By Banning Jihad Against America, Regime Itself is a Threat to the Integrity of Pakistan

On 3 January 2015, the regime released details of its draft constitutional amendment which cites that "whereas there exists grave and unprecedented threat to the integrity of Pakistan by the raising of arms and insurgency in name of religion." The fact of the matter is that the Muslims of the tribal regions are focused on the Kuffar enemy occupying Afghanistan from the beginning of the American invasion. Yet, the regime at the behest of America, is declaring such Jihad, illegal.

By doing so the regime has exposed its opposition to the beliefs, values, traditions and history of this Ummah.  Allah (swt) and His Messenger have commanded Dawah and Jihad against the Kuffar enemy as an obligation. RasulAllah (saw) established the dominance of Islam throughout the Arabian Peninsula through Dawah and Jihad. The authorities of Kufr fell one after the other and submitted to Islam. He (saw) laid a strong basis for the opening of the lands of the Persian and Roman Empires that occurred during the time of the Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashida through Jihad. The Ummah emerged as the leading state in the world through Dawa and Jihad. Its armies were mobilized and emerged triumphant, paving the way for a great Islamic civilization. Until today, the Pakistan Armed Forces considers itself as an inheritor of that great tradition and its heroes are Khalid Bin Waleed, Salahudeen and Muhammad bin Qassim.

The regime has denounced Jihad as it follows America, rather than the values and aspirations of the Ummah. There was a time when the Americans praised Jihad and the Mujahideen. That was when the Muslims were focused on the occupation by their competitor, Soviet Russia. The Muslims were aware of the danger to Pakistan of having such a hostile force on Pakistan's doorstep. However, now that America itself is occupying Muslim Land, it demands that Jihad is condemned as terrorism. As such the regime has demonstrated that it itself is a danger to the integrity of Pakistan. It must be removed and replaced by the Khilafah "Caliphate" as a matter of utmost priority.

Regime Uses Fear to Support America's War: A Fragile Ploy

On 3 January, special panels were constituted for all the four provinces to oversee implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) against terrorism as the latest measure undertaken by regime in a climate of fear. These measures are being used as a cover to crush those who are fighting against the American occupation as an Islamic duty and those who support that duty, the obligation of Jihad.

In the famous documentary ‘The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of Politics of Fear', written and produced by Adam Curtis and first aired by the BBC in 2004, a detailed analysis on the politics of war on terror was presented. The documentary focused on attacking the neoconservative policies and the narrative built around the war on terror by Bush's White House. It argued that after the decline in the power and ability of the American state to fulfill its citizens needs, the American establishment adopted a new narrative in which instead of promising its citizens to help fulfill their dreams, the politicians promised to protect their citizens from nightmares. The use of fear as a tool to garner political power and support was first championed by the Reagan administration against the Communist enemy, a time when neoconservatives consolidated their power in Washington. The neoconservatives adopted an ideology which mixed capitalist interests, Christian evangelism and the need for a foreign enemy to consolidate their power domestically and to project American power internationally.

Exploiting the tragic incident of the Peshawar attack, we can see Pakistan's rulers borrowing the American experience of using politics of fear to garner political support for their objectives. So the Peshawar attack has been used to invoke fear in the people, and the government intends to use this fear to strengthen its hands politically and serve its American masters. That people should be scared into accepting something which they don't believe in, suggests that the ruling establishment and its backers are not interested in a debate at all. The war on terror is America's war. The Pakistani masses are convinced on this. And they cannot be scared into accepting otherwise. Any forced consensus regarding the war on terror imposed on the people would break after a while, as has happened so many times in the past, because a powerful consensus which holds is built on ideas that inspire, not emotions that invoke hatred.

National Action Plan is a US Funded Campaign to Suppress Jihad Against the American Occupation of Afghanistan

The National Assembly on 6 January adopted the 21st Constitutional Amendment Bill and The Pakistan Army (Amendment) Bill, 2015 unopposed after 247 Members of National Assembly voted in favour of the laws aimed to set up constitutionally protected military courts to try civilian terrorism suspects. Thus the government proceeded on its plans to persecute those who fight the American occupation.

Those who fight the American occupation in Afghanistan, they are Mujahideen. Those who travel from Pakistan to fight the American occupation in Afghanistan, they are Mujahideen. Those who attack the Pakistan Army and other law enforcement agencies, they are mischief makers playing in foreign hands. There is no confusion here. Our rulers want us to believe that all-non state actors, those who fight the Americans in Afghanistan and those who attack the Army, are one. They are not. Using the Peshawar tragedy the civilian and military leadership has launched a war against "religiously inspired violence or use of force". They fear to use the Arabic term, for this will reveal their true intentions. Muslims know that "religiously inspired use of force" is Jihad. Moreover, it is well known and very clear that Jihad is done only against the Kuffar not Muslims.

