Why so much enmity to democracy and Islam?
The USA has lost confidence to win any war. Further war can only precipitate
economic collapse and no victory. This is the lesson that the USA has learned
from its humiliating defeat in Afghanistan. But the issue for the USA still
remains. It can leave Afghanistan, but can’t leave its agenda of global
dominance –its core business in world politics. So, it takes the alternative
strategy. It is through collaboration with Islam’s internal enemies in each
Muslim country. Therefore, the market price of the Arab tyrants in the US eyes
goes very high. Because these tyrants can be easily used as stooges to dominate
the oil-reach Arab World as well to guarantee the security of Israel. Since
these tyrants possess no power base amidst their own people, depend solely on
foreign powers like the USA for survival. So they can be easily drawn into the
USA’s war on Islam. But they can’t do the same with the popular democratic
government. Hence the USA and its allies find it the best strategy to invest
more money and more intelligence to make a coup d’état against any democratic
government in the Muslim World. So, the USA and its allies stand as the worst
enemy of democracy in the Muslim World –especially the Arab World. Since
democracy is the common enemy of both the USA and the Arab tyrants, the tyrant
rulers of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, and Oman are ever-ready to
co-operate with the USA’s anti-democratic project in the Arab World with their
petrodollar -as they did in Egypt in 2012 and now in Tunisia.
The tyrannical rule is the most effective way to obstruct the civilizational
progress of mankind. It is the most powerful tool to keep people de-empowered,
morally shattered, and mentally subservient. It keeps people away from the path
of moral, social, and political development. This is why the enemies of Islam
love autocrats. The history of such love affairs is huge. All the dictators of
the Arab World enjoy the support of the USA and Israel without any exception.
The USA and its allies never attempted any coup d’état against the worst
dictators like President Jamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt, President Habib Bourguiba
of Tunisia, Hafez al-Assad of Syria, or any tyrant King of Saudi Arabia. But
they always attempted coup d’état against the democratic government of the
Muslim World without any exception. In 1953, they engineered a coup d’état
against the elected government of Iran -the only democratic government in the
whole of the Middle East. They removed Iran’s elected Prime Minister Sharif
Musaddeq and installed the deposed Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi. In 2012, they
supported the coup d’état against Dr. Mohammed Morsi -the only elected ruler in
Egyptian history. Now the same gang celebrates the overthrow of the democratic
government of Tunisia -the only remaining elected government in the whole of the
Arab world. On 15 July 2016, they also made a coup attempt against the elected
government of Rajab Taiyeb Erdogan of Turkey. Not surprisingly, the hawkish
neo-con like John Bolton –the former Security Adviser to President Donald Trump
runs a think-tank called the Turkish Democracy Project to hatch plans to
overthrow Turkey’s democratic government. But none in the USA runs any project
to promote democracy in the tyrant-infested Arab World.
The calamity of the enemy occupation
Even if a tree dies, it leaves a strong stump and deep roots in the ground. So,
no new tree can grow there. The growth of a new tree is only feasible after a
deep uprooting of the old one. This is exactly true about an enemy rule in a
country. The long colonial rule in the Muslim World has ended, but its strong
stump and deep roots still exist. These cause huge obstacles in the democratic
governance of the former colonies. Each colonial government of the European
imperialists built massive infrastructures of cultural, educational, and
ideological engineering to make people subservient to their rule. These are the
educational, cultural, and training institutions, the state-owned media, the
bureaucracy, the Army, the judiciary, the literature, the theatre, and many
others. Later on, these colonial institutions built up a deep state -a powerful
club of former mercenaries inside every formal colonial state. It survived as
the remnant of the colonial legacy of the long occupation. Because of this deep
state, the democratic regimes couldn’t function in newly independent states like
Pakistan, Egypt, Sudan, Algeria, Tunisia, Nigeria, Indonesia, and many other
former colonies. In fact, this deep state paved the way for internal occupation
by the native enemy invaders. This is why the dictators like Ayyub Khan in
Pakistan, Nasser in Egypt, Habib Bourguiba in Tunisia, Ben Bella in Algeria, and
Zafar Numeri in Sudan could have such a long rule. And they could keep the
civilians –their enemy out of the power structure.
