Anwar al Awlaki On-Line <http://www.anwar-alawlaki.com>
Now That the Elections are Over
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Posted: 05 Nov 2008 09:22 AM CST
One of the characteristics of a humiliated and oppressed community is
their submission to their oppressor and their tolerance of oppression.
On the other hand they are arrogant and intolerant among themselves.
This is how it was with Banu Israel when living under the Pharaoh. I am
sorry to state this but unfortunately this attitude is been reflected by
many American Muslims who humiliated themselves by voting for candidates
who have no serious concern for their issues.
I mentioned in my previous post:
The perception the American Muslims are giving is that by giving
them nothing substantial and by giving them just a little bit of
recognition you can get their support, vote and loyalty even if you
carry on your war against their brothers and sisters. Just like a
dog owner abusing his dog but as long as the bone is thrown out the
dog will still give his owner all his loyalty. It is sad but true.
The American Muslims who decided to vote have made a fool out of
themselves and the whole world knows it.
Under the heading:"America's outcast Muslims: Once Bush backers, Muslims
today are staunch Democrats. But both Obama and McCain shun them." The
UK's/ The Guardian/ states: "American Muslims have been called the
"outcasts" of this presidential election. Muslims themselves have told
the media that Islam is being treated as "political leprosy", a "scarlet
letter", or the "kiss of death"".
Why not just call them house Negros?
The Australian newspaper /The Age/ says: "Neither campaign courts
America's Muslim vote." they go on to state that: "Neither presidential
candidate has made a single visit to a mosque." If they didn't even
bother to visit a mosque, which is no more than a ceremonial thing
anyway but does make the house Negros happy, how can one expect from
them any support on our issues? Nevertheless the proud American Muslims
have been running around in service of both candidates.
Many American Muslims still insisted on voting. Chasing a mirage that
somehow the new president will improve their lot. First it was Bush now
Obama. There is a striking similarity between the American Muslim
community and the Muslims of al Andalus who chose to stay behind after
Muslim Spain fell into the hands of the Catholic monarchs. There are
some writings that reveal that after all the oppression they suffered
they still had hope that their situation would improve, even after the
Catholic monarchs showed them the worst treatment. Since there were no
elections back then and no Barak Obama they were clinging their hopes on
a Mahdi that would appear and deliver them to safety. A few decades
later no Mahdi appeared and their children and grandchildren slowly but
surely were loosing their identity until Islam seized to exist all
together in the Iberian peninsula. I do not believe that America would
do the same because they have grown wiser and more sophisticated than
their Spanish predecessors. Muslims will be allowed to pray, fast, and
practice Islam as long as it is contained within the spiritual
compartment. But they will not be allowed to be Muslim in the full sense
of the word. The issues of Sharia law, Jihad, wala and bara, hudud,
khilafah, the Quranic teachings concerning the Jews and Christians, and
support of Muslim resistance fighters around the world will not be
tolerated. Now the spiritual aspect will also be under attack, probably
not by the government but by the society at large. The American culture
will destroy their families. It will deprive their children and
grandchildren of their identity. Time will be the witness.
Muslims have given their vote for free. Back in the nineties we were
told that we should not expect anything back because we are not seen as
a voting block (back then the prominent view among the Muslims was
against participation in the elections.) Well now there is definitely a
voting block and it is quite large as some reports say that the Muslim
registered voters are around two million!
So what are the Muslims getting in exchange for their vote? Nothing.
Brothers and sisters you can vote, you can run around supporting the
campaigns, you can stay silent about the aspects of your religion that
do not appeal to your fellow citizens, you can speak out against your
Muslim brothers and sisters who support the Muslim causes around the
world, you can try your best to fit in and be accepted and the end
result will be that you will always be seen as the enemy and you will
never be accepted unless you do one thing: give up your religion.
"And never will the Jews and Christians approve of you until you follow
their religion" [2:120]
With all of this activism and increased participation the situation of
the American Muslims did not improve but in fact it regressed. The Bush
campaign of 2000 has outreached to the Muslims more than both candidates
of 2008.
Giving a fatwa calling on people to vote in democratic elections is not
an easy thing. One would expect solid evidence from Quran and sunnah
when inviting people to take such a step. However what I have seen is
the opposite. I would ask you to read such fatawa and judge them not
based on the names or numbers of scholars who are behind them but on the
evidence. There was a moment in time when the majority of the scholars
of the Muslim world were towing the official line of the Mu'tazila and
that didnt make it right. Then look at the fatawa of scholars such as al
Albani, the Lanjna da'ima, Abu Muhammad al Maqdisi, al Gabashy and many
of the scholars of the salafi orientation around the world who are
against participation in democratic election. That is the position of
large Islamic movements and individuals such Sayed Qutb, Dr. Israr
Ahmad, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, and the Salafi Jihadi movement. In Yemen
prominent scholars from the Muslim Brotherhood have finally come to the
conclusion that the democratic process is no more than a game that
wastes the efforts of Muslims with very little gain.
In addition to that I found out that many people are asking the ones who
are telling the people not to vote to bring their evidence! The burden
of proof is on the ones who call others to participate in a disbelieving
system, in a disbelieving country not the other way around. Anyway the
evidence for not voting are all the verses of Quran that refer to
governance as a right of Allah in surat al Nisa and al Bakarah, the
verses talking about disavowal of the disbelievers in surat al Bakara,
al Nisa and al Mumtahina, and the hadiths of Rasulullah that instruct us
to be separate from the disbelievers. There are scholars who wrote
detailed papers on the subject and you may find the links to them on the
comments made by some brothers and sisters on my last two posts.
For those who did send me evidence for the position on voting I did
respond to some of them and there remains the issue of the Muslims in
Abyssinia and Yusuf (as). The response to this is very straightforward:
Both the king of Abyssinia and the King of Egypt were not at war with
the believers and were both very supportive of the Muslims. In addition
to that, there are authentic narrations that al Najashi was Muslim and
weaker ones that state that the king in the time of Yusuf became Muslim.
But lets assume that this is not the case. Anyone with a rudimentary
understanding of Fiqh should realize that there are stark differences on
how Islam calls us to deal with those who are at war with us and those
who are not. Allah says:
Allah does not forbid you from those who do not fight you because of
religion and do not expel you from your homes - from being righteous
towards them and acting justly towards them. Indeed Allah loves those
who act justly. [60:8]
Now that Obama is in office we will see how these four years will
unfold. I personally think that since what Obama stands for is
falsehood, the justifications of the Muslims in choosing him were false
and the process in which the Muslims chose him were also false we cannot
expect any good to come out of falsehood.
"Indeed Allah does not amend the work of the corrupters" [10;81]
Assalamu alaykum
Your Brother
Anwar Al Awlaki
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