24 January 2011
Lord "God" Cromer, “Islamic Revival,” and Imam Feisal Rauf
September 13th, 2010 by Andrew Bostom |
No Comments (Readers too smart!)
677 visitors have read this article
Lord "God" Cromer:
“Pan-Islamism almost always connotes an attempt to regenerate Islam on Islamic lines—in other words, to revivify and stereotype in the twentieth century the principles laid down more than a thousand years ago for the guidance of a primitive society… that crystallization of the civil, criminal, and canonical law into one immutable whole, which has so largely contributed to arrest the progress of those countries whose populations have embraced the Moslem faith.”
In 1908, racist and fascist Lord "God" Cromer, British High Commissioner in occupied Egypt, wrote “very revealingly in the last chapter of his book, “Modern Egypt”, that England was prepared to grant eventual political freedom to all of her colonial possessions "as soon as a generation of intellectuals and politicians impregnated with the ideals of English culture, through an English education, were ready to assume power, but under no circumstance the British Government will tolerate for one moment an independent Islamic State."
This was mentioned /quoted in “Islam in theory and practice” 1967 by Maryam Jameelah (Margaret Marcus, a Jewish revert to Islam).
Lord "God" Curzon: “The situation now is that Turkey is dead and will never rise again, because we have destroyed its moral strength, the Caliphate and Islam.”
Lord "God" Curzon: “We must put an end to anything which brings about any Islamic unity between the sons of the Muslims. As we have already succeeded in finishing off the Caliphate, so we must ensure that there will never arise again unity for the Muslims, whether it be intellectual or cultural unity.”
BAFS (The words between inverted are mine. See at the end of the post)
Evelyn Baring, Lord Cromer (1841-1917), served as British Consul-General in Egypt for almost a quarter century, from 1883 to 1907. As noted by the London Telegraph’s Andrew Roberts, in February, 2004,
…despite all the multifarious benefits he bestowed during his time there, he is cordially loathed in Egypt today.
Given past and present sentiments for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt among Egypt’s Muslims (“…the Brotherhood has become the most important representative of the Egyptian masses.”), this contemporary hatred of Lord Cromer is consistent with his adamant opposition to such retrograde “Islamic revivalist” movements. Cromer elucidated his objections to early 20th century “Pan-Islamism” identifying the genuine aims and character of this modern transnational incarnation of jihadism.
Lord Cromer also underscored the impotence of the movement’s select, Western-leaning Muslim opponents, who were compelled to adopt its irredentist message or forfeit popular support from the Muslim masses. Ground Zero mosque purveyor Imam Feisal Rauf represents a particularly odious modern variant on this latter theme. An externally “secularized” contemporary Muslim living within the West, Rauf’s goal, as Ibn Warraq confirms in his brilliant explication at NRO today of Rauf’s double messaging, is to Islamize our uniquely Western institutions.
Lord Cromer’s prescient words, are as relevant to contemporary Islam, as they were to the Islamic movements he described a century ago. We would be wise to heed Cromer’s assessment when contemplating the ultimate aims of “moderate” Imam Feisal Rauf, champion of Sharia.
Pan-Islamism almost necessarily connotes a recrudescence of racial and religious animosity. Many of its adherents are, I do not doubt, inspired by a genuine religious fervor. Others again, whether from indifference verging on agnosticism, or from political and opportunist motives, or—as I trust may sometimes be the case—from having really assimilated modern ideas on the subject of religious toleration, would be willing, were such a course possible, to separate the political from the religious, and even possibly from racial issues. If such are their wishes and intentions, I entertain very little doubt that they will make them impossible of execution. Unless they can convince the Muslim masses of their militant Islamism, they will fail to arrest their attention or to attract their sympathy. Appeals, either overt or covert, to racial and religious passions are thus a necessity of their existence in order to insure the furtherance of their political program.
Pan-Islamism almost always connotes an attempt to regenerate Islam on Islamic lines—in other words, to revivify and stereotype in the twentieth century the principles laid down more than a thousand years ago for the guidance of a primitive society. Those principles involve recognition of slavery, laws regulating the relations of the sexes which clash with modern ideas, and, what is perhaps more important than all, that crystallization of the civil, criminal, and canonical law into one immutable whole, which has so largely contributed to arrest the progress of those countries whose populations have embraced the Moslem faith.
