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[bao_bihari]

Indeed many of us can see that after hitting the bottom low muslims are on the rise, i share with you all an article worth reading.

Another side of the picture in US.
http://www.opinion-maker.org/2011/07…ime-has-come/#

By Patrick J. Buchanan

In 1938, the year of Anschluss and Munich, a perceptive British Catholic looked beyond the continent over which war clouds hung and saw another cloud forming.
“It has always seemed to me … probable,” wrote Hilaire Belloc, “that there would be a resurrection of Islam and that our sons or our grandsons would see the renewal of that tremendous struggle between the Christian culture and what has been for more than a thousand years its greatest opponent.”
Belloc was prophetic. Even as Christianity seems to be dying in Europe, Islam is rising to shake the 21st century as it did so many previous centuries.
Indeed, as one watches U.S. armed forces struggle against Sunni insurgents, Shia militias, and jihadists in Iraq, and a resurgent Taliban, all invoking Allah, Victor Hugo’s words return to mind: No army is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
The idea for which our many of our adversaries fight is a compelling one. They believe there is but one God, Allah; that Muhammad is his prophet; that Islam, or submission to the Koran, is the only path to paradise; and that a Godly society should be governed according to the Shariah, the law of Islam. Having tried other ways and failed, they are coming home to Islam.
What idea do we have to offer? Americans believe that freedom comports with human dignity, that only a democratic and free-market system can ensure the good life for all, as it has done in the West and is doing in Asia.
From Ataturk on, millions of Islamic peoples have embraced this Western alternative. But today, tens of millions of Muslims appear to be rejecting it, returning to their roots in a more pure Islam.
Indeed, the endurance of the Islamic faith is astonishing.
Islam survived two centuries of defeats and humiliations of the Ottoman Empire and Ataturk’s abolition of the caliphate. It endured generations of Western rule. It outlasted the pro-Western monarchs in Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Ethiopia and Iran. Islam easily fended off communism, survived the rout of Nasserism in 1967, and has proven more enduring than the nationalism of Arafat or Saddam. Now, it is resisting the world’s last superpower.
What occasioned this column was a jolting report in the June 20Washington Times, by James Brandon, alerting us to a new front.
“Arrests Spark Fear of Armed Islamist Takeover” headlined the story about the arrest, since May, of 500 militants who had allegedly plotted the overthrow of the king of Morocco and establishment of an Islamic state that would sever all ties to the infidel West – to end the poverty and corruption they blame on the West.
The arrests raised fears that al-Adl wa al-Ihsane, or Justice and Charity, was preparing to take up arms to fulfill the predictions of the group’s mystics that the monarchy would fall in 2006. Though illegal, al-Adl wa al-Ihsane is Morocco’s largest Islamic movement, which boycotts elections, but has hundreds of thousands of followers and has taken over the universities and is radicalizing the young.
Its founder is Sheik Abdessalam Yassine, who has declared its purpose is to reunite mosque and state: “Politics and spirituality have been kept apart by the Arab elites. And we have been able to reconnect these two aspects of Islam – and that is why people fear us.”
And, one might add, why people embrace them.
If Morocco is now in play in the struggle between militant Islam and the West, how looks the correlation of forces in June 2006?
Islamists are taking over in Somalia. They are in power in Sudan. The Muslim Brotherhood won 60 percent of the races it contested in Egypt. Hezbollah swept the board in southern Lebanon. Hamas seized power from Fatah on the West Bank and Gaza. The Shia parties who hearken to Ayatollah Sistani brushed aside our favorites, Chalabi and Iyad Allawi, in the Iraqi elections. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the most admired Iranian leader since Khomeini. In Afghanistan, the Taliban is staging a comeback.
This has all happened in the last year. And where are we winning?
What is the appeal of militant Islam? It is, first, its message: As all else has failed us, why not live the faith and law God gave us?
Second, it is the Muslim rage at the present condition where pro-Western regimes are seen as corruptly enriching themselves, while the poor suffer.
Third, it is a vast U.S. presence that Islamic peoples are taught is designed to steal their God-given resources and assist the Israelis in humiliating them and persecuting the Palestinians.
Lastly, Islamic militants are gaining credibility because they show a willingness to share the poverty of the poor and fight the Americans.
What America needs to understand is something unusual for us: From Morocco to Pakistan, we are no longer seen by the majority as the good guys.
If Islamic rule is an idea taking hold among the Islamic masses, how does even the best army on earth stop it? Do we not need a new policy?

[Faris_Udeen]

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Very interesting and its hard not to agree with a lot of that article. Thanks for sharing.

However the article incorrectly clumps together too many vastly different entities...

Whilst its true that true Muslim movements are out that that willingly go through great hardships to uphold the honour of thier people and faith... most of them are insurgents and home grown forces.

However greed is an aspect that goes beyond religion and has even taken many great personalities with it... groups like the TTP and Jundullah and many other nationalistic groups are not "Islamic" at all and merely cloak thier personal gain with religous zeal.

