Nussrah Magazine Issue 22  

End the Colonialist Interference in Our Affairs by Establishing Khilafah "Caliphate"

After the PTI Chief's meeting with the US Ambassador on 22 November, debate has erupted amongst the people. Richard Olson is the representative of a colonialist power in Pakistan. Anyone from the political or military leadership who meets him would only strengthen colonialism in Pakistan because he would confirm US stake in Pakistan's political process. The colonialist trap here is evident. The colonialists find excuses to interfere in our affairs through offers of "help" and "assistance" only to find ways and means to subjugate and control us. The only reason why Richard Olson would meet Imran Khan is to size him up for US service. The only reason Imran Khan would meet the US ambassador is that he knows that the corridor of power to Islamabad goes through Washington.

The Khilafah "Caliphate" alone will treat hostile non-Muslim states on a war stance and end the free roaming of US Ambassadors. As 000 000 has adopted in its "Introduction to the Constitution," in Article 189, "States with whom we do not have treaties, and the actual imperialist states, such as Britain, America and France, and those states that have designs on the State, such as Russia, are legally considered to be belligerent states. All precautions must be taken towards them and it would be wrong to establish diplomatic relations with them." And in the same article's Clause 4 it has stated, "States that are actually belligerent states, such as Israel for example, a state of war must be taken as the basis for all dealings with them. They must be dealt with as if a real war existed between us - irrespective of whether an armistice exists between us or not - and all their subjects are prevented from entering the State."

Barking at America, whilst Heeling and Rolling Over to its Commands

Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif declared on 25 December that, "The Americans have been our friends for a long time since the ‘60s and the ‘70s but their reliability is relative...American foreign policy has been disastrous for this region," whilst addressing an audience at the Institute of Strategic Studies.

Stating the obvious will not lessen the anger of the people at the regime's blind allegiance to America. Nor are the people naive enough to believe that this statement is a signal that the regime is abandoning agency to the West in favour of an independent foreign policy. Indeed in the same speech the Defence Minister did not deviate one inch from American interests in the region, specifically acceptance of the American occupation of Afghanistan as the status quo and making way for India's rise as the unfit, dominant regional player through normalization.

Barking at America, whilst heeling and rolling over to its commands is wearing thin. The Ummah senses the need for real change which only the Khilafah "Caliphate" can bring. The Khilafah "Caliphate" will treat this hostile belligerent nation on a war stance, expelling its diplomatic, intelligence, military and private military from Pakistan. It will prevent the free access of its officials to rulers and members of assemblies within the state. And it will unify the Ummah, benefiting of its immense resources, as a basis for raising Islam as the dominant influence in the world.

Jihad to Expel Occupation is a Duty

Whilst calling for peace in Afghanistan on 25 November, the Defence Minister said nothing regarding the American aggression and occupation that caused the instability in the first place. Nor did he praise the brave resistance of Muslims to the American occupation, which is no less brutal and dangerous for the region's Muslims than the previous Soviet Russian occupation. Moreover, the West and its agents, the Muslim rulers, push a flawed concept upon the Muslim populace: that anywhere in the Muslim World wherever the Muslim people are physically occupied, they must not respond with physical force in return. What this practically means is that physical occupation should only be fought through non-violent means via political or intellectual struggle. So those who fight the Indian occupation in Kashmir are terrorists. Those who fight the American occupation in Afghanistan are terrorists. Those who resist the Israeli occupation of the Holy land are terrorists. The West knows that Muslim states are in their control and would never move their armies to free occupied Muslim lands. However it cannot control the valiant Ummah and its brave sons. Hence it propagated the idea of "violence by non-state actors" as "terrorism". So any violence by non-state actors is termed "terrorism" whether it is aimed at removing physical occupation or not.

So in origin "terrorism" is a dangerous concept for the Ummah. For it is a political term conceived by the West to attack the idea of defensive Jihad within the Muslim people. And this is an attack on the Muslim mind. Therefore the Ummah should be vigilant about Western narratives on the War on Terror and reject them altogether. Muslims will never give up their right to physically defend their lands, life, property and honor with or without the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" State. And let us not forget, if the Muslim States had done their duty to defend Muslim lands, the issue of non-state actors would never have arisen in the first place. We need Khilafah "Caliphate" for the Muslim World.

