Analysis, Side Feature

Views on the News – 15 Oct 2016

Headlines:

  • Trump’s US election campaign faces collapse in America as accusations emerge of misconduct and disrespect of women
  • Nigerian President faces criticism in the West for his comments about his wife
  • Jewish entity criticised by America in UN Security Council
  • Francois Hollande: France Has a Problem with Islam
  • Future War with Russia or China would be Extremely Lethal and Fast: US Generals Warn
  • Turkey Expresses Solidarity with Pakistan on Kashmir

 


Trump’s US election campaign faces collapse in America as accusations emerge of misconduct and disrespect of women

As expected, the American political establishment has begun moving strongly against the political campaign of Republican candidate Donald Trump in the final weeks before the US Presidential elections. According to a report in the New York Times on Friday:

“Several of the Republican Party’s most generous donors called on the Republican National Committee on Thursday to disavow Donald J. Trump, saying that allegations by multiple women that Mr. Trump had groped or made inappropriate sexual advances toward them threatened to inflict lasting damage on the party’s image.”

Disrespect and abuse of women is nothing new in American politics simply because it is deeply prevalent in American life in general. The ill-defined Western concept of Freedom, while containing elements of the noble ideal of liberation, also engenders disregard of societal norms and rules. Western men, emboldened by freedom of speech and freedom of the individual, play havoc with male-female relations. Women are heavily portrayed in the media as objects of exploitation instead of persons deserving the highest of honour and respect in society. Those living in Muslim societies cannot even imagine the degree of present Western depravity.

Trump has simply been behaving as a normal Western man, as his apology indicates when he says that this is simply usual ‘locker room talk’ and that ex-President Bill Clinton has said far worse to him while playing golf. The Western establishment is exposing this now for ulterior motives, just as the actions of President Clinton were exposed near the end of his term, which Hilary Clinton at that time publicly blamed on a ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’.

Trump was only strongly patronised during the Republican primary campaign due to the weakness of Jeb Bush and the threat of Bernie Sanders. However, the American political establishment has no intent of appointing him as president, when they have a strongly pro-establishment alternative in the form of Hilary Clinton.

This all is the true face of Democracy, another ill-defined Western concept. The people vote but the political establishment has dominant control over their options and even their thinking.

 

Nigerian President faces criticism in the West for his comments about his wife

Answering questions about criticism by his wife at a press conference in Berlin, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari responded that his wife’s place is the kitchen.

These comments have been seized upon by Western media to boost their portrayal of Muslim societies as suppressive of women. In fact the reverse is true.

Firstly, it is almost unheard of for politician’s wives in the West to criticise their husbands, let alone a President’s wife, the so-called ‘first lady’. Simply the fact that Aisha Buhari had the confidence to do this says a lot about Muslim society. Secondly, Aisha Buhari has been politically active previously and had participated strongly in her husband’s election campaign, so even President Buhari does not really think that women should not be part of politics. He was simply trying to counter a political attack from his wife.

Nigeria’s Muslims should feel proud that Islam has given women the confidence to involve in politics and be outspoken about political matters, even if against their husbands’ views. However, the Muslims of Nigeria should also realise that Islamic values are under threat as long as our political systems are dominated by Western thinking.

President Buhari’s failure in addressing political issues in Nigeria is not simply because of some personal incompetence but because of the failed Nigerian political system. Only a return to ruling by Islam will return Nigeria to the great civilisation it experienced under Hausa rule previously.

 

Jewish entity criticised by America in UN Security Council

US President Obama, whose personal conflict with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is well-known, has found an opportunity in the UN Security Council for America to criticise ‘Israeli’ policy. According the news website middleeasteye.net:

‘Israel is creating a one state reality on the ground by building and expanding settlements in the West Bank, the United States said at a special UN Security Council session on Friday.

‘Deputy US ambassador to the UN, David Pressman, told the Security Council – at a meeting titled “Illegal Israeli Settlements: Obstacles to Peace and the Two-State Solution” – that Washington strongly opposes the settlements, which he described as “corrosive to peace”.’

In fact the Jewish entity’s entire presence on Palestinian land is in accordance with American planning, direction and support in order to fulfil strategic American objectives in the region. Clashes such as these in the Security Council, or Obama’s personal conflict with Netanyahu arise only because the Jewish entity’s mismanagement of the situation and America’s need to protect ‘Israel’ from its own stupidity.

The latest conflict is only further indicative of this. It is receiving little coverage in the Western press, and the criticism itself was delivered not by Obama, Biden, Kerry, or even the UN Ambassador Samantha Powell. Instead it was left to the US Deputy Ambassador to the UN, David Pressman, to make these comments.

Conflict between a master and his servant is normal and does not prove that the servant is not carrying out his master’s wishes.

‘Israel’ has been planted by America as a thorn in the side of the Muslim Ummah. Only the re-established righteous Khilafah upon the method of the Prophethood will be capable of eliminating it from our lands.

