Bullies, Dogs, Rats and the Muslim Ummah

 The Muslim International Newsletter
-- from Dr. Amir Ali -- amirali@ilaam.net
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The twentieth century was very rough on Muslims all over the world. It began with the rise of three enemy camps against Islam: Christian Fundamentalism, Zionism and Communism; All three movements established a good foothold early in the century. Zionism was led by the Europeans and strongly supported by the American President Harry Truman, first Christian Fundamentalist in the White House. The First World War brought the final downfall of the Khilafah in Turkey in 1924 and with it the beheading of the Muslim Ummah was rendered. Since the end of the Khilafah there has been one calamity after another with no end in sight. The 21^st century began with the worldwide war on Islam beginning with Afghanistan and then Iraq, this time led by the American regime of George W. Bush, a Born Again Christian (Christian Fundamentalist). Bush implied in his declarations that 21^st century is going to be the final century of war on Islam. Europe has been fighting this war for three centuries intellectually, economically, socially and at times, violently through outright military suppression. Americans have chosen the cover of “the War on Terrorism” by finding a self-created pretext of 9-11, a “catastrophic and catalytic event like Pearl Harbor”, as defined by the PNAC report.

 

In reality the downfall of the Muslim Ummah began with the downfall of Muslim Spain (Andalus) and continued throughout the period of colonial expansion of European powers. Muslim countries either came under the direct rule of European colonial powers or some of these countries were ruled indirectly by the same powers through puppet regimes. With the exception of changing their religion, Muslims succumbed to the West and compromised their culture and modified their 'Aqeedah to live under the Kafir-enemy rulers. The Muslim Ummah exchanged jihad thru Da’wah for comfort and security but lost both. With a few rare exceptions, the enemies of Islam easily defeated Muslim armies due to the traitors in the ranks and lack of support of the Muslim masses for the Muslim defenders.

 

In 1947 a wave of independence began with the independence of India and Pakistan but the same countries were subjected to neo-colonialism, that is, indirect rule tainted with economic, educational and cultural submission to the colonial powers. This was possible because the colonial powers left these countries only in the hands of their own puppets who were born in Muslim families but had acquired the same mind as of their colonial masters. None of the so-called, independent countries of the Muslim majority have been able to establish a truly independent or Islamic identity. The foot of the European colonial powers, joined by the United States of America and the Soviet Union after World War II, continued to bear heavily on the body of Muslim Ummah. The situation may be understood through a parable.

 

At the dawn of European colonialism the body of the Muslim Ummah may be seen as the body of a sick man who was suffering from cancer or some deep organic diseases, making him frail, weak and hardly able to move. Here came the bully of the West (colonial powers), pushed the sick man causing him to fall down, the bully put his heavy foot on top, making the sick man unable to move. There was no one around to listen to his screams or come to his aid. The bully and his gangsters collectively helped each other to keep the sick man on the ground. After lying for sometime on the ground the sick man developed more sores all over his body and many infections internally. The bully's foot was there and the sick man was unable to move while his body continued to rot from the inside and outside. The bully threw some more infectious material on him and fed him dirty infectious food, which the sick and hungry man considered to be humanitarian help, in the form of interest bearing loans from IMF and World Bank, owned by the bullies. These loans had enough strings and stings attached so that the recipient victim country would remain subservient to the colonizers. It is a well-known fact that every dollar given in loans brings back two dollars; no wonder that no Muslim country has ever made any economic or technological progress through these loans except becoming a debtor country.

 

Under the auspices of the bully, dogs and rats were brought into play and began to nibble various parts of the sick man's body. The sick man screamed "My toes! My toes!” "My arm! My arm!" or whatever hurt him most at a given time without realizing that his whole body was rotting. The bully, whom the sick man mistook to be his friend, was not allowing him to move, get food and medicine to be able to regain his health. Whenever the sick man screamed, "My toes" a few sympathetic people went to place a band-aid on the toe, whereas it needed stitching, joining bones and plaster. Others mumbled foul and offered a few words of sympathy to the sick man, cursed the dogs but could do nothing more. No one would dare try to remove the bully on top of the sick man or his sponsorship of dogs and rats, nor the internal sickness of the sick man himself. The bully was doing everything within his control to let the dogs and rats eat the sick man, provide poison and germs to make the body more sick and help the sick man die from internal and external wounds and infections while appearing friendly and a well wisher. The worst pit bull (a mean type of dog that does not shy away from attacking its owner) in the neighborhood is the Zionist state of Israel, which is a dagger in the heart of the Muslim world. The Muslim world is in the most pain due to the dagger, Israel, in the heart, struggling to remove it, but the bully is preventing the removal of the dagger. The Muslim world will never gain health until the Dagger of the West, Israel is removed from the heart.

