Who needs to take a walk on the wild side

in Berlin

where wild is low-normal

and tame is wild fitra?

Eid al Fitr 2015

Islam is a gift from Allah. He guides whom He wishes. Eid is a day of happiness, a day of gifts. It is not an empty religious rite, but one of Allah’s signs, a sign of togetherness, community. That we can still perform the sala al-Eid here in Europe openly is a miracle in this age of humanism, an age of man-made laws elevated to the status of inviolability.

This is a day to give thanks, for our Islam and for the freedom to practice our deen in many areas. We must take note however of the consequences of what happens when the Muslims abandon their laws and imitate those made by man, what happens when they turn the deen into a religion. Only then shall we realize why Allah has allowed the umma to disappear, allowed racist national states run by capitalists to rule the Muslims.

We must reflect upon the fact that fasting is forbidden in China. That Indonesia’s trade is controlled by China. That Malaysia has never recovered from the linguistic rape of the British administration. That more land is owned by the agricultural banks in Bangladesh than by the people. That the community with the greatest number of Muslims, India – not Indonesia as is widely cited in the press – is still imprisoned in the caste system. That in Pakistan corruption is so rife it has become the norm, that hardly any trees have been left standing, and that there is often no electricity. Afghanistan has been split into two by the vote, the ballot fever – between those who follow traditional leadership but who have been driven to extremism in their frustration at having lost authority and those who think that putting a piece of paper in a box every four years shall solve their problems. We must take note that the safavids are extending their influence over the Muslims from Mashhad through to Gaza. And may Allah protect the remnant of the Osmanli dawlat in its struggle to reassert the deen through democratic means. 300.000 killed in the war in Sham, 4 million refugees, unknown numbers tortured, a wasteland. In the Gulf they are still striving with each other to build higher and higher buildings while their hotels are filling with alcohol and their streets with prostitutes. Saudi is California plus the five sala per day and women in black sacks, any mention of the laws of trade of the rasoul, sallalhhu alayhi was salaam, is deemed unprogressive, almost on a par with terrorism. Egypt, where riba in its modern form began with the printing of endless bank notes, calls to democracy rhetorically and throws out the result when it disagrees with them – as has happened five times in so called Muslim countries to date. More food is now imported to Cairo during Ramadan than in any other month. Civil war still rages in Libya. Tunis is a tourist resort with a confused and angry youth. Algeria does not know if it is still part of France – having just recovered from one civil war, fighting has now broken out between the berbers and the arabs. In Morocco the King is struggling courageously to reintroduce a traditional Islam after two generations of wahhabi influence; but the water in the major towns is so contaminated with chlorine that legally speaking it may not be used even for wudu, livestock eat plastic bags on rubbish heaps and the enormous chickens, fed on steroids and hormones, are so dangerous that the French expats are importing meat from France. Caesarean births are preferred because they are more profitable for the hospitals and French drug companies.

Africa has become a social, political and political chaos run by ruthless puppets schooled in France and Britain. The noble Muslim Kings and Amirs have been replaced by ignorant puppets, ignorant of the next world. The great Muslim tribes have been replaced by the nuclear family.

But Allah is in charge and there is no changing the sunna of Allah. As He says in Al ‘Imran: ‘They plotted and Allah plotted. But Allah is the best of plotters’. Allah ta’ala says in Sura Muhammad: ‘Allah is Rich and you are poor. If you turn away, He will replace you with a people other than yourselves and they will not be like you.’ And He says in sura al Maida: ‘You who have iman! if any of you renounce your deen, Allah will bring forward a people whom He loves and who love Him’. The message is clear people have turned away from His deen in Africa and Asia and so He is bringing forward a new people.

We have a treasure but we must share it – through da’wa to the people of Europe. As one of the great shaykhs of this age has said: ‘If we don’t, they will come and rip from our hands as they are doing in Asia and Africa. We have community, we have balanced leadership. You who have come from these lands, you have made hijra. We too the Europeans have made hijra and are still making hijra from the land of kufr. The Rasoul, sallahu alayhi wa sallam, has said: ‘Actions are according to intention and each shall get what he intended. Whoever made the hijra for Allah and His Messenger,then his hijra is for Allah and His Messenger and whoever made his hijra for the dunya – in order gain something of it, or for a woman – in order to marry her, then his hijra is for that for which he made his hijra.’