The ancient Pharaohs of Egypt could bring huge behavioral, attitudinal, and
cultural changes among the people. Because of such a change, they could
establish themselves as gods. Such tamed people were so much corrupted
intellectually that they developed deep disdain even against the great prophets
like Musa (peace be upon him) and Harun (peace be upon him). Thus it proves that
if the thinking faculty of the people are damaged then they even worship any
human, cow, snake, or idol. More than a billion people do that in India. To be
worshipped by such domesticated people, it doesn’t need to be super-human. This
is why the most inhuman dictators like Jamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and Habib
Bourguiba of Tunisia could easily attain that status.
All the tyrants apply the same methodology to tame people. In reality, these
tyrants were so poor in quality that they couldn’t show any talent in any field.
Even the worst democrat is far better than a tyrant. Because a fair democrat
gets power only after showing his talent in public. More a democrat fears
accountability in the court of people in elections. But a tyrant doesn't have
that. Jamal Abdel Nasser failed in every sector of his country like its defense,
health, economy, education, and Arab unity. In the 1967 war, Nasser couldn’t
stand against Israel even for 6 days. He lost the whole of the Sinai Peninsula
to Israel. He could only over-perform in rhetorical demagoguery and election
manipulation. He won plebiscites (there was no election under his rule) in 1956,
1958, and 1965 -while he was the sole candidate. He disbanded all opposition
parties, gaged all independent media, and barred all opposition candidates from
election. He deprived people of their political rights and right to free
expression. He took all power in his own hand. He had a parliament, and its only
duty was to ratify his every decision.
Arab World: the Valley of Death for the Islamists
The Arab world has turned to a Valley of Death for the Islamists. All Arab
tyrants possess one thing in common. It is their toxic venom against the
Islamists. No rule of law, no fair justice, and no human rights provision work
for the Islamists. As if, killing Islamists is like killing dogs and cats on the
streets. In all Arab countries –without exception, Islamists are labeled as
terrorists. Islam that entails Islamic state, sharia, hudud, jihad, pan-Islamic
unity, and rule by shura is labeled as terrorism cum barbarism. Jihad –the
highest ibada in Islam is made a taboo in the Arab world. The imams of the
mosques, columnists of the newspapers, academics of the universities do not dare
appreciate jihad in public. Islamophobia cum jihad-phobia run very high in the
Arab World. Distancing from Prophet (peace be upon him)’s original Islam that
raised the first and the finest civilizational state in human history has become
a norm in public. The cities like Aleppo, Mosul, Raqqa, Dera Zour, Ramadi,
Falluja, Tikrit, and many others were razed to the ground by the USA carpet
bombing. But the anti-Islamist propaganda hype is so high in the Arab World that
these destructions are described as the works of the Islamists. The photos of
the destroyed cities are shown in Arab World’s television networks with
Islamists’ emblems.
The toxic venom against Islam and the Islamists was firstly injected into the
Arab psyche by Jamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and later on by Habib Bourguiba of
Tunisia. The radical secularism of Nasser and Bourguiba has a stipulated
political aim. Nasser aimed at eliminating his political enemy – Ikhwan ul
Muslimeen. Habib Bourguiba’s disdain against Islam’s fundamental ritual was
extremely toxic. He made Tunisia a bastion of radical secularism in the Arab
World. In the month of Ramadan, he used to eat in public to ridicule Islam’s
teaching. He didn’t give any political space to the Islamists. His protégé Zain
el Abedin ben followed in his footsteps. The largest Islamic party En Nahda (the
Islamic resurgence party) was banned. Jamal Abdel Nasser’s enmity against the
Islamist party Ikhwan-ul Muslim was very terrific. He indeed declared a
full-fledged war on the Islamists. In that war, he wanted to bring the Egyptian
people on his side. For that, he staged a false flag shoot-out drama to hit two
targets with one stone. Firstly, to manufacture a myth about himself; secondly,
to defame Ikhwan-ul Muslim –the largest Islamic party in the public eyes.
It is alleged that on 26 October 1955 some Abdul Latif fired 8 shots from a
distance of 25 feet to assassinate Nasser. Not surprisingly, not a single bullet
hit him. Because none of the bullets was targeted at him. It had only a
political target, and the whole drama was displayed for political consumption.
