Iran, Turkey, Egypt must save Mideast from chaos and destruction: professor

Professor Farhang Jahanpour TEHRAN - Professor Farhang Jahanpour, part-time tutor on the Middle East in the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford, tells the Tehran Times that Iran, Egypt and Turkey must set aside their differences in order save the the region from “chaos and destruction”. Following is the full text of the interview: Q: It has just been announced that King Salman has deposed the Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef and has replaced him with his 31-year old son Mohammed bin Salman. What are the reasons behind the Saudi King's decision to depose the sitting crown prince and replace him with his young son? A: This is a very important and potentially a dangerous move. Ever since the establishment of the Saudi Kingdom in 1902 by Ibn Saud there has been a fairly well established system of succession, with power passing from a reigning king to the oldest living male member of the family. Muhammad bin Nayef was appointed deputy crown prince by the former King Abdullah and confirmed by the so-called Allegiance Council to succeed King Salman, and he was also declared crown prince by King Salman when he came to power in January 2015. I believe King Salman’s deposing of Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef and replacing him with his 31-year old son Mohammed bin Salman is a soft coup d’état, because it goes against the established norms in Saudi succession. Muhammad bin Nayef held a number of important posts, including interior minister and first deputy prime minister, and played a major role in counter-terrorism. Now, he has been abruptly relieved of all his duties by royal decree and Mohammed bin Salman has taken his place. The newly appointed crown prince has also been named deputy prime minister and also maintains his post as defence minister, as well as overseeing the economy. Q: Should we think of the reshuffle as a soft coup d’état? A: I believe it is a soft coup d’état, because it goes against the established norms in Saudi succession. Mohammed bin Salman is a young, ambitious and power-hungry prince who has been responsible for a number of unwise adventures, such as the war against Yemen that has killed and injured tens of thousands of innocent Yemenis, aggressive support for Jihadi militants in Syria and elsewhere, and lately the conflict with Qatar. He has also been the author of the over-ambitious development plan, the so-called “Vision 2030”. At a time when a large number of foreign nationals have been made redundant and expelled, some with huge unpaid arrears, and when many ordinary Saudi citizens are suffering the consequences of austerity, Muhammad bin Salman has adopted a very extravagant lifestyle, completely out of character with the Puritanical Wahhabi ideology. For instance, while holidaying in the south of France a few months ago, he saw a super yacht belonging to a Russian tycoon, fancied it and bought it on the spot for 500 million euros, more than three times its original price. He also owns luxurious private jets and many other accruements of the super-rich. Q: Does this family coup have the support of the U.S. and the UK? A: I do not believe that this was necessarily planned with the collusion or even advance knowledge of the United States and the United Kingdom. After the recent rift between Saudi Arabia and Qatar, although President Trump openly took the side of the Saudis and accused Qatar of supporting terrorism, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered to mediate between the two. In fact, on 20th June, only one day before the reshuffle, the State Department’s spokesperson Heather Nauert issued a rather strange statement. In a part of that statement we read: “Now that it has been more than two weeks since the embargo started, we are mystified that the Gulf States have not released to the public, nor to the Qataris, the details about the claims that they are making toward Qatar. The more that time goes by the more doubt is raised about the actions taken by Saudi Arabia and the UAE. At this point we are left with one simple question: were the actions really about their concerns regarding Qatar’s alleged support for terrorism or were they about the long, simmering grievances between and among the GCC countries?” Saudi Arabia's significance to the world has been due to its vast reserves of oil, which is a dwindling asset, as with greater use of renewable energy, oil will soon lose the significance that it has enjoyed over the past century, and just like coal a lot of it will have to be left in the ground.This is a clear rebuke to Saudi rulers for not having produced any evidence for their claims against Qatar. I believe that the only other country that might have had a hand in this reshuffle is the UAE, or at least some UAE princes, because UAE Crown Prince Muhammad bin Zayed Al Nuhayyan is a close friend of Mohammed bin Salman and they seem to share many views and ambitions. Q: What will be the effect of the reshuffle on the rest of the GCC? A: As you know, there has already been a major rift between Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain on the one hand and Qatar on the other, with Oman and Kuwait playing a neutral role. President Trump’s visit to Riyadh and his impetuous rush to embrace the Saudis as the leaders of the war against extremism, which resulted in more than $400 billion of promised spending on weapons and other American goods, gave the Saudis the false hope that they could dominate the Arab world, and certainly the GCC. However, far from uniting the Arab world under Saudi leadership, President Trump’s visit proved to be the kiss of death to the GCC. The GCC was formed shortly after Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Iran in order to bring the small Persian Gulf countries together in support of Iraq. They contributed tens of billions of dollars to Saddam Hussein, which ironically led to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait when the GCC members demanded the repayment of their loans. However, the GCC never managed to unite all the Persian Gulf littoral states, partly due to the fact that there is an imbalance between Saudi Arabia with a population of over 23 million nationals and over eight million non-nationals, and Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE with less than one million native populations each. Recently, Saudi Arabia has not been content with being the leading member of the GCC, but has demanded total subservience from others. The aggressive Saudi and UAE siege of Qatar has gone beyond a mere tribal feud, has backfired and is already leading not only to the disintegration of the GCC, but also to a rift between Saudi Arabia and other Arab states. In recent centuries, Arabia has been responsible for the most fundamentalist and militant form of Islam that has been behind the rise of terrorist groups, from the Al Qaeda, to the Taliban, the al-Nusra Front and ultimately ISIS. On June 19, the electronic Rai al-Youm daily newspaper carried the following report: “The honeymoon between Morocco and the Gulf States mainly Saudi Arabia and the UAE has ended on the backdrop of these countries’ conflict with Qatar.” It went on to say that Morocco has distanced itself from Saudi Arabia in fear of a military adventure against Qatar. Q: What will be the effect of this reshuffle on Saudi Arabia’s standing in the Islamic world? A: Despite the pretensions of Saudi leaders, Saudi Arabia does not possess the historical, religious, intellectual or political clout to act as the leader of the Islamic or even the Sunni world. Its significance to the world has been due to its vast reserves of oil, which is a dwindling asset, as with greater use of renewable energy, oil will soon lose the significance that it has enjoyed over the past century, and just like coal a lot of it will have to be left in the ground. In the same way that after the conversion of Emperor Constantine, Christianity moved out of Palestine, the centre of the Islamic world also moved away from Arabia shortly after Prophet Muhammad’s death. After the short-lived period of the Rashidun Caliphate, three of whom were assassinated, under the Umayyads the mantle of Islamic leadership moved to Damascus, a major centre of Byzantine culture. Then, under the Abbasids, who came to power with the help of Abu Muslim in Khorasan, the centre of Islamic civilization moved to Baghdad (which is a Persian word meaning God-given) near Ctesiphon, the former capital of the Parthian and the Sasanian Empires. Then, under the Shi’ite Fatimid Caliphate, it moved to Cairo; and finally to Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. Cairo, especially the ancient Al-Azhar University, has always been regarded as the main centre of Arab Islamic culture. At the same time, Iran has served as the centre of Persian Islamic culture, which stretched from Iran to the Sub-Continent and even to the Far East. Persian was the lingua franca of the Mughal Empire, and Iranian merchants and Sufis were mainly responsible for taking Islam to the East. President Trump’s visit to Riyadh proved to be the kiss of death to the GCC. In all those centuries, Arabia played no role in the Islamic world, except being the centre of the hard and arduous Hajj pilgrimage. Therefore, the Saudi claim to the leadership of the Islamic world lacks any merit. In recent centuries, Arabia has been responsible for the most fundamentalist and militant form of Islam that has been behind the rise of terrorist groups, from the Al Qaeda, to the Taliban, the al-Nusra Front and ultimately ISIS. Q: What will be the repercussions of these changes in the rest of the region? A: The disarray in the GCC and the scourge of jihadi terrorism, often supported by Saudi Arabia, must act as a wakeup call to the leading countries in the region. As the heirs of the Iranian, Arab and Turkish cultures and civilizations, Iran, Egypt and Turkey, have some serious differences with each other. However, the situation in the Middle East is so precarious that these countries must set aside their differences and must unite in order to save the region from chaos and destruction. Clearly, all of them need to make some compromises, but the alternative is extremely dire for all of them. If ancient enemies in Europe could set aside their differences and could establish the European Union, there is no reason why these three ancient cultures that have lived together for centuries and millennia mainly in peace and harmony cannot find a way of getting along and bringing the rest of the region with them. The modern world does not tolerate leadership by any country. Therefore, any idea of sole Iranian, Egyptian, Turkish or Saudi leadership is an illusion. The only solution is for all of them to cooperate with one another to create a Middle East that is worthy of its ancient culture and civilization.

