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The ISIL terrorist group is preparing for large-scale terrorist operations and massacre of the Shiite Muslims in Pakistan through Pakistan’s Sipah-e-Sahaba and its military wing Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.

Sipah-e-Sahaba and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and other terrorist groups supporting the ISIL which have direct links with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda play the main role in the spread of terrorist operations in Pakistan and massacre of the Shiites in the Muslim country.

The Shiite Muslims played a very important role in the independence of Pakistan from India and due to their high political status they became target to the ISIL and Saudi plots in a bid to weaken them.

The ISIL which operates in Syria could not penetrate into Pakistan, but supporters of the group were looking for reinforcing their positions in Pakistan’s big cities.

Pakistan has arrested 35 ISIL supporters so far; a Pakistani provincial commander in Sindh province announced that the ISIL supports the massacre of Shiites in Pakistan and 25 militants who launched a terrorist attack on a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims in the city of Karachi had been influenced by the ISIL to commit the crime.

Some Pakistani media reported that the ISIL has distributed leaflets among people in Karachi explaining the objectives of its terrorist attacks. The ISIL has opened an office in the outskirts of Karachi. 

ISIL has conducted several terrorist operations in Pakistan so far as follows:

1-On March 18, the pro-ISIL militants attacked a school in Nazimabad district of Karachi city

2-On March 20, Buhari sect mosque was attacked by ISIL supporters during Friday prayers which left two people killed and four others wounded

3-On April 24, a Pakistani human rights activist named Sebin Mahmoud was assassinated by pro-ISIL militants

The supporters of the ISIL have also attacked the naval and army bases as well as police stations.

On October 13, Police Chief of Pakistan’s Sindh Ghulam Haider Jamali disclosed close cooperation between the ISIL and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorists groups in massacring Shiite Muslims in Pakistan.

“The ISIL terrorist group is closely linked to the Wahhabi group of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and it has helped other terrorist groups to carry out terrorist attacks in Sindh province,” the Urdu-language version of Dawn newspaper quoted Jamali as saying.

He pointed to the capture of the terrorists who recently attacked a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims in the city of Karachi, and said, “The arrested culprits have confessed to conducting 37 terrorist attacks in Pakistan.”

International organizations and rights groups have urged the Pakistani government to take decisive actions against the forces involved in the targeted killings and massacre of Shiite Muslims.

Sipah-e Sahaba’s goal is to primarily deter major Shiite Muslim influence in Pakistan.

The organization was banned by President Pervez Musharraf in 2002 as a terrorist organization under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997. In March 2012, the government of Pakistan banned Sipah-e-Sahaba again.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan removed this ban in November 2014.

The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi or “Army of Jhangvi” is an offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba and a militant organization based in Pakistan with limited operations in Afghanistan.

The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi was founded by former SSP activists Riaz Basra, Malik Ishaq, Akram Lahori, and Ghulam Rasool Shah.

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has been behind some of the most violent attacks on Shiite Muslims in recent years.

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi was banned in Pakistan in 2001. It is accused of killing hundreds of Shiite Muslims in Pakistan.

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ISIL terrorist group on Saturday released 37 Syriac Christians, most of them women, who were among more than 200 people kidnapped more than eight months ago, an NGO said.

The Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights said the group of freed Syriac Christians included 27 women and 10 men, most of them elderly.

They arrived on Saturday morning in the town of Tal Tamr in the Khabur region of Hasakeh province in northeastern Syria, the group said.

The releases were confirmed by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor, which said most of those freed were from other towns elsewhere in the Khabur region.

The former hostages were among a group of 220 Assyrians captured by ISIL when they overran parts of the Khabur region in February.

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Akbar Muhammad, International representative for the Nation of Islam (NOI), the oldest Black Nationalist organization in the US, underlined that there is a strong connection between black people and teachings of Islam, saying Islam is “buried in the DNA” of African-Americans.

“The reason that Islam is so attractive to the black people in America is because Islam is buried in their DNA,” Muhammad said in Tehran.

He said the US government is using criminal activity as a tool to entertain the blacks so that they would not be able to pursue their divine cause which is freedom from slavery.

“In my belief and beyond that I see the power of Islam in the lives of young black people in America to change them. The behavior of black people that you see in many of the films in this part of the world shows black people being involved in criminal activity, drugs, robberies and jails and this is learned behavior from those who enslaved us. And the redemptive power of Islam to turn them around and point them to God and it gives them strength to overcome what the American society has done to them. And this is what we worked for and we represent the living example of that,” he said.

Elsewhere in the interview, he touched upon the main objectives of “The Nation of Islam” movement and said, “In America we have nearly 45 million descendants of Africa who (were) brought to America in the holes of slave ships. 85 years ago a movement started in America called the Nation of Islam in 1930. The main goal of that movement was to first teach black people Islam, then try to solve some of the human rights issues in America that we suffered from. So that is what the movement is basically about.”

“Our teachers who led the organization from 1934 until 1975 always taught us that many of those who were brought in slavery, as a matter of fact most of them, because they came from West Africa, were Muslims. But Islam was taken away from them. So the connection is just that slave masters, the white Americans who enslaved our people, took Islam from us and we did not do anything about it as we grew up. They did not allow fathers to teach their children.”

Akbar Muhammad is an associate professor of history and Africana studies at Binghamton University in New York. He specializes in African history, as well as the study of Islam in Africa and the Americas. He is the co-editor of Racism, Sexism, and the World-System, along with Joan Smith, Jane Collins, and Terrence K. Hopkins. His own writings have been focused on slavery in Muslim Africa, Muslims in the United States, and integration in Nigeria through the use of education. He holds a notable role in the history of the Nation of Islam.

Muhammad is the youngest child of Elijah Muhammad and Clara Muhammad and he is also the brother of Imam Warith Deen Mohammed. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Edinburgh University in Scotland. He also studied the theory of Arabic and Islamic law at al-Azhar University in Cairo.

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