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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Hafiz Saeed’s release raises fears of fresh terror wave in India, Islam,Terrorism and Jihad, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam,Terrorism and Jihad
Hafiz Saeed’s release raises fears of fresh terror wave in India

In 1987, the lives of a Pakistani theologian and a Palestine-born jihadist who had been Osama bin-Laden’s ideological mentor intersected in Islamabad. Hafiz Mohammad Saeed and Abdullah Azzam together set up the Markaz Dawat ul-Irshad, the Centre for the Propagation of the Faith. In his seminal work, Pakistan’s Drift Into Extremism, the scholar Hassan Abbas has recorded that the institution was part of Azzam’s effort to revive the lost art and science of jihad.

Azzam was assassinated in 1989, but Saeed succeeded in turning the MDI, now called the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, into the largest Islamist institution in the world. Despite its proscription by the Security Council after the November, 2008, massacre in Mumbai, the Jamaat-ud-Dawa continues to operate a web of educational and charitable institutions out of its sprawling campus in Muridke, near Lahore.

Saeed’s efforts were backed by the Pakistani state. First appointed to Pakistan’s powerful state-run Council on Islamic Ideology by the military regime of General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq, Saeed was later given a position at Lahore’s University of Engineering and Technology.

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