03-25-2021, 07:40 AM
GLOBAL UMMAH SOLIDARITY
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05-08-2021, 06:27 PM
NOTHING HAS REALLY CHANGED IN TERMS OF THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE MUSLIM WORLD AND THE WIDER DEVELOPING WORLD SINCE THE DAYS OF EMPIRE AND COLONIALISM. INDEED ONE CAN ARGUE IT IS ACTUALLY WORSE AS THERE HAS BEEN A BRAIN DRAIN AND IMMIGRANT LABOUR EXPLOITATION OF MILLIONS IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA. AS THE ENTIRE WORLD IS CAUGHT UP WITH THE PLANDEMIC IT IS CLEAR TERRIFYING APOCALYPTIC CHANGES INCLUSIVE OF DEPOPULATION IS GOING TO CHANGE THINGS DRAMATICALLY. LONG OVER DUE CHANGES OFTEN TAKE PLACE UNEXPECTEDLY.
RICH COUNTRIES DRAINED $152tn FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH SINCE 1960 Imperialism never ended, it just changed form. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/...since-1960 Jason Hickel Dylan Sullivan Huzaifa Zoomkawala We have long known that the industrial rise of rich countries depended on extraction from the global South during the colonial era. Europe’s industrial revolution relied in large part on cotton and sugar, which were grown on land stolen from Indigenous Americans, with forced labour from enslaved Africans. Extraction from Asia and Africa was used to pay for infrastructure, public buildings, and welfare states in Europe – all the markers of modern development. The costs to the South, meanwhile, were catastrophic: genocide, dispossession, famine and mass impoverishment. Imperial powers finally withdrew most of their flags and armies from the South in the mid-20th century. But over the following decades, economists and historians associated with “dependency theory” argued that the underlying patterns of colonial appropriation remained in place and continued to define the global economy. Imperialism never ended, they argued – it just changed form. They were right. Recent research that rich countries continue to rely on a large net appropriation from the global South, including tens of billions of tonnes of raw materials and hundreds of billions of hours of human labour per year – embodied not only in primary commodities, but also in high-tech industrial goods like smartphones, laptops, computer chips and cars, which over the past few decades have come to be overwhelmingly manufactured in the South. This flow of net appropriation occurs because prices are systematically lower in the South than in the North. For instance, wages paid to Southern workers are on average one-fifth the level of Northern wages. This means that for every unit of embodied labour and resources that the South imports from the North, they have to export many more units to pay for it. Economists Samir Amin and Arghiri Emmanuel described this as a “hidden transfer of value” from the South, which sustains high levels of income and consumption in the North. The drain takes place subtly and almost invisibly, without the overt violence of colonial occupation and therefore without provoking protest and moral outrage. In a recent paper published in the journal New Political Economy, we built on the work of Amin and others to quantify the scale of drain through unequal exchange in the post-colonial era. We found that the drain increased dramatically during the 1980s and 1990s, as neoliberal structural adjustment programmes were imposed across the global South. Today, the global North drains from the South commodities worth $2.2 trillion per year, in Northern prices. For perspective, that amount of money would be enough to end extreme poverty, globally, fifteen times over. Over the whole period from 1960 to today, the drain totalled $62 trillion in real terms. If this value had been retained by the South and contributed to Southern growth, tracking with the South’s growth rates over this period, it would be worth $152 trillion today. These are extraordinary sums. For the global North (and here we mean the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Japan, Korea, and the rich economies of Europe), the gains are so large that, for the past couple of decades, they have outstripped the rate of economic growth. In other words, net growth in the North relies on appropriation from the rest of the world. For the South, the losses outstrip foreign aid transfers by a wide margin. For every dollar of aid the South receives, they lose $14 in drain through unequal exchange alone, not counting other kinds of losses like illicit financial outflows and profit repatriation. Of course, the ratio varies by country – higher for some than others – but in all cases, the discourse of aid obscures a darker reality of plunder. Poor countries are developing rich countries, not the other way around. Neoclassical economists tend to see low wages in the South as “natural” – a kind of neutral market outcome. But Amin and other economists from the global South argued that wage inequalities are artefacts of political power. Rich countries have a monopoly on decision-making in the World Bank and IMF, they hold most of the bargaining power in the World Trade Organization, they use their power as creditors to dictate economic policy in debtor nations, and they control 97 percent of the world’s patents. Northern states and corporations leverage this power to cheapen the prices of labour and resources in the global South, which allows them to achieve a net appropriation through trade. During the 1980s and 1990s, IMF structural adjustment programmes cut public sector wages and employment, while rolling back labour rights and other protective regulations, all of which cheapened labour and resources. Today, poor countries are structurally dependent on foreign investment and have no choice but to compete with one another to offer cheap labour and resources in order to please the barons of international finance. This ensures a steady flow of disposable gadgets and fast fashion to affluent Northern consumers, but at extraordinary cost to human lives and ecosystems in the South. There are several ways to fix this problem. One would be to democratise the institutions of global economic governance, so that poor countries have a fairer say in setting the terms of trade and finance. Another step would be to ensure that poor countries have the right to use tariffs, subsidies and other industrial policies to build sovereign economic capacity. We could also take steps toward a global living wage system and an international framework for environmental regulations, which would put a floor on labour and resource prices. All of this would enable the South to capture a fairer share of income from international trade and free its countries to mobilise their resources around ending poverty and meeting human needs. But achieving these goals will not be easy; it will require an organised front among social movements toward a fairer world, against those who profit so prodigiously from the status quo.
05-27-2021, 05:16 PM
THE PREVIOUS EDITORIAL FOCUSSED ON THE BIG PICTURE AND SPIRITUAL RENEWAL DURING RAMADAN. HOWEVER, IT IS CLEAR THAT THE ENEMIES OF ISLAM HAD PLANNED AN ASSAULT ON AL AQSA DURING THE SPIRITUAL CLIMAX OF THE LAST FRIDAY OF RAMADAN. ZIONIST BARBARISM WAS UNLEASHED ONCE AGAIN ON PALESTINIANS IN JERUSALEM AND GAZA. THE PLANNED EXPULSION AND ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIAN FAMILIES FROM THE SHAIKH JARRAH NEIGHBOURHOOD IS PART OF THE CONTEXT AS WELL AS THE COINCIDING WITH THE ZIONIST TRIUMPHALISM OF JERUSALEM DAY CELEBRATING THE 1967 WAR.
