The Islamic Times' (vol:13 January 1998) Stockport, England
World affairs is a dirty game, and the players are almost satans who only think of winning at all costs. The Muslims must begin by realising this. But the next thing they have to realise is just what is the key to the game.
The Muslims have found the West the biggest problem in their affairs ever since the West moved into the Muslims World over two hundred years ago. But the problem posed by the West has always been the fact that they are more powerful than the Muslims. Many Muslims imagine the West to be superior. But it would be hard to name anything in which they are superior, except for power. The life Westerners lead is dull and boring, and all complain of boredom and depression. But the power edge is real.
Now power is the key to world affairs. They will treat you decently as long as you are strong. The satans will respect you only if you can punish them in this world, and that means power.
Moral appeal to the West is a complete waste of time. Suffering means nothing to them, unless the suffering has power. And this brings me to the question of Israel.
Many Muslims make heart-rendering appeals to the West because of the terrible treatment of the Palestinians. But these appeals get no where.
But the question of power in relation to Israel should be carefully analysed.
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Many Muslims and many governments of the Muslim countries try to argue that the Jews in Israel would be easily beaten, if only the West did not back them. We cannot beat Israel, they say, because to fight Israel is to fight America, Britain, France, Germany and all of Europe. These Muslims then produce stories that Jews run the West in some kind of sinister plot.
The truth is very different. The Jews in Europe and America are extremely unpopular. They have always been close to being persecuted, and have suffered terrible persecutions in this country. It was because of this unpopularity that they established Israel, so as to have somewhere to hide.
And Israel has survived, not because of Western help, but because the governments of the Muslim World are so useless, incompetent and cowardly.
The fact is that two or three million Jews have humiliated hundreds of millions of Muslims, because the leaders of the Muslims have been unable to fight, but also unwilling to fight. Israel in 1948 was opposed by Britain, and given no help by America, and supplied with a few out-of-date weapons by the Russians. But King Farouk of Egypt was too lazy, and the ruler of Jordan bargained with the Israelis for a part of Palestine. In 1956 America opposition stopped the Israeli attack on Egypt. But Nasser only challenged the West to get aid for himself. In 1967 the Arabs never wanted to fight, and just got involved by mistake, and because the Israelis knew they could win in six days. Sadat fought in 1973 to be able to surrender in 1978.
My readers may point to the huge supplies of arms provided by the Americans to Israel. But these arms were supplied, not to fight the Arabs, but to fight the challenge of Russia. The Russians got the Arabs to do their dirty work for them, and so the Americans replied by arming Israel. And the Russian always stopped the Arabs governments from going to far, and always withheld the weapons that could have beaten Israel, and, finally, in 1982, did nothing during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
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And the Arab leaders always knew that they were never really going to challenge Israel. And they don’t want to challenge Israel.
Saddam Hussein proves my point. He makes huge noises about fighting Israel. But then he actually threatens an Arab neighbour.
Israel, alone, can beat the Arabs, because the leaders don't want to fight.
And they don't want to fight because they are all pro-West. They want to build Western societies, in which Islam will just be a decoration, something picturesque to show the Western tourists.
So the biggest problem is the ideological power of the West. Power is more than guns, and more than money. Power is ideas, and the leaders of the Muslim countries think that the West has all the best ideas.
They won’t fight Israel because they want to build a society which would resemble Israel in every respect, because Israel is a little bit of Europe they admire so much and wish to imitate.
But there is one aspect of Israel they don’t want to imitate. Israel is a state founded on religion. Religion is the key to Israel citizenship and Israeli life.
To really imitate Israel, the leaders of the Muslim countries would have to center their societies on religion, and that means Islam! But they will not do that. They imagine Islam is irrelevant to the question of power.
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But Islam is the key to the power. Islam would give the societies of the Muslim World a real reason for pride and patriotism, a real reason to build. Islam would also destroy the ideological power of the West, so that leaders were not paralysed when confronting the West. And Islam would give the Muslim people something to fight for so that they would no longer be a sleeping giant, betrayed by useless pro-western leaderships.
The world is ruled by power. The satans only understand power. The real key is the key to their power. In history Islam was always the key that unlocked Muslim strength. Islam is the only source of power for Muslims.