When the Muslims new to Europe have learnt a European language, they naturally become European, no doubt. Together we have a lot to give, namely the fitra to a people who have abandoned the fitra for total sexual licence, we can reintroduce the reality of extended or tribal family which has been all but destroyed, we can reintroduce healthy living to a people exhausted by drugs both legal and legal. And if we recognize the achievements of the people of Europe in the dunya – clean drinking water, food still relatively healthy, abundunt trees, clean streets and civil order for example, there can only be growth and positive increase.

Stats

A courteous and open request to the media, in particular the German media in this instance, for less terror-hype and a little more rational reflection.
According to our legal school, that of Imam Malik, as well as the three other schools of Shafii, Abu Hanifa and Ibn Hanbal, may Allah be pleased with them all, suicide [bombing] is strictly forbidden and punished by the Lord of the Worlds with eternal Fire.
As Shaykh Sidi al Jamal has said, the Shaykh of Shaykh ad-Darqawi:
‘One single man can illuminate a whole city, while a whole city cannot illuminate a single man’
Although statistics are generally – and often deliberately – misleading, as our footnote below illustrates, the following recent postings by government, semi- governmental and mainstream media must have some meaning:
14,551 persons (10,922 men and 3,629 women) ‘died in Germany in 2012 as a result of excessive alcohol consumption – four times more than road deaths’, see the official website of the German government organ das Statistische Bundesamt (Destatis) – and therefore approximately:
3,500 accident-related road deaths occurred last year. These two statistics are obviously a great improvement on the following statistic from one leading German newspaper some years ago, and points to the success of certain government campaigns to heighten awareness of the dangers of alcohol but it does not go far enough:
74,000 deaths from alcohol – see: Die Welt am Sonntag, 27.06.10;
1,002 deaths from illegal drugs in 2013 – see the highly-regarded German website Statista – Das Statistik-Portal;
550 deaths through aids in 2013 in Germany – see again Das Statistik-Portal;
110 000 to 140 000 deaths in 2014 in Germany associated with diseases arising from tobacco – this taken from the website: Gesundheit – Zahlen, Daten, Fakten.
3.300 deaths from passive smoking, see: www.kreuzbund.de/de/das-suchtproblem-in-deutschland.html. Almost akin to murder, what?
36,000 deaths – it was reported in the leading German magazine, Der Spiegel, 27.11.2014, that this number of persons died in 2012 as a result of mental illnesses and behavioral imbalances, and that this number is increasing alarmingly annually – and:
150 deaths caused by a deranged pilot just recently.
One could go on to list the number of killings in domestic and sexual violence of husbands, wives and children, of murders through criminals and deaths through medical negligence, but suffice the following:

0 – not a single death in German speaking territory in the last 2000 years, or longer, i.e. since written records exist, has been caused through terror attacks attributed to Muslims.
So as Nietzsche might recommend: A little more attention to encouraging the treatment of drunkards and lunatics, drug-addicts, sexual extremists, social misfits and those prone to road-rage, rather than volk-related rumour mongering. Imam Malik’s teaching stresses the prioritization of actions: some are important, some less so. A top priority for our society here in Germany in the light of the above statistics would appear to be a return to health and sanity in the media.

Footnote:

During the O.J. Simpson trial, the prosecution made much of the fact that Simpson had a record of violence towards his wife. In response, Simpson’s legal team argued that, of all women subjected to spousal abuse, only one in 2,500 was subsequently killed by the abusive husband. It was hence implied that, since the ratio of abusers to killers was so high, any evidence about the accused’s prior violent behaviour was insignificant.

This sounds plausible. However, there is another way to consider the statistics. According to the German academic Gerd Gigerenzer, we are not trying to predict whether a husband will murder his wife: Simpson’s wife inarguably had been murdered, so instead, we should ask the question backwards: given that a battered wife has been murdered, what are the odds that the husband did it? Gigerenzer calculates that ‘the chances that a batterer actually murdered his partner, given that she has been first abused and then killed, is about eight in nine’.

This is a case where a statistical sleight of hand normally called ‘the prosecutor’s fallacy’ worked for the defence. What is interesting is not merely that we are confused but the degree of our confusion: the presentation of the data affects our judgment by factor of thousands: from 0.04 per cent to 90 per cent. We need to be alert to this kind of error, particularly since computers and ‘big data’ make it easy to generate spurious but plausible statistics on almost any subject.