ACCORDINGLY THIS NECESSITATES A RESPONSE TO DECONSTRUCT THE ZIONIST WAR LUST NARRATIVE BASED ON THE ISRAELI RIGHT TO SELF DEFENCE. FURTHERMORE AS THE ZIONIST ENTITY HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED WITH IMPERIALISM BACKING IT IS TIME FOR STOCK TAKING. IT IS TIME TO RESURRECT AND DEFEND THE PALESTINIAN MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS RIGHT TO SELF DEFENCE AGAINST INVADERS. FROM A GLOBAL VISION 2000 PERSPECTIVE IT IS CLEAR THAT THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE AND ENDING ZIONIST OPPRESSION NEEDS A STRATEGIC SEA CHANGE. FIRSTLY THERE NEEDS TO BE AN ISLAMIC LIBERATION STRATEGY. THE LIBERATION OF AL AQSA AND PALESTINE NEEDS TO BE SHIFTED FROM BEING SEEN AS AN ARAB- ISRAELI CONFLICT OF 2 OPPOSING NATIONALISMS. ARAB NATIONALISM HAS FAILED PALESTINIANS BADLY AND ARAB REGIMES ARE CAPITULATING TO NORMALISATION WITH THE ZIONIST ENTITY. ALSO WE ARE NOW WITNESSING AN ISRAELI ARAB POLITICIAN JUMPING INTO BED WITH PERHAPS THE MOST RACIST ZIONIST ISRAELI REGIME EVER.THIS IS THE PATH TO SUICIDE. THE ISLAMIC UMMAH WHICH IN THE PAST HAS DEFEATED BYZANTINES, SASSANIDS, CRUSADERS, MONGOLS, HINDU DYNASTIES AND SUPERPOWERS SUCH AS THE SOVIET UNION AND USA IN AFGHANISTAN NEEDS TO RISE TO THE ZIONIST CHALLENGE.WHAT WE ARE DEALING WITH IS NO LESS THAN A CONFRONTATION BETWEEN GLOBAL ZIONISM AND ISLAM. THEREFORE THE ISLAMIC WORLD NEEDS TO RISE TO IT'S RESPONSIBILITY TO LIBERATE THE HOLY LAND. IN ITS RELENTLESS BOMBARDMENT OF GAZA, ZIONIST ISRAEL CONFIRMED ITS BARBARIC NATURE. WHAT ENTITY WOULD BLOW UP APARTMENT BUILDINGS KILLING HUNDREDS OF CIVILIANS, HALF OF THEM WOMEN AND CHILDREN? IT'S US SUPPLIED PLANES, ARTILLERY AND MISSILES BOMBED GAZA's SOLE POWER PLANT SEVERELY CUTTING THE POWER SUPPLY NOT ONLY TO HOMES BUT ALSO TO AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL. IN ANOTHER ACT OF VANDALISM, THE ZIONISTS ALSO BOMBED THE MAIN INTERSECTION LEADING TO AL SHIFA HOSPITAL, PREVENTING THE INJURED FROM REACHING THE HOSPITAL TO RECEIVE TIMELY TREATMENT. THE ZIONISTS BLEW UP PEOPLE's HOMES. AS WELL AS APARTMENT BUILDINGS HOUSING MEDIA OUTLETS. IT IS QUITE TOUCHING TO HEAR ZIONIST ISRAEL AND IT'S APOLOGISTS CLAIM THAT THEY GAVE ‘ADVANCE NOTICE’ BETWEEN 18 MINUTES TO ONE HOUR FOR PEOPLE TO GET OUT OF THEIR APARTMENTS. WHAT LAW ALLOWS FOR AN AGGRESSOR TO BLOW UP APARTMENT BUILDINGS? BETWEEN MAY 10 AND 20 , SIX APARTMENT BUILDINGS AND MORE THAN 1000 RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS WERE DESTROYED, INCLUDING BUILDINGS THAT HOUSED 33 MEDIA INSTITUTIONS ACCORDING TO GAZA's MINISTRY OF HEALTH. THE ZIONIST REGIME WANTED TO HIDE IT'S WAR CRIMES IN GAZA FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD. OFTEN HOUSES WERE BOMBED WITH OCCUPANTS INSIDE. EVEN FAMILIES THAT MANAGED TO ESCAPE THEIR HOMES BEFORE ISRAELI BOMBS OR MISSILES RAINED DOWN ON THEM WERE UNSAFE. CLUTCHING MEAGRE BELONGINGS, WOMEN, CHILDREN AND MEN RUNNING AWAY TO SEEK SHELTER ELSEWHERE WERE ATTACKED BY ISRAELI PLANES AND ARTILLERY FIRE. ISRAEL ALSO USED DRONES, MISSILES AND GUNBOATS TO ATTACK GAZA'S CIVILIANS AND INFRASTRUCTURE. THE UN OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS SAID ON MAY 20, ISRAEL's RELENTLESS ONSLAUGHT ON THE BESIEGED GAZA STRIP HAD DISPLACED MORE THAN 75000 PALESTINIANS. OF THESE 47000 HAD SOUGHT SHELTER IN UN RUN SCHOOLS WHILE SOME 28700 DISPLACED PEOPLE WERE STAYING WITH HOST FAMILIES. IN THE 10 DAY PERIOD BETWEEN MAY 10-20 ISRAEL KILLED 279 PALESTINIANS IN GAZA INCLUSIVE OF AT LEAST 69 CHILDREN AND 43 WOMEN AND WOUNDED MORE THAN I,900 OTHERS. EVEN AFTER THE CEASEFIRE WENT INTO EFFECT AT 2 am LOCAL TIME MAY 21. PALESTINIAN FAMILIES CONTINUED TO DIG BODIES OUT OF RUBBLE. ON MAY 20, GAZA’s HOUSING MINISTRY SAID ISRAEL HAD DESTROYED 1000 HOUSES AND ANOTHER 1800 UNITS WERE UNFIT FOR LIVING. WHILST AN ESTIMATED 120,000 PALESTINIANS WERE DISPLACED. WHILE MOST CASUALTY FIGURES ARE TABULATED FROM MAY 10 2021 ONWARD THAT IS NOT WHEN THIS LATEST ROUND OF ZIONIST TERROR CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS STARTED. ZIONIST CRIMES SPAN DECADES BUT THIS LATEST ROUND OF BLOODLETTING CAN BE TRACED TO THE START ]OF THE MONTH OF RAMADAN APRIL 13 2021. AFTER BREAKING THEIR FAST AND COMPLETING THE NIGHTLY PRAYERS, MANY PALESTINIANS GATHER AT THE DAMASCUS GATE OUTSIDE THE STEPS OF AL AQSA MOSQUE. ILLEGAL ZIONIST SETTLERS STARTED TO HARASS AND ATTACK THEM. THE OCCUPATION POLICE FORCE ALSO JOINED IN THESE ATTACKS WITH THE AIM OF DRIVING THE PALESTINIANS OUT OF THIS VITAL SPACE. ANGRY AT THE ZIONIST REGIME TO EVICT PALESTINIAN FAMILIES FROM SHEIKH JARRAH IN AL QUDS AND HAND THESE PROPERTIES OVER TO THE ILLEGAL SETTLERS. PALESTINIANS DECIDED TO RESIST. ATTACKED