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The Saud-Yahud Takfiristan Plan to weaken the Muslim Ummah
By: Dr. Hyder Reza Zabeth, PhD
Research Scholar in Islamic History
Department of Islamic History
Islamic Research Foundation
The Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (A.S.)
Mashhad, IRAN
With Saudi-backed takfiris controlling Iraq’s Anbar province and the adjoining areas in Syria, it has become clear that their medieval sponsors want to create Takfiristan in this region.
The Geneva conference on Syria produced little of substance. This was expected; few harbored any illusions that it would produce any breakthroughs or result in ending the suffering of the Syrian people. The reason is simple: not only are the two sides very far apart, but the so-called Syrian opposition is made up of an odd assortment of opportunists that have no support inside Syria. Their foreign sponsors, however, have other plans. Geneva was a sideshow.
The real struggle is going on inside Syria and now increasingly in Iraq as well. A quick glance at the map would show that the foreign, primarily Saudi-backed mercenaries in Syria and Iraq occupy crucial space in both countries that could form the borders of a future takfiri state. In Iraq, the takfiris occupy the Anbar province stretching from northwest of Baghdad all the way to the Syrian border. In Syria, too, they occupy the adjoining border region and the takfiris are on a roll against other rebel groups as well. The Free Syrian Army (FSA) has been virtually decimated and their areas occupied by takfiris.
This has made life easier for Syrian government forces. Many members of the FSA have streamed back to the government side. Most Syrians now realize that the takfiri mercenaries pose a far greater threat to their existence than the Syrian regime ever did. In fact, even the BBC was forced to admit on January 21 that a survey among Syrian refugees found 87% opposed the takfiris in their country and would like to have the crisis resolved through dialogue.
This is not something the takfiris and their foreign sponsors, especially Saudi Arabia want. The Saudis know only one game: dividing Muslims by spreading hatred against groups/people they dislike. The Saudi regime has allocated $6 billion to finance the takfiris to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Asad. Compare this to the meager $120 million donated by Saudi Arabia and Qatar combined to look after more than two million Syrian refugees languishing in terrible conditions in camps in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. For the Saudis, killing people, especially those they do not like is far more important than saving innocent human lives.
The Saudi-backed military policy, however, is not getting very far but their campaign of spreading hatred is more effective. People’s emotions can be easily aroused by planting doubts in their minds. This is what the Saudis know and do best. They have spread their poisonous ideology far and wide. Pakistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Somalia are in their grip where takfiri demagogues are running amok. Suicide and car bombings are their signature mark. Innocent people are routinely targeted and killed. How can the Saudis claim to be following the Qur’an and Sunnah when they promote and finance such demonic notions? The reality is that they are only concerned about saving their own illegitimate hold on power in the Arabian Peninsula where stirrings of revolt are getting stronger.
The takfiri poison is bound to infect Saudi society as well just as a decade ago, the eruption of al-Qaeda took the Saudis also in its sweep. The takfiris have no loyalty to anyone or anything; their ideology of hate and killings will ultimately turn on their sponsors. That explains why the Saudis are so anxious to create a state of Takfiristan in parts of Iraq and Syria so that these monsters can be contained therein and unleashed only when needed against the next “enemy.” Like the Saudis’ military policy, the Takfiristan project is also bound to fail. Perhaps, this failure will hasten the demise of one of the most hated ruling dynasties in the world.
Saudi-Zionist alliance against Muslim Ummah exposed
There is much in common between the Saudis and the Zionists. Both are illegal regimes occupying holy lands. Their secret alliance has now been exposed. Muslims must take appropriate steps to confront this phenomenon.
Two illegitimate usurper regimes, one led by Zionists in the Holy Land and the other by Najdi Bedouins in the Arabian Peninsula, have been forced by rapidly changing developments to expose their long-maintained secret ties. Not only Muslims but also many fair-minded non-Muslims recognize the illegitimacy of the Zionist pariah regime in the Holy Land. The Saudis, however, have been able to conceal their true identity by claiming to be “defenders of the Haramayn,” the two holy cities of Makkah and Madinah. If so, they have a strange way of claiming this on the one hand while being totally subservient to US imperialism and Zionist racism on the other.
It was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who several months ago mentioned the Zionist-Saudi alliance in the context of confronting Islamic Iran. He had talked of the Arabian regimes but given Saudi Arabia’s size and importance, it was clear, he was talking about the regime in Riyadh. Egypt, the other major player on the Arabian scene, had long embraced the Zionist regime publicly.
Two policy failures have forced the secret relationship between Riyadh and Tel Aviv to come out into the open: Saudi-Israeli policy in Syria and their policy of trying to isolate Islamic Iran in the region. Both have unraveled as a result of developments beyond their control. The Saudis in particular are not only furious at their longtime patron, the US, but also in panic because Washington has established contacts, however tenuous, with Islamic Iran.
Among a series of contacts between the Saudis and the Zionists, the latest was a brief encounter between Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief, Prince Turki al-Faisal and former Israeli ambassador to Washington (1992– 1996), Itamar Rabinovich, in Monaco in mid-December. According to an Israeli radio report, Turki publicly shook hands with Rabinovich at the World Policy Conference. Their contacts have progressed so far that Rabinovich took the unusual step of inviting Turki to deliver a speech before the Israeli parliament, the Knesset.
Turki reportedly declined the offer — what would he say to the Zionist occupiers of Palestine? — but the fact that the offer was made indicates their relations are deep and have been established for a long time. The offer also shows the degree of trust they have in each other. Rabinovich is an expert on Syria policy and clearly he was planning to engage the former Saudi spy master more deeply although the current Saudi intelligence chief, Bandar bin Sultan is more deeply involved with the Zionists.
Both regimes have been critical of US policy on Syria and Washington’s rapprochement with Tehran. The Zionists have been blunt to the point of being obnoxious, as is their wont. The Saudis have been more diplomatic with their American masters in public but no less vehement in their denunciation of America opening up to Tehran.
The Saudis sense a perceptible shift in US policy in the region. President Barack Obama made this known when he announced a policy shift toward the Asia-Pacific region to confront the rising power of China. The Saudis clearly see this as indication of their reduced importance to the US. Further, Obama shocked the Saudis when he refused to launch a military strike against Syria last summer in what is now known as a carefully orchestrated plan by Bandar. This was a personal slap in the face of Bandar and public humiliation of Saudi Arabia that was long believed to be America’s indispensable ally in the region.
Soon thereafter, Bandar announced that henceforth, the kingdom would go it alone in Syria without coordinating its policy with Washington. The result has been the creation of what is called the “Islamic Front,” a grouping of six or seven different rebel factions that has taken on the Western-backed, Free Syrian Army (FSA). According to several reports, the Saudi-backed and financed Islamic Front fighters have overrun FSA positions and taken over their weapon stockpiles from depots near the Turkish border. The FSA chief Salim Idriss is also reportedly on the run.
The Saudis are determined to sabotage the Geneva II conference on Syria that is scheduled for January 22. Saudi-backed groups are putting forward conditions for participation that would almost certainly wreck the chances of holding a conference. The Syrian government has also said it will only attend if there are no pre-conditions. This is what Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN and Arab League envoy had announced when the date of Geneva II was made public in November.
Syrian government forces have been making steady progress recently as rebel groups fight each other. This has weakened them considerably. Further, their barbaric practices have repelled most Syrians. They do not want the Bashar al-Asad regime to be replaced by people indulging in beheadings and cannibalism. Such behavior is no bar to the Saudis; they want al-Asad removed regardless of the price the Syrian people may have to pay. Already millions of Syrians are refugees and the UN has asked for $6.5 billion in emergency aid otherwise these people will face virtual starvation. Conditions in refugee camps whether in Lebanon or Jordan are appalling. Recent snowstorms, unusual for the region, have added to the refugees’ woes.
The plight of refugees, however, is not something that bothers the Saudis. Instead, they welcome it because it garners more sympathy for the Syrian people, which Saudi Arabia can blame on the Asad regime. It is interesting to note that even US Secretary of State John Kerry has announced that he might meet Syrian rebel groups affiliated with al-Qaeda. Did the US not invade Afghanistan to get rid of al-Qaeda or was that just a ruse to invade the mountainous but mineral-rich country?
The mastermind of the Saudi-Zionist alliance is Bandar. During his long tenure as Saudi ambassador to Washington, he cultivated close links with the neocons, especially the Zionists. His lavish parties were well known for booze and scantily clad women (one wonders what the Saudi ministry responsible for “enjoining good and preventing vice” would say about such conduct or is it permissible if one of the Saudi royals indulges in it?).
Soon after it became clear that the US would not attack Syria as the Saudis had hoped and planned for, Bandar went to the Jordanian port city of Aqaba to meet director of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, Tamir Pardo. The aim was to coordinate Saudi-Israeli policy on Syria and Iran. This information was leaked by a source within the Saudi embassy in Amman, Jordan, indicating that within the Saudi ruling circles, there are strong differences.
