The Implications of the Recent Elections in the Muslim
World
Source: Al-Waaiye
Adduonline (Maldives)
Saturday February 05, 2005
http://www.adduonline.com/articles/page1.htm
The Middle East region is experiencing a critical
period and a crucial round in the struggle between the
states of Kufr, headed by America today, and the
Muslims of the region. Despite the gravity of the
period and the seriousness of its fallout if America
were to succeed in what she is planning and in what
she wants for the region, many Muslims are yet to
perceive that the ongoing struggle between the Muslims
on the one hand and the state of Kufr, headed by
America, on the other hand, is a vital struggle whose
outcome will determine simultaneously the fate of the
Islamic Ummah and the destiny of the Western hegemony
over the region.
This is because the bloody struggle currently taking
place in Palestine and Iraq and the fierce
intellectual struggle taking place all over the
Muslims' lands reflect a struggle between Islam and
Kufr - between liberation from American hegemony and
the yearning for Islamic rule, and the tightening of
the American grip and its total success in
establishing the Western civilisation in the region
with what it entails in terms of eradicating the
thoughts and concepts of Islam. This has deprived the
West of sleep and forced America into deploying her
forces and spending tens of billions of dollars to
remove these thoughts and replace them with Western
thoughts. Indeed this is the only plane of the
struggle, these are its concerned parties and these
are also its aims and its outcomes.
As for what is occurring in Palestine , it is a new
chapter in the conspiracy against the Palestinian
issue and its Muslim people. Although this chapter is
an extension of many chapters that had been crowned
with holding peace treaties with the Jews, those
treaties did not finalise the issue of Palestine and
succeeded only in ending temporarily the bloody
conflict that this issue had occasioned in the region.
As for the root of the struggle between the Muslims
and the Jews backed by America and the Kafir West, it
is still existent.
The new chapter of the treason is reflected in the
election of Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) as president of
the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza in
elections that had been determined in advance in his
favour in the wake of the farce in which several
prominent traitors took part. He was afforded much
prominent coverage for almost two months after he had
been keeping a comparatively low profile; it seems
that he has become in America's view the most suitable
figure to complete what his predecessor Yassir Arafat
had started in terms of offering Palestine to the Jews
on a golden platter.
After Arafat's death, Mahmoud Abbas was nominated to
succeed him. However, there was a problem in his lack
of support among the masses and within the Fatah
movement itself, where there exist two trends, one
supporting his vision in proceeding with the peaceful
solutions, halting the militarization of the Intifada
and disarming the resistance, and another trend
supporting the use of resistance as a bargaining chip
in the negotiations with the Jews; this second trend
adopts Marwan Al-Barghouthi as its icon.
As the loyalty of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is
generally to Marwan Al-Barghouthi since he excelled in
playing the role of the militant, they had to be
contained by being surrounded so that a united Fatah
may proceed behind Abu Mazen. Hence, Al-Barghouthi
nominated himself as a strong rival to Mahmoud Abbas
and his withdrawal came after a deliberate hesitation
and after having seemingly acquired a pledge from
Mahmoud Abbas to adhere to the ''principles'' and not
to deviate from the path of Arafat, so that all this
may contribute in lending ''legitimacy'' to Mahmoud
Abbas in his quality as president of the Palestinian
Authority – this in addition to the contribution
of the so-called international community, headed by
America, through the overt backing of this
''democratic'' experiment, reflected in the
dispatching of a large number of monitors, led by the
former US president Jimmy Carter.
The American delay in proceeding towards a final
status during the last years of Arafat and the lack of
clear steps for people to follow was attributed to two
factors. Firstly the solution requires taming the Jews
and the people of Palestine to accept what the
solution will yield in terms of ''painful''
concessions from both sides; this is what the Intifada
and the ensuing military actions take care of,
particularly since America wants the peace to be
between peoples and not between governments. Secondly
Yassir Arafat was not accepted by the Jews,
particularly the religious figures from amongst them,
and Sharon enjoyed his popularity due to his adoption
of the security issue and his animosity towards
Arafat, whom he accused of terrorism and of being
responsible for the ''terrorist'' acts. Although
Arafat was a genuine partner of the Jewish leaders,
including Sharon , in war and in peace, the game
nonetheless necessitated intransigence from both sides
so that they could convince the Jews and the
Palestinians to accept the peaceful solution that
neither camp had deemed acceptable in the past.