BY HEAVILY ARMED ZIONIST ILLEGAL SETTLERS AND THE POLICE, PALESTINIAN INJURIES MOUNTED. SUCH ATTACKS BECAME A DAILY OCCURRENCE THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF APRIL AND EARLY PART OF MAY. ON MAY 7, THE LAST FRIDAY OF RAMADAN TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PALESTINIANS WERE PREVENTED FROM PRAYING AT AL AQSA MOSQUE. THAT EVENING THE ISRAELI POLICE STORMED THE AL AQSA MOSQUE AND ENTERED THE SACRED MOSQUE COMPLEX WITH THEIR FILTHY BOOTS AND ATTACKED WORSHIPPERS INCLUSIVE OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. MORE THAN 300 PALESTINIANS WERE INJURED SOME CRITICALLY. THE POLICE USED TEAR GAS, STUN GRENADES AND RUBBER COATED STEEL BULLETS. TWO PALESTINIAN YOUTHS WERE BLINDED BY BULLETS. ATTACKS ON PALESTINIANS CONTINUED OVER THE NEXT 3 DAYS. THE POLICE USED SEWAGE WATER SPRAYING AND POLLUTING WORSHIPPERS GOING FOR PRAYERS. ONLY THE ZIONISTS ARE CAPABLE OF SUCH FILTHY PRACTICES BECAUSE SEWAGE WATER POLLUTES THE VICTIMS' CLOTHES RENDERING THEM UNABLE TO OFFER PRAYERS. AS THE ILLEGAL SETTLERS AIDED AND ABETTED BY THE ISRAELI POLICE ESCALATED THEIR ATTACKS ON PALESTINIAN WORSHIPPERS, HAMAS THE ISLAMIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT ISSUED A WARNING TO THE ZIONIST REGIME TO STOP ATTACKING WORSHIPPERS AND WITHDRAW IT'S FORCES FROM THE AQSA COMPOUND IN ONE HOUR OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES. IN THEIR ARROGANCE, THE ZIONISTS DISMISSED THE HAMAS ULTIMATUM. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY A BARRAGE OF ROCKETS DIRECTED AT VARIOUS MILITARY SITES IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE. THIS WAS THE PRETEXT FOR THE LATEST ZIONIST ASSAULT USING THEIR MASSIVE FIREPOWER ON THE BESIEGED GAZA STRIP. BY KILLING CIVILIANS AND DESTROYING GAZA’s INFRASTRUCTURE THE ZIONIST REGIME IS GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES. THOSE THAT DEFEND SUCH CONDUCT ARE SHOWING THEIR RACIST IMPERIALIST MINDSET AND ARE ACCOMPLICES IN THESE CRIMES. TO DATE THERE IS NO INSTITUTION THAT HAS BROUGHT THESE CRIMINALS TO JUSTICE AND THE PALESTINIANS HAVE BEEN LEFT WITH NO CHOICE BUT TO DEFEND THEMSELVES. THE TIME TO HOLD TO ACCOUNT THE ZIONIST WAR CRIMINALS AND THEIR ALLIES HAS COME. IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT WHILE THE WESTERN REGIMES HAD MAINTAINED A DEATHLY SILENCE OVER ZIONIST TERROR ATTACKS AGAINST PALESTINIAN WORSHIPPERS. SUDDENLY THEY STARTED SCREAMING IN UNISON “HAMAS ROCKET FIRE MUST STOP.” THE OTHER LINE THEY PARROTED WAS: “ISRAEL HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF.” IT IS VITAL TO ELIMINATE THIS FALSEHOOD THAT THE OCCUPYING POWER HAS NO SUCH RIGHT. THE ZIONIST ISRAELI REGIME HAS ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN LANDS. THE PALESTINIANS HAVE EVERY RIGHT UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW TO DEFEND THEMSELVES “BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY”. THE ONE WAY BIASED DEMAND BY THE WESTERN ALLIES DEMANDING THAT HAMAS ROCKET FIRE MUST STOP BUT NO SUCH DEMAND WAS MADE OF ISRAEL TO STOP KILLING CIVILIANS. THIS SHOWS US THEIR MORAL BANKRUPTCY AND HYPOCRISY. THIS REVEALS THAT WHAT THE PALESTINIANS ARE FACING IS A ZIONIST SETTLER APARTHEID REGIME BACKED BY THE USA AND ALLIES. AND YOU KNOW SOMETHING I HAVE NEVER LIKED BULLIES AND BULLYING AS NOT ONLY ARE THEY COWARDS BUT THEY NEED TO BE TAUGHT A LESSON THAT THEY WILL NEVER EVER FORGET. AND MARK MY WORDS. THERE IS A NEED TO DEFEND THE PALESTINIAN RIGHT TO SELF DEFENCE AND SACRED SYMBOLS. THERE IS A NEED FOR A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD IN THIS ASYMMETRICAL WAR. MUSLIM MASSES NEED TO ACT AND START TO ENGAGE THEIR COUNTRIES LEADERSHIP AND ARMIES TO SUPPORT THE ISLAMIC STRUGGLE TO LIBERATE PALESTINE.THE CRUSADERS OPENLY BACKING THEIR BULLDOG NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL. THE FIRST STAGE IS TO ESTABLISH A GLOBAL ISLAMIC PROTECTION FORCE TO INTERVENE TO PROTECT THE PALESTINIANS AND AL AQSA. WITH THE COMING TO POWER OF AN EVEN MORE RABID ZIONIST EXTREMIST FANATICAL REGIME THIS HAS BECOME EVEN MORE URGENT. THE ZIONISTS AND THEIR ALLIES NEED TO BE WARNED THAT AL AQSA THE 3RD MOST SACRED SITE OF ISLAM IS A RED LINE. IF THEY CROSS THIS THEY AND THE WORLD SHOULD EXPECT A GLOBAL JIHAD AND IGNITION OF WORLD WAR 3 TO LIBERATE THE CITY AND ENTIRE REGION OF FOREIGN INVADERS AND THEIR STOOGES. A CRITICAL ANALYSIS ON MOVES BY VARIOUS COUNTRIES AND MOVEMENTS FOR MILITARY INTERVENTION WILL BE EXAMINED HEREWITH. TURKEY MUST LEAD A MUSLIM PROTECTION FORCE TO PROTECT AL AQSA, PALESTINE Zaid Hamid HISTORY OF ALL MUSLIM LEADERS Zaid Hamid THE HISTORY OF SHOOTING DOWN THE ISRAELI AIR FORCE https://mobile.twitter.com/ZaidZamanHami...65/photo/1 