The US War
of Ideological Cleansing
Firoz
Mahboob Kamal
The US joins al-Assad
The US-led imperialists now have entered the Syria soil
and started a new killing mission to add up more massacres, more destruction
and more blood bath along with the killer regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
The Syrian tyrant has already killed more than 200 thousands people over the
last three years. Most of the victims are children, women and innocent civilians.
His army has turned hundreds of cities and villages only to rubbles. The whole
country is now a war-field, al-Assad’s army is using barrel bombs, chemical
bombs, missiles and heavy artillery shells to cause more killing and
destruction. The devastating war has now entered into its 4th
year. More than one-third of the population have been driven out of Syria. So
far the USA and its partners did nothing to stop the ongoing genocide and
destruction. They haven’t thrown even a single stone at al-Assad’s army to stop
the brutality. Rather, what al-Assad’s army have done to Homs, Hama, Aleppo and
other Syrian cities, the USA is doing the same to Kobani. It is now using its
warships, fighter jets, missiles and thousands of tons of bombs to bring more deaths
and devastation. The US-led Western countries have diverted the whole focus of
the war from defeating al-Assad’s brutal army to destroying the Islamic State.
However, President Bashar al-Assad’s brutality shows
some visible difference from its US brand. The Syrian oil fields, gas fields
and the oil refineries could still survive from al-Assad’s bombing. These are
the assets for the common good for all the Syrian people of all faiths, tribes
and ethnicities. But such assets couldn’t survive from the US savagery. Nor did
al-Assad showed luxury of dropping tons of bombs on a barren mountain in Kobani
only to burn a black flag with the name of Allah Subhana wa Taala and His
prophet (peace be upon him) on it. Bashar al-Assad didn’t consider it a
strategic target. But it appeared like a military instillation in the eyes of
the American warlords. So they dropped tons of bombs on it. The photo of the
blown up hill and flag was shown worldwide by the Western media. This way they
displayed their venom against the name of Allah Subhana wa Taala and His great
prophet (peace be upon him).
However, it is not a new symptom of the American
paranoia. Even before dropping bombs in Kobani, many mosques were bombed,
scores of copies of the holy Qur’an were desecrated and many Islamic madrasas
were burnt by the US occupying forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. The US has taken
all brands of anti-Islamic parties, thugs and militias as the closest partners
in war against Islam. In Afghanistan, the closest allies of the US are the
man-slaughtering warlords of the Northern Alliance. In Iraq, they are the
throat-slitting Shia militia. Now in Syria, they have forged strong partnership
with the well-known Marxist-Leninist terrorists. Long before the war in Syria,
Kurdish Marxist-Leninists YPJ party (People's Protection Units) in Syria and
its sister organisation PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) in Turkey were known as the
terrorist organisation in the US. In Kobani, the US has dropped huge cache of
weapons and foods for the Marxist-Leninists to save them from eminent defeat.
For the US and its ally, the tyrant al-Assad and his
brutality is not an issue. Saving men and women, protecting human rights or
promoting democracy is not a concern either. The main issue is the destruction
of the Islamic State and its strategic assets. Each Tomahawk missile
costs 1.4 million dollar. Such a high precision missile is used only to destroy
high-value enemy targets like naval warships, air force base, radar station or
other strategic military installations. The Islamic State possesses none of
such magnitude. But the US has other high-value targets in Islamic State. These
are the cities, townships, villages and houses that breed resentment against
the US-led barbarity in the Muslim World and produce combative jihadists.
Hence, these stipulated targets are indiscriminately bombed. Till now
(25/10/14), the US warships stationed in the Mediterranean Sea fired 47
Tomahawk missiles only on one city of Kobani –along with hundreds of air
bombings. With the same paranoia, Israel dropped thousands of tons of bombs on
Gaza in its recent war.
Monopoly of violence
The US-led coalition of the imperialists wants to
monopolise every tool of violence. They consider it crucial for the global
hegemony. They don’t want others –especially the Islamists to possess even the
minimal weapons for their self-defence. Under the colonial occupation, the
natives of the occupied countries were not allowed to keep even a shotgun or
sword for their own defence. They considered such minor tools threat to their
colonial hegemony. But they possessed every weapon of mass destruction. The
US-led imperialists want to keep such a status quo. They can invade and bomb
any country they wish and kill as many people as they like. The US has invaded
7 countries in the 21st century, and killed millions of innocent men, women and
children in those occupied lands.
