Ali Salim a scholar based in the Middle East.
Americans need to
internalize that Western interests are in danger of being attacked and
destroyed by both foreign and domestic enemies. If political Islam is not
stopped now in the Middle East, it will explode in the West.
The
mood in the Middle East is rapidly changing. The elation of the Arab Spring,
which led to prosperity and an economic and social upturn in the lives of
millions of Arabs, has now deteriorated into a sense that significant dangers
are stalking the Arab-Muslim world.
Arabic
TV, especially Al-Jazeera, has been broadcasting programs asking if bloodshed
is the only mission of Islam, and if jihad [war in the service of Islam] still
motivates believers to invade other countries with abandon and indulge in
worldwide slaughter.
Given
the current situation, the Middle East is obsessed with asking itself: Who is
responsible for the Muslims' catastrophe? And what keeps us chained behind,
while the rest of the world forges ahead in social, economic and technological
progress? Needless to say, the imams do not blame themselves. They claim that
to change the situation we need only more and closer study and practice of the
Islamic faith.
As
always, our Islamic society, constantly at odds with itself, blames everyone
for our misfortunes. In the days of the Prophet (S.A.A.S.), we blamed the Jews
of Khaybar in the Arabian Peninsula for our ills. Now the imams who head the
militant Islamist organizations tell us that the Jews, a tiny people who pose
no threat to the might of Islam, are responsible for all our ills and for all
our failures.
Islamic
radicals, however, hate not only the Jews but also the Christians, who have
become, we are told, our sworn enemies. Christianity, like Judaism, is also
vilified. The history of our hatred for the Christians began with the Crusades,
and over the years the same hated Crusaders became the hated European
imperialists and the hated colonialists.
The
hatred for the Christian West is founded on a sense of deprivation, of
humiliation and inferiority, of being threatened and exploited, all of which
cast doubt on the eternal message of Islam as the only up-to-date religion,
destined to rule the world and invalidate the other religions. The Islamic
sages who interpret the will of Allah say that both Christianity as well as
Judaism, while monotheistic, are anachronistic, and while temporarily they can
exist -- with the patronage of, and overshadowed by, Islam -- eventually all
Christians and Jews will convert to Islam.
Islam's
openly-stated desire to control the world is now light-years away from its
current wretched plight. The Muslims' low self-image not only makes us
self-destructive, but leads to the desire to destroy anyone who succeeds, even
if it means destroying ourselves as well. The unique prosperity and power of
the Jews in Palestine, compared with the slaughter, poverty and backwardness of
their Arab neighbors, create antagonism, jealousy, rage and an increasingly
murderous desire for "revenge" among Muslims still under the heady
influence of the Arab Spring and incited by the sheikhs of the Muslim
Brotherhood.
The
imams in the mosques brainwash the masses, claiming that Islam's real enemies
are the Christians, "the Crusaders," manipulated by the Jews who
control them. Attempting to fool the leaders of the Christian West and weaken
Israel, the Islamists sugarcoat the real situation and tell the Christians that
all they have to do is solve the Palestinian problem. Once that has happened,
the artificial Jewish existence in Palestine will come to an end, the entire
Middle East will metamorphose into paradise and blossom, and everyone will live
in harmony forever. Unfortunately, many Europeans have swallowed this tale
whole. In the meantime, however, when not speaking to the West and telling each
other the truth, the Islamists repeat the ancient adage, "We will begin on
Saturday and finish on Sunday," that is, first we will get rid of the Jews
and then we will get rid of the Christians -- as we are seeing now in Nigeria,
Iraq and especially Egypt.
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