In 1967 & 73 wars, Pakistan Air force had established forward bases in Egypt, Syria, Jordan & Iraq to defend the Arab lands once it was clear that these Arab countries need Pakistan's help. PAF shot down 11 IAF jets & created a no fly zone over Arab countries. Yes, it was done! MUSLIM NATIONS MUST MOBILIZE AGAINST ISRAEL TO REMOVE IT FROM ISRAEL PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/06/0...ies-Houthi The leader of Yemen’s popular Ansarullah movement has called upon Muslim nations worldwide to join forces against Israel to remove it from the Palestinian territories of the occupied West Bank, and East Jerusalem al-Quds. Speaking in a televised address broadcast from the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a on Thursday, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi urged Muslims to mobilize against enemies, and called for the total boycott of the Tel Aviv regime.
He lambasted some Arab states over striking US-sponsored normalization deals with Israel, saying, “Those who collaborate with the United States and Israel are committing crimes against the peoples of the [Middle East] region.”
He went on to say that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are openly pushing Arab and Muslim nations to surrender and demonstrate loyalty to the US and Israel, and to express hostility towards the resistance front.
“The factor that prevented the Israeli enemy from invading and usurping other [Muslim] lands was initially the Lebanese resistance front, followed by Palestinian resistance factions,” Houthi noted.
The Ansarullah chief then praised Iran as the main supporter of resistance front in the region. Houthi also highlighted that Washington and Tel Aviv have used Takfiri terrorists to create rifts among Muslim nations. “The Takfiri conspiracy that targeted Syria, Hezbollah and the Iraqi people was a plot at the service of the United States and Israel,” the Ansarullah head said. Houthi stated that Palestinian resistance fighters pulled off a clear victory in the latest round of Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. “The successive victories of the resistance [front] in the Gaza Strip are important, and send very clear signs and messages. The anti-resistance conspiracies started soon after disclosure of successes and the fact that such models of steadfastness and resilience have defeated Israel,” he pointed out. Houthi went on to say that Saudi and Emirati media outlets took up a hostile position towards Palestinian resistance factions during the 11-way Israeli military onslaught on the Gaza Strip, as if they were the allies and followers of the Tel Aviv regime. “During the Operation al-Quds Sword, Saudi and Emirati media spoke out against the resistance front and tried to downplay its achievements… Some regimes and governments are even trying to normalize their relations with Israel at the cultural level. This is in favor of Zionists, and their dominance over Arab Muslim nations in all areas and fields," he pointed out. “Zionists are trying to establish official relations with Arab countries and end their diplomatic isolation. The Israeli enemy is trying to overcome its boycott, including economic bans. “There is no justification for those who capitulated to the Zionist enemy and were part of its conspiracies,” Houthi said. Elsewhere in his remarks, the Ansarullah leader highlighted that Washington sought to shape the destiny and loot natural resources of Arab and Muslim countries in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in New York City. “The fight against terror was an excuse for US intervention in all cultural, intellectual, media, political and economic spheres,” he said. Houthi stressed that Iran, together with Lebanese and Palestinian resistance groups, has always stood firm in its opposition of US hegemony and the Israeli regime. In letter to Ayatollah Khamenei, Islamic Jihad hails Iran's support for Palestine in battle against Israel The secretary general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad offers his congratulations to Ayatollah Khamenei over the great victory against the Israeli regime in the 12-day war. The Ansarullah leader added that the Yemeni nation will not give up its right to freedom, independence and dignity, and will not abandon its struggle against American and Israeli conspiracies. “When Yemeni people chant "Death to America" and "Death to Israel", it means they are practically moving against US and Israeli conspiracies. “Our people will continue to work in full coordination with the resistance front, and will do anything at their disposal to confront the Israeli enemy and US conspiracies,” Houthi concluded.