It needs recalling that when the plot to stage the uprising in Syria was hatched in a Paris café in February 2011, Bandar attended it together with the US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro and US Undersecretary of State Jeffrey Feltman. Naturally a number of Syrian opposition figures were also involved. Both Shapiro and Feltman are Zionists and staunchly pro-Israel. The received wisdom at the time was that the Asad regime would collapse within a matter of months if not weeks.
Bandar has been making other moves as well, since the US refusal to attack Syria last August. He reportedly met with French President Francois Hollande when he visited Tel Aviv to meet Netanyahu. According to the Lebanese website, al-Hadath, Bandar proposed common policy on Iran’s nuclear policy to try and sabotage any deal with the US. Further, Bandar proposed the strengthening of Saudi defences (read, the Saudis would purchase more weapons, this time from France). This must have been music to Hollande’s ears since the French economy is struggling and any cash inflow would be welcome.
The Saudis’ open embrace of Zionists reflects their desperation. It should, however, alert all sincere Muslims to the true nature of this regime. The question that Muslims must ask is, whether the two holy cities of Makkah and Madinah can be left in the hands of Zionist allied Saudis. If Masjid al-Aqsa is under the direct occupation of the Zionists, Makkah and Madinah are under the indirect occupation of the Zionists since the Saudis are their close allies.
How long will Muslims tolerate this state of affairs to continue?
Aal Saud: From British to American lap
Always on the lookout for foreign protection, the illegitimate House of Saud rule in the Arabian Peninsula eagerly embraced Uncle Sam once he emerged as a global cop after the Second World War.
Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Saud had declared himself king once he occupied Makkah and Madinah under the excuse of the indifference of “foreign Muslims and later on the House of Saud switched from British to American tutelage.
Like his British paymasters, ‘Abd al-‘Aziz was playing a double role, as far as his local allies were concerned. His promises to the Ikhwan to establish a state where Islamic Shari‘ah would be supreme, ran contrary to his subservience to the British. He kept his Ikhwan allies in the dark about the money he was receiving from the British. Had they known about his British links, it is certain they would have branded him a kafir, and far from fighting for him, they would have rebelled against him. It can be said with certainty that had the Ikhwan known this, there would be no “Saudi Kingdom” today.
‘Abd al-‘Aziz now had to choose between the Ikhwan and the British. But he delayed the hour of reckoning as much as he could. In the meantime, he continued to enjoy the good life that kingship brought in its wake. With the Hijaz also under his control, he collected the pilgrims’ not inconsiderable revenues that flowed into his coffers every year. With these he began to acquire guns, as well as items of luxury, such as cars. At the end of 1926, he rode in a cavalcade to Riyadh where he declared himself the king of Najd as well. Now he had two kingdoms under his control — the Hijaz and Najd. He remained the king of two kingdoms until 1932 when he proclaimed the “Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”
From 1926 onward, the Ikhwan’s dissatisfaction with ‘Abd al-‘Aziz grew. They went back to their settlements leaving Makkah, Madinah, Jeddah and Riyadh to him. But they were not left alone in their desert dwellings. British imperial ambitions were drawing arbitrary lines across the desert sand to establish borders for Transjordan, Iraq, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. British imperialism now came into conflict with the Arabians of the desert. This suited Ibn Saud fine. He too was anxious to subdue the Ikhwan. There was no more territory to conquer. As a British client, he understood his limits. He, therefore, had no more need for the Ikhwan and certainly had no intention of establishing a puritanical state based on the strict application of the Shari‘ah. That would have meant an end to the murky wheeling and dealing for which ‘Abd al-‘Aziz and his progeny have become notorious. The implementation of the harsher aspects of the Shari‘ah was kept strictly outside the walls of the palace to terrorize the population into submission. Inside, every vice was allowed, perhaps even encouraged.
A series of wars were fought against the Ikhwan throughout 1928 and 1929. Some of the well-known encounters occurred in 1929. The first took place at Sabillah near al-Artawiyah (March 1929) in which Faisal al-Daweesh of the Mutair and Sultan ibn Bijad of the ‘Utaybah were defeated. Al-Daweesh was wounded while Ibn Bijad was imprisoned. Ibn Saud also ordered the complete demolition of Ghot Ghot, the Ikhwan stronghold. In May 1929, Dhaidhan ibn Hithlain of the Ajman was tricked by Fahd, the son of ‘Abdullah ibn Jaluwi, and while negotiating terms for peace, he (Dhaidhan) was murdered. This treachery threw all of Najd into rebellion against the Ibn Saud. The Ajman, ‘Utaybah and Mutair got together but Britain supported its client, Ibn Saud ,with guns, planes, vehicles and intelligence. In August 1929, ‘Azaiyiz, Faisal al-Daweesh’s son, made a desperate bid to fight against Ibn Saud’s British-backed troops at Um Urdhumah. After bitter hand-to-hand fighting, ‘Azaiyiz and his men were defeated. He died of thirst in the desert and his skeleton was recovered many months later. This effectively broke the back of the Ikhwan revolt which continued for a little while longer. Their camels and swords were no match for the motorcades, guns and the cunning of the British. Britain had not only financed ‘Abd al-‘Aziz but backed him, first, against Hussain ibn Ali and, later, against the Ikhwan.
The British had come to stay in the Arabian Peninsula. Free from the influence of the Ikhwan, Ibn Saud now flung open his “kingdom” to foreigners. The British, as usual, were there ahead of everyone else. Harry St. John Philby, father of Kim Philby who gained notoriety when he defected to Moscow in the early-1960s, was an eccentric Englishman. He claimed to have embraced Islam and became an “advisor” to the now old and limping ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Saud. (He was not really that old but nearly blind in one eye and in poor health). Philby began to direct Saudi policy on all matters.
He came none too soon, for the great depression had descended upon the world. With it the pilgrim traffic declined, decimating ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Saud’s revenues. He was in desperate need of cash. Relief came by way of the Americans through one Charles R. Crane. Crane, a plumber from Chicago, had made a fortune out of providing relief for his fellow countrymen by selling them sanitary wares. Crane had already gained from experience of the Muslim East when President Woodrow Wilson had sent him in 1919, together with Dr. Henry King — thus the King-Crane Commission — to ascertain the wishes of the people of Palestine toward the partition scheme which would create a Zionist State there. In 1931, Crane came back looking for Arabian horses but ended up signing an agreement to prospect for oil in the vast emptiness of the Arabian desert. Oil, the black gold, had already been discovered in Iran in 1908, and in Bahrain the Standard Oil Company of California — Socal — struck it in 1932. After a preliminary survey through Crane’s agent, Philby, now also working as an agent for Socal, brokered an agreement giving the American company a sixty-year concession in Hasa, eastern Arabia. The Americans agreed to pay ‘Abd al-‘Aziz in gold sovereigns. Socal, later to be transformed into the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco), first struck oil in March 1938. More oil was discovered in mid-1938 and Arabia under Ibn Saud was already on its way to new fortunes when the Second World War broke out.
The Americans could no longer afford to risk their tankers on the long journey to the Persian Gulf bringing oil. Thus, Ibn Saud’s fortunes began to decline again. But along came the British to his rescue, once again. In 1940, even while Britain was tightening its belt at home, it sent food and supplies to ‘Abd al-‘Aziz to pacify the hungry — and angry — people and to keep their protégé in power until after the war.
The war years were lean times for all, especially ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Saud who was dependent upon revenues from pilgrims, the sale of dates, hand-outs from the British and revenues from oil. The war had affected everything. The pilgrims’ numbers declined to 32,000 in 1940. The dates, already affected by drought in Najd, were not sold in such large quantities since there were fewer pilgrims to buy them. The British could ill-afford to pay large sums to him during the war just as the Americans did not want to risk their tankers.
But ‘Abd al-‘Aziz must consider himself extremely fortunate. In 1943, the Americans suddenly discovered that as a gas station for the allied war effort, they were pumping out 63% of the world’s oil consumption daily. At this rate, they were depleting their reserves at the rate of 3% annually. This was a frightening realization for a country beginning to have visions of becoming a superpower. The US Interior Secretary, Harold L. Ickes, came up with an ingenious plan to “save American oil: burn foreign oil.” A US memorandum of December 1942 had already recorded “that the development of Saudi Arabian petroleum resources should be viewed in the light of the broad national interests.” Armed with such “vital interests” to protect, the Americans arrived with the Lend-Lease agreement which was signed in February 1943. Some $33 million poured into ‘Abd al-‘Aziz’s coffers in two years after the signing of the agreement over and above oil revenues. While the Americans were robbing Arabia with both hands, cash-strapped ‘Abd al-‘Aziz thought he had struck gold. Like a feudal lord, he distributed the revenues from oil among his sons, relatives and sycophants, as if it was his private fortune. This practice continues to this day.
