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Silencing the Secularists
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by Idris Ahmed Osman
Saturday, May 17, 2008

 

Islam against Secularism:

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The globally renowned cleric Sheikh Safar Al-Hawali identifies the origin of the term secularism, in his book Al-Almaniya (secularism in Arabic), as the renege and rebellion of the state (general public) against the Church in medieval Europe. The highly outspoken Sheikh is famous for his unyielding opposition to the deployment of American troops in Saudi Arabia in the first Gulf war. As a distinguished scholar and previously head of the faculty of theology in Ummul Qura (Macca); Secularism, he says, is the result of the Church’s incompatibility to keep pace with modern science and cope with the social advancements, its immersion in superstitions, which necessitated the public (State) to develop lack of confidence, loss of faith, hence adapt a lifestyle independent of all spiritual (religious) teachings. The advent of secularism in response to the superstition and corruption of the Church was natural, because it denied the natural laws of science and development which Islam, not only approves but also, encourages exploring and studying it:

Soon will We show them our Signs in the (furthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth. Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things The noble Quran 41:53

Quote: “Secularism is generally the assertion that certain practices or institutions should exist separately from religion or religious belief. Alternatively, it is a principle of promoting secular ideas or values in either public or private settings over religious ways of thought. In one sense, secularism may assert the right to be free from religious rule and teachings, and freedom from the government imposition of religion upon the people, within a state that is neutral on matters of belief, and gives no state privileges or subsidies to religions.  It is a total separation of Church and State which is also known as (Laicite)”. Unquote. This is the definition of secularism; since the English writer George Jacob Holyoake coined the term secularism in 1846. Secularism was deemed positive in the case of the Church renouncing all sorts of scientific and social development. However it can not be justified within the house of Islam. Islam calls for science and social development and nurtures civilizations. Therefore secularism is negative in positive Islam. Unfortunately, secularists in our midst want to copy and import the Darwinian and Freudian anti-social behaviour, indecency, perversion, sexuality, immorality, introduced in Europe as a result of the Church’s irrational monasticism. Once these facts are noted, then there is no excuse or loophole for the disguised secularists and liberalists to portray the modest and pure covering of the Muslim woman, (Hijaab/Jilbaab), the Islamic education, the strict practice and application of the Sunnah as a foreign ideology imported from the Arab world!. It is a blasphemous and abominable statement itself imported from the enemies of Islam. To the sage one’s amazement; the transparent, voluptuous dresses exposing complexion, structure and charm of our sisters, namely the dirac, guntiino and malqabad, was never ashamed but had ever been a Somali tradition!. When she wore the tight jeans and shirt, the secularists never spoke out against it as strange western or eastern ideology and culture!. The clandestine conspiracy heralded by the secularists has always been to promote a misconception of Islam as an Arab religion, disharmonize between the Somali people and the rest of the Arab world, then introduce Islamic teachings as an Arab tradition. Islam has nothing to do with Arab nationalism, yet Islam fights against the discrimination of pan Arabism or nationalism launched by the Nasserite revolution and Baath party in Egypt and Syria/Iraq respectively. Majority of the great scholars in Islam were non Arabs. The prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam said: “There is no advantage for an Arab over a non Arab”. The only criteria and advantage is by piety (Taqwa).

 

Secular or Religious War?!.

Before this, We wrote in the Psalms, after the Message (given to Moses): My servants the righteous shall inherit the earth. The noble Quran 21:105

From the above verse, it is obvious that being righteous servant is the sole condition to overcome and get victory over any oppressor and inherit the earth.

