The Islamic Response to Printing of Cartoons and Attacks on Muslims

The printing of cartoons ridiculing the Final Prophet of Allah, under the name of Freedom of Expression, is another attack upon the Muslim Nation (Ummah) adding to the list of deep wounds continuously being inflicted upon this honourable nation.  These repeated attacks from the disbelieving nations are coming in the forms of full-scale military onslaught, as in Iraq and other places, to giving support to oppressive occupations such as the state of Israel and a host of political schemes, whether they be the direct creation and propping up of agent governments or using their tools such as the UN against us.

Yet time and time again the Muslims respond to the ever-increasing attacks, by the same emotional, ill-thought out and reactionary measures such as:

-          Demonstrations

-          Boycotts of certain goods

-          Declarations of Condemnations

-          Lobbying the governments

-          Donations of money to Charity Organisations

Instead of reflecting upon how the Muslim Nation should respond as a Nation which has great lands, resources, man power and above all the belief in Allah, we find that this is put aside and we are presented with short term patch up solutions, resulting in diverting our resources and attention away from the fundamental cause of our weakness as a Nation

Demonstrations and Boycotting goods have been going on for so long e.g. With regards to the plight of the Muslims in Palestine, yet they have never amounted to anything except the venting of anger and the false sense of achievement, the same can be seen clearly in recent times with Anti-War Protests and Iraq.

In Britain, Salman Rushdie, this apostate was allowed to publish and sell his book insulting the Prophet and the Mothers of the Believers and his ‘right’ to do so was defended again under the idea of ‘Freedom of Expression’.  This pillar of belief of the Capitalist Ideology is what pushed the media outlets throughout Europe to reprint the blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammed (SAW).

It is important to realise that the Muslim nation is described as such because it’s people hold the creed of Islam, which is fundamentally different to the other nations.  The Capitalist have their own concepts of Freedom, Democracy, Secularism and Human Rights, and they will naturally act according to their beliefs and will defend and propagate them.  Is it not these very beliefs, which justify Fornication, Alcohol, Gambling, Gay Marriages, Guantanamo Bay etc!

The biggest danger to the Muslims is when they start adopting, acting and spreading the non-Islamic principles of the Capitalist, often out of ignorance of Islamic political principles, or in order not to lose the comforts of the world and sometimes in reaction to traps laid by the disbelievers, such as the recent calls for Freedom of Speech and Human Rights when laws of silencing Muslims, under the guise of Fighting Terror, were announced by British government.

So let us rightly look to Muhammed (saw) and those that followed him to see how they responded to the hostility of the Quraysh and the menace of the Jewish tribes towards the Muslim Nation.  We do not find boycotts, demonstrations or charity organisations but an organised nation with an economic and political infrastructure ready to respond militarily if need be - so that the disbelievers would think twice before they dared attack the Muslims.  This exemplary response to attacks continued in our history even up until the late Uthmani Khalifs who warned France and Britain to stop a theatrical play insulting our Prophet, otherwise they would find the Muslim Armies at their doorsteps.

However, today we are missing such a response because we are divided into many nation states, being ruled by secular puppet governments.  Unless our efforts are aimed at resuming the Islamic way of life, having a sincere Islamic leadership (Imam/Khalifah), we will not deal effectively to the attacks we face and other vital issues.  Each one of us must support this cause for the political change in our lands, and advise each other of not diverting our energies.

“O you who believe! If you will aid the cause of Allah, He will aid you, and plant your feet firmly. But those who reject, for them is destruction, and Allah will render their deeds astray.” [TMQ 47:7]

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Realising the solution that will deal with injustices around the world

The prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay and other similar interrogation centres, are just one of the injustices and crimes being committed in the world today, many by the USA and her Allies.  Countless other crimes and injustices are being committed around the world, where suffering and exploitation of people is at unimaginable levels.

The reaction by many people to these crimes and injustices thus far have been: to march and shout on the streets, sign some petitions, donate to a charity organisation, boycott some goods, or vote for secular political parties, in the hope that somehow these ineffective actions will lead to resolving just one of the burning issues around the world.

We also see that describing in detail these injustices is easier than providing the real solutions that will actually deal with these crimes and sufferings.  This is because to correctly identify the solutions, requires a correct ideological basis* from where the solutions will be derived.

