A Call to All Muslims
 

As the American-led Crusader alliance continues its lethal attacks against
the Muslims in Afghanistan - and as the pro-American governments in Muslim
countries like Pakistan and Nigeria let their own Police kill anti-American
Muslim demonstrators - I find myself asking the simple question: "Why are
the Muslims of the world letting this happen?"
 

The Current Situation:
 

To me - a Western convert to Islam - the issue here is both simple and of
vital importance. Call me naive, or whatever, but my understanding was and
is that it is the duty of Muslims to aid each other, and forbidden for
Muslims to side with those who are attacking a Muslim land and who are
killing Muslims.
 

Who is a Muslim? Someone who affirms that there is no god but the one god,
Allah, and that Muhammad is the Messenger - the last Prophet - of Allah.
Someone who revers the noble Quran and who accepts that in the Prophet
Muhammad we have an excellent, a perfect, example to follow.
Someone, in addition, who strives to do their Allah-given duty: to pray five
times a day, in the prescribed manner; to pay Zakat (charity toward the poor
and needy); to fast during the daylight hours in the month of Ramadan; and
to perform Hajj, if one is able.
 

Who is an infidel? Someone who does not believe in Allah, and his Prophet.
 

To me, the current situation is that Muslims are being attacked and killed
by infidels; the property of Muslims is being destroyed, by infidels; the
honour of Muslims has been and is being called into question, by infidels;
the land of a Muslim country is being violated by infidels. Furthermore,
some Muslims have taken the side of the infidels, and have actively provided
them with support. Other Muslims - especially those in the West - are
supporting the infidels in their Muslim-killing campaign.
 

What of the Hadith which say:
 

"It is haram for the blood of a Muslim to be spilt except for the following:
adultery; life for a life; and they who forsake the way of faith [which is
Islam] ..."
 

"A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim: he neither oppresses him nor does he
fail him; he neither lies to him nor does he hold him in contempt.....
Everything concerning a Muslim is inviolable: his blood, his honour, his
property."
 

The Hue and Cry of "Terrorism":
 

Of course, many if not most of the Muslims who are now supporting the
infidels in their murderous campaign in Afghanistan repeat what the infidels
themselves say: that it is a "war against terrorism and terrorists" and not
a war against Muslims. But the stark reality is that it is Muslims who are
being killed, injured and maimed, and these killings, these injuries and
maimings, are being done by infidels.
 

Moreover, who are these infidel-supporters to make judgements concerning
their fellow Muslims? Surely, such judgements are for Allah alone? Do these
infidel-supporters know what is in the hearts, the minds, of the Muslims in
Afghanistan who are being killed, injured, maimed and targeted by infidel
bombs and missiles? Or are these infidel-supporters saying that the Taliban
and the other Mujahidin in Afghanistan are not Muslims? If so, who are they
to judge?
 

Are they accusing people like Ameer Mohammad Omar of lying? Are they calling
into question the honour of the Muslims who, in Afghanistan and elsewhere,
oppose the actions of the Muslim-killing infidels?
 

The Duty of Muslims:
 

I may very well be very naive, and my understanding of Islam may well be
limited, but to me the duty of Muslims in this instance seems very clear.
 

The very least that those Muslims who are now infidel-supporters can do is
refrain from criticizing or passing judgement upon fellow Muslims. That is,
the very least they can do is to be neutral, and be silent.
 

The worst they can do is to support the infidels, for doing so they seem to
me to be not only acting in a dishonourable and therefore un-Islamic way,
but also doing what is haram, what is expressly forbidden: siding with
infidels against fellow Muslims.
 

The best they can do is to support their fellow Muslims: that is, help and
aid their Muslim brothers and sisters as Allah has commanded us to do.
 

Allah knows best.
 

David Myatt
26 Rajab 1422