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Bernard Lewis, Zionists and Western Plans to Carve up Middle East and Pakistan. How to Counter these Anti Muslim Plans! اسلامی دنیا اورپاکستان کی تباہی کا منصوبہ – برنارڈ لوئس پلان

While turmoil and anarchy in the Middle East can be attributed the disunity among Arabs, the possibility of execution of well known Zionist plans supported by USA and West, to divide the Middle East in fragmented state lets cannot be ruled out. The “Bernard Lewis Plan” named after its architect Bernard Lewis, a specialist in ‘oriental studies’, the ‘history of Islam’ and the ‘interaction between Islam and the West’ is well known. Yet another Zionist Plan for the establishment of greater Israel by dividing Middle East known as “Oded Yinon Plan”, also exists. Christian-Zionist lobby has heavy influence in politics and US government. Policies of Trump and earlier rulers clearly indicate US support for Zionism in Israel. The “Bernard Lewis Plan”, “Oded Yinon Plan” and “Christian-Zionism”, all “Three” are fully integrated to achieve their heinous designs against Muslims. ... Keep reading ..... [......]

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Bernard Lewis, Zionists and Western Plans to Carve up Middle East and Pakistan. How to Counter these Anti Muslim Plans! اسلامی دنیا اورپاکستان کی تباہی کا منصوبہ – برنارڈ لوئس پلان https://bit.ly/BernardPlan

Why The World Is Spinning Into Crisis Everywhere?

Israel vs. Hamas. Ukraine vs. Russia. Unaccompanied minors at the Texas border. Syria in flames, with a militant “caliphate” at the door. Iran stalling for time on nukes. A rising China sowing fear throughout the rest of Asia.
The world seems dangerously unmanageable these days.
President Barack Obama is paying a political price at home, with 55 percent of Americans polled by Pew now disapproving of his handling of foreign affairs -- a dramatic reversal from 2009, when his approval rating was 56 percent. While experts argue about how much Obama and his policies are really to blame, the truth is that he occupies the Oval Office at a time of historic flux and of diminished clout, not only for the U.S. but also for the idea of a dominant global power.
To understand that, you need to revisit an influential article published in Foreign Affairs in 2008 by Richard Haass. It’s called “The Age of Nonpolarity,” and Haass wrote it as he was advising presidential candidates behind the scenes in both parties.
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Haass, the longtime president of the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations (and before that a staffer for President Jimmy Carter and the two Bushes), painted a grim picture of an unsettled, chaotic and dangerously diffuse world Familiar methods of diplomacy, statecraft and war had become feeble, if not useless, in the 21st century, he wrote. The ages of “unipolar” power (i.e., a dominant United States) were over; so were the times of “multi-polar” power, such as the first half of the 20th century.
Now the world faced a free-for-all in which “non-state actors” -- terrorists, global corporations, religious and ethnic tribes, sovereign wealth funds and nonprofit charities, to name a few -- were as crucial as countries in shaping the order of a “nonpolar” world.
To be clear, non-state actors -- which also include alliances such as the United Nations and the European Union, "civil society" foundations and academic institutions -- could be forces for healing as well as mayhem. As Haass noted more recently to The Huffington Post, "If you are talking about education or health care globally, for example, it wouldn't make any sense not to have the Gates Foundation involved." But still these new entities do not follow the familiar playbook of nations.
The Internet and international floods of capital were empowering these non-state players, Haass wrote in 2008. No nation or set of nations was “in charge.” Ethnic, religious and regional rivalries had been set free by the weakness of nation-states, and by an Internet that enables digital forces who couldn't care less about the wisdom of Metternich or Gorbachev-Reagan diplomacy.
The U.S. had to figure out how to operate in this new world, in which my-way-or-the-highway wouldn’t work, and neither would traditional nation-to-nation “talks,” Haass wrote. Military power would be just as important as before, he wrote, but it would have to be shrewdly and surgically applied, and almost always in concert not only with other countries but with other non-state players.
Although Haass had spent many years working for Republicans, his article caught the eye of then-Sen. Obama. Early in his presidency, Obama journeyed to Cairo to give a speech designed to reach out to the Islamic world and, in doing so, to enunciate the core of his own global theory. He declared that the real America did not fit the “crude stereotype of a self-interested empire” -- and certainly would not do so while he was in charge.
The new interdependence of the world, the president said, was in conflict with a “human history [that] has often been a record of nations and tribes subjugating one another to serve their own interests.
“Yet, in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating,” Obama said. “Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners of it. Our problems must be dealt with through partnership; progress must be shared.”
It was an idealistic, uplifting message -- and one that seemed to fit the changing times described by Haass. Four months later, officials in Norway announced that they were giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize.
Six years after he wrote his original article, Haass is busy writing another, and it's an even more timely call for a new understanding of how to manage world crises. The evidence that we need to do better is in the headlines and the videos.
“Things have gotten much worse,” he told HuffPost. “It’s even more urgent that we figure out a new form of world governance, because the old ones don’t work.”
The disruptive forces he wrote about before have become more potent and unsettling, and President Obama, while he understands the challenge, hasn’t always executed as well as he could have, Haass said. There's a rising factor Haass didn’t predict: the waves of immigrants and refugees “within nations and between them,” who are not easily dealt with by traditional diplomatic or military methods.
“I’m updating the piece,” he said, for a world that is now at nonpolarity plus.
The tangled flare-ups around the world are made more intractable by the fact that one leader can’t phone another and cut a deal that guarantees results. The organizing principals are in flux. Consider these trouble spots:
Israel and Hamas. Once upon a time, the lid was kept on the Levant largely by two great powers, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. Those days are over, thanks to Shia sectarianism, Sunni terrorism in the form of al Qaeda and now the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), and the Israelis’ growing willingness to ignore U.S. pressure.
Ukraine and Russia. Ever unsure of its identity, Russia is once again on the march, albeit not as in the days of uniformed soldiers driving tanks into Slavic city squares. President Vladimir Putin has empowered Ukrainian separatists whom he can’t quite control, with disastrous results.
Two major petro-theocracies. One is Iran, the other Saudi Arabia. Old-style notions of statecraft don’t rule these two oil-rich players. Instead, they are the modern spear points of a 14-centuries-long sectarian war, in which religion is nationhood.
“The Caliphate.” Nothing demonstrates the deterioration of the very idea of “nation” more than the pop-up caliphate declared by ISIS. Sunni insurgents have seized territory in Syria and Iraq, the modern borders of which were drawn by the so-called Great Powers a century ago.
According to Haass, the Far East is the only region where world affairs are being conducted along old lines. “The China situation is the most traditional,” he said. It's a rising major power dealing with its longtime regional rivals.
But even in and around China, there are non-state players and problems. China is exporting tens of thousands of its own workers throughout Southeast Asia, an international business model that is causing friction in Vietnam and Cambodia. And the People’s Republic is being harassed on its western flank by Islamic separatists, who want nothing more -- or less -- than the freedom to worship as they wish.
China’s rulers have responded with a vicious military crackdown.
But that method won’t work in the rest of the world anymore. It may not even work in China.

