What happened in Chicago

The self-made-guardians-of-the-world countries gathered in Chicago in the third week of May to discuss how to keep Afghanistan under their control after the ultimate withdrawal of their troops in 2014 and how to ensure that the Taliban do not come in power there once again. It was decided that according to the programme the process of withdrawal should be started and the security system of Afghanistan be handed over gradually to the Afghan army in 2013, and one lakh thirty thousand troops of Nato should be fully withdrawn from there in 2014. As for keeping Afghanistan under their control, no such method was devised nor was it announced as there was no need to declare it nor to devise any such method. Everyone knows what will happen there. CIA, Mossad and agencies of some other countries will continue their activities there as they have been doing in other Muslim countries. On the other hand, Afghan president Hamid Karzai wants that the Taliban should not be treated as arch enemy rather a dialogue should be initiated with them and their cooperation should be sought in the establishment of peace in Afghanistan and its reconstruction.

Perplexity in New Delhi

The news coming from Chicago that Nato (America) has taken ultimate decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, has caused perplexity among the political and journalistic circles of New Delhi. The Times of India has expressed it at its climax.  It has written in its May 23 editorial: ‘Nato should not make haste in withdrawing from Afghanistan’. Times says that “Nato summit… failed to answer some tough questions…. Compounding matters further is the decision of new French President Francois Hollande to pull out all French troops by the end of the year. This could embolden the Taliban…. the biggest challenge remains Pakistan, which would demand billions of dollars for its cooperation in the war on terror…. acceding to its demands would be suicidal for Nato.” But the perplexity of Times is: “A Taliban comeback in Afghanistan would be a huge blow to regional security, providing a boost to radical Islamists the world over.”

The Government of India shouldn’t worry

This editorial note of the English daily informally represents the foreign policy of Government of India. Whenever it was the talk of withdrawal of occupying forces from Afghanistan during the last two years, this has been the response of New Delhi directly or indirectly. But here we don’t intend to comment of this response. Our concern is only that efforts are being made to make the world afraid of Islamists in the name of opposing the Taliban. When the media uses the term “Islamic radicalism”, no one feels difficulty in understanding its real meaning. The Taliban are the people having faith in Islamic principles in their individual and collective lives. They had established a government in Afghanistan on these very principles, which brought an end to international trade in drugs and wiped out crimes and obscenity from that country. It had put a check on the import of immoral culture of the west. That is why America spoiled their government by staging the 9/11 drama. After the end of Taliban rule, our government has invested a lot in Afghanistan and it is afraid of it. But the Government of India should not be afraid of the comeback of Taliban rather should have a dialogue with them. Our interests there can be safer now than earlier. Then an analysis of a government established on Islamic principles and its performance should be made in an unbiased manner.

28/05/12 khabar-O-Nazar by Parwaaz Rahmani, sehrozaDAWAT, translated by: Abu Yusuf

These aspects of American barbarity

The diatribe of Matthew Dooley, the army officer teaching an anti-Islam course in an army training center in the US State of Virginia, saying that “Islam should be obliterated and if need be both the centers of Islam should be bombarded” was much discussed in the world media. But the world did not take due notice of those aspects of his diatribe that might have brought into light the barbarity, beastly nature, stone-heartedness and inhumanity of at least American ruling class if not of the entire American nation. While this aspect was also reported in the media: “First create such a condition in Saudi Arabia that the people there start starving and then drop Hiroshima and Nagasaki-like bombs on Mecca and Medina without caring for the number of civilians killed.” Does it not clearly show that the Americans neither feel sorry for nor are they perturbed on killing thousands of lives by bombing the two cities of Japan seventy years ago? And even today they would not feel any hesitation in repeating the act when need be notwithstanding the number of civilians killed.

This is the history of America
And not only this, this nation does not hesitate in creating a condition of starvation in order to destroy a country. This beastly nature of US mentality is no revelation; rather it is a known fact and the entire history of America bears witness to it. Famous American Jewish thinker Noam Chomsky, in one of his books, has mentioned those four hundred attacks that America made on innocent beings in different periods of history. Even after Japan, America created chaos of human lives by bombing many countries. Two armed aggression on Iraq and the attack on Afghanistan are the recent ones. But the most recent are the drone attacks that America is making on Pakistan from time to time, in which many innocent lives are being killed. To create a condition of starvation is also one of its strategies. It has spoiled the lives of well-to-do population of Iraq in this way. But these are those kinds of American barbarity that the world sees with its naked eyes. While besides these there are its secret strategies whereby it having put the gun on the breast of rulers of prosperous countries compels them to follow its biddings and loots its natural resources.