All Articles Copyright © 2007-2012 Dr. Andrew Bostom | All Rights Reserved
Printing is allowed for personal use only | Commercial usage(For Profit) is a copyright violation and written permission must be granted first.
Mohammed Abduh and Rashid Rida
After Afghani’s departure from Egypt, his pupil, Mohammed Abduh, was inexplicably named the chief editor of the official British-controlled publication of the Egyptian government, the Journal Officiel. Working under him was fellow-Freemason, Saad Zaghul, later to be founder of the Wafd nationalist party. In 1883, Abduh joined Afghani in Paris, and then went to London.
In Paris and London, Abduh assisted Afghani in administering a journal in Paris, called Al Urwah al Wuthkah, or the “Indissoluble Bond”, also the name of a secret organisation he founded in 1883. Among the members of Afghani’s circle in Paris were Egyptians, Indians, Turks, Syrians, North Africans, as well as many Christians and Jews, and Bahais expelled from the Middle East.
Like his teacher, Abduh was associated with the Bahai movement, which had made deliberate efforts to spread the faith to Egypt, establishing themselves in Alexandria and Cairo beginning in the late 1860s. Abduh had met Abdul Baha, who became leader of the Bahai’s after his father’s death, and agreed with his one-world-religion philosophy. Remarking on Abdul Baha’s excellence in religious science and diplomacy, Abduh said of him that, “[he] is more than that. Indeed, he is a great man; he is the man who deserves to have the epithet applied to him.”96
Abduh was known for his “reformist” views about Islam. But in How We Defended Orabi, A.M. Broadbent declared that, “Sheikh Abdu was no dangerous fanatic or religious enthusiast, for he belonged to the broadest school of Moslem thought, held a political creed akin to pure republicanism, and was a zealous Master of a Masonic Lodge.”97
Like the Ismailis before him, he would advance his students progressively into deeper levels of heresy. To the higher initiates, he would reveal the doctrines of the Scottish Rite and the philosophy of one-world government. However, those Abduh deemed were much more disposed, he would introduce to an officer of British intelligence from London.
From 1888, until his death in 1905, Abduh regularly visited the home and office of Lord Cromer. In 1892, he was named to run the administrative Committee for the Al Azhar mosque and university, the most prestigious educational institution in Islam, and the second oldest university in the world. From that post, he reorganised the entire Muslim system in Egypt, and because of Al Azhar’s reputation, much of the Islamic world as well.
In 1899, Lord Cromer made Abduh the Grand Mufti of Egypt. He was now the chief legal authority in Islam, as well as the Masonic Grand Master of the United Lodge of Egypt. Lord Cromer was an important member of England’s Baring banking family which had grown rich of the opium trade in India and China. His motive in making Abduh the most powerful figure in all of Islam was to change the law forbidding interest banking. Abduh then offered a contrived interpretation of the Qur’an to create the requisite loophole, giving British banks free reign in Egypt. Of Abduh, Lord Cromer related, “I suspect my friend Abduh was in reality an agnostic,” and he said of Abduh’s Salafi reform movement that, “They are the natural allies of the European reformer.”98
The Salafi movement then became allied with the Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia through another Freemason, Mohammed Rashid Rida, who, after the death of Afghani in 1897 and Abduh in 1905, assumed the leadership of the Salafis. Rida had become a member of the Indissoluble Bond at a young age. He was promoted through Afghani’s Masonic society through his reading of Al-Urwah al Wuthkah, which he later confessed was the greatest influence in his life. Rida had never met Afghani, but in 1897 he had gone to Egypt to study with Mohammed Abduh. Though Rida did not share his master’s opinions about the Bahai movement, it was through his influence that the Salafi movement became firmly aligned with the State of Saudi Arabia.
Footnotes:
96 Cole, Juan R. I. “Rashid Rida on the Bahai Faith: A Utilitarian Theory of the Spread of Religions”, Arab Studies Quarterly 5, 3 (Summer 1983): 278.
