Headlines:
- Trump’s Unilateralism leads him to Withdrawal from Paris Climate Accord
- US Hesitates again to Move Embassy to Jerusalem
- China is an Oppressor of Muslims, Not a Saviour
- Majorities in Europe, North America worried about Islamic Extremism
- Orthodox Priest Warns Europe will Turn Muslim in 30 years, Russia in 50
- America’s Afghan War: 16 Years, as Many as One Million Killed—and the War Machine Keeps on Rolling
Trump’s Unilateralism leads him to Withdrawal from Paris Climate Accord
US President Donald Trump has announced America’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, signed by 195 countries. The only other countries not part of the agreement are Nicaragua and Syria. According to the New York Times:
“President Trump announced on Thursday that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accord, weakening efforts to combat global warming and embracing isolationist voices in his White House who argued that the agreement was a pernicious threat to the economy and American sovereignty.
In a speech from the Rose Garden, Mr. Trump said the landmark 2015 pact imposed wildly unfair environmental standards on American businesses and workers. He vowed to stand with the people of the United States against what he called a “draconian” international deal.
“I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,” the president said, drawing support from members of his Republican Party but widespread condemnation from political leaders, business executives and environmentalists around the globe.”
Trump’s announcement will have no immediate direct effect. Under the terms of the agreement, the United Sates cannot exit until 4 November 2020, which is the day after the next presidential election. The most immediate effect of the announcement, therefore, is that it solidifies Trump’s commitment to American unilateralism, and rejection of the multilateralist approach adopted by his predecessor Barack Obama.
In fact, America is the world’s leading power at all times, whether it practices unilateralism or multilateralism. The world order is defined by the superpower, and global affairs reflect the viewpoint in life of the leading power. The tragedies faced by humanity at this time are all directly or indirectly attributable to the United States of America and the Western block that it leads. The world’s problems cannot be solved until global leadership is replaced by a power that is truly sincere to caring for the affairs of mankind.
US Hesitates again to Move Embassy to Jerusalem
Despite a campaign pledge to honour a 1995 American law, Donald Trump has deferred a decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem for another six months. US Presidents have been continually deferring the decision, every six months, since the US law was passed more than 20 years ago. According to Reuters:
“President Donald Trump signed a temporary order on Thursday to keep the U.S. embassy in Israel in Tel Aviv instead of relocating it to Jerusalem, despite his campaign pledge to go ahead with the controversial move.
After months of fierce debate within his administration, Trump chose to continue his predecessors’ policy of signing a six-month waiver overriding a 1995 law requiring that the embassy be transferred to Jerusalem, an action that would have complicated his efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
The White House insisted, however, that the decision, which is sure to disappoint Israel’s U.S. supporters, did not mean Trump was abandoning the goal of eventually shifting the embassy to Jerusalem. But a U.S. official said no timetable has been set.”
There is no obstacle to America implementing this change other than its fear of the wrath of Muslims, which may lead to the destruction of the Jewish State and much more besides. America sees are sons and now even our daughters giving their lives to oppose the tyrannical occupation. Reuters reported yesterday:
“A teenage Palestinian girl who was shot by Israeli troops after she stabbed a soldier in the occupied West Bank died of her wounds in hospital on Friday, Israel’s military and a medical center spokeswoman said.
The girl, who Palestinian authorities said was aged 16 and from the West Bank village of Yaabed near Jenin, was shot at the entrance to the Israeli settlement of Mevo Dotan on Thursday after striking and lightly wounding a soldier with a knife, an Israeli army statement said.
A spokeswoman for the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in central Israel said she had been treated at the hospital overnight but died of her wounds early on Friday.”
Indeed the Muslim Ummah is a power in the world, but the rulers of Muslims are unaware of this. They slavishly carry out the commands and desires of their Western masters, thinking they have no choice in this. But these Western masters themselves fear Muslims the most.
China is an oppressor of Muslims, not a saviour
With the overwhelming sense of weakness that pervades Muslims today, it is easy for many to see China’s growing power as an opportunity for Muslims to escape Western imperialism. But Muslims need to stop and remember China’s brutal treatment of Muslims that live within its borders, which extends even to the names that parents give their own children. According to The Guardian:
“Muslim children in China’s far western Xinjiang region are being forced to change their “religious” names and adults are being coerced into attending rallies showing devotion to the officially atheist Communist party.
During Ramadan, the authorities in Xinjiang have ordered all children under 16 to change names where police have determined they are “overly religious”. As many as 15 names have been banned, including Islam, Quran, Mecca, Jihad, Imam, Saddam, Hajj, Medina and Arafat, according to Radio Free Asia.”
The same article also mentions:
“In recent months authorities began confiscating Qur’ans published before August 2012, declaring them illegal for containing “extremist content”, according to a report by US-funded Radio Free Asia.
On the same day as the mass rallies, officials in Xinjiang announced they had expelled a Communist party member for attending religious activities at a local mosque. It was not clear if the man was a government official or simply a private citizen who was also a party member.
Rules announced last year also forbid retired officials from attending religious ceremonies and ban them from holding and beliefs.”
The saviour of Muslims is neither the West, nor China, nor any other earthly power. Our saviour is our Iman and tawakal upon Allah (swt), and the obedience to His Deen, though the re-establishment of the righteous Islamic Khilafah State, the Caliphate, working on the method of the Prophet ﷺ.
