The Decadence and Deceit of the Kuffar
The kuffar often proudly speak and write about the societies of the West in
glowing terms, and contrast their own societies with the lands of the Muslims,
claiming all sorts of benefits for these kaffir societies, and claiming how
"advanced" and "better" and "civilized" the West
is compared to the lands of the Muslims. Thus, they argue, Muslims should
"modernize" Islam - get rid of "the extremists" within their
ranks - accept democracy, give up Jihad, and then they will enjoy the many
benefits of Western society.
What these kuffar fail to tell us is the utter decadence, hypocrisy, dishonour,
arrogance, and inequality, which lies at the heart of every single Western
nation. That is, Muslims - and others - are being presented with a
propagandistic image of the West, by Western politicians, by the Media Thus, we
have Amerika, in a secret report, saying:
"The Pentagon's doctrine for psychological operations specifically
contemplates actions to convey and (or) deny selected information and
indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and
objective reasoning. ... In various ways, perception management combines truth
projection, operations security, cover, and deception, and psyops."
(Taken from U.S. Defense Department's Information Operations Roadmap, a
document approved by Donald Rumsfeld.)
The kuffar shamelessly seek to manipulate us, and seek to hide the reality of
their own societies - which includes violent crime, increasing and sordid
domestic violence and abuse, more and more people in prison; more and more
people suffering from mental and psychological problems; and increasing
addiction of ordinary people to drugs and alcohol.
They seek to hide the truth that there is a real and ever-increasing division,
in the countries of the West, between the wealthy and those who are only just
managing to survive, only just managing to feed and clothe themselves and their
families.
The Problems of the West:
Let us consider some statistics that highlight some of the major problems of the
West. First, Amerika has the highest number of people in Prison - over two
million. That is over a million more than China, which has nearly four and a
half times as many people as Amerika, and this number of prisoners in Amerika is
quite startling if it compared to the number of people in Prison in Pakistan:
some 90,000 out of a population of nearly 160 million. That is, in Amerika,
there are over twelve times the number of prisoners incarcerated in jails
compared to Pakistan, for Amerika has 738 prisoners per 100,000 people, while in
Pakistan there are only 57 prisoners per 100,000 people.
In addition, in Amerika, every year nearly twenty million people use an illicit
drug and nearly thirty million people receive treatment or counselling for
mental health problems. How many people abuse alcohol is not known for sure, but
some estimates go as high as fifty million people. This is a great number of
unhappy or suffering people.
Furthermore, nearly 100,000 women per year seek treatment in the British city of
London alone for violent injuries received in their own homes, and, on average,
in Britain, two women per week are killed by a male partner or former partner -
that is over 100 women a year. Also, in England and Wales alone, in one year,
there are over 600,000 recorded incidents of domestic violence, and every minute
of every day the British Police are called by a woman who has been subject to
violent domestic abuse. In Russia, in one year, it was recorded that 14,000
women were killed by their partners or relatives.
What do such statistics show us? That something is seriously wrong with the
West. That despite the material prosperity of such countries, there are millions
upon millions of people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol, and that such
material prosperity has not made people happy or solved fundamental social and
personal problems, or led men to treat women with respect. Also, let us consider
the utter hypocrisy of politicians in the West - like those in Italy where a
recent test showed that 16 out of 50 elected representatives had taken cocaine
or some other drug.
The simple fact is that the ways of the West do not work except in the minds -
in the fantasies - of the kuffar.
How dare the West, in its utter hypocrisy, seek to export, by force of arms, by
economic, political and financial blackmail, the ways and values of the West to
other lands when it cannot even solve basic social and human problems in its own
lands! How dare the politicians and Media lackeys and their supporters hold up
the West as some shining example to be followed by Muslims when the societies of
the West are full of drug addicts, alcoholics, anti-social behaviour, poverty,
injustice, inequality? How dare the Western critics of Islam falsely claim that
"Islam oppresses women" when in Britain nearly one hundred women a
year are killed by their violent husbands or partners, and where every minute of
every day a woman calls the Police because of violence against them by their
husband or partner?
