Role of the Islamic Revolution in Islamic Awakening

Compiled By: Syed Ali Shahbaz
With the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, a popular and universal movement was generated against dictatorial regimes and the domineering powers.
The Muslim and oppressed people in the region and around the world welcomed the victory of the people’s grassroots movement in Iran. The Islamic Awakening that had started in Iran now began to spread in the neighbouring countries and this phenomenon alarmed Global Arroganc and its client regimes, which started crying at what they called the export of the Islamic Revolution. This was the very reason for the US to order its stooge Saddam to impose the war on the newfound Islamic Republic, since the immediate impact of the Islamic movement of the Iranian people was on the brotherly people of Iraq, who were eager to get rid of Ba’thist tyranny.
It is also said that the reason the Soviet Union invaded and occupied Afghanistan was because of its fears of the impact of the Islamic movement of the Iranian people on the Muslims of Afghanistan, and consequently on the Muslims of Central Asia and the Caucasus, whose Islamic beliefs were suffocated by the tyrannical communist system. Nonetheless, the Islamic Awakening that started in Iran under the leadership of Imam Khomeini (God bless his soul) continued to impact the people of the region, such as the Palestinians, who tired of their socialist and nationalistic minded leaders, for the first time looked to Islam as the liberating force. In Lebanon, throughout West Asia, and in North Africa and beyond, the Islamic wave conveyed its message and even penetrated Europe and the Americas, where people began to discover the dynamism of Islam as the perfect way of life.
With the weakening of the Muslims, coupled with the pace of progress the Industrial Revolution had given the West, European powers began to infiltrate and dominate Muslim lands since the 19th century. In 1830 Algeria was occupied by France, which took over Tunisia as well in 1881. Britain occupied Egypt in 1882, while Libya was seized by Italy in 1912. In the meanwhile, Morocco was split between the French and Spanish. In West Asia, after World War 1 and the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, the Levant was divided between the British and the French, with new countries created such as Jordan and Lebanon.
The British, as the major domineering power, created a new country called Saudi Arabia, in addition to smaller sheikhdoms on the Persian Gulf. In 1948 the British occupiers before leaving Palestine, planted the illegal Zionist entity called Israel where European Jews were brought and settled on the lands of Muslims. Republican Turkey had been reduced to a client state of the West while in Iran the puppet Pahlavi regime was trying to destroy the religious and national identity of the Iranian Muslims. It was under such circumstances that the Imam Khomeini (God bless his soul) lit the first sparks of the Islamic Revolution in 1963 and in 1979 led the Iranian people’s grassroots movement to resounding victory, thereby ending domestic despotism and foreign hegemony. For the first time, the world was witnessing the emergence of a truly Islamic state after over a millennium, and this had the greatest impact on Muslims worldwide.
For several years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Global Arrogance played its devilish role of spoilsport by depriving the Algerian Muslims of their right to form an elected government after having won the presidential polls, and using oil-rich Saudi Arabia to tarnish the image of Islam by funding and creating terrorist outfits, such as al-Qa’eda. At the same time, the US continues its satanic policy of trying to isolate the Islamic Republic of Iran, but in vain. The power and prestige of the Islamic Republic and the Islamic Revolution steadily grew, as was evident in the rise of the grassroots anti-terrorist movement of the Hezbollah of Lebanon, and the popular representative rule that was established in Iraq on the fall of Saddam. Then the Hezbollah of Lebanon and the elected Hamas-led Islamic government of the Palestinians in Gaza scored spectacular victories in 2006 and 2008 respectively by shattering the military might of the illegal Zionist entity.
With technological advancement, the stage was all set for a new tide of the Islamic Awakening and this happened in North Africa with the downfall of the pro western and pro Israeli regime. Soon it liberated Egypt from the clutches of the Hosni Mubarak regime, thereby inflicting a severe blow to the US and Israel. In the meantime, the West decided to remove their own man, Mo’ammar Qadhafi from Libya, while in Yemen, Jordan, and Bahrain, the masses took to the streets for justice, freedom, and end of western hegemony. In all these uprisings, which are still underway, despite the coup launched in Egypt by the US and Saudi Arabia to topple the elected government, the impact of the Islamic Revolution of Iran is fully evident.
The Islamic revolution by encouraging Muslims to return to religion and showing the power of Islam in giving order to social developments has succeeded in restoring dignity to the people of the region. In view of these facts, the US and the Zionists consider the Islamic Awakening as a threat to their vested interests, and in league with Turkey and Arab reactionary regimes, have unleashed terrorists of all hue and colour in Syria, in a vain bid to topple the government of President Bashar al-Asad. But thanks to the inspiration that the Sunni Muslims of Syria derive from the Islamic Revolution, the so-called Jihadists fighting the government in Damascus have been exposed in their true terrorist and anti-Islamic colours. In other words, the West’s bid to accuse Islam of violence has backfired by terroristic and cannibalistic acts of the Takfiri outfits.
Today, to the east of Iran, countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Malaysia, are all influenced by the Islamic Revolution to varying degrees that have brought profound changes in their life. In short, in over three decades the Islamic Revolution that triumphed in Iran in 1979 has become the inspirational force for Muslims throughout the region and beyond. This is proof of the failure of the US which had occupied Afghanistan and Iraq, and set up military bases in over 136 countries to start pre-emptive wars in order to prevent the people from becoming masters of their own destiny. Even the US bid to blame Muslims by arranging the destruction of New York’s landmark 110-storey high twin tower World Trade Center, has ended in failure. In short, though Global Arrogance is not expected to give up its plots, there is nothing it can do to stop the Islamic Awakening spreading in the region and beyond – thanks to the triumph of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979.