Militant Islamist fighters wave flags as they take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province (Pejuang militan Islam menggibar bendera kerana mereka mengambil bahagian dalam perarakan tentera di sepanjang jalan-jalan di wilayah Raqqa utara Syria) © Stringer/Reuters
hafizinAlif - Berpuluh-puluh ulama Arab Saudi tidak rasmi bergabung dengan Riyadh telah menyeru umat Islam untuk menyokong perjuangan "jihat suci" terhadap kerajaan Syria dan sekutu Iran dan Rusia itu. Ulama sedang marah dengan pengeboman Rusia Negara Islam (IS).
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55 ulama Arab 'pembangkang' dan ahli akademik, termasuk beberapa gerakan Islam yang terkenal, telah menandatangani satu kenyataan bersama talian menggesa "Islam sebenar" untuk "memberi semua moral, material, politik dan ketenteraan" sokongan kepada perjuangan menentang tentera Presiden Syria Bashar Assad dan juga tentera Iran dan Rusia.
Kenyataan itu susulan bermulanya setiap hari serangan udara Rusia di Syria menyasarkan pengganas Negara Islam (IS, yang sebelum ini ISIS/ISIL). Bertentangan kepada orang ramai terhadap kempen ISIS Riyadh, panggilan ulama 'nampaknya menggambarkan pengganas 2 sebagai "pembela" iman.
"Pahlawan-pahlawan suci Syria mempertahankan negara Islam (IS) keseluruhan. Mempercayai mereka dan menyokong mereka . . . kerana jika mereka dikalahkan, Allah melarang, ia akan menjadi pergantian satu negara Sunni demi satu, "panggilan itu berbunyi, seperti yang dipetik oleh Reuters.
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Kumpulan itu jenama penglibatan Rusia sebagai "perang salib ortodoks" dan menyeru pejuang anti-Assad untuk "menyatukan hadapan mereka" dan tinggal di Syria. Ia juga menggunakan istilah mazhab Iran dan mazhab Syiah Alawi yang Assad dimiliki.
"Pakatan Barat Rusia dengan Safavids [Iran] dan Nusairis [Alawites] membuat perang sebenar terhadap rakyat Sunni dan negara-negara mereka," kata teks.
Kenyataan mazhab bercanggah dengan retorik kerajaan Arab Saudi dan undang-undang negara. Secara rasmi, Riyadh melakukan segala yang boleh untuk menghalang rakyat daripada peribadi membiayai militan di luar negara dan meninggalkan negara ini untuk menyertai pertempuran di Syria.
Tahan lama konflik berdarah di Syria, yang beberapa pandangan dalam konteks Islam Sunni Arab Saudi dan Iran Syiah berjuang untuk dominasi di rantau ini, telah mencetuskan sentimen mazhab.
Pada bulan Mac 2014, jemputan untuk menyertai konflik diharamkan di Arab Saudi oleh perintah yang meletakkan kumpulan pengganas seperti Negara Islam (IS) dan Al-Qaeda al-Nusra dalam senarai dilarang. Sesiapa sahaja melanggar undang-undang yang menghadapi hukuman penjara yang lama.
Rusia mula beroperasi anti-IS di Syria minggu lalu berikutan permintaan daripada Presiden Bashar Assad. Serangan ini bertujuan memberikan sokongan udara kepada tentera kerajaan Syria, yang telah gagal membendung penyebaran militan jihad di negara yang dilanda perang. Lebih 3,000 militan, termasuk pengganas IS, dilaporkan meninggalkan Syria berikutan bermulanya kempen Rusia.
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Saudi clerics call for jihad against Russia
in Syria - to back ISIS? . . .
in Syria - to back ISIS? . . .
Dozens of Saudi Arabian clerics not officially affiliated with Riyadh have urged Muslims to support the fight of “holy warriors” against Syria’s government and its Iranian and Russian allies. The clerics are outraged by Russia’s bombing of Islamic State.
Fifty-five Saudi Arabian ‘opposition’ clerics and academicians, including some prominent Islamists, have signed a joint online statement urging “true Muslims” to “give all moral, material, political and military” support to the fight against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s army as well as Iranian and Russian forces.
The statement follows the commencement of daily Russian air raids in Syria targeting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists. Contrary to Riyadh’s public anti-ISIS stance, the clerics’ call appears to be portraying the militants as “defenders” of faith.
“The holy warriors of Syria are defending the whole Islamic nation. Trust them and support them ... because if they are defeated, God forbid, it will be the turn of one Sunni country after another,” the call reads, as cited by Reuters.
The group brands the Russian involvement as “an orthodox crusade” and calls on anti-Assad fighters to “unify their front” and stay in Syria. It also uses sectarian terms for Iran and the Shi’ite Alawite sect to which Assad belongs.
“The Western-Russian coalition with the Safavids [Iran] and the Nusairis [Alawites] are making a real war against the Sunni people and their countries,” the text says.
The sectarian statement runs contrary to the Saudi government’s rhetoric and the country’s law. Officially, Riyadh is doing all it can to prevent citizens from privately funding militants abroad and leaving the country to join the fighting in Syria.
The long-lasting bloody conflict in Syria, which some view in the context of Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shi’ite Iran struggling for dominance in the region, has fueled sectarian sentiments.
In March of 2014, invitations to join conflicts were outlawed in Saudi Arabia by a decree that put terrorist groups such as Islamic State and the Al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front on the forbidden list. Anyone breaching the law faces a long prison term.
Russia started its anti-IS operation in Syria last week following a request from President Bashar Assad. The strikes are aimed at providing air support to Syrian government troops, which have been failing to contain the spread of jihadist militants in the war-torn country. More than 3,000 militants, including IS terrorists, reportedly fled Syria following the commencement of the Russian campaign.
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