The American Campaign to Suppress Islam
by Hizb-ut-Tahrir
The Pillars of the American Campaign
America depends, in her campaign against the Islamic world, on a number of pillars.
The first pillar: Its international weight and influence in the Islamic world, particularly after the second Gulf War policy which resulted in the consolidation of her influence in the whole Islamic region. Due to this weight and influence the existing states in the Islamic world became more compliant to American pressure and plans aimed at suppressing Islam by forcing Muslims to embrace Capitalism.
The second pillar: While America is the leader of the Capitalist states, she ensures that others participate in this campaign. She uses their influence and their agents to guarantee the success of this campaign in the whole Islamic world particularly as these states do not differ from America in viewing Islam as a threat to them, to their proper influence and interests.
The third pillar: The international law, and its tools represented by the UN, its charter and its other sub-organizations and institutions which America employs to implement its plans and cover with the international law. And the measures which it deems necessary to take, whether these measures are political, economic, military or other.
The fourth pillar: The world media dominated by America and her allies, which is used as one of the most deadly weapons in its campaign by using them to propagate its slogans. The media is used to distort the image of Islam and to incite the world against those who adhere to it, portraying them as fundamentalists, zealots, extremists and terrorists. This weapon should not be underestimated especially after the revolution in telecommunications in the second half of this century which has transformed the world into a tiny village where the written, audible and visual media has access into every single home.
The fifth pillar: Perhaps the ugliest and most dangerous of these pillars are the agent rulers and the circle around them of underlings, hypocrites, opportunists and those lured by the Kafir culture and fascinated by its way of life. This circle also includes those who pretend to care about Islam whether they are government scholars or those presented to the people as Islamic intellectuals from some Islamic movements who are in reality nothing more than secularists, calling for the detachment of the deen from life.
All of these serve the American campaign by turning the Muslims away from their deen to Capitalism by all ways and means including media misinformation, distortion of the concepts and rules of Islam, the implementation of Kufr laws, as well as setting up legislation necessary for this implementation. They also serve it by subjugating the state in the Islamic world with various treaties, pacts and constraints to keep them under the influence of the Kuffar and fulfilling their role in executing the plots of the Kuffar to impoverish the Ummah to do away with the Islamic values in her besides the attack against the sincere aware sons of the Ummah to silence them, thereby spreading an atmosphere of submission and intimidation over the people, so that no one dares to voice the truth. All for the purpose of humiliating the Ummah and forcing her to submit to Kufr and the Kuffar.
These are the most important pillars which America relies upon in her campaign against Islam and the Muslims, for the purpose of suppressing Islam through forcing the Muslims to embrace Capitalism. This campaign manifests itself in four slogans which essentially constitute the core of Capitalism: democracy, pluralism, human rights and free market policies.
Before addressing these slogans and refuting them in detail it is necessary to explain the falsehood of the basis from which they emanate.
This basis is the Capitalist creed, i.e. the creed of detaching "Religion" from life. This creed does not result from a rational process, nor even from a logical one, rather it is a compromise between two contradictory ideas; the idea which the clergy used to call for in the "Medieval Ages", namely the submission of everything in this life to the "Religion", i.e. Christianity and the idea which some thinkers and philosophers called for, namely the denial of the existence of a Creator.
So the idea of detachment of the "Religion" from life is a compromise solution between these two sides. A compromise solution is conceivable between two similar views where there is some disparity, but it is inconceivable to exist between two contradictory views. Either there is a Creator who created man, universe and life and accordingly this discussion will then be about whether this Creator has prescribed a system for man to proceed with, in this worldly life, and Who will account him after death on his adherence to this system, or, there is no Creator and accordingly the religion would not be detached from worldly life but rather would be rejected from it.
But to say there is no importance in the existence or non-existence of a Creator is a matter which does not convince the mind or reassure the nafs (soul). Therefore the mere fact that the Capitalist doctrine is a result of a compromise in an issue which allows no such compromise is enough in itself to refute this doctrine for both those who believe in the existence of a Creator or those who deny His existence.
The decisive rational evidence leads to the conclusion that there is a Creator Who created man, universe and life, and that this Creator has prescribed a system for man to follow in this life and He will account him after death on his adherence to this system. However, the issue at hand is neither to discuss the existence of the Creator nor the system which He set up for man, rather it is to discuss the Capitalist doctrine and to expose its falsehood. In this regard it is enough to establish the falsehood by the fact that this creed is a compromise between two contradictory opinions and that it is not built on reason.
The refutation of the Capitalist creed is sufficient to refute the whole of the Capitalist ideology because whatever is built on falsehood is itself false. This means that there is no need to discuss in detail the fundamentals of the ideology. But as some of these ideas have achieved widespread circulation throughout the world and they have gained acceptance by some Muslims, and because they form the slogans of the American campaign in its ferocious attack on Muslims and Islam, it has become necessary to address them, show their falsehood as well as their contradiction with Islam. Accordingly it is prohibited for Muslims to adopt them and it is obligatory to reject them and challenge all those who propagate them.
The four slogans of this campaign are democracy, pluralism, human rights, and free market policies.
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