Death of Two Girls Illustrates Decay of Capitalism
Police searching for missing girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman found two bodies near Mildenhall in Suffolk that are likely to be identified as their bodies. The girls from Soham had been missing since Sunday 4th August.
School caretaker, Ian Huntley, 28, and his girlfriend Maxine Carr, 25, were arrested in the early hours of Saturday 17th August on suspicion of murdering Holly and Jessica. Mr Huntley is also being held on suspicion of abducting both girls.
The deaths of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman are not an isolated incident - attacks on children have become a common feature of Capitalist society. Surrey police are yet to find 14-year-old Amanda Dowler, who vanished without trace in March. Essex police have also never found Danielle Jones, 15, who disappeared 14 months ago. Going further back, Mark Tildesley, a seven-year-old schoolboy abducted from a fairground in 1984, was never discovered. Genette Tate, 13, a newspaper delivery girl, disappeared in Devon in 1978 and has never been found.
The National Probation Service released the national figure of potentially dangerous sex offenders as 47,000. According to Children’s charity NCH in the past two years at least 12 men have been jailed in England and Wales for sexually assaulting children they first met in chat rooms.
An international paedophile ring that included parents who sexually abused their own children and distributed images of children as young as 2 years old over the Internet was announced recently by the U.S. Customs Service. The ring abused and exploited at least 45 children, 37 of whom are citizens and residents of the United States, officials said. The ages of the 37 children range from 2 to 14. Nine of the people were Americans and the other six were Europeans. The US, Department of Justice estimates 58,200 children were abducted by people unknown to them in 1999. A Huddersfield University survey published this weekend claims that one in five children has been the subject of unwanted sexual advances outside the home in the UK.
This stark reality is an indictment of Capitalism. Western Capitalist societies promote the cocktail of individualism, freedom and the purpose of living as maximising one’s pleasure that create perverted personalities such as paedophiles and child killers. In addition to breeding the notions of individual freedom and expediency these societies continuously agitate the sexual inclinations of people. Sex is promoted everywhere, from billboards, advertising commercials, magazines, songs and television programmes. Capitalist companies and elites use the promotion of sex through these means with no regard given to the moral implications. It is no wonder that various forms of perversion are rampant within the West.
The Islamic ideology rejects the notions of individualism and freedom. It shapes peoples behaviour on the basis that every action they perform will be accounted for by Allah (swt) and therefore all their actions must be in accordance with the Shari’ah. Following the Shar’iah ensures that the desires of people such as the sexual inclinations are channelled according to the divine law. Islam prohibits sexual relationships between men and women prior to marriage and guards the society by forbidding the promotion of lewdness in any form. The Muslim realises that his purpose is not to maximise his pleasure, rather it is to attain the pleasure of Allah (swt).
The decay in Western societies, as a result of the implementation of the Capitalist ideology, has led to a situation where it has now become unsafe for children to leave the sight of their parents. In a society which prides itself on freedom, we find the people today living in shackles.
This situation, demands from the Muslims in the West to present Islam as an alternative to Capitalism. Presenting Islam requires knowledge, bravery and patience. It also requires for Muslims to reject integration into the Western culture or isolation from society. Instead, today the shackled people of the West require Islam more than ever, to deliver them from the narrowness of an ailing ideology to the comprehensiveness of Islam. Allah (Subhanhu Wa Ta’aala) says,
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“Invite to the way of your Lord with Hikma (wisdom) and good advice, and argue with them in a way that is best” [TMQ An-Nahl: 125]