On Hindus, Muslims and shrines

This is for the person who sent me a comment about how much of a "retard" I am on matters concerning Kashmir and that it is widely known that the Hindus are destroying Muslim shrines in India.   

Very few Muslims will ever acknowledge that their own brothers are to be blamed for everything wrong with the islamic cult or anything else.   Below two of them have decided to tell the truth, at least a little part of it.  The writer of the article and a Sufi preacher.

... Sahibzada Amir Muhammad, a Kabul-based Sufi preacher, claims that although suppressed by the Taliban, Sufism is re-emerging in Afghanistan.

Experts link attacks on Sufi shrines to the arrival of Arab militants in Afghanistan; a large number of madrassas funded by donors in Arab countries are also seen to be in conflict with local Sufi Islam
"Thousands of Arab militants who arrived in Afghanistan under the leadership of Al Qaeda's Osama bin Laden brought with them foreign ideologies, especially Wahabism," he said. Wahabism's hard-line interpretation of Islam sees Sufism and its practices as un-Islamic. During the five-year rule of the Taliban, many Sufis and their followers were compelled to go underground or abandon their faith, he added. The December 7 attack comes despite orders by Taliban supreme commander Mullah Omar not to attack civilians, and indicates Al Qaeda-linked militants are not under his direct operational control....

Security experts and Sufi leaders in Pakistan also link the attacks on Sufi shrines with the arrival of Arab militants in Afghanistan and their alliance with Afghan and Pakistani Taliban. A large number of madrassas funded by donors in Arab countries are also seen to be in conflict with local Sufi Islam. The Taliban see the attacks on shrines and other cultural symbols as attempts at constructing a new culture and a new identity.

The attacks began many years ago with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Islam's targeting of tombs of great Sufi saints in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA. The shrines of Hazrat Rehman Baba, Abdul Shakoor Malang Baba, Hazrat Abu Saeed Baba, Mian Umer Baba and Malang Baba were attacked and desecrated, while that of Hazrat Sayyad Ali Tirmizi, commonly known as Pir Baba in Buner, was locked. The mausoleum of famous freedom fighter Haji Sahib Tarangzai in Mohmand Agency was captured and converted into Taliban headquarters.


Soon the militants also started targeting shrines in urban Pakistan. These attacks were timed and planned to kill as many devotees as possible. More than 25 shrines across the country have been attacked since 2005, and 200 devotees have been killed. In July 2010, the shrine of Sufi saint Data Ganj Baksh Hajveri in Lahore was attacked by two suicide bombers. At least 45 devotees were killed and dozens others injured. A suicide attack on the shrine of Sufi saint Abdullah Shah Ghazi in Karachi killed another nine people in October 2010. An attack on Baba Farid Shakarganj's shrine in Pakpattan in October that year left another seven people dead........