How dare the kuffar do this? Easy - for they are utter hypocrites who in their
arrogance and ignorance refuse to accept the truth that the ways of the West do
not work while Deen Al-Islam does indeed work. A women, for instance, is more
safe on the streets of Cairo than she is on the streets of New York or London,
even though Egypt is not any longer a land of Islam but only a land where there
are many Muslims many of whom do strive to uphold Deen Al-Islam in their own
lives.
What the hypocritical, what the arrogant, kuffar fear most of all is the
establishment of Dar al-Islam: a land where Deen Al-Islam is implemented. For
this land would put an end, once and for all, to the lies of the kuffar and
reveal the kuffar to all the world for what they really are: arrogant
hypocritical lying cowardly bullies.
These are the cowardly bullies who try to enforce their failed decadent way of
life on others by invading and occupying other lands and by imprisoning and
torturing their enemies - and who, despite their vastly superior military and
financial resources, cannot defeat tens of thousands of poorly equipped and
under-nourished Mujahideen. These are the cowardly bullies who, in their
failure, cry out for more military hardware, for more troops, for more
resources, for more help, to defeat the Mujahideen who they kill in their
hundreds by their sophisticated bombs and missiles and tanks, but who refuse to
give up - the Mujahideen that the cowardly, dishonourable, kaffir bullies
imprison, and humiliate and torture when they are captured.
The Solution of Islam:
The simple truth which the kuffar try to conceal is that Islam, as a way of
life, works: it produces an ordered, genuinely, civilized, and genuinely fair
way of life.
"Do they seek honour from the kuffar? In truth, honour is with, and from,
Allah alone." 3: 139 Interpretation of Meaning
This truth is shown by two recent examples. First, by the establishment of
Islamic communities in Somalia. In that land, the Sharia Courts movement has
brought fairness, and order, after decades of strife and injustice. They have
begun to establish just communities led by fair, honourable men whom people
trust and respect. They have done this with little or no outside help - inspired
and motivated simply by Deen Al-Islam. Left alone by the kuffar, this land would
- InshaAllah - become an example of the trruth of Islam and thus expose the lies
of the kuffar.
But already the kuffar are beginning their war of lies and propaganda against
the Muslims of Somalia, as already the kuffar are mobilizing their forces in
preparation for an invasion. Across the border in neighbouring Djibouti there is
an Amerikan Task Force of some 2,000 troops, and Amerika is arming and giving
aid to neighbouring Ethiopia. Soon, we shall hear Amerika and its kaffir and
apostate allies call for the intervention of the kaffir United Nations, and soon
there will be calls for sanctions against a people who have dared to defy the
kuffar and begun to establish an Islamic Way of Life.
Soon, the Media of the West will be full of stories about how bad life has
become in Somalia; about how women are oppressed; about how the implementation
of Shariah is taking people back "toward barbarism" - as the
politicians of the West, and their flunkeys, will give speeches about the need
for Somalia to embrace democracy and "respect human rights."
We have seen all this before - with the Taliban. For the Taliban also began to
establish, in Afghanistan, an Islamic Way of Life, and brought order and justice
to a land where lawlessness and injustice had prevailed. Just like Somalia,
Afghanistan was a poor country, a very poor country - but that did not stop the
arrogant kuffar from imposing economic sanctions by means of the kaffir United
Nations, sanctions which made one of the poorest countries in the world even
poorer and which killed thousands upon thousands of Muslims.
What the kuffar did in respect of the Taliban was to conduct a massive,
well-funded and years-long propaganda campaign - a campaign of hypocrisy,
disinformation and lies. The Taliban were demonized, and tame journalists wrote
story after story as tame politicians gave speech after speech condemning the
Taliban and their "human rights record" and demanding the
implementation of Western values, and the implementation of Western law and of
"democracy": that idol, that taghut, of the West.
