Bush’s speech in Turkey
uploaded 01 Jul 2004The irony, contradiction and hypocrisy were quite apparent as President Bush stood in Galatasary University, an outgrowth of the school founded by the Uthmani Islamic Khilafah in 1481 at the end of a two-day NATO meeting (29/06/04) and said, “"The future of freedom in the Islamic world will be determined by the citizens of Islamic nations, not by outsiders."
This was the attempt of Bush and the western leaders, under the guise of NATO to gloss over the atrocities, deceit and trampling over Iraq and the increasing divide between the ‘west’ and the Islamic ummah by focusing on the western initiative of spreading democracy and freedom in the Middle East.
The irony of the speech was the location of his speech. Turkey was the last seat of the Islamic Khilafah. It was the bastion where the pulpits and universities espoused the Islamic thoughts and values and the society lived in the security of the Islamic authority. It was the state that like its Islamic traditions and history represented a system that was the envy of the world where communities thrived within the Islamic values that dominated the social, economic and political life of the citizens. Therefore it is no surprise either that the leaders in the Uthmani Khilafah like Sultan Abdul Hameed valued Islam, her lands and her people and sought to protect them from the decadent kufr culture.
So the irony is obvious as Bush made his speech. The leader of ‘western decadence’ with the blood of the Muslims of Afghanistan and Iraq still fresh on his hands delivered a speech about values and concepts that contradict Islam within a university that now espouses the secular western values. As for modern day Turkey it is characterized by leaderships that have secularized Islam, adopted closeness to the enemies of Islam and the Muslims. And for all its troubles, Turkey consistently turns to the west and its culture for recognition and acceptance, though it is this, which has enslaved and humiliated her.
As for the contradiction of Bush’s speech about freedom being in the hands of citizens of the Islamic world and not by outsiders – it is undoubtedly clear to all that the leaderships in the Muslim world have been put there by the direct and ‘invisible’ hands of outsiders i.e. western governments, notably the US in recent history. This was all too evident not merely in Iraq with the recent swearing in and appointment of the ex-CIA man Iyad Allawi as Iraqi Prime Minister, but was also eloquently expressed at the meeting by another US lackey, current leader of Afghanistan, Mohammad Karzai, "I would like you to please hurry, as NATO, in Afghanistan. Come sooner than September. We see this presence as indivisible from a safe future."
What Bush probably really meant about his view of a local religiously and culturally defined democracy and freedom is that these will be determined by the citizens in the Islamic world as long as:
1. they do not contradict the interests of the west (primarily the US)
2. they do not result in the re-emergence of an Islamic political will that drives for the re-establishment of the Islamic Khilafah
3. the US retain the right to veto any decision and interfere whenever it deems necessary.
In respect to the hypocrisy of Bush’s speech, he remarked,
"No democracy can allow religious people to impose their own view of perfection on others,"
However it was acceptable for the US to define and impose its perfect view upon other people, nations and states! The western drive of democracy and freedom in the Muslim world is not merely to redress the enmity that is felt by the people of that region but to discredit and discard political Islam into the throws of history.
If there was even half a word of truth in Bush’s speech then it came when he said,
"Some people in Muslim cultures identify democracy with the worst of Western popular culture and want no part of it."
What he should have concluded is that democracy is the source of all the filth, moral degeneration, social disintegration and crass commercialism that proliferates the western world and…if the lands in the Muslim world adopt it, their suffering will increase from the current injection of western culture that already pollutes the Muslim landscape.
It should be evident to the Muslims that the efforts of the western colonial powers to appease the Muslims and introduce democracy and freedom into the Muslim world in nothing more than what Allah (Subhanahu wa ta’Allah) reminds the Muslims of how they conspire and plot against Islam.
“They plot and plan. And Allah also plots and plans. Indeed the Best of Planners is Allah” [8:8]
Source: KCom Journal