The most important question before the world today
Now there should be a question before the gentlemen of the world: Is such a stone-heated, unjust and international dacoit nation able to be called the leader of the world? Can this untrustworthy nation be treated as a jury in international matters and issues? Now it is “super power” on the basis of its own gundaism. It is ruling over the world with the help of its destructive capability. Then there should be a question before the world whether it is not necessary to stop this unbridled power from causing further chaos and anarchy? If yes, then how and what is the ideology that can control over the Satanic system of governance of America? If the world is not in a position to pay direct attention to that ideology for the time being then it should consider this aspect of the question as to which ideology and way of life America is afraid of and hence wants to obliterate it. Undoubtedly the entire American nation cannot be held responsible for this unjust act of the American ruling class but as American nation has turned comfort-loving due to its material prosperity, it does not take notice of the activities of its rulers. Now the question is who should draw the attention of the world and the American nation itself then its only answer is that the believers should do this work.

25/05/12 khabar-O-Nazar by Parwaaz Rahmani, sehrozaDAWAT, translated by: Abu Yusuf

“Reshaping Islam for the modern age”

“Reshaping Islam for the modern age”. This is the headline of a report in the English daily The Hindu (May 18). And the correspondent Hasan Suroor, in sub-heading, says that “British Muslims, mostly of South Asian origin, want to open their religion to critical enquiry and debate”. And the same kind of story has been knit as is regularly finding place in the western media these days, with reference to western people’s objections to Islamic norms and values, their support to certain non-practical Muslims and the views of Muslims suffering from inferiority complex. Such stories are concocted, basing them on some incident or assumption. Or then, giving some colour to the reality, it is claimed that Muslims living in western countries have become fed up with “wrong interpretation and explanation” of Islam and want that those teachings should be reinterpreted so that they might be compatible to modern conditions and necessities. This time this story has been woven on the basis of a reported act of some Muslims, who were sent behind bars for sexually assaulting some white girls. The story is interesting.

Part of a planned campaign
And such stories are part of that planned campaign which is being run at international level with a view to defame Islam and Muslims and this campaign is the offshoot of “war on terrorism” continuing on the assumption of “9/11”. This campaign is being run in different forms and directions with different methods and umpteen weapons. One attempt is that certain injunctions of the Qur’ān and Shari’ah are explained in such a way that on its basis “modern edition” of Islam can be prepared, which can be acceptable to Muslim Ummah as well. Although this attempt is very ancient, the origin of which can be traced to Lawrence of Arabia and Humphrey during the British regime, but for the last 20 years, with the end of cold war and after the American slogan of “new world order”, this work has been done in organised ways. For this purpose individuals from among Muslims are being searched and prepared. Influencing with different methods the brains of the various sections of the Ummah, attempts are being made to capture them. Control over the rulers of wealthy countries is one of them and this is the most successful attempt.

This is the anxiety of western minds
These efforts of the western minds, in fact, show their anxiety. They do not understand what to do. Their purpose is not achieved fully even by staging drama of terrorism the world over in order to prove Islam as the religion of terror and bloodshed.  By indulging the rulers of prosperous Muslim countries in obscenity and moral ills, they do get their wealth but they are not getting any success in bringing their populations to “modern Islam” by disenchanting them from the roots of Islam. To them the condition of poor Muslim countries is rather worse. The rulers of those countries are brought under their control very easily but to disenchant their populations from the fundamentals of Islam is more difficult than disenchanting the populations of rich countries. Therefore their “propagation” of “modern Islam” depends entirely on comfort-loving Muslims living in western countries. As they have been addicted to the material wellbeing of the west consciously or unconsciously, they easily fall into the trap so much so that the west gets from among their ranks intellectuals, scholars and journalists who prove helpful in this cause.

22/05/12 khabar-O-Nazar by Parwaaz Rahmani, sehrozaDAWAT, translated by: Abu Yusuf

This grief and anger is natural but…

It was but natural for the Muslims the world over to feel aggrieved and angered at the news that came to light in the second week of May saying that “in a military college in the American State of Virginia one subject taught to the under-training military men is about the religion of Islam but in a way that instead of teaching Islam honestly Islam is presented as the enemy of America and humanity; the army instructor Matthew Dooley went to the extent of saying that Islam (Allah forbid) should be obliterated and if need be atom bombs should be dropped on Makkah and Medina in the manner of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”. Therefore severe reaction is coming from every section of Muslim Ummah; America’s enmity of Islam is being condemned. It is so because it has hurt the feelings of every Muslim. – But if we having held control over sentiments and feelings consider the issue coolly, we find this situation pinpointing to a great reality. And that is anti-Islam forces’ insentience, helplessness, dearth of vision, irritation and fear. Does this situation not prove that these forces cannot counter Islamic way of life with knowledge, wisdom and propriety, viz. they cannot put a spanner in its way with their Satanic ideology?