Since 1943, the Americans have not looked back. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, American companies paid whatever they felt like for a barrel of oil. In August 1960, for instance, Monroe Rathbone, the chief executive officer of Esso, today’s Exxon, unilaterally decided to slash the price his company would pay to oil producers from $2 to $1.80. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) did not exist then. Even so, for two years after it was formed on September 9, 1960, the Americans refused to recognize or deal with it. But America’s interest in Saudi Arabia was not confined to oil alone. As successor to Britain’s mantle as superpower, America now took it upon itself to police the world. And among all its clients, Saudi Arabia held the key to controlling the Muslim world because of the Haramayn — the two holy places of Islam — as the British had realized before the turn of the century.
Production of oil brought American technicians and “advisors” in its wake. Later, the US military also joined in. Saudi princes were flown to America and introduced to the American version of modernization and corruption. So impressed were the Saudis by the American way of life that they began to import everything from the US, including sand. Concrete jungles began to sprout in the middle of the desert, much like the monstrosities that the Americans have created in New York, Chicago or Houston. The Saudis couldn’t pay fast enough to import these American-style cities to their land awash in oil wealth.
Saudi Arabia’s importance in the US scheme of things would have declined but for two developments that forced a re-evaluation in US thinking. One was the OPEC price-hike of October 1973 after the limited war that Egypt and Syria fought against the Zionist State. The other, more serious, was the success of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in February 1979. The successive wars between the Arabians and the Zionists were designed to drive home the point to the Arabians that Israel was an “invincible power” and unless the Arabs came to terms with it, they would lose even more. Along the same lines, the Americans wanted to use the Saudis to break the power of OPEC. The manner in which the price of oil crashed from a high of nearly $36 per barrel in 1981 to almost $10 at the beginning of 1987 was achieved primarily through the Saudis.
The wars of June 1967 and October 1973 between the Arabians and the Zionists were designed to pave the way for the Arabian rulers’ surrender to Israel. The Arabians’ temporary and limited victory in October 1973 was conceded in order to redeem some of their lost honour. Anwar Sadat’s dramatic visit to Jerusalem in November 1977, exactly 60 years after Balfour’s infamous declaration, was a confirmation of the Muslims’ fate as a defeated people. But the uprising against the Shah in 1978 and the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in February 1979 badly upset these American designs for the world of Islam. In their arrogance, however, they thought that the Islamic Revolution will prove another temporary phenomenon, much like the Algerian revolution or Nasser’s nationalist eruption in Egypt.
The Saudi role too has undergone a curious transformation. Nasser was viewed by the Saudis with great apprehension because of his revolutionary rhetoric. The Ba‘th Party, in Iraq and Syria, was an even more extreme mutant of the kind of nationalism espoused by Nasser. Thus, the Saudis always felt threatened by Ba‘thism. This led them into a close working relation with the Shah of Iran, another US client in the region, against the radical Ba‘thists who were aligned with the Soviet Union. However, immediately after the success of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the rise of Saddam Husain as the absolute dictator in Iraq, the Saudi policy changed radically. This was not the result of any softening of attitude on the part of Saddam; the change occurred in the perception of the House of Saud. When faced with the emerging power of Islam in Iran, the Saudis even became prepared to strike a deal with the hated Ba‘thists.
The West, especially the Americans, too did everything to destroy the fledging Islamic Republic. Internal uprisings, sabotage and assassination of leading figures of the Islamic Revolution were all part of a policy to bring the Islamic Republic to its knees. When everything else failed to shake the faith of the Iranian people in Islam, a full-fledged invasion was launched from Iraq. This invasion was supposed to destroy the Islamic Republic and replace it by a military dictatorship of America’s choosing. The Iraqi Ba‘thists were financed by their Arabian cohorts, armed by the Soviet Union, France, Britain and Romania and given political and military support and intelligence data by the US. For nearly eight years the Islamic State of Iran singlehandedly withstood the combined might of kufr relying only on Allah (swt) and their inner strength. Not only were the Ba‘thist invaders driven out of Iran but military operations were taken into Iraqi territory itself. Despite a contribution of more than $181 billion by the Arabian regimes to the Iraqi war effort, the Ba’thists failed to destroy the Islamic State.
The Saudis worked closely with the US in this conspiracy against Islam. The AWACS planes that were hurriedly sent to Saudi Arabia in early 1981 were designed not to protect Saudi oil fields but to gather intelligence data on Iran’s troop movements and pass it on to Iraq. Then in mid-1986, the US provided complete layout details of Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil-loading terminal in the Persian Gulf, for Iraq to attack. At the same time, the Saudis were asked to flood the market with oil. The plan was to destroy Iran’s oil export capability while the Saudis would make up the shortfall. Even prior to this, the Saudis together with the Kuwaitis had been pumping an extra 300,000 barrels of oil per day on behalf of Iraq. The oil war launched against Iran turned out to be more damaging for the Saudis and the Americans than Iran. Oil-producing states in the US such as Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana suffered considerably as a result of the oil price crash.
1986 was a bad year for US President Ronald Reagan and America. First, the Iraqis lost Faw Peninsula to Iran in February 1986. It was followed by major Iraqi losses in Kurdistan. In November, news broke out of Reagan’s secret attempts to try to establish relations with the Islamic State of Iran. A team led by Reagan’s former national security advisor, Robert McFarlane, had tried to sneak into Iran carrying forged Irish passports. At first the US denied the story but when Iran’s Majlis speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani confirmed that the Americans had tried to establish a dialogue with Iran through the McFarlane visit, a crisis erupted in the White House. A number of senior Reagan aides had to resign or were fired.
America’s European allies were furious at being double-crossed: the US was secretly shipping arms to Iran while outwardly leading the drive to impose an arms embargo. The US’ Arabian allies felt even more let down. For years they had presented themselves as close allies of the US. This had also put many of these rulers at great personal risk with their own people. Yet, the US was secretly sending weapons to Iran. The Arabians took this as a great snub. But what could they do? They huffed and they puffed but then calmed down, hoping that the US would do something to redeem whatever little honour they had left.
The crisis in the Persian Gulf, the decision to flag Kuwaiti tankers and US sabre-rattling in early 1987 against Iran were designed to achieve two things: divert attention at home from what came to be called the Iran-Contra affair and to restore US credibility among its Arabian clients. The Arabian regimes and especially Saudi Arabia and Bahrain put their military bases and facilities at the disposal of the US for a showdown with Iran. The July 31, 1987 massacre of Iranian hujjaj in Makkah was part of this devilish plan to cast Iran in a bad light. Iran had to be “punished” not only for what it was or was not doing vis-à-vis the war, but because it had upset the US plan for the Arabian regimes’ surrender to Israel.
The Makkah massacre was an ingenuous plan in which America would emerge the winner regardless of the outcome. If the plan succeeded by turning the issue into a Shi‘i-Sunni conflict, then the US could claim to have the “support” of the “Sunni” Muslim world in its attack on Iran. If it failed, the Americans would disclaim any responsibility for it and let Saudi King Fahd bear the consequences.
Since the Makkah massacre and despite the vicious propaganda by the Saudi regime, the Muslim world’s attention has been focused on the question of the future of the Haramayn and the illegitimacy of the House of Saud as its “guardian.” Bob Woodward’s book, The Veil, has exposed the Saudis’ true nature and close involvement in the CIA’s dirty wars, their contribution to the Contras’ fund on behalf of the US and their assistance in the plot to assassinate Shaykh Seyyed Fadhlallah in Beirut in March 1985. It was Bandar bin Sultan who masterminded the plot to assassinate Shaikh Fadhlallah. Then CIA director, William Casey was part of the plot that failed because the Seyyed had left the masjid immediately after Salah al-Jumu‘ah and before the car bomb exploded.
The Saudis have undertaken other criminal activities on behalf of the US. They now stand exposed in the Muslim world not only as American agents but also as Zionist agents. Not even their paid agents are able to defend Saudi conduct in any forum. Most Muslims wish an end to this decrepit family and the cleansing of the sacred territory of the Arabian Peninsula from these polluters. Recent developments may perhaps hasten their downfall. It will come none too soon.
The two holiest cities of Islam—Makkah and Madinah under the occupation of Aal Saud
The Muslim world is in so much turmoil because Muslims have allowed the two holiest cities of Islam—Makkah and Madinah—to fall into the hands of primitive savages from the darkest crevices of the desert in Nejd, Central Arabia. It is important to know where the House of Saud emerged from.
Many problems confronting the Muslim world can be traced directly or indirectly to the House of Saud that controls the Arabian Peninsula. What is less well known, especially among Muslims, is the origin and nature of this clan-based family from the deep crevices of Central Arabia. It is important to trace their origin to better understand the role they play and who supports them in pursuing their nefarious agenda.
