In the Name of Allah, The Compassionate, The Merciful

With the attacks on Afghanistan in Rajab 1422 AH, the American-led alliance has openly declared war on Islam. The first avowed intention of this new American-led Crusade is to remove the Islamic government which the Taliban have established, and replace it with a pro-American, or rather, pro-Western, one.

This is a war against Islam because the American-led Crusader alliance knows that true, authetic, Islam is the only serious threat to its power, and to its desire to dominate the world, which domination is political, economic, cultural and military, and is designed to ensure: (1) the plentiful supply of resources, such as oil and minerals, which its industries and infrastructure needs; (2) it has not only a world-wide market for its consumer goods, but also access to cheap labour; that (3) its rapacious materialistic way of life can endure; (4) the domination of the political ideas and social ways of the West.
 

Definition of The West:

The West is a collection of modern nations which follow a common materialistic, hedonist way of life, which are based upon the idea and ways of capitalism, with its usury, and whose governments are elected, at least in theory, through majority vote. These Western governments all make, and all enforce, laws which represent a basically liberalist view of the world, just as they are all driven by the ideas of "progress" and continual change. In the pursuit of this change, these nations, with their industries, their commerce, their technology, plunder the resources of the world for their own benefit.

The two basic characteristics of the Western way of life are a prideful arrogance and a devotion to selfish pleasure. This prideful arrogance often manifests itself in the belief - by Western peoples of all races - that the Western way is superior, "progressive" and even "enlightened". It is also manifest in the belief - backed if necessary by naked military force - that Western laws have or should have sway over the whole world: that is, that Western governments have the "right" to do what they like, such as invade another country on some pretext or other, or enforce their laws upon another people even if those people do not recognize and do not accept such Western laws (as is the case with the Taliban).

Two further characteristics of the modern West are its outright, blatant, hypocrisy, and its use of modern mediums such as Television and newspapers to spread pro-Western propaganda, which propaganda seeks to demonize anyone, or any cause, the governments of the West deem a threat to their interests.

To ensure its domination, Western countries created organizations such as the "United Nations" (which it controls through the Security Council since Western countries have the right to veto any resolution they do not approve of and generally make any resolution they dislike unenforceable in practice) which United Nations organization is designed to spread, and enforce, Western laws and Western political ideas (such as majority voting), and designed to aid and bring about the assimilation of other countries into what is called "the global economy" with its Americanized mass "culture".

In essence, therefore, the United Nations is a kuffar organization, based entirely on Western concepts of law and dedicated to propagating, and if necessary enforcing, the Western, un-Islamic, idea of "democracy", of majority voting, and the Western commercialized "culture" which is such a feature of this modern world.
 
 

The Hoax of the "War Against Terrorism":
 

In recent times - and so far as the West is concerned - the threat posed by Islam has replaced the threat posed by Communism, and it is no coincidence that former Soviet-style nations such as Russia and China are now co-operating with America in the new "war on Islam" since both these nations are now part of the global capitalist economy, with China especially seen as a vast market, and a ready resource of cheap labour.
 

The war by the Crusader Alliance against the Taliban in Afghanistan has been propagated by the governments of the West as a "war against terrorism". However, this is pure hypocrisy, as several Islamic scholars have recently explained:
 

The question is: When America attacked a Pharmaceutical firm in Sudan, using its planes and bombs, destroying it and killing everybody in it, staff and labourers, what was this called? Shouldn't the action of America on the Sudanese firm be considered as an act of terrorism? Else how can what those people did in America be treated as an act of terrorism? Why is everybody condemning and rejecting what was done to those buildings in America and yet we did not hear any such condemnations on the destruction caused by America of that Sudanese firm?

I certainly don't see any difference between the two acts, except that the money that was used in building the firm is Muslims' and the workers and staff killed by destroying the firm were Muslims; Whereas, the buildings destroyed by those hijackers was built with the money of non-Muslims and the victims of the explosion were non-Muslims.

So, is this the difference that made some fellow brothers to call what happened in America 'Terrorism'!! While at the same time they neither condemned what happened in Sudan, nor called it TERRORISM?

Similarly, what happened to the Libyans was deliberate and imposed 'starvation'; 'starvation' of the Irâqis plus almost daily attacks; the sanctions and attacks launched against Afghanistân, a Muslim Nation: all these, why are they not termed "terrorism"? What else can we term them if not terrorism?
Fatwa on Recent Events by Shaykh Humûd al-'Uqlâ

Therefore it is obvious that their understanding of 'terrorism' is none other than Islam itself, hence making this war a Crusade - a truth that has been clearly stated by a number of their leaders such as the President of the United States.
Shaykh Abdullah bin Muhammad al-Ghunayman
 

In addition, all Western nations - with America leading the way - support the repressive Zionist occupation government in Palestine, supplying that government with weapons, and technological and financial aid, and totally ignoring its avowed terrorist methods which includes assassination of opponents, destruction of homes, the use of torture, detention without trial, and the indiscriminate killing of civilians, including women and children.
 

Western nations are using and have used the lie that their war is a war "against terrorism" to justify their naked imperialist aggression and to try and morally blackmail other nations into helping them. In effect, this lie of a war against "terrorism" is designed to mask their real, hidden, aim which is to fight, undermine and if possible eliminate the threat which Islam poses to both the political, social and economic domination of the West, and to the Zionist occupation of Palestine.

For in truth, this American-led Crusader Alliance is really a Zionist-Crusader Alliance against Islam, for the very survival of Zionism - the continued occupation of Palestine by Zionists - depends upon the continuing domination of the West and especially upon the elimination of the threat posed by authentic Islam, manifest as this authentic Islam has been and is in the Taliban and those who support them.
 