In the midst of the engineered chaos, Nasser delivered a very high-spirited
speech, “My countrymen, my blood is for you and for your country. I live for you
and die for the sake of your freedom and honor…” Truly, Nasser never gave any
freedom to his countrymen. They were given only one freedom, and that is to
praise him. His above speech was put on the air numerous times to boost his
image among the public. The shooter was projected as a man of Ikhwan ul
Muslimeen, and the ploy was used to hang eight senior leaders of the party and
to put thousands of its workers in prison. The famous scholar Syed Qutb was put
on a 15-year jail sentence and later on hanged. 140 pro-Islamic Army officers
were also sacked from the job. So, the whole drama had a singular objective. It
was to eliminate the top leaders of Ikhwan-ul Muslimeen and to band the party.
And Nasser did that.
Like Jamal Abdel Nasser, General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, too, couldn’t tolerate the
elected Islamist President Dr. Mohammad Morsi. Dr Mors was a member of Ikhwan-ul
Muslimeen. Hence, he did a coup d’état against him and grabbed the power in his
own hand. On 14 August 2012, thousands of men and women came to the streets to
protest against the Army take-over. To crush the protest, General al-Sisi rolled
tanks and heavy artillery guns on the street against the unnamed protestors.
More than two thousand people were slaughtered by the Army. It was a genocide
against innocent civilians. But no one was punished. As if, the Islamists do not
deserve any justice. As if, the killers who killed so many people don’t deserve
any punishment. Rather, those who survived the carnage were arrested on terror
charges. The USA government and its western allies kept tongue-tied silence –as
if they have seen nothing and heard nothing. And this is indeed American justice
and morality.
Even a killer thug gets affection from his pet dogs and cats. Such animal
behavioral norms also work in humans. This is why the ancient tyrant Pharaohs
were worshipped by the domesticated Egyptian people. Nasser revived that
Pharaonic methodology to make Egyptian people deeply submissive to him. He
launched his social, cultural, and ideological engineering to cultivate
hero-worshipping. And the projected hero was Nasser himself. He used the media,
writers, singers, dancers, sportsmen, theatre performers as his foot soldiers to
raise him to that status. And it worked. This is why when this tyrant autocrat
died, millions of Egyptians joined his funeral.
The current tyrant General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi follows the footsteps of Nasser.
He also runs the same social, cultural, and intellectual engineering. All the TV
channels and newspapers work for him. He has gaged the opposition voice. He has
banned Ikhwan-ul Muslims. Its leaders and workers are now languishing in jails.
Many of them faced execution. In fact, Jamal Abdel Nasser, Hosni Mubarak, and
Abdel Fatah al-Sisi appeared as modern Pharaohs in Egypt. They caused massive
cultural and ideological captivity cum molding of people. As a result, a large
number of Egyptians developed incompatibility with the democratic norm of
governance. This is why coup d’état against President Morsi was celebrated so
wildly in the streets of Cairo. The same wild celebration took place in Tunis
after the dissolution of the democratic government of Tunisia. This owes to the
fact that although the Islamists could get electoral victory both in Egypt and
Tunisia, they couldn’t eliminate millions of radical anti-Islamists from
society. So they were ready to celebrate the Army take-over. These
anti-Islamists are indeed the grave security threat for Islam and Muslims
everywhere.
Arab World: the paradise for the hedonist tyrants
The Arab World has turned into a paradise for the debauched tyrants. It looks
that the Arab people have returned back to square one –the days of pre-Islamic
tribalism. The 1.4 billion Chinese have one country called China. The 1.3
billion Indians have one country called India. 280 million Indonesians with more
than 15 thousand islands have one country called Indonesia. But 400 million
Arabs with the same land have built 22 countries. Even an Arab oilfield gets a
flag, a map, and a name of statehood. Jews from Russia, Poland, Germany, and the
USA, the UK, Iraq, Morocco, Ethiopia, and many other countries with different
languages, dresses, food habits, and cultures could live in a single country of
Israel. But the Arabs with the same language, the same landmass, and the same
ethnicity can’t live in a single country. Instead of unity, division and feudal
feuds have become part of the Arab culture and identity. Unity gives strength
and division gives weakness. So defeating 400 million Arabs of 22 Arab states is
nothing more than a cakewalk for 8 million Israelis. In the 1967 War, the joint
armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan couldn’t stand even for 6 days. They
surrendered with huge humiliation. The Arabs can celebrate only their divisions.