In 1744ce, an alliance was struck in Najd, Central Arabia that was to have far-reaching consequences for the whole of the Arabian Peninsula and later the Muslim world. A self-styled preacher named Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab, claiming to be influenced by the teachings of Imam Ibn Taymiyah (died 728ah/1328ce), emerged in Najd allegedly to cleanse Islam of its degrading accretions. In his zeal, Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab ordered many shrines and tombs to be destroyed. As a self-proclaimed qadi (judge), he instituted death by stoning for those proclaimed guilty of adultery.
Najd had no organized society at the time. People lived as part of clans and tribes and wandered in the desert in search of water and food. Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab too had wandered eastward toward the Persian Gulf but supposedly in quest of knowledge. He is reported to have gone through a phase of Sufism, finally settling for the strict interpretations of what he understood to be the teachings of the Hanbali scholar Imam Ibn Taymiyah.
But Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab did not find the Najdis prepared to accept his half-baked literalist interpretations that had little basis in the Qur’an or the Sunnah of the noble Messenger (pbuh). Both his father and older brother Sulayman chastised him for his distorted views. In fact, his father forbade him from propagating such views in public. As long as his father ‘Abd al-Wahhab was alive, the son kept largely to himself. In 1744 he moved to Dar‘iyyah, a few miles north of Riyadh where the local chief and bully, Muhammad ibn Saud, welcomed him. Ibn Saud needed a religious crutch to lend him respectability. The combination proved deadly. Inter-marriages took place between the children of Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab and Ibn Saud. Soon, the Saudi hordes erupted from Dar‘iyyah first subduing Riyadh and then bringing virtually the whole of Najd under their control.
The children of Ibn Saud and Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab, now called Wahhabis, inter-married and multiplied. And they continued to raid settlements and caravans in the tradition of Arabian tribes of the time. In 1802 they turned their attention to Makkah and Madinah. When Ta’if, 40 miles south of Makkah, resisted the assault, every male inhabitant that the Wahhabis could lay hands on was slaughtered. The terrified people of Makkah and Madinah opened their gates in the hope that they would be spared the fate of Ta’if. With the people subdued, the Wahhabis resorted to their now-infamous activity of targeting religious shrines and places of historical importance. These were smashed without regard to their significance in Islamic history. When the pilgrim caravans from Syria and Egypt arrived, they too were driven back and condemned as mushriks and kafirs. Thus, the Wahhabi raiders prevented Muslims from performing Hajj, one of the fundamental pillars of Islam, by hurling accusations of takfir against them.
When news of the Ta’if massacre and pillage and destruction of Makkah and Madinah reached the sultan (khalifah) in Istanbul, he was furious. The Hijaz, that contains the two holy cities of Makkah and Madinah, was under Uthmaniyyah (Ottoman) jurisdiction. The sultan ordered Muhammad ‘Ali, his viceroy in Egypt, to punish the Wahhabi raiders. In 1813, Makkah and Madinah were freed from Wahhabi control but taking Dar‘iyyah, in the Najdi heartland, proved more difficult. Finally, in 1819, Muhammad ‘Ali’s son, Ibrahim Pasha, defeated the Wahhabis and their capital, Dar‘iyyah, was razed to the ground. The Wahhabis never rebuilt it. Instead, they left it in dilapidated state, like a ghost town, as a relic to their presumed past glory. They moved down the Wadi Hanifah to Riyadh to build their new base, only to lose that in 1891 to the Ibn Rasheeds from Hayl.
The Wahhabis, now led by ‘Abd al-Rahman fled eastward and sought refuge with Shaykh Mubarak al-Sabah in Kuwait. ‘Abd al-Rahman’s son, ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Saud, the man credited with establishing the modern State of Saudi Arabia, was then in his teens. While ‘Abd al-Rahman sulked in his tent on the outskirts of Kuwait, young ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Saud went on raiding parties with members of other tribes. Looting and plundering was the way of the bedouin. ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Saud soon gained notoriety for his ruthlessness and guile.
In January 1902, ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Saud led a group of men to stage a stealth attack at the Mismak fortress in Riyadh. In the early morning raid, Ibn Rasheed’s governor, Shaykh Ajlan, was killed and the garrison surrendered. Once dependent on the Ibn Rasheeds for survival after their rout from Dar‘iyyah (1819), the Ibn Sauds now became their mortal enemies. After the capture of Riyadh, other skirmishes followed with the Ibn Rasheeds, but ‘Abd al-‘Aziz survived either by stroke of good luck as at al-Dilam (1903) or by bribing tribes loyal to Ibn Rasheed. In 1905 he pledged loyalty to the Turkish sultan but did everything to undermine it. The following year, ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Saud killed Ibn Rasheed, also named ‘Abd al-‘Aziz, who had the backing of the Turks, at Rawdah al-Muhanna, thus crippling the Ibn Rasheeds’ power in Najd. In between, ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Saud indulged in his favorite pastime — that of robbing caravans — without any distinction between merchants and pilgrims. In fact, robbing caravans was the favourite activity of all Arabian chiefs; ‘Abd al-‘Aziz was simply the biggest thief.
Since his days in Kuwait, the young ‘Abd al-‘Aziz had realized that control over his territory could only be exercised with external support. The Arabian tribes were forever fighting each other. He could not turn to the Turks for help because they were supporting the Ibn Rasheeds. ‘Abd al-‘Aziz had witnessed how the other external power — Britain — had already assisted Shaykh Mubarak to retain control in Kuwait. Might not Britain be interested in helping Ibn Saud fight the Turks? Any overtures that ‘Abd al-‘Aziz made to Britain at the time were rebuffed. Imperial Britain was far too preoccupied with the Hijaz to pay any attention to an upstart clan chief from the dark crevices of Najd. If Britain had need for any Najdis, their loyalty could be purchased easily.
Britain’s interest in the Hijaz was not only commercial, with the important Red Sea port at Jeddah, but also political. The British had realized that control of the area must not only be wrested from the Turks but placed in the hands of someone who would do Britain’s bidding. The Hijaz, with the Haramayn — the two holy cities of Makkah and Madinah — was far too important to be left to the Muslims. The Haramayn, and especially Makkah could be used as a focus of propaganda against the British government. In fact such sentiments were expressed by Captain R.F. Burton (later Sir Richard Burton) in the early-1850s when he visited Makkah and Madinah. A few years later, the British Consul at Jeddah, Zohrab, spelled it out even more clearly,
The point of real importance to England politically, I believe, the Hedjaz (sic), as the focus of Moslem (sic) thought and the nuclear (sic) from which radiate ideas, advice, instructions, and dogmatic implications… The Hedjaz is also a point of much political important (sic) to England and its relations with India… (Certain persons) I am persuaded, proceed on the Hadj (sic) for political reasons. Mecca being free for (sic) European intrusion is safe ground on which meetings can be held, ideas exchanged… Up to the present time we have kept no watch on those who come and go… thus meetings may be convened at Mecca at which combinations hostile to us may form without our knowing anything till the shell burst in our medst (sic)… If this Consulate could have a trusty Mussalman agent at Mecca, I believe a great deal of valuable intelligence could be obtained.
In fact, he went further. Zohrab later claimed that since there were 60 million British Muslim subjects compared to Turkey’s 16 million, Britain had a greater right to appoint the Sharif (amir) of Makkah!
The appointment of the Sharif of Makkah had devolved on the Turkish sultan since the Hijaz was made a vilayet (province) of the Uthmaniyyah State in 1840. From the turn of the century, Britain cultivated independent links with the Sharif of Makkah in an attempt to use him against the sultan in Istanbul. At the same time, by infiltrating Turkish forces and co-opting their members into Masonic Lodges, Britain and France undermined the authority of the Turkish sultan. In July 1908, Young Turks, operating under the name of the Committee for Union and Progress, seized power and sent Sultan ‘Abd al-Hamid II into exile. This opened the gates for the balkanization of the Muslim East. Husayn ibn ‘Ali, who was appointed amir of Makkah on November 1, 1908, now exercised far greater “independence” from Istanbul than his predecessors had enjoyed. Propped up by British money and guns and the intrigues of British agents like T.E. Lawrence, Sharif Husayn started to have visions of ruling the whole of Arabia, free from Turkish control. The British did everything to encourage him in this, for they needed the Arabians to rebel against Turkey. This was the classic British policy of divide and rule. They promised Sharif Husayn the throne of the whole of Arabia in return for his rebellion against the Turks.