Why The World Is Spinning Into Crisis Everywhere
By Howard Fineman Global Editorial Director
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5614634

Why Pakistan needs to support Saudi Arabia

Recently, PM confirmed that a “threat to Saudi Arabia will evoke strong reaction from Pakistan” during a meeting with the top defence-related brass, which was convened after the Kingdom’s offensive against the Houthi rebels in Yemen started.

While a lot of Pakistanis are not in favour of going into what they perceive as a sectarian conflict, they fail to recognise both the strategic and economic implications if Pakistan does not support the Saudi Arabia-led offensive against the Houthi rebels.

Firstly, the PML-N led government has every right to take this decision based on the number of representatives it has in parliament. However, what needs to be understood is that it’s not just the government, but also the military establishment which is backing the whole offensive due to strategic compulsions.

The two arguments against the engagement of Pakistani troops in Yemen and Saudi Arabia are:

1. Why engage our troops in a foreign country when we are fighting our own war; and

2. Why be part of a sectarian conflict?

The truth is that a nation’s foreign policy is not driven by emotions but is based on long-term economic and strategic security concerns.

Pakistan has taken part in Arab conflicts in the past. Fighter pilots from the Pakistan Air Force had flown Royal Saudi Air Force jets to repel an incursion from south Yemen in 1969.

One should also remember that there are 400 Pakistani military trainers present in the Kingdom, already training Saudis on border management against the Islamic State on the Iraqi border.

The recent decision to support Saudi Arabia in this conflict is backed both, by the military and civilian leaderships, which see the stability of Saudi Arabia in Pakistan’s interest for two reasons:

1. Millions of Pakistanis work in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries with the highest number being in Saudi Arabia.

2. Apart from that, the GCC remains the largest source of foreign exchange for Pakistan.

3.In addition, Saudi Arabia remains Pakistan’s biggest strategic ally and helps meet our energy needs.

4. Instability within the GCC and Saudi Arabia would mean millions of Pakistanis coming back jobless, hurting us economically.

We have seen what happened to Pakistanis living in Kuwait after Iraq invaded that country.

The question remains: will Pakistan’s participation in the operation in Yemen hurt Pakistan’s own war?

No. Our military and air force deployment inside Saudi Arabia will be limited in numbers and the decision regarding this should be left to the military command.

We regularly send troops on UN missions. Does our participation in these missions affect us? No.

Secondly, the perception that the Yemen conflict is sectarian in nature is only because of Iran’s support to the Houthi rebels.

In reality, this is more of an ethnic conflict with there being a quest for political power.

Pakistan’s foreign policy with regards to Iran traditionally has been to defend Iran too.

Hence, a serious diplomatic effort from our foreign office should be made to convince Iran that its stability as well as that of Saudi Arabia is vital for Pakistan. We cannot ignore either country.

We must also understand that there are more than 10 Muslim countries, including Turkey, backing the strikes in Yemen against the Houthis and Pakistan will eventually have to choose sides or lose support from our biggest strategic partners and energy providers.

It is now up to the prime minister and his government to cash in on the opportunity and get a good economic deal for Pakistan in exchange for providing security for the GCC countries.

Pakistan could gain economically if a sound deal is negotiated for providing jobs to Pakistanis in the GCC countries, as well as negotiating a better energy deal. A good economic package negotiated at an appropriate time to benefit all Pakistanis will help the case for a greater military role in the GCC countries.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 1st, 2015.