Palestine: Another Desperate Cry for Help

BY STUART LITTLEWOOD

"Beyond urgent... on verge of a catastrophe... last chance to save Christian presence in Holy Land"

The National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine (NCCOP) has just issued a final plea for help in the form of an open letter to the World Council of Churches and the ecumenical movement. It is signed by over 30 organisations in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza and can be read in full here.

The problem is well known to everyone who's paying attention. The letter recaps for us: "We are still suffering from 100 years of injustice and oppression that were inflicted on the Palestinian people beginning with the unlawful Balfour declaration, intensified through the Nakba [Palestinian 'catastrophe'] and the influx of refugees, followed by the Israeli occupation of the West Bank including East Jerusalem and Gaza and the fragmentation of our people and our land through policies of isolation and confiscation, and the building of Jewish-only settlements and the Apartheid Wall.

"A hundred years later and there is still no justice! Discrimination and inequality, military occupation and systematic oppression are the rule.... Despite all the promises, endless summits, UN resolutions, religious and lay leader’s callings – Palestinians are still yearning for their freedom and independence, and seeking justice and equality."

The letter harks back to the Amman Call of 2007. "We are concerned that ten years later the situation is worse.... the Amman Call did not achieve its goal of a just peace and we must ask ourselves today – why?"

Concern is also expressed at Israel’s "systemic assault on Palestinian creative resistance" (by which they mean BDS - boycott, divestment and sanctions), and on their partners worldwide who use BDS to persuade Israel to end the occupation.

"While we are grateful for the ‘costly solidarity’ articulated in the Amman Call and exercised by many churches around the world, we are concerned that some churches have weakened their positions in the last ten years as a result of pressure. Many still hide behind the cover of political neutrality, not wishing to offend their religious dialogue partners."

So now they ask us to do the following:

1. Call things as they are: recognize Israel as an apartheid state in terms of international law and the UN ESCWA report which said: “Israel is guilty of imposing an apartheid regime on the Palestinian people”. They are concerned that States and churches continue dealing with Israel as if the situation were normal, ignoring the reality of occupation, discrimination and daily deaths. Churches united to end apartheid in South Africa, the WCC playing a pivotal role, and they are expected to do the same again in PalestineSo now they ask us to do the following:

2. Unequivocally condemn the Balfour declaration as unjust, and demand the UK asks forgiveness and compensates the Palestinian people for their losses. Unfortunately Zionist stooges in high places, like Theresa May, have said they will be celebrating the centenary of the Balfour Declaration "with pride" and inviting Mr Netanyahu along for the fun.

3. Take the strongest possible stand against any theology or Christian group that justifies the occupation and favours one nation over the other based on ethnicity or a covenant.

4. Take a stand against religious extremism and any attempt to create a religious state in Palestine or the region.

5. Challenge our religious dialogue partners, and withdraw from the partnership if they won't condemn the occupation.

6. Encourage church leaders and pilgrims to visit Bethlehem and other Palestinian cities using Palestinian travel agencies, not Israeli.

7. In response to Israel’s war on BDS, defend the Palestinians' right to resist non-violently, and support economic measures that pressure Israel to stop the occupation.  Go further and include sport, cultural and academic measures until Israel complies with international law and UN resolutions.

8. Create lobby groups in defence of Palestinian Christians.

9. Urgently create a strategy within the WCC, like the programme “To Combat Racism”, to co-ordinate lobbying, advocacy and other activities aimed at achieving justice and peace and maintaining the presence of the Palestinian Christians.

"We fully grasp the pressure church leaders are facing here and abroad not to speak the truth, and it is because of this that we are raising this call," says the NCCOP.

Their message ends with these ominous words: "Things are beyond urgent. We are on the verge of a catastrophic collapse. The current status-quo is unsustainable. This could be our last chance to achieve a just peace. As a Palestinian Christian community, this could be our last opportunity to save the Christian presence in this land."

As I'm writing news has come in of a legal victory against the UK Government for trying to stifle BDS. The Government recently issued guidance to stop divestment campaigns against Israeli and international firms implicated in Israel’s violations of international law, and to protect the UK's defence industry. Pension holders, for example, could have been forced into investing in companies complicit in human rights abuses contrary to their conscience and beliefs.

Thanks to action by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign the court held that the Government had acted improperly by seeking to use pension law to pursue its own foreign and defence policy.  Parts of the guidance are now held to be unlawful and no longer applicable local government in their pension decisions.

Other last-gasp appeals

The Amman Call mentioned earlier was issued exactly ten years ago at the WCC's International Peace Conference "Churches together for Peace and Justice in the Middle East" held in Amman, Jordan. It contained a number of imperatives.

• Enough is enough. No more words without deeds. It is time for action.
• The Churches are part of the conflict, because they cannot remain silent while there is still suffering.
• There is no military solution to the conflict, UN resolutions are the basis for peace and the Geneva conventions are applicable to the rights and responsibilities of the affected people.
• Palestinians have the right of self-determination and the right of return. 
• Jerusalem must be an open, accessible, inclusive and shared city for the two peoples and three religions.
• Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories are illegal, and constitute an obstacle to peace, and Israel's "Separation Barrier" is a grave breach of international law and must be removed.

The Kairos Document of 2009 called itself a "cry of hope in the absence of all hope". They said they had "reached a dead end" in the tragedy of the Palestinian people and the decision-makers "content themselves with managing the crisis rather than committing themselves to the serious task of finding a way to resolve it". The faithful were asking: What is the international community doing? What are the political leaders in Palestine, in Israel and in the Arab world doing? What is the Church doing? "The problem is not just a political one. It is a policy in which human beings are destroyed, and this must be of concern to the Church."

Kairos told the international community to stop practising "double standards" and start implementing international resolutions. "Selective application of international law threatens to leave us vulnerable to a law of the jungle. It legitimizes the claims by certain armed groups and states that the international community only understands the logic of force." So Kairos was calling for a system of economic sanctions and boycott to be applied against Israel - not as a revenge tactic but action to reach a just and definitive peace.

It also urged churches to revisit the fundamentalist positions that support the evil policies imposed on the Palestinian people, and to stop providing theological cover for the injustices they suffer.

Local action

These heart-rending pleas are all very well but churches are hard to mobilise. Some have flirted with BDS but only after much internal wrangling. Others have allowed themselves to be put off by interference from their interfaith partners.

What can we ordinary mortals do?

Well, I pop into churches randomly and ask what links they have with the Holy Land. They usually stare at me in blank amazement and an awkward silence follows. I therefore recommend a national campaign to visit all churches throughout the land and ask that same question. Shame them. 

But you never quite know when you're up against the 'enemy within' - the Christian Zionist. Many readers will remember The Jerusalem Declaration on Christian Zionism by the Patriarch and Local Heads of Churches in Jerusalem in 2006.

