Persecution of Sufis (English Wikipedia)

Researcher Amir Rana (a researcher and editor quarterly research journal Conflict and Peace Studies. What is young Pakistan thinking?) claims than Deobandi themselves are often Sufi, as "Naqshbandi, the major Sufi cult in Pakistan, is mainly comprised of the Deobandis" (source: Rana, Amir. "Where sufism stands". 1 August 2010. Express Tribune Blogs. Retrieved 4 March 2013.). Maulana Qasim Nomani, the Rector of Deobandi seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has denied either that his school is anti-Sufi or promotes militancy, stating Deoband scholars like Ashraf Ali Thanwi, and others were Sufi saints as well and they had their Khanqahs (Sufi hospice).
Who said we are against Sufism? We very much follow the Sufi traditions and all of our elders were Sufi practitioners of Sufi tradition (source: Ali, Md. "Deoband hits back, rejects "baseless" charge of radicalizing Muslim youth". 19 October 2011. TwoCircles.net. Retrieved 4 March 2013.)
According to the Jamestown Foundation, Deobandi have also been victims of sectarian strife.
Scores of Deobandi leaders and members of Ahle Sunnat wal Jamat (ASWJ, formerly the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan) have been assassinated in Karachi in recent years. Police sources say that the Sunni Tehrik, a Barelvi organization, is behind most of these assassinations. (source: Jamal, Arif. "Karachi's Deadly Political and Sectarian Warfare Threatens the Stability of Pakistan's Commercial Capital". Terrorism Monitor April 20, 2012. Jamestown Foundation. Retrieved 4 March 2013.)
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lapidomedia.com

Al-Alawi, Irfan. "Urbanised Islam behind Pakistan's Sufi shrine bombings". 15 March 2011. Lapidomedia. Retrieved 26 February 2013.

latimes.com

Rodriguez, Alex (29 March 2012). "In Pakistan, faith healers have no shortage of believers". Los Angeles Times.

libyasos.blogspot.in

"Libya S.O.S.: Democracy Arrives in Libya: Sufi religious sites attacked and destroyed by Salafis". Libyasos. 26 August 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2013.

lubpak.com

"Sunni Ittehad Council: Sunni Barelvi activism against Deobandi-Wahhabi terrorism in Pakistan – by Aarish U. Khan". lubpak.com. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
"Sarfraz Naeemi". lubpak.com. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
"Extremist Deobandis' attack on Ghazi Baba shrine in Peshawar". lubpak.com. 14 December 2010. Retrieved May 18, 2016.

moderntokyotimes.com

"Libya and Mali: Salafi Islamists destroying shrines courtesy of Saudi Arabia and Qatar". Modern Tokyo Times. 26 August 2012. Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2013.

nytimes.com

Specia, Megan (24 November 2017). "Who Are Sufi Muslims and Why Do Some Extremists Hate Them?". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
Masood, Salman; Gillani, Waqar (April 3, 2011). "Blast at Pakistan Shrine Kills Dozens". New York Times.
Masood, Salman (8 May 2019). "Sufi Shrine Bombing in Pakistan Kills at Least 10". NY Times.
Walsh, Declan; Youssef, Nour (24 November 2017). "Militants Kill 305 at Sufi Mosque in Egypt's Deadliest Terrorist Attack". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2020.

oxfordre.com

Cook, David (May 2015). "Mysticism in Sufi Islam". Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.51. ISBN 9780199340378. Archived from the original on 28 November 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2022.

pulitzercenter.org

Mir, Tariq. "Kashmir: From Sufi to Salafi". November 5, 2012. Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
Rana, Amir. "Kashmir: Sufi and Wahabbi Islam in Conflict". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 24 February 2013.

reuters.com

Hassan, Syed Raza (17 February 2017). "Pakistan's Sufis defiant after Islamic State attack on shrine kills 83". Reuters. London. Retrieved 5 September 2020.

rferl.org

Esfandiari, Golnaz. "Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Features Sufism Under Attack In Iran". February 27, 2013. rferl.org. Retrieved 27 February 2013.

semanticscholar.org

api.semanticscholar.org

Behuria, Ashok K. (27 February 2008). "Sects Within Sect: The Case of Deobandi–Barelvi Encounter in Pakistan". Strategic Analysis. 32 (1). Taylor & Francis: 57–80. doi:10.1080/09700160801886330. S2CID 153716247.

telegraph.co.uk

"Timbuktu shrine destruction 'a war crime'". Telegraph. London. 2 July 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2013.

theafricareport.com

"Sufism and Salafism, Mali's deep religious divide". Theafricareport.com. 21 December 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2013.

thearabweekly.com

"In Tunisia, Sufism is here to stay". The Arab Weekly. Retrieved 2017-05-05.

theguardian.com

Salafi intolerance threatens Sufis |Baher Ibrahim |guardian.co.uk |10 May 2010
Boone, Jon. "Pakistan launches crackdown after Isis attack kills 75 at shrine". The Guardian Newspaper.

thenews.com.pk

images.thenews.com.pk

"Three killed in Peshawar shrine blast". The News. 22 June 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2013.

time.com

world.time.com

Timbuktu's Destruction: Why Islamists Are Wrecking Mali's Cultural Heritage |By Ishaan Tharoor|time.com |July 02, 2012

tribune.com.pk

Raja, Mudassir (31 July 2011). "Bari Imam Shrine attack 2005: Police await suspects on judicial remand in another case". Express Tribune. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
Haque, Jahanzaib (October 7, 2010). "Twin suicide attacks at Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine". Express Tribune. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
"Blast at Baba Farid's shrine kills six". Express Tribune. October 26, 2010. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
"UNESCO urges end to attacks on Libyan Sufi mosques, graves". Retrieved 27 September 2014.