08-14-2021, 09:57 AM
TIME TO LOOK BEYOND THE 20 YEAR NIGHTMARE THE NONMUSLIM AMERICAN LED TERROR CAMPAIGN IN AFGHANISTAN IMPOSED. WITH THE FALL OF KABUL
IMMINENT THE TALIBAN NEED TO ENSURE THAT THEY LAY THE FOUNDATIONS OF THEIR ISLAMIC EMIRATE AS A PRECEDENT FOR THE WORLD'S MUSLIMS. THIS MEANS THAT THE COMPLETE ISLAMIC SHARIAH IS INTRODUCED IN ITS ENTIRETY. ANY ISLAMIC EMIRATE CAN ONLY LOOK TO THE PROPHETIC MODEL AND KHALIFAT AL RASHIDUN ERA AS THE MODEL TO BE THE INSPIRATION. ALTHOUGH THE MSM CAN NOT LOOK BEYOND IT'S NOSE OF THE IMPOSITION OF ISLAMIC LAWS ON STEALING, CORRUPTION AND ADULTERY AND WOMENS EDUCATION. THE TALIBAN'S FOCUS ON THE INTRODUCTION OF AN ISLAMIC POLITICAL ECONOMY FREE OF USURY AND THE USURIOUS DEBT BASED FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SYSTEM IS TO BE HAILED. THIS WILL STRIKE A DEADLY BLOW AGAINST THE DESTRUCTIVE USURIOUS DEBT BASED GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM. WHY DON'T WE HEAR ABOUT THIS IS SIMPLY BECAUSE THE VESTED NONMUSLIM INTERESTS DON'T WANT YOU TO HEAR THIS. SOMEONE SHOULD NOTIFY WALL STREET AND THE DAVOS CROWD THEIR TIME IS UP. THEY HAVE HAD THEIR TIME TO DEVOUR THE WORLD AND IT IS TIME FOR THE NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK TO SHINE. THE CHINESE NEED TO BE APPLAUDED FOR EMBRACING THEM AS THEY HAVE WOKEN UP AND CAN SMELL THE ISLAMIC COFFEE. HASBUNALLAH AND TAWAKULLAH A NEW SYSTEM WITH NEW RULES MAY BE INTRODUCED FOR THE AFGHAN PEOPLE EX GOVERNOR HERAT PROVINCE ISMAIL KHAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED AND LEFT ASHRAF GHANI INDIAN MEDIA IS GIVING DETAILS ABOUT NEW NEXT STRATEGY AFTER GHANI FORCES ARE USING INDIAN HELICOPTERS PROVIDED TO AFGHANS AND ENJOYING FRUITS OF VICTORY HOW A GRAND PLAN OF PAKISTAN CHINA AND TALIBAN FAILED THE US PLAN CLASSIC INTERVIEW OF SUHAIL SHAHEEN AGAINST INDIAN POLICY WITH PAKISTAN A SPECIAL OFFER FROM US AND GHANI TO WORK WITH US EMBASSY
09-28-2021, 05:24 PM
WORLD WAR 1 AND BRITAIN's 1917 MIDDLE EAST CAMPAIGNS
Professor John Calvert talked about the British campaigns in the Middle East during WWI. He focused on the year 1917, when British forces captured Gaza and Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire https://www.c-span.org/video/?436435-4/w...-campaigns WORLD WAR 1 THE KAISERS JIHAD During the First World War, the despotism and arrogance of Europe's colonial powers in the Islamic world was revealed once more. Particularly the British and Germans exploited the conflicts between Arabs and Ottomans for their own power interests. Max von Oppenheim, an envoy of Wilhelm II, the German Emperor, is supposed to have triggered a "jihad" against the British and French with the help of Turkish allies, in order to destabilise the colonies of the opponents of the German Empire. The Arab Muslims, however, did not follow Max von Oppenheim, but the charismatic "Lawrence of Arabia". Acting on behalf of Britain, he encouraged the Arabs to rebel against the Ottoman Empire, with money, weapons and the promise of independence. BRITAIN IN PALESTINE 1917-48
10-02-2021, 09:32 PM
THE AMAZING TALIBAN VICTORY IN AFGHANISTAN AGAINST THE USA ALLIANCE AND IT'S PROXY GOVERNMENT HAS GLOBAL SIGNIFICANCE. THERE IS A NEED FOR THE MUSLIM WORLD TO LOOK AT ITSELF IN THE MIRROR. THE EVENTS OF 9/11 AND THE RUTHLESS CRUEL INVASION BY OPPRESSORS HAS SEEN COMPLICITY BY THE UMMAH.