While Islam forbids utterly the sort of 20th and 21st Century deliberate targeting of soft targets... civilians to you and I.... what marks Muslims of the times before ours was that they tried thier utmost to fight against armies and not civilians as such. Especially since classic struggles tended to be on the fringes of civilisation itself rather than a fight in street to street house to house type action.

Even when in Mediaval times it was the norm to sack cities that refused to surrender Muslim armies from the Turks to even the latter Muslim Mongol armies did not always slay the civillian populations in stark contrast to the Crusader armies.

The true nature of Islamic warfare has continued to this day with groups like around the world often treating captured US troops much more kindly than if said troops had been holding Muslim captives.

However the actions of groups like Al Qaeda and the Taliban have tarred the great reputation of Islamic warfare... not that the Westerners can claim any superiority as recent reports show them in no better light either.

[bao_bihari]

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Few things that should be kept in mind are.

Indeed all of them guided or misguided are willing to fight for islam, once a true leadership guides them to true path they all will be investing their energies in positive manner inshallah, and that is what the kuffar fear, they are not worried with TTP,Hizbola type organizations , what they fear is rise of a true leadership that is about to arise just around the corner.

In addition we should not jugde our muslim brothers striving for the cause of islam through the lense of kuffar , i know many misconceptions in muslims based on these fox/cnn/bbc/aljazeera reports.

Lets see how event unfold this year.

Very interesting and its hard not to agree with a lot of that article. Thanks for sharing.

However the article incorrectly clumps together too many vastly different entities...

Whilst its true that true Muslim movements are out that that willingly go through great hardships to uphold the honour of thier people and faith... most of them are insurgents and home grown forces.

However greed is an aspect that goes beyond religion and has even taken many great personalities with it... groups like the TTP and Jundullah and many other nationalistic groups are not "Islamic" at all and merely cloak thier personal gain with religous zeal.

While Islam forbids utterly the sort of 20th and 21st Century deliberate targeting of soft targets... civilians to you and I.... what marks Muslims of the times before ours was that they tried thier utmost to fight against armies and not civilians as such. Especially since classic struggles tended to be on the fringes of civilisation itself rather than a fight in street to street house to house type action.

Even when in Mediaval times it was the norm to sack cities that refused to surrender Muslim armies from the Turks to even the latter Muslim Mongol armies did not always slay the civillian populations in stark contrast to the Crusader armies.

The true nature of Islamic warfare has continued to this day with groups like around the world often treating captured US troops much more kindly than if said troops had been holding Muslim captives.

However the actions of groups like Al Qaeda and the Taliban have tarred the great reputation of Islamic warfare... not that the Westerners can claim any superiority as recent reports show them in no better light either.

[Faris_Udeen]

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^ Very well said and great to see a fellow Optimist for the Islamic Awakening.

Insha Allah :k:

[bao_bihari]

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You may like to visit this blog .

http://spiritual-pakistan-future.blogspot.com/
Am a regular visitor there.

@Faris_Udeen

^ Very well said and great to see a fellow Optimist for the Islamic Awakening.

Insha Allah :k:

[Southie]

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Why bother with rise of a particular religion. Just live the best life you can rather than compete with other faiths for power.

[Aceones]

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^ because as muslims we believe (and we must) that islam is the best religion for the humankind and its bestowed upon us by The Almighty, The Creator. When we believe that its the best religion, wishing its rise is wishing the best for all humanity.

good share bao bihari

[Southie]

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^ OK - a very spiritual response - humanity looks forward to be bestowed upon

[firenze]

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If Morocco is now in play in the struggle between militant Islam and the West, how looks the correlation of forces in June 2006?
Islamists are taking over in Somalia. They are in power in Sudan. The Muslim Brotherhood won 60 percent of the races it contested in Egypt. Hezbollah swept the board in southern Lebanon. Hamas seized power from Fatah on the West Bank and Gaza. The Shia parties who hearken to Ayatollah Sistani brushed aside our favorites, Chalabi and Iyad Allawi, in the Iraqi elections. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the most admired Iranian leader since Khomeini. In Afghanistan, the Taliban is staging a comeback.
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...and the rivers of milk & honey are flowing. children are getting best education, real vaccines & clean water. women are start driving in Saudi and can walk ahead of men in Afghanistan. heck we already conquer the space and went beyond milky way. oh yeh.. nice orgasm. but failed.

Muslim ummah as a whole is not rising anywhere, its just some hooligans with wet dreams of world domination. ain't gonna happen in next 500 years, because my dear guppies the bowl is so full of shyt it will take eternity to just clean up the mess of at least last 600 years.

sometime i wonder why should Muslim civilization rise, what we have to offer apart from destruction and well more destruction. leave the world as it is, i mean who want to see the whole world as Afghanistan or Iran or Saudi Arabia. Lahola wala quwata illa billa.