Opposition is as Bankrupt on the Economy as the Regime

Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Senator, Mian Raza Rabbani, in his capacity as leader of the opposition, declared on 26 December that the federal government's privatization plan is tantamount to selling national strategic institutions in violation of the provisions of the Constitution.

This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. The PPP itself whilst in power first ensured the privatization of the power sector, with the formation of Independent Power Producers (IPPs), for which the people of Pakistan are still paying the cost, whilst the PPPs entourage benefitted from the privatization. The PML-N adheres to Democracy too and so its cronies have benefitted from continuing privatization of the energy sector, amongst others. Democracy always guarantees excessive privileges for the elite in power and gross deprivation for the people. Democracy links authority with sovereignty, so those who are elected to power, have the right to make law according to their whims and desires. This ensures that the law-makers are able to amass immense wealth for themselves and their associates by manipulating laws in their favor. Wherever Democracy exists, small elites have changed law to ensure their private ownership of the sources of great wealth, whether it is electricity, oil, gas, minerals, large scale industry and arms manufacture.

Islam uniquely will end the cycle of exploitation that Democracy ensures. Islam has mandated that electricity, oil, gas and minerals are a public property, whose benefit is for the citizens of the state, rather than a small elite. Moreover, the Khilafah "Caliphate" will establish a strong industry so that it dominates key areas such as large-scale construction, engines and telecommunication.

US Pleased at Pakistan's Inaction Against its Occupation

In an interview to Dawn published on 28 November, US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Feldman, gushed with pleasure at the Pakistan Army Chief's commitment to America's war. "People in Washington were very pleased with his commitment" to fighting all terrorists, including the Haqqani network, he said, while talking about the Pakistan army chief's much-talked about visit to the United States last week. "We also recognise that more work needs to be done, but there's true commitment from Gen Sharif to deliver on this," said the US envoy.

American pleasure at Pakistan's current commitment to its war is not surprising. Its cowardly occupying troops have not been able to face small numbers of poorly armed Pushtoon fighters, so the mere prospect of facing the world's largest Muslim armed forces on the battlefield is unbearable. Instead, through using a malicious campaign of false flag attacks on Pakistan's armed forces, America's Raymond Davis network has worked to turn the situation on its head, with the Muslim armed forces fighting the resistance to the Kafir occupation on its behalf! It is high time that the Khilafah "Caliphate" was established that will motivate the armed forces of the Muslims to seek the pleasure of Allah (swt) only and obliterate the occupying forces wherever they defile Muslim soil. Allah (swt) said,

((يا أيها الذين ءامنوا قاتِلوا الذين يَلونكم من الكفار وَلْيجِدوا فيكمْ غِلْظَةً واعْلَموا أنَّ اللّـهَ مع المتقين))

"O you who believe! Fight the Unbelievers who gird you about, and let them find firmness in you: and know that Allah is with those who fear Him." [Surah At-Tawba 9:123]

News

All throughout the major headlines is the news of the grand jury's decision not to indict Darren Wilson, a Ferguson, Missouri police officer who shot and killed the unarmed African-American teenager Michael Brown about three months ago. This verdict unleashed fury and disbelief of the judicial system in African American communities all throughout the United States. A fresh wave of violence hit the streets of American cities by some areas calling for the dispatch of the National Guard for additional protection to subdue the heightened riots calling for justice. (Source: The New York Times and Press TV, November 26, 2014)

Comment

90 US cities held mass protests as a backlash to the grand jury decision. More than 2100 National Guard troops have been sent to Ferguson, Missouri to quell the eruption of the riots. Major streets, highways, and bridges have been blocked as protestors took to the streets including New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, and in front of the White House. Tempers raging, utter shock for the total disregard for the dead teenager - who an unarmed African American teenager also a US citizen- was gunned down. Too often has this scene occurred: different face different state all ending in the same consequences - falling victim to white police brutality and this case ended with fatal results. We see the legal criticism of what the officer should have done and what type of protocol to follow. But is that the real issue of the fallout of the national riots?

