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Colonization of the Muslim mind

People that refuse to surrender can never be enslaved. Slavery is first and foremost a state of mind. Steve Biko, the anti-apartheid struggler paid with his life but he became immortalised in the minds of millions for refusing to surrender. He had said, “The greatest weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” In battle, psychological defeat precedes physical defeat. When the mind accepts defeat, physical factors cannot reverse the tide. The opposite is equally true: those who refuse to surrender regardless of their disadvantage in material terms can never be defeated. Thus, we know that while the Afghans are no match for the firepower of the Americans and their allies, they have been able to force the Americans to admit there is no military solution to the problem in Afghanistan. The Americans are now talking about a negotiated settlement. The same is true in Lebanon. Unlike the Arabian regimes and their well-stocked armies, Hizbullah has refused to surrender to the Zionists. The result is clear. The Zionists have been defeated not once but twice in the last decade. The same scenario is beginning to emerge in Palestine where Hamas has refused to accept Zionist supremacy regardless of the odds.

Allah exposes the munafiqs and fifth columnists in the ranks of Muslims

by : Abu Dharr

Muslims frequently debate whether the Ummah is making progress or is in terrible shape. There are shades of truth in both assertions but what is indisputable is that events over the last three decades have helped expose a number of unsavoury characters masquerading as leaders of the Ummah. These include the illegal occupiers of the Haramain, the two holy cities of Makkah and Madinah, otherwise called the House of Saud, as well as such groups as Fatah that has for decades claimed to champion the cause of the Palestinian people. Fatah did not allow other groups to emerge to challenge its hegemony over Palestinian affairs. It was also backed by most of the Arabian regimes that wanted to ensure a secular movement in control of Pales-tinian affairs. The emergence of the Islamic movement in Palestine would have immediately exposed these Arabian regimes and their corrupt and thoroughly incompetent rulers.

Lessons for the Islamic movement seven years after the invasion of Iraq

This month marks the seventh anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. The invasion was no surprise of course; it was preceded by months of international politicking as the neo-con Bush administration tried to build international consensus for the war. Before that too, the US had been waging a soft war against Iraq for over a decade, and many commentators had predicted that the US would use the attacks on New York and the Pentagon in September 2001 as the pretext for finally invading. Despite this context, however, Muslim reaction to the invasion was mixed. For many Iraqis and others who had been victims of Saddam Hussain’s rule, including Iranians, Kuwaitis and other Arabs, the dominant response was joy at the defeat of what had been an exceptionally brutal and repressive regime. For other Muslims, perhaps more detached from the immediate situation in Iraq, happiness at the end of Saddam’s rule was overshadowed by the awareness that another Muslim country was coming under US occupation, and that Iraq’s future was likely to be as difficult as it had been under Saddam.

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Colonization of the Muslim mind

Allah exposes the munafiqs and fifth columnists in the ranks of Muslims

Lessons for the Islamic movement seven years after the invasion of Iraq

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