On the Passing of Abdullah Abdullatif Alkadi and a Postscript on Charlie Hebdo
N.B. (The
deceased, Abdullah Abdullatif Alkadi (who happened to share a similar
name as my close friend, Shaykh Abdullah Alkadi), was a 23-year-old who
had just earned a degree in electrical engineering and was selling his
car before returning to his family, when a depraved and greedy man
decided to murder him and abscond with the car.)
by Hamza Yusuf on January 19, 2015
For several years, I was fortunate
to spend Ramadan in Mecca and Medina and to celebrate Eid in Dammam and
Al-Ahsa in eastern (Occupied) Arabia. I came to know that latter city and
its notable families well, and they had grown so accustomed to my
celebrating Eid with them that some joked that if I didn’t come for Eid,
they would keep fasting thinking my absence must mean Ramadan had not
ended yet.
I spent so many Eids in Dammam and
Al-Ahsa because it meant I could be with the Islamic scholar and
world-class city planner, Shaykh Abdullah Alkadi, whom I was introduced
to about twenty years ago by a mutual Irish friend, Muhammad Abdal Bari.
That introduction took place when Muhammad, whom I knew from my
earliest days as a convert to Islam in Great Britain, had moved to
Portland, Oregon, where Shaykh Abdullah Alkadi was completing his Ph.D.
in city planning at Oregon State University. (Portland is a testimony to
excellent city planning, and the university boasts one of the best
programs in the world.) When Muhammad visited me in the Bay Area, he
told me about an “amazing Saudi” whom he insisted I should meet. He also
told Shaykh Abdullah about his American convert friend and said that he
should meet me.
Eventually, Shaykh Abdullah visited the Bay Area, and
we met at the home of a Syrian friend, Basil Dayyani. We had a memorable
Syrian breakfast among friends who all emanated love and respect for
one another. I will always be grateful that Muhammad insisted that I
meet Shaykh Abdullah: Our encounter was for me the beginning of a deeply
spiritual love for a man whose character and comportment have affected
me profoundly over the years.
Shaykh Abdullah hails from a noble
family whose lineage traces back to ‘Aqil bin Abi Talib, a cousin of
the Prophet, God’s peace and blessings upon him, and the brother of
Sayyidina ‘Ali, the Prophet’s son-in-law as well as cousin. Shaykh
Abdullah is a product of the school of the late Shaykh Ahmad Dughan, the
Eastern sun of Arabia, who revived the traditional sciences in Al-Ahsa
and had a lasting influence on the character of many of its residents.
He was well over ninety years of age when he passed away earlier this
year, leaving behind three sons, each one a scholar. He also trained
countless other scholars, including Shaykh Abdullah, who have spread all
over the world.
Shaykh Abdullah had studied
several sciences with Shaykh Ahmad Dughan, including Shafi’i
jurisprudence. He mastered the science of inheritance laws under Shaykh
Ahmad’s tutelage, as Shaykh Ahmad especially emphasized this subject
because it is the first of the Shariah sciences to be lost according to a
hadith. Shaykh Abdullah also memorized the Qur’an and studied Arabic,
hadith, Qur’anic exegesis, Prophetic biography, and the other
traditional sciences. Instead of assuming the life of a traditional
scholar, he set out to master Western knowledge, as he felt too many
traditional scholars were ignorant of the age in which they lived. He
excelled in science and math and pursued higher studies in architecture
and city planning, which led to his studies in Portland.
It speaks to his humility that
most of his colleagues are unaware of his competence in the sacred
sciences as well as his expertise in Prophetic biography, Qur’an, and
Shafi’i jurisprudence. They know only of his Western education and think
of him as a city planner and college administrator since he works at
the University of Dammam. I was once with a Sudanese professor in West
Africa, and upon hearing that he taught in Dammam, I asked if he knew
Shaykh Abdullah Alkadi. When he replied that he did, I said his
university was fortunate to have such a learned Muslim scholar. He shook
his head in confusion and asked if we were referring to the same
person, as he had no idea that in addition to his Western education,
Shaykh Abdullah was a master of Islamic scholarship.