 

Francois Hollande: France Has a Problem with Islam

The French president, François Hollande, has said his country has “a problem with Islam” and that there are too many illegal migrants arriving in France. He also suggested that today’s “veiled woman” could become a Marianne, the female symbol of the French republic, and attacked his rival Nicolas Sarkozy as “the little De Gaulle”. The controversial remarks are published in a 660-page book, A President Should Not Say That: Secrets of Five Years in Office. It was his comments on Islam that could prove the most controversial. The book quotes Hollande saying: “It’s true there is a problem with Islam … and nobody doubts that. There’s a problem with Islam because Islam demands places (of worship), recognition. It’s not that Islam is a problem because it’s a religion that is in itself dangerous but because it wants to assert itself as a religion on the Republic. What might also be a problem is if Muslims don’t criticise acts of radicalisation, if imams behave in an anti-republican way.” He added: “The veiled woman of today will be the Marianne of tomorrow … because, in a certain way, if we offer her the right conditions to blossom she will liberate herself from her veil and become a French woman, while remaining a believer if she wishes, capable of carrying with her an ideal … Ultimately, what are we betting on? That she will prefer freedom to subservience. Perhaps the veil is a kind of protection for her, but that tomorrow she will not need it in order to be reassured of her presence in society.” [Source: The Guardian]

Hollande’s comments do not come as a surprise. The real surprise is that Hollande did not declare the obvious—France is at war with Islam both at home and abroad.

 

Future War with Russia or China would be Extremely Lethal and Fast: US Generals Warn

Any future war with Russia or China would be “extremely lethal and fast” and produce violence on the scale not seen for 60 years, according to US generals. Artificial intelligence and automated weapons systems will accelerate any future conflict, Major General William Hix has warned. “A conventional conflict in the near future will be extremely lethal and fast,” he told a future-of-the-Army panel on Tuesday, Defense One reports. “And we will not own the stopwatch.” General Hix described his vision of accelerated future warfare: “The speed of events are likely to strain our human abilities. “The speed at which machines can make decisions in the far future is likely to challenge our ability to cope, demanding a new relationship between man and machine.” He warned that technological advancements made by Russia and China in recent years had forced the White House to prepare for “violence on the scale that the US Army has not seen since Korea”. The US faces existential threats from modern-states “acting aggressively in militarised competition,” Lieutenant General Joseph Anderson, Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Plans, and Training, told the panel. “Who does that sound like? Russia?” he asked. Such a war is “almost guaranteed,” Army Chief of Staff General Mark A Milley said at the same event. Future adversaries could end the US’s traditional air superiority, and anti-access, area-denial capabilities could prevent the Navy from getting near the battlefield. So “land forces will have to enable sea forces,” and the Army “is definitely going to have to dominate the air above our battle space,” he added. The Army will also have to be prepared to engage in cyber warfare, work without space-based communications and precision navigation it has come to take for granted, and fight in a complex urban settings. [Source: The Independent]

Every era is accompanied by technological revolution that changes the nature of warfare. But fighting wars with new weapons is just one element in this revolution. The other element is the nature of war itself. Despite America’s military might, the country is not suited to asymmetric warfare as witnessed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Russia and China may also choose to fight US asymmetrically then America’s technical prowess will not count for much.

 

Turkey Expresses Solidarity with Pakistan on Kashmir

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, who was representing Pakistan at a World Energy Council (WEC) meeting in Istanbul, met with and apprised Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim about the human rights violations by Indian forces in held Kashmir. The Turkish prime minister expressed solidarity with Pakistan. The defence minister also held meetings with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the WEC meeting. The prime minister’s special envoys, Muhammad Pervez Malik and Mohsin Shah Nawaz Ranjha also called on the Turkish Grand National Assembly Speaker Ismail Kahraman and briefed him on the atrocities being committed against Kashmiris in India-held Kashmir. Additionally, the envoys apprised Kahraman about the latest security situation in the region, including escalation of tensions along the Line of Control. Kahraman reaffirmed Turkey’s consistent support for a negotiated solution of Kashmir within the framework of relevant United Nations resolutions, taking into account the legitimate aspirations of the Kashmiri people. The special envoys also met with the chairman of the Pakistan-Turkey Parliamentary Friendship Group and interacted with prominent media outlets, according to the report. The Turkish officials reiterated their grave concern over the prevailing situation in India-held Kashmir and affirmed their solidarity with the Kashmiri people, reiterating their commitment to the cause of the Kashmiri people. [Source: The Pakistan Observer]

The only solidarity that Kashmiris need is for the armed forces of Turkey and Pakistan to combine and liberate Kashmir. The 1.2 million soldiers can also remove Assad and stabilize the region from Syria to Afghanistan. The only thing missing is the political will, which the prevalent nation state system is effectively blocking.

1 Comment

  1. “‘Israel’ has been planted by America as a thorn in the side of the Muslim Ummah.”

    Its actually the other way round. It is the zionist lobbies who control more or less all the power and influence in the US to get America to do whatever they want.

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