"Ummah-itis"

[Ranjhan]

Re: “Ummah-itis”

@laeeqkhan

This fact explains why I was deeply offended by the comments of a RAND Corporation senior analyst. During a day long program sponsored by the New America Foundation and the NYU Law Center entitled, “Al Qaeda 2.0: Transnational Terrorism After 9/11,” he said that one of the problems of today’s Muslims is “Ummah-itis,” a phenomenon of Muslims caring about what is happening to other Muslims around the world. The ending “itis” is Greek for “inflammation,” and the connotation of “Ummah-itis” is that this caring for Muslims on the part of other Muslims is an affliction, a disease. Moreover, I understood his comments to mean that this “Ummah-itis” contributes to transnational “Islamic” terror.

Interesting artcle, they fear our unity, reminds me of I read about the Brits, before world war II the British foreign minister said to the Prime minister, “We must put an end to anything that brings about any Islamic unity between the sons of Muslims. As we have already succeeded in finishing off the Khilafah. So we must ensure they never arise again, unity for the Muslims whether it be cultural or intellectual unity.”

…And the foreign minister in front of the House of Commons after the Lausanne Treaty of July 24, 1924 said “the situation now is that Turkey is dead. And she will never rise again because we have destroyed her moral strength, the Khilafah and Islam.”