Over the years, Shaykh Abdullah
has taught at Deen Intensives and other programs. His modesty, genuine
humility, and impeccable prophetic character always made him a favorite
teacher amongst the students. At closing sessions, when he made his
final remarks and bid farewell, rarely a dry eye was left in the
audience. We taught programs together in the U.S., Canada, Spain,
Turkey, England, and, most memorably, in Medina and Mecca. In all the
time I spent with him, I never once saw him lose his temper, speak
unkindly, or mistreat anyone. He was always positive and made people
love the religion simply because of the character he embodied.
An anecdote that reveals his
endearing nature was related to me by Muhammad Abdal Bari, who first
introduced me to Shaykh Abdullah: When he lived in Portland, Shaykh
Abdullah led night prayers at a masjid during Ramadan, and after
prayers, at around nine-thirty, he visited a nearby coffee shop with
friends. He established a wonderful rapport with the young baristas
there. One night, the prayer went on longer than usual, and afterward
his friends noted that it was too late to make their usual stop, as the
coffee shop would be closed. Shaykh Abdullah, however, decided to stop
by anyway to see if the workers were still there. When the group
arrived, they found that the employees had kept the shop open after
closing time, waiting for Shaykh Abdullah, hoping he would come by as
was his wont.
When I spent Ramadan with him in
Mecca and Medina, I noticed that Shaykh Abdullah devoted his time
entirely to Qur’anic recitation and completed the recitation of the
Qur’an several times during the month. He explained that Ramadan was his
opportunity to make up for any neglect he had toward the Book of God
during the rest of the year. We also had many wondrous adventures
meeting people who loved God and the Prophet, God’s peace and blessings
upon him. We visited great scholars, most of who have now passed on, and
read sacred texts with them to gain their blessing.
During this time, I came to know
Shaykh Ahmad Jabir Jibran, a man very similar to Shaykh Abdullah in his
piety and humility. In Al-Ahsa, Shaykh Abdullah and I were invited to
many different homes. Each home was emblematic of the entire culture:
hospitality, warmth, deep piety, and family informed every gathering.
During those years, I came to know and love the entire community,
especially the families that make up what are called in Arabia al-‘ayan
(the notables). These families have excelled in learning and
contributed the most to society. They have long-standing kinship ties,
and although they generally marry within the clan, it is not unusual for
them to marry from other notable clans. I was always the immediate
guest of the Al-Kadi clan, but the Al-Dughan clan also showed immense
hospitality to me during my stays.
I also felt a special connection to the al-Mubarak clan. One of their notable scholars, Shaykh Ahmad al-Mubarak,
had moved decades ago to the U.A.E. to serve as the religious head of
their court system. He welcomed me to the Emirates when I was a young
student, and he allowed me to sit with the many great scholars he hosted
throughout the year. The Al-Mubarak clan is the largest remaining
Maliki family in (Occupied) Arabia. Though the majority of the peninsula
followed the Maliki school for centuries, the traditional four schools
began to die off due to the spread of Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab’s reform
movement, and now a loosely affiliated form of Hanbalism permeates the
peninsula.
Given my close
relationship with the city and its families, I felt immense pain upon
learning that one of their sons was recently murdered here in my home
state of California. The murdered young man was the son of someone who
had welcomed me in his home and the cousin of my dear and beloved
friend, Shaykh Abdullah Alkadi. Usually when I call to speak with Shaykh
Abdullah, his voice is filled with joy and enthusiasm, so when I called
to offer my condolences and prayers for his cousin, I was even more
grief-stricken to hear the sadness in his voice. He simply said, “Qaddara Allah ma sha’” (God enables what He wills).