THIS ENTIRE PERIOD NEEDS REFLECTION AND REVISION. AS IT RAISES FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS ON ALLEGIANCE, LOYALTY AND BETRAYAL OF FAITH AND SUBSERVIENCE TO NON MUSLIM POWERS AND AGENDAS. THE UMMAH NEEDS TO REFLECT ON ITS ATTITUDE AND POLICIES TOWARDS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ISLAMIC EMIRATE. THERE IS A NEED TO SHOW ISLAMIC SOLIDARITY WITH THE NEW GOVERNMENT WHICH IS SEEKING TO ESTABLISH GOVERNANCE ACCORDING TO THE SHARIAH. THE UMMAH MUST NOT COLLUDE WITH ANY ATTEMPTS TO WITHDRAW RECOGNITION TO THE ISLAMIC EMIRATE OF AFGHANISTAN. THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO FOUGHT FOR AND DIED TO DEFEND THEIR FAITH AND HOMELAND AGAINST GLOBAL IMPERIALISM. ALL THE ODDS WERE STACKED AGAINST THEM YET THEY WERE VICTORIOUS. THEIR VICTORY AGAINST AN OPPRESSIVE SUPERPOWER CAN ONLY BE EXPLAINED BY DIVINE SUPPORT FOR THEIR CAUSE. IT IS VITAL THAT THE UMMAH SUPPORTS AND WORKS WITH THE NEW GOVERNMENT AND ASSISTS IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF AFGHANISTAN. ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IN AFGHANISTAN AND MUSLIM UMMAH Orya Maqbool Jan THE BIGGEST EVENT IN HUMAN HISTORY AFTER 834 YEARS Orya Maqbool Jan TALIBAN’s TRIUMPH : A GEOPOLITICAL EARTHQUAKE https://crescent.icit-digital.org/articl...earthquake Has Afghanistan, the proverbial graveyard of empires, buried the US empire and its hopes for global domination? The geopolitical earthquake of the US defeat in Afghanistan has sent shockwaves across the entire Eurasian supercontinent, the “World Island” home to the majority of Earth’s population and resources, crushing US aspirations beneath the rubble of its doomed nation-building project. British geopolitical theorist Sir Halford John Mackinder famously coined the equation: “Who rules Eastern Europe commands the Heartland. Who rules the Heartland commands the World Island. Who rules the World Island commands the world.” But today, the economic rise of East Asia has moved the center of Zbigniew Brzezinski’s “Grand Chessboard” eastward, from Eastern Europe in Mackinder’s time to Central Asia in general and Afghanistan in particular. By losing its Afghan gambit for control of the center of the Grand Chessboard, the US (Anglo-Zionist) Empire appears to have lost today’s equivalent of the 19th century Great Game. The 2021 US defeat in Afghanistan bears many resemblances to the 1989 Soviet defeat. In both cases, globe-straddling empires with vastly superior military, economic, and technological resources were roundly defeated by grotesquely outgunned Afghan guerrillas. In both cases, the invading and occupying empire attempted to impose its dominant ideology—communism for the USSR, neoliberal capitalism for the US—and was routed by Afghans flying the banner of Islam. Both empires wasted colossal sums of money in their doomed efforts to subdue Afghanistan, bankrupting themselves in the process. Both empires’ illusory strength was unmasked and debunked by their misadventures in Afghanistan, as their defeats revealed underlying ideological, cultural, economic, and military weaknesses. Perhaps most importantly, both empires, in their respective Afghan debacles, suffered incalculable losses of morale, paving the way for imperial collapse. Ordinary Americans, and the politicians they elect, have only a vague idea of what was at stake in Afghanistan. They were brainwashed by media propaganda portraying the US crusade in Afghanistan as retribution for the “terrorist attack” of September 11, 2001. In reality, 9/11 was a false flag inside job by neoconservatives, and the US war on Afghanistan was about geopolitics and money, not anti-terrorism or revenge. And while the Afghan war succeeded in making colossal sums of money for various corrupt individuals and entities, notably the drug dealers of the military-industrial-intelligence complex, it was a financial disaster on the macro level, as well as a geopolitical blunder of the first magnitude. The US invaders had hoped to plunder Afghanistan’s rich array of natural resources—not just opium, but also trillions of dollars worth of mineral deposits, including iron, copper, lithium, rare earth elements, cobalt, bauxite, mercury, uranium and chromium. And they had hoped to build and control a TAPI (Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India) natural gas pipeline. Indeed, TAPI pipeline plans were probably the single most important factor in the US decision to invade Afghanistan, which was taken in July, 2001, after the Taliban refused to award the pipeline contract to the US/CIA candidate, Unocal, instead offering it to the Argentinian company Bridas. Thanks to its humiliation by the Taliban, the US will be only a marginal player in efforts to exploit the mineral and energy resources of Central Asia, as well as plans for a New Silk Road trade corridor uniting the Eurasian supercontinent. The development of Central Asia will be primarily driven by the biggest nearby economic power, China. For that reason, geopolitical analyst Alfred McCoy has argued that China will be the primary beneficiary of the US defeat in Afghanistan. McCoy writes: “With a trillion dollars invested in Eurasia and another trillion in Africa, China is engaged in nothing less than history's largest infrastructure project. It's crisscrossing those three continents with rails and pipelines, building naval bases around the southern rim of Asia, and ringing the whole tricontinental world island with a string of 40 major commercial ports. Such a geopolitical strategy has become Beijing’s battering ram to crack open Washington’s control over Eurasia and thereby challenge what’s left of its global hegemony. America’s unequalled military air and sea armadas still allow it rapid movement above and around those continents, as the mass evacuation from Kabul showed so forcefully. But the slow, inch-by-inch advance of China’s land-based, steel-ribbed infrastructure across the deserts, plains, and mountains of that world island represents a far more fundamental form of future control.” The rise of China as the future leading power of the Eurasian-African world island has important implications for Islam and for the world’s Muslim nations and peoples. Afghanistan, along with Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, and other nations of the Muslim East will inevitably be drawn into a Chinese-centric economic orbit. Will Muslims eventually be invaded, occupied, and physically and ideologically colonized by non-Muslim Chinese? Does the fate of the Uighurs, who are certainly being oppressed on account of their religion (though probably not as horrifically as Western propaganda suggests) await other Muslim peoples of Central and East Asia? While Muslims will undoubtedly jostle with China and other countries over money and power, it seems unlikely that China will colonize and subjugate the Muslim world the way the Euro-Americans and Zionists did. The Uighurs, nationalists living on the edge of China, are an exception. Historically, China, unlike Europe, has not shown a penchant for invading and colonizing far-flung lands. And despite its official Marxism, China’s real ideology is a kind of collectivist nationalism very much in line with its Confucian roots. Lacking a universalizing ideology, China—unlike Euro-America with its Christian and post-Christian “civilizing missions”—lacks the desire to force its culture on other peoples. In stark contrast with the Christians, who wanted everyone to be Christian, and the (European) communists, who wanted everyone to be communist, and the neoliberal secular humanists, who want everyone to be a neoliberal secular humanist, the Chinese know full well that not everyone is Chinese, and they are okay with that. The stark difference between the Western secular humanist imperialists and the Chinese pragmatists is on full display in Iran, where the West has been at war with the Islamic Republic, and dedicated to eliminating it, since 