High-profile criminal cases seem plagued by peculiar mental biases. In particular, they seem to cause people to polarise around only two opposing theories of ‘what happened’.

I felt slightly vindicated when I finally heard that the British police were investigating the possibility that the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was the result of a burglary attempt gone wrong. Since planned abduction by a paedophile is so rare, it struck me as odd that no one much considered this more probable option.

Press and internet commentary seems to amplify the either/or effect. If you want to see this tendency at its most extreme, the online reaction to the trials of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito is a textbook case. The two camps, the Colpevolisti and Innocentisti, operate entirely separate, partisan websites: which site you see first will affect your assessment of Knox and Sollecito’s guilt enormously. I have to say here that using Occam’s razor — or even Occam’s nasal hair-trimmer — should incline you towards believing the pair are more likely to be innocent than guilty. Burglaries gone wrong seem more common than sex games turned murderous. The investigating authorities formulated theories before evidence was available, and were reluctant to modify them, instead creating further bizarre theories to support their initial assumptions — a tendency known as ‘privileging the hypothesis’. Had the DNA and fingerprint evidence implicating Guede been available at once, would the investigation have proceeded as it did? Almost certainly not.

But few commentators discuss the case in terms of probabilities — it is all about certainty first, evidence later. This tendency is probably innate. But Gigerenzer believes it can be corrected: ‘Schools spend most of their time teaching children the mathematics of certainty — geometry, trigonometry — and spend little if any time on the mathematics of uncertainty. Statistical thinking could be taught as the art of real-world problem solving.’

German schools are beginning to adopt his approach. Britain (and Italy) should follow.

Rory Sutherland is vice-chairman of Ogilvy Group UK.

A choice of worship now, 1st Jumaada al-Ula, 1436 years after the hijra:

To prostrate shoulder to shoulder the duration of the eclipse of the sun to the Lord of the eclipse,
or to merely observe the sun of Queen Saba.

Was not Appolinaire the first rapper

because he knew how to frapper?

And O so dapper

because he was so tapfer

in his courageous aristocloth.

Peace and War

[This was submitted to me some months ago for correction. Despite the garbled text, bizarre grammar, fantastic spelling and questionable logic it contains many interesting points. For this reason I lay it before you aimable lecteur.]

The Choice open to Thinking Men and Women:
The unfettered, total, barbaric, mutilating, torturing, devastating, democratic wars of the 20th and 21st C. or the contained, legal, just and compassionate rules of combat according to the faqih Ibn Juzayy al-Andalusi in his Qawaneen al Fiqhiyya

‘Each time they kindle the fire of war, Allah extinguishes it’, Qur’an, The Table: 64
Until it lays down its burdens? War destroys entrenched customs, lets other patterns arise.