Having lately been scrutinising the religious issues in politics, I have seen to it an inevitable duty to add little comments in order to illuminate for the perplexed and reassure the firm believer. It is to be borne in mind that no specific nationality, race, group or individual is a representative of Islam. In principle, the ideal values of Islam remain dogmatic ad-infinitum. For some, it is a misconception that Muslims are the people or followers of Islam and Islam is the religion. For others, it is an opportunity to satirize the good Muslims and defile the image of Islam. If a group of people arise to resist a secular rule and demand the infallible rule of Islam to be restored, whatever deficiencies that might be found in their procedure or method shall not necessarily have a negative effect or reflect on the perfect and ideal Islam. Neither shall it, in comparison, lend the least value to amend the corruption of secularism. If their actions conform to the truth they are the real men; if not, then a mere illusion but the truth can never be rendered accountable to their actions. The truth (Islam) is the truth in every age, place and circumstances. Our main problem is gauging the truth by the actions of men. With a pre-programmed mentality of personal complexity based on tribal and political differences, some are set to contradict every initiative of Islamic revival potentially perpetrated by their adversaries. The above said definitely concludes that, our tribal and political rivalries aside, the ideal and perfect application of Islam is the backbone of this Ummah. There is no group who can introduce their version or interpretation of Islam as it should basically conform to the fundamental sources (the Quran and Sunnah). Had a certain group or clan hijacked it and did so; it would have definitely been rejected. Any atrocities of terrorism from any group, death and destruction committed against innocents, should be very harshly condemned and rejected. A suitable example would be if any Muslim group were to slit the throats of worshippers in Churches or Synagogues, (as the Ethiopian troops did to worshippers in the Masjid); because the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam said: DO NOT KILL worshippers in their Churches and Synagogues, women and children (even in the state of war). Therefore, the values of Islam can not be labelled according to a certain clan or group. The secularists’ hypothetical conclusion of future wars is based on conflicts caused by scarce resources such as Water, Oil, population explosion hence territorial expansion, Star Wars, etc. This is the secular belief and view on the materialistic nature of the world. The fundamentalist Churches across the US hold different opinion of inevitable future decisive religious war as a precursor to Armageddon (Qiyaamu Saaca)


H. S. with Catholic Church.    Afeworki with Israeli President   H.S. with Orthodox Church.

Historical Overview:

KJV. Zephaniah 2:12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

KJV. 2Chronicles 14: 12-13.So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled. And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.

KJV. 2Chronicles 14: 8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.

THE ROMAN AND PERSIAN EMPIRES:

The Himyar dynasty ruled ancient Yemen. The Abyssinian King invaded Yemen and took over power from the Himyar. The Abyssinians ruled Yemen for (70) seventy years. The king built a church in Yemen and called the Arabs to come for pilgrimage rather than the Kaabah. The Himyari king, Seif Bin Di Yazin, sought military help from the Roman Emperor. The Roman emperor said: Abyssinia is a Christian monarchy, a country closer to me than you, pagan Arab Bedouins. Yemen was not a Muslim country at the time, but a pagan Arab. It is so evident that the spiritual connection has been prevalent throughout history. Later a contemporary rival of the Roman Empire, king of the Persian Empire, a pagan Zoroastrian, supplied the Yemenis with fighters who defeated the Abyssinians.

THE CRUSADERS/FREEMASONS:

The Crusaders who conquered Jerusalem arose from Clermont in France in the year 1095. Eleventh century Europe was ruled by the church. Pope Urban II gave orders to wage war of the cross on the Muslim caliphate and recapture Jerusalem. The knights of the temple of Solomon (aka the templers) who later seized the dome of the rock developed into freemasons. They deviated from the common path of Christianity such that Pope Clement of France declared them heretics and expelled them from France. They got safe haven in Scotland which was at that time in civil war with England. In 1603, Queen Elizabeth’s death gave the freemasons in Scotland a chance to come to power via the Scottish King James V, then Scotland and England united to form a new United Kingdom. The Freemasons, with hierarchy degree of powers, include influential members and patrons from all walks of life. Freemasons aim to establish a world in which they dominate whereby the rest of humanity is subjugated to an inferior level. They are solemnly set to destroy any force that stands against their mission; thus Islam being a force of justice for all mankind, any Islamist movement anywhere in the world albeit tiny horn of Africa would be seen as the biggest threat.

