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In recent times a plethora of misconceptions, misrepresentation and myths have been forged about Islam
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17 Jan 2009

Palestine the 60 Year Nightmare



On the sixtieth anniversary of the coming into being of the state of Israel, Israel‘s many supporters are celebrating what they see as a great achievement. For them Israel has been a culmination of a dream created from amongst the ashes of Auschwitz, from the grotesque anti-Semitism of not just Germany but the whole of Europe, a state that against all odds has survived in one piece despite being surrounded by hostile enemies. The proponents of Israel believe it is a democracy and therefore should be treated as a nation fighting terrorism, a victim of other people’s terror and hate. Such a narrative would be a criminal distortion of the truth. For far from Israel being a victim or having an anniversary that should be celebrated, Israel will go down in history as one of the most brutal nations that the world has ever seen.

It is a matter of historical fact that Israel was founded by terrorists from the Stern gang and Irgun and it is therefore no great surprise that it has implemented 60 years of state terrorism against the Palestinian people. 60 years of illegal occupation, 60 years of creating an apartheid system which the old National Party in South Africa would be proud of, 60 years of depriving the Palestinian people of the right to live in dignity; 60 years of cruel and oppressive acts; 60 years of torture, 60 years of punishing roadblocks and 60 years of murdering Palestinian men, women and children. This is the real legacy of the state of Israel to the history of mankind.

Israel is a state created through violence and remains a militant nation today, spending vast sums on defence and security more akin to a large military base than a modern nation addressing the problems of its people. Indeed Jews all over the world have voted with their feet, most having decided to live abroad in the United States and Europe preferring prosperity over living in the ‘promised land‘. Israel has violence at its core, a state geared for war and revenge, where every adult citizen (bar the ultra orthodox and the well connected) undergo military service. It is no wonder that Israel constantly attacks its neighbours, or threatens to bomb them back to the stone age as it did with Lebanon in the summer of 2006. In one of the more bitter ironies of history, while the world applauded Nelson Mandela’s fight against apartheid, today western governments celebrate Israel’s racist 60th anniversary.

So after decades of wars, bloodshed and failed negotiations what should we do. Most western governments as well as the dictators in the Muslim world believe in a two state solution. However a two state solution would be suicidal for the Palestinian Muslims. Why is this?

Giving up any land to foreign occupiers is prohibited from the texts of Islam and would only appease Israel’s aggression and ethnic cleansing.

The two state solution is seen as Israel’s last chance to protect its illegal gains. Israel has significant challenges in the years ahead which threatens it. This is why Israeli Prime Minister Olmert is on record in saying the following “If the day comes when the two state solution collapses and we face a South African style struggle for equal voting rights, then as soon as that happens, the state of Israel is finished.”

A Palestinian state created out of the remnants of pre 1967 is not a viable state, it will have no real resources, no real sovereignty and would be reliant on Israel for its survival. Just look at Israel’s repeated interventions in Gaza, a territory Israel claims it has left.

So the Muslim world should respond with one voice to the sixtieth anniversary, that it will never recognise the state of Israel (this is no different from the west which does not recognise Northern Cyprus or Taiwan. Nor Russia which refuses to recognise Kosovo) and that it remains committed to liberating the whole of historical Palestine by a capable and professional armed force if necessary (again no different from the west‘s mantra in the first Gulf war). Of course no such messages will be given by the existing despotic Muslim governments who while attacking Israel in their speeches are in reality protecting it.

It is only the return of the Islamic Khilafah that can comprehensively address this problem, and that would deploy the necessary armed forces capable of liberating this land. As Salahadeen (ra) demonstrated in the 13th century, the reality of overcoming foreign occupation requires political unity in Muslim lands and to marshal all of the ummah’s resources. Though the Khilafah should never take the military option off the table in reversing the occupation, the Khilafah would also enjoy a strong suite of economic and diplomatic assets. The Khilafah would have a strong position to dictate to Europe, Japan and other nations that they need to review their support for Israel against their future strategic relationship with the Muslim world. Specifically the Muslim world has:

1. The bulk of the future reserves of oil and significant gas reserves.

2. A population of 1.3 billion which, unlike the west, is not ageing.

3. The ability to keep vital waterways like the Straits of Hormuz and Suez Canal open, waterways through which a significant volume of goods and oil flow.