Terrorism - Regional & Religious solutions

The monster of extremism and terrorism has domestic roots but it is equally fed and sustained by transnational and trans-border networks of individuals, groups and movements in Pakistan. It is not just private persons and entities within the broader Middle Eastern region giving support to religious and secular organisations, but the secret and not-so-secret involvement of states in support of their objectives and interest that makes the challenge of terrorism so messy and complex. Another very important dimension of this challenge is the scale and the long time over which it has grown with the usual apathy of our ruling groups. No political leader has ever stood firmly with a resolve to take the extremism challenge as one of the key priorities; it was as if his challenge was for others to address. In times of intense political rivalry between the two major political parties in a decade-long confrontation, each one of them showed no hesitation in courting the support of groups and individuals with ties to extremist organisations.
The challenge of extremism that has transformed itself into sectarian terrorism is a national problem first, but at the same time, it is a regional problem. The rise of the Islamic State (IS) in parts of strife-stricken Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen and its chronicles of atrocities against anyone branded or even suspected as ‘enemy’ has shocked the whole world, but most importantly, it has pushed a number of regional states to cooperate and coordinate their intelligence and military operations against the IS. A good number of regional countries have very courageously opted to be part of an international coalition to defeat the IS. The groups associated with the IS in the Middle East may also find support in Afghanistan and Pakistan among similar groups and movements that might share their world view and the ‘ideal’ state they are trying to establish. There are indications that some groups have already aligned with the IS in this region as well. Not doing so, will run counter to logic and the history of transnational links between the militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the Middle East.
For decades, Afghanistan and Pakistan have witnessed a big informal flow of funds, militants and dangerous ideas from the extended Middle East. The problem is that rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia, which is secular in its ends but essentially sectarian in its means, within the Middle East has always found its expression through similar instruments and organisations in our region. Focusing overly on the cycles of the Afghan wars and weakening of the state there and the nominal presence of the Pakistani state in the frontier regions, we tend to look at the pull factors and the vacuum that militant organisations have filled. No less important is the Middle Eastern push factor that comes with the funds, ideas and organisational support in many forms.
While Pakistan and its society struggles to face the challenge of extremism through its fresh resolve and under a consensual, multi-pronged National Action Plan, we need to think of broader response with essential regional and international ingredients. Regionally, close relations with Afghanistan hold the key to our success against extremism and terrorism. Employing of proxies by either side for decades in troubled times of the other has not worked and will never work. Hopefully, we are moving towards that realisation — this holds the key to cultivating a climate of a strong relationship between the two.
It is equally important, though difficult, to plug the holes through which Middle Eastern money and the sectarian divide enter our society. The traditional state apathy towards this issue has greatly contributed to the strength of sectarian forces. A multipronged counterterrorism strategy at home and cooperation with Afghanistan and other regional states will give Pakistan a better handle on the extremism challenge.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 18th, 2015.
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انتہا پسندی کے مسائل اور علاقائی طاقتیں