It is likely that America disposed of Arafat after she
had used him up, paving the way for her agent Abu
Mazen to undertake what he had failed to achieve
during his premiership under Arafat because the
appropriate circumstances were yet to arise; these
included Arafat's attempts at impeding certain
measures that interfered directly with his security
and financial competencies. Besides, Abu Mazen is an
acceptable figure for the Jews and this is what
distinguishes him from his predecessor. The recent
elections came to clear the way for him to proceed
towards implementing the roadmap peace plan,
particularly the security aspect of it, by unifying
the security apparatuses, disarming the armed
organisations and consolidating the status of the
Palestinian Authority as a result of all these
measures.
During his recent visit to Amman , Abu Mazen said that
he endeavoured to establish one single Palestinian
authority, with one single Palestinian voice and one
single Palestinian weapon. However, in order to gain
people's confidence in the Palestinian Authority's
areas, Mahmoud Abbas will work towards easing people's
daily life in respect of their freedom of movement,
generating jobs and reuniting Palestinian families or
in respect of securing the release of some prisoners
and detainees; ''Israel'' will assist him in this
endeavour under the auspices and the backing of the
Americans, so that he may become the ''sole
undisputed'' leader.
Israel has met the victory of Mahmoud Abbas with
feigned caution and Sharon stated that the
''difference between Abu Mazen and Arafat is that the
latter used to wear a military uniform''. Sharon gave
the Israeli army the green light to execute a major
operation in Gaza in the wake of the recent
Palestinian operations. He refused to grant Abu Mazen
a fresh respite and ordered him to speed up the
disarmament process and to curb the operations of the
militant groups. In its recent meeting, the PLO
Executive Committee called for the cessation of all
operations against '' Israel '' and Mahmoud Abbas
ordered the security apparatuses to prevent all armed
operations against '' Israel ''. He also offered the
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades the chance to be assimilated
into the security apparatuses of the Palestinian
Authority.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, through its leader in
the West Bank Zakariya Zubeid, promised to respond
within days to the proposals of Abbas; it is expected
to respond positively to the invitation of Abbas to
either halt the military operations and agree to
integrate into the Palestinian Authority security
apparatuses or to signal its intention to do so. This
will exert pressure on the al-Qassam Brigades and will
give its leaders the pretext before their followers to
listen to the proposals of Abu Mazen who is meeting
them today, after he had met the leaders of the
security apparatuses yesterday; his only offer is to
invite the Palestinian factions to disarm and
integrate into the ranks of the Palestinian Authority.
'' Israel '' is expected to continue liquidating the
remainder of the field leaders with the covert
assistance of the Palestinian Authority. Ahmed Qurei
is also expected to form his new cabinet and include
representatives from certain factions. This is deduced
from what the Democratic Front has called for, and
Hamas is not expected to object despite its reluctance
to take part. This will place the Palestinian
Authority in a strong position that will enable it to
control the situation and proceed in the negotiations
with the Jews.
As for Iraq , America is determined to stage another
electoral farce that will yield another Karzai. It is
clear that America will hold the elections on their
scheduled date if she feels that a Sunni participation
is unlikely. This would depend on the stance of the
Sunnis' representatives, headed by the Association of
Muslim Scholars, in respect of their reluctance to
partake in the elections, despite the signs indicating
the slip of the association, especially after the
visit of Negroponte to its headquarters and his
meeting with the Association's head Dr. Hareth
al-Dhari, where al-Dhari started to retract from his
former stance of refusing to partake in the elections
unless the occupation ended, to requesting the
deferment of the elections and the scheduling of the
Americans' exit from Iraq.