It says among other things:

• We categorically reject Christian Zionist doctrines as false teaching that corrupts the biblical message.
• We reject the alliance of Christian Zionist leaders and organizations with elements in the governments of Israel and the United States [add the UK] that are presently imposing their unilateral pre-emptive borders and domination over Palestine.
• We reject the teachings of Christian Zionism that support these policies as they promote racial exclusivity and perpetual war.
• We call upon all Churches that remain silent, to break their silence and speak for reconciliation with justice in the Holy Land.
• We call upon all people to reject Christian Zionism and other ideologies that privilege one people at the expense of others.
• We are committed to non-violent resistance as the most effective means to end the illegal occupation.
• And, of course, Palestinians are one people, both Muslim and Christian. Don't anyone forget that.

Memorise it.

Did you ever hear any of the 26 Church of England bishops sitting in the House of Lords roundly condemn the British government's unshakable support for the rogue regime in Israel that's causing all this misery? No, they're scared to death of ruffling the feathers of their 'inter-faith dialogue' partners and being branded antisemitic. And yes, the Church does have its fearless heroes but they are few and far between and not always tolerated. The Anglican Church by and large doesn't give a damn about their brethren in the Holy Land or the military jackboot on their necks. And, by extension, they don't give a four-x whether, in another 10 years, there will be any Christians left in the place where Christianity was born. No, maybe they will care, but by then it will be too late.

If I had my way every clergyman and every political leader calling him/herself a Christian would have the Jerusalem Declaration tattooed on their rump.

I'd like to invite some of them to spend a week with priests in the front line in Jenin, Nablus or Hebron for a real taste of life under brutal Israeli occupation; then queue for hours at daybreak with Palestinian workers in the obscene human holding pens at the Bethlehem checkpoint as they struggle to get to work... and home again; then watch Israeli bulldozers evict Palestinian families and destroy their homes for no good reason; then join Gaza fishermen as they try to earn a living while getting shot at in their own waters by Israeli gunboats; then stay with a Gaza family in the rubble, experience living with only 2 hours' electricity a day, with the kids going to school in shifts and studying by candlelight; then sit down with Hamas ministers to learn what it's like running this tiny, overcrowded enclave after 10 years of cruel blockade; then visit Gaza's hospitals to see first-hand the crisis in medical equipment and spares; then watch the groups of young, uniformed Israeli gunslingers swaggering through the Old City of Jerusalem making that beautiful place so ugly....

The opportunities to learn the nasty truth about today's Holy Land are endless.

And when they return home.... who knows, they might just feel pricked to do something about it. At least they could ensure every parish in England twins itself with a parish in the West Bank to offer solidarity and provide moral and material support.

 Palestine Solidarity

STUART LITTLEWOOD

Stuart worked on jet fighters in the RAF. Various sales and marketing management positions in manufacturing, oil and electronics. Senior associate with several industrial marketing consultancies. Graduate Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (MInstM). BA Hons Psychology, University of Exeter.

பலஸ்தீன் விடுதலைக்கான சர்வதேச 'குத்ஸ்' தினம்

அல்லாஹ் அருள்பாலித்த பூமியும், இஸ்லாத்தின் இறுதித் தூதர் முஹம்மத் (ஸல்) அவர்கள் விண்ணுலக யாத்திரையை ஆரம்பித்த தளமும், உலக முஸ்லிம்களின் மூன்றாவது புனித தலமுமான புனித பைத்துல் முக்கதிஸ் பள்ளிவாசலும் பலஸ்தீனப் பூமியும் முஸ்லிம் உம்மத்திடம் இருந்து அபகரிக்கப்பட்டு இற்றைக்கு 50 வருடங்களாகின்றன. இதனை ஆக்கிரமித்துள்ள சியோனிஸவாதிகளின் எல்லா விதமான அநீதிகளும் அக்கிரமங்களும் அரங்கேற்றப்படும் ஒரு கொலைக் களமாக பலஸ்தீன் மாற்றப்பட்டிருக்கின்றது.

என்றாலும் 1979 ஆம் ஆண்டில் ஈரானிய இஸ்லாமியக் குடியரசின் நிறுவனர் மர்ஹும் இமாம் கொமைனி முன்னெடுத்த இஸ்லாமியப் புரட்சியின் வெற்றியை அடுத்து வந்த ரமழான் மாதத்தின் முதலாம் நாளன்று (16 ஆகஸ்ட் 1979) சர்வதேச குத்ஸ் (பைத்துல் முக்கதிஸ்) தினம் முதன் முதலில் பிரகடனப்படுத்தப்பட்டது. அன்று முதல் ஒவ்வோர் ஆண்டும் புனித ரமழான் மாதத்தின் இறுதி வெள்ளிக்கிழமை சர்வதேச குத்ஸ் தினம் அனுஷ்டிக்கப்படுகின்றது. (அந்தவகையில் இவ்வருட குத்ஸ் தினம் இன்று 23ந் திகதி அனுஷ்டிக்கப்படுகிறது).

இந்த சர்வதேச தினத்தைப் பிரகடனப்படுத்திய இமாம் கொமெய்னி 'குத்ஸ் தினம் என்பது, வலிமை குன்றிய அடக்கியொடுக்கப்பட்ட மக்கள், அதிகாரச் செருக்கு கொண்ட சக்திகளை நேருக்கு நேர் எதிர்த்து நிற்பதற்கான ஒரு நாள்' என்று குறிப்பிட்டார். அன்றிலிருந்து ஒவ்வோர் ஆண்டும் தவறாமல் உலகம் முழுவதிலும் குத்ஸ் தின நிகழ்ச்சிகள் இடம் பெற்று வருவதை நாம் காணக் கூடியதாயிருக்கின்றது. வாழ்க்கை வசதிகளை இழந்த மக்களின் பசிக் கொடுமையையும் தாகத்தையும், ஏறத்தாழ ஒரு மாத காலம் நோன்பு நோற்பதால் உணர்ந்து கொண்டவர்கள், இப்பொழுது தங்களின் பார்வைகளை அடக்கியொடுக்கப்பட்ட மக்களின் ஆக்கிரமிக்கப்பட்ட பூமியின் பக்கம் திருப்பவும், குரலெழுப்ப முடியாது நசுக்கப்பட்டிருக்கும் மக்களின் பாதுகாப்பிற்காக ஓங்கி குரலெழுப்பவும் செய்கிறார்கள். இதன் காரணமாக, முஸ்லிம் உம்மத்திற்கு மத்தியில் முழுமையான உயிர்த் துடிப்பிற்கான இணைப்பை உருவாக்கி விடுகிறார்கள்.

என்றாலும் சிலர் குறிப்பிடுவது போன்று குத்ஸ் தினம் என்பது ஷீஆக்களின் ஓர் ஒன்றுகூடல் அன்று. அது இஸ்லாத்தின் எல்லாப் பிரிவினரும், ஏன் மனித மாண்புகளைப் போற்றும் முஸ்லிமல்லாத சமூகத்தினரும் கூட இத்தினத்தை அனுஷ்டிக்கின்றனர். குத்ஸ் தினம் அடையாளப்படுத்தும் இந்த ஒற்றுமை உணர்வு, அந்நாளில் உலகெங்கிலும் இடம் பெறும் கூட்டங்களைக் கொண்டு காட்சிப்படுத்தப்படுகின்றது, உலகளாவிய ரீதியில் இஸ்லாத்தின் பல்வேறு சிந்தனைப் பிரிவுகளையும் எடுத்து நோக்கினால் கூட குத்ஸ் தின நிகழ்ச்சிகளில் ஷீஆக்களை விடவும் சுன்னிகளே அதிகமாகப் பங்கு கொள்கின்றனர்.

