New reign of terror
'Muslim blood is cheap and
flowing freely...'
October 2, 2004
iranian.com
Islam has become a hostage to insane lunatics, out
for revenge on their losing battles through the blood of innocent
people. In
the name of "Allah" all kinds of inhuman atrocities
are being carried out. How come "Muslim blood" is being
targeted, becoming collateral damage in the jihad against infidels?
The present set of attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan are aimed at
maiming terrorists own ideological next of kin; Muslims, killed
by their own Muslim brothers in name of Jihad! What kind of Jihad
is this? The moderate Islamists lament with pain, "Et Tu
Allah?"
Defeatism has become prevalent in the Islamic World and self-inflicted
pain has become pleasure. Forbearance, fortitude, patience - key
qualities to make any nation great, has been sacrificed on the
altar of hostility towards the US.
The famous Khomeinite slogan
of "Marg bar Amrika" has become the clarion call of
the extremist Shiites and OBL faction of the extremist Wahabbis
alike. The commonality of purpose to establish a medieval order
and arrest the progress of mankind has taken precedence over
traditional sectarian disputes of the centuries.
Even though the orthodox clerics and the Shiite "Marjaiiya" have
their aim to establish Najaf as the next Vatican of Islam, dethroning
Qom and Mecca, the Wahabbis, who take pride in the custodianship
of the two most holy mosques, see no problems in joining hands
with the radical resident clergy of the Shiite Islam to cleanse
the "cradle of Islam" from 'threat" of any
forces that may usher an era of freedom, democracy and dissent
in the region.
The unholy troika of Shiite Qom, Wahabbi Alqaeda
and Allawite Syria have buried their dissimilarities for their
own continued existence; they very well realize that the new
emerging "waft of freedom" in the Middle east will mark the first
victims
and they shall be nothing but the aged 'tyrannies" of
the region.
With the threat of looming free elections in Afghanistan and
Iraq, the ideological gurus within Qom and Alqaeda headquarters
of Global
Jihad Inc. see their first and foremost enemy as the forces which
are helping free elections in countries where there were no elections
or electoral history.
Elected governments in Afghanistan and
Iraq, emerging from the ashes of war and destruction, will offer
a new
form of moral governance parallel to controlled "mullah-infested"
kangaroo democracy of Iran, where those able to contest have
to have a certification
from an Allah-guided clerical institution.
The hurdles to keep
opponents out using the name of Allah have turned elections
into a farce. The nightmarish scenario of outing sham democracies,
as freedom is unchained, has sent tremors down the spines of
leaders
who have ruled masses without consent.
It is in this backdrop
where
the world sees ideological foes, Sadr and Zarqawi, Omar
and Hikmatyar, using the same manuals, so as to turn Iraq and Afghanistan
into
a total lawless zone. They anticipate the "waft of freedom"
as a poison chalice and a death warrant for terror infested
tyrannies;
to extinguish this waft of freedom, every possible act
of terror would be unleashed.
The threat of possibility of "pluralistic governance" in
the regions that are at the heart of the Islamic world has
changed the course of politics in the remnants of the house
of Khomeini
and extreme Wahabbis. The extreme Shiite and Wahabbi elements
have graduated from a collision course to cohabitation
and cooperation.
Wahabbis, who financially bankrolled the internecine
Iraqi war
in the 80's on Iran through their proxies, have now in
the
face of this "waft of freedom" donned new colors. Instead
of deciding on the puritanical nature of revolution of
Khomeini and Wahabb that was at the root of the Iraqi imposed
war, they have now decided to mutually cooperate with the "ex-ideological
devil" to defeat the common enemy of the "waft of freedom"
raising its ugly head in the heart of the Islamic world.
Millions were lost in that vain battle of egos and ideological
purities where on the one side was the might of the
Arabs and on the other, the entire 'sunni petrolsitan" supporting
Saddam, 'the secular" seeking emulation of Qadesia,
to crush the Iranian brand of Shiite revolution being
exported by Khomeini to the Gulf.
The threat alone
was
enough to
destroy the precarious balance of power between minority
Sunni rulers
and majority Shiites ruled in the Peninsula. Present
temporary "burial
of the hatchet" between the two extreme sectarian
forces of Islam does not signal a new era of permanent cooperation
rather, it is a convenient approach to destroy the
"common enemy" that
seeks to annihilate draconian controls on which the
two extremes thrive and flourish.
The "orgy of blood" will
once again
begin between the Iraqi Shiite South and the Sunni
triangle, or between the Northern alliance and Kandahar, once
the
US withdraws. The only obstacle that saves this
ugly specter from
unveiling
is
the possibility of emergence of democratic governments,
but
that freedom will travel across porous borders
fast; it is the last
sigh of political Islam to destroy the ray of hope.
The disease to find a cause and moral equivalence
for crimes against humanity is a disease inflicting
most
extremists.
Those who wake
up to a breakfast of Kellogg's frosted wheat, wear
Gap jeans, work on a Cisco-Intel-Microsoft-based
technology to surf
the Internet whilst sipping Starbucks coffee and
gulp down a double
Mac for
lunch, also lash out at the American way of life.