Violence permeates our world. We
read of suicide bombings, military sorties, murders, and mayhem on a
daily basis. The recent massacre in Gaza left many of us sleepless,
knowing that bombs paid for by U.S. tax dollars were dropping on
innocent women and children. But when violence is personal, when it hits
home, it strikes us in our hearts in ways disembodied violence never
can. In his book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith,
the Scottish moralist, points out that when we read of great loss of
life in a distant place, we are troubled, yet we carry on; however, if
we find out that our little finger will be amputated tomorrow, we cannot
sleep out of worry. Though he finds this paradoxical, he also sees
redemption in that many a man would willingly lose his finger in order
to save millions that he does not even know.
I would give my right hand to see
my friend’s cousin restored to life, and it pains me greatly that his
life was stolen while he was studying in my country as a guest from a
place that showed me such immense generosity and hospitality.The
deceased, Abdullah Abdullatif Alkadi (who happened to share a similar
name as my close friend, Shaykh Abdullah Alkadi), was a 23-year-old who
had just earned a degree in electrical engineering and was selling his
car before returning to his family, when a depraved and greedy man
decided to murder him and abscond with the car. So many Westerners view
Muslims as violent, but I know that someone who grew up in Al-Ahsa,
(Occupied) Arabia, would never have even heard of a murder in his town or
have thought to take precautions against such a possibility. In a
relatively recent book, Are Muslims Distinctive?: A Look at the Evidence,
M. Steven Fish, a social scientist and professor at U.C. Berkeley who
studied Muslim societies to see, among other things, if they were more
prone to violence than other societies, reported that the evidence
clearly shows that murder rates are far lower in Muslim societies than
in other societies.
Another aspect of this tragedy
that impacted me was the young man’s tweets: they were mostly prayers
for various people and words of advice. In an age when so many youth are
tweeting inane comments, he was tweeting prayers for his family,
friends, and others and sharing words of wisdom. In one of his tweets,
he asked God not to deprive him of being reunited with his father.
May
God shower him in His grace and grant him a martyr’s death. May God
ease the pain of his family, the Alkadi family that I love so much: a
humble, pious, and learned group of descendants of ‘Aqil bin Abi Talib
Al-Qurayshi. I am sure the whole town of Al-Ahsa was devastated by the
tragic news and undoubtedly spent the following days visiting the
murdered young man’s family. Life there will eventually return to
normal, as this tragedy becomes a memory, but for a time the people in
Al-Ahsa will grieve collectively for their loss. Meanwhile, in America,
the dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims is on the rise, fueled by many
in the media who openly broadcast the notion that Muslim lives do not
matter. Our military operations have killed hundreds of thousands of
them and left many of their countries in total chaos. Yet our pundits
focus only on the “violent and savage jihadi Muslims” and will never see
the grace, hospitality, and beauty of a little town in eastern Arabia
now grieving from the violence against one of their own. But God is
generous and takes care of His own, sometimes with majesty, mystery, and
pain: the 23-year-old Abdullah Alkadi’s prayer was answered; he was
returned to his homeland and reunited with his father who, surrounded by
mourning friends, family, and loved ones, buried his newly graduated
son in the Prophet’s city, Medina, with ten thousand of the Prophet’s
companions as his neighbors, on October 25th, 2014, after the dawn (fajr) prayer was offered. He will rest there until we all see the day of true retribution, reward, and restoration.
Some of Abdullah Alkadi’s Tweets (translated from his original Arabic):
O
God, make me happy more than I have been in pain, and in more ease than
I have been in difficulty, and don’t disappoint my hopes, for You
suffice me and are a Beautiful Support.
O
Lord, whenever my dad and mom raise their hands to You, spread your
treasures for them and make them happy and lengthen their lives –
because I have no life without them.
Be
loving to your parents, supportive to your brother, a help to your
sister, faithful to your friend, and beautiful to your neighbor – this
life is perishing, and we are all journeying.