1979. Western secular humanists, and their Christian and/or Zionist fellow travelers, cannot abide Iran’s experiment in Islamic governance, because its success threatens their mythical delusion that the whole world is fated to become like the West. The Chinese, for their part, have no interest in imposing vaguely communist Confucianism on Iran. So, while the West unleashes endless terrorist attacks on Iran and its regional allies, China has signed a 25 year $400 billion agreement aimed at developing Iran’s infrastructure in exchange for discounted oil. Unlike the West, China is perfectly happy to let Iran continue its successful Islamic Republican experiment. The other factor in the West’s war on Islamic Iran—Zionism—is likewise a non-factor in Islam-China relations. The West, its ruling elites top-heavy with Zionist billionaires, is fanatically dedicated to maintaining and expanding the Zionist entity occupying and genociding Palestine. China, while pragmatically cultivating ties with the Zionists when it serves Chinese interests, has no ideological commitment to Zionism. When the Zionist entity finally implodes, an inevitability in a post-Western world, the Chinese—who suffered horrifically under Western imperialism and consequently empathize with the Palestinians—will shed no tears. The end of the five-century era dominated by Western and most recently US imperialism will free Muslims to be ourselves. Rather than endlessly reacting against the never-ending onslaught of imperialist-colonialist aggression, we will finally get the breathing space to figure out what kind of (Islamic) governing structures we want to live under. The post-American, post-US-defeat-in-Afghanistan world will open the door for the second stage of the Islamic Awakening, whose first stage grew out of Islamic Iran’s and Afghanistan’s victories against the world’s two biggest empires of 1979. AFTER THE SHOOTING WAR, OTHER FORMS OF WARFARE AGAINST THE TALIBAN CONTINUE Zia Sarhadi https://crescent.icit-digital.org/articl...n-continue The US and its allies can no longer deny the fact that they were militarily defeated and driven out of Afghanistan after 20 years of blood-letting. With US-NATO combat troops fleeing Kabul airport on August 30, the shooting war has formally ended. Other forms of warfare against the Taliban, however, continue. These include a vicious propaganda campaign as well as economic warfare. Both are designed to delegitimize and undermine Taliban rule. The propaganda war has focused on several narratives: the impending ‘civil war’, alleged ‘execution’ of opponents and concern for ‘women’s rights’ including education. Concern for women’s rights is used as a hot button issue to appeal to Western feminists to draw them into the imperialists’ on-going war on Muslims, including Afghanistan. On the economic front, the US has frozen nearly $9.5 billion of Afghanistan’s foreign exchange reserves in US banks. The World Bank and IMF have followed suit. They are withholding hundreds of millions of dollars of aid money that was earmarked to assist Afghan civilians, all because the Taliban are now in power. While withholding funds, Western media outlets have carried reports of long line-ups outside banks in Kabul to withdraw cash. The. Taliban have imposed a $200 withdrawal limit. Hundreds of thousands of people including policemen, civil servants and other state employees have not been paid salaries. But the Taliban did not create this problem. Salaries have not been paid for the past six months when the US-installed puppet regime was in power. At the UN-sponsored donors’ conference in Geneva on September 13, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in his opening remarks that after two decades of war and suffering, Afghans are facing “perhaps their most perilous hour.” While it was announced that donors had pledged $1 billion in aid, the UN chief said it was impossible to say how much of it was promised in response to an emergency UN appeal for $606 million to meet the most pressing needs of the Afghan people. “The people of Afghanistan are facing the collapse of an entire country—all at once,” he said. Guterres also warned that food supplies could run out by the end of September. The World Food Programme, meanwhile said 14 million people were on the brink of starvation in Afghanistan. Are the Taliban at fault for the looming humanitarian disaster? The country has faced a draught for more than a year and the pandemic has only exacerbated the problem. Western regimes are only adding to it. If they really care for the Afghan people, they should immediately unfreeze all the assets and let the Taliban deal with the crisis. Instead, anti-Taliban propaganda has gone into high gear. Even the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, otherwise known for her fairness, has joined this campaign. In her address to the UN conference, she alleged that the Taliban were ordering women to stay at home, blocking teenage girls from school and holding house-to-house searches for former foes. It is not clear what is the source of this information. The reality on the ground is different. Girls’ schools remain open in Afghanistan. And only a day earlier (September 12), the Minister of Higher Education in the Taliban interim government, Abdul Baqi Haqqani had announced at a press conference in Kabul that women can continue to study in universities. This included studies at the post-graduate level. He stipulated two conditions: classrooms will be gender-segregated and women must cover themselves properly. True, the Taliban may not measure up to the West’s standards of liberalism but are such standards universal and must they be imposed on others, whether they like them or not? Is the purpose to ensure girls’ education or the imposition of Western norms? As for Ms. Bachelet’s allegation that the Taliban were “holding house-to-house searches” for foes, it is only partly true. The Taliban have gone house-to-house, not searching for foes but to assure people that there will be no revenge against those who collaborated with the occupiers. They can return to work and if anyone faced problems, where to get help. This hardly sounds like seeking revenge. Some commentators have pounced on what Taliban spokesman Syed Zekrullah Hashmi said on TOLO News. “Women should give birth and raise children,” he said. He clarified that the Taliban have not ruled out participation of women in government but added, “It’s not necessary that women be in the cabinet.” This may be a very conservative view but the government has not instituted it as state policy. Even before the Taliban regained power, while universities were co-ed, the vast majority of female students wore headscarves in line with religious, personal and cultural preferences. In elementary and high schools, boys and girls were taught separately. On September 11, a large group of women students in black robes that covered them completely, held a rally in Kabul in support of the rules on dress code and separate classrooms. They also said that Afghan women who have fled to Western countries have no right to speak on their behalf. University classrooms are divided by curtains. These have been witnessed in many places in Kabul since the Taliban’s assumption of power. While the defeated Western regimes are demonizing the Taliban, China, Pakistan and Iran have been sending aid. Pakistan has already sent supplies of cooking oil and medicine. PIA resumed commercial flights into Kabul on September 13. Thousands of Afghans have also used the land border to enter Pakistan. Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi urged the UN conference: “Past mistakes must not be repeated. The Afghan people must not be abandoned,” he said. Before the UN conference was convened, China had announced it would send $31 million worth of food and health supplies to the war-wracked country. Afghanistan’s Western neighbour Iran dispatched an air cargo of humanitarian aid.