Jihad does not refer to war as understood in the media, has nothing to do with the internet war games relayed from the front for the entertainment of a bored world. Jihad is primarily a matter of the establishing of or pursuit of justice and occurs within the rigorous framework of law. It is subject to the general injunction of amr bi’l-maruf, in other words the enemy has to be invited to Islam – and the Islam which is generally available in the media is incomprehensible. War, just as the collection of the zakat can only be legitimately engaged upon by the Amir-Leader who is himself legitimate and not a khaariji from the Khawaarij, not from the ahla’l-takfeer. ISIS is top-end gaming or reality show unbound by irksome constitutional gaming laws. At the end of the Bidaya al-Mujtahid wa nihaaya al-Muqtasid in which Ibn Rushd demonstrates that the various sunnas of the Messenger are not dry abstract laws but rather manifestations of the fitra of man, the natural, balanced state of man, he states that the phenomena of war is to be located within the Qur’anic term ‘adl – justice: ‘for in this is pursued the right of retaliation, wars and punishment’. Neither he nor we then deny the existential reality of war as part of the condition humaine. All media hypocrisy arises from the refusal to accept this: war is to assert hegemony and to take booty. The kuffar maintain nowadays that it is to establish democracy but we know historically that they do not open hostilities in poor insignificant lands but rather ones with wealth or those of strategic importance – the oil of Irak and the geopolitical position of Afghanistan unleashed the latest hostilities in these two territories; unwelcome Governments are constantly being changed through force in the name of democracy or in order to bring inflexible despots to heel by war or to foment internal strife. This is not fantasy or ‘conspiracy theory’ but grisly fact testified to by history and by themselves, openly, by their own statistics. Despotic governments however which are deemed of use – like those of the Arabian Peninsula – are officially tolerated [while simultaneously mildly castigated in the popular press] and often supported. Earlier, as in the case of colonial Britain, Portugal, France, Germany, Russia or Spain, war was waged ‘to bring civilisation to the natives’; in fact it was for land or trade possibilities; and nowadays in order to test military equipment or make geological surveys prior to the commercial exploitation of the mineral resources by the previous aggressors
D’amokcrisy as it is spelt by one West African blogger – and a not unsuitable spelling at that: amok for the ever present disgruntled crowds of the losing party and hypo-crisy of the nation charged with monitoring – their presence there only attributable to the local uranium deposits – is the ideology of tolerance par excellence which however only tolerates what is deemed tolerably tolerable. It is in fact a business, a branch of the market forces of capitalism, like any other enterprise. The cost of an election in one African country equaled the average income for every single average inhabitant over ten working days – and was paid for by donor countries, amounting to millions of pounds. One has to ask whether this sum in such countries would not have been better spent in education or health care. Afghanistan’s on-going election debacle has cost the economy 5 billion dollars so far according to its finance minister. Deadlock, hung parliaments, fraudulent counts, ‘legal’ bribes are not exceptions to the rule but occur with ever increasing regularity in such a system. A less than fifty per cent vote is not uncommen – this means that if this one party is elected on the basis of its winning 50 of this vote – also not uncommon, only 25 per cent of the voters have voted for the governing party
Clausewitz’s has said ‘War is the continuation of politik by other means’. Politik may be variously translated as ‘policy’ or ‘politics’. If the politik of a particular country is trade, for example, then war will be waged to protect that trade or expand that trade. That this is a reality in our time is clear in the language of war used in trade – note ‘aggressive sales tactics’ demanded by all global corporation when seeking out their personel. If the politik of the country is capitalist financial technique, then the war will be to back up currency manipulation, or casino-like stock exchanges and markets. Clausewitz’ work remains curiously untouched by real criticism and highly esteemed all over the world as does, the The Art of War by the high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician, Sun Tzu, while the legal term jihad has so many portmanteau media meanings that its reality as a legal system has been distorted or lost. The rhetoric of the United States of America is – in line with their declared ‘democratic principles’ – that they do not in fact wage war. However existentially the opposite is true for one’s sees a militancy which is unparalleled in history: from the ethnic cleansing of the red Indians, to the use of the atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki [which is not so much ‘war’ in the legal sense we are considering but rather mass impersonal extermination through technology], to the chemical extermination in Vietnam, then on to Afghanistan and Iraq where the ground fighting is reduced to a minimum and robotic killing machines are employed instead; and given the historical precedent it is clear that should ever a functioning Islamic society arise again then it will be eliminated by an atomic bomb – any collateral deaths of non-Muslims will be deemed acceptable. Moreover militancy is not confined to foreign affairs: vicious riot control of the blacks and Hispanics or the annihilation of the Waco community in Texas are modern examples of what awaits any of its citizens if they demonstrate ‘otherness’ in any real way. And if torture is outlawed in a particular democracy, then it is outsourced – as in the policy of ‘rendition’. There has been an ongoing war to ensure the dollar reigns supreme. One must remember that democracy, as one leading historian has said, is demonstrably the service entity of the bankers – responsible for ensuring the continuation, administratively speaking, of the national state, the creation of the national debt, the transfer of the national debt to the next generation – if this generation cannot pay – and the admission of guilt on behalf of the party currently in power if the economy goes haywire. There are as many kinds of democracy as there are so-called democratic nations – from the authoritarian Leninist/Stalinist versions through to the monarchical and then the ‘mature’ liberal -constitutional. One must not forget that Hitler was elected democratically. The ‘wrong’ choice in his election on the part of the voters was the direct cause of countless millions of civilian and military deaths. The People’s Republic of China, a product of Mao’s ‘new democracy’, is a favoured major trading partner of all the other democracies and global corporations. Occasional mouse-like squeaks are heard from them regarding the oppression in Tibet but silence reigns with regard to the ethnic cleansing of the Uighurs and their enforced sinicization. Even if the slaughter of the Muslims on a daily basis receives hardly any media coverage, the official announcement last Ramadan of the ban on fasting must be indication enough of the degree of suppression in all other activities.
Of course, nowadays democracy is only tolerated as long as the people make the ‘right’ choice: if the media are not successful in persuading the people to choose the bankers’ man, then the army moves in and annuls the vote – for this ‘reason’ or that. The idea is not new. The administrative cost of democracy as we have mentioned is very high and many countries, accused of irregularities, are forced to accept outside regulators, which in turn erodes their sovereignty. Already the financiers in Jack London’s Iron Heel over a hundred years ago had this weapon ready to hand, as Mr Wickson comments ‘What if you do get a majority, on election day?’… Suppose we refuse to turn the government over to you after you have captured it at the ballot-box’. Note the case of Algeria, note Egypt, note numerous other cases where the result was annulled by force. Note Palestine where the democratically elected government was refused recognition. This is not to condone such governments but to demonstrate that if democracy doesn’t function ‘as it should’, then it is dispensed with. Democracy is not shy of dirty tactics: note the proven activities of agent provocateurs in numerous ‘mature’ democracies, for example Germany’s V-Leute in the last decade. According to latest government statistics there are now on average three attacks on mosques per month in Germany [http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/brandanschlag-auf-mevlana-moschee-in-berlin-kreuzberg-a-988388.html]. And hew far back is one allowed to go – should one go – with respect to the crimes of a country which is now democratic, but which committed the first holocaust upon the Nama and Herero peoples of Southern Africa?