Postscript on Charlie Hebdo An intriguing aspect of Muslim
culture is that murders are rarely committed over wealth. While there
may be theft in Muslim countries, theft that involves murder is almost
unheard of. The idea of killing someone over something as ephemeral as a
car or money or a cell phone is a rarity (except perhaps in war-torn
countries where all civil society has broken down). Murder in Muslim
societies tends to be motivated by political issues but more often by a
misguided sense of honor. This was the case earlier this month in
France, where clearly deluded and uneducated men from the ghettos of
Paris, after rediscovering their faith, felt compelled to take their
misperception of Islamic law into their own hands in order to “uphold
the honor” of their prophet who, they believed, was being denigrated by
the cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo.* Without a doubt, such murders
are criminal and wrong, but they can be rationally understood within
the context of a society that holds the sanctity of prophets, those men
of God, above all else.
In classical Muslim law, any
willful and knowing denigration of a prophet is a capital offense.
Blasphemy laws have always been the prerogative of the government,
implemented only after trial and sentencing, and limited to Muslim lands
where it was understood that this law was applicable. Historically,
however, Muslim rulers were loathe to execute these laws without
attempting to find excuses for the accused. In the case of the “Martyrs
of Cordoba,” for example, when fanatical Christians, distraught at
Christian conversion to Islam, attempted to revive Christian zeal by
entering into mosques and denigrating the Prophet, the Muslim rulers,
troubled by the deaths of their Christian subjects, used the ruling of
insanity to exempt them from the offense. Such pre-modern laws, while
also found in Christianity and Judaism, are no longer considered valid
in the West due to a long and complicated process of secularization that
has not occurred to the same degree or even in the same fashion in the
Muslim world. Hence, many Muslims still feel strongly about the sanctity
of all the prophets but specifically of the Prophet Muhammad, God’s
peace and blessings upon him, and while the vast majority of Muslims
would not think of killing anyone for doing so, they will not find it
hard to understand why some would. The prophets, such as Abraham, Moses,
Jesus, and Muhammad, and their lives and what they stood for represent
the Muslim world’s highest values.
What then, in the West, do we hold
above all else? It seems wealth has now become the highest value, and
murders are often attempts to take that away from another. People kill
others to take their money, their cars, their cellphones, or their
drugs. Some even engage in meaningless violence, simply going into a
public place and killing innocent people, not for any misguided
political sensibilities, nor for wealth, but simply because they feel an
urge to do so (perhaps acting out Grand Theft Auto or some other
pathologically violent video game in order to experience the thrill of
the real deal). Undeniably, like the West, the Muslim world also has
mentally disturbed people, but they don’t go into schools and kill
little children for the thrill of it. In fact, the horrific assault last
December on the school in Pakistan was done in classic Jahili
retaliation for murders of their own youth. There was a method to that
madness, as they did not indiscriminately kill anyone in sight but
spared the young children and targeted only those who had passed the age
of puberty, as they were considered adults. While it was a brutal
assault, it had a type of misguided rationality that can be understood
in the context of vengeful tribal cultures in a way that Western school
shootings cannot, irrespective of their context. While the “whole” world is
mourning the cartoonists who made their livelihoods as equal opportunity
denigrators, perceiving this as an attack on freedom of expression,
there is an aspect of this that is disturbing. The West displayed no
moral outrage over the countless lives of innocent and honorable people
whose only crime was being at home when a drone, intentionally or not,
bombed them out of existence. No one is shedding tears over the hundreds
of thousands of Iraqis, Afghans, Palestinians, and many others in the
Muslim world who were killed due to Western misadventures in the region.
The Brookings Institution has noted that for every drone strike that
has occurred, ten or so civilians have died. More people, many of them
civilians, have been killed by U.S. drone strikes than were killed on
9-11. Take a look at the Wikipedia page that lists the drone strikes on
Pakistan alone since 2004; and keep in mind that drone strikes are also
waged against people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Algeria, Iran, Libya,
and Somalia.