دہشت گردی اور انتہا پسندی کے عفریت کے وجود میں آنے کی وجوہ یقینی طور پر مقامی ہیں لیکن اسے پالنے اور تقویت دینے میں دیگر ممالک میں موجود گروہوں اور افراد کی معاونت بھی حاصل ہے۔ پاکستان میں کام کرنے والی مختلف تنظیمیں اور تحریکیں بھی اس میں اپنا اپنا حصہ ڈالتی ہیں۔ صرف مشرق ِ وسطیٰ کے ممالک سے تعلق رکھنے والے افراد یا نجی تنظیمیں ہی نہیں بلکہ کچھ ریاستیں بھی خفیہ طور پر(جو دراصل اتنی خفیہ بھی نہیں ہوتیں) ایسے گروہوں کی مدد کرتی ہیں جو ان کے مقاصد کے حصول میں معاون ثابت ہوتے ہیں۔ اس وجہ سے دہشت گردی کا مسئلہ انتہائی پیچیدہ ہوجاتا ہے کیونکہ پاکستان کھل کر ان ریاستوںسے بات نہیں کرتا۔
اس چیلنج کا ایک اور اہم پہلو اس کا وسیع سکیل اور وہ مدت ہے جس میں حکمران طبقوں کی روایتی غفلت اور بے حسی کی وجہ سے اسے پھلنے پھولنے اور اپنی جڑیں مزید گہری کرنے کا موقع مل گیا۔ پشاور واقعے سے پہلے حکومتوں میں شامل کسی قابل ِ ذکرگروہ یا سیاسی رہنما نے انتہا پسندی کو کچلنے کے لیے سنجیدگی کا مظاہرہ نہیں کیا تھا۔ اس معاملے سے اغماض کی پالیسی برتی گئی یہاں تک کہ اس نے ہماری سلامتی کو چیلنج کرنا شروع کردیا۔ دوبڑی سیاسی جماعتوں کے درمیان ہونے والی ایک عشرے پر محیط رسہ کشی کے دوران، دونوں نے اپنے اپنے دور میں انتہاپسندوں کو ناراض نہ کرنے میں ہی عافیت گردانی۔ بلکہ بعض نے تو سیاسی مفاد کے لیے انتہا پسند تنظیموں سے تعاون بھی طلب کیا۔اس کے بعد ظاہر ہے کہ ان کے خلاف کارروائی کی گنجائش نہیں نکلتی تھی۔
انتہا پسندی کا چیلنج فرقہ واریت اور دہشت گردی کو فروغ دیتا ہے۔ یہ ہمارا قومی مسئلہ تو ہے لیکن اس کے ساتھ ساتھ یہ علاقائی مسئلہ بھی ہے۔ عراق، شام، لیبیا اور یمن میں داعش کا سراٹھانا کوئی اچنبھے کی بات نہیں ۔ یہ دراصل مختلف ریاستوں کی دیرینہ پالیسیوں کا شاخسانہ ہے۔ اس کی جڑیں عقیدے کی غلط تشریح کے ساتھ ساتھ مسلک اور مذہبی منافرت میں گڑی ہیں۔ آج صورت ِحال یہ ہے کہ داعش کی سفاکیت سے وہ ریاستیں بھی خطرہ محسوس کررہی ہیںجو اس کی پیداوار کی ذمہ دار تھیں۔ چنانچہ آج بہت سی علاقائی ریاستیں اپنے انٹیلی جنس اور فوجی ذرائع یک جان کرتے ہوئے داعش کے خلاف کارروائی کرتی دکھائی دیتی ہیں۔ کچھ علاقائی ریاستوں نے ایک قدم آگے بڑھتے ہوئے داعش کے خلاف بننے والے عالمی اتحاد میں بھی شمولیت اختیار کی ہے تاکہ اس فتنے کوجلد از جلد کچلا جاسکے۔
داعش سے الحاق رکھنے والے گروہوں کو افغانستان اور پاکستان سے بھی حمایت مل سکتی ہے کیونکہ یہاںموجود انتہا پسندگروہ بھی انہی نظریات کے حامل ہیں جو داعش کے ہیں۔ ان سب کا مقصد ایک اسلامی خلافت کا قیام ہے۔ پاکستان میں کچھ عرصے سے اس کے لیے فکری طور پر زمین تیار کی جارہی تھی۔ کچھ ایسے اشارے ملتے ہیں کہ یہاں کے کچھ مقامی گروہ داعش کے ساتھ روابط قائم کرچکے ہیں ۔داعش کے حق میں ملک کے کچھ مخصوص حصوں میں کی جانے والی وال چاکنگ کی خبریں بھی آتی رہتی ہیں۔کسی کو اس کا مقامی امیر مقرر کیے جانے کی بازگشت بھی سنائی دیتی ہے۔ خدامعلوم ان خبروں میں کتنی صداقت ہے لیکن ایک بات پورے وثوق سے کہی جاسکتی ہے کہ پاکستان اور افغانستان میںکام کرنے والے انتہا پسندگروہوں کے مشرق ِ وسطیٰ کے روابط کی تاریخ موجود رہی ہے۔ اس سے انکار کرنا حقیقت سے آنکھیں چرانے کے مترادف ہوگا۔
کئی عشروں سے پاکستان اور افغانستان میں مشرق ِ وسطیٰ سے فنڈز کا بھاری بہائو جاری ہے۔ اس کازیادہ تر رخ انتہا پسند گروہوں کی طرف ہے کیونکہ وہ مسلک اور نظریات کے اعتبار سے مشرق ِ وسطیٰ کی ریاستوں کے قریب ہیں۔ ایک طرح سے پاکستان متحارب مسالک کا میدان ِ جنگ بن چکا ہے۔ اس کی وجہ دو ممالک کی نظریاتی دشمنی ہے۔ اس میں کوئی شک نہیں کہ اس نظریاتی کشمکش کی بنیادی وجہ مذہب نہیں بلکہ کمرشل تصورات ہیں ،تاہم ان کے لیے فرقہ وارانہ تنائو کا ہتھیار استعمال کیا جاتا ہے۔ افغان جنگوں کی وجہ سے پاکستانی ریاست کے شمالی مغربی سرحدی علاقوں میں حکومت کی عملداری برائے نام رہ گئی۔ ان علاقوں میں انتہا پسند جمع ہوگئے۔ اس کو فنڈز فراہم کرنے میں مشرق ِ وسطیٰ کے کردار کو نظرانداز نہیں کیا جاسکتا۔ اگرچہ ایسا سوویت یونین اور کمیونزم کے خلاف جہاد کے لیے کیا گیا تھا لیکن فنڈز کی فراہمی کے لیے ہم مسلک گروہوں کا ہی انتخاب کیا گیا اوریہ محض اتفاق نہیں تھا۔
جس دوران پاکستان اور اس کا معاشرہ انتہا پسندی کے چیلنج سے نبردآزما ہونے کے لیے ہاتھ پائوں ماررہا ہے، ہمیں اس کے خلاف ایک تازہ بیانیے کی ضرورت ہے۔ نیشنل ایکشن پلان پر عمل کیا جارہا ہے اور یہ اچھی پیش رفت ہے لیکن ہمیں وسیع تر خطوط پر سوچنے کی ضرورت ہے کہ یہ مسئلہ علاقائی جہت رکھتا ہے۔ اس لیے علاقائی طاقتوں کو اس میں شامل نہ کرنا غلطی ہوگی۔ سب سے پہلے ہمیں افغانستان کے ساتھ اچھے اور قریبی تعلقات درکار ہیں ۔ اس کے بعد ہی ہم انتہا پسندی اور دہشت گردی کے خلاف کامیابی کی امید کرسکتے ہیں۔ اس کے علاوہ بھارت کے ساتھ اچھے تعلقات بھی ضروری ہیں کیونکہ دشمنی اور تنائو کی وجہ سے پراکسی جنگ کا تصور ابھرتا ہے۔ اس کے لیے انتہا پسند گروہ ناگزیر ہوجاتے ہیں۔ اس وقت ، جبکہ فوجی آپریشن کامیابی سے جارہی ہے، سفارتی محاذ سے بھی کچھ اچھی خبریں آرہی ہیں۔ تاہم مشکل لیکن اہم قدم مشرق ِوسطیٰ کی طرف سے آنے والے نظریات اور فنڈز کو روکنا ہے۔ اگر ریاست نے اس طرف چشم پوشی کی پالیسی جاری رکھی تو بہت دیر ہوجائے گی اور فرقہ وارانہ طاقتیں مزید مضبوط ہوجائیں گی۔اگر افغانستان اور دیگر ریاستوں کا تعاون شامل رہے تو ان طاقتوں کی حوصلہ شکنی ہوگی اوراُنہیں شکست دینا آسان ہوجائے گا۔ تاہم اس وقت جبکہ فوج اپنا کام کررہی ہے، حکومت کے کرنے کے بھی بہت سے کام ہیں۔ کیا آنے والے دنوں میں ہم حکومت کو یہ مشکل لیکن ضروری کام سرانجام دیتے دیکھیں گے؟