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And where are we winning?
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all the inqalaab and revolutions/arab spring came with the help of facebook, twitter, skype, email providers such as gmail/yahoo/hotmail ... ironically it's all created and controlled by westerners. how sweet and what are the people of Tunisia/Egypt/Libya/morocco are asking - democracy not sharia, and that is where US is winning without fighting a war and whole class of not-usable leaders are changed. Mashallah a great achievement for United States.

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If **Islamic rule is an idea taking **hold among the Islamic masses, how does even the best army on earth stop it? Do we not need a new policy?
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maybe i was living under some stone, but where this idea is actually being implemented with all seriousness afghanitan, Iran, Saudi ?

voila now attack !

[firenze]

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Indeed all of them guided or misguided are willing to fight for islam, once a true leadership guides them to true path they all will be investing their energies in positive manner inshallah, and that is what the kuffar fear, they are not worried with TTP,Hizbola type organizations , what they fear is rise of a true leadership that is about to arise just around the corner.

after the death of Prophet (PBUH) we Muslims are never ruled under one leader, if history is any guide it ain't gonna happen in future either.

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In addition we should not jugde our muslim brothers striving for the cause of islam through the lense of kuffar , i know many misconceptions in muslims based on these fox/cnn/bbc/aljazeera reports.
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wallah, one learn something knew every day. last time i heard aljazeera was controlled by our brotherly Muslim country called Qatar and run by the Emir-e-Qatar (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz)
will you suggest some new source of information how about al-shahab or jihadworld ..etc. ?

[firenze]

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@Southie

^ OK - a very spiritual response - humanity looks forward to be bestowed upon

…with head bow down :k:

[Catskin]

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Few things that should be kept in mind are.

Indeed all of them guided or misguided are willing to fight for islam, once a true leadership guides them to true path they all will be investing their energies in positive manner inshallah, and that is what the kuffar fear, they are not worried with TTP,Hizbola type organizations , what they fear is rise of a true leadership that is about to arise just around the corner.

.....

All I know is that people who'll be taking over the oppressive regimes ain't gonna be bimbos. Right now, we have bimbos sitting everywhere, bimbos in universities, bimbos in madrasahs.

[chacha_Ghalib]

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Few things that should be kept in mind are.

Indeed all of them guided or misguided are willing to fight for islam, once a true leadership guides them to true path they all will be investing their energies in positive manner inshallah, and that is what the kuffar fear, they are not worried with TTP,Hizbola type organizations , *what they fear is rise of a true leadership that is about to arise just around the corner. * In addition we should not jugde our muslim brothers striving for the cause of islam through the lense of kuffar , i know many misconceptions in muslims based on these fox/cnn/bbc/aljazeera reports.

Lets see how event unfold this year.

LOL.

Some poster here has a quote from Imam al-Ghazali in his signature, the jist of which is that muslims can divide the atom and that they are so good at dividing that if you see two muslims, they probably belong to three groups. So yeah dream on that such an event is happening anythime soon.

What you mention about western news organizations is true. They have their biases, but those that dismiss them as a whole usually don't like to acknowledge that there are genuine problems with muslims.

[DeshPremi]

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Nice article

-DP

[bao_bihari]

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@firenze

after the death of Prophet (PBUH) we Muslims are never ruled under one leader, if history is any guide it ain’t gonna happen in future either.

Ok we will be requiring few leaders, theek hay ?

The point was that once a committed leadership arise and it is bound to happen as there is a cyclic nature in rise and fall of civilizations , all other things will fit into place.

See how law abiding abcds love to break law in pakistan as they dont have a fear of acocuntability here , once a commited team establishes this all things will inshallah start to improve.

@firenze

wallah, one learn something knew every day. last time i heard aljazeera was controlled by our brotherly Muslim country called Qatar and run by the Emir-e-Qatar (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz)
will you suggest some new source of information how about al-shahab or jihadworld ..etc. ?

Criteria is truth not Muslims,Hindu,jew media. i dont rely on aljazeera ,you might have better knowledge and may rely on it:)

I know sources where the news is alhumdolilah very factual and correct i wish i could tell you about them

for a start try www.theunjustmedia.com

Chacha Ghalib

What you mention about western news organizations is true. They have their biases, but those that dismiss them as a whole usually don’t like to acknowledge that there are genuine problems with muslims.

I am not dismissing them as a whole, what i said was that be attentive and choosy when relying on these sources of kuffar.

(30) O you who believe! If a Fasiq (liar - evil person) comes to you with any news, verify it, lest you should harm people in ignorance, and afterwards you become regretful for what you have done.
( سورة الحجرات , Al-Hujraat, Chapter #49](49. Al-Hujuraat - سورة الحجرات - ( The Inner Apartments ) - Read Quran القران الكريم in English translation by Mohsin Khan), Verse #6](49. Al-Hujuraat - سورة الحجرات - ( The Inner Apartments ) - Read Quran القران الكريم in English translation by Mohsin Khan))