Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
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 truth 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