The murders of Charlie Hebdo’s staff were a crime; they were wrong, plain and simple. But lest we forget, the people at Charlie Hebdo
knew exactly what they were doing. They acted much like Steve Irwin,
the Australian crocodile hunter, who went around poking wild animals
only to provoke a response from them. Eventually, he decided that the
countless land and river animals were not enough and chose to dive into
the vast ocean in search of sea creatures to provoke until a stingray,
in apparent solidarity with its fellow land and sea creatures suffering
at the hands of humans like Irwin, poked back and killed him. But, like
the Charlie Hebdo staff, Irwin well knew the risks he was
facing when provoking these wild animals and fell victim to the
consequences. The editor of Charlie Hebdo knew the game he was
playing and enlisted a guard to protect his staff given the many death
threats they had received. He was cognizant of the real dangers of
provoking those he deemed open game and sport for the paper’s “satire.” Today, much of the Western world
expresses its moral outrage in solidarity over the murder of twelve
people who knew the risks of provoking angry extremists yet argued,
“These people want to frighten us into respecting their religion;
therefore we will not be frightened”; and so they continued to poke fun
at that which Muslims hold most sacred. This was not done in the
long-standing Western tradition of satire, which takes aim at the
powerful to empower the powerless; these cartoonists engaged in mockery
for the sake of mockery and had no higher purpose. They suffered the
fate of a man who gratuitously calls another man’s mother a whore and is
surprised when that man stabs him. Pope Francis said it well: If
a close friend “says a swear word against my mother, then a punch
awaits him,” he explained. “One cannot provoke; one cannot insult other
people’s faith; one cannot make fun of faith.” This is a man who
believes in “turning the other cheek,” yet true to his Argentinian
roots, he displays classic Latin attitude toward the dishonoring of
one’s mother. For Muslims, the Prophet reminded us, “None of you truly
believes until I am more beloved to him than his own parents.” Hence, to
slander our Prophet is a greater injury than an attack on our mothers.
If the Pope will punch someone, even his close friend, should he insult
his mother, then what are we to expect from uneducated and volatile
street urchins ** with the same sense of honor?
Retaliatory murders for honor or
otherwise are clearly wrong under Islamic law, or any other reasonable
system of law, as they should be. But even the cofounder of Charlie Hebdo,
Henri Roussel, blamed the editor for knowingly endangering the lives of
his employees. “What made him feel the need to drag the team into
overdoing it?” Roussel wrote in Nouvel Observateur. “He
shouldn’t have done it, but Charb did it again a year later, in
September 2012.” Roussel continued, “I believe that we [were] fools who
took an unnecessary risk…. We think we are invulnerable. For years,
decades even, it was a provocation, and then one day the provocation
turns against us.” Addressing the slain editor, whom he referred to as a
“blockhead,” Roussel said, “I really hold it against you.” Just for a moment, let us imagine
that this incident had been about twelve murdered black Nigerian
cartoonists instead of white French ones:would world leaders have
descended on Lagos to march lock-armed with President Goodluck Jonathan
in solidarity? Can we imagine Netanyahu heading to the West Bank to hold
hands with Abbas in solidarity for the dozens of Palestinian
journalists who, in clear crimes against free speech, were targeted by
Israeli forces for simply being witnesses to atrocities and reporting to
the world about them? No, there will be no demonstrations or gathering
of world leaders held for the untold numbers of innocent civilians,
including women and children, who, without any provocation, have borne
the brunt of bombings, drone strikes, and other nefarious means of
modern warfare. It is at times like these when it seems as though we
live in a cartoon world where millions are shedding tears or displaying
moral outrage for twelve white people who, without denial, were brutally
murdered, while too many of those same eyes remain blind and dry to the
countless deaths and suffering of the world’s Muslims.
