Conspiracy: Not a Theory But History

Written by Husain Al-Qadi

One of the enduring perceptions of Arabs and Muslims in the West is that of a people who fall easy victim to conspiracy theories. Books are written on how the worldview of Muslims is influenced by conspiracy theories and we are often caricatured in fiction and folktales in the West as paranoid reactionaries. As a consequence of this, whenever a Muslim mentions the word "conspiracy", eyes roll even before he is able to finish his sentence and you can almost hear the collective groan of "oh-no-not-that again" echo around the room. This reaction has become so insidious that one can even find Muslims reacting in a similar manner, as I saw among the responses we received to last week's JumahPulse.
My analysis of the unfolding events in the Arab world was dismissed by some as mere "conspiracy theory" and a suggestion was made that I might be belittling the sacrifices made by those who have died in the Egyptian protests.

So for those of you who would have glanced at the title of this article and had your groan, I ask you to bear with me so that I can set the record straight and explain my reasoning, which I did not do last week for fear of the piece becoming too lengthy.

First of all, the innocent Muslims who died in Egypt at the hands of the brutality of the Mubarak regime are undoubtedly martyrs and we pray that Allah accepts their sacrifices and grants their relatives sabran jamilan. The courage and sincerity of their actions cannot be questioned. Hosni Mubarak was a notorious dictator who plundered the country's wealth and oppressed the Egyptian people for decades. Protesting (i.e. speaking the truth) against Egypt's brutal regime (sultanun ja'ir) was, in the words of the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wasallam), afdal al-jihad (one of the best forms of jihad). However, the response from the regime and the apparent outcome of the protests was not, as those who celebrate seem to think, a revolution. Instead, it was a conspiracy and trickery of the most wretched kind.


Of course, no one can deny that there are fictitious stories of conspiracy circulating in gossip circuits and cyberspace but we are equally obliged, as thinking rational beings, to acknowledge that we live in a world where conspiracies do exist, even in the West where four American presidents were assassinated not by accident but by conspiracies. "Watergate", "Iran-gate", "Iraq-gate" were all conspiracies and the full list is too long to detail here.

As for the Muslim world, apart the from the long list of intrigues and "great games" played out against the Arab and Muslim nations during the last two centuries, the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaration are conspiracies of such magnitude that they continue to cause pain, suffering and anger in the Muslim world even today.

Every day, day after day, these two conspiracies present the consciousness of Muslims with new tragedies and frustrations. These were such notorious conspiracies that the Christian historian George Antonius described them in the following words:

"The Sykes-Picot Agreement is a shocking document. It is not only the product of greed allied to suspicion and so leading to stupidity: it also stands out as a startling piece of double-dealing." (George Antonius, The Arab Awakening, p.248, 1939).

The effect of the Balfour Declaration was no less devastating, as the same author explained: "In those parts of the Arab world which were in direct touch with the Allies, the Balfour Declaration created bewilderment and dismay, even among those who were not aware of the exact nature of the British pledges to the Arabs... The news reached Egypt first, where it soon provoked a wave of protest on the part of the Arab leaders congregated in Cairo." (George Antonius, The Arab Awakening, p.267).

The latest result of these conspiracies is that Israel, just a few days ago, used the upheaval in the Arab world to fortify its stranglehold on al-Quds al-Sharif (Jerusalem). While the news bulletins are cluttered with reports of events in Libya and elsewhere, Israel has chosen to announce the relocation of three army colleges to East Jerusalem in the hope that it would go unnoticed. Pesky Orientalists often tell Muslims to "get over it" and to stop talking about the Sykes-Picot and Balfour conspiracies but when we have to live with their consequences day after day, decade after decade, it's easier said than done. The scheming and conspiracy-mongering of these "Balfour children" are not contained within the borders of Israel.

Why the Mideast revolts will help al-Qaeda

By Michael Scheuer
Friday, March 4, 2011; 1:00 PM
washingtonpost.com
(Source)

The rush in the West to proclaim the advance of democracy in the Arab world has led to the propagation of an ill-conceived and dangerous corollary: that the revolts in the Middle East and North Africa also mark the irrelevance of al-Qaeda and other Islamist militant groups.

“Al Qaeda Sees History Fly By,” declared the New York Times. “Uprisings Put al Qaeda on Sidelines,” asserted the Wall Street Journal. And Western politicians, academics and even intelligence specialists appear to agree that, with peaceful and pro-democratic change afoot in the Middle East, the world has moved beyond al-Qaeda, leaving Osama bin Laden writhing in the dust.

If only that were true. Since bin Laden declared war against the United States in 1996, al-Qaeda’s main goals have included the destruction of the Arab world’s tyrannies and of Israel. The events of recent weeks only move al-Qaeda closer to those objectives.

Today, the dictatorships of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt are gone. Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh is little more than the mayor of his capital city of Sanaa. And Col. Moammar Gaddafi may be on his way out in Libya, unless some knee-jerk U.S.-led intervention saves him by refocusing Libyan and other North African Islamists on what they consider an infidel threat greater than Gaddafi.

As for Israel, the fall of Mubarak – and the unsealing of Egypt’s border with Gaza – pose a security disaster equal to the destruction of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. Israel’s two anti-Islamist shields to the east and to the west are now history.

All of this amounts to an enormous strategic step forward for al-Qaeda. That these victories have come with virtually no investment of manpower or money by the terrorist network, and with self-defeating applause from the Facebook-obsessed, Twitter-addled West, only makes them all the sweeter for bin Laden.

Peering into the future, the autocrats’ probable successors likewise offer abundant good news for al-Qaeda and kindred groups. In Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen and any other nation with a U.S.-supported tyranny that sinks in the weeks and months ahead, the role of Islamist groups will become larger – and over time perhaps dominant – if only because the populations in play are almost entirely Muslim and because Islamist groups have the most effective nationwide infrastructures to replace the old guard. And most do and will receive funding, openly or covertly, from always generous donors in Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich Sunni gulf states.

Each new regime is likely to host a more open, religion-friendly environment for speech, assembly and press freedoms than did Mubarak and his ilk. So it will be easier for media-savvy Islamist groups – whether peaceful or militant – to proselytize, publish and foment without immediate threat of arrest and incarceration. Indeed, Washington and its Western allies will dogmatically urge the new governments to maintain such freedoms, even as the Islamists capitalize on them.

The Islamists will follow the formulas for gaining power and then governing that are detailed in the Koran and the Sunnah, the prophet Muhammad’s sayings and traditions. Western experts have long failed to recognize these documents as Islam’s equivalent to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Federalist Papers. In Egypt, for example, governance based on them would be far more familiar, comfortable and culturally appropriate than anything opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei and his followers could offer.

The blessing of the Arab revolts for al-Qaeda and its allies also can be seen in the opening of prisons across Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. In Egypt alone, the news media are reporting that at least 17,000 prisoners have been freed. Many of those released are not thieves and murderers, but Islamist firebrands that the regimes had jailed to protect their internal security – at times even at the request and with the funding of Washington and its allies. Indeed, many were incarcerated as a result of quiet cooperation between Western and Arab intelligence services; their release is a major setback for these efforts.

So al-Qaeda and like-minded groups are now being replenished by a steady flow of pious, veteran mujaheddin, each of whom will never forget that U.S. and other Western funds helped keep them jailed by Arab tyrants.