In the end, this campaign by the kuffar was successful in convincing most of the
population of the West to support an invasion of Afghanistan by Amerika and its
allies - as their similar campaign against Iraq was successful, for did not Iraq
have "weapons of mass destruction" which could be launched against the
West? Of course they did not, but that did not bother the dishonourable arrogant
kuffar, who used every trick, every deceit, any lie, to get their own way.
For the West does not want to face the facts of their own failure - the fact
about the decadence, the rottenness, of the West itself. It does not want people
to know or discover the truth about Deen Al-Islam, a truth so evident in the
beginning that the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was - a gift from Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, as Pakistan might have become such an example of Deen
Al-Islam had not Amerika in its fear invaded Afghanistan and forced Pakistan
into an alliance by threatening to bomb it "back into the stone age"
and by bribing and flattering and giving money to its leader, the apostate
Musharraf.
The West cannot afford people to see the real truth about Islam - for the whole
existence of the West depends upon lies and hypocrisy; upon the arrogance and
bigotry of believing that the failed values of the West are
"universal" and must be adopted by Muslims and others.
We Muslims who refuse to imitate the kuffar - who refuse to bow down to them -
have Alhamdulillah seen through the lies, the deceit, the propaganda of the
kuffar: knowing the kuffar for the hypocritical arrogant liars that they are;
knowing the West for the failure it is, and knowing Deen Al-Islam for the
perfect Way of Life it is, a gift from Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"In every hardship, there is gain; in truth, with every hardship there is
gain." (94: 5-6 Interpretation of Meaning)
We do not covet the materialistic way of life of the decadent West - knowing
that if we rely on Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala
alone, then Deen Al-Islam, correctly implemented through Sharia and by bayah to
an Ameer, can and will solve all our problems, and provide us with that
balanced, noble and civilized way of living which we have begun to see in
Somalia, which we but briefly witnessed in Afghanistan, which existed in Al-Andalus,
and which our beloved Prophet (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) established in
Madina. For it is Deen Al-Islam which alone can provide us with a civilized way
of living - for civilization, despite the lies of the kuffar, is about Adab,
about fairness, honour, and not about material prosperity or consumer goods or
about "enjoying yourself" while people elsewhere starve, are
oppressed, are exploited, or are killed by hypocritical cowardly bullies. Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"Therefore be honourable: let (this) Deen be your aim, the fitrah given
by Allah. What Allah creates, nothing, and no-one, can change. And this is the
correct, the perfect, Deen, although many remain in ignorance of this."
30:30 Interpretation of Meaning
"You who believe, be firm in being fair - as a witness for Allah - even
though it is not to your own advantage, nor to the advantage of your kin, and
whether the matter concerns the rich, or the poor. For Allah is the best
protector (of all). Do not just follow your own desires, for you may deviate,
and turn away, and Allah is always knowing of all that you do." 4:135
Interpretation of Meaning
The simple truth we must remember is that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala is
sufficient for us - we do not need the rampant materialism of the West which has
caused so much suffering for millions upon millions of peoples in the West, and
which has brought so much suffering to others, through the exploitation, the
imperialism, the wars, which the West has for well over a hundred years
inflicted upon the peoples of this world. The West became rich, wealthy, only
because of this - only because of the suffering they have brought to others;
only because of their exploitation of others and of the natural resources of
this planet; only because of their arrogant interventionism, their wars; their
lies; their economic and political blackmail.
In their arrogance and ignorance they have set themselves up to compete with
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala - and, like, Far'uan, they will assuredly be humbled
by Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
"The help of Allah is near." 2:214 Interpretation of Meaning)
"Undertake combat in the Way of Allah, for you will be held responsible
only for what you do. And inspire the believers. It may be that Allah will
restrain the dishonourable deeds of the unbelievers. For Allah is the most
powerful, in both strength and punishment." 4:84 Interpretation of
Meaning
"The life of this world is nothing - only play and amusement. What is
best is the dwelling in the Life-to-Come - for those who possess Taqwa."
6:32 Interpretation of Meaning
May Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala protect us from all forms of Al-asabiyyah Al-Jahiliyyah,
forgive us for our mistakes, and guide us to and keep us on the Right Path.
Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt
17 Ramadan 1427