So called democratic allies are in fact constantly on the verge of war with each other: look at Russia and the Ukraine. Despite the rhetoric they deeply distrust each other, spy on each other: look at the USA and Europe. Divide and rule has always been a tool of war but now democracy is also a weapon used to divide a country: first a seemingly homogenous population is ‘raised’ in awareness such that each ethnic group is taught to claim its rights, and each is given a candidate. Then the target group in any given sector of the society is raised to prominence and instigates civil war: this was done in Iraq where the Shia were raised to prominence resulting in the war waged against the Muslims. In the name of democracy a minority wage war in Syria against the majority Muslim population.
In the face of such hypocrisy, such aggression, such failure to attain even the minimum goals of their rhetoric, it would be specious to argue that the Muslims have no right to apply their laws and regulations regarding war – which are not bureaucratic regulations invented by man but part of the revelation from the Lord of the Worlds.
There are many reasons for war other than those mentioned above: defence of territory, expansion of one’s territory, need to test weapons, need to divert attention from the home front, need for internal wars between the police or army and the people themselves to keep a myth alive that total surveillance in any given country, like ‘the war on terror’ is always the surest policy. ‘But why the fuss, have you got anything to hide?’ On occasion it is the whim of the nafs of a dictator, the need to aggrandize his standing. One is reminded of the words of the Messenger, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him who told his followers returning from a military campaign: “This day we have returned from the minor jihad to the major jihad,” meant returning from armed battle to the great battle – to overcome the fantasies and whims of the self.
Orwell in 1984 cites another reason: ‘In the past, also, war was one of the main instruments by which human societies were kept in touch with physical reality… in philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics two and two might make five but when one was designing a gun or an airplane they had to make four. Inefficient nations were always conquered sooner or later and the struggle for efficiency was inimical to illusion….War was a sure safeguard of sanity.’
The USA has regularly gone to war ‘to ensure democracy’, ‘ to stem communism’ or ‘to defend the rights of its citizens’. Democracy claims that we are progressing to a golden age in which wars shall no longer have a place, ideally the global state, with one global bank one global army. But this is pure rhetoric. Wars belong as much to the system as the near ‘sacred’ vote: never have their been more wars than in the ‘democratic age,’never so many killed. There are in the usa almost ninety military schools or academies teaching the art of war – besides of course the training programmes in the army,navy and airforce themselves. The maintaining of democracy and tolerance demands their be the champion of democra and the entity which tolerates. War is inevitable Human rights are not divine immutable natural laws but merely man made laws which suit capatilism and the enslaved proles. For eamplej sexual freedom is the reward for those who prefer slavehood to freedom and discrimination.
We know from the Quran that war is a fact of life: Allah does not declare that the phenomenon will ever end but rather indicates that it must be accepted as part of the condition humaine and that ti must be regulated: in this respect the Quran and the sunna contain detailed instructions. For example Women and children are not to be killed according unless they are fighting . Monks are not killed, nor the inhabitants of monasteries, nor very old men, unless one fears harm from them or that they will scheme against you. The insane or demented are not to be killed nor the blind, the chronically sick, War is like the other bête noir of democracy slavery. Nowhere does Allah and his Messenger command us to abolish it – because like war it is part of the lot of mankin- but rather it must be regulated – and this is a far more human way than the slave ‘refugee’ camps housing tens of millions all over the world, the slave labour camps of the gulf states, the slave sweat shops of Asia or the more benign state of the millions of American and European workers effectively enslaved to the public and their own personal debt. According to the global slavery index of last year there existed almost 30 million slaves.. No one can argue that slavery is not part of modern life According to the UNHCR there were over 50 million regugess globally last year, 36 million according to the latest Global Slavery Index – living in conditions which would not be permitted in the Islamic form of slavery which determines that the slaves live within the community in which they find themselves and eat of the same food as their master. According to a report on human trafficking recently presented by European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström, there are more than 23,600 victims in the EU, and two-thirds of them are exploited sexually. Here we are only talking of the victims not the actual numbers involved. As one commentator of cool judgement remarked: What you pay for you take care of.
Usury Capitalism in refusing to face up the dual phenomena of war and slavery and ‘they being only temporary hiccups in the march of progress – has never been able to come properly to terms with them, cannot regulate them’. Historically speaking too one can see that war has always been a significant part of every culture and civilization. Man like most of the higher animals has the potential for agression, a sense of territory, an inclination to defend his territory. Although this is not the dominant characteristic of man to ignore this is to deny the reality of man and such animals. It is irrelavent whether one agreey with Lorenz’s On Agression or not – that it scientifically describes how man is and always has been is irrefutable. A positing of an ideal state contrary to it is possible and admissible in discussion but clearly not a very credible ideology. This is not however the dominant characteristic of man. Jihad is not the dominant aspect of the Muslim ethos. It does however exist for the same reasons that have been mentioned above. It exists in order to defend or the Imam sees the necessity of attacking neighbouring country because he is aware of its hostile intentions, its growing alliance, ist oppression of the Muslims, of ist citizens or in specific cases – not unlike non Muslim entities – if the politik of the particular Muslim entity is trade then war will be waged to protect trade routes, war wil be waged to expand and secure commodities . the reasons for going to war will be no more or less than the legitimate reasons of non-Muslims entities. To claim howevet that Muslims are more prone to war than non Muslims is merely a war cry of the latter.
In the quran war itself seven times, peace is mentioned 54 times. Although Islam obviously does not mean peace as some misguided commentators have claimed but rather submission to Allah and His Messenger, peace is the norm and basis of Islamic society and war is recognized as the exception and as such regulated. On greeting each other we say ‘peace be upon you’. Whe someone knocks at the door then we normally respond be opening the door without suspicion – trust is the basis of our social transaction. To greet each other with a smile of one’s face is sunna, the least of sadaqas. War as illustrated by the quran and the Messenger is essentially a fight between men. It is a test from Allah and while courage is required fighting is only carried out if one has a chance to win and no one is to ‘sacrific’ himself as in the case of the suicide bombers. Suicide is anyway illegal