In the imperialists’ vocabulary, such invasions,
bombings and killings are no crime. Nor do they call such acts as terrorism.
They deny others the right of resistance against such invasion and killings.
Hence, in the US-led camp, the occupation of Palestine and the ethnic cleansing
of its native people is not a crime. But raising heads against the occupation
and ethnic cleansing is terrorism. As if, full compliance with the enemy
occupation is the only option for keeping up the survival. Gaza was bombed for
more than 50 days to punish its people –only for the non-compliance with the
imposed blockade. Now it is the turn of newly formed Islamic State. Kobani is
the new Gaza. It is smaller than Gaza and the city is almost vacant. But still
it had residential quarters, houses, shops, roads and a hill with a black flag
with the name of Allah Subhana wa Taala and His prophet (peace be upon him) on
it; therefore high-value strategic targets for the US bombing campaign. Till
now (25/10/14), the US Air Force has bombed 550 times on this small city. Here
in Kobani the US-led coalition made a history and a world record. No city of
the size of Kobani was bombed so heavily in the whole human history, even not
during the whole World War period. The bombing mission still continues.
The war of ideological
cleansing
The US-led imperialists’ war has a clear strategic
objective. It is the ideological cleansing of the world –especially the Muslim
world. They have defeated Soviet Union; and thus have cleansed the world from
communism. Now the target is Islam with its Qur’anic model of shura,
sharia, khilafa, jijiya, jihad, pan-Islamism and other socio-political
policies. Hence, wherever there is a resurgence of Islam with such prophetic
model of rule, an imposed war by the West is inevitable. The prophet of Islam
couldn’t avoid such a war from the contemporary kuffars; nor can do avoid the
modern days’ followers of the prophet. The kuffars of the modern days are no
less intolerant and inimical against Islam than their ancestors. The present
day enemies of Islam couldn’t get any chance to fight wars against the great
prophet of Islam, but they have the opportunity to fight war against his devout
followers and his Islamic policies. And they don’t want to miss that
opportunity. Hence, the US is not concerned about the deaths and destruction in
the cities of Homs, Hama, Aleppo and other Syrian cities, but worried about the
fall Kobani under the Islamists.
The USA is the worst ideological state on earth. Its
ideology is global imperialism twined with liberal capitalism and the culture
of consumerism and pleasure-seeking hedonism. The US-led west is happy
with the Islam of Saudi kings, Gulf sheikhs, Egyptian or Pakistani generals and
other Muslim secularists. The imperialists are even happy to take them as
partners in their war against Islam. But they consider the jihadi Islamists
inspired by Qur’an as the greatest threat to their global hegemony. The US-led
coalition wants to populate the global village with the people of single
ideology, single economy and the single culture. Like pharaoh, Nimrod and other
tyrants of the human history, they too are deadly against an ideological and
cultural plurality. Even the Christian tyrant Constantine –the Byzantine Roman
Emperor didn’t believe in such pluralism either. He forcefully converted his
almost every citizen to Christianity. So non-Christian in his empire was almost
non-existent. The same happened after the Christian takeover of Spain from the
Muslims. The religious, cultural and ethnic plurality that existed for about 7
hundred years’ Muslim rule in Spain was stampeded by the Christian tyrants. The
Western imperialists too want to take down the same route. They want others to
melt down into their ideological cum cultural pot. This is why the French
Parliament put a ban on wearing a head scarf; and hijab is banned in many
European countries. In colonial era, to attain such an ideological and cultural
hegemony, they carried out massive ethnic cleansing in America, Australia, New
Zealand and many other parts of the world. Only this way, the British, the
French and the Spanish people could make space for their own people and expand
their empires in the newly discovered lands. But such ethnic cleansing in
thickly populated modern world is unachievable. Therefore, they have taken down
the route of ideological cleansing. Hence, they are support the secularist
tyrants’ killing mission against Islamists in the Muslim countries. This is
why, they gleefully welcomed General Sisi’s military coup against the elected
Islamist President Dr Morsi in Egypt. For the same reason, they welcomed the
coup against the winning Islamists in Algeria. As the part of the same
strategy, they are also forcing the governments of the Muslim countries on
restricting Qur’anic teachings in schools and imposing ban on books on jihad
and other basics of Islam. For winning the ideological war against Islam, the
US-led coalition thinks it crucial.