The revolts also mean that the United States and its Western allies must take on a far greater share of the counterterrorism operations that they previously conducted with the help of Arab regimes. The days of Mubarak, Saleh, Gaddafi and Ben Ali doing the dirty work for American, European and Israeli counterterrorism efforts are over. Soon it will be U.S. and Western special forces and intelligence services that will be ordered to capture or kill militants in Muslim lands – individuals that our tyrannical friends used to dispose of for us.

How tragic that in the war being waged against the United States by al-Qaeda and its allies precisely because of Washington’s relentless intervention in the Islamic world, the U.S. government will now be forced to intervene even more – or sit on the sidelines and watch al-Qaeda build or expand bases from which to threaten U.S. security.

Of course, open and vociferous participation by Islamists in the demonstrations in Cairo, Tunis, Tripoli and elsewhere would have earned a lethal and Western-supported response from Mubarak, Ben Ali and Gaddafi. So al-Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood and other groups simply used a talent that long ago atrophied in the West – the ability to keep their mouths shut. As usual, the West wrongly concluded that silence connotes not strategy, but impotence and irrelevance.

Bin Laden and his peers are counting on the fact that the uprisings’ secular, pro-democracy Facebookers and tweeters – so beloved of reality-averse Western journalists and politicians – are a thin veneer across a deeply pious Arab world. They are confident that these revolts are not about democratic change but about who, in societies where peaceful transfers of power are rare, will fill the vacuum left by the dictators and consolidate power. These men also know that the answer to that question will ultimately come out of the barrel of a Kalashnikov, of which they have many, along with the old tyrants’ weapons stockpiles, on which they are now feasting.

Amerikanische Grossoffensive....EINE WELTMACHT BEWEIST IHRE STÄRKE...

enjoy ..... slaves of Allah

يا حكام المسلمين نحن لا نخشي اليهود.. رسالة مصر الكنانة

Alhumdu lillahi Rabil Alaimeen

There are signs of good coming from Egypt.

In the video above our muslim brothers of egypt are chanting things like "its time to bring back Jihad, O rulers of the muslim lands we are not affraid of the jews, its time to go back to jihad" and the people are responding "its time to go back, its time to go back".... Allahu akbar:)

Islamic Awakening

Our World - The Guantanamo Prisoner

IslamPolicy on RT- CAIR and ACLU suing the FBI

Americans Give in, in Face of Mujahid-raising Land of Kunar

Pentagon has announced that American forces would retreat from Pech Valley and the surrounding areas in near future.  Said Pentagon’s  spokesman: “ Our troops can’t  monitor all  valleys of  Kunar province because  they  are so many.”  It is worth mentioning,  Pech Valley is a strategic location,  connecting  Noristan province and  other south-eastern provinces with  the east of the country.  The American soldiers have already pulled out of  Korangal and Gamdesh districts. The invading Americans are planning to withdraw their troops from one of the strategic locations and submit  to the ascendancy of Mujahideen in a time that last week, as a result of American aerial bombardment in  Ghazi Abad district of Kunar province,   80 civilians were martyred  besides occurrence of other  huge material losses.  According to reports, the recent atrocities committed by the Americans have  provoked   anger and  resentments among the  local people, reaching  its peak and are not ready to tolerate presence of American bases  on their  soil any more.  It seems that the  American invaders have come  around to know that they are not able to stay   further in the area as  people are bent on  taking  revenge.

 To mitigate  the anger and indignations of the residents and for fear that they might be  besieged or captured alive,  the invaders have  decided  to evacuate the grand military base of Pech Valley of  Kunar province.  Still more, some western sources say,  the Obama Administration is facing enormous financial problems in Afghanistan. Pentagon has  repeatedly  urged Obama to approve another budgetary  package of war. The  White House  submitted a financial package of  $110 billion dollars to  Congress last week, which is yet to be approved by the  Congress. The American Senate with  Republicans  being in majority,  contends that  Americans’ views polls are  against  the  war of  Afghanistan and are not  willing  to spend even one dollar of  tax money on this worthless war.  So in view of the  financial problems of the Obama Administration and the  disenchantment  of the American people with the  Afghan war, the  American Defense Minister told   Kabul Administration  frankly that they should seek aids from other countries for the training of police and army. According to him, America can’t afford  to bear such  expenditure alone.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan believes,  the withdrawal of the American invading troops from their  barracks and military bases in  Pech Valley of Kunar province,  clearly indicates that  not only  Obama Administration is grappling with financial challenges, but  it has  realized that  all localities, valleys, mountains and flat lands of Afghanistan are  no more a place for their troops  deployment;  not  safe and  risk free   for them. The Afghans people have surely determined to throw the gauntlet in the coming spring. So, the Americans are retreating  from  areas where they think,  they would be either besieged or face high soul and  material  losses.

Obama mulls Islam's post-revolt role in Mideast - CBS News

Obama mulls Islam's post-revolt role in Mideast - CBS News

The administration is already taking steps to distinguish between various movements in the region that promote Islamic law in government. An internal assessment, ordered by the White House last month, identified large ideological differences between such movements as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and al-Qaeda that will guide the U.S. approach to the region.

"We shouldn't be afraid of Islam in the politics of these countries," said a senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe internal policy deliberations. "It's the behavior of political parties and governments that we will judge them on, not their relationship with Islam."

"Islamist governments span a range of ideologies and ambitions, from the primitive brutality of the Taliban in Afghanistan to Turkey's Justice and Development Party, a movement with Islamist roots that heads a largely secular political system."

NOTE:

Here we see in CBS, the reality , that a Turkish model is what the US has in mind, Turkey which was recently caught beating its own protesters, regularly imprisons "salafis", supports the Kufr puppet regime in Mogadishu, desires EU membership, is a member of NATO, helped America in Iraq and has become a crucial U.S. ally...

With regard to the Taliban and "primitive brutality" then this is typical corporate news rhetoric - no matter the situation the game has changed but now the moderate movements will also be identified for what they really are, allies of Pharaoh and while there will be compensatory movements to protect capitalist interests, the whole Middle Eastern field will change. All the important to resurface and reutilize Shaikh Anwar's earlier appropriate effort to identify RAND Islam as a primary enemy. The time for dawa against the positions of this CIA version of Islam is an area of effort we must now all get engaged in. Please refer to A.H.'s posts on this site and stay tuned for future releases that address this phenomenon and how to eradicate it.

Israel to negotiate with al-Qaradawi?

asharq awsat source 
Tariq Alhomayed
The above title is not meant to arouse excitement, nor is this a joke currently doing the rounds, but rather this is a proposal put forward by former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy, who has called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to open a dialogue with Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Halevy proposed this after al-Qaradawi gave his most recent Friday sermon in Cairo, and perhaps even after al-Qaradawi issued a fatwa calling on the people of Libya to kill Colonel Gaddafi.

It seems that the Israelis believe that al-Qaradawi has become a decision-maker in Egypt and the Arab world, believing that he has become the Supreme Guide of the [Sunni] Islamic world. This plays down or indeed ignores the reality of the situation, and the Muslim Brotherhood long ago clarified their position with regards to dealing with Israel, and they only use Israel to mobilize the Arab street, or blackmail Arab regimes, including the former Egyptian regime. Therefore, how can we explain the Muslim Brotherhood's statements following the ousting of the Hosni Mubarak regime? Commenting on the Camp David Agreement, one Muslim Brotherhood group member stated that there is no disagreement, or criticism of the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel [on the part of the Muslim Brotherhood]. This agreement has been signed and so it is binding. This was the public position of the Muslim Brotherhood after Mubarak stepped down, and this of course, is nothing more than political hypocrisy.

