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September 2, 2005
From Bishkek to Baghdad, the Caliphate's time has come

By: Simon Jones
Uploaded/Updated: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:14:52 GMT

Uzbekistan's unending tragedy - 15 years of unremitting repression of
its Muslims (OK, make that a century) - has reached a critical
impasse. With the massacre of up to a 1000 innocents in Andijan, the
mood in the country is set against Karimov: there is no graceful exit
for this once wily balancer of clan greed, untempered by any basis in
Islamic principles of social justice and public service.

But K and Uz are not alone. A recent analysis of Tunisia (Le Monde
6/5) describes the poverty and anomy of life under its repressive,
secular, pro-US dictator Ben Ali, with his playtime democracy,
prohibition of all Islamic parties and general discouragement of
Islam, and above all the fear to make even the mildest public
criticisms. We can say "Ditto" more or less for Egypt, Algeria,
Morocco, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia... Then there are such
embarrassments as Dubai, which is building a high tech Disney-style
archipelago replica of the world for the super-rich, or the Emirates,
which imports Russian and Uzbek women as sex slaves. It is very hard
to find a Muslim country which reflects the austere social justice of
the Koran. But then it is hard to find a Muslim country which is not a
US-client state. Malaysia and Iran come to mind, and in their own very
different ways, they offer some hope.

In his July 4th speech this year, Bush hailed the new era of
democracy, the result of US battles ofrom Bunker Hill to Baghdadoe.
Leaving aside Bunker Hill and what's left of the American Revolution,
we can already see the democracy that the US is bringing to Baghdad
and Kabul - the kind where the living envy the dead, of which there
are hundreds more with each passing day. No. The call should be: 'From
Bishkek to Baghdad, the Caliphate's time has come.' And ironically,
though Karimov loudly proclaims himself its greatest enemy, he is
unwittingly one of its greatest assets, constantly raising its specter
in justification of his persecution of Uzbek Muslims. Irony: never has
the Muslim world been so enslaved to kufr (anti-Islamic) countries and
leaders, and yet never has it been so demonized and despised by them.
While western media construct fantasies to the contrary, this is the
sad, tragic reality.

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Logic of the Caliphate

But 'caliphate'? Yes! By first promising the idea, and then ruthlessly
suppressing even the normal practice of Islam, let alone any mention
of some hare-brained caliphate, Mr K has made himself captive to it,
and like Lady Macbeth, must wash and wash and wash again the guilt for
his political intrigues from his bloodied hands. By continually
harping about Hizb ut Tahrir and its program of trying to revive the
political unity of Muslims, he merely provides greater legitimacy to
the idea. A unique feature of this part of the Muslim world is that it
has experienced both socialism and capitalism and knows first hand the
weaknesses of both, so the argument in a nutshell, to paraphrase
Lenin, would be something like "the 21st c Caliphate = communism + the
Koran."

An Islamic explanation would take the following form:

Muslims base their identity first and foremost on Islam, and Islam
being a universal religion, they naturally will overcome kufr
nationalism and work together to realize the ideal state, based on the
Koran's detailed and surprisingly robust program. The very concept of
nationalism is a western one and became the predominant political
force surprisingly late, only with the triumph of capitalism and the
ascendancy of secularism in the 19th c. It reached its most criminal
form in Nazi Germany and today in Israel. It must be abandoned in
favor of the unity of all Muslims, rejecting the nationalist regimes
sponsored by imperialism - first British and now American - to keep
Muslims divided.

This politics, once reversed throughout the Muslim world, would of
course lead to all Islamic countries working together. Yes, Mr K,
that's what the dreaded caliphate is all about. And what's so wrong
with it? Why shouldn't Muslim countries throw off their western
masters and use their immense clout to fight the real sources of
terrorism - USrael and its secular quislings like you?

[... ...]

Long-term scenario

The focus of Central Asian politics should be to unite the 60+m
Central Asians, with their rich resources and ethnically close
peoples, as a political and economic block to resist the various
imperial agendas, to ensure the dignity and livelihood of the largely
Muslim, Turkic peoples living here. Combined with Turkey's 70 million,
Iran's 70 million, Pakistan's 140m and the Middle East, and we can see
a superpower in the making second only to China, but one based on
social justice, not greed and violence.

This will be the first step in uniting all Muslims from Morocco to the
Philippines. Once the Central Asian states shake off the western
imperial yoke, including their erstwhile 'friend' Russia, and join
with their Turkish cousins, their example will inspire the Arabs to
the west and the Asians to the east. Whereas once upon a time, the
Caliphate emanated from Mecca, now it will be renewed from the home of
the medieval Islamic renaissance, the home of Biruni, Avicenna and
Ulugbek.

Yes, the time for reconstituting the Caliphate, uniting Muslims
throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, has come. The free ride
that British and US imperialism (OK and the Soviet Union) have had,
training and propping up secular political leaders (fluent in English
or Russian and trained in the UK, US or Moscow), is over. The SU
pushed too far in trying to incorporate Afghanistan into the socialist
fold, and the US has gone one better (i.e., worse) with its invasions
of Afghanistan and Iraq, and its attempts at soft landings for other
Muslim states-in-trouble are not panning out. Uzbekistan is a fine
example of this.

There is no way out except by turning to Islam as the only force
capable of overriding the greed and downright evil of secular
politics. This is not an easy road. Imperialism will not give up
without a fight, and just as it ably assisted in destroying the SU, it
is hard at work undermining any Islamic alternative. We can only thank
Allah (and maybe his Catholic and secular fellow travelers in Latin
America) that there is still a light at the end of the long, dark
tunnel.
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Source: "Muslim Uzbekistan"...
http://www.muslimuzbekistan.com/eng/ennews/2005/09/ennews02092005a3.html

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There is "no way out" except by accepting God's gift of salvation
and eternal life through Jesus Christ. The Caliphate is doomed, even
before it happens.

Cheers, Steve..

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