بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Radicalism, Fundamentalism, Extremism is Legal for the Kuffar
But a Crime for Muslims
On Sunday, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and US President Donald Trump inaugurated the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology (GCCEI), a facility that will monitor “extremist messaging” in real time... The center — named “Etidal,” or “moderation” —is established under international cooperation to confront and prevent extreme ideologies by monitoring and analyzing them, and to promote a culture of moderation. King Salman hailed the positive initiative, stressing the importance of the centre which, he said, will foster the concepts of moderation, fraternity and harmony and combat extremism, wishing the success of the milestone to disseminate the culture of tolerance and spread peace. (agencies)
The ridiculous picture where Saudi King, US President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Sisi touched a glowing globe at the inauguration ceremony became a meme across the world. In fact, this picture is the clear proof of how not only the hands but also the HEARTS of the puppet rulers upon the Muslim lands joined with a purely colonialist, “hyper” Islam-hostile, “super”-power, the USA, and the rest of the western world. Millions of Muslims across the world will be wiretapped in real time, maybe eliminated and executed in real time (they have the technology to do that) according the desires of the anti-terror-war-lords. However, they (the Western powers and their agent rulers) seek to cover their own radicalism, fundamentalism and extremism, by perverting and distorting the products of their own rotten ideology.
‘Radicalism’ is derived from the Latin word “radix” (root), and describes a political attitude that seeks to address and eliminate the roots of political and social problems. Radicalism in accordance with non-Islamic ideologies - be they capitalist or communist - are not regarded categorically anti-democratic or violent. For instance, Italy’s political party “Radicali Italiani” and France’s “Parti Radical” are very respected active political organizations, in particular with their anti-Islam statements and calls.
‘Extremism’ refers to political attitudes, views and endeavours, which regard their own views as the only correct and true views, while at the same time even disregards the right to existence of other worldviews or politics. Hence we know ‘left extremism’ (typically radical-democratic and egalitarian stances, anarchism, and various forms of communism), ‘right extremism’ (typically antidemocratic and anti-egalitarian positions, fascism, Nazism, nationalism mostly under violation of human rights etc.) But Islam does not fit in any of these definitions, neither in its laws nor in what was experienced in history. However, neither PEGIDA in Germany, nor the record level of American "patriot" extremist groups require an international cooperation and struggle against them. They are not seen as terrorists, despite using violence, as they do not endanger the basics of the capitalist ideology, the existent system itself.
The term ‘Fundamentalism’ arose during the early 19th century as a reaction of Christians to strengthening modernism in religion and theology in protestant and pontifical Catholicism. These fundamentalists have a special form of communication. They denunciate conflicts as treachery, declare the opposition (discussion partner) as enemy of salvation and truth, and certifiable. And they use strategies of persuasion, re-education or compromising instead of dialogue. (Have a look at all the rhetoric of Western politicians, media and secular intellectuals towards Islam and the Muslims, and all the newly introduced “anti-radicalisation-programs” in Western world’s education system, and so forth) The result is comprehensively or selectively disregarding human rights, pluralism, and tolerance and so on… (invading Muslim lands, apathy towards the slaughter of millions of innocent Muslims by Buddhists, Hindus, Baathists, and Zionists…) This kind of extremism is justified as preventive politics on state level, or mental disorder on lower levels, but never terrorism.
As Western sociologists and politicians could not fit Islam into any of these definitions and terms, they invented a new term: ‘Islamic Extremism’… The West determines Islamic Extremism as follows:
“Islamic Extremism is the collective name for a political, social-revolutionary movement, which is embraced by a minority of Muslims. Its followers demand, based on a politically idealized Islam, the “re-establishment” of an “Islamic system”. They comprehend Islam as the alternative model to the western, democratic governmental and societal systems. […]” (Source: Office of the Protection of the Constitution, Brandenburg, Germany) This definition is more or less identical across all Western countries. And Islamic Extremism in order to be evil needs of course Terrorism. Terrorism according to the West is violence against an existing system, used to enforce political change through criminal acts.
Have a look at the Muslim world! Who is under fear and horror?! Who has lost its existent system through “political, social-revolutionary movements” throughout the last century?! Where are the millions of innocent children, who starve to death, are tortured, slaughtered or simply bombed?! Where do Muslim women face gang rape and murder, and Muslim men are bereft of their dignity…?! Who conducts these crimes??? Who used criminal acts to enforce political change? Is it political Islam, or the puppet dictators who guarantee the entrance of the true extremist, fundamentalist, Kuffar Western powers into our lands?!
So in the light of these terms, Donald Trump, who won the elections through anti-Islam, anti-Muslim and xenophobic promises is now the messiah of “peace and love”…??? And he is entitled to order Muslim world’s leaders to “honestly combat extremism”, “honestly confront the crisis of Islamist extremism” to “take a stand against violence done in the name of religion”… He is respectably entitled to describe the struggle against extremism as a “battle between good and evil”, while praising his army for using its biggest bomb against innocent children and their families in Afghanistan?! He is still a so-called just man when calling “for international isolation” of some Muslim lands, and to “drive out” Muslims from their own lands…???
These treacherous wooden puppets upon our blessed lands are seeking to mold in the ideology of Islam into the colonialists’ concepts of radicalism, fundamentalism, extremism and terrorism. Their aim is to encourage and promote the idea, that Islam cannot be an ideology, and has no ideological method in achieving its aims and implementing the rules of Allah. At the same time they propagate that capitalism is the only ideology and humane type of system. While they devotedly abode in service in front of the representatives of this ideology, like openly Islam-hostile Trump, they see and view them as the popes of this ideology, moreover the gods of this ideology, who determine what is good and what is bad, what is just and unjust, what is the golden middle and what is fundamental, radical and extreme.
﴿إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ يُنفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُمْ لِيَصُدُّواْ عَن سَبِيلِ اللّهِ فَسَيُنفِقُونَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ عَلَيْهِمْ حَسْرَةً ثُمَّ يُغْلَبُونَ وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ إِلَى جَهَنَّمَ يُحْشَرُونَ﴾
“Indeed, those who disbelieve spend their wealth to avert [people] from the way of Allah . So they will spend it; then it will be for them a [source of] regret; then they will be overcome. And those who have disbelieved - unto Hell they will be gathered.” [Al-Anfal 36]
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Zehra Malik