If the Israelis believe that Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi's sermon last Friday in Egypt was evidence of his influence and popularity then they are mistakenly reading the situation in the country, for he is merely jumping on the bandwagon, and this is something that many components of Egyptian society are aware of. Whereas if the former Mossad chief's call for dialogue with Sheikh al-Qaradawi is based upon the Sheikh's fatwa calling for the death of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, then this is also impulsive, for what positions has al-Qaradawi taken against Gaddafi over the past decade? For Gaddafi has been a friend of Sheikh al-Qaradawi, and indeed the Al Jazeera television channel, over the years. Through a simple search of the YouTube video-sharing website, one will find that the Qatari Al Jazeera television channel is the Arab television channel which most broadcasts Gaddafi's speeches and interviews. This is something that Al Jazeera has done for a long period of time; granting Gaddafi air-time to attack whoever he wants, and say whatever he likes. Where was Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi during this period, especially as Colonel Gaddafi is not a new member of the dictator's club, but has ruled Libya for 42 years?

Of course, what has happened in the past does not mean that we reject the issue of Israel opening dialogue with Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, for first and foremost this is up to him, and he is in the best position to decide this for himself. Rather, what is meant by this article is to clarify the situation for the readers, for it seems that the disciples of the Muslim Brotherhood and the students of Sheikh al-Qaradawi, have become bolder these days, especially after what happened in Egypt, and following the fatwa of their Sheikh calling for the assassination of Gaddafi. They consider this [the assassination of Gaddafi] to be a moral act, as if the law imposed upon the Arab world is a life for a life, and a crime for a crime! It is as there are no courts where the accused can be brought to justice, whether we are talking about ordinary people or leaders. We have never heard of cases being brought to court giving people permission to kill somebody, this is a completely new and unprecedented issue!

Oil could bring US down

Aafia and Raymond by Fowzia Siddiqui

Aafia and Raymond by Fowzia Siddiqui
On February 3, 2010, a New York court convicted Aafia. The charge against her was an ATTEMPT to kill Americans. For that she was sentenced to 86 years in prison and is being kept in total isolation. The trial was framed by Judge Richard Berman in a way that there would be no mention of her kidnapping from Karachi in 2003 or any mention of Aafia and her three children being held and tortured in secret prisons.
Almost exactly a year later, we are witnessing a drama in Pakistan involving an American mercenary who killed two Pakistani youths in broad daylight and his friends who proceeded to kill another Pakistani in an effort to help him escape to the US consulate.
Those who proclaim the Rule of Law are now using every trick in the book to avoid that same Rule of Law. Those who champion human rights are scrambling to figure out how to turn a cold blooded killer into a wronged victim. Those who were too cowardly to even write a single letter for someone they called “Daughter of the Nation” are working overtime to subvert the laws of the nation whose people they swore to serve.
They talk of diplomatic protocol and the Vienna Convention. Well, where was this Vienna convention when Aafia was picked up from Pakistan and in Ghazni? Where were her consular rights (Article 36 of the Vienna convention)? But she was a Pakistani. This man, of course, is not. When did the Vienna convention become a one way treaty? Or maybe it always was. Maybe all treaties are. So why do we have them or need them?
Why all this hurry to bury? What does Raymond know? Or more importantly, what was he doing? What are they afraid will come out in an open, independent and fair investigation and trial? Are they afraid that the same things could get exposed that they feared when they shut Aafia away? After all, they all worked equally hard to ensure that Aafia never sees the light of day and now they want to free Davis immediately. Well, I have news for them: All those dirty secrets will come out, if not today, then tomorrow. As an American singer famously said: “The times, they are a changing”.
We are watching an attempt to turn a cold blooded killer into a wronged victim. The Imperial Raj with its local Nawabs has become the Military Raj with its politician Nawabs. We have seen the morphine of false hopes they use to calm us. The politics of division they employ to keep us from uniting. That is why we rejected any offer of a deal for our framed Aafia and their exposed Raymond.
We are a rich, proud and generous nation that has been brought to its knees by an addiction to foreign aid, social hypocrisy and distrust of each other. We demand respect from others when we have none for ourselves and our own countrymen. Respect is not demanded, it is earned. Before we demand it from others let us earn it among ourselves. We must value each other as human beings whose lives are worth no less than our own.
Aafia had given us the litmus test. Mr. Davis has just renewed the challenge and with a taunt. Now we can all see clearly where each of us stands, where our leaders stand, where our judges stand, where our liberals stand, where our conservatives stand. We can clearly see what value each group places on a Pakistani life.
The value of a Pakistani is central to our existence in the world today. We are a punching bag for everyone around the world, a convenient target for blaming all ills. Our religion, our culture, our resilience and our honor are ridiculed and we let it happen.
We let the drones kill innocent villagers in the northwest. But these were Pathans, Taliban, or whatever. It wasn’t “us”.

We let bombs go off across Punjab. But these were the Punjabis; the Taliban again, or just fanatics. It wasn’t “us”.
Killings go on every day in Karachi. Muhajir trouble makers or Sindhi trouble makers or Pathans again. Not “us”.
People disappear and die all over Baluchistan. But these are Baluchi separatists. Not “us”.
Aafia and hundreds like her are sold, renditioned, and tortured. Must be guilty of something. Anyway, not “us”.
We are part of all those people and they are part of us. Whether we like it or not, this is our family, complete with the beautiful and the ugly.
To those Pakistanis who hate Aafia, she is still one of you and you are one of us. How she is treated and how we stand up for her will define the level of respect we earn. Just look at what the Americas are doing for their Raymond. He is no boy scout but he is their citizen and they are fighting for him.
On this anniversary of Aafia’s conviction, that wound is still deep and fresh. God has given us momentum. I do not know His purpose but somehow Aafia’s fate is intertwined with our motherland in a way that justifies her being called the “Daughter of the Nation”. She offers a unifying theme that transcends political and ethnic and religious differences. She is the issue that will not go away.

On this day Mr. Davis reminds us again of how little respect we command and how little our leaders care and how openly they lie. Raymond showed the same wild west mentality as the US warrant officer who shot Aafia in 2008.
Finally, the most honored moment for me this past week was the opportunity I had to meet the families of the victims of Raymond’s rampage. These are the people who give me faith in Pakistan. The spirit of our nation lives in the hearts and actions of the millions of ordinary people whose simple faith, generosity, and optimism for a better day leaves me speechless. I met three mothers, two pregnant wives and other family members. I know their grief and anger, but in all of this, they offered to drop charges against Raymond and forgo compensation if that brings Aafia home, even though there is no comparison between her tragic experience and his crimes. Such feeling for the sake of another person whom they do not even know has touched our family to the core. We were advised to push for a deal and it was tempting, but seeing these pained mothers and their offer, it became clear that there can be no deal on their pain.
I pray that we can achieve this sense of brotherhood with each other. By worldly measure these people are not wealthy, but this is the spirit that will resurrect Pakistan. Any leader who betrays these people the way Aafia was betrayed can only look into a mirror and feel ashamed.
The Aafia Movement is founded on principle, not politics. Its goal is to unify the nation behind a simple cause – Bring Aafia back home with honor. When we learn to rise for the honor of our daughter we will have risen for our honor. When our religious and secular parties unite for Aafia we demonstrate that we are one nation. When Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Parsees unite for Aafia we will tell the world that the white stripe in our flag has truth. When Pathans, Punjabis, Sindhis, Muhajirs, Baluchis and Kashmiris unite for Aafia I know that our nation lives. When I saw all political Parties lower their flags in favor of the national flag in honor of Aafia, I knew that deep down we all want to be proud Pakistanis.
How we react to the fates of these two prisoners will be our legacy. Let us make it a legacy of dignity, not shame.