In order to understand the restrictions imposed on the dhimmis and the people of the book when living under our jurisdiction – which of course is no wehre the case in the world at the moment and which are generally perceived in the media to be unfair and an infringement of human rights they must be seen in the light of the millions of slaves being traded in the world today, 30 million refuges incamps living in sub human conditions, 50 ,000 prostitutes – depending on the source statistics – being imported into Europe each year the restrictions imposed on the Muslims living under the hegemony of the kuffar: this is not a complaint but rather a recognition that the dominant order defines quite clearly what the Muslim may or may not do. it must be recognized that there tolerance of us is severely limited and on their terms: islam is defind popuoarly a a religion which it is not according to us or even according to their own academics. As a religion is it deined within a Christian framework in other words reduced to belief and concepts in the head without a relevant connection to real life. Islam as we know as do their acadeics is a way of life and not a brain based ideology with five prayers per day – wich is the only definition allowed. Any connection to power, finance, trade is annulled. Our children are forced – and this is not an exaggeration – to learn the ideology of them, they and we are coerced into accepting the dominant sexual code which is that anything and everything is permitted except – for the moment – sex with children and animals, we are coerced into paying double taxes – ours which is imposed on us by Allah and theirs in the form of income tax, death tax, value added tax etc. instead of our law which recognizes the differences our woman are existentially to remove as much clothing as possible to ensure any acceptance I society or the workplace and the men are if lucky reduced to perfoming the salat in the broom cubboard
War nowadays is not in the realm of military but rather computer and financial, and no one can wage war if their own rivers are polluted, their earth poisoned, pastures and trees almost non-existent, their meat is printed halal while their animals eat plastic bags, waste, rubbish and are fed on steroids and the drinking water smells so much of chlorine that it is not strictly speaking legal to use it for wudu.