Why Islam is a Threat to the West:
 

The West considers Islam a threat for several reasons: (1) Islam is, on principle and in reality, opposed to the usury which forms the basis for the capitalism of the West, regarding such usury as evil; (2) Islam is opposed to the excessive materialism, the decadence,  the lack of moral standards and the lack of discipline which are now rife in all nations of the West; (3) Islam is opposed - in principle and in reality - to the so-called "democratic process" and instead seeks to create what the West would describe as a theocratic society (which Islam calls the Khilafah), ruled by a Khalifah; (4) Islam is opposed in principle and in practice to the type of law and the system of so-called justice which dominates Western countries and instead seeks to establish the rule of Shari'ah, of Islamic law; (5) Islam, correctly understood, seeks to use Jihaad, if necessary, to establish an Islamic way of life - Islamic societies - since Muslims are enjoined to fight repression, injustice and evil, and have a duty to live in the Way Allah has commanded; (6) Islam seeks the return of Palestine which is currently occupied by Zionists (who have the full and uncritical support of the West) and regards the return of Islamic rule to Al-Quds (Jerusalem) as a sacred duty; and, last but not least, (7) Islamic countries (such as Saudi Arabia) control many of the world's oil reserves, which reserves are regarded as crucial by the West in order to maintain their materialistic, capitalist, energy-squandering, way of life.

In particular, the American government views Sheikh Osama bin Laden and his followers as a threat to the current government in Saudi Arabia, which government - controlling vast oil reserves - is currently well-disposed to America, and even allows American military bases in what most Muslims regard as the Holy Lands. The Americans are and have been greatly concerned that Sheikh Osama bin Laden and his followers could undermine if not overthrow the current government in Saudi Arabia, and establish there an Islamic State, which State being hostile to America, would refuse to export oil to America, thus threatening America's materialistic way of life and its wealth, fuelled as this wealth is and has been by petrochemicals and machines and vehicles which use oil, petrol and diesel.

Therefore, America has decided to eliminate what it perceives as a serious threat to its domination, its wealth and its way of life, for America knows - as many Muslims do - that the Taliban, as well as Sheikh Osama bin Laden and his followers, not only regard it as their Islamic duty to undertake Jihaad in order to fight corruption and establish an Islamic society, but also refuse to compromise with the kuffar. That is, they desire to establish a genuine Islamic society, governed by Shari'ah: a society which totally rejects the decadent, materialistic, god-less, immoral, Western way of life.
 

By eliminating the Taliban and Sheikh Osama bin Laden and his followers, America, and its Crusader allies, believe they can undermine, if not stifle and destroy, the progress of true Islam - the Islam that does not compromise with the ways of the kuffar and which seeks instead to create true Islamic communities. The hope and the desire of the infidels of America and elsewhere is to humiliate Muslims, and show - by naked aggression - that no real, practical, opposition to the domination of the West will be allowed or tolerated.

In effect, the Crusader Alliance is saying: "we want the world to be re-made along Western lines, and will not tolerate a society, a government, a nation, which does not follow our laws and which does not recognize our right to rule over them through our international treaties."

Many Muslims have come to regard the Taliban as an example to follow and be inspired by, just as Western government and the Western Media have been conducting an intense, lying and hateful propaganda campaign against the Taliban for many years in order to try and discredit them. Having failed in this propaganda campaign, Western governments have now decided to destroy them through war. For the West greatly fears the resurgence of pure, authentic Islam of which both the Taliban and Sheikh Osama bin Laden are examples.
 

1. Its efforts to support the Mujahideen and defend them against their enemies. This has been witnessed in this government. 2. It does not contain any forms of media which are forbidden in the Shariah. 3. Indeed it is adamant, sincere and honest in its efforts to implement Shariah from its establishment of the Islamic Penal Code (hudood) to forbidding open acts of disobedience to Allah and His Messenger, meting out suitable punishments for them and Islamicising education and media. 4. Indeed it is the only country in the World which is striving for women's rights according to the Shariah and not according to the ways of the Secularists who encourage the women to display their beauty, cast off their hijabs, mix freely with men, drive cars alone and other things like that. 5. It is the only country in the World which has a separate ministry by the name of the Ministry to Encourage Good and Forbid Evil.

Fatwa of Sheikh Hammoud Al-Uqlaa' on the Taliban

Conclusion:

The current attacks on the Taliban are an openly declared war - by the Zionist-Crusader Alliance - against Islam. One of the fundamental aims of this war is to eliminate the threat posed by authentic Islam, as manifest by Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa'ah and the Mujahideen of Afghanistan and elsewhere.
 

The governments of the West will accept, and indeed condone and even encourage, a "modernist Islam" where fundamental Islamic values and principles are sacrificed to enable Muslims to live in a Western way, and where Islam is understood, perceived and practised as a private religion, confined to homes, Mosques and one's local community, and where there is no attempt made to create an Islamic society, governed according to Shari'ah and certainly little if any perception, by the modernist Muslims, of Islam as a total way of life, a way which does not separate "State" and "Mosque".

However, the West will not accept, and will not tolerate, authentic Islam which seeks to establish an Islamic way of life, which understands the establishment of the Shari'ah as a necessary duty, which demands the liberation of Palestine and the overthrow of corrupt rulers and corrupt governments if necessary through practical Jihaad.

Authentic Islam accepts that Islam is a complete, and prefect, Way of life and rejects the ways of the kuffar, believing that these ways are the ways of the Ignorant, and indeed, that these ways are Ignorance (Jahiliyya) itself. There is, for a Muslim, only the complete, the perfect, way which is Islam, or there is Jahiliyya: ignorance of the will of Allah, either through wilful ignorance, or because of a submission to human-derived ideas, ways, principles and laws, or through submission to a person or persons who represent, or are representatives of, such human-derived things.