Fowzia Siddiqui: A Tale of Two Prisoners

Collateral Damage ...... again and again and again

Nine Afghan Boys Collecting Firewood Killed by NATO Helicopters

By ALISSA J. RUBIN and SANGAR RAHIMI

Published: March 2, 2011

KABUL, Afghanistan — Nine boys collecting firewood to heat their homes in the eastern Afghanistan mountains were killed by NATOhelicopter gunners who mistook them for insurgents, according to a statement on Wednesday by NATO, which apologized for the mistake.

The boys, who were 9 to 15 years old, were attacked on Tuesday in what amounted to one of the war’s worst cases of mistaken killings by foreign-led forces. The victims included two sets of brothers. A 10th boy survived.

The NATO statement, which included an unusual personal apology by the commander of the NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. David H. Petraeus, said the boys had been misidentified as the attackers of a NATO base earlier in the day. News of the attack enraged Afghans and led to an anti-American demonstration on Wednesday in the village of Nanglam, where the boys were from. The only survivor, Hemad, 11, said his mother had told him to go out with other boys to collect firewood because “the weather is very cold now.”

“We were almost done collecting the wood when suddenly we saw the helicopters come,” said Hemad, who, like many Afghans, has only one name. “There were two of them. The helicopters hovered over us, scanned us and we saw a green flash from the helicopters. Then they flew back high up, and in a second round they hovered over us and started shooting. They fired a rocket which landed on a tree. The tree branches fell over me and shrapnel hit my right hand and my side.”

The tree, Hemad said, saved his life by covering him so that he could not be seen by the helicopters, which, he said, “shot the boys one after another.”

General Petraeus pledged to investigate the attack and to take disciplinary action if appropriate.

“We are deeply sorry for this tragedy and apologize to the members of the Afghan government, the people of Afghanistan and, most importantly, the surviving family members of those killed by our actions,” he said. “These deaths should have never happened.”

It was the third instance in two weeks in which the Afghan government has accused NATO of killing civilians. NATO strongly disputes one of those reports, but another — the killing of an Afghan Army soldier and his family in Nangarhar Province on Feb. 20 — was also described as an accident.

The attack on the boys occurred high in the mountains outside Nanglam in the Pech Valley of Kunar Province. American troops are preparing to close their bases in the valley in the next several weeks, in part because their presence has vexed the villagers, who would prefer to be left alone. The area is poor, and the only major road was built to service Forward Operating Base Blessing, according to local residents.

A rocket attack on the base on Tuesday led to a helicopter search for the insurgents responsible, the NATO statement said. The base is surrounded by mountains and is the frequent target of Taliban fighters, who shoot down on it from the rocky heights.

The helicopters “returned fire at the assessed point of origin with indirect and aerial fire,” the NATO statement said. “Regrettably there appears to have been an error in the handoff between identifying the location of the insurgents and the attack helicopters that carried out subsequent operations.”

Villagers — who heard the gunfire in the mountains and worried when the children did not return home — went to look for them. The boys had been out since the morning, local people said.

“As soon as we heard about the attack on the village’s children, all the village men rushed to the mountains to find out what really happened,” said Ashabuddin, a shopkeeper from Manogai, a nearby village, whose nephew Khalid was among those killed.

“Finally we found the dead bodies. Some of the dead bodies were really badly chopped up by the rockets,” he said. “The head of a child was missing. Others were missing limbs.”

“We tried to find the body pieces and put them together. As it was getting late, we brought down the bodies in a rope bed. We buried them in the village’s cemetery,” Ashabuddin added. “The children were all from poor families; otherwise no one would send their sons up to the mountains despite the known threats from both insurgents and Americans.”

Khalid, 14, was the only male in the family, Ashabuddin said. “He was studying in sixth grade of the orphanage school and working because his father died four years ago due to a long-term sickness. His father was a day laborer. He has 13 sisters and two mothers. He was the sole breadwinner of the family. I don’t know what would happen to his family to his sisters and mothers. They are all female and poor.”

President Hamid Karzai, who was in London for an official visit, condemned the attack “in the strongest terms possible.”

Calling it “ruthless,” he questioned whether the Western goals of combating terrorism and securing Afghanistan could be achieved if civilians continued to die.

More than 200 people gathered in Nanglam on Wednesday to protest the boys’ deaths, witnesses said. Waving white flags, they shouted “Death, death to America!” and “Death to Obama and his colleagues and associates!”

An Afghan employee of The New York Times contributed reporting
from Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

Libya: Stand-Off Between Gaddafi And Protesters

Saudi Cleric: Educating Jihad & World Conquest - Not Enough

With over 20, 000 political prisoners in Saudi Jails its refreshing to hear one Sheikh speak out may others join up to speak out against the deplorable state of affairs in Balad Rasul [ salla Allahu Alaihe wa Sallam ] ameen

St. Louis Fed Chairman blames other Countries for the Inflation caused by Dollar across the globe...

For those that understand monetarypolicy -please do watch unto the end.

Host: "How was that was that OK, for the, duh...?"
FED CHAIRMAN: (like the mock participant winner at 3 card monty on Manhattan side Street)
"EXCELLENT!" (Smirk!)

QE3 is on the Way!!!

Hillary Clinton - Russia Today, Al Jazeerah now thats NEWS!!!

Hillary Clinton was defending her department budget in front of the U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities committee this morning on C-Span.

She says a major reason the State Department needs money is because "we are in an information war and we are losing that war."

Clinton said private media is not good enough to handle the job: "Our private media cannot fill that gap. Our private media, particularly cultural programming often works at counter purposes to what we truly are as Americans. I remember having an Afghan general tell me that the only thing he thought about Americans is that all the men wrestled and the women walked around in bikinis because the only TV he ever saw was Baywatch and World Wide Wrestling."

Meanwhile she says Al-Jazeera, CCTV and Russia Today are killing it: "Al Jazeera is winning. The Chinese have opened up a global English language and multi-language television network, the Russians have opened up an English language network. I've seen it in a couple of countries and it's quite instructive."

Clinton says she is leading an effort to spread U.S. propaganda through new media, with twitter feeds in Arabic and Farsi.

She warns that Republicans want to cut the State Department budget by half.

Libya rejects US intervention...

Note from IP as "Dubai Stocks Slump to 7-Year Low Amid Mideast Drop on Saudi Risk"

Check out additional commodity price analysis from Jim Rogers HERE and a very nice chart from Bloomberg showing the implications of this HERE as those unseen variables and consequences of social movement take hold. Western lackies engaged in the propaganda war against Islam as revealed and preserved until the Day of Judgement,  have been barking for weeks about these "democratic" movements having silenced Al-Qaeda and the mujahideen in their typical haste of kufrdom mentality. Because they are reductionist and do not think dynamically, they failed to recognize the long term, short term perspectives. Like Keynesian stimulus packages of the Viagra variety, the US races to "assist" Libyan democrats and even they don't want them. Let the US allow true "freedom of expression" for those calling to Dawa and Jihad in the Muslim world... in the long run, the game has changed.... but for those short run retards like CNN's Peter Bergen here is your sign of victory for Al Qaeda in Middle East unrest- party's over, recoveries over, Obama's over, and guess what else - Saudi's cannot produce more oil and alter this rise in prise - so most importanlty, the War in Afghanistan is over too... let the Arabs dance while MUSLIMS pray for the mujahideen. My brothers and sisters victory is imminent!!!  And let them SPEND... at length they will be defeated.... To all those of consciousness and understanding, please prepare yoursleves to "crawl over ice..." From the East, we pray, the first major victory is coming very soon...  And Give Good Tidings over the next few days as they start to shift conversations away from Democracy in the Middle East and realize what this means for their PRECIOUS PRICE OF OIL AND S.U.V.'s -   

source Middle East shares fell, sending Dubai’s benchmark index to the lowest in almost seven years, as concern political unrest may spread to Saudi Arabia, the Arab world’s largest economy, sparked demand for safer assets.

Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul All Share Index slumped 3.9 percent to close at the lowest since April 2009 at 3:30 p.m in Riyadh. The DFM General Index declined 3.5 percent to 1,374.43, the lowest level since June 2004. The gauge has lost 15 percent since Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ousted in January. Emaar Properties PJSC retreated to the lowest since 2009 and Dubai Financial Market PJSC slumped 4.9 percent.

Investors are shunning assets in the Middle East and North Africa as the political turmoil, which started in Tunisia more than two months ago, expanded to Oman, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya and Iran. Websites have called for a nationwide Saudi “Day of Rage” on March 11 and March 20, Human Rights Watch said in a statement on its website on Feb. 28.

“A lot of the selling has been from onshore, local and regional investors; the speed of the decline tells you it’s pure panic,” said Dubai-based Ibrahim Masood, who helps manage about $400 million at Mashreqbank PSC. “On balance, I suspect that a few months down the road these levels would look like a steal.”

‘Risk May Spread’

Saudi Arabia’s benchmark stock index plunged the most in more than two years yesterday on concern disturbances may extend to the kingdom, the biggest supplier in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The measure has tumbled 20 percent in the past 13 days, the longest losing streak since 1996. About 271 million shares changed hands, the most since May, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Saudi nationals accounted for about 80 percent of stock purchases in February, according to the exchange’s website.

Prince Talal Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, a member of Saudi Arabia’s royal family, said on Feb. 17 that the kingdom may see protests unless King Abdullah introduces reforms, according to BBC Arabic TV. The king last week announced plans to spend about 110 billion riyals ($29 billion) on programs aimed at boosting housing, education and social welfare.

الظواهري: ابن لادن يرفض الهجمات على المدنيين

Original in Arabic 

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DUBAI (Reuters) - Ayman al-Zawahri, second in the Al-Qaeda in a treatise published on the Internet on Thursday that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden asked him to remind the mujahideen to avoid attacks on civilian targets.

Zawahri said in an audio recording, "There are some processes that are attributed to the Mujahideen truly or falsely, which attack on Muslims in their mosques or their markets or their communities ... I say regardless of the truth or falsity of the attribution of these operations of the mujahideen, I and my brothers in al-Qaida are free before Allahof these processes and deplore them whether they were committed by the militants or others."

The leader, Mullah Omar of the Taliban and bin Laden and other jihadist figures have taken similar positions before, but al-Zawahiri said that bin Laden wanted to reiterate on this matter.

Zawahri said in his letter entitled (Message of Hope and Good Tidings to the Egyptian People Part 2) "You have cost me, Sheikh Osama bin Laden, may God protect him again to confirm on this matter and therefore I advise every Mujahid that takes into account the provisions of law and the interests of Muslims before embarking on any process of jihad ... and that is very keen in planning process to avoid any injury of his injury is not permissible, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, but what a mistake against his will. "

He said that the bombing incident that took place in the Saints Church in Alexandria, Egypt at the beginning of the new year was caused by "abuses of the Coptic Orthodox church and a transformation that made them a government within the government or that you want specificity that it wanted a government over the government."

Reuters could not verify the authenticity of the audio from an independent source but it was posted on Islamist Web sites often used by al Qaeda supporters, it seemed that the sound is the voice of Zawahiri. It was a message that al-Zawahri wrote, commenting on the popular uprising in his native Egypt.

The Heart - based on the work of Ibn Taymia and ibn Qayyim -Dr. Saleh Assaleh

"A Message of Hope and Glad Tidings" to Our Fellow Muslims in Egypt (1)

VIDEO LINKS HERE by Sheikh Ayman Al Zawahiri

may Allah protect him

In the Name of Allah. All praise be to Allah, and may peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, and upon his family, companions and those who follow him. To proceed:

My Muslim brothers and sisters everywhere: As-Salamu alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. To proceed:

I wish to send a message today to our fellow Muslims in Egypt. In reality it is a message to all Muslims, for what has and continues to occur in Egypt, has and continues to repeat itself in many other areas of our Islamic world. I have only chosen to focus on Egypt to give practical examples from contemporary history of tragedies which have occurred in other places. The minute details may differ, but the general characteristics remain the same across the Islamic World.

I start this first message seeking help in Allah.

I hope to discuss the current situation of Egypt by asking two questions:

1) The first: What is the current condition of Egypt, and similarly many other places across the Islamic world?

2) How can we change this current condition into one which Islam seeks for us, which is dignity in this life and success in the next?

To answer the first question, I say:

The current condition of Egypt is that it has deviated from Islam, in all aspects, from immorality and corruption, to injustice, suppression, and subservience. Corruption can be found in creed (beliefs), as well as politics, economics, finance, society and morality.

As for the corruptness of creed of the Egyptian government, I can start by highlighting the identity of this government. The Egyptian government, as stated in its principle documents, is a nationalistic, secular, democratic government. In reality, it is a nationalistic, secular, tyrannical and maybe a hereditary government.

It being “secular” means that it is an atheistic government. Secularism is in essence atheism, and if you wish to be more specific, it is non-normative, i.e. it is a creed which is unrelated to any fixed standard of ethics, whether religion, morality or otherwise. The Islamic Shariah in the constitution is only one of the many sources which may or may not be taken from. This means that the one who decides the standards or creed, as per the constitution and principle documents, is not Allah Most High, our Master, as affirmed in the Quran explicitly without any tolerance for compromise. 

﴾إِنِالْحُكْمُإِلاَّلِلّهِأَمَرَأَلاَّتَعْبُدُواْإِلاَّإِيَّاهُذَلِكَالدِّينُالْقَيِّمُوَلَـكِنَّأَكْثَرَالنَّاسِلاَيَعْلَمُونَ﴿

“All judgement is for Allah alone. He has commanded that you worship none but Him; that is the (true) straight religion, but most men know not.” (Yousuf: 40)

The Importance of Making Hijrah From The Lands of Disbelief

If you ever meet a Muslim in the West that tells you that Hijrah is not an obligation or that our real obligation is Da’wah in the West, then let him study the sayings of these Shuyookh on living in the land of the Mushrikeen and the land which is at war with your Religion and people. We will start off with a few introductory quotes and then give quotes that detail the subject. Note that we are not doing Taqleed (blind following) here since the ayaat and ahadith on Hijrah are already explicit in regards to this matter and we only quote these Shuyookh here because some of them clearly explain these ayaat and ahadith. The majority of these quotes are self-explanatory; I might add a few comments here and there to relate to our times. It is important to keep in mind when reading these quotes that Muslims cannot practice their Deen openly in the West as they ought to. Why? Since we know that our Deen is not limited to the five pillars and that it encompasses every aspect of our lives such as Jihad fe Sabeelillah, the establishment of the Shari’ah throughout the land and the abolishment of the law of the status quo, and speaking the Haqq in an uncensored manner and so on, Hijrah then becomes an absolute necessity so that these things - which are necessary practices of our Deen - can be implemented. Notice that I said, “and speaking the Haqq” since the West no longer allows freedom of speech for those that support this Noble Millah that they are at war against. Many of the brothers in the UK, for example, have tested the patience of the Government through their verbal support of the Mujahideen and their insults at the Kuffar; many of them have been arrested such as Shaykh ‘Abdullah al-Faisal, Shaykh Abu Hamza al-Misri and others. In any case, even if they gave us the complete freedom of speech that we desire, Hijrah is still an obligation since they are against the establishment of the Shari’ah in their own lands (and even ours!) since it is like having two Presidents in a single Country; not only this, but they have publicly declared war against those who desire the establishment of the Khilafah and because of their wars against our nation, it only made Jihad fe Sabeelillah a clearer fard.

