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| A cry of the Muslim soul. |
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| Anonymous |
| 10/25/01 at 17:15:53 |
| A cry of the Muslim soul. Abid Ullah Jan (abidjan2@psh.comsats.net.pk) Weekly Nida-i-Khialaft www.tanzeem.org President Bush, Prime Minister Tony Blair and Western allies! We may believe you for a moment when we hear, "this is not a war on Islam." However, you know in the heart of your hearts and we know from a thousand other leads that all your efforts are directed at nothing less than extirpating any resistance offered to your version of the world order by Islam. Whether you call it "political Islam," "fundamentalism," or "terrorism," at the end your joint struggle boils down to elimination of Islam as an alternative to the systems and values you intend to impose. The first and foremost submission in this regard is that whether or not you declare it a war on Islam, you will never - never -- be able to defeat Islam because Islam is not an "ism"; it is not a geographic entity, a military force, an ephemeral ideology or a movement that temporarily resurfaces and could be oppressed with the force that you are so proud of. Islam is a true religion - a faith with its unbeatable power in the hearts and minds of those who truly believe in it. There is no denying the fact that since the demise of Soviet Union, the Western media is creating a negative perception and attitude towards Islam with full force. It regards Islam as an enemy to the Western society and institutions. However, the difference between your struggle against communism and Islam is evident from your statements that this is not a war on Islam. It is not that you do not consider it as such, but simply because you cannot afford such a war. The failure of your secret meetings to defeat and de-sting Islam begins as soon as you come out in public and claim that this is not a war on Islam. Your covert actions to destabilize and remove governments established in the name of Islam on the one hand and your support to puppets regimes for rooting out religious institutions and parties on the other, fail all your efforts to conceal your original motives and convince the general public that you are not against Islam. The weapons at your disposal in your war on Islam are: hypocrisy, propaganda, military might, economic power and social and political instability. Your propaganda machinery sustains your hypocrisy but it has been more than a decade that you try to present a world view of Islam by giving references to the government of the Taliban, poverty and backwardness in Sudan and the massacres in Algeria to show strict adherence to Islam as violent, fanatical and intolerant. With the growing awareness, the misinformation is gradually losing war. It is worthy to note that out of fifty-one Islamic countries around the world, these selective references are to project that it is Islam that is "violent, fanatical and intolerant." There is no mention of Islamic states living in peace. And the violence ratio of 3:51 or 4:51 in the Islamic world pales in comparison with the non-Muslim countries, where no one holds religion or the twisted liberalism and secularism --responsible for that. The way Mr. Blair attributes poverty and civil war in Afghanistan to the Taliban rule is yet another illusive but derogatory effort to show, as if poverty, human rights violations and civil war has something to do with Islam. Irrespective of the past 22 years of the Afghan history and the inhuman UN sanctions against Afghanistan, if we look around the world, we will find that poverty, corruption and civil war is not confined to Muslin communities alone. Besides many Western commentators, it was Roger Hardy of BBC who reported in his 1996 series, "Islam: Faith and Power," that "in the midst of such bewildering variety, there is a common threat - a new assertion of Muslim identity and consciousness." This is the threat you are struggling against, not to defeat poverty and safe guard human rights. As far your military might, you can never win hearts with your force. You defeated the Soviet Union by putting guns on the shoulders of Mujahideen, who were as much terrorists for the Soviet Union as much as Kashmiris are for the India and Osama is for the US. Even in Afghanistan, you cannot defeat the Taliban on your own unless you use other Muslims against them. You cannot suppress the general public in Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan and elsewhere as long as you do not use Muslim armies and Muslim dictators for this purpose. All these tricks have outlived their utility. After all, for how long can you repress close to 1.5 billion people with the help of a few dictators. Just like the Israel's military might, you would fail to rule us with the strength of your military supremacy. How many countries would you afford to invade like Afghanistan or blocked like Iraq. Iraq has lived for eleven years under your sanctions and lost thousands and upon thousands of innocent lives. Afghanistan quietly went through your sanctions until your patience ran out - not theirs. So would be the case with rest of the Muslim countries. You cannot bomb them all into submission. You cannot embargo them all. You cannot make dictatorship rule them forever to come. As far the aspect of your cultural imperialism is concerned, your war on Islam is bound to failure because you try to impose the Western value system in the Muslim societies. Doesn't hypocrisy seem too mild a word to be used for this kind of attitude towards Muslim societies? If child abuse rates in the US have soared by 331% since 1976; if 60% of the rapists, 72% of adolescent murderers and 70% of long-term prisoners come from the fatherless homes -- products of Western liberalism; if there is one divorce for every one marriage; and if more than 200,000 women are annually assaulted by boyfriends, with whom they are involved in illegitimate relations, why then is the US bent upon exporting and imposing the same rotten culture on other societies, which are free from these social ailments at present? Your efforts are doomed to failure because such nonsense doesn't make any sense to a sensible person? Your hypocrisy is exposed. No amount of propaganda can hide your true intentions. Don't we see how your patience ran out with the Taliban in one month and with Saddam Hussein in just a few months? But you don't consider giving such an ultimatum to Israel to end its occupation, aggression and human rights violations. You can rain down death and destruction on the Taliban for their harbouring "suspected" terrorist, but you cannot do it to Israel for being ruled by an proven terrorist, for whose indictment more than 1.2 million people from around the world have signed a petition. The Taliban have been blamed for authoritarianism. The Taliban were ruling with nothing but Divine Law. They declared Quran their constitution and surely they knew and understood Quran, at least, better than Bush and Blair do. And it is of course authoritarian in a sense that it is derived from God's authority. And who questions God's authority? In practical sense, even the law or rules once adapted by a "democracy," require forced compliance by the individual and society for the functioning of an orderly system. Why then question submission to God's Divine authority? Is the US government authoritarian, which has assembled the largest regulatory workforce ever in the world history? Rule making agencies in the US employ 130,929 people. Citizens are forced to hand over addition taxes of $ 15.6 billion to support this force, also an all time record. However, the total cost of obeying federal regulations rose from $476 billion in 1985 to $607 billion in 1995. Bill Clinton used to boast that he has wiped away 16,000 pages of bad rules since taking office. That's true. But his minions have more than filled the void. The Federal Register has grown from roughly 41,000 pages a decade ago to more than 69,000 pages in 1994. American rulers must be thankful for not being Muslims, otherwise they would have been declared as some worst kind of authoritarians, for keeping a record 5.1 million Americans either behind the bars, or probation, or parole, who violated their man-made regulations. If your war is against terrorism, you can win simply it with eliminating its root causes that lie in your unjust foreign policies. You can't win it with attacks on hospitals, homes, passenger buses, food storage, ICRC building, refugee convoys, UN Mine clearing office and other civilian installations. If your war is to eradicate anti-westernism and anti-Americans from our hearts, you can do it with just leaving us alone. However, if your war is to impose your will, your values and your brand of the world order, it will only increase the backlash from Islamic forces in a variety of forms, including militancy, which will not only destroy Muslim societies, but the Westerners, too, will not be able to live with peace. You, being the masters of your plans, must take the initiative and change your policies. If a genuine reconciliation and mutual co-existence is desired only policies of acknowledgment and recognition would work - not the sinister plans for repression and eradication. For mutual trust and respect; a conscious, focused, serious, multidimensional and global effort is required. Force is not the answer. |
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