By
Sajjad Shaukat
By acting upon the old
policy of divide and rule, US-led cabal of Israel and India are razing the
Muslim unity to obtain their secret designs against the Islamic World.
As part of the double
game, secret agencies agencies-American CIA, Indian RAW and Israeli Mossad are
using various terrorist outfits such as the Islamic State group (Also known as
Daesh, ISIS, ISIL), Al-Qaeda, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Balochistan
Liberation Army (BLA) etc., and their affiliated outfits like Al-Qaeda’s
Al-Nusra Front, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Jundollah (God’s soldiers) etc., and
other similar terrorist groups to destabilize the Muslim World. These militant
outfits, especially ISIL have claimed responsibility for various terror acts,
conducted in Syria, Pakistan, Iraq, Turkey, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and
Indonesia, including some African countries like Libya.
Particularly, CIA,
Mossad and RAW are in connivance with the ISIS militants to obtain the
collective and individual interests of their countries against Russia, the Syrian
government of President Bashar al-Assad, Pakistan and Iran.
American Jews who are
owners of many big cartels—multinational corporations, arms industries, oil
companies, banks etc., including print and electronic media of the US in
particular and the world in general. Thus, by dominating American internal
policies, Zionist Jews mould country’s foreign policy for their own interests,
devoted to Israel. By changing America into corporate industry, they have
converted the world into corporate industry.
In this regard,
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney pointed outs, “It is long been clear that the
pro-Israel, ultra-Zionist network of think-tanks, public policy organizations,
media outlets and lobbying organizations which have absolute control over the
United States Congress, executive branch and foreign policy, actually run the
US government…politicians who do not submit to the Zionist agenda are not
elected or appointed to serve the government. We know that no government can
serve two masters, and as a result, we have seen Israeli priorities placed
above those of the American people.”
McKinney explains, “The
idea that our leaders are pursuing America’s vital national interests abroad–is
a myth…Israelis have a singularly powerful lobby in the US, which wields such
political clout that no politician can afford to cross them…the pro-Israel
movement, a well-organized political machine that operates as the Israeli
government’s agent in America…a fifth column in league with a foreign
government, so powerful that it has become the decisive factor in determining
US policy.”
It is notable that after
the 9/11 tragedy, both India and Israel who had jumped on the bandwagon of
American fake global war on terror have been equating the ‘wars of liberation’
in Palestine and Kashmir with terrorism and under the cover, accelerated state
terrorism on these controlled territories. Their main purpose is to divert the
attention of the West from their own brutal tactics, while employing delaying
tactics in the solution of Kashmir dispute and the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
In fact, Jewish-Hindu
lobbies are collectively working in America and are well-penetrated in the US
Administration and governments of the Western countries, especially Europe.
These lobbies are exploiting the war against terrorism and presumed threats of
Iran, China and Pakistan so as to protect the Indo-Israeli covert designs. With
the help of some American law-makers and media, these entities have introduced
dangerous socio-religious dimension in the world by equating the “war on
terror” with “war on Islam” and acts of Al-Qaeda and ISIS with all the Muslims.
With the support of these lobbies and in collaboration with the US
neoconservatives, India and Israel have been exaggerating the threat of
Islamophobia.
In this context, on
October 19, 2007, the special issue of South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic
Journal, under the caption-‘Working for India or against Islam? Islamophobia in
Indian American Lobbies’ wrote, “In the past few years, Indian American
community has gained an unprecedented visibility in the international arena and
now constitutes influential ethnic lobbies in Washington. Among other factors,
Hindu aligned with Jewish pressure groups in relation to the war against
terrorism and to further the India-Israel-US strategic partnership play a major
role in exaggerating Islamophobic overtones in the Indian American lobbies.”
Besides other
related-developments such as occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, air strikes on
Libya, assistance to CIA-backed rebel groups, Al-Qaeda’s Al-Nusra in fighting
against the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and current Iraqi regime—promoting
ethnic and sectarian divide and violence in the Islamic World to protect the
political and economic interests of Israel, US has been supporting Indo-Israeli
cabal to destabilize the Muslim World to complete the unfinished agenda of the
Zionist Jews, though New Dehi has also been availing the opportunity to weaken
Pakistan.
Notably, Pakistan is the
only nuclear country in the Islamic World. Hence, it irritates America, Israel
and India. However, chaos has, deliberately, been created in the Muslim world.
US, India and Israel are using the militants of the terrorist outfits to
weaken the Tibetan regions of China, Iranian Sistan-Baluchistan, Pakistan’s
province of Balochistan and Central Asia (Russian interests) by arranging the
subversive activities to promote acrimonious sense of dissent, sectarian
violence and to arouse sentiments of separatism. In this context, the
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is their special target. As regards
Balochistan, every Pakistani knows that separatist groups like BLA, TTP, ISIL
and their affiliated outfits, which have been creating unrest in the
Balochistan province, gets logistic support from RAW and Mossad with the
tactical assistance of CIA. In the recent years, these terrorist groups
massacred many persons through suicide attacks, bomb blasts, targeted killings
and sectarian violence. Besides the recent bomb blasts in Quetta-the provincial
capital of Balochistan, in the recent past, these insurgent groups kidnapped
and killed many Chinese and Iranian nationals in Pakistan including Iranian
diplomats. They have claimed responsibility for a number of terror assaults,
including those on Shias in Balochsitan and Iranian Sistan-Baluchistan. In this
respect, Tehran has directly accused CIA of funding these types of terror
attacks.