 This is the history of truth and falsehood
And this is the history of truth and falsehood. When, fourteen hundred years ago, the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) presented the Dawah of Islam, it caused a quake in the Satanic quarters in the same way and the same method was used then to oppose this Dawah and to mobilise people against it as the anti-Islam forces are using today:
satiza kar raha hai azal se ta imrozchiragh-e-Mustafwi se sharare bu lahabi(The light lit by the Prophet has always been under attack by the evil of the likes of Abu Lahab).
It is right that the Ummah is expressing grief and anger, but it should keep in view the pleasant aspect of this situation that these forces are bearing witness, with their action, before the justice-loving and neutral people of the world that only Islam is the true religion; these forces are compelling people to think in the same way as the silent majority of Makkah used to think as to what was the guilt of Muhammad bin Abdullah for which the leaders of the city were inflicting oppression on him. He only urged people to give up idol worship and do the worship of their Creator and Lord, to relinquish oppression and coercion, to renounce obscenity, to do good to the weak and hapless, slaves and women. But these people did not dare to utter anything before their oppressive and powerful leaders.

That section is present even today
That section of neutral people is present even today. The under-training army man, who protested against the tirade of Matthew Dooley in the Military College, is one of them. He not only protested but complained against it with higher officials. After which that class was suspended and Dooley was relieved from the training work. Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey also paid thanks to that army man. And when this news was made public all over the world by the international media, gentle-minded non-Muslims as well as Muslims condemned this incident. Although the basic policy of American administration will not change with the sense of sorrow expressed by Pentagon yet this incident has provided an opportunity once again for American citizens to brood over why after all their powers-that-be do character-assassination of Islam and Muslims. Let it be very much clear that common citizens of western world are not against Islam; they are only influenced by anti-Islam propaganda, and a large number of them are curious about it as the Makkans had been. Therefore the Muslims living in the west should knock at the hearts of common men in the west.

19/05/12 khabar-O-Nazar by Parwaaz Rahmani, sehrozaDAWAT, translated by: Abu Yusuf

That slogan of new world order?

When, after the end of Cold War and the first aggression against Iraq 21 years ago, America raised the slogan of “New World Order”, it was all clear to the scholars and intellectuals of the world at that very time as to what America wanted to do and what it means by new world order and which way of life it was to declare as its number one enemy. World commentators especially Islamic thinkers started to express their feelings thereon; but, if the common world was looking at this development with interest, the majority of Muslims too had not much worry about it. Then America having staged a drama of terror attack on Trade Towers of New York in September 2001 announced a war against world terrorism in the name of “war on terrorism”, then none of those who keep the eyes open had any doubt about this war in fact being the war on Islam; an American scholar of Indian origin, Enver Masud, had warned [the world] at that very time by writing a book entitled “War on Islam” that this is in fact an anti-Islam campaign. Many other Muslim scholars and intellectuals also have been pointing out this fact ever since.

What American history saysBut the US reaction on such voices coming from the various parts of the Muslim world was that of denial. It said that it was not anti-Islam; and that it was only against the terrorism in the name of Islam. Soon after September 11, President Bush having gone to the Islamic Centre, Washington tried to assure the whole Muslim Ummah: “Our war is against terrorism and extremism, not against Islam or Muslims.” – As to the verbal claim, this is America’s declared standpoint even today. In reply to a question during her visit to Bangladesh in the first week of May, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said: “When I hear that America is against Islam, I feel grieved.” – But those who are aware of the entire history of America and its methodology during the Cold War, and are conscious of its present agenda did not ever have any doubt that America is at war with Islam, and its saying that “We are against Islamic extremism, not against Islam” is a mere formality for a few days; it is to declare very soon that it is at war with Islam. (In the columns of this newspaper this fact has been often pointed out.)

One latest proof
And its latest proof is the revelation of a military course that was being taught in a military college in the US State of Virginia. Army men under training were taught that our enemies are not only Islamic terrorists but Islam itself is “our greatest enemy. So it should be (Allah forbid) eliminated and if need be both of its centres, Makkah and Madinah, should be destroyed by military attacks without caring for the number of civilians killed.” This Satanic course came to light when an army man under training objected to the diatribe of the army officer-cum-trainer Matthew Dooley, and informed the higher officers (about it). Most of the newspapers of May 12 published this accidentally leaked news with reference to Associated Press. The Hindu has published it with reference to its correspondence. The Times of India headlined it “US suspends ‘war on Islam’ military course”. “Higher officers” did suspend the course and also announced that “it is against the American values” but it is mere gimmick. This revelation (which is in fact not a revelation) should be taken in the light of American statements, announcements and events during the last 11 years.

16/05/12 khabar-O-Nazar by Parwaaz Rahmani, sehrozaDAWAT, translated by: Abu Yusuf