PESHAWAR, May 22: Founder of Tanzeem-i-Islami Dr Israr Ahmed has urged Muslims to foil what he called the United States’ designs of creating ‘Greater Israel’ by ending the Sovereign States of Syria, Leban and Jordan. Speaking at a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club on Saturday, he said the US was carrying out a Jewish agenda of creating a ‘Greater Israel’, which would result in the disappearance of three Muslim states in the Middle East.

He said the Muslims would continue to undergo the trial and tribulation till the arrival of the Imam Mehdi and Anti-Christ, who would defeat the forces of evil.

He said the US had initiated a war within Islam by exploiting the differences of various sects.

He said the Rand Corporation had classified Muslims into fundamentalists, traditionalists, modernists and secularists.

The US was opposed to fundamentalists (Jamaat-i-Islami) and traditionalists (JUI factions), but it lent support to modernist (like Javed Iqbal and Javed Ghamdi) and secularists who believed in western political, social and cultural practices.

He observed that the US was not opposed to Islam being a set of some rituals. However, it was opposed to Islam being a ‘socio-economic and political system’. This system posed a threat to the capitalist system based on exploitation of people and nations, he added. The capitalism, he said, was based on interest and speculation which allowed exploitation of humanity.

He denied that he had made any objectionable remarks about the Holy Quran which were attributed to him in a monthly magazine. He said: “I categorically deny all these remarks attributed to me.”