While hinting towards
US, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has rightly disclosed, “The bloody
actions being committed in Iraq, Pakistan and Iran are aimed at creating a
division between the Shias and Sunnis…those who carry out these terrorist
actions are directly or indirectly foreign agents.”
It is mentionable that
John Stockwell, ex-CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, who also worked for the
director of the CIA under George Bush (Senior) and spent 13 years in the
agency, confirmed the US Central Intelligence Agency’s expanding operations in
a report. Stockwell’s report indicated that since the 2006 US-led Ethiopian invasion
of Somalia, “the CIA maintains a growing security complex in the country,
located right behind Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport. The complex
contains over a dozen buildings as well as several metal hangars, which house
CIA aircraft.”
Another report by United
Press International claims, “The CIA complex contains a prison for the
suspected militants who are routinely interrogated and tortured by the members
of a Mogadishu-based CIA team.”
As regards the CIA role
to exploit the Iranian election protests in 2009, its programme involved
playing the media as well as having secret agents on the ground in Iran. In
this connection, in May 2007, ABC News reported that the CIA had received
secret presidential (Bush) approval to mount a covert “black” operation to
destabilize Iranian government.
Starting from Iran,
protests and armed clashes inspired by the CIA resulted into revolt in Tunisia,
expanding uprising and demonstrations to Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Algeria,
Yemen, Lebanon, Bahrain, Syria and Libya.
On March 31, 2011, the
Guardian revealed that the President Obama had signed a secret order
authorizing covert help to arm Libyan rebels. On May 20, 2011, The Guardian
indicated, “US President Obama placed Washington on the side of popular uprisings
not only in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya but also in Syria and Bahrain—a longtime
American ally.” It wrote, “President unveils shift in US policy towards Arab
countries—tells Syria’s Assad to get out of way.”
On March 2, 2011,
Yemen’s President Saleh, describing the role of CIA and Israeli Mossad,
disclosed, “I am going to reveal a secret…there is an operations room in Tel
Aviv run by the White House with the aim of destabilizing the Arab world.”
Saleh also said, “Opposition figures meet regularly with the US ambassador in
Sanaa.”
Nevertheless, in line
with the Obama’s strategy, CIA agents succeeded in ousting Tunisian President
Ben Ali, Egyptian Mubarak (a close ally of the US) and Libyan President Col.
Gaddafi, toppling the elected government in Egypt as part of the policy of the
regime change in accordance with the Israeli agenda.
Nonetheless, regarding
the Muslim World, the quote “United we stand, divided we fall” has been used
several times in the history to instill a bond among several segments of the
society to achieve grand collective aims. The phrase, in various forms, can be
attributed to the ancient Greek storyteller Aesop, US Founding Father John
Dickinson and many others. A similar phrase also appears in the biblical
testament in verses 12:25 “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to
desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.” It
is more pertinent to the Muslims, as Islam regards all the Muslims as a single
brotherhood “Ummah Wahida”; it professes unity among Muslims and abhors
division. The Quran clearly ordains, “Wa`tasimu bihablillahi jamee`an wala
tafarraqoo” (Hold fast to the rope of Allah and do not be divided) (Quran
3:103).
After coming into being,
the Islam spread in the vastness of Arabia and beyond just due to the unity it
displayed in the early years. The Islam loathes any division among its
followers or any discrimination on the basis of color, creed and status. The
Holly Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said in his famous sermon at Hajja-tul-Wida,
“Arabs have no superiority over non-Arabs and non-Arabs have no superiority
over Arabs; you are all equal except by piety and good action. I am leaving
behind me two things, the Quran and my example (the Sunnah) and if you follow
these you will never go astray.”
Till the time Muslims
remained united, they were the sole superpower and ruled the world. They set
standards for the rest of the world, and were intellectually, morally,
economically and politically—the leaders and role model for other communities
and nations.
After getting
humiliating defeat from the hands of the inferior by failing to cope with the
shrewd diplomacy, Muslims soon realized the unity as the forte of Islam. Since
then, the enemies of Islam have tried to break this unity by planting the seeds
of dissention among the Muslims in one pretext or the other. The relentless
efforts and tactics by the enemies have been employed to divide the Muslims on
the basis of color, creed, language, ethnicity and culture. There are numerous
occasions in the history, when the Muslims swallowed the bait and suffered
horrendous consequences—weakened the Ummah as a whole.