Long before the British promise to Husayn ibn ‘Ali, the Turks had seen through their game. In a candid and quite perceptive commentary in the Makkan newspaper, Hijaz, the Turks expressed their suspicions of British designs on the Hijaz, “Those who watch the English Government can see that her designs are directed toward the holiest places of Islam. She wishes to occupy them but she knows that achieving such a purpose would not be an easy matter, and she therefore tries by the most devilish means to reach this end.” (Hijaz, No. 1896, 25 Safar 1333ah (1914ce), p.1).
As events progressed, Britain’s “devilish” plans unfolded much as Turkey had predicted.
Saudis to demolish Holy Prophet’s house in Makkah
he Saudi Wahabbis do not consider anything to be sacred. In their drive to build concrete and steel structures so that the so-called royals can make money, they have decided to soon demolish the last vestiges of Prophetic history. Now will soon demolish the house in Makkah where the Holy Prophet (pbuh) was born. A massive shopping complex will be built on the site.
In their obsession to build concrete and steel monstrosities in the most holy of Islamic cities—Makkah—the Saudi regime decided to demolish the house where the noble Messenger, peace be upon him (pbuh), was born.
The demolition is part of a multi-billion project to build a shopping, commercial and residential complex that will ostensibly serve the pilgrims that come for Umrah or Hajj.
The Saudi Wahabbis are planning to send in bolldozers to start the demolition.
Some years ago, when the regime had planned to demolish the house, residents of Makkah approached the municipality and urged officials to spare the house. At that time, a parking lot was planned on the site.
Saudi Wahhabi regime converted the house of Holy Prophet (pbuh) into a library but it is closed to public.
The Saudi regime postponed the so-called development project at the time but they are about to send in the bulldozers now.
All around the Haram in Makkah and Madinah, historical sites have been bulldozed to make room for concrete and steel structures that make the two holy cities look like replicas of New York or San Francisco.
For the Saudi Wahhabi regime, nothing is sacred. They have destroyed at least 90 percent of the historic sites and the remaining 10 percent are also due for demolition.
The Saudi Wahhabi regime have decided to demolish the Cave of Hira which is situated at Jabal al-Noor atop where the noble Messenger (pbuh) received his first revelation is destined to be bulldozed. In their archaic thinking, the Saudi Wahabbis believe people are indulging in bidaa by going up the mountain to pray in the Cave or even visit it.
In their zeal to prevent “bidaa”, the Saudi regime wants to bulldoze an entire mountain!
The mega bidaas the Saudi Wahhabi themselves indulge in are conveniently overlooked. For instance, naming the Arabian Peninsula as “Saudi” Arabia is not only a bidaa, it is shirk. The family does not own the holy land. There is no country named after a family anywhere except the Arabian Peninsula, the name given to it by the Prophet (pbuh).
Another major bidaa the Saudi regime is involved in to get fatwas from their Wahabbi heretical outfit court ulama saying money from the Bait al-Maal can be used to construct these monstrosities because these buildings will serve the pilgrims.
Yet, the money collected from pilgrims goes into the pockets of members of the House of Saud. Thus, they are involved in massive theft from the pilgrims.
The entire area surrounding the Masjid al-Haram now looks like a huge shopping mall. There are also five-star hotels where the rich pilgrims can stay and do not have to come to the floor of the Haram.
The Saudis have thus created different classes of Hajj when in fact this is an Islamic obligation that is meant to demolish all distinctions.
Unfortunately, Saudi Wahabbi religious authorities provide legitimacy to such destructive projects. For instance, in April 2013, Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah al-Sheikh issued a statement defending demolition of early Islamic heritage sites in Makkah and Madinah.
No Saudi Wahabbi shaikh has so far questioned the legitimacy of the monarchical system when it is expressly forbidden in Islam.
Saudi Hires an Israeli Company for Hajj Security
It is reported by Orouba Othman in Al-Akhbar English Daily published Monday, October 7, 2013, http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/17253 that this year, the mandatory Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, or hajj, will compound the Palestinians’ woes. Palestinian pilgrims will be greeted by a company that assists in their repression – and even torture – under the Israeli occupation regime. Indeed, hajj this year will be brought to you by none other than G4S.
This is not the first time that the Saudi government has hired the private security firm, which has recruited a staggering 700,000 to provide hajj-related services this year, according to exclusive information obtained by Al-Akhbar. Most of the leaked reports indicate that security for the hajj season since 2010 has been entrusted to al-Majal G4S, an affiliate of the parent company G4S.
The private security contractor has also been implicated in enabling the torture of administrative detainees in Palestine, including children, according to BDS activist Zaid Shuaibi.
The CEO of al-Majal G4S is a former security official in Saudi named Khaled Baghdadi. The Saudi subsidiary is fully owned by the British-Danish firm.
The parent company has not disclosed the nature of the contracts it has signed with the Saudi authorities. In its periodic reports, G4S makes limited references to its Saudi operations, such as winning a contract with Jeddah Metro to assist with security during the hajj, or stating that the company assists in the transport of more than 3 million pilgrims who visit Mecca each year. In 2011, the website Asrar Ararabiya – Arab Secrets – published an ad by the company asking people to apply to work in Mecca for seven days only, during hajj.
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign has not been sitting idly by. In a press conference on Wednesday, October 2, the campaign sent a clear message to the Saudi government, urging it to terminate the contract with the company that happens to provide equipment and security services to protect Israeli settlements, occupation checkpoints, and police facilities. The private security contractor has also been implicated in enabling the torture of administrative detainees in Palestine, including children, according to BDS activist Zaid Shuaibi.
BDS activists were not the only ones to react to the news. Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, the head of the Supreme Islamic Council in Jerusalem and the imam of al-Aqsa Mosque, has proclaimed, “This company operates in security, and has activities and commitments in areas under Israeli occupation. Those who help the occupation must be held accountable and are complicit in the crime, as those who help aggressors also are aggressors.”
Shuaibi, speaking to Al-Akhbar, said that the BDS campaign contacted the Palestinian Ministry of Economy, being the competent authority in the issue of boycotting settlements, such as the ones serviced by G4S. But according to Shuaibi, “The ministry did not bother to respond or take action to stop the abuse, even as the company violates Palestinian law by continuing to provide services to the settlements.”
Zionists announce plans to destroy Masjid al-Aqsa
The Zionists have long harbored ill-intentions towards Masjid al-Aqsa and the Haram al-Sharif. These evil intentions received a boost when Israel’s Minister for Housing and Construction Uri Ariel announced that the so-called “Third Temple” would be built there.
The Zionists are nothing if not brazen in their conduct; some may even call them lunatics. One has to give them credit for chutzpah. The vast majority of Zionists do not believe in God but insist He “promised” them the Holy Land and that they have the “right” to destroy Islam’s holy sites in order to build their “Third Temple” there instead.
It is no secret that they have evil intentions on al-Masjid al-Aqsa and the entire al-Haram al-Sharif (the sacred sanctuary that houses both al-Masjid al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock). They want to destroy the noble sanctuary and have been digging tunnels underneath it under the pretext of archaeological excavations but in reality to weaken the foundations of the structure to bring it down.
The Israeli Minister of Housing and Construction (Destruction?) Uri Ariel announced on January 24, 2014 that the Zionists plan to destroy the Aqsa Mosque so that the mythical “Third Temple” can be built there. Ariel admitted that the first and second temples were destroyed many years ago (thousands of years ago, in fact) so the third one must be built now.
“Al-Aqsa Mosque is currently in place of the temple,” he claimed. And since the racist Zionists consider themselves superior to all other human beings, their (the Zionists’) rights take precedence over those of others to satiate their maniacal goals. Others’ sacred territory and history are irrelevant and of no consequence, as far as the Zionists are concerned. Ariel’s announcement becomes particularly ominous in view of recent attempts by Zionist squatters, euphemistically referred to as “Jewish settlers,” trying to barge onto the sacred sanctuary.
This is not the first time the Zionists have made attempts to destroy al-Masjid al-Aqsa, the first qiblah of Muslims and the third holiest site in Islam after Makkah and Madinah. On August 21, 1969, an Australian illegal immigrant, Denis Michael Rohan set fire to the minbar in al-Masjid al-Aqsa causing extensive damage. There was strong reaction among Muslims worldwide. Rohan was declared “insane” for his sacrilegious act. When the Zionists cannot hide their ugly conduct, they seek refuge behind the lunacy claim. The entire Zionist enterprise is based on the lunatic notion of God’s bequeathing the Holy Land to them in perpetuity. What have they done to earn God’s special favour?
What about Ariel Sharon’s barging his ponderous bulk onto the sacred sanctuary on September 28, 2000 accompanied by hundreds of heavily armed Zionist soldiers? Was Sharon also mad? For the record, he died on January 6, 2014 after remaining in a coma for eight years (since 2006). We hope he is now lodged in the lowest depths of Hell in the company of Adolf Hitler whose barbaric methods he emulated and fully implemented.
