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In recent times a plethora of misconceptions, misrepresentation and myths have been forged about Islam
and Muslims. Many western influentials from politicians, policymakers to judges have taken it upon
themselves to undermine the Islamic beliefs, values and rules so to make it palatable to their
egotistic minds and the secular liberal thoughts.

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2. To expose the weakness and contradictions of all forms of secularism.

12 Feb 2011

Egypt: A new Dawn?

The world waited with much anticipation as various rumours leaked out that Hosni Mubarak would be stepping down as president of Egypt after 30 years of brutal rule. On the evening of the 10th February 2011 Mubarak appeared on state TV with much arrogance that he would not be stepping down until the September elections and that his country needed a decorated soldier to see through reforms which have all come to be known as the ‘transition’ period.

On the evening of 11th February Omer Suleiman who Mubarak only recently appointed as his vice president announced that Mubarak has in effect been removed in a bloodless coup through the army, who now possessed all the regimes powers. After more than two weeks of protests and demonstrations against the tyrant Mubarak, who the New York Times described as ‘an ally of the United States who has been instrumental in implementing American policy in the region for decades, Hosni Mubarak became the latest ruler in a long list of traitors who have been placed in the dustbin of history. Like the traitors before him, he will get what he deserves when he meets his creator.

Hosni Mubarak, a former Air Chief Marshal became vice president to Anwar Sadat in 1975. In this position, he loyally served Sadat’s policies. He took part in government consultations that dealt with the future agreement that accepted Israel as state over Muslim territory, something Anwar Sadat would soon be assassinated for.

Since he became president in 1981, no Muslim ruler served America more loyally then Mubarak. He ruled over his people with fear, intimidation, torture and ensured any call for change or Islam never gained momentum. He protected the existence of Israel through turning a blind eye to the massacres the Israeli regime undertook on numerous occasions against the Ummah of Palestine. In the 2009 massacre Israel undertook against the Muslims of Gaza, Mubarak ensured the fleeing Ummah met their deaths by closing the Rafah crossing. Mubarak in reality turned out to be no different to the Firawn.

The whole world is now watching what will evolve in Egypt. Egypt’s importance should be plain for everyone to see. Egypt’s importance has continually been outlined by US officials over the past weeks. The US relies on Egypt to normalise Israel’s existence. Egypt is also the most powerful Arab country. Egypt is the link between Africa and Asia, It is the shortest route from the South to the North. Egypt has always been considered the mother of the Arab world, it has the biggest population and all the Arabs look to Egypt for leadership. Historically it has a unique place, this is why various powers have struggled over it. The liberation of Egypt from colonial influence means the independence of a highly strategic nation, which will have a direct impact on the rest of the Muslim world and inshallah return Egypt to the Ummah. It is therefore a land America will not relinquish easily.

Whilst many are talking about the dethroned pharaoh, we should remember that the architecture Mubarak and his predecessors constructed still remains in place. What’s happened In Egypt is an 82-year-old man, who wanted to have his son appointed as his successor, was booted out by the army. Except for Mubarak, the army remains in charge of Egypt. An army that is heavily financed and trained by America, whose leaders: Chief of Staff Lt.Gen. Sami Annan and Defence Minister Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi have been in constant contact with the US throughout the uprising. The world’s powers have been attempting to shape the future of Egypt by vilifying any calls for Islam and constantly brushing everything with democracy.

The Ummah in Egypt and globally should remember that democracy is much more then mere elections. It is a system that gives legislative sovereignty to individuals and as we have witnessed with democracies around the world, it is the rich, powerful and influential who hold sway, not the general public, who vote in the regime on broken promises, and then are left to scream and shout in the street, with no expectation of change. It is fundamentally a foreign system of governance constructed in the West and is now being forced upon the Muslim world. As an Ummah we should be looking for true independence and a system of governance indigenous to us, that is built upon our beliefs, values and way of life.

As long as we follow foreign systems we will always be under their authority. They put themselves as referees to their system, allowing themselves to interfere whenever they feel their ‘rules’ have been violated. Only by following our own system, the Islamic Khilafah, that ruled Egypt for over 1300 years, that is the natural state for the people of Egypt and the Muslim world, will we finally achieve liberation for Liberation square.

[Taken from Hizb.org.uk]
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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]





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[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]





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





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[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]





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[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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