So for the secular people and their parties, it is the mind, which decides what is a crime and what is not, and what is implemented is what the majority of minds agree upon (Democracy).  For them the Word of God does not dictate any policies.  So you will find that they do not see homosexuality, nudity, gambling, alcoholism, relationships outside marriage, prostitution etc as crimes.  Moreover because there is not a set moral standard, except what the majority agree upon, then what is evil or despicable today may become acceptable tomorrow, and homosexuality in the West is an example of this.

As for the Muslims, the crime and its remedy are both defined by the Guidance sent by the Creator and Lord of this world i.e. Islam.  In fact, when Islam is not the basis for judging matters, then oppression and injustice are more likely to occur.  The world has witnessed the scale of bloodshed, tyranny, oppression and spread of corruption in the last century since the decline of Islam as a political power and the rise of the ideology of ‘Democracy and Freedom’.

In truth, the materialistic ideologies, Capitalism and Socialism, cannot stand up for justice, because from their basis they have a corruption - since they have detached God as the source of moral standards and criteria of justice.  Thus our support needs to be with those whose basis is the Truth and are working for the rise of the ideology based on this truth and not with those whose basis is falsehood. 

It is the re-establishment of Islam as a political, economic and social entity, which will organise the resources to counter the tyranny and oppression prevailing in the world today, in order that justice and mercy can be witnessed again.  Allah (swt) says:

"We verily sent our messengers with clear proofs and revealed with them the scripture and the balance (of right and wrong), that mankind may observe justice” TMQ 57:25

The guidance, of the creator, must be implemented in its entirety without compromise, and the first step towards this is to know how to identify the systems of Islam from other ideologies, and support those who work for God’s Law and shun those who work for Man’s laws.

Pakistan, a British Creation

When western nations, especially Britain started to withdraw from their colonies, they made sure that the governments they left behind were loyal to them and their ‘values’.  This was done by using loyal movements and people who had been indoctrinated by their culture in the colonized lands.  In Pakistan it was the Muslim League headed by Mohammed Ali Jinnah.

The Muslim League was the vehicle used to “make” Pakistan. This party was set up on 28 December 1906 in Dhaka, with the following objectives:

·To promote among Muslims a feeling of loyalty to the British government and to remove misunderstandings

· To protect and advance the political rights and interests of Muslims, and to represent properly their needs and aspirations to the British government; and

· To prevent the rise of hostility among Muslims toward other communities.¹

The Muslim League was dominated by landdlords and westernised elite, who wanted to show that like Hindus, Muslims are also loyal to the British. So it was no real surprise that the Muslim League opposed the Khilafat Movement, led by Maulana Mohammed Ali, a Movement which was against the British and in support of the Khilafat, whose capital was in Turkey, at that time.

Jinnah was educated in the West in secular law, and assumed presidency of the Muslim League in 1935, after his return from England.  He firmly believed in the separation of Islam and politics, which he made clear in his many speeches e.g. his speech to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on August 11, 1947, he stated:

“Now I think we should keep that in front of us as our ideal and you will find that in the course of time Hindus would cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the State".

In the Indian subcontinent prior to the creation of Pakistan, the muslims were 40% of the populous, with the non-muslims thoroughly disunited by their varying beliefs and casts systems.  So it was not hard to imagine the muslims once again dominating that region, and therefore, in order to weaken and destroy muslim unity here also - the better plan for Britain in India, was to divide the muslims to two ends of the sub-continent whilst forming a much larger state in the middle, now with an even greater non-muslim majority.

Since Jinnah and the Muslim League believed in loyalty to the British, liberal and democratic values, they were ideal to use to rally muslims towards any agenda the British had. Jinnah however could not have said to the people he wanted to set up a secular and liberal state, as the muslims in general would not buy into this, so a deceiving strategy to achieve his goal was needed. 

Jinnah had witnessed, during the Khilafat Movement, that Muslims aroused in the name of Islam and had realized he needed a slogan to gain the muslim support, which he did successfully. He made hundreds of speeches that he wanted Pakistan for Muslims in the name of Islam, which became very popular throughout the Sub Continent.

Many Muslim scholars of the time, including the Jamiyyat -al -Ulama -e -Hind, seriously suspected the religious commitment of the Muslim League because they knew of their secular background and of their little Islamic knowledge, but probably, like today, lacked political awareness to counter-act them.

Thus according to the plans of the British and with the help of their loyal assistants, the Muslims were cheated into sacrificing for a state that was promised to be a land for Islam and Muslims, but remains until today a land for secular nationalists and capitalist elites, disunited from the rest of the Ummah.  It is high time those who still hold on to these corrupt values to stub them out under their feet and give their loyalty to the truth and support the revival of the Islamic way of life.