اسلام کے نام پر فسادی جنگ کا خاتمہ صرف اسلام سے:

اسلام ، جہاد کے نام پر فساد کا خاتمہ کرنے کے لءیے محض مذمتی قراردادیں، کمیٹاں،دھواںدار تقریریں، بیانات، کانفرسیں، قوانین، فوجی کاروائیاں، فوجی عدالتیں وغیرہ کافی نہیں. یہ ایک مکمل قومی، مذھبی جنگ ہے(Total War).
مسلمان حکمران علماء کرام کی مدد سے تکفیری فسادیوں اور ان کے ھمدردوں کے خلاف خالی فتووں کے علاوہ کھلم کھلا اعلان جہاد کریں جس میں ہر مسلمان جان، مال، قلم یا کسی اور متفقہ طریقے سے حکومت کی مدد (غیر سرکاری طور پر نہیں) سے حصہ لے .

انشا ء اللہ امت مسلمہ اس سازش کو تباہ کر کہ امن قاءم کر لیں گے. یہ کوءی سیاسی جزباتی نعرہ نہیں ایک ممکن سنجیدہ حل ہے اہل دانش اس معاملہ پر ٹھنڈےدل و دماغ سے غور و فکرکریں اور ممکن عملی اقدام تجویز کریں. پیغام پھیلاءیں پر امن دباءو ڈالیں.

مَّن يَشْفَعْ شَفَاعَةً حَسَنَةً يَكُن لَّهُ نَصِيبٌ مِّنْهَا ۖ وَمَن يَشْفَعْ شَفَاعَةً سَيِّئَةً يَكُن لَّهُ كِفْلٌ مِّنْهَا ۗ وَكَانَ اللَّـهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ مُّقِيتًا
جو بھلائی کی سفارش کریگا وہ اس میں سے حصہ پائے گا اور جو برائی کی سفارش کرے گا وہ اس میں سے حصہ پائے گا، اور اللہ ہر چیز پر نظر رکھنے والا ہے(قرآن:4:85)
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Defeat religious terrorism with power of Islam:

The Terrorists are using name of Islam and Jihad to commit atrocities strictly forbidden in Islam. They use Islamic religious symbols and terminologies (Jihad) to misguide and recruit the ignorant, innocent Muslims, and to gain sympathies and support. The great religion "Islam" has been hijacked by few lunatics while 1.5 billion Muslims watch helplessly; What a shame! In order to defeat them; mere meetings, condemnations, resolutions , speeches, religious edict (Fatwas), laws, speedy military courts and military action against them are JUST NOT ENOUGH. They have to be >>>>> keep reading >>>>> http://goo.gl/owS18Z

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Sweden recognise Pelistine

IN recognising the State of Palestine on Thursday, the Swedish government has taken an important step that confirms the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.

Sweden’s traditionally close ties with the State of Israel are now complemented by an equivalent relationship with the other party in the two-state solution that Israelis, Palestinians and a united international community see as the path to lasting Middle East peace. Keep reading.... http://www.dawn.com/news/1141883/showing-the-way

Peace and You ?

The world is in turmoil; mass killing, genocide, ethnic cleansing, occupation of Muslim lands for natural resources, oppression, expulsions, deprivation and exploitation of innocent, Muslims by power hungry corrupt despotic rulers, greedy powerful countrymen, extremist religious groups and Neo-colonial powers has reached unprecedented level. People are perplexed, they want to get out of this quagmire but there is no way out in sight.

The quest for "Peace and Justice" is exploited by foreign sponsored extremist in the name of religion to recruit Jihadists for power, plunder and exploitation. It adds fuel to fire and provide lame excuse, justification for more oppression and killing of Muslims by the enemies of humanity.

Most of Muslim rulers & leadership have been entangled to tacitly serve agenda of hostile powers, just to protect their rule. The Muslim countries which were relatively strong and wealthy have been systematically dragged in to sectarian, ethnic & tribal civil war and breakup, thus adding fuel to fire.

World peace is not achievable while 1.5 billion Muslims, rich in culture, history and resources are kept in state of turmoil, none will be secure and safe. Hence there is need for the intellectuals, thinkers and all those feeling distressed, to come forward to work out short and long term "Methodology for sustainable Peace" to meet the challenges at present and future. It shall help to make a safe and peaceful world for the humanity.
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ISIS’s cascading effect

A PAKISTANI militant group Tehreek-i-Khilafat’s declaration of allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), now calling itself the Islamic State, has surprised many. Though most analysts are suspicious of the declaration and see it as insignificant, because little is known about the group, it does indicate that ISIS has started to inspire some individuals and groups in Pakistan with similar objectives.

The rise of the Afghan Taliban in the 1990s inspired many Islamist political and militant movements across the world. Afghanistan became an attractive destination for thousands of Muslim radicals hailing from different parts of world. Today, ISIS is attracting Islamist militants and also financial resources in an almost similar way. As Pakistani militants and religious organisations do not operate in isolation, it is natural for them to draw inspiration from ISIS. Keep reading >>>>

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Zainab bint Ali: The Symbol of courage and resistance to oppression

Recently in Syria the shrine of Syedha Zainab, the grand daughter of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was attacked and decried. All Muslims, Sunnis or Shia have condemned this heinous crime. Let's refresh our knowledge about this great courageous lady, the symbol of resistance against oppression and tyranny:
Video: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10064968/The-Telegraph-visits-Syrian-Sayyida-Zainab-mosque.html

SYEDNA ZAYNAB (May Allah be pleased with her) was the third child of Hadrat Ali bin Abi Talib and Syedah Fatimah (Razi Allah). She was born in Medina in the 5th year of the Hijra (i.e. 627-628 CE) on the 5th of Jumada al-awwal (although some traditions say she was born on the 1st of Sha'aban) (of the Islamic calendar). Zaynab was named by Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) just as with her two elder brothers, Imam Hassan and Imam Hussain. Zaynab means "the adornment of her father" as a reference to Imam Ali. Zaynab lost her mother when she was only seven years old. She grew extremely close to her full brothers, the Imams Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali. She was married to her cousin Abdullah ibn Ja'far, a nephew of Ali (r.a).

