Arabs Leaders are Winning
By Mahboob A. Khawaja
Al-Jazeerah & ccun.org, February 22, 2010
There would be “no triumph of folly if there would be no
submissive fools”, a century earlier wrote Robert Briffault (The Making
of Humanity).
With the Divine knowledge and Islam for living
movement, Arabs influenced the world for the evolution of an Islamic
civilization while Europeans lived in barbarianism, Muslims were the
most creative, progressive and successful people on earth. Numerous
Christian authors describe the 8th – 15 century Muslims as most
tolerant, knowledgeable and pioneer of scientifically advanced
civilization that facilitated European Renaissance and Industrial
Revolution. One factor among the many, distinctively noted by reputable
Christian authors is that when they describe the excellence of Muslim
civilization, it is referred to as “people of the Quranic Generation.”
Today, most Arab leaders avoid using the concept of the “Quranic
Generation” - Muslim Ummah, and prefer to call themselves - an
“Arab Ummah.”
What went wrong with the Arab pioneers of the
Islamic civilization across the European continent? Among many of
the reasons, one may cite few important ones:
1. Change in
Islamic Thinking: absence of a proactive vision for the humanity as
chosen people for the good of humanity.
2. Conscious neglect of the universal mission of Islam and resulting
discard of Islamic movement across the globe.
3. Non-conformance to the principles of Islamic movement for change,
development and human success.
4. Systematic decadence in intellectual, moral and political
leadership.
5. Dismantling of Islamic institutions for the development of One
Ummah, and to avoid the role of reasoning and accountability.
6. Increasing adaptability to western thinking, behaviors, and social
norms that drained out Islamic unity, creativity and movement.
7. “Fitna” of prosperity – aftermath of the Oil export revenues.
8. Incurable illusions of the neo-colonialist elite that oil revenues
are forever their exclusive property.
9. Overwhelming materialism and consumerism: training of body
desperately needed training of Faith (Eman) and a committed mind.
Leadership in Muslim societies is occupied by those who have no
education of or interest in living Islam and lead nobody, mostly seen as
being ignorant, corrupt, and subservient to the neo-colonialism and
committed to secularism as a system of life.
European
imperialism viewed Islamic civilization as unacceptable to their goal of
global domination and feared Islamic movement as a force with
considerable challenge. In scientific discoveries, technology
development, educational advancement and political emancipation,
European colonial masters drifted the Muslim masses to a subhuman level
below the pets. A former Muslim and presently Canadian educated
journalist contends that Arabs love dog and entitles his recent article
“Arabs and dog”. One wonders, is it an accumulated disgust or considered
failure of the contemporary Arab leadership?
Generation to generation, Muslims have been defeated and
submerged into other entities or punished by the Western masters.
So-called liberal democracy had no listing of Muslim as suitable
creatures for progressive role-play in international community. Humanity
in the west shrinked from intelligence to stupidity, whereas, Charles
Darwin (Origin of the Species), was uplifted and honored, man (“insaan”)
was degraded from all the entries of making a human civilization.
Whereas, Islam focused on man (“insaan”) as the primary aim of
comprehensive development.
Pioneers of scientifically
progressive civilization, those Arabs and other Muslims became prisoners
of foreign ideas – from freedom to human exploitation, all affixed on
paper – phenomenon of exalted humanity – Al-Hamra palace to Taj
Mahal, all transformed into digits and numbers to become an abstract
reference in tourist guide, interpretive history full of material
civilization, nothing else. The folly of deliberate aim of the pedagogy
to conceal and distort the entire moral and spiritual progressive
evolution of the mankind; left to be interpreted in questionable
terminology. While arrogance and stupidity rules, true knowledge and
divine wisdom live in denials.
Arabian deserts are no longer
deserted from cocktail parties and rock & roll, and its natural
inhabitants dream of living full life like the people do in London,
Paris and New York. Continued oil revenues have polluted the traditional
nomadic minds and behaviors. Would this trend of emerging naïve social
thinking and behavior lost indefinitely?
How to change the
apparent failure and distorted impressions of the contemporary Muslim
societies? Could American cultural domination provide any framework for
change, freedom and human progress?