The ideological colonies
After the colonial occupation, establishing ideological
cum cultural colonies in the newly occupied land received the highest priority.
For that, along with ethnic cleansing, the ideological cleansing through
wholesale ideological conversion of the native people was considered the most
popular tool in the imperialists’ camps. The political policies, meticulous
social engineering and the education system worked as powerful tools to meet
that end. The imperialists failed to produce significant number of religious
converts from the Muslims; but got huge number of ideological converts. The
ideological cleansing was so huge that Islam with its pure Qur’anic vision of
khilafa, sharia, shura, jihad, pan-Islamic brotherhood and politico-social
policies couldn’t survive in those occupied Muslim lands. Islam could survive
only as a code of some prayer rituals and non-political sufi dogmas. Such a
policy of cultural and ideological conversion through education was revealed by
T.B Macaulay, a well-known British imperialist and educational interventionist
for India in his speech in British parliament on 2nd February 1835. He stated,
“We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between
us and the millions whom we govern, --a class of persons Indian in blood and
colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect” Even
now, the British imperialists must be rejoicing the monumental success of such
an educational policy in India. The project was so much successful that the
products of the educational factories not only serve as the interpreters –as Mr
Macaulay wished but also shed their blood for the British Empire. Even man like
Mr Gandhi recruited soldiers for the British Army for the First World War.
The colonial occupation has formally ended; but the
damaging legacy of the colonial rule still survives. The ideological cum
cultural colonies of the imperialists still flourish in former colonies. The
educational industries too, that were established to produce the ideological
converts still function, rather with more massive production lines to feed the
same objectives. The bureaucratic quarters, the army cantonments and the
judicial enclaves in all big cities of the Muslim countries are indeed the
ideological islands of the imperialists. These ideological converts living in
those islands showed their ideological and cultural incompatibilities with the
traditional Islamists of their own country. Nor could they reconcile with the
political aspirations of the Muslim majority. As a result, each Muslim country
has been divided into a country of two nations: the nation of Islamists and the
nation of non-Islamic converts. As a result, unending ideological war has
erupted in almost all Muslim lands that turned into blood-letting civil war in
many countries.
The greatest terrorist
The Western imperialists fight wars, occupy lands and
shed bloods -not only for political dominance and economic exploitation, but
also for ideological and cultural hegemony. Whatever ideology stands against
them becomes a war target. Before the collapse of Soviet Union, the target was
communism. Now it is Islam. For the cause of its global hegemony, the USA
doesn’t respect the national boundary of any other country. It does not bother
to take any permission from the UN to invade a country either. Rather the UN
needs to endorse each and every US invasions for its own survival. Both
physically and politically, the UN itself stands helpless hostage on the US
soil. Therefore, like its previous invasion, the current bombing campaign in
Syria also gets the full UN endorsement and support. Even Mr Ban Ki-moon –the
UN Secretary General openly campaigned in support of such an US war mission. If
use of violence for any political, ideological or financial purpose is
terrorism, then who can be the greatest terrorist on earth than the US?
For political arm-twisting, so far, who has used more weapons of mass
destruction than the US? The US and its partners exercise the military and
economic might to redraw the political map of others –as done in the Middle
East, but don’t allow others to decide their own future –even through
democratic means. So it engineered coup against the democratic Prime Minister
Sharif Musaddeq of Iran in 1953, against Allende of Chile in 1973, against the
Islamists of Algeria in 1991 and against President Morsi of Egypt in 2013.