At the death of the Muawiyah I, Hadrat Husayn was forced out of Mecca due to the assassins that were sent by Muawiyah's son Yazid I to kill Hadrat Husayn during pilgrimage; thus, Husayn went to Kufa by the invitation of the people of Kufa for him to claim the leadership of the Muslim community. Syedna Zaynab accompanied him, as did most of his household. After Husayn and all his 72 companions were brutally martyred at the Battle of Karbala, Syedna Zaynab was taken captive by the army of Yazid, Muawiyah's son and successor. Syedna Zaynab and the other survivors of Husayn's expedition, most of them women and children, were marched to Damascus, Yazid's capital, where they were held hostage. Tradition says that Zaynab, already in anguish due to the death of her brother Husayn and her sons Aun and Muhammad, was forced to march unveiled. This was an extreme indignity to inflict on a high-ranking Muslim woman, the granddaughter of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).

Sermon of Syedha Zaynab (r.a) in the Court of Yazid

"O Yazid! Allah and His Prophet have said that committing sins and considering the signs of Allah to be false is ridiculing them. You deny the sign of Allah today and hold them in derision and have become happy, and recite poetic verses on account of the martyrdom of the children of the Holy Prophet, just as the polytheists of Makkah became happy and sang songs because of the martyrdom of some Muslims in the Battle of Uhud, and talk about taking revenge upon the Holy Prophet. This is how you become like them and how you have reached this stage? You have reached this stage because you have committed too many sins. Whoever treads the path of sin and persists in committing sins will, according to the verdict of the Quran, deny the signs of Allah one day and eventually will ridicule them and then deserve Divine punishment. O Yazid! Do you think that we have become humble and despicable owing to the martyrdom of our people and our own captivity? As you have blocked all the paths for us, and we have been made captives and are being taken from one place to another, do you think that Allah has taken away his blessings from us? Do you think that by killing the godly persons you have become great and respectable, and the Almighty looks at you with special grace and kindness? For this reason and on account of this wrong thinking you have become elated and arrogant. You have become boastful because you have seen that the matters have taken a turn in your favour. You have, however, forgotten what Allah says: 'The disbelievers must not think that Our respite is for their good. We only give them time to let them increase their sins. For them there will be a humiliating torment.'(3:178) O son of the freed ones! Is it justice that you keep your women and slave-girls in seclusion but have made the helpless daughters of the Holy Prophet ride on swift camels and given them in the hands of their enemies so that they may take them from one city to another. Why shouldn't Yazid be spiteful against us, it is he, who looks at us with hostility. You say with perfect intrepidity and without imagining that you are committing a sin: 'I wish that my ancestors who were killed in Badr had been present here today'. Then you strike Imam Husayn in his teeth with a stick in your hand! Why shouldn't you be like this, although you have done what you wanted to do, and have pulled out the roots of piety and virtue! You have shed the blood of the sons of the Holy Prophet and have hidden the brilliant stars on the earth from amongst the descendants of Abdul Muttalib under the clouds of oppression and injustice. However, you shall go before Allah soon. You shall meet your ancestors and shall also be taken to their place. At that time you will wish that you had been blind and dumb and had not said that it was a day of rejoicing for your ancestors. 'O Lord! Procure our right and take revenge upon those who have oppressed us'. By Allah you have pulled off your skin and cut off your flesh. You will soon go before the Prophet of Allah and will see with your own eyes that his children are in Paradise. It will be the day when Allah will deliver the descendants of the Holy Prophet from the state of being scattered and will bring all of them together in Paradise. This is the promise which Allah has made in the Holy Quran. He says: 'Do not think of those who are slain for the cause of Allah as dead. They are alive with their Lord and receive sustenance from Him'.(3:169)
O Yazid! On the day when Allah will be the Judge and Muhammad will be the petitioner, and your limbs will give evidence against you, your father, who made you the ruler of the Muslims, will receive His punishment. On that day it will become known what reward the oppressors earn, whose position is worse and whose party is more humble. O enemy of Allah and O son of the enemy of Allah! I swear by Allah that I consider you to be humble and not fit even to be reprimanded and reproached. But what am I to do? Our eyes are shedding tears, our hearts are burning, and our martyrs cannot come to life by our reprimanding and reproaching you. My Husayn has been killed and the partisans of Satan are taking us to the fools so that they may get their reward for insulting Allah. Our blood is dripping from their hands and our flesh is falling down from their mouths. The sacred bodies of the martyrs have been placed at the disposal of the wolves and other carnivorous animals of the jungle. If you have gained something today by shedding blood, you will certainly be a loser on the Day of Judgment. On that day nothing but your deeds will count. On that day you will curse Ibn Marjana and he will curse you. On that day you and your followers will quarrel with one another by the side of the Divine scale of Justice. On that day you will see that the best provision which your father made for you was that he enabled you to kill the children of the Prophet of Allah. I swear by Allah that I do not fear anyone except Him and do not complain to anyone else. You may employ your deceit and cunning efforts, but I swear by Allah that the shame and disgrace which you have earned by the treatment meted out to us cannot be eradicated. I thank Allah Who has concluded the task of the chiefs of the youths of Paradise with prosperity and forgiveness and accommodated them in Paradise. I pray to Allah that He may elevate their ranks and favor them more with His kindness, for Allah is Omnipotent".

Eventually Yazid released his captives and allowed them to return to Medina. The exact date and place of her death is not clear but it is probable that she died in the year 62 A.H. some six months after her return to Medina. The anniversary of her death is said to be either the 11th or 21st of Jumada al-Thani, the 24th of Safar, or the 16th of Dhu al-Hijjah. Her grave can be found within Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque in Damascus, Syria.