The elections in Iraq are important to America due to
the necessity of drafting a permanent constitution for
Iraq by an elected ''legitimate'' government; the
issuing of that constitution will be a prelude towards
anchoring that type of regime in Iraq and will enable
America to conclude a host of long term treaties
guaranteeing her presence in Iraq, in addition to
lending more legitimacy to the fight to be waged by
that government against those who fight the
occupation, for they will be deemed as rebels and
outlaws, and the US army will continue to play the
role of the ''supporter'' of ''legitimacy'' in order
to crush the rebellion.
Through the elections in Palestine and Iraq , America
wants to complete a host of political steps that will
serve the aims of her foreign policy. It would be an
utter fantasy for anyone from among the people of
Palestine and even all the Muslims to imagine that
America is bringing them support by proceeding towards
establishing the so-called ''Palestinian state''. In
addition to the further division of the Muslims' lands
by adding another entity to the number of shabby
regimes that stifle the Ummah, the establishment of a
''Palestinian state'' will strengthen the notion held
by some of the people of Palestine and the region that
they should solve their issues according to a regional
viewpoint, instead of solving them from an Islamic
viewpoint.
Furthermore, America's current endeavour to solve the
Palestinian issue rests mainly on facilitating the
people of the region's approval of the so-called
greater Middle East initiative, particularly as the
solving of the Middle East issue is deemed by most of
the American politicians as the key to facilitating
America's reshaping of the region in the manner that
she wants. Perhaps what Edward P. Djerejian wrote few
years ago in his essay entitled ''United States Policy
Toward Islam and The Arc of Crisis'' (''the resolution
of the Arab-Israeli conflict will help to defuse
anti-Western sentiment among Muslims and undercut the
influence and spoiler potential of the extremist
groups, especially in the Levant''), coupled with the
tasks assigned to the Department of State in George
Bush's current term of office i.e. to work towards
solving the Middle East issue, fighting terrorism and
spreading democracy in the region, as a matter of
priority for that Department (which was confirmed
yesterday by Condoleezza Rice who said ''now we have
reached a moment of opportunity – and we must
seize it'') all indicate clearly the nature of
American plans towards settling the Middle East issue.
[Comment :''the resolution of the Arab-Israeli
conflict will help to defuse anti-Western sentiment
among Muslims..''
Interesting statement. A similar analogy can be
applied to Maldives. The conflict between ''pro'' camp
and ''anti'' camp will guarantee that the focus of the
masses will never turn to Islam ]
It is imperative to realise that by establishing the
''Palestinian state'' America wants to establish a
buffer zone that prevents the expansionist ambitions
of the Jews at the expense of the American strategic
and economic interests in this vital part of the
world. Although the establishment of the Jewish entity
in the heart of the Muslims' lands represents an
American and a Western interest in general, this does
not mean that America would allow the entity of
''Israel'' to rebel and expand at the expense of her
interests. (Therefore U.S gives material help to
groups such as Hamas & Hizbulla to contain Israel.)
As for the Iraqi elections, it is clear that the
American invasion and her occupation of Iraq represent
the beginning of a new procession aimed at reshaping
the region and the forthcoming elections will achieve
the aforementioned aims. The image of the awaited
''Federal Iraqi Union'' will reflect the image of
America in the region and will act as a prelude to
generating similar images, whereby the Muslims' lands
will become more susceptible to fragmentation in the
future, thus increasing America's ability to remain
within the region and guaranteeing her hegemony
throughout the whole of this century at least,
especially with her exploitation of the war on terror
or on whoever incites violence as a pretext to
liquidate whoever moves in order to change the current
situation.