The snake changes only its skin; but never retires from
the biting habit. Nor does it stop the production of poisonous venom –the
lethal weapon. The same is true with the imperialists. So massacre of more than
70 million people in two World Wars couldn’t quench the thirst of these
imperialists for more killings. So they repeatedly went on the same killing
mission even after the most catastrophic two World Wars. The people of Vietnam,
Afghanistan and Iraq have already tasted their barbarity. In Vietnam, Napalm
bombs were dropped even on forests –on the pretext of destroying the safe
havens of the native fighters. As a result, huge plant and animal habitation
had to taste the US barbarity. Thousands of children, women and unarmed
civilians were scorched to death with fire bombs. Now it is the turn of the
Syrian people to taste the same cruelty. In Syria, innocent men, women
and children are not the only targets; equally innocent fields, hills,
mountains, forests, roads and highways also seem to be the strategic targets.
What Israel did in Gaza, the US is doing the same in its
own Gaza –the Islamic State; rather with more ferocity. Israel didn’t use
Tomahawk missile against civilian population. But the US is repeatedly using
it. Its bomber planes are now carpet bombing the cities and villages of the
Islamic State. Unlike Israel, the US is not alone in its killing mission. It
has many equally brutal partners. The British and the French have already
joined the bombing campaign; and more than 60 countries have also expressed
their wish to support the campaign. Some bombers from the neighbouring Muslim
countries like Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Arab Emirates have also joined the
mission. The ongoing US bombing campaign in Kobani has indeed fully diverted
the direction of the whole war efforts in Syria. It is no more a war against
the genocidal al-Assad. Now it is against the Islamic State.
The war of ideas
The US and its partners want to cleanse the world of
ideas that are against their own world view and political ambition. But idea
doesn’t live in army cantonment or residential areas; it grows only in people’s
heart and mind. Hence in ideological war, bombing on military installations or
residences doesn’t work. Rather such bombing enhances only its bumper growth.
The US war in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria gives a strong testimony to it. After
the US bombings and killings in those countries, the Islamists got many fold
increase; not only in those countries, rather globally. Such a rapid growth of
Islamists also happened after the Soviet bombing in Afghanistan. To add its own
disgrace, the US has taken the same route. So, thousands of bombs and missiles
are now being dropped on Syria’s residential areas to kill more civilians. The
Israeli Army did that in Gaza too. The US Army has been doing the same in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan for more than a decade. The Islamic
State has no cantonment, no naval ship and no visible military installation.
But it has many people with combative Islamic ideas, hence turn potential
target for US bombings. The war of ideas thus turns more genocidal. But
Israeli bombings couldn’t finish Hamas in Gaza. The US bombing in Afghanistan
couldn’t finish Taleban in Afghanistan either. Can they end the Islamists in
Syria?
No peaceful option
The Islamists have never been given a peaceful option.
The history repeatedly reveals that truth. The Muslims once became the number
one World Power and the most dominant civilisation force on earth. For that,
they had to advance every inch by sacrificing their life. More than 70% of the
companions had to die for the cause. In every segment of history and in every
land, the evil forces always used the extreme form of violence against the
Divine truth. Even the greatest sons of mankind, like Hazrat Ibrahim (blessing
of Allah Subhana wa Taala be on him), Hazrat Musa (blessing of Allah Subhana wa
Taala be on him), Hazrat Isa (blessing of Allah Subhana wa Taala be on him) and
Muhammad (peace be upon him) were not given a peaceful option either. They had
to suffer the most barbaric persecution. Prophet Ibrahim (blessing of Allah SWT
be on him) was thrown into fire. Hazrat Musa (blessing of Allah SWT be on him)
has been chased by Pharaoh and his army onto the sea. Hazrat Isa (blessing of
Allah SWT be on him) was put on the cross. The last prophet of Allah Subhana wa
Ta’ala Muhammad (peace be upon him) also suffered the severest persecution; the
tribal leaders of Makka made a final plan to kill him.
The old enemies of Islam have died; but a coalition of
new enemies has emerged with the same venom against Islam and the Islamists.
Hence the same war still continues. Only the names and brands of weapons have
changed, but not the aim and enmity. The US President Obama, the British Prime
Minister Cameron and the French President Hollande
have joined the same rank to launch a full scale war against the Islamists.
