Re: Election in non-Muslim Countries: Role of Muslims
We are not capitalists. We are Muslims. Benefit and harm is not the criteria of action for any Muslim. Halal and Haram is the only criteria. With respect to the perceived benefits there are no actual benefits. Some Muslims in America voted for Bush! Muslim in britain have always seen the Labour party to be a Muslim friendly party. They dangle the perceived benefits in front of our faces like someone dangles a carrot in front of a donkey and turn us whichever way they want us to go. Some of us are fooled by this but the majority aren't.
Secondly whatever challenges we face they are from Allah(Swt) to test us if we are true to our word and we uphold Islam. To turn to unislamic methods in order to solve our problems would be to agree with the idea that Islam cannot solve our problems. It would be to fail the test.
If we start arguing from the basis of benefit and harm then selling alcohol or drugs for palestine would be correct even though it is haram.
Voting for a kufr party to rule over you with the kufr laws has nothing to do with defending the land from aggressors or with the hilf al fudul. The Prophet(Saw) said he would attend if he was invited it doesn't show that he would delegate his responsibility to someone else who was invited since he himself wasn't invited. It also shows that the Prophet(Saw) didn't depend on the hilf al fudul to establish Islam or for any perceived benefits. Hilf al fudul wasn't a legislative authority.
Since Islam has all the solutions then why turn to anything else to solve our problems?
We shouldn't turn to the extremes of isolation or integration. We should take the middle way which is interaction on the basis of Islam and uphold our identity. There is no reason to delegate your responsibility to the society to anyone, Muslim or not.
Only we can solve our problems. If a Muslim girl ran off with a sikh what would Respect say about this? They would encourage it and say it's their freedom. If there were gay imams again you would get the same answer. In london there are Muslims who prostitute their own sisters for drugs. How can we solve these problems by voting once every 4 or 5 years. It doesn't take a genius to understand that voting not a solution for us.
Respect is a socialist party and George Galloway supported Milosevic when he was killing Muslims in Bosnia.
Forget the false promises of the other parties we have to Stand for Islam.