 

What is the solution? What can be done to save the sick man? Those who analyze the problem and offer solutions may be divided into broad five groups. (1) There are some who do not see the internal sickness of the sick man and all they see is the bully, dogs and rats. They blame the bully, dogs and rats only for the downfall of the sick man. They fail to recognize that even if the bully removes his foot, dogs and rats stop eating, the sick man will still be unable to get up and walk. The sick man has been fed poison and toxins for centuries and he needs to remove the poison and toxins from his body. (2) There are others who do not see the bully, the dogs and rats but they see only the sick man without recognizing his ailments and call him just a lazy bum who does not want to get up on his own. They fail to see the necessity of removing the heavy foot of the bully and driving away of dogs the rats from the sick man. (3) Then there are those who see neither the bully nor the internal sickness but see only dogs and rats nibbling on the body. They think that it is enough to drive away the dogs and rats from the sick man for him to be able to get up and start walking. (4) There are those who see only dogs but they do not see rats or the bully or the ailments of the sick man. Such people look at rats and bullies as friends and well wishers. (5) There are realists who see the whole problem in a comprehensive way, that is, the sickness requiring diagnosis and full treatment, the problem of removing the bully from the top and removing dogs and rats who are nibbling all parts of the body of the sick man, the Muslim Ummah. It is obvious that the bully is western colonial and imperialist powers led by the U.S.A., the dogs are the ruling Muslim puppets of the bully and rats are intellectual slaves and hired Muslim agents (traitors among Muslims) of the bullies.

 

However, the dogs and rats are under the protection of the bully and the bully is too strong to be removed from top of the body of the sick man by force. The only process left is to convince the bully that the sick man is not dangerous; in fact, the sick man is a friend of the bully and his dogs and rats. Education is the key to the external solution. This education can take place only through persistent, untiring and innovative da'wah efforts. The internal solution is to bring the Ummah, the sick man, back to the Qur'an and Sunnah and to remove opinion and innovation based, cultural Islam from the body and to remove those western influences that are not compatible with Islam. The economic solution is to remove the poison and infection of “foreign aid”, return all loans given by IMF and World Bank and gain freedom from current debts owed. If any loans are needed, it should be borrowed from Muslim countries, such as, the Gulf States of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and others. Saudi Arabia alone has one trillion dollars invested in the U.S. that is accruing a minimum of fifty billion dollars annually that Saudis do not want or collect and it goes to Israel and subsidizes American murder campaigns in the Muslim world. The Gulf States should invest their wealth in the Muslim world’s scientific and industrial development accruing profits not interest.

 

There are two thousand Islamic organizations in North America, which are supposed to be working to educate and reform Muslims (internal solution), whereas there is hardly any Islamic organization dedicated to the external solution, that is, education of non-Muslim masses. The Institute of Islamic Information & Education (III&E) has taken up the project of educating the North American population about Islam and Muslims. Muslim majority countries must have reform groups and operate somehow despite the presence of the heavy hand (or foot) of the bully and his sponsored pit bulls and rats. The governments of the West have their heavy foot on the body of Muslim Ummah and meddle in the affairs of Muslim countries; such meddling is possible only with the tacit approval of their populations as expressed in their elected bodies and a few paid traitors. In the western democracies, members of the legislatures and administrations are accountable to the population and have to stand up for reelection, providing an opportunity for the population to express their approval or disapproval of their policies. If administrations adopt unpopular policies and legislators approve them, the population will bring them down in an election. Also, the elected representatives find out ahead of time whether a policy is popular or unpopular through polls carried out periodically. There is one condition for the democratic process to operate successfully, that is, to educate the masses by providing true information by the media. The people’s decision is as good as their knowledge; faulty knowledge leads to faulty decisions resulting in wrong people being elected. Unfortunately, the American media is the source of disinformation about Islam and Muslims resulting in the election of Islamophobes. The election of George W. Bush and many Islamophobes in 2004 is a good example of a media campaign of disinformation. In November 2004, a London newspaper asked how 59 million American people can be so stupid to reelect Bush! The fact is that the American people were duped by the American media disinformation campaign. The American media did what it was demanded of to do by the Zionists. This means Muslims living in the Western countries have a duty to educate the populations so that meddling in Muslim countries' affairs becomes unpopular and helping them in a way Muslim countries desire becomes popular. This can be done only through education (da'wah) of the people. Since the media is against Islam and Muslims, it will remain unavailable to Muslims, therefore, Muslims have to make plans without it. Muslims have to develop ways of outreach to the masses directly, house to house, making use of printed material for the delivery of the message. See III&E brochure titled, One Family a Month.

 

How effective can Muslims be? And what is the price?

