevented its attendance at the KL summit. The joint diplomatic activities of the countries invited, however, have continued apace. So far, these efforts have largely been directed at India, with the focus on the issue of the disputed territory of Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir . The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
Kashmir appears to be a matter of particular interest to the Ottoman Turkish president, in his effort to cast himself as a pan-Islamic leader, and in his desire to draw closer to Pakistain.
Turkey held an international conference on the subject on November 21, 2019. A Pak senator, Sherry Rehmen, participated in this gathering. During Erdogan’s visit to Pakistain in early 2020, the Ottoman Turkish president mentioned Kashmir six times during a 25-minute speech to a joint session of the Pak parliament.
Erdogan likened Kashmir to the Ottoman Turkish struggle for Gallipoli against the British and French in World War I. "It was Canakkale yesterday, and it is Kashmir today. There is no difference," he asserted, in remarks that led India to issue a formal démarche to the Ottoman Turkish ambassador in New Delhi, against interference in its internal affairs.
Malaysia also adopted a new and vociferously critical tone on the issue. Mahathir, shortly before his resignation in late 2019, said that India had "invaded and occupied" Kashmir and was "taking action to deprive some Moslems of their citizenship."
It is worth noting that by contrast to this diplomatic activism, Saudi Arabia and the UAE maintain that Kashmir remains an internal Indian matter.
This reflects the growing closeness between Riyadh and New Delhi, expressed also in the major investments in India announced by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists...
during his visit to India in 2019.
The emergent alliance between Turkey, Pakistain, Malaysia and Qatar makes both strategic and ideological sense from the point of view of its members.
It reflects the repositioning currently under way across Asia, in the wake of the receding post-Cold War US hegemony. These countries are united by a similar core outlook, and have some common emergent adversaries.
Turkey and Qatar, indeed, have been engaged in a de facto partnership over the last decade, based on common opposition to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. They are also united in support for Sunni political Islam across the region in its Moslem Brüderbund form, and not least in its Paleostinian iteration — the Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, movement. Pakistain and Malaysia are natural recruits for this emergent bloc. India appears currently to be its main diplomatic target.
This alliance also shares a deep enmity to the Jewish state. Its adversaries — India and the UAE — are Jerusalem’s emergent strategic partners. Zakir Naik, nestled in Malaysia, with Qatari bank accounts and the diplomatic muscle of Pakistain and Turkey guarding him, breathing fire and brimstone against apostates, homosexuals and Jews, is its appropriate symbol. 
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