It was the Babylonian king Nebuchnezzer (Bakht Nasr) who in 598bce destroyed the sacred Temple built by Prophet Sulayman (a). Bakht Nasr wiped out all traces, including its foundations. Later rebuilt, the Second Temple was destroyed by the Roman Emperor Titus in 70ce. Both destructions occurred as a result of the corruption Banu Israel spread on earth. The Qur’an as well as the Bible and the Torah refer to these punishments inflicted on the Yahud for their mischievous behavior.
The Qur’an says, “And We made this known to the Children of Israel through revelation: ‘Twice, indeed will you spread corruption on earth and will indeed become grossly overbearing’.” (17:04). Three ayat later (17:07), the Qur’an refers to their second humiliation and destruction. Even the Torah has references to such destruction (Leviticus 26:14–39; Deuteronomy 28:15–68). The Bible contains the prophecies of the Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, John and Jesus (a) warning the mischief-making Children of Israel of the impending wrath of God.
For Muslims, the sacredness of al-Masjid al-Aqsa and indeed al-Haram al-Sharif is part of prophetic history. The noble Messenger’s (pbuh) Isra’ wa-al-Mi‘raj (the night journey from al-Masjid al-Haram to al-Masjid al-Aqsa where he led all the earlier Prophets (a) in salah, and then ascended to Heaven to Sidrah al-Muntaha) are part of this sacred history.
Muslims liberated Jerusalem in 638ce/15ah when ‘Umar (ra) was the Khalifah of the Muslims. He built a simple structure on the spot where the noble Messenger (pbuh) had led the earlier Prophets (a) in salah. This area is called al-Masjid al-Aqsa. Later, this structure was improved (705ce) plus another structure, the Dome of the Rock with its imposing Golden Dome was also constructed. Together, the two masjids are part of the al-Haram al-Sharif.
While the masjids have suffered damage in the past — as a result of earthquakes in 746ce and again in 1033ce — they were rebuilt in even greater glory. Even the temporary loss to the Crusaders from 1099–1187ce did not diminish their importance or significance in Islamic spirituality. When Salah al-Din Ayyubi liberated Jerusalem from the Crusaders, he restored the two sacred masjids and even installed a special minbar in al-Masjid al-Aqsa that had been ordered constructed by his maternal uncle Nur al-Din Zangi. He died before he could finish the project hence it was left to Salah al-Din to fulfill his late uncle’s wishes.
It was this minbar that the Australian “madman” Rohan had tried to set on fire in August 1969; he set the entire Muslim world on fire. Now an otherwise sane-looking minister in the Zionist cabinet wants to destroy the whole of al-Masjid al-Aqsa.
What the Zionists want is to trigger a Third World War with their nonsensical notion of the “Third Temple.” They may yet get their wish but when the dust settles, there may not be a Zionist entity left in the world.
As far as the Arabian regimes surrounding Occupied Palestine are concerned, they will have to be dealt with the same way that Salah al-Din dealt with the ones he faced before he confronted the Crusaders in 1187ce. The Arabian regimes were created by British colonialists to facilitate the creation of the Zionist entity.
Instead of fulfilling their responsibilities, these regimes are busy stoking the flames of sectarianism in the Ummah so that the Zionists can continue to pursue their nefarious agenda. In this, they are partners in crime with the Zionists. Or as Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion said, “The Arab[ian] regimes are Israel’s first line of defence.”
The annihilation of the Zionist entity near
Some Zionists seem to think so. They are predicting that an unusual series of lunar eclipses or “blood moons” expected in 2014 and 2015 augurs war and disaster on an epic scale.
One Zionist website warns: “It cannot be regarded as coincidence that all four blood moons of 2014/15 occur on religious festivals of Israel, together with two eclipses of the sun also on important days in 2015...According to NASA - Four 'blood-red' TOTAL lunar eclipses WILL fall again on Passover and Sukkoth in 2014 and 2015… the same back-to-back occurrences at the time of 1492, 1948 and 1967” (sic).
Meaning? “The events may involve war in the Middle East and a financial crisis around the world that will affect the land of Israel or the Jewish elite in New York City.”
These blood-moonbat Zionists think that 2014 or 2015 will go down in history alongside 1492 (the year that Jews, along with Muslims, were expelled from Spain), 1948 (the creation of the Zionist entity) and 1967 (the Zionist invasion and occupation of Jerusalem).
Citing a satanic Rothschild-financed hoax, the so-called Scofield Bible, these Zionists hope that 2014 or 2015 will bring a major Middle East war that will enable the Zionists to finish the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, demolish the al-Aqsa mosque, build a Zionist temple on the ruins of the mosque, and consecrate it with blood sacrifices – beginning with the slaughter of a pink heifer.
Are the Zionists insane? Obviously. But unfortunately, the ongoing influence of insanity on world affairs cannot be discounted.
If the Zionists believe blood moons bring war and financial crisis, they may just decide to plunge the world into war and financial crisis as a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.
They would do well to consider the words of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves...”
The Zionists have been sowing seeds of hate. They will reap a harvest of calamity. When they do, they should not blame the stars.
Even the scriptural sources of the “blood moon” prophecies should give them pause.
If the Zionists considered their own scriptures more carefully, they would realize that they have it backward. The prophecies they cite equate blood moons with disaster for the Jewish people. That means that the creation of the Zionist entity in 1948, and the murderous theft of Jerusalem in 1967, were disasters for the Jewish people – just like the expulsion from Spain in 1492. Therefore, we might expect 2014 and 2015 to bring an epic collapse of Zionism: The harvest of the toxic seeds sowed in 1948 and 1967.
But we do not need a Scofield Bible to forecast the collapse of Zionism. The worldwide anti-Zionist movement is growing every day – even in the “homelands” of the Zionist settler-colonial movement.
In Europe, more and more public figures are speaking out with increasing boldness against Zionism. The EU government has banned all 28 member states from cooperating with any Zionist entity that operates in the territories stolen in 1967 – including the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights.
A popular backlash against Zionism is exploding across Europe. Hundreds of thousands of Europeans have been flashing the “quenelle,” a satirical Zio-Nazi salute invented by France's greatest contemporary comedian, Dieudonné. The authorities in France, who are under the thumb of the powerful French Zionist community, are panicking. They have prosecuted Dieudonné for speaking out against Zionism, and recently raided his house under a transparently bogus pretext. But every attempt to squash the “quenelle” just shows how powerful (and humorless) the Zionists really are, and convinces even more people to join the movement.
In the USA, the American Studies Association has launched the first academic boycott of Israel – a landmark breakthrough for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. Heavy-handed attempts to quash BDS, such as the New York State Legislature's near-unanimous passage of a bill outlawing academic boycotts, are backfiring. Like the French government's persecution of Dieudonné, and its brutal treatment of quenelle-flashing protesters at a huge demonstration in Paris, such actions simply underline that the French and American governments are under near-total Zionist control...which only increases the angry populist backlash.
This has nothing to do with the moon. The Zionists are facing catastrophe because they can no longer suppress the truth. In the age of the Internet, and the alternative media it spawned, simply buying up the mainstream media and the politicians no longer suffices.
So perhaps the Zionists really will be facing an apocalypse in the “blood moon” years of 2014 and 2015. But that does not necessarily mean world war or financial collapse.
The word “apocalypse” is popularly understood to mean “global catastrophe or calamity.” But its first meaning is “disclosure” or “unveiling” – the disclosure or unveiling of the truth.
It is not any Iranian nuclear bomb, or Palestinian population bomb, that should concern the Zionists. Their real enemy is the slow-motion truth bomb that is gradually exploding across the world.
Zionists vaguely sense this. They realize, on some level, that their racist colonial project is doomed. That is why they suffer from what Gilad Atzmon calls “pre-traumatic stress disorder.”
The unveiling of truth, and ensuing demand for justice, is the real “apocalyptic threat” that will soon bring about the annihilation of the Zionist entity.
Bandar bin Bush, the commander of Takfiris in the world
Bandar, the illegitimate son of Sultan born of an illicit affair with a black maid, is the black sheep of the Saudi family. It is not his skin colour but his dark deeds that have aroused so much contempt for him. Like Wahshi, the murderer of Hamza (ra), he is filled with hate.
Muslims have been subjected to the worst kind of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and scandalous conspiracies. From the Yahud in Madinah, to the mushriks of Makkah, to the reprehensible resurgence of Umayyad ‘asabiyah and all its monarchical and tyrannical manifestations… to the Euro-Crusades, the Inquisitions, Mongol pillaging and ransacking, the era of colonialism and imperialism, the occupation of Palestine and Kashmir… and to the myriad other acts of aggression and hegemony in Afghanistan and Iraq. The agonies and the tragedies are nerve-racking and mind-boggling. Any sane person watching the history line of Muslims is amazed at the fact that the Muslims are still around, still counted, and still promising.