Dear Muslims…
The deadliest weapon that America and the Kufr states
are using in the Muslims' lands, after the cultural
invasion and the intellectual deception, is deceiving
people in terms of political facts. This is why the
political manoeuvres and actions undertaken by those
states find a fertile ground in our lands. This
resulted in the squandering of huge faculties and in
dissipating the efforts aimed at rallying the Ummah to
work towards breaking free from their shackles,
particularly since these deceptions have been
deviating the Ummah away from the sound solutions to
what she is facing. For instance, some of the people
of the region surrounding Iraq and Palestine still
view Palestine as being for the Palestinians and Iraq
for the Iraqis, as if what is happening in both
countries were an internal matter concerning only the
country in question and not an issue for the Muslims.
[Comment: Likewise in the context of Maldives, the
political manoeuvres of the colonial created the
conflict between government camp and ''anti'' camp.
The masses failed to comprehend the fact that this
rivalry is simply a costume to hide the real
pernicious agenda : ''War on Terror'' .The frequent
grilling of the ''pro'' camp by BBC is another media
to stunt to hide this agenda and make the whole fiasco
appear as a 'Maldives' issue which has nothing to do
with the ''war on terror''. This resulted in the
wholesale squandering of energy in build up to the
Majlis election. The superficial satisfaction of
defeating the majority of the ''pro'' candidates, will
strengthen the notion that things can be resolved
through election and Western style political process
rather than reviving the thoughts of the masses based
on Islam. The disastrous consequences of such smugness
are emerging now. Everybody is talking about public
affairs passionately but the discussions are geared
towards the implementation of western ideas and
reducing Islam to a set of rituals. If we continue
rallying behind the Western media and their cultural
agents, we will never gain any confidence in Islamic
thoughts]
Likewise, the issue of Sebta and Milila are as if they
were the issues of Morocco alone, as if the issue of
southern Sudan and the issue of Kashmir and the
occupation of Afghanistan were issues that did not
concern the Muslims beyond those countries. What is
baffling is that the Kuffar managed on one occasion to
make the issue of Afghanistan catch the imagination of
all the Muslims, so that America could achieve her
aims in terms of depleting the Soviet Union and
forcing the Gulf states to seek the American
protection, then they managed to make that issue
regress into becoming a regional issue, after they had
succeeded in deceiving the Muslims and exploiting them
to serve their aims.
When will the Ummah became capable of distinguishing
her issues and discerning the solution, so that we may
adopt it and act upon it in our quality as Muslims and
nothing else? Let the Ummah be wary of the
conspiracies to embroil her children in Palestine and
Iraq and turn them into submissive tools in the hands
of the Kuffar, fighting each other and shedding their
blood in service of the Kuffar and their agents. The
Ummah must realise that the sum of her issues revolves
around generating a sincere entity that will rescue
the Ummah from what she is enduring, now that the
Kuffar have succeeded in dividing her stance,
dissipating her energies and sectioning her issues,
leaving her in turmoil over the order of her
priorities.
Dear Muslims...
The issue for the colonialists is to prevent the
Muslims from returning to their deen, from adhering to
it and from carrying its message so that they may
attain happiness together with the whole world. It is
the same issue for which Kufr rose to destroy the
entity of the Muslims at the beginning of the last
century and It is the same issue that Kufr has been
working towards preventing its return since the since
the last years of the past century . Hence, the issue
of Islam's return to the realm of life needs to be
deeply rooted in the Ummah so that it may yield its
fruits; only then will neither America nor any other
ardent Kufr state have a foothold in our lands. The
Muslims will even conquer the world anew and bring it
out of the darkness into the light. This for Allah
(swt) is not dear, but the Ummah needs to work
assiduously with full awareness and sincere sacrifice
in order to restore the Islamic Khilafah by working
towards putting the thoughts of Islam into
implementation and by struggling for their sake; then
the banner of Islam will be hoisted over all the other
banners and the word of Allah (swt) will reign
supreme. Then the Ummah will continue conveying the
message of Islam to the world, the message of light,
guidance and mercy to mankind.
'' O you who believe! If you will aid (the cause of)
Allah, He will aid you, and plant your feet firmly.
But those who reject, for them is destruction, and
Allah will render their deeds astray. '' [47: 7-8].
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