blogs.tribune.com.pk

Rana, Amir. "Where sufism stands". 1 August 2010. Express Tribune Blogs. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
Researcher Amir Rana (a researcher and editor quarterly research journal Conflict and Peace Studies. What is young Pakistan thinking?) claims than Deobandi themselves are often Sufi, as "Naqshbandi, the major Sufi cult in Pakistan, is mainly comprised of the Deobandis" (source: Rana, Amir. "Where sufism stands". 1 August 2010. Express Tribune Blogs. Retrieved 4 March 2013.). Maulana Qasim Nomani, the Rector of Deobandi seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has denied either that his school is anti-Sufi or promotes militancy, stating Deoband scholars like Ashraf Ali Thanwi, and others were Sufi saints as well and they had their Khanqahs (Sufi hospice).
Who said we are against Sufism? We very much follow the Sufi traditions and all of our elders were Sufi practitioners of Sufi tradition (source: Ali, Md. "Deoband hits back, rejects "baseless" charge of radicalizing Muslim youth". 19 October 2011. TwoCircles.net. Retrieved 4 March 2013.)
According to the Jamestown Foundation, Deobandi have also been victims of sectarian strife.
Scores of Deobandi leaders and members of Ahle Sunnat wal Jamat (ASWJ, formerly the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan) have been assassinated in Karachi in recent years. Police sources say that the Sunni Tehrik, a Barelvi organization, is behind most of these assassinations. (source: Jamal, Arif. "Karachi's Deadly Political and Sectarian Warfare Threatens the Stability of Pakistan's Commercial Capital". Terrorism Monitor April 20, 2012. Jamestown Foundation. Retrieved 4 March 2013.)

tunisia-live.net

"Tunisia's National Memory of Sufism". Archived from the original on 2013-04-04.

twocircles.net

Researcher Amir Rana (a researcher and editor quarterly research journal Conflict and Peace Studies. What is young Pakistan thinking?) claims than Deobandi themselves are often Sufi, as "Naqshbandi, the major Sufi cult in Pakistan, is mainly comprised of the Deobandis" (source: Rana, Amir. "Where sufism stands". 1 August 2010. Express Tribune Blogs. Retrieved 4 March 2013.). Maulana Qasim Nomani, the Rector of Deobandi seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has denied either that his school is anti-Sufi or promotes militancy, stating Deoband scholars like Ashraf Ali Thanwi, and others were Sufi saints as well and they had their Khanqahs (Sufi hospice).
Who said we are against Sufism? We very much follow the Sufi traditions and all of our elders were Sufi practitioners of Sufi tradition (source: Ali, Md. "Deoband hits back, rejects "baseless" charge of radicalizing Muslim youth". 19 October 2011. TwoCircles.net. Retrieved 4 March 2013.)
According to the Jamestown Foundation, Deobandi have also been victims of sectarian strife.
Scores of Deobandi leaders and members of Ahle Sunnat wal Jamat (ASWJ, formerly the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan) have been assassinated in Karachi in recent years. Police sources say that the Sunni Tehrik, a Barelvi organization, is behind most of these assassinations. (source: Jamal, Arif. "Karachi's Deadly Political and Sectarian Warfare Threatens the Stability of Pakistan's Commercial Capital". Terrorism Monitor April 20, 2012. Jamestown Foundation. Retrieved 4 March 2013.)

uscirf.gov

United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (May 2009). "Annual Report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom: Iran" (PDF). USG. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 May 2009. Retrieved 25 December 2010.

viewpointonline.net

And now Sunni vs Sunni Riaz ul Hassan |circa July 2010

washingtonpost.com

Bearak, Max (22 June 2016). "Amjad Sabri, a beloved Sufi musician, is gunned down in Pakistan". Washington Post.

web.archive.org

Cook, David (May 2015). "Mysticism in Sufi Islam". Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.51. ISBN 9780199340378. Archived from the original on 28 November 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
Specia, Megan (24 November 2017). "Who Are Sufi Muslims and Why Do Some Extremists Hate Them?". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
"Salafi Violence against Sufis". Islamopedia Online. Archived from the original on 30 May 2013. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
Chakrabarty, Rakhi (Dec 4, 2011). "Sufis strike back". The Times of India. Archived from the original on May 10, 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
"Libya and Mali: Salafi Islamists destroying shrines courtesy of Saudi Arabia and Qatar". Modern Tokyo Times. 26 August 2012. Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
Walsh, Declan; Youssef, Nour (24 November 2017). "Militants Kill 305 at Sufi Mosque in Egypt's Deadliest Terrorist Attack". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
"Tunisia's National Memory of Sufism". Archived from the original on 2013-04-04.
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (May 2009). "Annual Report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom: Iran" (PDF). USG. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 May 2009. Retrieved 25 December 2010.

yahoo.com

groups.yahoo.com

"Pakistani Shiite massacre: Pakistan – Bari Imam shrine". May 27, 2005. Archived from the original on April 12, 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2013.

youtube.com

"Al Shabab of Somalia Destroy the Graves of Sufi Saints – YouTube". youtube.com. Retrieved 26 August 2015.