The fundamental principle of a secular society is to
keep religion out of politics; a cardinal ‘sin’ according to the
secular clerics. Surprisingly, like Bush, Blair has now come out of the closet
and claimed that God inspired him to go to war, and he will be judged by the
Almighty on that issue. Therefore, the
unprovoked aggression against The obvious
implication of claiming divine intervention is that we should not hold Mr Blair
accountable; he is merely a soldier of God - how convenient, in fact he is a
real Bliar! Also note, since neither Blair nor Bush is a follower of Islam they
are not qualified to earn the title of religious fanatics or extremists or
similar terms; even though they hear voices of God telling them attack
countries with invisible WMDs but visible oil. This admission of
Blair is really amusing. Why did he not say this from the onset when he was sending
his troops? Surely, it would have boosted the moral of the troops to hear that
they are going on a real crusade, led by Pope Bush and his Cardinal Bishop,
Tony Blair. If Blair was convinced that Indeed, God
Almighty will judge Blair and everyone in the hereafter. But there is also
judgement in this present life, on planet earth. If religions only advocated
judgement in the hereafter, then earth would be a paradise for criminals. Like
a criminal, fundamentalist Blair is asking everyone to overlook his actions for
now and wait for the divine verdict in the next life. It is a pity for Blair and Bush that the
medieval Catholic doctrine of cleansing ones sins, and reserving a place in
heaven with payments made in gold has been abolished. They would have been so much
at ease knowing that they could pay off all their sins on earth. Blair is the leader of
a democratic state, where the government is accountable to the masses that
elected him into office. Convenient then that Blair makes such revelations at
the end of his term and not during an election campaign. He was not elected for
his alleged communication with God Almighty and had he made such a revelation
prior to the election, he would have been dismissed as a religious nutcase. Now, both Blair and
Bush have claimed to have a hotline to God, they are the new self-appointed
‘prophets’ of God. Did God Almighty communicate to them about the
urgency to find WMDs, as they could face danger within 45 minutes? Did God get
so desperate for war, He asked Tony to plagiarise and produce a dodgy dossier
to convince everyone else? If God inspired Tony and Bush to war, then Abu-Ghraib
rapes, torture, executions, Camp-X-Ray incarceration, Fallujah massacre using
phosphorus bombs, and the killing of the 100,000 plus civilians, must have been
part of God’s overall plan, a from of neo-inquisition perhaps. The
orphans and the widows in For decades, the
Secular West have been scorning Muslims, for simply referring to Islam in any
shape or form, using pejorative terms like fanatics, fundamentalists,
extremists, militants etc. Even the most apolitical spiritual Muslim is
described in such terms for simply being devout in his or personal capacity,
which ironically conforms to the secular interpretation of religion. Yet, now
their leaders confess to hearing voices which they are translating as divine
communication. For sure you cannot find religious nuts like this in Hamas or
Al-Qaeda, none from such organisation have made such fanatical claims. Just observe how
many, or few, secular journalists have the courage, the intelligence and the
integrity, to point out the hypocrisy and stupidity of a secular leader
claiming to be driven by religion. Surely, they owe an apology to the Muslims
for all the slander and scorning while they missed the real religious fanatics
sitting at their doorsteps. But that would require those journalists to possess
courage, humbleness, honesty instead of cowardice, arrogance and dishonesty. If God wanted to
remove Saddam, then what did He have in mind for Hypocrites,
fanatics, extremists, militants are the natural traits of those who are driven
by an insatiable hunger for wealth and power. Not surprisingly, this is the fundamental
doctrine of their economic system of the free market. Naturally, the real reasons for
going to war were anything but spiritual, be it the rich oil reserves,
preserving the petro-dollar, strengthening Israel etc. all point to
materialistic reasons not the work of God Almighty. As they are unable to
conceal the real reasons, the profit seeking men are trying to turn themselves
into Prophets, hoping that they could hide their crimes. Finally, if Bush
and Blair can sanction the most important decision based on their personal
religious experiences, and use it as a pretext for war, then surely the Muslims
who see this as a war on Islam based on their assessment of objective
realities, have every right to respond. If Bush and Blair can push the
religion of "Democracy" and "Freedom" using war as a
methodology then Osama bin Laden can also (if it is his objective) use war as a
methodology to push his idea of an Islamic State (The Caliphate). If the
West wishes to avoid a clash of civilisations then instead of listening to the
whisperings of their idol Gods of Freedom and Democracy, they should engage in
an intellectual debate to establish which claim to sacredness is more valid,
theirs or the Muslims? Yamin Zakaria (www.iiop.org) Copyright © 2006 by Yamin Zakaria *************************************************************************** {Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.} (Holy Quran-16:125) {And who is better in speech than he who [says: "My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness)," and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: "I am one of the Muslims."} (Holy Quran-41:33) The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "By Allah, if Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of camels." [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim] The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said, "Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all." [Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- All views expressed herein belong to the individuals concerned and do not in any way reflect the official views of IslamCity unless sanctioned or approved otherwise. If your mailbox clogged with mails from IslamCity, you may wish to get a daily digest of emails by logging-on to http://www.yahoogroups.com to change your mail delivery settings or email the moderators at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the title "change to daily digest".
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