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Islam and Muslims
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Muslims’ current failures are not mere in economy, education, science or technology; the most basic and devastating failure is in the understanding of Islam – the unique and the most valuable possession. Other failures are indeed the results of this basic failure. And all these failures have led to moral, cultural, behavioural and political failures. They have failed even to understand the very purpose of the worldly survival. So their vision, mission, life style and political priorities do not match with those of the early Muslims. Indeed, they are far away from that. Otherwise, like early Muslims, they would have been engaged again in building a civilization force.
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A debate on voting has divided the already divided Muslim community in the UK. Some groups have labelled it haram - a divine prohibition. They have proclaimed fatwas that any participation in elections is shirk. Their central point is based on the argument that Allah (SWT) is the only lawmaker, and so Muslims cannot take part in forming a parliament that is not based on his laws. To them, it is not only haram in a non-Muslim country like UK, but also in any notionally Muslim country like Bangladesh, Pakistan, Malaysia, Turkey, Indonesia and others. So the question arises, should the Muslims survive as mere observers of politics, as is the norm in many autocratic Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar and others? Ironically, most of the people propagating this fatwa, are born in those middle-east countries and are more in tune with autocratic legacies. Rather, the ulamas in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Malaysia, Turkey, Indonesia, India, Sudan and Algeria are not only participating in elections, but also are taking part in forming governments. These anti-election proponents possess little experience in how the right to vote empowers people to shape the policies and destiny of their country.
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Like Islam, Islamic movement too, is highly misunderstood by both the Muslims and the non-Muslims. Many people think it mere a political cry of a few extremist fanatics for capturing power. To them, it is not a core belief of the mainstream Muslim faith, but a doctrine of a few. So they label them as deviants from Islam. Movement itself gives a connotation that it entails educating, training, organising and mobilising people for a political end. They can not think of such a political agenda for Muslims in any Muslim and non-Muslim country. Instead, they have their own prescription for the Muslims.
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They do not believe the official headcount regarding the Muslim population. They complain that the government has an ill-motive behind showing a lower number for the Muslims in India. The Muslims don't even have a 2 percent stake in the government service which is very insignificant in relation to the total Muslim population in India. The actual account of deprivation will become manifest if the correct statistics of the Indian Muslims are revealed. As a result, dissatisfaction will rise and people will strive to claim their rights. The increase in number will boost their morale and self-confidence, and accelerate their political uprising. The Muslims believe that this fear of uprising instigated the manipulation of the Muslim population statistics. The actual number of the Indian Muslims is kept as secret as the number of the Indian soldiers; hence is the nonchalance to reveal the actual headcount by the government.
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In the powerful melting pot of the West, people of different creed, culture and beliefs are being moulded into a single brand. The current deluge of the western culture largely owes to its mighty television, films, media and other propaganda skills. Clashes of civilisations in the past almost always precipitated clashes of cultures. The cultural boundary was found to be a common precursor of the geographical boundary. People formed state, fought wars, made alliances just to protect their distinctive cultures, but now the cultural invasions goes on unarmed. Invasions through borders are now seldom required except for regime change and ethnic cleansing. Nations are being subdued with out firing even a single shot. When cultural distinctiveness disappears, the reason for maintaining a costly independent entity hardly exists. Through the same process, the German, the French, the Italian, the Spanish and other nations in the North America lost their own distinctiveness and gave birth to the USA.
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