There is a different view, with many Sunnis holding her grave can be found within a different mosque, also titled "Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque", in Cairo. The Fatimid/Dawoodi Bohra also believe in same. Their 52nd Dai Mohammad Burhanuddin made zarih for the shrine. They further believe that the Mausoleum of Zaynab-al-Kubra in Damascus is of lady Umm Kulthum bint Ali, younger daughter of Ali bin Abi Talib (perhaps caused by confusion between 'Sugra' & 'Kubra'), and the mausoleum of Zaynab bint Ali is in Cairo. There is history of Zaynab living in Cairo in her last days. [Allah knows best]
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Your stake in Palestine

ONE would think it impossible to maintain a flicker of hope when recently Gaza was the site of ceaseless bombs raining down from the skies.

But if there’s one thing the Palestinians have in spades it’s boundless optimism, and never was it more evident than in the aftermath of the United Nations General Assembly vote on the statehood of Palestine.

I watched the vote with my husband, on TV in our hotel room in Tel Aviv with a distinct sense that we were missing the party. A couple of doors down, our Palestinian colleagues were on Facebook attempting to celebrate as best they could.

For six days we had been hosted in turn by the Jordanian, Palestinian and now Israeli offices of the environmental organisation Friends of the Earth-Middle East, and taken to see environmental and heritage sites in their respective countries. All three offices were converging on Tel Aviv the night of the vote, to attend a meeting scheduled the next day.

After a meeting at the Friends of the Earth Israeli office, the various factions disbanded, and we headed back to Bethlehem with the Palestinian organisation.

With the General Assembly vote in hand, the world now braced itself for the inevitable repercussions that would no doubt be born by the newly anointed state.

Meanwhile, the Palestinians accompanying us were in a more buoyant mood and planning for the future. It was during that journey that I learnt the true significance of the vote.

News media identified the immediate benefit of the vote as paving the way for membership to the International Criminal Court, which in turn would allow Palestine to seize the court with claims of war crimes against Israel.

My Palestinian friends in the meanwhile had more laudable ambitions; ones which had more to do with a functioning state than the knee-jerk reaction to immediately confront their oppressor.

Apart from the suggestion to shelve the shekel for a national currency, the possibility of an international airport was also put forward, which struck a chord with me, having encountered the capriciousness of Israeli immigration days earlier.

In fact, since returning from Palestine, I’ve been inundated with queries from Pakistanis as to how I made it into the occupied territories, and I’m afraid the foreign passport I possess was the key to my entry, but not my guarantee.

Israeli immigration seems to welcome only two flavours of tourist: Jewish and Christian evangelical. The rest are likely to receive a grilling, which may vary in intensity.

Needless to say it’s the main impediment to travelling to Palestine, and increases manifold if you’re Palestinian and becomes impossible if you have a passport “not valid for travel in Israel”.

Now consider how an international airport in the West Bank would no longer be subject to Israeli immigration control and visits to Palestine whether for tourism, business or otherwise could become a distinct reality, even for Pakistani passport holders. Admittedly, the Israeli military force destroyed Palestine’s Yasser Arafat International Airport in Gaza in 2001, but control over your airspace (and territorial waters) is a legal right conferred through statehood, and Palestine is now entitled to exercise it.

Israeli restrictions on movement of Palestinians are key to the occupation and one envisages ample resistance to the notion of an international airport in the occupied area. If an international airport is to come, it will come as a response to international pressure.

The General Assembly vote signals a new weariness towards the continuing occupation, and a volatile Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring has made it harder to predict responses to Israeli excess.

Whilst one may argue that our decision not to recognise Israel prevents Pakistanis from interacting and extending material assistance, the same could also be said of Malaysia, whom the Palestinians hold in far greater esteem for their commitment to the Palestinian cause.

It was embarrassing to note that our being Pakistani held no greater significance in Palestine than the novelty of being the first many had met in the West Bank.

This is an opportunity for Pakistani foreign policy to go beyond claiming the Palestinians as brothers in name, and contribute through gestures of goodwill to the comity of nations.

Leading diplomatic efforts for an international airport would be welcomed by a majority of countries. And though it would not yield the immediate financial rewards Pakistan has grown accustomed to in the form of aid and assistance, it will benefit both economies in the long run in areas such as trade, tourism and education.

After all peace is only achievable if you can imagine new realities.

Never having suffered occupation I don’t think I will ever truly understand how deep the wounds go, but the resolve to build and progress in spite of the numerous challenges brings into stark relief how most of us view Palestinians solely through the prism of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

For those with a less charitable disposition who might view the pursuit for normalcy as naïve, or worse, as facilitating the occupation, I rely on the words of poetess Rafeef Ziadah who movingly responds to a journalist’s stock question: “Don’t you think that everything would be resolved if you would stop teaching so much hate to your children?”

“We Palestinians wake up every morning to teach the rest of the world life, sir” (from We Teach Life, Sir).

The writer is the owner of The Last Word bookshop and co-founder of The Life’s Too Short Short Story Prize.

http://dawn.com/2012/12/23/your-stake-in-palestine/

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Consequences of Elitism

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The term elitism may be used to describe a situation in which power is concentrated in the hands of a limited number of people. Those opposed to elitism are considered supporters of anti-elitism, egalitarianism, populism or the political theory of pluralism.Elite theory is the sociological or political science analysis of elite influence in society - elite theorists regard pluralism as a utopian ideal.

Alternatively, the belief or attitude that some individuals, who form an elite — a select group of people with intellect, wealth, specialized training or experience, or other distinctive attributes — are those whose views on a matter are to be taken the most seriously or carry the most weight; whose views and/or actions are most likely to be constructive to society as a whole; or whose extraordinary skills, abilities or wisdom render them especially fit to govern.

Elitism may also refer to situations in which an individual assumes special privileges and responsibilities in the hope that this arrangement will benefit humanity or themselves. At times, elitism is closely related to social class and what sociologists call social stratification. Members of the upper classes are sometimes known as the social elite. The term elitism is also sometimes used to denote situations in which a group of people claiming to possess high abilities or simply an in-group or cadre grant themselves extra privileges at the expense of others. This form of elitism may be described as discrimination.

