[Urbanstudy] Sufism and Atheism, Paris and Beirut, Tipu Sultan Secularist and Religious Despot

[Kabir Khan]

Sufism and Atheism, Paris and Beirut, Tipu Sultan Secularist and
Religious Despot
<https://maleccha.wordpress.com/2015/11/14/sufism-and-atheism-paris-and-beirut-tipu-sultan-secularist-and-religious-despot/>

Modi patronizing Sufism in Wembley Stadium, Tipu Sultan Jayanti
celebration, protests against the state sponsored celebrations and
terrorist attack in France- Are they all link? Certainly they are. There
are many co-relations. All three acts force us to think in the binary world
of a software engineer- 0 and 1, there is good, there is evil. Terrorists
are evils, armies are good. Sufism is better, Wahabism is criminal. Tipu
Sultan was a secularists and internationalist, Tipu Sultan was a tyrant-
mass murderer. Our world view is rather very simple- Great or Worst.

Starting with Sufism:  Let us not romanticize Sufism in first place as Modi
has asked us to do. Not all Sufis were and are lovey – dovey and peace
loving, from Al Ghazali to Sheikh Sirhindi there are shades of Sufism which
prefer extremism. Blasphemy novel by a Pakistani novelist Tehmina Durrani
is one living example of violence perpetuated by many Sufi *pir*
Masters*.* According
to Durrani, novel is based on true accounts. It’s very easy to say Islam
needs one way and one belief- Sufism strives for peace, Wahabism preaches
mass bloodshed. Lets promote Sufism. There is a novel by Nadeem Aslam
-Season of Rain Birds, where a Maulana with a tilt towards Wahabi- Deobandi
Islam was more compassionate and affable towards a Christian girl and
Ahmeddiya teacher than the Barelvi Maulana. Barelvis are closer to Sufi
Islam. Killer of Salman Taseer was a Barelvi.

There are versions of Islam and Sufism as there are shades of Buddhism and
Christianity. Jalalluddin Rumi and Al Ghazali were both Sufis. Not all
Sufis or Sufi schools have similar orientation. Some love, others have
superiority complex and many prefer violence, like the Christian monks in
the desert. Many monks served with compassion, others burned down the pagan
temples and synagogues. Many did both-with one hand helping the needy and
using other hand to murder pagans and Jews.

Many may say secularism and atheism are less violent. I would like to
remind those loud atheists and secularists, please do read the history of
France and Soviet Russia. The amount of murders committed by Atheist Russia
and Secularist France in past centuries are at par with the violence
perpetuated on the name of religion. Number of Priests, Monks and Nuns
chopped and burned alive by secularists and atheists in France and Russia,
later in Communist Cuba can a put a lot of Islamists and Hindutva
terrorists to shame. The early Zionists who wanted to create Israel were no
one else but the atheists with Jewish ancestry.

Coming to Tipu Sultan- Was he a secularist, internationalist or a tyrant
despot? In my answer can I not state both? Janaki Nair says it all-
<http://www.dailyo.in/politics/tipu-sultan-jayanti-secularism-girish-karnad-tiger-of-mysore-indian-history-democracy/story/1/7339.html>
“In
fact, history has become the court room itself, for judging the past rather
than understanding it. Professional historians have long laboured to peg
out an understanding of the past, based on careful examination of evidence,
buttressed by an ability to corroborate, and imaginatively produce a
persuasive narrative. But today’s history wars are based on a sense of the
past, sometimes but not always relying on evidence as much as on perceived
insults and injustices, which must be settled in the court house of
history. Like well entrenched legal adversaries, winning the battle is more
important than the tactics that are used.” Continued here...
<https://maleccha.wordpress.com/2015/11/14/sufism-and-atheism-paris-and-beirut-tipu-sultan-secularist-and-religious-despot/>
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