Majorities in Europe, North America worried about Islamic extremism
Across 12 countries surveyed from February through April by Pew Research Center, majorities said they were at least somewhat concerned about extremism in the name of Islam in their countries, including 79% who said this in the UK itself. And across the 10 EU countries surveyed, a median of 79% were concerned about Islamic extremism, while only 21% were not concerned. The issue of extremism across Europe has manifested itself in myriad ways in recent years, including significant and deadly terrorist attacks in Paris, Brussels, Berlin and now Manchester, all claimed by the Islamic State (ISIS), which is based in Iraq and Syria. And while individual terrorist incidents tend to increase fears about extremism, there has been great concern globally about the issue throughout the last decade. In many of the countries polled this year, much of the public is very concerned about extremism in the name of Islam. This includes 51% in Italy and Spain, 47% in Germany, 46% in France and 43% in the UK. Meanwhile, less than 15% of the population in all these countries is not at all concerned about the threat of extremism in the name of Islam. Fears about extremism, while pervasive across all demographic groups, are particularly acute among older people and those who consider themselves on the right of the ideological spectrum. For example, in the UK, 87% of those ages 50 and older are concerned about extremism in the name of Islam, compared with 61% among Brits ages 18 to 29. Similarly significant age gaps exist in nine of the 12 countries surveyed. When it comes to ideology, there are significant gaps between those on the right and left in 10 of the 12 countries surveyed. In Canada, for instance, 66% of those who place themselves on the right politically say they are concerned about extremism, compared with only 30% on the left. [Source: Pew Research Center]
Western governments have deliberately stoked fear of Islam amongst their populations so that they can continue to justify Western intervention in Muslim lands. Without public support the West will not be able to prosecute its war against Islam in Muslim countries.
Orthodox Priest Warns Europe will Turn Muslim in 30 years, Russia in 50
A Russian Orthodox priest says the West better get ready for Islam’s conquest. “There is very little time left until the death of the entire Christian Civilization,” claims Dmitri Smirnov, chairman of the Patriarchal Commission on Family Matters and the Protection of Motherhood and Childhood. “Several decades, perhaps 30 years, well, maybe in Russia it will last 50, no longer,” the priest reportedly told Russia’s Soyuz TV channel. Smirnov says Islam will eventually sweep the continent because Muslims are willing to sacrifice themselves in order to advance their own values. “The modern Muslim is willing to die for his faith,” Smirnov said. “He wraps himself with dynamite and blows himself up wherever his mullah orders him. He is prepared to sacrifice himself. He is labeled a terrorist. But his goal is not to terrify the world.” The controversial Russian Orthodox archpriest claims young Muslims view their sacrifice as a noble cause in order to protect their societies. “And why do these young men die?” asks Smirnov. “Because they don’t want to live in a state ruled by homosexuals. They don’t want this obscene pop music. They don’t want to have their values corroded, family values first of all. “Smirnov claims Islam’s domination will force Christians underground and they “will be like peas scattered across Europe.” “Christians will not dare stick their necks out, they will congregate in small groups and will be persecuted,” Smirnov asserts. “The rehearsal is already underway: in Europe, Christian women are being raped and murdered, and the men who are forced to protect their women, are unable to do so (while rapists are sentenced to one year probation maximum). This goes on in today’s Europe, and we are next in line.” He ends his presentation saying that while Muslims are ready to kill themselves, Christians in the West are just “exhausted sick people, as good as dead.” [Source: CBN News]
Smirnov assertion about Christianity and the decadence that plagues the West is correct. How long can Westerners continue to defend their values from other Westerners?
America’s Afghan War: 16 Years, as Many as One Million Killed—and the War Machine Keeps on Rolling
The American war in Afghanistan will soon enter its 16th year. Over this period, the United States and its allies have lost close to 3,000 soldiers, while an unknown number of Afghans have died. The official figure for the Afghan dead, above 150,000, is laughable. Each year, as the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) finds, the percentage of women and children among the official death toll increases, many of the deaths a result of aerial bombardment. Afghan sources say that the number of war dead must be near the million mark. The human toll has been considerable. In 2016, over half a million-people fled their homes because of the conflict. This is the highest number of displacements since 2008. Of the estimated population of 32 million Afghans, almost two million have been displaced by the conflict; about three million are refugees from the almost 40 years of war in the country. In the five months that ended in May, UNAMA found that already 90,000 people had been displaced. The “spring offensive” of the Taliban began with a burst. On April 21, a handful of Taliban fighters infiltrated the Afghan National Army’s 209th Corps base in Balkh, a province in northern Afghanistan. They killed 140 Afghan soldiers. It was a devastating attack, which came a week after the U.S. dropped the 21,600-pound (9,798-kg) Mother of All Bombs (MOAB), the largest non-nuclear bomb in the world, on Nangarhar, Afghanistan. The bomb landed on the village of Asadkhel. The U.S. military said that 94 Islamic State fighters were killed. Journalists have not been permitted to the site, although it should be said that the district is home to 1.5 million people. It was as if the Taliban paid no heed to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to drop “Madar-e Bamb-ha”, the Dari translation of the grotesque device. The Balkh attack almost seemed as a directed snub. The Taliban now controls over 40 per cent of Afghanistan, with its hold cemented in north-eastern Helmand province, north-western Kandahar province, north-western Zabul province and Uruzgan province. Its forces could soon be in command of southern Afghanistan, which would put the Taliban in charge of the length of the country’s border with Pakistan. The assassination of Taliban leaders seems to have barely dented its ability to push hard against the Afghan Army and the Army’s North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) allies. Dan Coats, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, told the U.S. Senate that regardless of any action by the U.S., “the political and security situation in Afghanistan will almost certainly deteriorate through 2018.” What he meant is that US interest would not be safeguarded by the Ghani government. [Source:Alternet.org]
Any keen observer of America’s war in Afghanistan cannot help but notice that America has deliberately kept the Afghan government weak and has not bothered to eradicate the Afghan Taliban. It is almost as if America is using the strength of both parties to fight each other and maintain the status quo in favour of prolonged American presence. A technique America has perfected in Central and South America.