* Absolutely wrong! ** These young men were only "SUSPECTS" and not proven guilty of any crime!
Across
the Arab world, illegitimate dictators have united to prop up the worst
illegitimate dictatorship of them all – the doomed and desperate House
of Saud. Their goal: Keep Yemen, and the rest of the Arab world, under
Saudi-American-Zionist domination.
As I write this the Saudis are
bombing Yemen and preparing a ground invasion. They have named their war
on Yemen “Operation Decisive Storm” in apparently homage to the 1991 US
attack on Iraq, Operation Desert Storm, when US troops marched through
Saudi Arabia en route to their “turkey shoot” on the Highway of Death.
After the “turkey shoot” – one of the worst war crimes of the 20th
century – the Zionist-dominated US murdered a million Iraqis, half of
them children, through a draconian sanctions regime that prevented Iraq
from rebuilding and operating its sanitary and health care
infrastructure.
Then-US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
bragged on national television that “it was worth it” to murder half a
million Iraqi children. Albright is currently a co-investor, alongside
Jacob Rothschild and George Soros, in a $350 million dollar company that
builds cell phone towers in Africa. (Since cell phone towers have been
implicated not only in negative health effects but also in covert
mind-control technologies, one wonders what the
Rothschild-Soros-Albright cell phone towers will be doing to Africans,
who have traditionally served as guinea pigs in secret non-consensual
human experimentation.)
In any case, if the Zionist puppet regime
in Riyadh tries to invade Yemen, it won’t be a turkey shoot. Despite the
differences in size and wealth between the two nations, the Yemenis are
expert guerrilla fighters defending their home terrain. The Saudi
troops, in contrast, have nothing to fight for except the continued
pillaging of their region by their depraved and decadent royal masters
and the Zionist banksters behind them.
A Zio-Saudi invasion of
Yemen could end up looking like the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
During that war, the Israelis, despite their huge edge in money and
military technology over the Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, suffered a
humiliating defeat. Why? Hezbollah was fighting a defensive war on its
own terrain. It knew that terrain; it knew what it was fighting for; and
its fighters were willing to risk their lives in a just cause. Representative of the New World Order bankster empire
Like
the Lebanese in 2006 and the Vietnamese of the 1950s and 1960s, the
Yemeni Houthis and their supporters are willing to put their lives on
the line to defend their country against a foreign invader representing
the New World Order bankster empire. The Saudi invaders, like the
Americans in Vietnam and the Israelis in Lebanon, have no equivalent
motivation, and will thus have no reason to fight hard or accept serious
casualties. The mountainous terrain in Yemen will additionally favor
the defenders.
Given that prognosis, the stampede of brutal,
dictatorial Arab regimes to line up behind the Saudis is not just
appalling, but potentially suicidal. The Saudi “coalition of the wicked”
includes all of the corrupt Zionist-bankster-owned Persian Gulf
Sheikdoms – Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE (an ostensibly Muslim
country which is the world’s leading importer of alcoholic beverages).
It also includes Jordan, which is run from the CIA station in Amman;
Egypt, whose democracy-destroying dictator el-Sisi is a lifelong Zionist
sleeper agent of Moroccan Jewish heritage; and Morocco, whose King is
an alleged homosexual and one of the world’s leading drug dealers, and
who (unlike his even more thuggish father) has sold Morocco to the
Europeans and turned it into an oversized brothel.
The
Zionist-controlled media, including fake “Arab” outlets like al-Jazeera,
are trying to use the conflict in Yemen to throw gasoline on the fire
they themselves started: The phony “Sunni vs. Shia” conflict. But there
is no such conflict. The only meaningful conflict is between the Zionist
bankster empire and the Resistance. If the Zionists can dupe Sunnis
into thinking Shia are the enemy, and vice versa, they will succeed in
destroying the region and maintaining their hegemony.
