God is the greatest…but C-span is great.

I love C-span. I like to think it makes me smart. After all, I get the news way before everyone else…virgin and unedited. So along with my vhs library of Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Taraweeh Prayers from Mecca…are clips from C-span. I watch exhilarating Senate subcommittee meetings, Armed Services Committee meetings (just to hear Senator Byrd speak)…and for kicks; British Parliament. I’ve been told that I’m a 60 year old man trapped in a 22 year old’s body…and I love it.

But why am I explaining this to you on an Hidaya? It’s definitely not to attract future marriage prospects…It’s to tell you that somewhere far far away in our nation’s capital, some Big Wig politicians are determining the fate of your life as Muslims and the way you live and practice Islam. You don’t think that there are big parts of America trying to go to war with Muslims?…I have the tapes to prove you wrong.

Let me explain why. When the Senate holds its meetings they always need someone to talk to. So if it’s the Senate Appropriations Committee they might choose to bring in Alan Greenspan and ask him a few questions about why our economy is going so far down the drain. The Senate Armed Services Committee would probably want to bring in Paul Wolfowitz or Donald Rumsfeld to answer to the massacre of US soldiers currently happening in Iraq. Whatever the case may be the Senate committees and subcommittees will always bring in “experts” on the subject at hand to testify formally on their opinions and advice on the matter.

You will see when you watch some of these hearings that many of these “experts” who are brought in are really nothing more than people in high positions, or famous names, who really have very little or very skewed knowledge and understanding of the subject. As you will see, when the Senate is dealing on the subjects of Islam (which they do much more than you think)…the ones who represent Islam and its followers are neither Muslim nor have any first hand experience with Islam and Muslims.

For instance, when the Senate Intelligence Committee was investigating the government’s ability in preventing the events of 9/11 they brought in as “experts”: an author on Jihad and Islam, a member of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations), a French ambassador, and an American Historian. The hearing starts by one of the Senators praising the author (whom I will leave unnamed) on his book and begins to ask him about Islam and Muslims. The Author says: “Islam this…Terrorists that…we have to do something about that religion…we have to start an Islamic Revolution!”…I kid you not. Then spoke the woman from CFR…her whole speech was practically written by the folks from Project for a New American Century…After all, she is from CFR, the brains behind American foreign policy and its 21st century crusade against the Muslim world. She agrees with the author that we need to start a revolution in Islam, but says that we must do so indirectly, by supporting reformists and apologists (The Muslim Uncle Tom). She’s smart, and not as crazed and blood thirsty as the author is.

Lets take a closer look at these two people first before we proceed. Both of these people (from the way they spoke) have a perspective of Islam only from the viewpoint of research and third-party knowledge. One is a politician (looking to meet political objectives), the other is a writer (who has a clear hatred and bias for Muslims). Both have very little to no first hand experience and knowledge of Muslims…and both have an agenda at hand. One must ask themselves why then are they allowed to advise the nation’s policymakers on a subject which they are not fit to advise on.

Let us continue…The historian and the Frenchman give factual information, first-hand experience, and very little of skewed personal perspective. The Frenchman more so than the Historian. The historian spoke well because he speaks with a wide knowledge of historical fact, and knowledge of past policies and actions taken in the Middle East. Yet his experiences are solely from books and research rather than actual exerience. The French ambassador spoke well because he has actual experience with the Muslim world and has seen the history unfolded firsthand from the comfortable view of an unagressive continent. He is also a statesman and therefore has in-depth knowledge of worldwide political policies directed at the Middle East. He stated practically down to the ‘T’ everything leading up to 9/11: from the creation of the State of Israel, to the creation of Bin Laden and the Mujahideen by the US, to the broken promises and double standards of the US to the Middle East…till today. All this creating in the Muslim World: 1) Poverty 2) Anger 3) Distrust, all of which leads up to today’s current issues.

Even though in this particular instance there was an opposing view, I’ve seen other meetings dealing with the subject of Islam and Muslims in which there is no opposing viewpoint. They information is given by people with limited perspective and many times are motivated by personal agendas and hatreds. They are neither well rounded nor well informed…yet merely take a viewpoint and find some sources to back it. This can be potentially dangerous, since in order to make sound decisions and make wise judgments…let alone run a nation…one must have unbiased, fair, and balanced information. What you will get from these Muslim-haters, apologists, reformists, and apostates will always…and I mean always…be false information.

Falsehood

The job of Intelligence agencies, such as the CIA and MI-6 is to find out exactly what is happening in the world (Gather data), figure out where these things are leading to (Formulate hypothesis), find hard evidence to prove their hypothesis (Develop theory), then report their finding to the man in charge, namely the executive branch (Formulate conclusion). This is the same way we write essays for examinations, make scientific experimentations, and even formulates how we do things in regular life…like buying a car.