 

If relatively unknown Jimmy Carter in 1974-75, Bill Clinton in 1989-90 and George W. Bush in 1998-99, can become Presidents in 1976, 1992 and 2000, respectively, after three to four years of planning and hard work; there is no reason why Islam cannot become a respected religion and Muslims as acceptable people in ten years of planning and hard work. Naturally, Muslims have to pay for the cost. Any cost should not be considered too much for Islam to become a respected household word and Muslims to be revered throughout the world. Just look at the cost Muslims are paying in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Kashmir, Palestine and pogroms of Muslims in India, Philippines, and numerous other places, which are the handiwork of bullies, their dogs and rats. Resistance to and hurdles placed in high technology transfer to Muslim countries is a form of discrimination and persecution of Muslims, while India, Israel, Taiwan, South Korea and many other non-Muslim countries are helped. It is worth noting that the CIA and thirteen other intelligence (and sabotage) agencies of the U.S. are spending over one hundred billion dollars annually; the question is what proportion of this covert operations budget is being spent to sabotage the development of the Muslim world and to suppress Islamic movements, is anybody's guess. Actually, the entire budget for the “War on Terrorism”, which is a War on Islam, is to sabotage Islamic movements and to restrict technological and industrial development of Muslim majority countries. In the Bush dictionary democracy in the Muslim world means, making American puppets more acceptable by raising the façade of elections.

 

Education of the West about Islam and the Muslims is indispensable. We have to take the message of Islam to the people in the West, in general, and the American people in particular. Learn from Taiwan, Korea and Hong Kong. These countries became independent after Pakistan and today they are technological, industrial and economic giants in the Far East, after Japan. Pakistan was denied help and hurdles were placed in its economic progress by the West, particularly the U.S, only because Pakistan was carved out of India to establish Islamic rule in the country. Always, the West keeps finding excuses to suppress scientific, technological and industrial advancement in all Muslim countries, in general, Pakistan, in particular. The latest excuse being the Islamic bomb. No one talks about the Zionist bomb of Israel; this is hypocrisy and double yardstick. Pakistan's internal ailments share a partial burden of her backwardness but not all of it. Iraq was destroyed in 1991 and knocked down to the stone age in a few days of bombing causing 500,000 deaths and property damage worth 619 billion dollars and was subject to the cancer of U.N. teams bent on destroying everything in Iraq under the guise of arms destruction. This went on until the Bush war of 2003 that caused complete destruction of the country, killing 150 thousand women and children; numerous towns and villages were razed to the ground, millions of people were rendered refugees; hospitals, farms, factories, etc were destroyed; libraries were burned down destroying thousands of rare manuscripts. This is the measure of prejudice, hate and fear of Islam in America; evil actions of the American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq are the direct result of brain polluting of the soldiers with the hate of Islam, Muslims and Arabs. The above words should not be interpreted as my support of Saddam Hussein, who himself was an American attack dog appointed by the bully to destroy the Islamic movement in his country and in the region, which he did very effectively. However, in pursuit of his personal grandeur and to find a place in the history of Arabs, he gave some technological base to Iraq without the approval of his bosses, which they then had to destroy. Saddam established the best hospitals and school system and raised the literacy rate to the highest level (near 100%) in the Middle East and developed endowment funds to run them. American troops destroyed it all during 2003-04 military campaigns.

If Muslims want a change, there is nothing less than changing minds of the people in America thru education. Simply lobbying in the capitals of the West as done by AMC (American Muslim Council) in Washington DC is not enough. People, the bosses of the elected politicians have to be educated (da'wah) and people have to support what AMC wants, otherwise the politicians will not pay attention to what AMC wants, except offering courteous words. American Jews can serve as a reasonable model for Muslims in America. Jews of Europe began migrating to the U.S. in large numbers in the 1880s. At that time Jews were poor, hated and discriminated against but they had a vision and plans to change American public opinion. They worked in the masses and lobbied in the halls of the centers of power. In about sixty years of hard work, they began to control the economy, politics and the media. It is the American Jews who catalyzed the process of establishing Israel and, generated huge political, economic, and military support. America is an open and free country with equal opportunity but only for those who are willing to work hard. The same opportunities are available to the Muslims, provided they have a vision and strategy to match it.

 

The III&E has taken up the project of removing bullies from the back of the Muslim Ummah and driving away their dogs and rats from the body of the Muslim Ummah through education of the population and its leadership in the West, particularly the U.S.. The more money we put into this work and the more people who join this mission, the faster the Muslims will succeed. Won't you join the Institute's mission and work with your money, your time and your talents? Call or write to III&E to find how you can be involved in the work to restore dignity and respect to the Muslim Ummah. Ask yourself, "Am I a part of the problem or a part of the solution. Am I a doer or only a talker?" Begin with donating your money to the III&E; sign the monthly automatic electronic donation form; the form is available at www.iiie.net and become a member.

M. Amir Ali, Ph.D.

Written in January 1993. Revised in March 2005