Alas, there is a new chapter to be added to the long and bloody history of aggression against the Muslims. This is the combined imperialist and Zionist drive to smother current Islamic self-determination through their vassal tribal state of Saudi Arabia.
Prince Bandar Bush bin Sultan also famous as Chemical Bandar and Bandar bin Israel
Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud born 2 March 1949 in Taif, Saudi Arabia is the dual member of the House of Bush in USA and Saud House of Saud and was Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005. He has become notorious as Chemical Bandar for his notorious role of providing chemical weapons to the Al-Qaeda terrorists fighting in Syria to topple the Bashar Assad's regime. He is known among the elites in USA, UK and Israel as Bandar bin Israel for his very close links with the Zionist regime and MOSSAD. He is also famous as 'Bandar Bush' for his intimate family links with the Bush family.
In 2005, he was named as secretary general of the National Security Council of Saudi Arabia. He was appointed director general of the Saudi Intelligence Agency by King Abdullah on 19 July 2012 to topple the Morsi's government in Egypt and bring down Bashar Assad's regime in Syria. He was successful in toppling the Morsi's government in Egypt.
Let us say it as it is: this new episode is meant to be a Sunni-Shi‘i civil war. Its tentacles extend from Pakistan to Yahudistan (Israel). The match that is lighting this fuse is the Saudi regime. And the hand that is swiping that match is Bandar ibn Sultan. Let it be known that an Islamic (Sunni-Shi‘i) civil war would be next to impossible were it not for the fanatic and takfiri types that are groomed and then let loose by the rabid religious establishment in the satanic Saudi state. Spearheading this diabolic sectarian satanic strategy is the dark prince Bandar, otherwise referred to as “Bandar Bush.” This Bandar ibn Satan is quickly becoming the master spook of practically all the sectarian havoc in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. He is off on secret missions from Israel to Turkey and from Arabia to America. He has gone mad; he is obsessed with taking down Islamic Iran.
Last year he promised his uncle-king ‘Abdullah that the Syrian regime will be gone in a matter of months. The gentleman’s agreement between Washington and Riyadh was to have Bandar in charge of Saudi intelligence to get rid of Bashar al-Asad and Hizbullah, and to force Islamic Iran to fold up its nuclear program altogether. Bandar’s demon tells him that Iran has to be destroyed by hook or by crook! Washington’s intellectual nincompoops thought that the Saudi regime with its finances and fanaticism is capable of delivering Iran on a silver platter! In the past few months the oldsters of the Saudi family have been furious with Bandar because he was spending most of his time in the Jordanian resort of ‘Aqabah hobnobbing with his Israeli counterparts — being exposed to Jordanian journalists and media.
For all we know, the recent explosions in Beirut at the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran may have been concocted by Bandar and his Israeli contacts over some cognac and kebabs, while overlooking the sandy beaches of the Gulf of ‘Aqabah with all the beach vice that inebriates the senses. Scores of deadly explosions have punctuated the landscape from the country of Jinnah to the suburb of Janah courtesy of Bandar’s evanescent schemes borne of his Zionist and imperialist bedfellows. Along this arc of sectarian warfare, literally hundreds of innocent Muslims (Sunnis and Shi‘is) are being killed every day; and in the meantime Bandar is entertaining dreams of grand delusion.
The new twist in the imperialist 5+1 may be causing Bandar some serious sleep apnea. The more it appears that Washington is on the verge of a deal of sorts with Iran, the more Bandar’s political temperature is rising. The more things continue the way they have the more Bandar may go into diplomatic daze and operative frustration.
In the larger picture, Washington is playing Bandar for the fool. Little does CIA Bandar know that he is part of the carrot and stick policy that is being used to “tame” the Islamic Republic’s legitimate pursuit of peaceful nuclear technology. Washington is all photogenic smiles in Europe while behind the scenes it is working on Bandar’s ego to kill off Islamic Iran’s 30-year foreign policy to liberate Palestine.
The dark prince of Arabia may think that unintended circumstances have aligned him with Netanyahu while in reality it is his feeble-mindedness that has bolstered this Saudi-Israeli alliance. The Zionists have a command and control position over Washington; the warlords of Washington have a choke-hold over Riyadh, and Bandar has his carrots and sticks, with which he harnesses his sectarian zombies. Thirty years ago no one in their wildest imagination would have thought that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would become instrumental in destroying Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. The Saudi-Israeli alliance has been cemented by Sultan (or is it Satan’s) love child — Bandar. The Saudi family ruling class is now in its final act of proving its worth to its Zionist and imperialist masters. The explosions in front of the Islamic Republic’s embassy in Beirut that resulted in 25 deaths and 150 wounded were not renounced by the Saudi kingdom as of this writing. The Saudi evildoers are busy financing and arming all types of takfiris in their arc of sectarianism extending from Asia’s far east to Africa’s far west.
Granted that fanatics are all over the place: Sunnis and Shi‘is. But what is emerging is that Shi‘i fanatics have not matched the level of violence perpetrated by their Sunni counterparts. This is not to say that there is something intrinsically fanatical about either Sunnis or Shi‘is. It is that a good number of Sunnis have fallen under the spell of sectarianism due to their connections with the Saudi financial family empire. Suicidal sectarians are gaining ground in some limited areas — abetted by their shadow accomplices from Mossad, the CIA, MI6, and a host of Arabian intelligence services led by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia morphing into Saudi Hebraica.
The latest seesaw developments in Syria don’t bode well for Bandar and his henchmen. There are noticeable defections and a rollback of guerrilla tactics — to the chagrin of the Saudi hodgepodge of allies. The Saudi regime led by Bandar Bush is playing with fire. They are burning their sectarian card in Syria, Iraq, Bahrain, Yemen, and Lebanon. Once sectarianism devolves into ashes, the Saudis are going to have to live with a post-sectarian Muslim world which will be able to diagnose the source of its ills — that is, Saudi Arabia. Once sectarianism is defeated in Syria, Saudi Arabia will be exposed for all to see. If the Saudi elders do not get rid of Bandar, and there is no indication yet that they will, then he is going to drag them into a hellhole on earth, and down will go Saudi Arabia, Bandar, and all.
The Saudi sectarian contagion in Lebanon is meant to shift the budding attention of renaissance Muslims from self-determination, independence, and the liberation of Palestine to sectarian self-destruction. At a time when the Saudi clan is demonizing Shi‘is, it is angelizing Israel.
Our memory is not short: in March 1985 there was an earth-shaking explosion in Bi’r al-‘Abd (a Beirut Shi‘i neighborhood) that resulted in 95 innocent civilians killed and hundreds of others injured. At that time Bandar was Saudi ambassador to Washington and he bragged about his cooperation with the CIA on American public TV. Lo and behold, Bandar’s cronies and military minions in Lebanon lost and Hizbullah emerged with confidence, credibility, and popularity. When the time comes, Bandar will realize that targeting innocent people will not advance his Israeli cause and that rubbing shoulders with Israeli officials is counterproductive.
The spike in takfiri terrorist attacks is concomitant with the sinking Saudi stature in Syria. The larger plan is to defeat Hizbullah and the resistance to Zionist occupation by engulfing them in sectarian and even petty-politics sedition. Qatar was leading the charge, now it has fallen back to a rear position with the Saudi regime in the front line of this sectarian onslaught with green lights flashing from Washington. Remember, the Saudi seniles cannot do anything without Washington’s approval and go-ahead.
For those who are living thousands of miles away from this arc of sectarianism and for those who receive their information from Saudi contaminated sources we have the following to say to them: the takfiri attitude and “rationale” within what is called “Jabhat al-Nusrah” as well as “Da‘ish” (The Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham) who are supposed to fill in after the collapse of the Syrian regime — these outfits are not in sync with the Islamic movements that all of us are familiar with. In some areas in North Africa their salafi-jihadi kith and kin are targeting members of other Islamic trends and movements. The word “targeting” here means killing.
The way information is presented in this arena is anyone who “knocks down” false Islamics is considered to be pro-Syrian regime. And anyone who is against a Saudi-Israeli-American imposed regime is considered to be pro-Syrian regime. The entanglement of this mental mess is hard to overcome simply because the media is at it night and day. And that is the dilemma of the Syrian people: the regime does not represent them and the Saudi financed and imperialist controlled rebel groups do not represent them. The Syrian regime is a utility of a larger Islamic program to liberate Palestine and the rebels are cannon fodder for a regime replacement that will be, in a best-case scenario, Zionist-neutral and in the worst case scenario, Zionist-friendly, with all the Islamic decoration and religious ornaments that go with it.
Has anyone ever taken a deep breath, stepped out of this morass for a moment and asked: who are the ‘ulama of the sectarian takfiris? Dis-entangle yourself from the zealotry and the prejudice and you will realize that these takfiri shoot-to-kill types are riding their egos and referring to internet sites that may be run by any intelligence service or a combination of them that are inimical to Islamic self-determination and a future of Islamic justice and freedom.
