Analysis, Side Feature

Views on the News – 18 March 2017

Headlines:

  • America exploiting North Korean militarism to confront China
  • The Jewish State rushes to participate in the spoils of the Syrian war
  • Erdogan manipulates European Muslims’ emotions for political purposes


America exploiting North Korean militarism to confront China

The US government is adopting a hard line in response to recent North Korean missile tests following its leader’s talk of preparation for launching intercontinental ballistic missiles that could reach the United States. According to the New York Times:

Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson ruled out on Friday opening any negotiation with North Korea to freeze its nuclear and missile programs and said for the first time that the Trump administration might be forced to take pre-emptive action “if they elevate the threat of their weapons program” to an unacceptable level.

Tillerson’s statement, a day before his visit to China, is clearly calculated to elevate confrontation with the Chinese. America benefits from North Korea’s aggressiveness, using it to justify their military presence on China’s periphery since the Korean War more than 60 years ago. America has maintained its troops in South Korea since then, and has kept its military base in Japan since World War II. The real reason for the escalation in American rhetoric is not because of North Korea but because of increased Chinese power. Obama’s China dual policy of engagement and encirclement is being seen in Washington as have failed to restrain China’s sufficiently. Trump is taking an altogether more confrontational approach to the Chinese conundrum.

 

The Jewish State rushes to participate in the spoils of the Syrian war

As we have seen time and again, once the disbelievers sense victory against Muslims, then they fall into fighting between each other for the spoils. According to the Russian sputniknews.com website:

The Syrian air defense shot down an Israeli warplane and hit another one after four aircraft had breached the war-torn country’s airspace and attacked government troops near Palmyra, the Syrian Army said on Friday.

The Jewish State is as much as Syria, Iran, Turkey and other participants in the war in Syria, are all serving the American interests. It was also America that brought Russia into the war. It is in fact America’s purpose for its agents and fellows to struggle between themselves, so that America can remain master above them all. However, America’s real fear is that the power in Syria will fall from the hands of its agents to the hands of sincere Muslims who will use it to re-establish Islam in Syria and make it a nucleus for the establishment of Islam in the entire Muslim Ummah, thus ending America’s colonialism of the Muslim world. Consequently America does not now trust in the competence of any one of its agents to maintain authority in Syria and so desires to involve as many as it can in the Syrian situation.

 

Erdogan manipulates European Muslims emotions for political purposes

Like others Muslim rulers faced with an Islamic renaissance, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks about Islam to make himself appealing to Muslims, while continuing to oversee and safeguard non-Islamic systems and policies. Turkey’s renewed Russian relationship, at the behest of America, leading to its disgraceful betrayal of Syrian Muslims is just one of the latest examples of this. Now, however, conscious of the importance of the very substantial European Turkish vote for an upcoming referendum that can greatly strengthen presidential powers, Erdogan has begun lashing out at European governments and appealing to the sentiments of Turkish Muslims living in Europe. According to the New York Times:

Calling Turks the “future of Europe,” Turkey’s president on Friday implored his compatriots living on the Continent to have multiple children as an act of revenge against the West’s “injustices.”

“Go live in better neighborhoods. Drive the best cars. Live in the best houses,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday in the city of Eskisehir, while campaigning for a referendum that would solidify his power. “Make not three, but five children. Because you are the future of Europe. That will be the best response to the injustices against you.”

And a day before this, in reference to Europe’s headscarf restrictions targeting Muslim women, he said at a rally, according to the Hurriyet daily news website:

“Where is the liberty of religion? They have commenced a struggle between the cross and crescent. There is no other explanation than this. I am saying this clearly: Europe is heading toward the days just before World War II,”

Erdogan wishes to recapture the stature of the noble Ottoman Sultans without undertaking any of the actions that made them Khulafa and Imams of all Muslims. If he wishes to end injustice, then why does he not implement Islam? If he wishes to fight for Muslims living abroad then why does he continue to serve the American superpower that is working so hard to keep Muslims in a low and humiliated status? The true successor to the Ottoman Sultans will be the rightly guided Khulafa that lead the soon to be re-established righteous Islamic State working on the method of Prophethood ﷺ.