“Islamism’s long-term endgame”, New Indian, March 26, 2024:
“A few days ago, Ruwa Shah granddaughter of the Jamaat-e-Islami ideologue, the late Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the hardliner separatist Hurriyat leader advertised her dissociation from her family’s ideology. The same week Sama Shabir, the elder daughter of the jailed Democratic Freedom Party founder and separatist leader Shabir Shah made a similar announcement through an advertisement in a local daily, not only dissociating herself from her father’s ideology but going a few steps further by declaring herself a loyal Indian citizen and threatening legal action if anyone linked her to the separatist outfit of her father’s.
This comes almost a year after the U-turns in the rhetoric of vocal critics of the Indian state’s policies in Kashmir, the oscillating IAS topper, Shah Faisal, and the firebrand Shehla Rashid, were seen on social media counting the positives of the abrogation of Article 370 and the LG’s administrative capabilities and successes. in the now Union Territory.
The ecosystem of the Intifada, or rather the factory that churned out batch after batch of Islamists, Sharia advocates, communal separatists, and disinformation soldiers is getting dismantled. There was a time starting from the 1990s when these families, their relatives, and extended network, their armed wings of the terror groups, and their academician cover fire and media foot soldiers controlled the separatist jihadi narrative…..”
Read the full article at Newindian.in