Some of the ahadith to keep in mind while reading these quotes are:

The Prophet (sallallahu ‘alayhe wassallam) said: “I have nothing to do with any Muslim who settles among the mushrikeen.” (Sunan Abi Dawood (2274) & is a Sahih hadith, al-Irwaa’, 5/30)

And,

The Prophet (sallallahu ‘alayhe wassallam) said, “I am not responsible for any Muslim who stays among polytheists.” They asked: ‘Why, Apostle of Allah?’ He said: ‘Their fires should not be visible to one another’, and he (sallallahu ‘alayhe wassallam) said, “Whoever joins the polytheists and lives with them then he is like them” and he (sallallahu ‘alayhe wassallam) said: “Migration will not end until repentance ends, and repentance will not end until the sun rises in the West.” (”Al-Musnad“, Vol.4/99, Abu Dawud, Kitab al-Jihad, Vol.3/7, Hadith 2479, and ad-Darami, Kitab as-Siyyar, Vol.2/239. Albani classifies it as Sahih. See: “Sahih al-Ja’mi’ as-Sagheer”, Vol.6/186, Hadith 7346)

Finally, if anyone has arguments with Dalaa’il (evidences) that are against the Dalaa’il I presented here, then we humbly ask them to bring these arguments forth.

INTRODUCTORY QUOTES

Ibn al-Arabi (rahimahullah) said,

“It is obligatory to leave a place where forbidden practices are rife since it is mandatory for Muslims to demand observance of the Law.” Ibn al-Arabi, “Ahkaam al-Qur’an“, Vol. 1/484-485

In this regard, Shaykh ul Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullah) said,

“The state of a place reflects the state of a person. It is possible to be sometimes a Muslim and at other times a disbeliever; sometimes sincere and at other times hypocritical; sometimes good and pious and at other times rotten and corrupt. Thus, a person becomes like the place of his abode. The migration of a person from a land of disbelief and profanity to one of faith and probity is an expression of repentance and of his turning away from disobedience and perversion to belief and obedience. This is so until the Day of Resurrection.” “Majmu’al-Fatawa“, 18/284

Shaykh ‘Abdul Lateef ibn ‘Abdur-Rahmaan (rahimahullah) said,

“And the best thing to draw one nearer to Allah is the aggression towards His enemies, the Mushrikeen, while hating them and having enmity towards them and waging Jihad against them. And with this, the slave is saved from having allegiance with them as opposed to the believers. And if he does not do so, then he has formed his allegiance with them, based upon what he failed to fulfill from that and abandoned from that. So beware, (again) beware, that which destroys Islam and uproots it.” Ad-Durar as-Saniyyah, Volume of Jihad, pg. 681

In regards to the weak excuse some Muslims give saying, “It’s better for us to not show this open animosity and the reality and truth of Jihad fe Sabeelillah now because we are in a delicate time and place; we should only show it when we have power and influence,” Shaykh Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi (fakkAllahu Asra) said,

“And perhaps the vast majority would use as an excuse, the benefit (Maslahah) of the Da’wah and the (resulting) trials (Fitnah). But which trial (Fitnah) is greater than the concealment of the Tawheed and the deception of the people regarding their religion? And which benefit (Maslahah) is greater than establishing the Millah of Ibrahim, while openly showing the allegiance to the religion of Allah as well as the enmity to the Tawagheet, who are worshipped, and devoted to besides Allah? And if the Muslims are not tested because of this, and if the (sacrificial) slaughtering is not put forth in His path, then for what would the tests be? So disbelieving in all of the Tawagheet is obligatory upon every Muslim by (the virtue of) half of the testimony (Shahaadah) of Islam. And openly declaring that, while showing it and making it apparent, is also a great obligation, and it is a must which all Muslim groups, or sub-groups from each group, must do so that it would become known and the (awareness) would spread. And also, so that it would become the distinguishing characteristic and description of these (various) Da’wahs. Such was the condition of the Prophet (sallallahu ‘alayhe wassallam); not only in the time wherein he became established (i.e., in Madinah), but also in the times of weakness as well (i.e., in Makkah), because it is well known that he used to be pointed to, by all the fingers, and (people) would warn others about him and describe him as having enmity towards their gods, and other things as well. And we find it odd; what is this Da’wah about which the callers weep for its benefit (Maslahah)? And which religion is it that they wish to establish and make apparent, while most of them consistently speak with the praising of the fabricated law (system) – and O what an evil – and some of them (even) praise it and bear witness to its fairness? And many of them (even) undertake an oath of honoring it and complying with its stipulations and its restrictions; reversing the (entire) issue (i.e., Da’wah to Tawheed) and its very course. So instead of openly showing and declaring the enmity towards it (i.e., the law system), and disbelief in it, they openly show the allegiance to it and their pleasure with it. So is it the likes of those who would spread the Tawheed and establish the religion?! And to Allah is the grievance.” Millat Ibrahim, pg. 55

Abul-Wafaa’ ibn ‘Uqayl (rahimahullah) said,

“If you wish to know the status of Islam amongst the people of a particular time, then do not look to the crowding at the doors of the Masajid, nor to their echoing with, ‘Labbayk.’ Rather, look to their enmity towards the enemies of the Shari’ah. So seek refuge, (again) seek refuge in the shield of the religion and remain steadfast to the great rope of Allah and the allegiance to His believing supporters and beware, (again) beware His opposing enemies, as the best thing by which to draw nearer to Allah, the Most High, is the severe fury towards those who oppose Allah and His Messenger and waging Jihad against them by the hand and the tongue and the heart, according to one’s ability.” Ad-Durar as-Saniyyah, Volume of Jihad, page 238

DETAILED QUOTES

Ibn Hazm (rahimahullah) states that:

“Whoever joins the ‘land of war’ and disbelief, of his own free will and in defiance of whoever amongst the Muslims calls him to his side, is by virtue of this act an apostate, by all the laws of apostasy, in Islam. Whoever is able to kill him must do so. His property is unprotected, his marriage null and void, all his rights are swept away.

But whoever flees to the ‘land of war’ for fear of oppression, who neither opposes the Muslims in anything nor bears any malice towards them, and who was not able to find any refuge among the Muslims, is free of any guilt since he was compelled to leave.

As for someone who takes the Muslims as his enemies, offering his help and his service to the disbelievers, he is a disbeliever. But those who would emigrate to non-Muslim lands in search of wealth or prosperity to live under their protection, while they were able to go to live amongst the Muslims in their own land, but still do not withdraw themselves from the disbelievers; such people are not far from the fold of disbelief, and we can find no possible excuse for them, so we ask Allah’s Forgiveness.