This is primarily envy for America's accomplishments
and
its
hard-won
freedoms.
It is nothing more than passive aggression egged
on by the sense of abject failure and the underachievement
of a leadership
that
has failed its people.
The Islamic world today faces new questions,
questions that need to be answered by the main
body politic
of Islam - How
come "Muslim
blood" has been targeted, becoming collateral
damage in the jihad against infidels? Islam is
supposed
to be a religion
of peace and constructive thought. It helped
start a new era in
a period
when "jahaliyyah" was prevalent. To now use Islam
as symbol of carnage is "munafiqat".
The recent
attacks by extremists in Iraq and Afghanistan
have opened
a
lot of
eyes; the questions that should have been asked
after 9/11 (as most
of the people that died in the US were "infidels")
are now being asked. What is the point of such
attacks? What
purpose do they serve? Killing serving policeman
who happen to be Muslims
in Iraq and Afghanistan only make more Muslims
mothers weep for their loved ones or more Muslim
children
weep for their
beloved
fathers.
The spree of killing people in the line of
duty by blind suicide bombs through indiscriminate
targeting shows
the wantonness
of these medieval ideologues. When Western
blood
is spilled, there
is gleeful silence; when Western interests
are hurt,
there is a sense of accomplishment in the fringe
elements of
Islamic communities.
But now insensitivities have risen to such
a level that even indiscriminate
killings of their own next of kin raises no
condemnation.
Blind killing of innocent Iraqis
or Afghans who
are sacrificing their
lives for the sake of free rule is credited
as big success of terrorists" outfits against
usurping
forces.
It does
not matter
as long as
the "waft
of freedom and free elections" can be stalled;
how many are sacrificed also does not matter
if they
are Muslims!
A Muslim
who yearns for freedom is a Yankee - that
is the new language of the death warrant signed
by Zarqawi's
and
Omar's.
Every Muslim would say Saddam was an evil
and should have been removed. How? That is
a million-dollar
question everyone
seems
to be mum about! Under this dispensation
of skewed logic, Muslims, whatever they do,
even
mass abuse
of human rights
against their
own people, should be left alone!
In this
interconnected world where life of an individual
is precious
and
cared about, mass
spree of killing in Muslim lands or mass
human rights abuse is a tolerable
injunction. Forces who tend to free the
woman of Kabul dying out of breach pregnancy, since
Taliban
rule allowed
no male
doctors to attend a delivering mother,
have no reprieve from the long
night
of unbridled campaign of inhuman treatments.
The blood spewed by Saddam in the Iraq-Iran
war, in
Halebja and
in Marshlands
was all
that of Muslims, the unmarked three hundred
thousand dead, buried in mass gravesites
are not to be
worried about since
the mass
killer was a Muslim, a Muslim tyrant
feasting on a free blood orgy can
continue to rape and chain its populace.
 A medieval ideologue cannot be compared
to an Oxbridge graduate. This is the
biggest failure of Islam
accumulated over centuries.
"Innovation of thought" was denounced
by Imam Al-Ghazali as heresy. Ibn
Khuldoon, Ibn Sina, Ibn Ishaq, Khayyam,
Biruni
or Farabi, for one reason or the other,
were declared heretics
by the clergy
of the
time.
The efforts to arrest free thought
in Muslim
societies have always succeeded thanks
to the clergy. The silent
majority spirit
has always been ignored as the clergy
kept the masses
in check. The inability to keep pace
with time has left the
Islamic world
directionless.
As backward as Afghanistan
is today, the continuous fighting
in this country
has led
to untold
sufferings for
its people. Al Qaeda is in the forefront
of efforts to achieve more "failures"
like Afghanistan across the Islamic
lands. Countries that are
integrating with the rest of
the world are their primary targets. Turkey is
a case in point since it symbolizes
the ability of Islam to co-exist with democracy
and freedom.
Palestinians may
have been the victims of Israeli aggression
but their leadership
also
failed
them during the course
of this century
by aligning themselves with
losers. The issue of Palestine would
not have risen
had the
Ottomans not aligned themselves
with the
Germans in the First World
War.
Had the Sheriff of Mecca not
overthrown the rule
of Ottomans
in
Hijaz,
the geographical
map of the Middle
East might have been different.The
break up of the Ottoman Empire
was
the result
of realignments
within
the world
and the refusal
of Nejd and Hijaz to be ruled
by an Osmani caliph.
If the ummah
had been united, external
interference could not have destroyed the
Caliphate!
In the
Second World
War that
followed, Mufti
Al Husseini made efforts
to recruit Muslims for the German army.
This was also an error
of extraordinary proportions. Why do we become
aligned with losers? Why
don't we have the vision to support
the winners?
The Palestinian
issue
is the core
issue for
the Islamic world.
 However
this too is a tale of intransigence
and self-inflicted
pain. It was intransigence
and the desire
to annihilate Israel
in 1967 that prevented
compromise;
similarly
in 1973 it was
the desire to take back
what was lost in 1967. The challenge
for
the Muslim world is to
leave the dark ages behind. Muslims
must
take a giant step forward
and encourage debate and dissent
in their
societies.
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