The underlying basis for this type of incidents occur and have been occurring throughout American history from the early beginnings of the newfound country to the rise of its American hegemony over the international scene. It still battles the same battle that shakes the government to its core. The issue of race and its impact on the make-up of society. When scrutinizing intensely racism is the absolute disease that eats up the American public. No matter how strong America is on the global scene and foreign policy - in its own backyard - racism still brings it down to its knees.

This is the question on everyone's minds - how is this happening in the superpower domain? Is racism and prejudice woven in the fabric of American society? We see the prejudice towards anyone non-white be they, Muslims, African Americans, and Mexicans, migrant workers, and immigrants seeking a better life opportunity and even extending to women. How demeaning that this discussion still exists in today's time!

Capitalism since its inception has yet to gather the various colors, races, ethnicities, and religions despite all the civil rights movements, amendments atop amendments, and Supreme Court Rulings all take the American public back to square one. Touting democratic rights making widespread claims of human rights for all people - overseas; yet grapple to find peace and harmony in its borders. Raw emotions allow observers to see the depth of the rottenness of ingrained prejudice into American ideology that when shone to the light reveals all its holes.

Just as the issue of rights for the black people come into the spotlight, attached is the minority discourse. Is the stagnant issue of majority vs. minority debate ever going to be solved?

In today's cruel world, there does exist a solution that will bring harmony in society and to humanity, that can be found in the ideology or Deen of Islam. What causes these various groups of people to be united not only by geographical borders but also to the creed deep within the hearts of the people of various colors and ethnicities? Even after almost a century of the system being absent from the lives of the newer generations of the Muslims... what kind of ideological creed holds and combines the people from all around the world on the belief of La Illaha Illa Allah Muhammad Rasool Allah - this is what Islam is what it stands for humanity as a cathartic relief from all the chokehold of hatred, cruelty, sexism and prejudice to the point it severely affects the American perception of what is good and evil simply based on the stereotypes handed down from generation to generation and projected by the media.

When does one stop to question this? Until how many Michael Browns have to be killed or how many hate campaigns need to churned out in order for the general public to realize they will never be "cured" from the disease they suffer unless they change the foundation their lives are based upon. Eric Draister, Founder of stopimperialism.org, said during a Press TV interview on November 26, "American culture is utterly hollow" and there is "the myth of democracy" in the United States. Numerous civil rights advocates also reiterate these sentiments, especially from the African American communities.

Whereas in the Islamic State -majority and minority group of people is a foreign concept since all those who hold the "tabiyyehiah" [belonging to the State or the closest meaning being citizenship] be they the original inhabitants of the land or the newly annexed people to the State. Here one holds full rights and protection granted by the Legislator, Allah Almighty, even though one may not be of the Muslim faith. In the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" State, groups of people are not deprived of their responsibilities or rights due to their skin color or faith. It serves as a wonder to others that in today's time the Muslim Ummah identifies with other Muslims all around the world with full empathy and compassion of their suffering or their happiness without ever seeing them or knowing them personally. Even though the Islamic State has been absent for almost a century, this bond still remains intact, Muslims as a group going back to the ideological bond view other people as human beings.

This is radically different to the perspective in the American society, which still faces all sorts of societal dilemmas based on prejudice. How senseless can this discussion exist in this time and age. Western thinkers marvel at the unique creed of Islam that combines and gathers humans without the notion of any race being superior over another as if that race had any control over being born into that specific race. Stereotypes and formed perceptions that oppress and restrict people from reaching their full potential due to the limitations forced upon them. As we see in the United States, countless surveys show the trends of the poorest less educated lower job ranks all belong to the race outside the white race. The labels attached to the "outsiders" is one of suspicion and hostility and fear. Islam in its belief system elevates the human mind and its perceptions to see beyond skin color and taking the focus to one's actions - and that acts as the measure for judgment. The Muslim is not superficial in thinking or behavior nor views skin color or a specific ethnicity as the determinant to worldly success.

While the civil rights groups and judicial panels still ponder on how to solve the crisis of racism, the answer will never be found in their ideology. Whereas Islam holds the truest solution which raised the freed black slave to the same status as the rich master during the noble Prophet Muhammad's time in which he admonished the Arabs for their ignorant views more than 1400 years ago.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Um Muhanad