11-23-2021, 05:35 PM
RESURRECTING THE HEJAZ RAILWAY OLD AND NEW.
WHERE ARE WE GOING WITH THIS? HOW THIS OTTOMAN PROJECT REVOLUTIONISED HAJJ TRAVEL SALTANAT E USMANIA BUILT A RAILWAY LINKING ISTANBUL TO MADINA Railway Project of Sultan Abdul Hamid From Turkey to Madina | History of Hejaz Railway THE HEROIC DEFENDER OF MEDINAH - FAHREDDIN PASHA HEJAZ RAILWAY- KADAM MUSEUMS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVXA7PfCcOc The Hejaz railway, which transported pilgrims from Damascus to Medina, was one of the great train journeys of the world. Now, an ambitious plan is underway to restore it. At the Qadem station on the outskirts of Damascus, tourists inspect rusty old steam trains. Nearly a hundred years ago, these trains were used on the Hejaz line. Now, they could again be used again. "The Hejaz railway was once a joint project of the entire Islamic world", explains archaeologist Ulrich Bellwald. "Maybe it will bring people together again." Restorers hope to rebuild sections of the line destroyed by Lawrence of Arabia, update the infrastructure and renovate station buildings. But hampering reconstruction efforts are hoards of treasure hunters, digging for rumoured gold under the tracks. ABANDONED - THE HEJAZ RAILWAY OF SAUDI ARABIA SHORT HISTORY OF HIJAZ RAILWAY Engines Of Hijaz Railway Near Madina NEW HARAMAIN, THE HIGH SPEED FROM MECCA TO MEDINA HIGH SPEED RAIL LINKING TWO OF ISLAM's HOLIEST CITIES THE SACRED JOURNEY: Talk with Richard McGregor THE SACRED JOURNEY: Talk with Dr Mehmet Tütüncü
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PROBABLY THIS THEME DESERVES RELEASING A NEW THREAD TO BE CREATED AND UPLOADED HERE. HOWEVER, FOR THE TIME BEING THE PROMOTION AND TEACHING OF ARABIC AS THE LINGUA FRANCA OF THE GLOBAL UMMAH WILL BE POSTED HERE. ENJOY THE RIDE OF LIFELONG LEARNING AS WELL AS UNDERSTANDING ONE OF THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF GLOBAL UMMAH SOLIDARITY.
THE RISE OF ARABIC : FROM AN EPIC PAST TO AN EVIDENCE BASED HISTORY Dr. Ahmad Al-Jallad THE ORIGINS OF ARABIC THE ARABIC LANGUAGE : ITS AMAZING HISTORY AND FEATURES 300 ARABIC WORDS FOR EVERYDAY LIFE - Basic Vocabulary Tips For Quickly Learning Arabic Vocabulary https://www.mosalingua.com/en/learning-a...ocabulary/
02-23-2022, 01:48 PM
GLOBAL VISION 2000 WILL GO THE EXTRA MILE TO FATHOM THE REALITIES OF THE STATE OF THE UMMAH. IF IT NECESSITATES HISTORICAL REVISIONISM SO BE IT. THE STAKES ARE HIGH BUT THE TRUTH NEEDS TO EMERGE AND STAND OUT. HERE WE LOOK AT THE WORK OF DR.ISHTIAQ AHMED ON THE RISE OF THE 2 NATION THEORY AND THE CREATION OF PAKISTAN OUT OF BRITISH INDIA AS AN UNIQUE ISLAMIC IDEOLOGICAL TERRITORIAL GARRISON STATE.
HIS MAIN ARGUMENT IN ESSENCE IS THAT PAKISTAN WAS CREATED IN THE 1940S AS A BUFFER STATE BY THE DYING BRITISH EMPIRE TO PREVENT AN UNIFIED INDIAN STATE WITH PRO COMMUNIST LEANINGS ALLYING WITH THE SOVIET UNION. A PROVOKING THOUGHT FOR MUSLIM LEADERS AND LEADERSHIP IS THAT THE BRITISH RAJ WAS RUN BARELY BY 50000 WHITE BRITISH ARMY OFFICERS. HIS WORK IS BASED ON PRIMARY SOURCES. ONE QUESTION THAT ARISES IMMEDIATELY IS HOW THE BRITISH STATE WHICH IS THE LEGACY STATE OF THE BRITISH RAJ CAN BE MADE ACCOUNTABLE FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. THESE QUESTIONS NEED TO BE ASKED AS FORMER IMPERIALISTS NEED TO BE MADE TO REALISE THAT THEIR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES AND PENALTIES. THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR OUR ERA NEED TO BE CHARTED OUT. AGAIN THOSE FOLLOWING THIS STORY NEED TO GET MULTI-LINGUAL OR MULTI-SKILLED IN THEIR RESEARCH. PAKISTAN THE GARRISON STATE Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed JINNAH: HIS SUCCESSES, FAILURES AND ROLE IN HISTORY PARTITION OF INDIA AND THE ROLE OF QUAID E AZAM Professor Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed JINNAH OR THE BRITISH : WHO CREATED PAKISTAN? DECODING JINNAH EAST PAKISTAN's REAL STORY LET's FINISH 'THE STORY OF PAKISTAN' STORY OF THE SUBCONTINENT Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed SIR SYED AHMED KHAN AND THE FREEDOM STRUGGLE SIR SYED AHMED KHAN (1817 - 1898), THE TWO NATION THEORY, EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL QUESTION ALLAMA IQBAL AND THE TWO NATION THEORY THE JINNAH -GANDHI CLASH AND THE KHILAFAT ISSUE 1857 SEPOY MUTINY OR WAR OF INDEPENDENCE ? TOP 10 MUSLIM LEADERS WHO OPPOSED PAKISTAN |
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