They have indeed no victory or glory to celebrate.
Higher human identities like democracy, basic human rights, free media, free
writings, free talks, open meetings, and street rallies are the common features
even in countries like Turkey, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Peru, Bolivia, and
many others, but such practices are punishable crimes in all Arab countries. Out
of 22 Arab countries, not a single one is democratic. The only one was Tunisia,
and recently that has also been dismantled. What a shame! Democracy, human
rights, free thoughts, and free expression have never been the stuff of tribal
life. These are indeed the accurate marker of civilizational progress and
maturity of human development. The Arabs score very low on those development
indicators. Unfortunately, these crucial issues are seldom discussed in the
intellectual circles of the Arab World. One can find hardly any discussion on
these issues in the Arab newspapers.
When Muslims built the finest civilization on the earth, they built not only
mosques and madrasas. They developed social policies on the basis of basic human
rights. They also implemented a democratic way of governance. So, the rulers of
the Islamic State like Abu Bakar (RA), Omar (RA), Osman (RA), and Ali (RA) need
not have any familial inheritance from the former ruler. They were directly
elected by the people. Whereas, tribalism restricts such democratic rule of
governance. Here, the tribal inheritance of blood and the power of savagery
decide who should rule the tribe. The perfect rule of jungle works here. Hence a
killer like Mohammad bin Salman who organized a gang for cutting into pieces
Jamal Khashoggi –a prominent journalist can also claim the throne of Saudi
Arabia. Saudi Arabia leads the club of Arab dictators. Hence Saudi Arabia is the
first country to congratulate the coup d’état in Tunisia.
In tribalism, man’s piety, honesty, morality, and education don’t count. Because
of tribal occupation, the holiest sites of Islam now stand occupied by the most
unholy people. Hence, there exists no space for decency, morality, and the rule
of law in the tribal Arab World. People enjoy rights of protest and can through
stones even under the Israeli occupation, but such right doesn’t exist in the
Arab World. Iraq and Algeria are the only two rare exceptions. In such a
permissive milieu, General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi could roll tanks and artillery
guns on Cairo’s streets to kill about two thousand innocent protesters. And the
killer didn’t face any prosecution, let alone punishment.
The Arab World is known for its abundance of debauched tyrant rulers. No other
part of the planet is embedded with so many tyrants. Fascists like Jamal Abdel
Nasser of Egypt, Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia, Hafez al-Assad of Syria and King of
Saudi Arabia, Shaikh of UAE, and Bahrain are the prototypes of the worst tyrants
in Arab history. Thieves breed thieves. And tyrants breed tyrants. Hence with
the death of a tyrant, tyranny doesn’t end. Another tyrant takes his place.
Hence the Arab people couldn’t get rid of the tyranny of the autocrats. Abdul
Fatah al-Sisi of Egypt, Basher al-Assad of Syria, King Salman of Saudi Arabia,
and recently Kais Saeid of Tunisia are the latest brand of Arab tyrants.
The only way out
What people eat and drink decide their physical health. What they read decides
the moral health. If the shops run out of food and drinks, famine starts. And if
the quantity and the quality of books, journals, newspapers, and media
deteriorate, moral health worsens. Sadly, the Arab World runs a severe shortage
of readable stuff like books, journals, and newspapers. Books, journals, and
newspapers generate knowledge and make people thoughtful. Civility, morality,
and civilizational process start from such a thought-generating process.
Awfully, this is the most restricted sector in the Arab World. This way the
tyrant Arab rulers restrict the intellectual growth of the Arab people. The
government keeps an eye on every page of the published book, journal, or
newspaper. In the early years of this current century, the UNDP published a
report that exposed a horrendous scarcity in the intellectual treasure of the
Arabs. The number of books that are published by a single country like Spain is
not published even by 22 Arab states. It tells a lot to understand the
intellectual ill-health of the Arab people. It amply explains why autocracy
flourishes and democracy fails in Arab countries.