இந்த குத்ஸ் தின நிகழ்ச்சிகளின் ஏற்பாட்டாளர்கள், அந்த பூமியில் இரத்தஞ் சிந்தப்படுவதையும் சட்டவிரோத குடியிருப்புகள் முன்னெடுக்கப்படுவதையும் ஒரு முடிவுக்குக் கொண்டு வரவேண்டும் என்றே கோருகின்றனர்.

ஆயினும், அவர்கள் இஸ்ரேலின் அடக்குமுறையும், ஆக்கிரமிப்பும் சியோனிஸக் கொள்கைவாதத்திலிருந்தே வேர் பிடித்து எழுந்திருக்கின்றன என்பதைக் கண்டறிந்து கொள்ளத் தவறி விடுகின்றனர். இவ்வாறு முஸ்லிம்கள் மட்டுமல்ல நம்புகிறார்கள். பழைமைவாத யூதர்களின் நெடுரீ கார்டா குழுவினர் மற்றும் அமெரிக்க அறிஞர் நோர்மன் ஃபிங்கள்ஸ்டீன் (இவருடைய பெற்றோர் நாஸிகளின் யூதப் படுகொலைப் படலத்தில் தப்பிப் பிழைத்தவர்கள்) போன்ற யூத உலகின் அறிஞர்கள் பலரும், சியோனிஸத்தை ஓர் இனவாத மற்றும் சட்டவிரோதக் கொள்கையெனப் பகிரங்கமாக குற்றஞ் சாட்டுகின்றனர்.

இதேவேளை சியோனிஸவாதிகள் பல ஐரோப்பிய நாடுகளில் குத்ஸ் தினத்தைத் தடை செய்ய வேண்டுமெனக் கோருகின்றனர். குத்ஸ் தினத்தை ஸெமிதிய இனத்திற்கு எதிரான - 'யூதர்களைக் கொல்லுங்கள்' எனக் கூறும் ஒரு வெறுப்பு இயக்கமாகச் சித்தரிக்க முயல்கின்றனர். ஆனால், மேற்குலகில் நடைபெறும் குத்ஸ் தின நிகழ்ச்சிகளில் உரையாற்றுபவர்களிலும், ஆர்ப்பாட்டங்களில் ஈடுபடுபவர்களிலும் யூதப் பிரமுகர்கள் ஏராளமாக உள்ளனர். இதன் ஊடாக சியோனிஸவாதிகளின் பொய்கள் படு தோல்வி கண்டுவிட்டன.

அவர்கள், குத்ஸ் தினத்தை ஆதரிக்கும் தீரமிக்க யூதர்களைப் பயமுறுத்தி அவ்வாறு செய்வதினின்றும் தடுத்து நிறுத்துவதற்காக பல நடவடிக்கைகளை மும்முரமாக மேற்கொண்டு வருகின்றனர். ஆயினும், சியோனிஸத்திற்கு எதிரான யூத சமூகத்தின் பரந்ததொரு பகுதியினர், 'பலஸ்தீனில் நீதி நிலைநாட்டப்பட வேண்டும்' என்பதற்காக ஒவ்வோர் ஆண்டும் முஸ்லிம்களுடன் கைகோர்த்து நிற்கின்றனர் என்பதால், அவர்களின் இம்முயற்சியும் தோல்வியைத் தழுவிக் கொண்டது.

உலகெங்கிலுமுள்ள பல பிற்போக்குத்தனமான ஆட்சிகள், குறிப்பாக முஸ்லிம் நாடுகள் கூட, குத்ஸ் தினம் என்றாலே அஞ்சுகின்றன. ஏனெனில், நீதி நிலைநாட்டப்பட வேண்டும் என்பதற்கான அழைப்பு பலஸ்தீனையும் தாண்டி செல்லக் கூடியது என்பதை அவை நன்கு அறிந்திருக்கின்றன. கடந்த காலங்களில், இந்த நாடுகள் பலவற்றில், குத்ஸ் தின நிகழ்ச்சிகள் பாதுகாப்புப் படையினரால் தாக்குதலுக்குள்ளாகி உள்ளன. சிறுவர்கள் உட்பட ஆர்ப்பாட்டங்களில் ஈடுபட்ட பலர் துப்பாக்கிச் சூட்டிற்குப் பலியாகி உள்ளனர்.

குத்ஸ் தினம் என்பது, சியோனிஸவாதிகளின் நாசகார சூழ்ச்சித் திட்டங்களைப் பற்றிய உண்மையை முழுமையாக முன்னெடுத்து சொல்வதற்கான ஒரு சந்தர்ப்பமாகும்.

இஸ்ரேலை எதிர்கொண்டு தங்கள் தாய்நாட்டை தங்கள் பெறுமதி வாய்ந்த உயிர்களைத் தியாகம் செய்து கூடப் பாதுகாப்பதற்கு முன்வருகின்றவர்களையும், இஸ்ரேலின் நலன்களை பலஸ்தீனர்களின் உயிர்களை பலி கொண்டாவது பாதுகாப்பதற்கு இயங்கிக் கொண்டிருக்கின்ற மாபெரும் ஷைத்தான் அமெரிக்காவினதும் அதன் நேச நாடுகளினதும் பல்லாயிரம் கோடி ​ெடாலகளைக் கண்டும் தங்கள் தைரியத்தை இழக்காமலிருக்கின்றவர்களையும் பற்றி பேசுவதற்கும் கண்ணியப்படுத்துவதற்கும் இதுதான் தகுந்த நேரமும் இடமும் ஆகும்.

வரலாறு

முஸ்லிம்களின் முதல் கிப்லாவான அல் குத்ஸ் எனும் மஸ்ஜிதுல் அக்ஸாவின் முக்கியத்துவத்தைப் பற்றி ஒவ்வொரு முஸ்லிமும் அறிந்திருக்க வேண்டும். அங்கிருந்துதான், அல்லாஹ்வின் இறுதித்தூதர் முஹம்மத் (ஸல்) தங்கள் தூதுத்துவப் பணியின் பன்னிரண்டாவது வருடத்தில் மிஹ்ராஜ் சென்றார்கள். மஸ்ஜிதுல் அக்ஸா அமைந்திருக்கும் ஜெருஸலம் (படங்கள் பலவற்றில் நாம் காணும் தங்க நிறத்திலான குவிமாடம், மஸ்ஜிதுல் அக்ஸா அன்று என்பதை நாம் தெளிவாகப் புரிந்து கொள்ள வேண்டும். அது பல்லாண்டுகளின் பின்னர் கட்டப்பட்ட கற்பாறை மாடமாகும்) முஸ்லிம்களினால் ஹிஜ்ரி 15(கி.பி.638)ம் ஆண்டில் விடுவிக்கப் பெற்றது. முஸ்லிம்கள் அரசியல் அதிகாரத்தை தங்கள் கையில் வைத்திருக்கும் போது, சிலுவைக் காரர்கள் அதனை ஆக்கிரமித்திருந்த கி.பி.1099 முதல் 1187 வரையிலான ஓர் இடைப்பட்ட குறுகிய காலப் பகுதியைத் தவிர, ஜெருஸலம் ஒரு சுதந்திரப் பூமியாகவே திகழ்ந்து வந்தது.

சிலுவைக்காரர்கள் அல் குத்ஸை ஆக்கிரமித்திருந்த வேளையில், மஸ்ஜிதுல் அக்ஸாவை விடுவிப்பதற்கான போராட்டத்தை ஸலாஹுத்தீன் அல்- அய்யூபி தலைமை தாங்கி முன்னெடுத்தார். அது கி.பி.1187ல் இடம்பெற்றதோடு ஜெருஸலமும், மஸ்ஜிதுல் அக்ஸா விடுவிக்கப்பட்டது. அதன் பின்னர் அல் அக்ஸாவும் பலஸ்தீனும் சுதந்திரமானது.