Their war is not only against Islamic State or Islamic Khilafa, but also
against the Islamists all-over the world. They are not ready to reconcile with
the political, cultural and ideological objectives of Islam. Whoever wants the
full practice of Islam -as was practised by the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon
him) and his great companions with full implementation of sharia, shura,
khalifa, jihad and other Islamic fundamentals are labelled terrorist; hence
considered enemy.
Terrorism with a different
meaning
No part of the world is so much infested with brutal
tyrants as is the case of Middle East. The Saudi tyrants can behead or imprison
as number of people as they like. There exists no accountability. The Egyptian
courts too can hang as many people as they wish. Even one day is enough for an
Egyptian judge to prosecute hundreds of people in a room and declare their
death sentences. The Egyptian army can also kill thousands of innocent people
in a single night -as they killed in Raba al-Adabiya in Cairo in August 2013.
There need not answer anyone for such crimes. Such massive terrorising acts of
these tyrants never receive any label of terrorism by the US-led imperialists.
Rather they display great love for them. They consider them the strategic
partners to sustain their dominance over oil-reach Middle East. Their help is
also needed for ensuring Israel’s long term security. These US-led imperialists
are not only complacent with their brutalities, but also take every step to
ensure their full protection. For that, the US and its partners not only keep
ever-presence of their warships, but also have established large number of
military bases in the Middle East.
The US President Barak Hussein Obama, in his speech in
the UN on 24th September, labelled the Islamic State a “nexus of
barbarity”. The question: what about his own barbarity? The US drones, missiles
and fighter jets are killing children, women and unarmed civilians in Iraq,
Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and many other countries of the
world. Israeli Army killed 2130 people in its recent 50 days’ war in Gaza and
destroyed more than twenty thousand houses and hundreds of schools. What was
the US action? Wasn’t it a crime to adopt a policy of inaction against such
Israeli genocide? It appears from the speeches of the Western leaders, as if no
killing took place before the creation of Islamic khilafa! How many civilians
are killed by the Islamic State fighters? How many civilians are evicted
by them? How many houses have been destroyed by the Islamists? After beheading
of one British citizen, the British Prime Minister Cameron called Baghdadi
“terrorist khalifa”. What about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who
killed more than two thousands in Gaza? What about George W Bush and Tony
Blair? Are they not responsible for about one million civilian deaths and huge
destruction because of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq? Why “terrorist
Netanyahu” and “terrorist Bush” do not get any mention in Mr Cameron’s speech?
In speeches of US-led imperialists, as well as in the
vocabulary of the tyrant kings, sultans, sheikhs and generals, terrorism has a
different meaning. The war for ending occupation, the struggle for removing
tyrant killers and the fight for basic human rights have always been labelled
as terrorist acts by the tyrants and the imperialist occupiers. Hence Mr Gandhi
of India, Mr Nelson Mandela of South Africa and many others of the Third World
countries had to go to the prisons for protesting against the colonial
occupation. For the same reason, al-Assad of Syria, the Saudi Kings, the
military coup leaders of Egypt and the Sheiks of the Gulf countries called his
opponents as terrorist. Any effort towards implementing sharia is labelled as
terrorism, too. Since the mission is the same, the US-led imperialists are
quite happy to take these proven killers as the partners in their killing
mission against the Islamists.
The intolerance
The US President Barak Hussein Obama, the UK Prime
Minister David Cameron and many other Western leaders didn’t hide their own
thoughts vis-à-vis Islamic khilafa. They have already declared
that they are not ready to tolerate Islamic khilafa in any part of the
world. Mr Obama has made a pledge that the US will “contain, degrade and
destroy” Islamic State. Mr Cameron called Islamic state a “terrorist
caliphate”. He also claimed that inaction against Islamic State’s barbarism
can’t be a policy. With an implied support for the US-led war, the Roman
Catholic Pope too urged that something must be done to protect the Christian
minorities and Yazeedis from the Islamists. Mr Obama, Mr Cameron, and the
Catholic Pope never pleaded for such a war against the genocidal regime of
President Bashar al-Assad in Syria or other killer regimes of the Middle East.
