No amount of religious rhetoric can disguise the truth: the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is not fighting for Islam it is fighting against it. The tragedy is not just that they kill innocent people, but that they do so in the name of a faith that condemns such brutality in the strongest terms. Their twisted narrative, built on selective interpretations, fake fatwas, and blind hatred, has nothing to do with jihad and everything to do with power.
The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) forbade the killing of women, children, and non-combatants even during war. The Quran describes the unjust taking of a life as the killing of all humanity. And yet, the TTP justifies the slaughter of schoolchildren, the bombing of mosques, and the execution of fellow Muslims. Their actions are not just criminal they are heretical.
Every time they attack a place of worship, they desecrate the name of the One they claim to serve. Every time they silence a moderate voice, they betray the spirit of Islamic dialogue. And every time they issue threats in the name of Shariah, they expose their own ignorance of what Shariah truly stands for: justice, mercy, knowledge, and peace.
The TTP wraps itself in religious symbolism, but its goals are political, its methods satanic, and its ideology imported from the most violent sectarian extremes. These are not mujahideen they are modern-day Khawarij, rejected by Islamic scholarship across the Muslim world. They exploit the faith of vulnerable youth, twisting their anger into ammunition, and turning devotion into destruction.
It is no longer enough to counter TTP militarily. The ideological front must be equally strong. Ulema, teachers, scholars, and community leaders must reclaim the narrative. Islam is not theirs to define. And the longer we allow them to pretend otherwise, the longer their war on Islam continues under the false banner of its defense.