Instead of supporting the resistance in Afghanistan against the American occupation, traitors in our military and political leadership are supporting the American occupation by coming down hard on Pashtun tribes fighting the Americans in Afghanistan. They use the word "terrorism" to hide their slavery to America. This is what the National Action Plan is all about. It is a US funded campaign to suppress the support which the Muslims of Afghanistan are receiving from Pakistan to fight the American occupation in Afghanistan. It is a campaign to establish the American Raj in Pakistan and Afghanistan. This not about human rights or military courts. This is about the right of Muslims to resist foreign occupation. This is about the concept of the Ummah. Afghans and Pakistanis are one and they have a common enemy: America. They must unite to kick her out of our lands.

Abolish Democracy, the Clear Tool for Colonialism

The 21st Amendment passed in Pakistan's National Assembly on 6 January, unchallenged, now allows military courts to try civilians facing charges of 'terrorism'. Among other things, it allows the Federal government to transfer any pending case in any civilian court to military courts and means that those convicted by military courts have no right of appeal before civilian courts. This hideous abuse of due process passed the NA with 247 votes in favour, zero against. Democracy at work! No one dared vote against, even those who expressed concerns and were in principle against it. This episode re-affirms some ground realities:

1. The de facto power in Pakistan is the army. The military leadership rules the roost. When they want something done, the political leadership stands impotent and must fall in line, willingly or otherwise.

2. This is the ugly reality of democracy, as practiced in East and West - that when expedient its most basic principles will be done away with. And this is the ugly reality of those self-avowed democrats who sing the Westphalian hymns of democracy and freedom - that when in their interest they will happily contradict all their claimed principles.

Thus, we see here all the foundational principles of democracy, be it the separation between military and civilian affairs or the separation of powers, being put to the sword. At the same time, we see the US, Europe, the Pakistan Government and Opposition, even those political parties and leaders such as Imran Khan who exhibited impressive rhetoric about democracy, rights, and this and that, for months...we see them all united in silence, a shameful silence that history will record.

3. Resorting to such extreme measures indicates the failure of the 'war on terror' adopted by the traitors in the political and military leadership, on instruction from the US. After a decade of fighting America's war and destroying the country, these traitors nothing to show by way of success and are forced to employ such extreme measures.

4. The only way out for Pakistan, both in reclaiming its independent political will and in stopping the despicable bombings and attacks, is to remove the US presence, which has led to this. This requires a radical change in the leadership, the actual leadership (military), followed by the symbolic one (political).

So let all those who are sincere work for change on the basis of Islam, and Islam alone, rejecting the false idols of democracy and dictatorship like, and let them direct their call to those who can make the difference: the sincere officers in army who have the ability to push aside the traitors.

America's War Has Only Might, not Right

At a US State Department news briefing on 7 January, Spokesperson Jen Psaki also asked Pakistan to provide more information about the move but refrained from condemning it. "We support efforts to counter terrorism and bring perpetrators to justice, but we believe it's important that efforts be consistent with principles of due process." A journalist reminded her of the practice that was established by the previous Bush administration, of trying terrorism suspects in military courts. "Why would you then need to even think twice about a Pakistani move to go to military tribunals?" the journalist asked.

The Raheel-Nawaz regime, like its masters in Washington, is forcing consensus over its support of America's war, as it has no truth on its side. This is not a surprise to many. Even in America, there is a substantial 9/11 Truth movement, an umbrella terms for a group organizaions that question the basic premise of America's war. Some of the organizations assert that there is evidence that individuals within the United States government may have been either responsible for or knowingly complicit in the September 11 attacks. Motives suggested by the movement include the use of the attacks as a pretext to start wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and to create opportunities to curtail civil liberties.

As for Pakistan, until now, within the people and the armed forces, the Afghan Jihad against America is respected and held in high esteem. As the Muslims are holding firmly to their Deen, the regime is seeking to please its American masters by using force against them.

The tyrants of the world will fail in their war of terror and force, inshaaAllah, for Islamic history is replete of examples of brave Muslims standing up for truth despite all manner of harsh measures against them. Such suppression of truth moves all the Muslims to play their part, small or great, including the men of Nussrah whose might and strength is enough to stop the tyrants in their tracks. Imam Ahmad recorded that Jareer (ra) said that the Messenger of Allah said, «مَا مِنْ قَوْمٍ يُعْمَلُ فِيهِمْ بِالْمَعَاصِي هُمْ أَعَزُّ وَأَكْثَرُ مِمَّنْ يَعْمَلُونَ ثُمَّ لَمْ يُغَيِّرُوهُ إِلَّا عَمَّهُمُ اللهُ بِعِقَاب» "There is no people among whom sins are openly committed, while they are mightier and more numerous than those who commit these sins, and they do nothing to stop them, except that Allah encompasses them all with punishment."