The introduction of
internet/social media has given a lot to the mankind and given it an
unprecedented reach. However, this excellent facility is also being utilized to
create divisions among the Muslims by sowing misunderstanding on trivial
issues. The foreign based/funded think tanks, intellectuals and pseudo
religious scholars are raising controversies on non-issues. They have coined various
terms to brand the Muslims in various groups and create mutual hatred to
destroy their unity.
The difference of
opinion is a positive attribute and a sign of living society, Allah’s Prophet
(PBUH) called “IKHTILAFO UMMATI RAHMAH” (The intellectual difference of opinion
in my Ummah is a blessing) Nevertheless, taking these differences of opinion
beyond intellectual discourse raises negativities and leads on the course of
collision, which one can note in the Islamic World.
All the Muslims believe
in oneness of Allah and finality of Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). All four
Imams had difference of opinion on certain issues; however, these differences
were purely intellectual and based upon the Hadith of Prophet (PBUH) which
reached to them at different times. Despite the difference of opinion, the
Imams or the scholars of early times always respected each other and never ever
condemned each other or called the other Imam and his followers as wrong. The
discussion on the differences in Fiqah was never made a topic of Friday Sermons
and never the Muslims were asked not to follow the other Imams.
The Islam has surpassed
all the religions of the world with more than 23% of the world population as
Muslims. The major deposits of natural resources of the world are mostly owned
by the Muslim countries, but, the sad part is that in spite of such a great
number of followers and the resources, the Muslims are suffering. This
suffering is the outcome of differences/division among the Muslims who are
divided on the basis of languages, ethnicity, regional preferences, nationalism
and above all sectarian beliefs in the name of Islam. Those countries like the
US, Israel, India and some Western countries who do not want to see the Muslims
gaining strength are bent upon dividing them to the roots. There appears a
grand plan of widening the gulf between Muslims by organizing various
conferences and seminars on controversial issues at international level by
inviting selective religious scholars, thereby, embroiling the Muslims, all
over the world in general and the Gulf countries in particular by creating
sectarian strife.
Therefore, there is a
need to create awareness among the Muslims. Their religious scholars need to
highlight the looming threats in their sermons and create unity among
Muslims.
The Muslim religious
scholars and clerics (Ulma) must make it clear that the spirit of Islam/ Quran,
even invites the followers of other religions on common terms. In this context,
“Quran 3:64-71-Surah Ale-Imran says: “O people of book! Come to common terms as
between us and you: that we worship none but Allah: that we associate no
partners with Him: that we erect not from among ourselves Lords and patrons
other than Allah.” If we can come on common terms with other religions, then
why not with our own Muslim brothers with whom we may have just trivial
differences of theological commentaries/opinions on the interpretation of few
sayings/ practices of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Being Muslims, we need
to hold “the rope of Allah, Quran and Hadith” tightlty and do not get divided.
We have to unite in the name of Allah and not to fight among ourselves in the
name of Allah. Islam ordains protection of non-Muslims simply to show the
respect for the canons of divinity and humanity, then how can we afford to
fight with our own Muslim brothers?
Our Holy Prophet (PBUH)
has compared the Muslim community with human body, and according to him all the
Muslims are like one body, when even a single part of human body suffers for
any reason the restlessness is felt in all the parts of body.
Islam is basically a
religion of peace that lays great emphasis upon mutual understanding and love
among the fellow Muslims. Great stress is laid upon the unity and development
of brotherhood among fellow Muslim brothers.
At present, the Muslims
who need unity which will not be against other religions, but, can make the
Muslim World an invincible force and it must not let to be destroyed at any
cost, as the absence of unity brings and breeds disruption, devastation and
disputes (A disputed matter or issue is that matter/issue in which the Muslim
scholars are divided) which are being manipulating by the US-led cabal.
Instead of condemning
each other, calling names and killing the Muslims, we must follow whichever
Muslim school of thought we want to follow, but, we must respect others view
points as well. The intellectual differences of opinion should not be
considered as a dispute and should not be debated on streets or during Friday
sermons. It should be discussed in the universities, and Dar-ul-Ulooms
(Religious seminaries).
The unity does not shun
any one’s personal and substantial right of expression and will mean to have
respect and honor for others’ thoughts. It means to show broadmindedness,
respect, and avoidance of every sort of chauvinism. We must follow the esteemed
companions of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) who, at times, despite having academic
differences among them remained friendly and respected each other.
While, all the enemies
of Islam are united against the Muslims; we need to be united now more than
ever before. The lives of the companions of the Holly
Prophet (PBUH) and early Muslims lead us to the conclusion that all
the Muslims are brothers and are like a single body and therefore, can never be
indifferent towards one another. Among them should prevail the spirit of
cooperation, goodwill and love.
At this critical hour,
if the Muslims do not unite by following the true spirit of Islam, the US-led
cabal, particularly of Israel and India will further raze the so-called unity
among the Muslim countries.
Sajjad Shaukat writes on
international affairs and is author of the book: US vs Islamic Militants,
Invisible Balance of Power: Dangerous Shift in International Relations
Email:
sajjad_logic_pak@hotmail.com
Courtesy Veterans Today
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