Qatar-Turkey-Pakistan (QTPi) nexus with the blessings of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is becoming the new hub for radical Islamists. A new report by Disinfolab says the MB, laced with fake news and two media weapons, Al Jazeera and TRT World, launched a campaign against India –- targeting New Delhi’s economic interests.
A hashtag on Twitter #BoycottIndianProducts was launched a few days ago, and has been going on since. While the nexus tried to give it a color that it was triggered by the unfortunate incident in Assam, which was deplorable, and the guilty should be brought to justice, be as it may, the trigger was mere excuse.
This was not the first time the trend was attempted. It was started in 2018, and since then it’s an annual ritual. The objective is to give it momentum gradually, the Disinfolab report said.
And since one incident won’t justify it, they needed the whole gamut of fake news and propaganda. As expected, a great deal of these handles is being run from Pakistan andQatar Turkey, while the trend seems to have originated in Egypt.
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What was the novel this time was a number of ‘news articles’ also promoted this trend, albeit in their own style, mostly connected with the MB, including the Al Jazeera.
The target seemed India, but the actual target was Saudi Arabia. The campaign was essentially targeting Saudi and the UAE, and particularly Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, for keeping a good relation with India.
This was not a one-off campaign, and the QTPi Nexus has been targeting Saudi and UAE, questioning their ‘right’ to be the leader of the Islamic world. The idea is obvious – by discrediting Mohammed bin Salman, the new ‘Prince’ of Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would be crowned as the rightful leader of Ummah. The Ertgurul Ghazi was a prelude. The Ottoman Empire is in remaking, the report said.
The report said India was not the only country targeted for this economic boycott. The campaign is also targeted France, asking to boycott French products. It is not merely a geo-strategic move. There is a solid economic logic behind it.
Turkey holds an annual Halal Exhibition, which is trying to build itself as a key arbiter on the matter. By creating the subaltern culture of boycotts through social media, they would also create a potent weapon.
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Moreover, once the Nexus takes center stage in deciding some arbitrage over Halal certification, this would create an exclusionary economy of gigantic proportions. The economic power this nexus could build will not only affect the Muslim world but would dictate terms all over the world – in the name of selling this huge market.
The petro-dollars of Qatar (gas-dollars to be precise), may not last forever to sustain the radical Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood, it added.
SOURCE-IANS