Bandar is a physical lovechild — his father (Sultan) sired him from an illicit affair with an African maid. Beyond the obvious, Bandar is also an emotional lovechild — his godfather (Bush) sired him from an illegitimate relation with Zio-imperialist spooks.
Verily, as for those who diabolically persuade committed Muslim men and women, and thereafter do not repent, Hell’s suffering awaits them: yes indeed, suffering through fire awaits them! (85:10)
Unity of Islamic Ummah will defeat the Takfiris
"And hold fast, All of you together, to the cord of Allah, and do not become disunited "(Al-i Imran 3:103)
Lo! Allah loveth those who battle for His cause in ranks, as if they were a solid structure.(As-Saff 61:4)
The believers are but a single brotherhood ; so make peace between your brothers ; and fear Allah so that you may receive mercy. (Al-Hujurat 49:10)
The Muslim Ummah today is 1800 millions strong and constitute one fourth of the entire mankind with diverse ethnic and linguistic origins. Their geographical location is stretched over the four corners of the globe with magnificent and unique Civilization heritage.
At present Muslim population is about 1.8 billion which makes roughly 30 per cent of world population. About 1300 million Muslims live in 56 Muslim states and are part of UN and OIC. The rest 500 million Muslim are spread in different countries. There is hardly any place on earth, which is not inhabited by Muslims. A significant number of Muslims (220 million) live in India. In Europe and America, Muslim population though insignificant in the past has now increased manifold. Widespread migrations at world level have introduced Muslims to those areas, which hitherto stood untended for centuries from the teachings of Islam. Numerical strength plus the Muslim states' geographical location have given Muslim a strategic position in today's world.
Seen in the geo-strategic outlook, the politically independent Muslim states virtually command one-fourth of the world; from Morocco to Indonesia and Kazakhstan to Turkey and Bosnia. Muslim bloc can be divided into two big geographical zones; one, a large chain starting from Morocco/Senegal and through Pakistan entering Central Asia, and two; the most important zone of Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia.
The two zones are of strategic importance for all sea, land and air transport routes. Dead Sea, Red Sea and Caspian are in the center of Muslim states. A number of Muslim countries have seacoasts on Indian and Atlantic Oceans. The important sea gateways like Damial, Suez, Port Said, Djibouti and Aden are under Muslim control. Muslim world is impregnate with important economic resources like agriculture, oil, electricity, coal, iron, uranium, tin, rubber, copper, etc.
About 1/4th of the Muslim world is not simply in a position to achieve sustained economic growth and provide adequate education and other social infrastructure to their citizens, but can also play an important role in the economic and technological development of brother Muslim countries, e.g. Turkey has the skill to manufacture F-16 fighter planes; Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Kazakhstan have economic strength to help other Muslim countries financially; Pakistan, despite strong Western resistance, has successfully advanced with its nuclear energy agenda in a period almost half that other countries might take, and; the change in oil prices of 1972 and 1980 has tilted the balance of economic strength towards Islamic countries.
In nutshell, we can safely conclude that the strength and centrality which the Muslim Ummah enjoy today has no match in its history (a fact which should never be ignored. It is another sore subject why Muslim world could not take full advantage of its present powerful position on the world checkerboard.
Throughout the last fourteen hundred years of Muslim history, even in the extreme political slumber of the last few centuries, Islamic way of life has played the most influential role in shaping the human destiny. With its divine creed and superb natural codes of practices, Islam's dynamic and assertive appeal has the edge over all other faiths or man made ideologies.
The meteoric rise and enduring might of Islamic Civilization were the result of the birth of a "best community" (khaira ummatin, Al-Qur'an 3:110) or a "middle community" (ummatan wasatan, Al-Qur'an 2:143) which Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, (SWT) had raised for mankind.
However, that role has undergone a serious setback in the past centuries due to their own indulgence and negligence. The most devastating disease of the Ummah today is their disunity and discord characterized by political, theological, sectarian and tribal conflict perpetrated by the Takfiris. Thus, the most important and heart-felt requirement of the Ummah today is the need for unity - the unity of mind and action as well as the unity of hearts and emotional feelings among its members. The Muslim hearts today are beating all over the world for their lost unity - the unity of belief, hopes and aspirations in order to seek the pleasure of Allah (SWT).
The last point is that of political unity and following the Ulil Amr Muslimeen(leader of the Muslims) and without any doubt Ayatullah al-Uzma Sayyid Ali Khamene'I, the Supreme Leader of Islamic Republic in Iran is the Ulil Amr Muslimeen.
The solution for the cause of disunity would be to grab a hold of the righteous path and live by it. That path is the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.) and his Holy Ahlul Bayt(A.S.).
A perception of one-Ummah feeling is to be created among the Muslim people all over the world. As burning of a finger aches the whole body, so should be the sensitivity of the Muslims. The sufferings of the Palestinians, Afghans, Syrians, Myanmarese and Iraqis, for example, should be so felt by them that the whole Ummah cry out together and come up with realistic help.
Equality and justice need to be established within the Ummah on the basis of Islamic brotherhood.
The Holy Qur'an says: ... Lo ! the noblest of you, in the sight of Allah, is the best in conduct. (Al-Hujurat 49:13)
But Iran has already dealt with the above issue and so can we. The solution that is adopted by the government of the Islamic Republic in Iran after the glorious Islamic Revolution of 1979 is workable all over the Muslim world. It is clearly stated in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran that the law of the land in Iran would be based on Fiqh Jafari, but the followers of all other schools would be free to practice their own Fiqh in their private and personal affairs. This highly ingenious but equally simple and uncomplicated approach represents a really enlightening lesson for the entire Muslim Ummah.
In 1990,the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic in Iran Ayatullah al-Uzma Sayyid Ali Khamene'i established "The World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought" to carry out extensive ecumenical research to explore the practical ways and measures in bringing about the proximity and understanding between all the Islamic schools of thought. This unique organization which belongs to the Islamic Ummah regularly issues the journal "Risala-tul-Taqrib" in Arabic and has published many books to bring about proximity and understanding in the Islamic Ummah.
"The World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought" has established the "Islamic Schools of Thought University" in Tehran, which is first of its kind and unique in the world where the Ulama from all the leading Islamic schools of thought teach the Islamic seminary students belonging to all the leading Islamic schools of thought hailing from various countries.
Every year on the auspicious occasion of the Birth anniversary of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) which is celebrated as the "Unity Week" (12-17 Rabi al-Awwal) between the Muslims of the world an international seminar is regularly conducted by this organization in Tehran to bring about better understanding between the 1800 millions strong Muslim Ummah.
The mass-involvement in the socio-political and cultural affairs of the Ummah need to be the part and parcel of the Muslim world. The power of a nation lies on its people. A nation can only prosper when the hopes and aspirations of those people are in harmony with those of its leaders.
Exhortation of patience and tolerance is to be practiced by the Ummah in matters of mutual affairs. The Holy Prophet's affirmation that "Diversity of opinion is a blessing, while disunity a curse" must be accepted by the Ummah with sincerity and broadmindedness. The Holy Qur'an also says ... And help one another unto righteousness and pious duty, but help not one another unto sin and transgression... (Al-Maidah 5:2)
The political spirit of the institution of Hajj needs to be restored so that it works as a platform for mutual understanding and cooperation between various Muslim groups and communities as well as Muslim countries. This will also help forging a global link among the Ummah to collectively fight the evils of modern Jahiliyah based on the materialistic godless secular world order controlled by Dajjal.
Inter-Governmental bodies like OIC and other governmental agencies, global or regional, should initiate to strengthen the cause of Muslim unity by increasing their commitment to their own declared objectives and charters. Economic cooperation, reviving the Sunnah money of Gold Dinar and the Silver Dirham, science and technology exchange as well as information and cultural cooperation should be strengthened between the Muslim countries.
These should include cooperation in the promotion of the features and history of Islamic Civilization, academic and research link in various areas of mutual interest as well as information-related and humanitarian activities. Cooperation in defending Muslim rights and Islamic values in Muslim-minority countries can lead to a better understanding among the Muslim countries.
Conclusion
The unity of the Ummah is a necessity not only for the Muslim people but also for the entire humanity. Although Islam, as a message and a model, was completed 1400 years ago, the main task of bringing all mankind into its fold has not yet materialized. Islamic unity is a major step towards achievement of the universal brotherhood of mankind. A peaceful world based on human dignity, equality and justice can only can be established if the Muslim Ummah forcefully play their global role and guide humanity. Thus, the unity of Islamic Ummah is the chief architect for foiling and countering the sedition of Takfiris and also reviving the 'Divine Civilization' in human history.
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