The Arab people have already tried Arab nationalism, tribalism, monarchism,
secularism, socialism, and western liberalism. All these ideologies have led to
failures. These have proved to be the pathology of the disease and not the
solution. In the past, the people of the Arab World could build the best
civilization in human history. In fact, that is the only golden part of Arab
history. The past glory doesn’t owe to Arab nationalism, tribalism, monarchism,
secularism, socialism, and western liberalism. It was only possible because of
their adherence to Islam. But the Arab people have abandoned that tested path of
success. Instead, they have taken the tested path of failure. Still, they
persist to follow the same wrong track. Thus they engage in betrayal against
Islam and Allah Sub’hana wa Ta’la. They read Qur’an only for the sake of
recitation, but not for following its teaching in real life. In real life, they
follow secularism, tribalism, Arab nationalism, monarchism, and hedonism.
Instead of unity, they celebrate division and feuds. If they have an iota of
faith in the Qur’an they would have run their judiciary according to the
Qur’anic law called sharia. They would compete with each other to be more
Islamist rather than celebrating the defeat of Islamists. By celebrating the
defeat of Islamists they can only placate Satan and other enemies of Islam. This
way they can only invite the wrath of Allah Sub’hana wa Ta’la.
The Israeli occupation of Palestine, the US-led occupation, and the destruction
of Iraqi and Syrian cities to rabbles have never been the signs of Allah
Sub’hana wa Ta’la’s blessing. These are the parts of the promised punishment –as
revealed many times in the Holy Qur’an. The Arab Muslims must understand the
simple truth that as long as they stay away from Islam and adhere to evil
ideologies like secularism, tribalism, Arab nationalism, monarchism, and
hedonism, they will only continue to invite terrible failures and the Divine
punishment. To understand this simple truth, it doesn’t need to be a scholar,
simple crude common sense is enough. But unfortunately, the Arabs are
persistently failing to display such common sense. This owes to deep mental
invasion by evil ideologies. Numerous clubs, pubs, casinos, and sea beeches of
the Arab countries display symptoms of such mental invasion. Minds can’t work
normally with such deep invasion. The tyrant Arab rulers of nationalist,
monarchist, Ba’athist, and secularist brands have promoted only such mental
invasion.
The days of physical colonization by the enemies have ended but the process of
mental invasion and colonization still continues. Now the enemies have started a
new cold war against Islam and the Muslims globally. The war aims at
re-enforcing the pre-existing mental colonization. The Muslim secularists,
nationalists, socialists, and monarchists are the partners of the ongoing US-led
war on Islam and Muslims. All these partners proved to be fascists and radical
anti-Islamists. These internal enemies of Islam -recruited by the external
enemies are helping the kuffar enemies for ideological, cultural, and political
takeover of the Muslim countries. For the imperialist enemies, this is more
cost-effective than physical occupation. Now it has become the multi-national
imperialist expansion project of the west. The USA spent more than a trillion
dollars in its 20-year old war in Afghanistan. After the humiliating defeat
there, the USA is now focused to make occupation by coup d’état in collaboration
with the internal enemies. Hence, the ouster of President Dr. Mohammad Morsi of
Egypt and the dissolution of the Islamist-controlled ministry and parliament of
Tunisia is not isolated events. These are the well-planned stipulated outcomes
of the US-led coalition’s insidious war. To encounter this ongoing war of the
enemies, it needs a large number of intellectual fighters. Only this way the
Muslims can mobilize enough diehard fighters on the street. Only this way, the
Turkish Islamists made a brilliant history by foiling a coup d’état against
President Erdogan’s government.
Prophet Mohammad faced the enemy’s cold war during his initial 13 years of
prophethood in Mokka. His faith was mocked and abused. His identity, integrity,
and honesty were constantly attacked. The enemies used lies and fabrication to
assassinate his character and the mission. The Prophet (peace be upon him) had
no other weapon except the Holy Qur’an to fight that enemy’s cold war. The
enemy’s hot war started only after the migration to Medina. The Holy Qur’an
proved its stern effectiveness in fighting the enemy’s intellectual war. It
proved to be the only way to end the mental occupation of false beliefs and to
strengthen Islamic spiritual roots. Even today, only strong fortification with
the Qur’anic knowledge can protect Muslims from constant enemy onslaughts with
evil ideologies. Only this way one can disconnect his soul from Satan and his
ploys and connect with the agenda of Allah Sub’han wa Ta’la. This is indeed the
most powerful legacy that Prophet (peace be upon him) left for his ummah. The
Muslims possess no other option but to follow this legacy. In fact, this shows
the only way out from the current quagmire. 31/07/2021.