4. Hundreds of billions of dollars which are invested abroad.

Of course the Khilafah’s opposition to Israel does not equate to a policy of treating individual Jews unjustly, or an ethnic cleansing of the region, as Israel has perpetuated against the Palestinians. Jews, Muslims and Christians lived largely in security under an Islamic government for much of the last fourteen centuries in Palestine, in Islamic Spain and under the Ottoman Caliphate. Unlike Israel’s apartheid system, an Islamic state is not a racial state and does not treat Non Muslims as second class citizens. The Prophet Muhammad (saws) made this very clear when he stated the: “Anyone who harms a Dhimmi (Non Muslim citizen), harms me.”

Of course many in Israel and their right wing supporters abroad will celebrate Israel’s sixtieth anniversary with pride and satisfaction. However Israel lacks strategic depth and having nuclear submarines stationed offshore is no substitution for having a sustainable long term strategy for survival. Israeli policies over the last 60 years have been barbaric and inhuman and they should not be allowed to continue. With demographic and other trends going against Israel, and the region increasingly embracing its Islamic identity, the re-establishment of the Islamic Caliphate is now the only viable option for liberating Palestine and delivering justice to the region.

[Article written by Sajjad Khan, June 2008]
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“Islam represented the greatest military power on earth…It was the foremost economic power in the world…It had achieved the highest level so far in human history, in the arts and sciences of civilization...Islam in contrast created a world civilization, poly-ethnic, multiracial, international, one might even say intercontinental.”





[Bernard Lewis, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Orientalist and Historian, 2001]





"There was once a civilization that was the greatest in the world. It was able to create a continental super-state that stretched from ocean to ocean, and from northern climes to tropics and deserts…the civilization I'm talking about was the Islamic world from the year 800 to 1600… Although we are often unaware of our indebtedness to this other civilization, its gifts are very much a part of our heritage"





[Carly Fiorina, ex-CEO of Hewlett-Packard, 2001]





"For the first three centuries of its existence (circ. A.D 650-1000) the realm of Islam was the most civilized and progressive portion of the world. Studded with splendid cities, gracious mosques and quiet universities where the wisdom of the ancient world was preserved and appreciated, the Moslem world offered a striking contrast to the Christian West, then sunk in the night of the Dark Ages."





[Lothrop Stoddard, Ph.D (Harvard), American political theorist and historian, 1932]





"Medieval Islam was technologically advanced and open to innovation. It achieved far higher literacy rates than in contemporary Europe;it assimilated the legacy of classical Greek civilization to such a degree that many classical books are now known to us only through Arabic copies. It invented windmills ,trigonometry, lateen sails and made major advances in metallurgy, mechanical and chemical engineering and irrigation methods. In the middle-ages the flow of technology was overwhelmingly from Islam to Europe rather from Europe to Islam. Only after the 1500's did the net direction of flow begin to reverse."





[Jared Diamond, UCLA sociologist and Author, 1997]



"No other society has such a record of success in uniting in an equality of status, of opportunity and endeavour so many and so varied races of mankind. The great Muslim communities of Africa, India and Indonesia, perhaps also the small community in Japan, show that Islam has still the power to reconcile apparently irreconcilable elements of race and tradition. If ever the opposition of the great societies of the East and west is to be replaced by cooperation, the mediation of Islam is an indispensable condition."





[Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb, Professor at Harvard University, 1932]





“The Muhammadan Law which is binding on all -- from the crowned head to the meanest subject is a law interwoven with a system of the wisest, the most learned and the most enlightened jurisprudence that ever existed in the world.”





[Edmund Burke, British Statesman and Philosopher, 1789]





"The Exile here is not like in our homeland. The Turks hold respectable Jews in esteem. Here and in Alexandria, Egypt, Jews are the chief officers and administrators of the customs, and the king’s revenues. No injuries are perpetuated against them in all the empire. Only this year, in consequence of the extraordinary expenditure caused by the war against Shah Tahmsap al-Sufi, were the Jews required to make advances of loans to the princes."