97 Raafat, Samir. “Freemasonry in Egypt: Is it still around?” Insight Magazine, March 1, 1999
98 Goodgame, Peter. The Muslim Brotherhood: The Globalists' Secret Weapon.
In Paris and London, Abduh assisted Afghani in administering a journal in Paris, called Al Urwah al Wuthkah, or the “Indissoluble Bond”, also the name of a secret organisation he founded in 1883. Among the members of Afghani’s circle in Paris were Egyptians, Indians, Turks, Syrians, North Africans, as well as many Christians and Jews, and Bahais expelled from the Middle East.
Like his teacher, Abduh was associated with the Bahai movement, which had made deliberate efforts to spread the faith to Egypt, establishing themselves in Alexandria and Cairo beginning in the late 1860s. Abduh had met Abdul Baha, who became leader of the Bahai’s after his father’s death, and agreed with his one-world-religion philosophy. Remarking on Abdul Baha’s excellence in religious science and diplomacy, Abduh said of him that, “[he] is more than that. Indeed, he is a great man; he is the man who deserves to have the epithet applied to him.”96
Abduh was known for his “reformist” views about Islam. But in How We Defended Orabi, A.M. Broadbent declared that, “Sheikh Abdu was no dangerous fanatic or religious enthusiast, for he belonged to the broadest school of Moslem thought, held a political creed akin to pure republicanism, and was a zealous Master of a Masonic Lodge.”97
Like the Ismailis before him, he would advance his students progressively into deeper levels of heresy. To the higher initiates, he would reveal the doctrines of the Scottish Rite and the philosophy of one-world government. However, those Abduh deemed were much more disposed, he would introduce to an officer of British intelligence from London.
From 1888, until his death in 1905, Abduh regularly visited the home and office of Lord Cromer. In 1892, he was named to run the administrative Committee for the Al Azhar mosque and university, the most prestigious educational institution in Islam, and the second oldest university in the world. From that post, he reorganised the entire Muslim system in Egypt, and because of Al Azhar’s reputation, much of the Islamic world as well.
In 1899, Lord Cromer made Abduh the Grand Mufti of Egypt. He was now the chief legal authority in Islam, as well as the Masonic Grand Master of the United Lodge of Egypt. Lord Cromer was an important member of England’s Baring banking family which had grown rich of the opium trade in India and China. His motive in making Abduh the most powerful figure in all of Islam was to change the law forbidding interest banking. Abduh then offered a contrived interpretation of the Qur’an to create the requisite loophole, giving British banks free reign in Egypt. Of Abduh, Lord Cromer related, “I suspect my friend Abduh was in reality an agnostic,” and he said of Abduh’s Salafi reform movement that, “They are the natural allies of the European reformer.”98
The Salafi movement then became allied with the Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia through another Freemason, Mohammed Rashid Rida, who, after the death of Afghani in 1897 and Abduh in 1905, assumed the leadership of the Salafis. Rida had become a member of the Indissoluble Bond at a young age. He was promoted through Afghani’s Masonic society through his reading of Al-Urwah al Wuthkah, which he later confessed was the greatest influence in his life. Rida had never met Afghani, but in 1897 he had gone to Egypt to study with Mohammed Abduh. Though Rida did not share his master’s opinions about the Bahai movement, it was through his influence that the Salafi movement became firmly aligned with the State of Saudi Arabia.
Footnotes:
96 Cole, Juan R. I. “Rashid Rida on the Bahai Faith: A Utilitarian Theory of the Spread of Religions”, Arab Studies Quarterly 5, 3 (Summer 1983): 278.
97 Raafat, Samir. “Freemasonry in Egypt: Is it still around?” Insight Magazine, March 1, 1999
98 Goodgame, Peter. The Muslim Brotherhood: The Globalists' Secret Weapon.
Like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya deserves to be destroyed for their TREACHERY, although Libya was of a totally different kind!
Why does China and Russia just sit on the fence, waiting their turn? Why aren’t they arming the opposition, as we always do?
Part of what’s contributing to this is over-population. The world almost needs a WW3 just to cull our planet of several billion people, and if that includes Israel, half of India and some western nations, it might not be so bad in the long run….now that’s the BIG picture. Russia and China can easily spare some people in the struggle. They’ll never be taken over.