என்றாலும் கி.பி.1918ல் நவீன கால பிரித்தானியரும், பிரான்ஸியரும் சிலுவைக்காரர்கள் கோதாவில் வந்திறங்கி, பலஸ்தீனையும் ஜெருஸலத்தையும் ஆக்கிரமித்துக் கொள்ளும் வரையில், பலஸ்தீன் எல்லா மதங்களைப் பின்பற்றும் மனிதர்களும் வாழும் ஒரு பூமியாக இருந்தது. இந்த நவீன சிலுவைக்காரர்கள், புனித பூமிகளை ஆக்கிரமித்து தாங்கள் நீண்ட நெடும் நாட்கள் கைவசம் வைத்திருக்க முடியாது

என்பதைத் தெரிந்திருந்ததினால், ஜோர்தானிலும் அரேபியாவிலும் அரபு தேசிய ஆட்சியாளர்கள் என்ற வடிவத்தில் தங்கள் முகவர்(ஏஜென்டு)களை பதவியில் அமர்த்தினர். இவர்களின் தோற்றம் தான், 1947ல் சியோனிஸ இஸ்ரேலின் சட்ட விரோத உருவாக்கத்திற்கும், அதன் இறுதியில் 1967 ஜுன் யுத்தத்தில் ஜெருஸலத்தின் ஆக்கிரமிப்பிற்கும் வழியமைத்துக் கொடுத்தது.

சியோனிஸவாதிகள் தங்கள் கோர கூரிய நகங்களை மஸ்ஜிதுல் அக்ஸாவினுள் ஆழமாகப் பதித்து, அதன் அடித்தளங்களைப் பலவீனப்படுத்தும் கொடிய வேலையில் இறங்கியிருக்கும் அதே வேளையில், அரபு ஆட்சியாளர்களோ அவர்களுடன் இணைந்து, முஸ்லிம்களின் முதல் கிப்லாவான அல் அக்ஸாவை விடுவிப்பதற்கான இஸ்லாமிய ரீதியிலான வலியுறுத்தல்களளுக்கு எதிரான சதிகளில் ஈடுபட்டு வருகின்றனர். பலஸ்தீனைச் சூழவுள்ள ஆட்சிகள் அனைத்தும் சியோனிஸவாதிகளுடன் இணைந்து பலஸ்தீனின் இஸ்லாமியச் சக்திகளின் எதிர்ப்புப் பணிகளுக்கு குழி பறிக்கும் பணிகளில் ஈடுபட்டுள்ளன. உலக முஸ்லிம்களின் புனித தளங்களான மக்காவிலும் மதீனாவிலும் மஸ்ஜிதுல் அக்ஸாவைப் பற்றியோ, பலஸ்தீன் மக்களின் மீது கட்டவிழ்த்து விடப்பட்டிருக்கும் கொடுமைகளையும் அட்டூழியங்களையும்பற்றியோ வாய் திறக்க முடியாதளவுக்கு தடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது

ஆனால் சுமார் 38வருடங்களுக்கு முன்னர் இமாம் கொமெய்னியினால் அழைப்பு விடுக்கப்பட்டதற்கு அமைய, ஒவ்வோர் ஆண்டும் பல லட்சக்கணக்கான முஸ்லிம்கள் குத்ஸ் தின நிகழ்ச்சிகளில் பங்குபற்றி, புனித பைத்துல் முக்கதிஸ் பள்ளிவாசலும் பலஸ்தீனப் பூமியும் சியோனிஸவாதிகளின் மிலேச்சத்தனமான ஆக்கிரமிப்புக்குள் தொடர்ந்தும் இருந்து வருவது பற்றிய விழிப்புணர்வைப் பரவலாக ஏற்படுத்தி வருகிறார்கள்.

இத்தகைய நிகழ்ச்சிகள், அரபு ஆட்சியாளர்களையும் அவர்களின் மேற்கத்திய சியோனிஸ எஜமானர்களையும் பீதியடைய வைத்துள்ளன அதேநேரம் இவை, உலகெங்குமுள்ள ஒடுக்கப்பட்ட மக்களிடத்தில் நம்பிக்கை உணர்வைத் தோற்றுவித்துள்ளன. பலஸ்தீனிலும் லெபனானிலும் இஸ்லாமியச் சக்திகளின் எதிர்ப்பு அணியினர் சியோனிஸ அடாவடித்தனத்தையும் அடக்குமுறையையும் எதிர்த்து தொடர்ந்து போராடி வரும் இத்தருணத்தில், முஸ்லிம்களும் இந்த பூகோளத்தில் வாழும் சுதந்திரத்தை நேசிக்கும் ஏனைய மக்களும், இந்தப் போராளிகளுக்கு ஆதரவாக தங்கள் குரல்களைத் தொடர்ந்து ஒலிக்கச் செய்ய வேண்டும். மஸ்ஜிதுல் அக்ஸாவையும் பலஸ்தீனப் பூமியையும் முஸ்லிம்கள் மீட்டெடுக்கும் விஷயத்தை அணைந்து விடாமல் எரியச் செய்வது -இறந்து போக விடாமல் எப்பொழுதும் உயிரோட்டமாக வைத்திருப்பது- ஒரு புனிதக் கடமையாகும். இக்கடமையை நிறைவேற்றுவதற்கான பணிகளில் ஒவ்வொரு முஸ்லிமும் தன்னாலியன்ற அதிகப்பட்ச அளவுக்கு பங்குபற்றி கொள்வது அவசியமாகும்.

சியாத் முஹம்மத்

Hip-Hop Hezbollah: Eternally Husseini Delivers a Principled Soundtrack to the Resistance

BY ALI SALAAM  

This article is

released especially for the occasion of Quds Day.

Iraqi-American iconoclast and lyrical mouqawamist (resistance) Madd Cold is back to liberate the minds of humanity from mental colonialism that has been instilled at the hands of what Muslims refer to as the Dajjal, or the anti-christ, or the antithesis of all that is just, holy, peaceful, compassionate, honest, and principled in this world. As Malcolm X said, if we’re not careful, the media will teach us to hate the oppressed and love the oppressor.

Thanks to mass media, be it the news or entertainment, those who would naturally be resistant towards oppression have instead been conned into falling in love with the wolves in sheep’s clothing. The best way to neutralize opposition to oppression is to have them avoid fighting against the head of the snake, and instead have the people be polarized and fighting each other.

The mass media is largely owned by Zionist Jews: from Aviv Nevo to the Ochs-Sulzberger family to Murdoch and more, the head of the snake has spread so much disinformation among the disaffected masses that in the political sphere it creates a rigged spectrum: either you are on the ‘left’ or on the ‘right.’

Through years of polarized fighting, humanity’s core issues have not been solved, and the usurous central bankers and their war machine still run the globe via finance and military might, with the Zionist entity being the crown jewel of the Rothschild family’s fiefdom. The Rothschilds even admitted their role in the creation of the Zionist entity in a video special for the 100th anniversary of the Balfour declaration. So contrary to the political hitmen and character assassins, there is nothing ‘theoretical’ about this nefarious conspiracy, which uses media as a tool to make the masses apathetic and misdirected.

In the view of Islam, music is a neutral tool to be used for good (halal) or evil (haraam). The rulings of the grand scholars like Ayatollah Sistani and Ayatollah Khamenei make it clear thatthe nature of the music is what determines if it is permissible to listen to or if it is the equivalent of eating bacon or engaging in financial usury/parasitism.

While most music is used to promote evil, vice, and enslavement to the lowly desires of the flesh, and has the backing of Zionist billionaires to corrupt the souls of the masses, every now and then on the battlefield of this psychological war for the soul of mankind you have a resistance fighter wielding a pen-sword whose lyrical prowess serves as a voice of the voiceless and causes just as much damage to the Dajjal’s empire as other forms of activism or military resistance would do.

