Thoughts of Hajia Fati's son Alfa Shaban: The Arab Spring: Destabilized Lands, Resolute Hearts

The Arab Spring: Destabilized Lands, Resolute Hearts

For their own parochial ends, they are ready to go all lengths to ensure that their perceived enemy (ies) looks bad in the face of all people especially in a media driven by their apparatchiks and I dare say apologists.

Having taken the fight to people the world over, many are those that they have lost yet the news is about how they have triumphed in all aspects of the war against their enemies. In any case who was the referee in a lopsided battle that they have leaped blindly into?

The last year or so has seen the Arab world go through perhaps its most turbulent period in recent history with a chain of agitations that has been branded and thrust in the minds of the world as; ‘the Arab Spring.’

The remote causes of this aren’t up for elucidation neither are the ‘supposed’ immediate causes. But if there was a time to look back and reflect on the gains or otherwise of the exercise; it’s now.

How better have the new persons and institutions professing to be offering leadership doing. The west has succeeded in forcing Arabs in the respective countries to embrace their type of democracy.

Either or; depose the king/President and sentence them to ridiculous prison terms or fight them to death – as was the case in the murder of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi.

Those lands are worse off if you ask me, than they were in the times of their ‘bad’ leaders. Egyptians are still in Tahrir Square, Libyan Transitional Council is yet to get grips on the country, Algeria is out of sorts etc.

My question is; what really is the very concerned west (UN and NATO especially) doing about Syria? Asad is free to do even worse that Gadaffi did to merit the boot.

After invading lands and killing as many as they could to boost their military egos, they turn around via the World Bank and IMF to manufacture restructuring dossiers that they hand to their consultants.

In the process, awarding contracts left, right and center to their countrymen and cronies, when their dealings become public knowledge unashamedly do they open enquiries, case study Afghanistan, Iraq and now Libya.

The contribution of Arabs (I call it the self inflicted tragedy) cannot be left out of the general scheme of events. As far back as the time of the Prophet, there’s been the issue of hypocrites who laugh with you in the open but stab you in the back later.

Such is the case pertaining between leaders in the west and those in Muslim dominated countries. They have hypocrites as their allies, they dine and wine with them under the guise of globalization and other smokescreen groupings.

They virtually ‘use’ them (typical case Saddam and Gadaffi) to attack their own, then as and when it suits them, unleash their forces as NATO and troops unto the same people they once saw as allies.

The Prophet has aforementioned that this day was going to come: a time when nations would meet and decide to attack another, sadly we have witnessed in recent times how Muslim nations have been used a launch pads to attack fellow Muslims.

It doesn’t matter really how many Muslims there are in the world if you ask me, for long we have gone on and on about the quantity yet the quality has always been lacking. But I trust that there are those with resolute hearts in all of this.

The west can change whatever it is that they aim so to, but assuredly at the level of the conscience and dogma (as explicitly elucidated by Imam Anwar Al Awlaki in his lecture ‘the Battle of Hearts and Minds’) they have and would forever pass as losers.

Let them win in their demonization crusade within their puppet driven media and surreptitiously through cultural imperialism and brazen military adventurism in the name of pursuing world peace.

The lands, yes; maybe destabilized yet the opposite pertains in the hearts of at least some Muslims, a very resolute and stabilized belief in the one true creator. May HE aid guide and protect our every step in this narcissistic and predatory life.