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The Guardian – Gary Younge: “From Guantánamo Bay to King Abdullah, beneath our talk of defending civilised values lies a deep hypocrisy”
Say what you like about the film American Sniper, and people have, you have to admire its clarity. It’s about killing. There is no moral arc; no anguish about whether the killing is necessary or whether those who are killed are guilty of anything. “I’m prepared to meet my maker and answer for every shot I took,” says Bradley Cooper, who plays the late Chris Kyle, a navy Seal who was reputedly the deadliest sniper in American history. There is certainly no discursive quandary about whether the Iraq war, in which the killing takes place, is either legal or justified. “I couldn’t give a flying […..] about the Iraqis,” wrote Kyle in his memoir, where he refers to the local people as “savages”.
The film celebrates a man who has a talent for shooting people dead when they are not looking and who, apparently, likes his job. “After the first kill, the others come easy,” writes Kyle. “I don’t have to psych myself up, or do anything special mentally. I look through the scope, get my target in the crosshairs, and kill my enemy before he kills one of my people.”
Comment:
Gary Younge makes key observations not lost to the Islamic Ummah. When one recalls that Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11 or WMD; it’s even more horrifying that the audiences to the film felt no remorse what so ever for the destruction of a whole country and ‘civilisation’.
We witness Western hypocrisy repeatedly with the Charlie Hebdo one saw the ‘reaction’ (albeit a little orchestrated) of the ‘civilised’ world. We saw no such reaction when ‘one of their own’ Andreas Breivk went on his religious crusade with anti-Islamic undertones.
The Islamic Ummah sees the common thread, there is no horror when it is the Muslims who are massacred. It is a “celebration of free speech” to insult the noble Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم, however woe betide anyone who might raise even an inquisitive eyebrow to the veracity of the holocaust.
The West would like to pride itself that it is a society based on reason and knowledge and that its people have a measure of intellectual curiosity and integrity. However when it’s ‘civilisation’ is driven by bias and bigotry and fails to confront the truth of Islam, it hides behind hypocrisy, fear and ultimately a 2-dimensional celluloid ‘us against them’ world view of Islam and its Ummah.
The Islamic Ummah can see, our lands, our honour, our wealth, our blood is not secure in the Western construct of this world. Democracy and capitalism protects and promotes only Kufr and Taghut. The Western world view will never be objective, good and bad, right and wrong will always take on their secular self-centred frame of reference.
The only way we will have the right to live, in peace and security and in the way of or beloved Nabi Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم is by answering the call of Allah and His Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم – i.e. by establishing Islam in the true Daulah (State) of Islam, by the method of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم. Allah سبحانه وتعالى commands Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم:
قُلْ هَذِهِ سَبِيلِي أَدْعُو إِلَى اللّهِ عَلَى بَصِيرَةٍ أَنَاْ وَمَنِ اتَّبَعَنِي وَسُبْحَانَ اللّهِ وَمَا أَنَاْ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ
“Say, ‘This is my way; I invite to Allah with insight, I and those who follow me. And exalted is Allah; and I am not of those who associate others with Him.'”
(Yusuf: 108)
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Muhammad Hamzah