That is the case with Madd Cold’s newest album, Eternally Husseini, a hat tip to the holy struggle of Imam al-Hussain, the beloved grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.

While many so-called ‘conscious’ hip-hop artists have caved into using the language of the oppressors - i.e. demonizing the oppressed’s right to resistance (from Hezbollah to Ansarullah to Palestine’s Islamic Jihad) - Madd Cold’s spine and integrity is in tact and is not up for sale to the Zionist-owned music industry.

This cowardice and subservience to the ideology, language, and strategy of the oppressor extends not only to the art world, but to the Muslim world and to the activist world in general. They do the bidding of the parasites who keep the world in a state of misery by misdirecting legitimate discontent for the political status quo away from being directed towards the head of the snake. Most people have genuine intentions, but the media is a powerful tool and is used to keep people ignorant to one degree or another. Awakening is a process that happens in stages, and the gatekeepers of information are there at every stage to make sure to guard the head of the snake.

In an address to Muslims, the song “Who Do You Fear? (Nation of Shirk)”, Madd Cold is not using the term shirk (polytheism, fearing other than the Merciful and Just Allah) loosely like MossadDaesh (ISIS) and other takfiri sectarian haters, such as the UK’s Dawah Man, but he is using it in a responsible sense to call to attention mentally colonized Muslims who do not blink unless Zionist Jewish supremacists give them permission to.

The song opens with a sample of a speech from an Islamic speaker: “We live in a world of great suffering, oppression, and wars. How many Muslims will continue to suffer and die based on lies and false propaganda? How long will Jews, Islamophobes, ISIS, NATO, and even corrupt Arab leaders continue to wage oppressive war against Islam? But what are some Muslims doing during this war against their religion? Instead of taking up the noble profession to fight oppression, they join our enemies in supporting their positions. Muslims for gay rights, raising money for Jewish grave sites, buying the propaganda on Syria, and never questioning 9/11 lies against the Ummah. We never hear your voices raised in support of Muslims suffering anywhere. Yemen, Palestine, Iraq, Kashmir, and Syria are just a few who need support coming directly from you.”

Madd Cold picks up the mantle and continues: “Do you say “La Ilaha Illallah” or do you say “there’s no God but the Jew”?/Taking up false gods as points of fear/So bad that you start to excuse, eating pork, drinking liquor and even endorse the satanic choice of queers/All to appease the liberals, it’s the peak of pitiful that you wanna be what they want you to be, the “modern and moderate Moslem”, it’s preposterous what you’ve anointed here/Westoxification/How damn dare you make your Salat and you pay your Zakat/And when Jummah comes you pray with the flock/You booked your trip and you are on your way to the Hajj/But when it comes to raising your voice for Yemenis who been annihilated with phosphorus/You hold your tongue/They want you to sub and replace Islam with their “leftist” trash/Exchange Khomeini (R.A.) for Moses Hess’s rags/Him and Marx, dark rabbinical thieves who stole Mazdak’s (A.S.) perfected path/Subverted it with a Kabbalistic hex and thrashed/every drop of its essence bad/Converted it into a weapon to keep Gentile youth brainwashed, fake-liberation-obsessed and mad/And so they can protect their cash/ and their “Greater ‘Israel’” scheme to expand not east but westwards, do you get this, they want their Imperium stretching vast/So now we got colonized “Muslims” who won’t slam Western devil regimes/And Judaized “Muslims” spewing Western feminist themes/One wants you to obey the authority as if that authority is higher than God, and His Heavens that gleam/And the other wants you to align your Iman, with degenerate teams/of Frankfurt School-spawned panelists and analysts, out to level the Deen/But question any of it, they’ll quiet you, say they don’t wanna be divided, you need to be chilling and just stop it/But since when does Islam sanction us being unified with the Killers of the Prophets?/ Such filth, you should be so damn ashamed/‘cause you don’t fear ALLAH (SWT), you fear the ones who believe that His hands are chained/Will you ride for Hussein (A.S). or wind up with your face in the dirt?/Who Do You Fear, huh?/Are you a nation of Taqwa, or are you a Nation of Shirk?”

This sheepish daze that the Muslims of the West have been tricked into being hypnotized by has resulted in a tragic misplacement of priorities. While we don’t ascribe to the Zionist/takfiri agenda of isolating Muslims in the West, neither do we ascribe to the opposite extreme of sacrificing all our principles just to fit in.

This misplacement of priorities can be seen in the wake of the Orlando shootings, which many argue - with evidence - is a false flag. Such a false flag has called spineless, apologetic, and colonized Muslims to go to the point of endorsing homosexuality in order to please liberals. Such a false flag creates a rotten paradigm for Muslims: sell out your religious beliefs or be branded as an “extremist.” Those without a spine nor deep insight will cower in the fear of this seemingly inescapable ideological pickle, but those who can see the false construct of this rigged paradigm will walk away from it and think outside the box.

Malcolm X spoke very often about how vices were used to keep people oppressed. In Harlem, it was alcohol, prostitution, gambling, money, materialism, etc. Islam is a logical religion in line with liberating the higher self of human beings from their base, lowly self (nafs). For humans to reach true spiritual perfection and live lives of dignity, we do not give in to our base desires. When humans do, it leads to all types of perversions. When we are too busy chasing our carnal desires, then the tyrants who wish to control us and exploit us and suck away at what little sustenance we have via financial usury and illegitimate taxes can do so much easier.

The left, despite claiming to be ‘allies’ of Muslims (safety pins and all), does not respect the Islamic viewpoint on homosexuality. Islam also holds a high moral standard on how it treats all human beings with mercy, but that does not mean we accept destructive behaviors either. The left doesn’t have to agree with Muslims, but if they claim to be tolerant, they should respect the Islamic view and not engage in a campaign to secularize Islam and get Muslims to throw away their values and principles because leftists are claiming to be our only political ‘allies’ in the West. We should all be willing to work together as human beings on the common ground, but it doesn’t seem like the left wants to respect the common ground and they have their own form of Islamophobia to watch out for. Malcolm X called liberalism a wolf in sheep’s clothing, saying that “liberals are more deceptive than conservatives.”

Nationwide rallies and congregational Islamic prayers were held in honor of homosexuality. It’s one thing to condemn murder, and Islam forbids murder, but the Westoxified Muslims went a step further and normalized self-destructive acts of following the base, lowly desires of the flesh.

In full tragic irony, when the lion saint of African resistance Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky was unjustly imprisoned and over 1,000 of his supporters (a diverse crowd of Shi’a, Sunni, and Christian Nigerians) by US/Israeli-trained Nigerian forces simply because he spoke truth to power against the corrupt Nigerian puppet government and exposed Boko Haram as a Mossad front to justify the endless War of Terror, the Western Muslim outrage was nowhere to be found.

No nationwide congregational prayers for the oppressed Muslims of Africa, killed and dumped into mass graves in Zaria, Nigeria. Not a peep from American Muslim celebrity activists or top organizations - which is not because they only focus on domestic politics. When it comes to endorsing the Mossad-trained and CIA-funded Wahabbi terrorists trying to destroy and destabilize Syria for the sake of the Oded Yinon “Greater Israel” strategy, Linda Sarsour and the heads at CAIR National are out in full swing to endorse terrorist mercenaries who go out and kill innocent Muslims and Christians. “Alawites/Shias to the grave, Christians to Beirut” was the slogan of the “Syrian” “revolution” these celebrity Muslim activists endorsed.