The fact that the CIA,Mossad,RAW, and KGB all took part in this shows that there is a targeted conspiracy to break up and subjugate the Muslim world.
“In reality, the war crimes and atrocities were actually perpetrated by the Mukhti Bahini terrorist organization who were supplied by India with Pakistani Army uniforms to carry out numerous false flag attacks on the Bengalis.”
Hi Adalberto!
Where can I find the documentation regarding this matter? Thanks.
Basheer
Here’s an article I found talking about this. I don’t know if this will satisfy you but I will see if I can dig up more information for you. What happened to East Pakistan is very interesting and scary at the same time because the Agartala blue print is being applied to the whole Muslim world. Even non-Muslim countries like Venezuela and Bolivia who stand up to jewish power are having this Argatala type plan imposed upon them due to the traitors within who wish to sell their countries into slavery for 30 pieces of silver.
Bangladesh Leader Admits India Conspired To Invade East Pakistan
http://gauhar.com/?p=472
btw, where did Hitler keep his armies? answer: inside his sleevies..
@ Brother Basheer
“By the way, are you of Bengali descent Brother Basheer?”
But, let me use your comment as an EXCUSE to write a ‘few’ more lines!
My very dear Brother in humanity
I am fed up having always bad teachers and never good students! So, I try to write less and less! But, as you are interested in the history and politics of that part of the world, let me try and put on paper FOR YOU ‘briefly’ some of my findings and feelings about this whole matter of imperialism and their Muslim Hindustani, Bengali, Afghani and Kashmiri victims – AS I PERCEIVED THEM.
1. Germany, India (not Hindustan) and Japan, to choose only these three, were conquered by the imperialists. As they were more pliable, they joined the imperialists and have assimilated to such an extent that today they are one in purpose, at almost all levels. This is why you see Germany allowed to manufacture all the weapons she wants and sell or give it to whoever it pleases her, even to that bastard terrorist entity known as Israel! This is why you see India joining the Americans, the British and Israel in military exercise in the Indian Ocean, joined now by Sarkozy France. This is why you see Japan not only joining the Imperialists in the war effort but also financing it.
2. Israelites or Jews were always known to be NOT ASSIMILABLE for thousand of years. When they had fully assimilated in the German and other European culture, the Bank Gangsters came up with Zionism and took some out as part of a Greater Master Plan and planted them in Palestine. Those who refused were murdered or hunted down. But, today they claim they have fully assimilated, which of course is a big lie. The truth is that they have taken over all the Western governments and are today the sole rulers of the West.
3. But, Muslims are fundamentally NOT ASSIMILABLE people. They always live in peace and harmony whether they are the majority or a minority in any land. Islam cannot compromise on that aspect. Islam will readily assimilate others to its fundamentals, but not into the fundamentals and values of others. Islam is a born leader. It leads and is never led. When this happens, this means Islam is half dead, which is the case since Christendom and Jewdom have conquered most of its lands, plundered them, occupied them to this very day, excluding Iran and Libya. Libya just fell under their yoke again. Iran is to follow ONLY IF WE LET THEM DO SO!
4. After mass murdering the Muslim Elite, and ruling the Muslim countries, for more than a century, Britain and France gave FALSE INDEPENDENCE to their Muslim colonies. Wherever the land was too big, they made sure it was partitioned with the aim of destroying Muslim power. On the cultural level, they made sure that Muslims were INDOCTRINATED in Western culture, with the help and complicity of the Christian Churches.
5. There was not ONE SINGLE MUSLIM WITH A LITTLE BIT OF BRAIN LEFT in the whole of Hindustan to see what was hidden behind the “PARTITION”! But, as soon as I left the CITADEL OF SLAVERY (Public School), I went on doing my own research in all fields I was able to grasp, like philosophy, religion, politics, history, and even esotericism. And, many truths started to reveal themselves and it was nightmarish. ALMOST EVERYTHING I WAS TAUGHT WAS A LIE, INCLUDING IN SCIENCE!