It is easy
to see which forces in the Middle East are slaves of the Zionist New
World Order Empire, and which ones stand with the Resistance. Simply ask
this question: Who is genuinely working against Zionism and struggling
to liberate Palestine, and who is not?
The answers are clear.
ISIL, for example, never attacks Israel. On the contrary, it defends
Israel by helping balkanize the Middle East in service to the Oded Yinon
plan, and by attacking the forces that Israel rightly considers genuine
threats. Hence ISIL is not a real “radical Islamic” group at all, but a
Zionist false flag group. Netanyahu openly visits their wounded
fighters who are being treated in Israeli hospitals.
Likewise,
General el-Sisi in Egypt pretends to be an Arab Muslim, but is not. As
the long-time liaison between the Israeli and Egyptian militaries,
el-Sisi’s job was to take Israeli orders and relay them to his Egyptian
underlings. That is what he is still doing today from his usurped
Presidential Palace. It should be no surprise that his uncle Uri Sibagh
served in the Jewish Defense League in from 1948 to 1950 and then
emigrated to Israel and went to work for David Ben-Gurion.
Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D.
Arabist-Islamologist, is one of America's best-known critics of the War
on Terror. Dr. Barrett has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS and
other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in
the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune,
and other leading publications. Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and
universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin, where he ran for
Congress in 2008. He is the co-founder of the Muslim-Christian-Jewish
Alliance, and author of the books Truth Jihad: My Epic Struggle Against
the 9/11 Big Lie (2007) and Questioning the War on Terror: A Primer for
Obama Voters (2009). His website is www.truthjihad.com.
Published on Friday, 30 October 2015 17:42 | Written by AWDNews | |
Editors Note:
The Qur'an says: And fight them on until there is no more Tumult or
OPPRESSION, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah. But if they
cease, let there be no hostility except to those who practice
OPPRESSION. - 2:193
The Qur'an endorses Muslims to fight oppression until it is
completely eradicated and justice and faith in the Creator prevails.
Israel has been the most oppressive nation on earth in it's treatment of
the Palestinians. They are the true example of oppression. For anyone
claiming to be Muslim to publicly proclaim that they will support the
oppressor against the oppressed it becomes very clear that they have
strayed very, very far from the Qur'an. With Israelis calling for the
Jewish takeover of Masjid Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem and the Palestinians
brave defiance against a cruel oppressor, would those allying themselves
with Israel join in helping the Israelis in taking Al-Aqsa Masjid from
the Palestinians as well?
This stance in support of Israel is one of the most reprehensible
traitorous acts committed against Islam. Words cannot be found to
describe the depravity and henous nature of this act. May the Creator
curse this act and punish anyone claiming to be from the world of Islam
allying themselves with Israel with the worst possible punishment ever!
The Qur'an encourages all with the following words in the fight
against oppression. All right minded people should ally themselves in
support of the oppressed rather than joining with the oppressor! With all this, [remember that] those who are bent on denying
the truth are allies of one another;] and unless you act likewise [among
yourselves], OPPRESSION will reign on earth, and great corruption. -
8:73
This article has also been featured in the mainstream media and also in the Israeli BREAKINGISRAELINEWS at this link.
Saudi Arabia has reached this political maturity to
constitute a durable alliance with the Jewish nation in order to lay the
ground for a peaceful and prosperous Middle-East.
Kuwait City — According to Kuwaiti Al Qabas daily,
the flamboyant Saudi Prince and entrepreneur, al-Waleed bin Talal
posited that his country must reconsider its regional commitments and
devise a new strategy to combat Iran's increasing influence in Gulf
States by forging a Defense pact with Tel Aviv to deter any possible
Iranian moves in the light of unfolding developments in the Syria and
Moscow's military intervention.