Which begs the question, was Sheikh Zakzaky ignored because he was Shi’a? Not all Sunnis are brainwashed by Salafism and sectarianism - they follow the Qur’an which tells them to hold onto God’s rope and do not become disunited with other Muslims regardless of minor differences. Additionally, Zakzaky’s movement was not sectarian - he united Shi’as, Sunnis, and even Christians under the banner of bettering the lives of all Nigerians. Is it because he is black and African? A staple of Wahabbi ideology is Arab supremacism that stems back from the pre-Muhammadin Islam era of tribalistic bigotry, which had Arabs having a similar mindset as Jewish supremacists.

Keeping the people divided along sectarian and ethnic lines is official Israeli policy. The track “Silence on the Sheikh”, which is one of my favorite songs off the album, opens with a proclamation by Madd Cold. “Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, Syrian Grand Mufti Ahmad Badreddine Hassoun, Sayed Hasan Nasrallah, and so many more have all warned there is a Zionist scheme to divide Sunni and Shi’a, so we stand here today for Sheikh Ibrahim Yacoub al-Zakzaky of Nigeria, as one.”

Yusuf Abdul Mateen, a guest on the first verse, drops a heartfelt tribute to the imprisoned Nigerian Islamic saint: “You spit serious raps for Syria and Iraq/But it’s sad, you couldn’t find Nigeria on a map/We’re never hearing the facts from the MSM/See CNBC, Fox or CNN/And I don’t see an end in sight of the Shi’ite plight/Mass graves, last days, it won’t be alright/Until we fight, study, and read the blueprint/of Sheikh Zakzaky and his peaceful movement/ Since the Revolution, done for the cause/Even sacrificed six of his sons for Allah.”

“I came to speak truth, no worries God got me/At the podium like Malcolm you shot me/Did the same to Gamal and Qadhafi/Now they doing it to Sheikh Zakzaky/And they seized the property/It’s probably no probable cause on the arrest/They killed his 3 sons, and massacred the rest/And yes the US had been known of this, they lie about it and continue supporting Zionists/And uhh, it’s crazy how the people believe media/Other Muslims don’t support him ’cause he’s Shi’a/But he pray all five, and ain’t take no lives, and sends peace on the Prophet (S.A.W.W.), what are we doing here?” continues guest rapper Rafiqi Green.

The next guest rapper, Khanverse, expresses his disappointment in the Muslim community to ignore the plight of Zakzaky, the African revolutionary. “I’m sorry for what the Monsters did in Zaria/Not acknowledged ’cause they not Khazar enough/Like our scars and our martyrs will not count among the slaughtered who were lost do not warrant such?/You claiming Islam but you’re slaves and Ikhwani stooges/Y’all are useless/Following the vultures’ demonic, repugnant Cultural Marxist blueprints/You are not Prophet Muhammad’s (S.A.W.W.) students/You say you care/You CAIR 4 Queers, but when the Sheikh disappeared, we didn’t hear from you, you were everywhere but there/We spitting ’till this innocent prisoner’s freed.”

Madd Cold drops back in to hold the ultimate mirror of truth up to the faces of the Muslim world who have failed this oppressed African lion. “Where are the Ummah and the activists for human rights?/Where is the Palestine Solidarity Movement? Too busy cackling and yapping with some Jewish types/Y’all will lash out at anyone anywhere who says anything “offensive” against some evil Yids/But when it comes to standing up for this man, who’s made millions of Africans aware, of every sick horror that the Falasteeni people live/Y’all feeble squids are nowhere to be found like the crown of a king overthrown in a coup/So we wanna know what kinda dough is flowing to you/Nevermind it’s so obvious even to the blind the Saudis got you confined so I won’t try to reach you pigs/Zakzaky’s a champion, you’re a disgrace/Zakzaky is the purest of saints/If he never stood up for Yemen and Bahrain, they never would have brought hell to the steps of his home/wrecked and bulldozed the Huseiniyyah Baqiyatullah, his precious abode/If he ain’t defend Hizbullah, Syria and Iran, they wouldn’t have fired their weapons on him like a maleficent foe/If he never exposed Boko Haram, as a fraud of the Mossad then they wouldn’t have arrested and thrown/him and his wife into prison and put bullets in his sons, taking away their breaths and their souls/US and ‘Israel’ trained these goons, can’t you smell the habitual stink? /Zakzaky was a target ‘cause he brought the diabolical Zionist project on the African continent to the literal brink.”

Madd Cold finishes with a call for an end to Nigeria’s president Buhari with chants of “Death to the Buhari regime, free Zakzaky!”

The album also features another ode to a giant of resistance: Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As an American, I love the good Doctor. If you understand the Zionist shadow government that runs the American government in addition to all these Zionist neoconservative think tanks in Washington D.C. that have been plotting against Iran since the days of the revolution, you will understand that it doesn’t matter what kind of rhetoric Iran uses, be it ‘reformist’ or ‘hardliner,’ which are both meaningless orientaist terms concocted by the Zionist media.

The Project for a New American Century was a think tank primarily made up of Zionist Jewish neoconservatives who would later go on to work for the Bush administration, and many worked under Obama and even now under Trump. In the year 2000, they issued a white paper suggesting the US should dramatically expand its global military presence, specifically with operations against Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and more. In order to justify such a vast and costly expansion of US foreign policy, the white paper said that America would have to suffer a “new Pearl Harbor.” That’s right. These psychopaths were calling for America to be attacked and for Americans to be killed to satisfy their global domination agenda.

They got their new Pearl Harbor in the form of the false flag on September 11th, a controlled demolition of three World Trade Center buildings primarily organized by the Mossad along with traitors in the American government. Israel killed those 3,000 Americans on that day.

General Wesley Clark blew the whistle on the US plan to invade 7 countries in 5 years since the year 2001. In 2001, ‘reformist’ President Khatami was in office in the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was especially - or rather naively - friendly to the United States. With all that friendliness, the US still had a plan to topple Iran in the works.

Clearly, the US government has wanted to eliminate Iran regardless of the rhetoric of the Iranian president. To blame Dr. Ahmadinejad for America’s increased sanctions and aggression against Iran is intellectually dishonest. To paraphrase Malcolm X, the oppressor will always find fault with the oppressed’s methods of seeking freedom: if they stand up they are wrong, if they lay on their back they are wrong, if they lay on their side they are wrong. No matter what, the oppressor will always tell the oppressed they are wrong. The oppressor has zero right to dictate to the oppressed how they should think, what they should say, and their modes of resistance.

Dr. Ahmadinejad had the spine to speak the truth in the face of the devil.

The 9/11 truth movement was started by the families of the victims who died on that day. The fact that Dr. Ahmadinejad spoke on their behalf at the UN in 2010 makes him more pro-American than any of these mentally colonized, shameless pro-Shah Iranians from Los Angeles combined, even if every one of them were to wave a tiny American flag at the same time - flag waving doesn’t make you a patriot, standing against Zionist traitors in the American government who have trashed the US Constitution does make you a patriot.

Don’t believe me? Listen to Dan Wallace, whose father died on 9/11 as a firefighter.

Madd Cold describes the former Iranian president jubilantly: “You laid waste to this traitorous vermin/Dropped the gem that the monsters were hunting for Imam al-Mahdi (A.S.) but your leadership frustrated their searches/You ain’t once in a lifetime, you’re once in an eternity, you are who we yearn to be/Not a moment of your presidential tenure went by without you striving towards Lucifer’s doom/I feel when you were at the helm yo, the world was normal/The Ummah was unified, the young men and the girls were moral/Mossad’s “Green Revolution” couldn’t take you down or make you frown, in the face of your grace and style, the nastiest of lies/got hit, with your Tachyons and died/Uplifted the poor ‘cause you were in poverty yourself/Every word you speak makes the Global Zionist Lobby wanna throw its body in a well/The moustakbireen get sick when your name is mentioned/While the Moustazafeen get hype ‘cause wherever they are suffering your aim’s to end it/Said we could have a world without Zionism, and gave us hope where there once wasn’t a breath/When you echoed Sayyed Khomeini (R.A.), that the devilish ‘Israeli’ speck would disappear/The whole Global South stood up like we were all having a collective fit to cheer.”