6. The Europeans and the Americans destroyed the Ottoman KHILAAFAH and vowed it will never be re-established again until the end of times as they had planned to be the SOLE MASTERS OF THE WHOLE WORLD! After having decimated the Natives, Americans became great, but there are too many dumb Americans to understand that WE IN HINDUSTAN were among the early victims of the JEWISH DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY AND THE JUDEO CHRISTIAN PROTESTANT FREEMASONIC MOVEMENT represented yesterday by the AMERICAN ZIONIST COUNCIL THAT HAD JFK MURDERED, and today’s AIPAC that is controlling the entire American Empire at home as well as abroad, with similar Fifth Columns (very powerful Jewish Lobbies) in Britain, France and elsewhere.
7. Muslims fought for the KHILAAFAH and Mohundas Karamchand Gandhi JOINED THE KHILAAFAH MOVEMENT and obtained from the Muslims his zeal to fight THE EMPIRE and learned a lot from them.
8. But, when some of them agreed for THEIR HOMELAND HINDUSTAN TO BE SAVAGELY PARTITIONED, they were either hopeless, like today’s Palestinians may accept any BOGUS JEWISH IMPERIALIST AND ETHNIC CLEANSING ACCORD thrown at them, or simply fed up with fighting! They surrendered to British pressure and instead of being UNITED with the Kashmiris, Afghanis and Bengalis, they satisfied themselves with two pieces of land (the Pakistani Ghazzah “strip” and the Pakistani West “Bank”!) that were bound to be ungovernable and gave it the RACIST and ARTIFICIAL name of PAKISTAN- land of the pure! So, the “Pakistanis” were immediately deprived of their roots and found their new identity rooted only in a barbarous act of savage balkanisation of their homeland Hindustan. How will the inhabitants of the “West Bank” and “Ghazza Strip” call themselves? Bankers and Stripers?
9. Muslim Punjab (over 60% were Muslims), the Land of Five Waters (AAB in Arabic is WATER), was also savagely broken down on religious grounds. I often like to tease the Punjabis I meet by asking them if they were “Punjabis”. When they answer yes, I always tell them that they are bloody liars! They are shocked, of course. When I asked them how many rivers there are in Punjab, I never obtained the number FIVE! It seems that the division has left 2 rivers on one side and three on the other, but this has to be verified as I may be wrong. So, I always ask them why they do not call themselves DOABIS or TEENABIS, the Land of Two (DO) or Three (TEEN) Rivers! This makes them smile and confused!
10. It is a well documented fact that the majority of Muslim remained in their homeland Hindustan, now ruled officially by Hindus, Christians and the British, but not by Muslims who still are missing in the Hindu establishment despite the fact that they are over 100 million. One source say 150 million – SLAVES and PROSTITUTES (like in the Hindu Cinema), of course!
11. Pakistan, like most Muslim regimes, chose to be the slaves of the imperialists, under different names, and work strictly for the benefit of the West and its Jewish Bankers and Monopolists. THEY THUS KEPT THEIR OWN AGRICULTURAL POPULATION IN A VERY PRIMITIVE STATE FOR AT LEAST HALF A CENTURY!
12. I know how devilish the West is, SATANIC, but it was China and the U.S.S.S.R. that were portrayed by the West to be the Devils and Muslims bought that crap and still buy it! So, we see Pakistan in bed with the British while the West had already made known to the whole world their agenda for the TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF ISLAM AND MUSLIM POWER! (see “Lord” Curzon/Cromer on the subject of the DE-ISLAMIZATION OF THE MUSLIM WORLD!)
13. Refer also to the OATH sworn by blasphemer and perjurer Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Mountbatten of Saxe-Coburg Gotha on her fraudulent coronation as queen and GOVERNOR of “the Peoples of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Union of South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon, and of my Possessions and the other Territories to any of them belonging or pertaining, according to their respective laws and customs. I will to the utmost of my power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel.” “The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. So help me God.” – 2 June 1963.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.”
Samuel P. Huntington
In 1908, racist and fascist Lord Cromer, British High Commissioner in occupied Egypt, wrote “very revealingly in the last chapter of his book, “Modern Egypt”, that England was prepared to grant eventual political freedom to all of her colonial possessions” as soon as a generation of intellectuals and politicians impregnated with the ideals of English culture, through an English education, were ready to assume power, but under no circumstance the British Government will tolerate for one moment an independent Islamic State. This was mentioned /quoted in “Islam in theory and practice” 1967 by Maryam Jameelah (Margaret Marcus, a Jewish revert to Islam).
