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Khilafah the Only Solution
10/25/2001 (15:35)

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.

reply by
Barb
10/25/2001 (16:09)

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There are people who say the 'Jews' in Israel are not really Jews at all. Does it really matter? They offered Palestinian people room to live which was declined. It seems the Palestinians will only accept total control and occupation of the area or nothing. Is that a good faith effort on the Palestinians (all or nothing) or is it an excuse so their evil allies can continue to carry out destructive terrorism on innocent US citizens?

If it matters 'who was there first,' then all white people on the North American continent would have to 'go back to Europe' because this was native indian land.

reply by
wedanesday
10/25/2001 (17:17)

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you say all or nothing barb? ya right the jews have almost 90% of palestine what are you talkin about? everyday they KICK people out of their houses make them live in tents with nthin! while they build mansion over their houses. but that ok right? see you really don't now anything about what happens over there i've seen EVERYTHING! trust me when i say everything

reply by
nemesis
10/25/2001 (19:43)

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What do Barb's and Wednesday's posts have to do with the original post from Khalifa the Only Solution?

wonder if it is Barb and Wednesday's *assignment* to
obscure the real issue and start a dog fight?

Grow up guys/gals.

reply by
Barb
10/25/2001 (20:06)

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I believe you Nemesis when you say these injustices happen in Israel. I don't deny they do.
Khilafah's one-sided world view in his dissertations he force-feeds us are starting to really bore me. He says if the U.S. 'eliminates the root causes... terrorism will stop.' Well, think about practicality here. If the U.S. changed its policies tomorrow, what are we teaching terrorists? That if you want something from the U.S., all you have to do is kill enough citizens to get it.
Your cause, however noble you think, Khilafah, has been badly damaged by the WTC and Pentagon attacks. It is Psychology 101 to truly get what you want you must persuade the people rather than use force. Force doesn't really work in the long run. Now I know you'll say the US is using force. True, we are, but we were attacked, and we are defending ourselves and our country as any nation would given the circumstances.
This may sound simple, but just because things are complicated doesn't mean they're superior. Why didn't Bin Laden and his people take out full page ads in the NY Times. I would bet after a while that would have had an effect on foreign policy. Now the US is in the position where we CANNOT change the foreign policy lest it look like we are cowering to terrorism. We cannot save face at this point now.
I would appreciate if any rabid people on this board would refrain from personally attacking me because of my views. I have a right to my views as you do because this is America not the mideast where you cannot hold different views than the govt. lest you will be killed.

reply by
nemesis
10/26/2001 (12:32)

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Barb, forget Khalifa's 'one-sided view'. Here is your oppurtunity to see what MIT's Professor Chomsky has to say.

Please visit:
http://www.zmag.org/GlobalWatch/chomskymit.htm

I promise you will not be disappointed!

reply by
Barb
10/26/2001 (18:57)

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OK, I read it. I disagree however, that terrorism works. I agree that it DOES work in the short term, but long term -- never. People can be frightened /shut up/ oppressed/etc. for a while, or for a long while, but they will ultimately rise to to the challenge to defend themselves. What's in people's hearts and minds and the strength and ability of that commitment to their cause, will ultimately prevail. For example, if oppressive regimes in the mideast ceased to exist, we all know that most women would strip off their veils, escape town, some would choose not to worship as dictated, etc. You cannot force people to believe in one regime. Oppression can prevail for a while, but can never ultimately win as evidenced by the fall of the Soviet Union. Jesus wanted people to come to him willingly. Would a man want a woman to walk down the marriage aisle unwillingly with him? The U.S. has certainly done some inane things in foreign policies for sure, but our foreign policy has not exactly been consistent either. The average American doesn't get much involved in the topics, considering most irrelvant to their lives. Maybe that has changed now. And it would be wise for the American people to become more educated and take an interest in what their govt. is doing so they can have their input. Again, this brings out that the excellent govt. system by representation allows for this. Citizens have gotten lazy taking for granted that the govt. will 'take care of it.' Without citizens direct involvement in govt., having a stake in the outcomes, there simply can be no prosperity and peace.

reply by
nemesis
10/26/2001 (19:39)

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Okay. Let's forget about the Talibans, or Muslims in general, since we have no control on them. BUT, how soon are the U.S citizens going to start an action agianst the repressive policies of the U.S. Government?

reply by
barb
10/26/2001 (20:11)

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Want the real answer? As soon as the major news networks start broadcasting the issues to the 'average Joe.'

reply by
nemesis
10/27/2001 (9:38)

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And, what is going to cause a change of heart at the major news networks?

Personaly, I don't think that the networks have any obligation, any inclination, or any incentive to do what the public wants. It is up to the public to force the issue!

reply by
DJFLux
11/7/2001 (10:32)

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You're right! The people need to FINALLY be in the picture.

Power belongs to the hands of the people, the workers, the ones who want peace, and not becoming some pawn in 'direct or in-dirrect' wars.