The album also features a tribute to Syria, because as we know, the Zionist-NATO-GCC alliance created ISIS in order to destabilize Syria, Iran’s only Arab ally, in order to exact revenge against the Resistance Axis for their 2000 and 2006 victories over the Zionist entity. After the Zionist entity’s 1967 war of aggression on the Arab world, most Arab countries fell like cowards and accepted the Zionist entity’s deceptive “peace” agreements. The only countries with the insight, moral clarity, and dignity to never cease their resistance to Zionism was Syria, Lebanon, eventually Iran, and of course the occupied and oppressed Palestinians themselves.

“Sayyed Abou Hadi said the most phenomenal and the most precise rockets of the Resistance came from Syria/It was the baddest tech from Damascus, that sent the settlers running into their shelters, hence why they inflicted pain on Syria/And since the ‘Israeli’ tumor cannot be sustained in any age or future, these parasitic nitwits aimed for Syria/No matter the money and the arms that flow/No matter the terror neocons have sown/We won’t submit in the combat zone/Long Live Syria, Our Backbone!” cries the song in favor of preserving Syria’s unity in the face of the Oded Yinon balkanization schemes of the Zionist regime.

The album additionally tackles the issue of 9/11 truth (with an amazing guitar solo at the end by Trevolution), the sadistic Saudi war of aggression on Yemen, Wahabbi/takfirism, and the meaningless “antisemitism” ad hominem derogatory slander term used by the Zionists.

For anyone looking to bump a truly principled soundtrack to the resistance this Quds Day, Eternally Husseini is a must have for all those who seek to use innovative means, such as art, to uplift the oppressed and give a voice to the voiceless.

*(Images credit: Muhammad Hamza/ IntifadaStreet.com).

 Resistance

ALI SALAAM

Ali Salaam, an independent blogger, journalist, and activist. 

Saudi Hijinks, US Policy Stinks

Finian Cunningham

The whimsical Saudi rulers are playing musical chairs again, with the king’s favorite son jumping the succession queue in what some observers have called a “soft coup” to become heir to the oil kingdom throne.

The medieval-like House of Saud has always been a lynchpin in US foreign policy for the Middle East. More so under President Donald Trump who has struck up a chummy relationship with the young Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. This relationship is like the blind leading the blind. No wonder US policy is fast becoming a disaster for the restive region.

America’s deepening and reckless military involvement in Syria is a result of Trump cozying up with the Saudi despots. That, in turn, is leading to the US brazenly flying air force cover for Saudi-sponsored terrorists in Syria at the risk of going to war with Russia and Iran. Russia has warned that any more US shoot-downs of Syrian jets will not be tolerated.

This week the obscurantist Saudi rulers decided to shake up their bizarre rules of succession in the kingdom. The ailing King Salman (81) decreed, overnight, that his heir Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef would no longer be the heir. Bin Nayef was pushed aside, to be replaced by the king’s own son, Mohammed bin Salman.

At age 31, the new Crown Prince could soon become the future Saudi ruler who will govern the country for the next half century. On one hand, the shake-up is aimed at giving the impression of stability in a strategic American ally, given that, potentially, Mohammed bin Salman could rule for several decades to come, owing to his youthful age.

On the other hand, however, the upending of Saudi succession rules is fraught with risk that the Arab state could become even more unstable from internal power rivalries and social discontent. Not to mention that the country has already become more embroiled in regional problems with neighbors Yemen, Qatar and Iran. All of which stems from the rapid elevation of the young prince to a position of immense autocratic power.

The United States’ decades-long “special relationship” with Saudi Arabia has always carried major downsides. Yes, the Saudis are a pillar in maintaining the American petrodollar system to prevent the collapse of the US economy; and, yes, the Saudi rulers are lavish spenders on US weapons, which props up the Pentagon military-industrial complex – another lifeline for American capitalism.

However, the Saudi rulers are also longtime sponsors of Wahhabi fundamentalism which has injected deadly sectarian poison into the Middle East region and beyond. Washington is complicit in fomenting sectarianism through its relationship with Saudi Arabia, and the price for that Faustian pact is a world in turmoil from terrorism.

Donald Trump’s presidency is an unfortunate marriage of interests with Saudi Arabia. Trump is capricious, ignorant and impetuous. His understanding of international relations and history seems woefully inadequate. He also appears to be unscrupulous and reckless. It’s all about making money that matters to him.

From the earliest opportunity, the Saudi prince wheedled his way into Trump’s court. He was greeted in the White House back in March, one of the first foreign leaders to do so. Then two months later, Trump ventured on his maiden foreign trip as president in which he made Saudi Arabia his first stop. Trump was royally received by the House of Saud with sword-waving ceremony. And then the Saudis signed record arms deal with the US worth up to $350 billion – the biggest ever in history.

It was during Trump’s Saudi visit that the policy of increased hostility towards Iran and isolation of erstwhile Saudi and American ally Qatar was hatched. This reckless, clueless embrace of Saudi Arabia by Trump has led to a dangerous escalation in tensions across the Middle East, which are seen playing out in Syria and towards Iran and Russia.

Trump the tycoon and the Saudi upstart-prince are a duo who are plunging the world into danger of all-out war. The pair are a match made in hell, both being rash and irresponsible in their behavior.

Nobody outside Saudi Arabia had heard of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman until his father become king in January 2015 on the death of King Abdullah. In the space of two years, the young prince has been made defense minister and de facto chief of Saudi’s oil economy. Now, this week he has been shunted into becoming heir to the throne, sidelining his elder cousin and nephew to the king.

The precocious prince has only enjoyed this meteoric rise in the House of Saud because of his father’s favoritism. Other more senior royals feel ousted and see the new Crown Prince as undeserving of his assigned authority. In short, he is out of his depth.

In the Saudi succession rules, the royal line is supposed to pass from brother to brother. There are still surviving brothers of the Saudi founding king, Ibn Saud, who have been removed from the succession. The present King Salman first broke the rules when he made his nephew Mohammed bin Nayef the Crown Prince back in April 2015. Now he has broken the rules again by making his own son the heir and unceremoniously pushing bin Nayef to the side. Such are the hijinks of despots.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is the architect behind the disastrous war in Yemen, which is turning into a Vietnam-style quagmire for Saudi Arabia, costing the kingdom billions of dollars every month. He is also reportedly the architect behind the policy of renewed hostility towards Iran. In an interview before Trump’s Saudi trip, Mohammed bin Salman said he would never talk to Iran and even threatened to unleash violence on Iranian territory. That threat was followed by the deadly terror attack in Tehran on June 7 in which up to 17 people were killed by Daesh suicide squads.

The hiked-up hostile policy towards Iran has, in turn, led to Saudi Arabia blockading Qatar and causing a bitter rift in the Persian Gulf because Qatar is perceived as being too soft on Iran.

The power-struggle antics among the absolute rulers of the House of Saud have promoted a prince who has a reckless outsized ego and lust for dominance. President Donald Trump seems cut from the same cloth. Courting the young Saudi heir may be lucrative for American weapons-dealing and no doubt the Trump business brand in the oil-rich region. But the consequences of such capricious and clueless “leadership” are throwing the region and the world into increasing conflict.

This week the US State Department flatly contradicted Trump’s policy of supporting the Saudi-led blockade on Qatar. It said it was mystified that the Saudis had not presented any evidence to justify the blockade. This is just one example where Trump is being made to look a total fool by following stupid Saudi policy – policy that is made by a prince who has gathered a record for disaster in several other spheres.

What a double act. Saudi despotism marries Trump cluelessness. And the world is reaping the calamity of clowns.