Headline News 18/11/2017

Headlines

• Tillerson calls for Return to Civilian Rule in Zimbabwe

• Environment Conference concludes in Bonn despite US Obstruction

• Macron Secures Hariri’s Release to France

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Tillerson calls for Return to Civilian Rule in Zimbabwe

The US Secretary of State has now commented formally to the coup in Zimbabwe earlier this week against President Robert Mugabe, in remarks calling for Western values.

According to Reuters:

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday urged “a quick return to civilian rule” in Zimbabwe after its army took charge earlier this week, and called events there “a concern.”

“Zimbabwe has an opportunity to set itself on a new path, one that must include democratic elections and respect for human rights,” Tillerson told the foreign ministers from the African continent ahead of a meeting in Washington.

Inevitably though the West’s call for democratic values or human rights is actually code for advancing their own national interests. America will always choose its national interests above its desire to spread Western values abroad.

Zimbabwe is one of those rare places left in the world that is still outside the US orbit of control. It in fact remains under British control with 20,000 British citizens still living in Zimbabwe today. At the end of the British Empire, the standard tactic was to manipulate the installation of local rulers loyal to the British by having them participate in ‘independence movements’ against imperial rule. Robert Mugabe played this role in Zimbabwe.

Mugabe’s ‘mistake’ was to be in power too long, so that even Britain became frustrated with him. Ironically, the UK statement on events in Zimbabwe are similar to the US line, with the difference that UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson’s remarks came immediately after the coup, while Tillerson’s came three days later. According to Reuters:
“Nobody wants simply to see the transition from one unelected tyrant to a next. No one wants to see that. We want to see proper, free and fair elections,” Johnson told the British parliament.

Foreign powers are happier when no single person remains in power for too long, so that they can more easily continue to exert control from behind the scenes. The West’s true foreign policy remain imperialism. Muslims need to show the world an alternate.

Environment Conference Concludes in Bonn despite US Obstruction

According to Reuters

Almost 200 nations kept a 2015 global agreement to tackle climate change on track on Saturday after marathon talks overshadowed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out.

Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, presiding at the two-week talks in Bonn, said the outcome “underscores the importance of keeping the momentum and of holding the spirit and vision of our Paris Agreement.”

Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, presiding at the two-week talks in Bonn, said the outcome “underscores the importance of keeping the momentum and of holding the spirit and vision of our Paris Agreement.”

But the reality is that even the Paris Climate Agreement was severely weakened by America, after the intervention of then US President Barack Obama.

America stands the most to lose from implementation of climate accords because of America’s huge economic and strategic dependence on fossil fuels. America has viewed all climate change discussion as a threat almost from the start.

The world will never be able to address its true issues as long as the Capitalist West remains dominant in world affairs. The time is soon, with Allah’s permission, that Islam will return to lead the world through the re-establishment of the righteous Islamic Khilafah (Caliphate) on the method of the Prophet (saw).

Macron Secures Hariri’s Release to France

It appears that French President Emmanuel Macron was able to successfully negotiate the release of Saad al-Hariri from Saudi Arabia to France. According to Reuters:

Saad al-Hariri, who sparked a crisis by resigning as Lebanese prime minister on Nov. 4 during a visit to Saudi Arabia, is on his way to the airport, he said early on Saturday, before his flight from Riyadh to France.

Hariri’s abrupt resignation while he was in Saudi Arabia and his continued stay there caused fears over Lebanon’s stability. His visit to France with his family to meet President Emmanuel Macron is seen as part of a possible way out of the crisis.

France’s intervention is just another indication of the intricate involvement of Western powers in Muslim politics. Quite evidently, it is America that stands behind the numerous initiatives taken in the name of Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman. It was also America that brought Iran into Syria and Iraq but is now humiliating Iran by demanding its withdrawal from those regions. The forced resignation of Hariri is in fact designed to build pressure on the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group in Lebanon that increasingly dominates Lebanese politics. Muslims remain divided because our rulers are always at the West’s beck and call, eagerly willing to undertake any service for their masters, despite the humiliation they receive in return from them when they have completed their service. The affairs of Muslims will never be set in order until we take our affairs in our own hands and give our support to sincere, ideological, indigenous leadership who must rule us by the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (saw). Those who have insight know that the time of this is close.