As for the person who lives in the land of Karmathians by his own free will, he is without doubt a disbeliever, because they are avowed enemies of Islam, disbelievers and apostates who only long for the destruction of the Muslims. Concerning those who live in a land where some heretic tendencies, leading to disbelief, are manifested, they are not considered disbelievers, as Islam is supreme in the land where it is possible to practice Islam openly; to confirm the message of the Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu ‘alayhe wassallam), read the Qur’an, establish the prayer, perform the fast of Ramadan and fulfill one’s obligations entirely.

The words of the Prophet (sallallahu ‘alayhe wassallam), “I am not responsible for any Muslim who stays among polytheists” should clarify what we have said so far. It is clear that the Prophet (sallallahu ‘alayhe wassallam) refers here to the ‘Dar ul-Harb’, and because he (sallallahu ‘alayhe wassallam) appointed some Companions as governors of Khaibar (Jewish land), even though everyone who lived there were Jews.

If a disbeliever conquers a Muslim country, then acknowledges their religion (Islam), but assumes authority over them, and then claims any other religion than Islam, whoever lives with him, supports, or serves him in any way is a disbeliever, even if he claims to be a Muslim, as aforementioned.” Ibn Hazm, al-Muhalla’: Vol. 13/139-140

Ibn Rushd (rahimahullah) said:

“It is obligatory, according to the Qur’an, Sunnah and scholarly consensus, for anyone who becomes Muslim in a Kafir country to migrate from there and settle in a Muslim land, and not to live among the mushrikeen or settle among them. That applies if he is not able to practice his religion openly or he is forced to follow the rulings of kufr.” al-Mawsoo’ah al-Fiqhiyyah, 4/264

Al-Hassan Ibn Salih (rahimahullah) said:

“Whoever remains in the land of the enemy, will be treated like the disbelievers, so long as he was able to join the Muslims but did not do it. If one of the disbelievers accepts Islam, but still remains with the disbelievers, even though he was able to go to join the Muslims, he is to be treated like them; neither his blood nor his property will be protected.” Al-Jasaas, “Ahkam al-Qur’an“, Vol. 3/216.

Al-Hassan (rahimahullah) said:

“If a Muslim emigrates to the land of the disbelievers, yet does not renounce Islam, he will (still) be an apostate by virtue of his abandonment of ‘Dar ul-Islam.“‘ Al-Jasaas, “Ahkam al-Qur’an“, Vol. 3/216.

The Arabic text of the preceding passage refers to the land of the disbelievers as ‘dar ul-harb‘ and ‘Ard ul-Adu’, that is: the ‘land of the enemy’; this indicates an active military opposition to the Muslims, as if in a state of war.

Imam Ibn Kathir (rahimahullah) commented on the following ayah as follows,

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ تَوَفَّاهُمُ ٱلْمَلاۤئِكَةُ ظَالِمِيۤ أَنْفُسِهِمْ قَالُواْ فِيمَ كُنتُمْ قَالُواْ كُنَّا مُسْتَضْعَفِينَ فِي ٱلأَرْضِ قَالْوۤاْ أَلَمْ تَكُنْ أَرْضُ ٱللَّهِ وَاسِعَةً فَتُهَاجِرُواْ فِيهَا فَأُوْلَـٰئِكَ مَأْوَاهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ وَسَآءَتْ مَصِيراً
When Angels take the souls of those who die in sin against their souls, they ask: “In what (plight) Were ye?” They reply: “Weak and oppressed were we in the earth.” They ask: “Was not the earth of Allah spacious enough for you to move yourselves away (From evil)?” Such men will find their abode in Hell; What an evil refuge! (an Nisa: 97)

“This noble ayah is general for everyone who resides amongst the polytheists while he is able to make Hijrah and he is not able to perform his Deen, and so, he is wronging himself and committing something forbidden by Ijmaa’ and by the explicit evidence of this ayah.” “Tafsir Ibn Kathir“, 2/343, and Ibn Ateeq, “Ad-Difaa “‘, p. 13.

Al Manaawee (rahimahullah) said regarding the hadith,

On the Authority of Samurah ibn Jundub, the Prophet (sallallahu ‘alayhe wassallam) said, “Whoever joins the Mushrikoon and lives with them, then he is like them.” (Abu Dawood)

Explaining the cause behind his statement: “…then he is like them,” he stated:

“That is because embracement of the enemy of Allah and showing Muwaalaat towards him necessitates one’s turning away from Allah, and whosoever turns away from Allah, then then Shaytan will befriend him and will drag him to disbelief. Al Zamakhsharee said: ‘This is understood because demonstrating Muwaalaat towards someone and demonstrating Muwaalaat towards his enemy is contradictory to each other.” Fayd al Qadeer (6/111)

Ash-Shawkaanee (rahimahullah) said:

“The statement, “…then he is like them,” is evidence for the prohibition of residing with the Kuffar and the obligation of separating oneself from them. Even though the Scholars have discussed the authenticity of this Hadith, the statement of Allah testifies to its authenticity:

وَيُسْتَهْزَأُ بِهَا فَلاَ تَقْعُدُواْ مَعَهُمْ حَتَّىٰ يَخُوضُواْ فِي حَدِيثٍ غَيْرِهِ إِنَّكُمْ إِذاً مِّثْلُهُمْ 
“Then sit not with them, until they engage in a talk other than that; (but if you stayed with them) certainly in that case you would be like them.’ (an Nisa: 140) “Nayl al-Awtaar” (8/177)

‘Abdullah Ibn ‘Umar (radiyallahu ‘anhu) said:

“Whoever settles amongst the disbelievers, celebrates their feasts and joins in their revelry and dies in their midst will likewise be raised to stand with them on the Day of Resurrection.” (Ibn Taymiyyah said in his book: “Iqtidha’ as-Sifat alMustaqeem“, p.200, that the chain of narration of this Hadith is Sahih.)

Abu ‘Abdillah Ahmad ibn Muhammad (rahimahullah), also known as Shaykh ‘Ulaysh (d. 1299H), was asked about dwelling in the midst of the Kuffar if they conquer the lands of the Muslims and abandoning the Hijrah; pay close attention to what he says here as this is the exact situation we are in today. This is what he said within his long response:

“Verily this polytheistic Muwaalaat was no where to be found in the period of Islam’s glory and honor. It did not occur – as it has been said – except after the passing of hundreds of years and after the passing of the Mujtahidoon Imams of Islam, and it is for that reason that none of them delved into its Fiqh rulings. This Christian Muwaalaat did not emerge except in year 500 (Hijri) and afterwards in the time in which the accursed Christians, may Allah demolish them, conquered the Saqliyah peninsula and some of the areas of al-Andalus. Some of the jurists were asked about it so they sought to understand the issue through the means of the Fiqh rulings that are related to the one who does that. So they responded by saying that their rulings are like that of the one who embraces Islam and does not migrate. I say: meaning by that, in Kufr – so they placed those whom the question was asked about and those who were not asked about (the Christians) with respect to their ruling – they declared both equal with respect to the Fiqhi rulings that are related to their wealth and children. And they did not see any difference between the two groups. That is because in Muwaalaat of the enemies, dwelling with them, going out with them, dressing like them, not being different from them, leaving the compulsory Hijrah (in all of this) there are these rulings that are unspoken but included and implied in the question all at once – so they – may Allah be pleased with them – attached the unspoken rulings upon these whom the question was asked about and the rulings that are agreed upon in it [this issue].” “The Exposition regarding the Disbelief of the one that assists the Americans,” pgs. 106-107

This also further confirms the ruling for the one who becomes Muslim in a Kafir country; so if this is what he is saying about dwelling amongst the enemies of Allah, then what would he say about our situation today where we are not only dwelling amongst the enemies of Allah, but we praise their Taghooti regime, participate in strengthening the Taghooti regime through voting, condemn those that show their al Walaa wal Baraa, imitate the Mushrikeen in their land, and make every excuse to not make Hijrah?! And these are only a few of the sins which the Muslim Community commits here!

‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar Abu Sa’eed al-Baydaawee (rahimahullah) (d. 685H) said in his Tafseer regarding the ayah,

وَمَن يَتَوَلَّهُمْ مِّنكُم فَإِنَّهُ مِنْهُمْ 
And whoever is an ally to them from amongst you, then indeed he is from amongst them, (al Ma’idah: 51)

“Meaning: Whoever from you are allies with them then verily he is from their general body. This is a strong emphasis on the obligation to avoid them as he (sallallahu ‘alayhe wassallam) said:

‘Their two fires should not be seen’.” Tafseer al-Baydaawee: 2/334

Ibn Hajar (rahimahullah) (d. 852H) said in the explanation of the hadith of Ibn ‘Umar that is Marfu’:

“If Allah descends a punishment upon a people, that punishment will strike whoever was amongst them, then they will be resurrected upon their actions.”

He (Ibn Hajar) said:

“From what is derived and benefited from this is the permissibility of fleeing from the Kuffar and the oppressors. This is because dwelling among them is a form of throwing one’s self into destruction. This is if he does not assist them or become pleased with their actions for if he assisted or was pleased, then he is from them.” (Fath al Baari (13/61))

The Publishers of Shaykh Naasir bin Hamad al-Fahd’s book (at-Tibyan), “The Exposition regarding the Disbelief of the one that assists the Americans,” commented on this saying,

“AllahuAkbar! We ask Allah for protection. How often do we hear all of the excuses for remaining in the West and perhaps one of the most oft repeated excuses is: “I cannot leave this country without any provision for I will most certainly put myself in a difficult precarious situation of dire distress.” Here Ibn Hajar (rahimahullah) is saying that by remaining there without a valid excuse, we are in fact throwing ourselves into destruction! What a difference in worldview there is between Ibn Hajar and ourselves – wallaahul Musta’aan!”

Imam an Nawawi (rahimahullah) commented on the following Hadith as follows,

Abu Hurairah (radiyallahu ‘anhu) reported: The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu ‘alayhe wassallam) said, “The best life is that of the man who holds his horse’s rein in Allah’s way and flies on its back to the places from whence he hears a war cry or the clatter of arms, seeking martyrdom or slaughter on the battlefield; or that of a person who goes to stay on the top of the hill or in a valley, and there he performs Salat (prayer), pays the Zakat and worships his Rabb till death overtakes him. He has no concern with the affairs of anyone except the doing of good.” (Sahih Muslim)

“Besides highlighting the distinction of the Mujahid, this Hadith mentions the excellence of that person who leaves the cities when they are plagued with mischief and retreats to the valleys or hills and protects his Faith by flock-keeping and devotes himself to the obedience of Allah, adherence to His Commands and His worship. One of his outstanding qualities is that he does what is beneficial to the people and he does nothing which causes harm to anyone.” Riyadh as Saliheen, ch.234 no.1299

So what is the condition of the Muslim that doesn’t intend on making Hijrah from the West and is able to? From these Dalaa’il and others, my personal opinion - and Allah knows best - is that the Muslim becomes an Apostate since his condition is like the condition of the Muslims who didn’t make the obligatory Hijrah from Makkah to Madinah; and when they were killed in battle by the Muslim Army, they were killed as Apostates and Allah ‘Azza wa Jall revealed Surah an-Nisa, ayah 97 confirming this. Let’s look at the Tafseer of Ibn Katheer (rahimahullah) regarding this ayah:

Al-Bukhari recorded that Muhammad bin `Abdur-Rahman, Abu Al-Aswad, said, “The people of Al-Madinah were forced to prepare an army (to fight against the people of Ash-Sham during the Khilafah of Abdullah bin Az-Zubayir at Makkah), and I was enlisted in it. Then I met `Ikrimah, the freed slave of Ibn `Abbas, and informed him (about it), and he forbade me strongly from doing so (i.e., to enlist in that army), and then he said to me, `Ibn `Abbas told me that some Muslims used to go out with the idolators increasing the size of their army against the Messenger of Allah. Then, an arrow would hit one of them and kill him, or he would be struck on his neck (with a sword) and killed, and Allah sent down the Ayah,

﴿إِنَّ الَّذِينَ تَوَفَّـهُمُ الْمَلَـئِكَةُ ظَـلِمِى أَنفُسِهِمْ﴾

(Verily, as for those whom the angels take (in death) while they are wronging themselves).” Ad-Dahhak stated that this Ayah was revealed about some hypocrites who did not join the Messenger of Allah but remained in Makkah and went out with the idolators for the battle of Badr. They were killed among those who were killed. Thus, this honorable Ayah was revealed about those who reside among the idolators, while able to perform Hijrah and unable to practice the faith. Such people will be committing injustice against themselves and falling into a prohibition according to the consensus and also according to this Ayah,

﴿إِنَّ الَّذِينَ تَوَفَّـهُمُ الْمَلَـئِكَةُ ظَـلِمِى أَنفُسِهِمْ﴾

(Verily, as for those whom the angels take (in death) while they are wronging themselves,) by refraining from Hijrah,

﴿قَالُواْ فِيمَ كُنتُمْ﴾

(They (angels) say (to them): “In what (condition) were you”) meaning, why did you remain here and not perform Hijrah,

﴿قَالُواْ كُنَّا مُسْتَضْعَفِينَ فِى الاٌّرْضِ﴾

(They reply: “We were weak and oppressed on the earth.”) meaning, we are unable to leave the land or move about in the earth,

﴿قَالْواْ أَلَمْ تَكُنْ أَرْضُ اللَّهِ وَسِعَةً﴾

(They (angels) say: “Was not the earth of Allah spacious enough for you). Abu Dawud recorded that Samurah bin Jundub said that the Messenger of Allah said,

«مَنْ جَامَعَ الْمُشْرِكَ وَسَكَنَ مَعَهُ فَإِنَّهُ مِثْلُه»

(Whoever mingles with the idolator and resides with him, he is just like him.) Allah’s statement,

﴿إِلاَّ الْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ﴾

(Except the weak) until the end of the Ayah, is an excuse that Allah gives for this type of people not to emigrate, because they are unable to free themselves from the idolators. And even if they did, they would not know which way to go. This is why Allah said,

﴿لاَ يَسْتَطِيعُونَ حِيلَةً وَلاَ يَهْتَدُونَ سَبِيلاً﴾

(Who cannot devise a plan, nor are they able to direct their way), meaning, they do not find the way to emigrate, as Mujahid, `Ikrimah and As-Suddi stated. Allah’s statement,

﴿فَأُوْلَـئِكَ عَسَى اللَّهُ أَن يَعْفُوَ عَنْهُمْ﴾

(These are they whom Allah is likely to forgive them,) means, pardon them for not migrating, and here, `likely’ means He shall.


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