"The whole Middle-East dispute is tantamount to matter of life and
death for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from my vantage point ,and I know
that Iranians seek to unseat the Saudi regime by playing the Palestinian
card , hence to foil their plots Saudi Arabia and Israel must bolster
their relations and form a united front to stymie Tehran's ambitious
agenda," Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA) quoted Prince al-Waleed as saying on
Tuesday , adding, Riyadh and Tel Aviv must achieve a modus vivendi ,
for Saudi policy in regard to Arab-Israeli crisis is no longer tenable.
Iran seeks to buttress its presence in the Mediterranean by
supporting Assad regime in Syria, added Prince al-Waleed, but to the
chagrin of Riyadh and its sister Gulf sheikhdoms , Putin's Russia has
become a real co-belligerent force in Syrian 4-year-old civil war by
attacking CIA-trained Islamist rebels. Here surfaces the paramount
importance of Saudi-Israeli nexus to frustrate Russia-Iran-Hezbollah
axis. "I will side with the Jewish nation and its democratic
aspirations in case of outbreak of a Palestinian Intifada( uprising) and
I shall exert all my influence to break any ominous Arab initiatives
set to condemn Tel Aviv , because I deem the Arab-Israeli entente and
future friendship necessary to impede the Iranian dangerous
encroachment," Al Qabas cited the Saudi media tycoon as he is
in a regional tour, visiting the other Gulf Arab littoral
states--Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman--to
muster support for Saudi-backed Islamist rebels in Syria.
No longer able to justify its illegal military presence in Bahrain – a
tiny Arabian Gulf Kingdom, occupied by Saudi forces to stifle the 2011
pro-deaconry movement–, some high-profile Saudi officials, namely Prince
al-Waleed bin Talal, voiced their willingness to annex Bahrain. These
flagrant statements drew wide condemnation from nearly every quarter of
the Arab world.
"…you know the union with Bahrain doesn't explicitly mean to annex
our dear neighbors, but in fact we are wary about the future of Bahrain,
its people security and well-being. Bahrain is the home to U.S. fifth
fleet which its presence is of vital interest for Saudi Arabia, thus we
can not permit Iran to wreak havoc in our back yard," said the Saudi
Prince, vindicating his previous brash comments regarding the annexation
of Bahrain. http://www.awdnews.com/top-news/saudi-prince-al-waleed-bin-talal-in-case-of-outbreak-of-palestinian-uprising-i-ll-side-with-israel,-saudi-arabia-has-reached-a-political-maturity-to-constitute-a-durable-alliance-with-the-jewish-nation-to-lay-the-ground-for-a-peaceful-and-prosperous-middl
by Hamza Yusuf on January 19, 2015
May
God shower him in His grace and grant him a martyr’s death. May God
ease the pain of his family, the Alkadi family that I love so much: a
humble, pious, and learned group of descendants of ‘Aqil bin Abi Talib
Al-Qurayshi. I am sure the whole town of Al-Ahsa was devastated by the
tragic news and undoubtedly spent the following days visiting the
murdered young man’s family. Life there will eventually return to
normal, as this tragedy becomes a memory, but for a time the people in
Al-Ahsa will grieve collectively for their loss. Meanwhile, in America,
the dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims is on the rise, fueled by many
in the media who openly broadcast the notion that Muslim lives do not
matter. Our military operations have killed hundreds of thousands of
them and left many of their countries in total chaos. Yet our pundits
focus only on the “violent and savage jihadi Muslims” and will never see
the grace, hospitality, and beauty of a little town in eastern Arabia
now grieving from the violence against one of their own. But God is
generous and takes care of His own, sometimes with majesty, mystery, and
pain: the 23-year-old Abdullah Alkadi’s prayer was answered; he was
returned to his homeland and reunited with his father who, surrounded by
mourning friends, family, and loved ones, buried his newly graduated
son in the Prophet’s city, Medina, with ten thousand of the Prophet’s
companions as his neighbors, on October 25th, 2014, after the dawn (fajr) prayer was offered. He will rest there until we all see the day of true retribution, reward, and restoration.
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