But in the case of the faulty Iraq intelligence you have something else happening…the process is reversed. The Executive branch begins the process by intelligence agencies that such and such a thing is happening in the world first (Iraq is building WMD’s) and then calls on them to find the intelligence to prove it. The intelligence community then goes scattering around looking for any evidence of such and such a thing going on (Iraq building WMD’s). The Executive branch, confident in the ability of its intelligence agencies to find something…goes ahead with its speeches and its propaganda campaign. Then, when the intelligence community can find no evidence to support the theory of the President, and since it would be too costly for the President to go back on his claim, thousands of troops are sent to die in order to show conviction to the world that the claim of the President , the Vice President, the Secretary of State, Donny, Condi, Wolfy and all the other Big Wigs benefiting from no-bid contracts, Northrup-Grumann’s rising stocks, and the dream of renewing America’s ‘Manifest Destiny”, is true.

Things just aren’t suppose to work that way. Yet this is the same way these so called “scholars” and “experts”, who are the ones to represent Islam to our lawmakers, gather their intelligence and write their books. The soul agenda of many of these people is no different than that of the Quraish at the time of the Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him. That is, to combat the movement of Islam by slandering, lying, and eventually outright violence. We can that see today just as the Muslims in Mecca could see it fourteen hundred years ago…just like the Christians could see it in the prelude to the Roman persecutions. Look carefully and read between the lines…read the transcripts from The State of the Union speech…look at where military forces are concentrated today and you will see that there are people in America in positions of policymaking that are itching to go to war with the Muslims and the Islamic movement. Yet also remember that you can plan and plan as you like, but that Allah is the best of planners.

Thousands of people in the right here in the U.S. are turning to Islam each year. Every year more and more people are discovering what Islam is really about…and how it is helps them to grow both spiritually and mentally, to find peace and purpose of life. Most of them, as you will see, discovered it on their own (from reading and researching) or from having known a Muslim and finding in them something which they don’t see in anyone else. Yet the only thing a person ever has to do to teach another person Islam is to be a good person. The sole purpose of religion is to make ourselves better in character and conduct…so being the embodiment of good character is to give Da’wa of our Religion. Alhamdullilah, tens of thousands of people worldwide are becoming Muslims each year…and it’s scaring to death so many of these people who always fear what they don’t know…and so many of whom don’t want to know.

The Islamic Revolution

Now let me explain to you the ‘Islamic Revolution’ led, in one part by Muslim apologists and reformists and in the other part by militant groups like Al-Qaeda. In Islam, these parties are both the extremes.

To the reformists and the apologists, many of the things that are the key tenets of Islam…such as the Jihad and the Hijab for example…are perceived to be simply incorrect or out of date. Yet in Islam everyone is entitled to their opinion and you cannot be judged by anyone but Allah alone. That is why Alhamdullilah (all thanks to God), that caste and clergy are simply nonexistent in Islam. But what sets these people apart from you average complainer is that they are very keen to creating Fitnah (tribulations and divisions). A Muslim reformist will claim the Hijab is abuse, repressive, and not an obligation…and then she will tell it to every non-Muslim she sees. Rather than using clear evidence, reason, or scholarly arguing she takes her argument to non-Muslims…painting the image of Islam with darkened colors and hoping to paint themselves as a shining light. Or we can look at the apologists…who are dying to eat the scraps of the table of their masters. They have no pride in their Islam an in being Muslim. They will say “If you don’t like it, leave it”, they hide and run around the fact of Jihad, they are so quick to denounce other Muslims and Muslim countries. If they only stopped to think that the true nature of America its democracy is “If you don’t like it, change it”, that rules of engagement in Jihad are so strict that modern warfare as it is fought is unacceptable, and that so much of what has happened to our Muslim countries today are the result of direct interference from foreign superpowers, colonialism, and the race to control the abundant natural resources which they all sit on.

I dare any one of these people who call themselves reformers or rationalists to show me the real evidence that the doctrines they abide to are made through reason or that Islam is in need of a reformation. I have met and debated with such people. You will find that most are just running away from a false idea or a painful past…which they would rather choose to suppress or to fight…than to use logic, science, or rational thinking in achieving their methodology. They want a revolution of Islam...and they want to be the frontrunners of it.

As for the extremists on the other side…well…we all know it too well. We are reminded of it…and blamed for it…more times than we can blink our eyes. But it does happen…and it’s a sad case…but they too want to create a revolution in Islam…and they too want to be the frontrunners of it.

So let me tell you a quote, by Czar Nicholas of Russia (or at least the actor who played Czar Nicholas in the movie):

“A strong man does not desire power…and a weak man is corrupted by it.”

Think about that real hard. What does that say to you about all these people trying to make a mockery of our beautiful religion? Look at the leaders of other revolutionary movements. They touted reform…but their only real motivation was power. Lenin, Castro, Khomeini, Chalabi, Mussolini. What does that say about all these politicians who will to beat each other bloody with lies and money to hold a seat of power? What does this say about our Muslim ‘Uncle Toms”; reformists and apologist who put down other Muslims with claims of “backwardness” and “ignorance” in order to be the forerunners of a Westernized Islamic designer imposter...and to ultimately only serve their slaves master on-high.

In the end truth cannot be blotted out…truth does not need you…nor can truth be extinguished…because Allah is the sole bearer of Truth…and Allah is the Greatest, the Everlasting.

May Allah grant us Knowledge and Strength.