Neither did they say such words against the Israeli atrocities in Gaza.
The US-led imperialists have their own reasons for
virulent and violent opposition against an Islamic state. They are not ignorant
of historical implication and connotation of khilafa. Khilafa
doesn’t come alone. It also brings pan-Islamic Muslim brotherhood, sharia,
jihad, Islamic education, Islamic social policies and a global vision of
liberation of the people from yoke of evil forces. It works as a hub of Muslim
unity and inspires Muslims to emergence as a unified global power. Such an
Islamic state brings an end not only to enemy hegemony but also to non-Islamic
values, culture, laws and judiciary in Muslim lands. The Western imperialist
are not ready to accept such a colossal end of their own ideology. Moreover,
they are not ready to give such a dignified space for the Muslims either.
Hence, they are now desperate to crush Islam as the political ideology and dismantle
Islamic State in its nascent form.
The war against Allah Subhana
Wa Taala
The
imperialist’s war is not only against the Muslims or the Islamists. It is also
against Allah Subhana wa Taala. Establishing Islamic state or caliphate
following the prophet’s tradition is a Divine obligation. If this obligation is
not fulfilled, many other obligations can’t be practised either. About 70-80%
of Allah’s command can only be practised if Muslims could live in an Islamic
state. Fish can survive only in water; Muslims too needs a fully Islamic state
to live with full Islam. He can’t properly punish even a killer or a criminal
in a non-Islamic state. Islamic state or caliphate brings other blessings too.
It is the quick way of adding strength to the Muslim Ummah. In the first 13
years of the Islam in Makka, the greatest prophet (peace be upon him) of Islam
with his unprecedented knowledge, character and dawa skills –supported by many
miracles, couldn’t convert even 3 hundred people. But in the following 20 years
under the Islamic caliphate, Muslims emerged as the number one world power.
Islamic caliphate worked as the most powerful civilizational force on earth.
The Muslims can’t win a war, neither can do any moral or politico-cultural
reconstruction, nor can do any effective dawa works without the institutional
support of the Islamic khalifa. In fact, the failures of the world’s 1.3
billion squarely lie on the absence of Islamic khalifa. Hence, mosques,
madrasas, political parties, charity organisations, tabligi ijtema and sufi
khanqas were never considered as the substitute of khelafa. Khelaf’s substitute
is khilafa itself.
Allah Subhana Wa Taala has a clear announcement for
those who do not follow His sharia in making judicial judgement. He called them
kafir, jalem and fasik -(Sura Ma’ida, Verse 44 -47).
Therefore, noncompliance with sharia takes away a man’s Muslim identity; and
dumps him with a tag of non-Muslimness. Can any amount of salah (prayer),
fasting, haj or charity cover up such a kufr of noncompliance?
Compliance with sharia is indeed the key marker of muslimness of a
believer. Any form of noncompliance with sharia is kufr -therefore route
to the hellfire. Therefore, a true believer can never take a non-sharia path.
But how can sharia be practised without an Islamic State? No one can take the
sharia law in his own hand, it needs state apparatus. Hence Islamic State is an
indispensable necessity. The prophet of Islam needed it. The companions of the
prophet and the later Muslims needed it, too. But none of the current 57 Muslim
countries claim to be the follower of prophetic method of governance; neither
do they practice sharia in making judicial judgment. The so-called Muslim
states have indeed made it very difficult to live like a full Muslim. The
kuffar enemies of Islam want to keep such status quo.
So, the need for a full sharia-compliant Islamic state
is most urgent and most crucial. Any further delay will only expedite Muslims’
peril and earn more curses from Allah Subhana Wa Taala. Establishment of such
an Islamic state is indeed the first step towards breaking the status quo of
failures. It is also a big step towards becoming full Muslim for the believers.
The Muslims can survive without further economic or scientific progress, but
can’t wish to pass a single day without a desire and commitment for an Islamic
state. But all the evil forces of the world want to deprive the Muslims from
fulfilling such a crucial religious need with their full military might. The
whole conceptual framework for an aggressive war against the nascent Islamic
State is indeed based on such a devilish ploy. 01/11/2014
|