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Militant and Spirituality
By
Marvin X
Militant Islam originates in the
abject and abysmal failure of moderate Islam to address
the political oppression throughout the Muslim world.
Nearly every Muslim regime is a model of failure in
addressing the economic, educational and social problems
of the billion plus Islamic world.
Many Muslim nations are still
suffering the ravages of colonialism and her sister
neo-colonialism. Neo-colonialism allows the oppression
to continue with indigenous political leaders who are
sometimes more repressive than the former colonial
masters.
Little or no opposition is allowed.
Little or no freedom of speech or assembly is permitted.
The oil wealth of Muslim nations is the property of
royal families or presidents for life. All this has
occurred under mainly secular regimes of moderate
Muslims or under conservative Islamic nations. Such
reactionary activity has forced a generation of militant
Muslims to arise seeking social justice and cultural
dignity as Islamic people.
Militant Muslims have no desire for
the western way of life that is promoted by the secular
regimes, including western style democracy, although
they desire freedom, justice and equality. Actually, the
oppressive regimes only give lip service to democratic
ideals to appease the west, while they continue
repression and the theft of national resources. Egypt is
the best example of an oppressive Muslim state with
pseudo strides toward democracy. The more they make
moves toward democracy, the more they repress. President
Mubarak's son is poised to continue pharonic democracy.
What should be made clear is that the
problem of occupied Palestine is not the main reason for
the rise of militant Islam. Yes, all Muslims are
horrified at the oppression of the Muslim brothers and
sisters in occupied Palestine, but they are more
horrified at the oppression in their respective nations
that are as repressive as Israel, if not more so. Did
not Jordan kill ten thousand Palestinians? Did not Syria
kill an entire town of rebellious citizens?
With ten million Muslims in France,
what is their future in a country that recently praise
its colonial heritage. More than likely, the Muslims
will probably be expelled from Europe as were the Moors
in 1492—history has a way of repeating itself.
Young Muslims must resist political
backwardness in Europe and elsewhere, especially in Arab
lands. Moderate Islam has no answers to the conundrum of
the Muslim world. Their ritual passivity and
collaboration with Western interests shall not continue
unabated. The world waits for no one. Like Poland in
WWII, the moderate Islamists may have waited too long.
Moderation will allow the Israel/Palestine problem to
linger another fifty years. But if Militant Islam
persists, like the Crusaders, the Jews will ultimately
be forced to depart the Holy land, despite their
possession of nuclear weapons.
And the putrid Muslim political
regimes will persist another half century, if the
moderates have their way. Their meaningless ritual
prayers and hollow haj to Mecca to kiss the black stone
does not relieve the pressure of boots on the necks of
the masses. So let the militants arise and challenge
injustice everywhere, from the bastions of colonialism
in Europe and America, to the rotten, corrupt Muslim
nations in Africa and Asia.
Paris burned because the moderates
have done nothing. London bridges were bombed and the
twin towers fell because the moderates said nothing,
heard nothing and did nothing, leaving their people in
poverty, disease and ignorance.
Let the militants have their day,
perhaps they are misguided and suicidal, but at least
they know persecution is worse than slaughter. After all
the blood and bones, maybe we shall have inched forward
to freedom, justice and equality. The entire Muslim
world should celebrate the resistance of Hizbullah in
Lebanon. They may lose the battle, but surely they have
already won the war, for if nothing else, they have
ingratiated themselves into the hearts and minds of the
Muslim world, a world greatly in need of inspiration and
human dignity posted 10 August
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update 30 July 2008 |