Lord Curzon: “The situation now is that Turkey is dead and will never rise again, because we have destroyed its moral strength, the Caliphate and Islam.”
Lord Curzon: “We must put an end to anything which brings about any Islamic unity between the sons of the Muslims. As we have already succeeded in finishing off the Caliphate, so we must ensure that there will never arise again unity for the Muslims, whether it be intellectual or cultural unity.”
Turkey (the Ottoman Khilaafah), Iraq (Saddam Hussain), Libya (Muammar Ghaddafi), Pakistan (Mussharraf), (Palestine (Arafat), repeated the same mistakes as Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolph Hitler did on a different level! The Muslims who were ruling Hindustan and living in peace and harmony with Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, Atheists, etc., committed the BLUNDER of granting Judeo-Masonic Britain the right to trade and establish factories in exchange for English navy’s “PROTECTION” of the “Mughal Empire”, which at the time was confronted by Portuguese sea power in 1615-18. Muslims find it always impossible to see Satan when they meet with him! Both were the same kind of thieves, pirates, plunderers, mass murderers!
So, blaming SATAN for doing SATANIC deeds is not good enough. Hindustan was a backward racist and casteist nation and Muslims modernised them and they shared civilization and culture with each other. Muslims established a great modern multi-cultural and very wealthy State where people did not suffer from famine. With the English barbarians and mass murderers, racism and famine re-appeared, and “Hindus” thought of Hindustan as belonging to them alone! Spain believed the same after it was snatched from Muslim rule! So, India will never rest until Bengal and Pakistan become its sole possession.
Which is better, ONE STATE OF PALESTINE (OR ISRAEL) OR TWO STATES – ISRAEL AND PALESTINE? The obvious answer is ONE STATE (contrary to what Pr Norman Finkelstein may think) because Jews will NEVER EVER allow two INDEPENDENT and SOVEREIGN STATES! In a similar way, India will never ever allow THREE STATES! They will most certainly ally in turn with Americans, Russians and Chinese to take over Bangla Desh and Pakistan!
As to your question whether I was a Bengali, I would not know as those bastards savagely divided Bengal on religious lines in 1905. My father’s ancestors are from NIHAR, my mother’s ancestors from Surat, my wives from Besarabia (Moldava), Kokand and France, Poland, and France. If I had several children from them all, you see the MIXTURE! The same must have happened in olden times. This question of PURE RACE is just in the sick mind of Europeans. Islam has abolished such barriers a long time ago. ONE HUMAN ESSENCE ONLY or “ONE RACE”, but different biological types, and only ONE RELIGION and ONE GOD!
I am sorry, my Brother, but I have to stop as it will become too boring!
Regards
Basheer
Thursday 3rd of May 2012
Thank you for the valuable post. I was very moved by your words. I completely agree with point #3. Islam must always lead and never be led. As you said, Islam has always lived at peace whether they were in the majority or in the minority.The fact that Christianity continued to exist under Islamic Spain for 800 years and that Hinduism continued to exist for a thousand years under Muslim rule is a testament to the fact that Islam is a tolerant and peaceful religion but then you have liars out there from the western countries like the Christians,jews and others who say that Islam converted by the sword which is totally false. Hindus still exist in India while in Spain Islam was eradicated by Christians at the point of the sword.
I lament the loss of Islamic Spain for it was something of what could have been. The only country out there that truly follows the spirit of Islam is Iran and she is a multi-ethnic and multi-confessional country that follows the true spirit of the Sharia who protects her minorities where all are equal under the law. Unlike the west which is hypocritical yet talks of “human rights” and “freedom” all the while behaving like twice the sons of Hell as the jews. The only type of “human rights” and “freedom” they bring is death, enslavement and destruction of societies.
You are not boring. On the contrary, you are wellspring of knowledge and interesting information. I have no problem following my Muslim brothers and sisters and I hope to see the day when Islam will rise to free itself from the shackles of slavery and lead once again.