Most western mythologist
would prefer silence when their interests and hegemonic goals come into
intellectual and political conflict. Islam and its followers believe in
change as a precept of the faith. Since “terrorism” phenomenon has
emerged as a new data in American dictated global propaganda vocabulary
and pre-conceived graphics of the Muslim images, little tangible and
constrictive change can be imagined except resulting in clear failure of
the Muslim leadership, from intellectual sphere to practically all value
oriented domains. The political language of progress is distortion of
reality, supremacy of American technology-based culture, capitalism and
ultimate integration of Muslim countries into the fold of American –
Zionist dominated economic block. The World Bank and IMF are the true
rulers of the global politics. American controls the both.
Arab
leaders dream normalcy that Saddam Hussein is no longer a potential
threat. American first colonial occupation of Iraq pleases the Zionist
strategists in short and long terms success: availability of cheap
Arab oil, fresh water, access to lands, immediate trade links and
political recognition, open body culture of the west, and diminishing
role of Islamic values across the board.
American and specially
hired Brits – Tony Blair’s war protagonists do believe that it was a
real war fought against Saddam Hussein (their former faithful client),
and it ended in American victory and success even though the WMD hoax
was a stage drama nothing other than a planned deception and treachery
to the collective conscience of humanity that demonstrated strong
opposition against the American planned war.
Arab leaders killed
political activism in the citizenry and forged national positions
in-between when principles of Islamic justice, honor and valor warranted
a bold stand. They love Anglo-Saxon beauty and salute the blond soul and
body in totality. Western masters did not train the Arab armies to fight
for any public cause. The mission of Arab armies is not the defense of
Islam, they are solely meant to guard the palaces and open fire at the
agitating masses. The Western development formula flourishes throughout
the Arab oil-exporting culture.
What is next in conflict making
and conflicts keeping? Nobody can predict in an unpredictable and
fearful American dominated militarism era. Secularist Arabs rulers love
Machiavellian image than being conformists to Islamic values. They live
in a self-perpetuated conflict situation only to support America, no
matter what happens. American leaders have declared a war against Islam,
but not against Muslims. American Intelligence Networks claim all Muslim
leaders are friends whereas, they view Islam as an enemy. They believe,
Islam belongs to history; only American culture is living force for
prosperity. To humiliate the already victimized half living bodies,
President Bush and Ariel Sharon have offered a “roadmap” for peace in
Palestine. It is a map that has no road, and a road that goes nowhere.
Arabs leaders have missed many opportunities to show courage and
conviction in history and appear fearful to face the mirror, but
subscribe to the bandmaster’s tune being played again to appease the
American-Zionist interest lobby. What futuristic culture would the young
Arab generations inherit from the contemporary authoritarian leadership?
Nobody wants to care about it while important celebrities are too busy
to THINK!
Arabs leaders celebrate the American success in Iraq
but prey at their own people under the disguise of terrorism to dispel
any sign of public resentment against the American intransigence and
aggression in Iraq. Even the Arab League and OIC could not dare to name
America as the aggressor in Iraq. Deception and treachery knows no
bound. Recently, the American Middle East based senior military command
organized a grand celebration of victory in the host oil exporting Arab
nation. The American General invited the ruler of the state to be the
guest of honor and to bless the gathering. While en route to the public
stadium, the Sheikh’s caravan ran over a desert nomad crossing the road
in a hurry. Time conscious Sheikh could not stop the official
limousine to see the dead nomad as he was already getting late. Amidst
the drumbeats and song and dance, the American General welcomed the Arab
chief guest and applauded his visionary leadership role and
contributions to support the American strategic goals in Iraq,
Afghanistan and Palestine. When the Sheikh stood up to address the
cheering crowd, his speech was entitled:
"Arab Leaders are winning"
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja
specializes in global security, peace and conflict resolution with keen
interests in Muslim-Western comparative cultures and civilizations, and
author of several publications including: "Muslims and the West: Quest
for Change and Conflict Resolution", University Press of America,
Maryland, 2000; How America Lost the War in Iraq and Afghanistan and
Mujahideen Won; To America and Canada with Reason, 2009; President Obama
– War is War, Not Peace, 2009; and Is Obama Remaking America? “The Arab
Time Capsule- Once You were the Leaders of Islamic Civilization.”
Comments are welcome at:
kmahboob@yahoo.com