Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba are representatives of Salafism’s radical ideas

Document Type : علمی - ترویجی

Author
دانش آموخته حوزه علمیه قم و دانشجوی دکترای مذاهب کلامی دانشگاه ادیان و مذاهب.
Abstract
In the 1990s concurrent to the primary years of Islamic Revolution in Iran, maulavi hagh-navaz Jhangvi founded the excommunication (Takfiri) group named Sipah-e-Sahaba from the religious schools in Pakistan which was belonging to Deobandi sect. Its purpose was to confront Shiites, mourning for Imam Hussain (pbuh), and influences of Islamic revolution and action to be psychological warfare, terror, Shiites physical removal and destruction of their religious places. With establishing a military wing named Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, this extremist group completed its organization for the specified path. Performance of these two extremist groups, which is along with each other, lead to divergence in the Muslim community of Pakistan,  to intensify sectarianism, insecurity and their broad and unjustified killings. In the present article, along with studying the pedigree and the roots formation of this group, some part of their violent features has been discussed according to the facts and news.
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