Political struggle -- Page 2
As for political struggle between the Western civilisation and Muslims, it was evident in the following:
First: Their destruction of the Khilafah in 1924.
Second: Their establishing of the Jewish state in Palestine, and preserving it and its characteristic military supremacy.
Third: They're dividing of the Muslims' community (jama’ah) and encouraging this division under the name of independence, until they
became about sixty entities and they still work for fragmentation and division. The danger of destructive fragmentation is not hidden from the intelligent. Muslims are strongly inclined to this idea of independence and fighting for its sake even though it completely clashes with their civilisation and concepts. Allah commanded them to be one body (jami'an) and not divided, but they proceed with division and consecrating division even though they recite day and night His saying:
"Hold fast, all together, to the rope of Allah and do not divide" [TMQ Al- Imran: 103].
All together (jami'an) is the condition of those holding fast to the rope of Allah; its meaning is the community (jama’ah); rather it is the community itself due to his saying:
“Whoever comes to you and your affair is united under one man aiming to break your power or divide your community (jama’ah), kill him!” So all together (jamian) and community (jama’ah) under one man, have the same meaning. Fourth: Implementing their political systems, republican and monarchical, formally in the Islamic regions, together with separating the authorities formally into three authorities as is the situation with them.
Fifth: They are fighting the serious movements that are working for change through establishing the Islamic State, the rightly guided Khilafah State. At times they call them extremists and at other times they call them fundamentalists. This fight is mostly through the use of their agents and rarely directly. " Martin Indyck, the official responsible for Middle Eastern affairs stood in the White House to say that the challenge facing America in the East is assisting friendly countries to contain extremism" (Al-'Arabi magazine number 514). If they were unable to contain it, they suppressed it with harshness and malice through their 'progressive moderate friends', those about whom Nixon said in 'The Favourable Opportunity': "The relationship of many politicians in the Islamic countries with Islam does not exceed their relationship with its ideals, customs and norms…Progressives: This is a group whose activity is noticeable… and it strives to tie the Muslims with the civilized world in the political and economic spheres. This group is distinguished with flexibility, and they do not describe the West as being atheist. Rather they call them the People of the Book. Some of the countries ruled by the progressives are democratic like Turkey and Pakistan…We must assist the progressives in the Muslim world…The key of the American policy is represented in the strategic cooperation with the progressive Muslims only. Since we associate with progressives in our goals, our cooperation must cover all economic and security areas…It is imperative that the relationship between America and partner states does not reach the level of guardianship, and we must not treat the leaders in the progressive states as if they are our correspondents between us and their peoples, rather we must treat them as equal partners, because the quickest way to bury them is treating them as mouthpieces for Western propaganda…We must accept at time the rejection of our friends in the Islamic world of some of our actions that cause them political difficulties in their countries." ---------- PAGE 2