THE NEO-CONSERVATIVES/NEW WORLD ORDER:

In the US, in 1960s and 70s, Leo Strauss taught the need for the return to the conservative lifestyle and the challenge between the world of good and evil. The evil to date was the Soviet Union. Furthermore, in the Islamic world, the neo-conservatives channelled their hostility towards the prevalent religious movement in Egypt, the fundamental reformist Muslim brotherhood (Ikhwanul Muslimeen), led by the martyr Sayed Qutb. The Straussian (Neo-conservatives) fought the liberalists in the US and believed that individual freedom, liberalism, caused corruption, hence adapted the more stringent political and social views based on fundamental biblical interpretations. The neoconservative’s principles were devised to counteract against the growing collapse of American political power. It was necessary therefore to undertake a social reform to get rid of the liberalists who pioneered social breakdown. The right wing neoconservatives who recruited to this school of thought included Paul Wolfowitz, Francis Fukiyama, Donald Rumsfield, Dick Cheney, William Kristol, Colin Powell, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. as well as others. The political aspect of neo-conservatism united with the fundamentalist Christian Churches. The mutual interest between the Zionist entity and freemasons began when the leading Zionist banker Rothschild blackmailed freemasonic Britain in the loan it needed in its war against Napoleon of France. At last, the New World Order whose main vision is to eliminate any threat opposing its overall world dominion and enslavement of the inferior nations on earth. Islamist revival is a nightmare!.

 

The Bitter Reality:

Somalia is under siege!. Its sovereignty is undermined. Peace achievement in Somalia is deliberately suppressed. This is what every Somali, regardless of clan or political affiliation, should be convinced. The New World Order stretched its poisonous tentacle towards the horn of Africa. The same Neoconservatives who orchestrated Iraqi attack have regionally assigned this task directly to Ethiopia and indirectly to Eritrea. If Somalis do not put aside their tribal and political differences it is not impossible that, in the long run, the UN might be manipulated to mandate official declaration of (unofficially occupied) Somalia an occupied country. This is what they say about the unofficial occupation of Somalia, quote: General Gabre Heard is the overall commander of all Ethiopian military forces in Somalia. General Gabre has been criticized for the Ethiopian military's indiscriminate use of heavy weapons in civilian areas, and the use of these weapons in retribution attacks on areas where insurgent forces are suspected to be operating, following attacks on Ethiopian forces. On February 22nd, Gabre reportedly slapped Transitional Federal Government President Abdullahi Yusuf twice across the face, following a heated argument. Gabre has been often described as the "true ruler" of Somalia, as the vast majority of military operations in Somalia are carried out by his forces, and the vast majority of military power in the country is controlled by him. This has perpetuated ARS, opposition and insurgent claims that the TFG is a puppet government under the thumb of Ethiopia. Gabre has little to do with the TFG based in Baidoa, dealing mostly with his close allies in government: Mogadishu mayor and CIA-linked ex-ARPCT warlord Mohamed Omar Habeb, indicted war criminal, ex-ARPCT warlord and Mogadishu Police Chief Abdi Hasan Awale Qeybdiid and the TFG security agency head Mohamed Warsame Darwish. Unquote. Having known this fact, then rest assured that there is no authority for any of the parties struggling for power in the country. Peace can not be attained as long as there are external forces (Ethiopia-CIA and Eritrea-Mossad) influencing Somalis to oppose each other. Due to reckless statements and empty manoeuvres, the country has been blacklisted on a level it is light years away in terms of both logistics and technology. Unfortunately, the punishment fell on these helpless innocents, while the real criminals are still unscathed and surviving in luxury:

 

How can everlasting peace be realized while we still do not feel the extent of the perilous future ahead, if circumstances continue in this way for a couple of years to complete the second decade of the civil war?!. Last but not least, this is the bitter reality, the so called leaders and politicians shall develop immediate inner conscience and humane attitude to save the people and country, otherwise they shall all regret at different times. I am quite sure that at this stage every group or individual shall accuse, the other, pointing fingers at each other, of being responsible; but this naïve tit for tat must stop to prioritize and sacrifice for the rescue of the lost country and dying people.


Idris Ahmed Osman
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