This is an old story.

When I was around 22 I had a very short SJ phase(along with a few of my friends).

It ended when I couldn't accept their arguments re:Collateral damage(Killing Civilians) and even treating your own parents who oppose your "Jihad" like the kuffar.
I stopped involving myself with the SJ circles and deleted all the lectures of the SJ Shaykhs. Though I would retain certain PDFs for purposes of research and explaining how infantile their "fiqh" is.

Most of my Salafi friends didn't and one by one they cut off ties with me.
I remember arguing with my former best friend about how stupid their idea of global Jihad is and how it doesn't really give Muslims victory. It's merely an cheap attempt at gaining martyrdom.

He disagreed with me vehemently at the time and little did I know—
He was planning to join the prominent SJ Shaykh and his "Mujahideen" for "Jihad" against the Burmese.

So we meet again after a couple of months and he spills beans about what exactly happened.

It was nothing short of a disaster. He would tell me time and time again—
how right I was about their lack of strategy and how these so called "Jihads" can be easily derailed by intel agencies.

Not beating my own drum but just saying an utter noob like me who was a barely getting into University at the time could see the futility of such "Jihads".
It's obvious to anyone with common sense.

No, I didn't report my friend(or the others) to the authorities. Because it's not that simple.

Things like these marks families for life. Even if they aren't remotely linked to these extremist tendencies.
The problem of the SJ ideology is a real one. It's this same strand that lead to the Dhaka attack and some very gruesome murders.

However CVEs can't tackle this problem. Because they tend to target Islam and Muslims as a whole and tries to strong-arm them into secularism.
What is ultimately the solution to the SJ ideology?

It's more Muslim Ulema to stop pretending that apoliticism or quietism is a valid ideology.

If the right people aren't leading the righteous struggle against the kuffar, the wrong people will lead people with good intentions—
to hell.

The community needs to be more active about enjoining good and forbidding evil instead of pretending that everything is fine and secularism is the best thing since sliced bread when we know for a fact that secularism is steeped in violence.
And people who keep supporting ISIS need to go back to basics and re-learn their Deen. What people do in war zones are exceptional scenarios and exceptions cannot define the norm.

And people who attack Muslims and people whose attacks result in more crisis upon the Muslims—
Cannot be the among the Mujahideen.

Jihad is a holy act. The righteous people who engage in it always consider the bigger picture from the perspective of protecting and furthering Muslim interests. Not bringing further harm upon them to force some sort of Malhama.
People keep linking SJs to Qutb. I say Imran Hossein and Tablighis also have a bit of an influence in this fatalistic utilitarian mindset.

They might be polar opposites but they have the same sort of apathy towards suffering of people who aren't tied to their ideology.
HT and certain ideologues also showcase a similar apathy but the difference is their apathy doesn't result in this sociopathic ideology of making everyone suffer just to equalize the field.
Do you want to what SJ wants to achieve?

So here is the grand plan:

1. They learn Kitab Ut Tawheed(or any pure Aqeedah text) cover to cover.

2. They seek out individuals and give them dawah.

3. One of the responders to their call is magically an army personnel.
4. They receive military training and recruit more people. Or more army people defect.

5. They start a rebellion and people magically join their cause because they are the righteous Mujahideen and then they overthrow the government and thus they have established an Emirate.
6. They export their ideology abroad and "pure Imaan" people join their cause. They attack the kuffar with everything they have forcing the kuffar to go to war against the Muslims. Thus forcing Muslims to choose a side. The righteous will side with the true Mujahideen and—
the Munafiqeen will oppose them.

7. Forcing a global Jihad will force the kuffar to expend their resources and because the righteous Mujahideen pray 5 times a day and know Kitab Ut Tawheed from cover to cover Allah will grant them victory eventually, Insha Allah.
Seems like a foolproof plan. 🙄

These people have no concept of history or governance.

How many successful emirates have the righteous "Mujahideen" established? The last Muslim Emirate was absolute crushed with millions of lives lost thanks to foolproof global Jihad plan.
America suing for peace is not a sign of the decline(let alone fall) of the American Empire. They have stocked up and they are ready to wage war again. And that is why Taliban(they aren't SJs) knows that securing this peace deal is crucial.
So the global Jihad plan has not put a dent in the influence of the Western powers.

How many Emirates can boast of good governance?

Former SJ Julululululani runs a band of thugs. SJ's might disavow him but his tactics of kidnapping and torturing people is something SJs.
happily implement. Daesh killed a HT member because he didn't give Bayah to their lord and savior Bagdadhi. According to Daeshi theology and fiqh it's okay because anyone who opposes them is a Munafiqeen or simply an apostate.
This destructive ideology has only enabled the kuffar to subjugate us under the excuse of countering these "extremists".

And these shameless Kharijties after murdering countless Muslims(which tacitly aided the kuffar) shamelessly laugh and say, "All according to plan".
America is poised to expand its military into Muslim lands once again and yet again these computer Jihadists think this is all part of the great plan and they will ultimately win a great victory because they pray 5 times a day and know Kitab Ut Tawheed from cover to cover.
There is no cure for stupidity that is supplemented by delusions of wisdom and grandeur.

They are conditioned to believe that it's only a matter of having the right Aqeedah and Allah will give them victory no matter what dirtball tactic they use to harm the kuffar.
It doesn't matter if Muslims are harmed along the way.

These delusional people constantly post images of "small army" taking on "big army" and think their caravan will prevail.
Securing resources? Nah.

Formulating long term plans? Nah.

Establishing good governance and accountability? Nah.

Just read Kitab Ut Tawheed, pray 5 times a day and Allah will give you victory.
The Amir's brilliant plan to kill one kuffar along with a dozen innocents Muslim* or otherwise will bring us a great victory. You will see.

*Those Muslims are probably apostates anyway. So it's fine.
My Quran teacher who embraced this ideology later in his life would almost behead his wife. He was stopped by the kids at the last second.

I came to know of this story years later after he died of a heart attack.
The Salafi brother who made me into a practicing Muslim would go on to join Daesh and be killed in an airstrike.

His family has suffered immensely since the authorities found out. They are harassed daily and I have been told that they were tortured.
Roughly a decade has passed since I have become a practicing Muslim.

I have met many people who I admired and eventually left behind because I outgrew them.

From being Zakir Naik fan to a Salafi to HT to I don't know what I am now anymore.
But I haven't encountered anything as corrupt, divisive and oppressive as the Jihadist ideology within the fold of what one considers to be Islam.

And Allah knows how many lives have suffered because of them.

May His mercy and guidance be with us.
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