Egalitarianism: Elitism endorses the exclusion of large numbers of people from positions of privilege or power. Thus, many populists seek the social equality of egalitarianism, populism, socialism, or communism. They may also support affirmative action, social security, luxury taxes, and highly progressive taxes for the wealthiest members of society. All of these measures seek to reduce the difference of power between the elite and the ordinary.

Pluralism: Pluralism is the belief that public policy decision(s) should be (or are,) the result of the struggle of forces exerted - directly or indirectly, - by large populations (workers, consumers, retirees, parents, etc.). This contrasts with elitism; which is the belief that decisions are, or should be, made essentially according to the ideals of the elites.

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One per cent of Pakistan’s population — the elitist class — had contrived to rig the market and hijacked the state for their own benefit. This small minority was able to enjoy its unjust accumulation of wealth in the midst of widespread poverty. I wrote in book "Pakistan: The Economy of an Elitist State". Little did I realise that this phenomenon would spread from Tunis to Sanaa and from Sydney to Seattle.

The Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street movement may have originated for ostensibly different reasons but their root cause is the same — growing disenchantment of the majority of the population that is suffering from weak economic growth, high unemployment, tough austerity measures and anxiety about the future. Meanwhile, the number of billionaires is expanding at an unprecedented rate across the world.

Whether the elite classes are led by dictators, monarchs and rulers as in the Arab world, or dominated by bankers, high-paid executives and businesses as in the western world, social networking media and instantaneous communication have coalesced the disorganised majority. The rage and fury of those disenchanted with the present system is spilling across national boundaries. ‘Contagion’ is no longer a word confined to the international financial system; it is equally applicable to social movements.

The inability of Arab countries to create jobs for their youth has been a major source of discontent behind the uprisings. In the West, youth unemployment has reached 17 per cent in the US and 21 per cent in the European Union. As the Economist has pointed out: “Young people — and not just those on the streets — are likely to face higher taxes, less generous benefits and longer working lives than their parents. More immediately, houses are expensive, credit hard to get and jobs scarce.”

Besides growing unemployment, income inequalities have widened in most countries pinching the low-income and lower-middle classes. The richest one per cent of the people in the world get nearly 14 per cent of global income while the poorest 20 per cent receive just over one per cent. In the US, the top one per cent have captured 58 per cent of the real economic growth of the past 30 years. Fear and economic insecurity about the future is another factor. A commentator has aptly observed: “Is it fair that those who suffer the most from global downturns have their safety nets cut, while those who generate the volatility are bailed out by the government?”

The problem has arisen because of the changes in the nature of relationship between the state and the market. The market allocates scarce resources efficiently but rewards only those already well endowed, i.e. those who possess land, capital, natural resources or skills. The uneducated, poor, handicapped or unskilled are left out.

The state taxes a fraction of the incomes earned by the wealthy and transfers that income to the poor through public expenditures on basic services and social safety nets, etc.

State institutions set the legal and regulatory framework and the rules of the game under which private businesses operate, and ensure macroeconomic stability, adequate competition and acts against collusion. The state adjudicates and arbitrates in disputes and contracts between private parties.

But trouble arises if the state ceases to perform any of these functions effectively or if state institutions are captured by the powerful elite. In the absence of a neutral umpire, the markets are rigged producing inefficient outcomes. As the state is also controlled by the elite, inequities become commonplace. The rich evade taxes or their taxes are cut, public expenditures do not reach the poor, excessive corporate profits accrue to big private owners but their losses are borne by the state. No wonder, eight out of 10 Americans mistrust their government. The situation in most other countries is no different.

In such a society where wealth is concentrated in a few hands and the state is indifferent to the plight of the poor, there is hardly any alternative but to take to the streets. Those worst affected resort to peaceful demonstrations or in some cases to violence. The unrest in the Arab world is a revolt against traditional power structures that favour a select few. Protests such as Occupy Wall Street are a manifestation of the inequities that have become too entrenched. In the Arab world, dictators or rulers perpetuated themselves with the help of the rich and powerful inflicting huge pain and misery upon the population. In the western world, the regulators permitted the bankers to take excessive risks with other’s money resulting in the scrapping of millions of jobs, indebtedness and a decline in the living standards of vast numbers.

The executives, meanwhile, earned hundreds of millions dollars in bonuses, and severance packages. The unemployment rate climbed up from 5.2 per cent in 2007 to 9.2 per cent in the US but the share of the top one per cent went up. In Europe, austerity measures have resulted in cuts in public expenditures, layoffs and retrenchments, salary freeze, etc. At the same time, the bailouts of banks by the public sector would cost billions of euros.

What needs to be done to avert the spread of the present wave of discontent?

The imbalance in favour of the unregulated market and weakened state has to be adjusted. The state and its institutions have to effectively regulate the markets by enforcing competition, penalising excessive risk-taking, protecting consumers, reforming the compensation structure in the corporate sector and strengthening the banks’ capital and governance.

Oligarchic or crony capitalism has to be replaced by a fiercely competitive system. The system should tax the rich and subsidise public services for the poor. Economic opportunities for the youth have to be expanded by investing in education. These opportunities must grow as fast as the profits of big businesses.

Finally, public policies should boost growth that distributes the benefits in a broad-based manner. Wage stagnation must come to an end, and the earnings of lower-income groups have to keep pace at least with the overall growth in the economy. Jobs for low-skilled labour and reduction in income and regional inequalities have to be ensured through public policies, public investment and incentives for the private sector. In case this imbalance is not corrected the world will become a more tumultuous place to live in and social upheavals will be more difficult to control.

By Ishrat Husain: The writer is director of the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi.

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/13/consequences-of-elitism.html