[David dei Rossi, Jewish Traveller 17CE, quoted by Norman A. Stillman, The Jews of Arab Lands]





"The notable religious tolerance towards Christians and Jew under Muslim rule had given way to the uncompromising zealotry of Spanish Inquisition. Jews and Muslims thus fled Spain with large numbers of Jews immigrating to the Ottoman Empire which was known for its tolerance to the Jews."





[Graham Fuller, Author and former CIA, 1995]





“If there is much misunderstanding in the West about the nature of Islam, there is also much ignorance about the debt our own culture and civilization owe to the Islamic world. It is a failure, which stems, I think, from the straightjacket of history, which we have inherited. The medieval Islamic world, from central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning flourished. But because we have tended to see Islam as the enemy of the West, as an alien culture, society, and systems of beliefs, we have tended to ignore or erase its great relevance to our own history”





[Charles Philip Arthur George, HRH The Prince of Wales, 1993]





"...Not being subject to the Sharia, Jews and Christians were free to go to their own religious authorities for adjudication of disputes; but in many cases they went instead to the [Muslim] Qadi"





[Richard W. Bulliet, Professor of History and Author, 2004]





"Here in the land of the Turks we have nothing to complain of. We possess great fortunes; much gold and silver are in our hands. We are not oppressed by heavy taxes and our commerce is free and unhindered. Rich are the fruits of the earth. Everything is cheap and each one of us lives in freedom. Here a Jew is not compelled to wear a yellow star as a badge of shame as is the case in Germany where even wealth and great fortune is a curse for a Jew because he therewith arouses jealousy among the Christians and they devise all kinds of slander against him to rob him of his gold. Arise my brethren, gird up your loins, collect up your forces and come to us."





[In his book 'Constantinople', Philip Mansel quotes a rabbi in Turkey writing to his brethren in Europe where they were facing increasing persecution after 1453]





"Praise be to the beneficent God for his mercy towards me! Kings of the earth, to whom his [the Caliph’s] magnificence and power are known, bring gifts to him, conciliating his favour by costly presents, such as the king of the Germans, the king of the Gebalim, the king of Constantinople, and others. All their gifts pass through my hands, and I am charged with making gifts in return. (Let my lips express praise to the God in heaven who so far extends his loving kindness towards me without any merit of my own, but in the fullness of his mercies.) I always ask the ambassadors of these monarchs about our brethren the Jews, the remnant of the captivity, whether they have heard anything concerning the deliverance of those who have pined in bondage and had found no rest."





[Hasdai Ibn Shaprut (915-990 CE) Jewish physician, chief minister of Islamic Caliphate in Cordova, 'The Jewish Caravan']





"In Baghdad there are about forty thousand Jews, and they dwell in security, prosperity, and honour under the great Caliph [al-Mustanjid, 1160-70 CE], and amongst them are great sages, the Heads of the Academies engaged in the study of the Law…’"





[Benjamin of Tudela, Rabbi in Baghdad in the year 1168 CE, 'The Jew in the Medieval World']





"Those Eastern thinkers of the ninth century laid down, on the basis of their theology, the principle of the Rights of Man, in those very terms, comprehending the rights of individual liberty, and of inviolability of person and property; described the supreme power in Islam, or Califate, as based on a contract, implying conditions of capacity and performance, and subject to cancellation if the conditions under the contract were not fulfilled; elaborated a Law of War of which the humane, chivalrous prescriptions would have put to the blush certain belligerents in the Great War; expounded a doctrine of toleration of non-Moslem creeds so liberal that our West had to wait a thousand years before seeing equivalent principles adopted.





[Leon Ostorog, French Jurist]





"The debt of our science to that of the Arabs does not consist in startling discoveries or revolutionary theories; science owes a great deal more to Arab culture, it owes its existence"





[Robert Briffault, Novelist and Historian, 1928]





"The only effective link between the old and the new science is afforded by the Arabs. The dark ages come as an utter gap in the scientific history of Europe, and for more than a thousand years there was not a scientific man of note except in Arabia"





[Oliver Joseph Lodge, Writer and Professor of Physics, 1893]





“Thus, when Muslims crossed the straits of Gibraltar from North Africa in 711 and invaded the Iberian Peninsula, Jews welcomed them as liberators from Christian Persecution.”





[Zion Zohar, Jewish scholar at Florida International University, 2005]







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