The renewal of war and the god Mars.
Feverish imaginings of a world without war
when war brings change in a static world.
Leprosy isolates the victim to be alone with his Lord –
not a poem but the truth no charity shall understand.
The still pure tributaries in the highlands run to polluted mainstreams.

The Two Seas – the sweet and the salty

Al-Bahrain, American-British with a touch of the Arab. The fifth fleet crouches in the harbour and the Brits run the associations.
Stained glass windowed mosques on the increase in the Gulf. And so is the churchy seating: legless backrests the length of the first rows and movable plastic chairs for the old, the sick and not so sick clutter the once simple arena of the salat. Less of the shoulder to shoulder, man to man, and more of the clumsy, system-spacing first implemented by the carpeting with the printed musallas and the strips of tape marking the rows for the worshippers. Of this no need. If sick or weak a man may sit for the duration of the salat in the row on the floor. As for the backrests, the front rows are for the saabiqun, the forerunners, the seekers of Allah during the fard salat behind the imam, not for the weary who may recline at the back of the mosque.
Abdarrahman Anwar the editor in chief of the Akhbar al-Khaleej newspaper declares in majlis that the taqeeya of the shia is in fact lying and lying does not belong to the deen, or any deen. And that the warming of America toward Iran is encouraging the shias of Bahrain to revolt.
The Formula 1 race track, a titanic affair housed in concrete tenting and iron scaffolding. A tiny, non-airconditioned, windowless musalla hides in the heat beneath the screams of the circling racing cars. The qualifying race begins as the sun goes down. The Discover Islam da’wa stall is relegated to the Basta ‘folklore’ market at the end of the course and those calling to Allah are marked ‘vendors’ on the entry tags around their necks. Their energy is inspiring, their dates and coffee alluring, their Quran translations in the pious Victorian words of Marmaduke Pickthall or the university academic terminology of Sahih International. Dozens of Filipinos become Muslim. A Korean woman who became Muslim on the first day of the three day event is brought back to the leading daa’ee – who is sharply berated by her blond girl friend accusing him of leading the Korean astray and threatening to tell his boss. The official line is that they are not converting people but rather informing them about Islam in order that they may understand how Muslims tick.
Bar coding ensures the number of exits equals the number of entries – no hiding here overnight. Security corresponds to the King’s son presence, may Allah protect him – who might or might not be in the vip tower on the pit-stop side of the track. Pricing of the ices, popcorn and burgers in Bahraini dinars and American dollars. The Scorpions lead the masses into party and dance after Rosberg’s preliminary win.
The commentary of al-Qunaazi’i on the Muwatta lies dusty in the mosque of Juffair. Four dinars in gold was the payment of the fire worshippers in Bahrain exacted by Umar al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him. The flares from the oil fields match the redhot brake pads of the final of the F1 which begins minutes after glow down sunset coinciding with the takbiratu al ihram in the Disney cut-out of a mosque on the edges of the folk-lore market. A handful of His slaves beneath the helicopters circling overhead. Islamic champagne and national anthems of UK and Germany on the podium and then fireworks.
The causeway to Saudi Arabia is strung with six computerized gates ensuring the flow of wine and spirits is limited. Often a three hour ride or more for the 25 kilometers or so. The dhows from Furdah to Khubar once covered the same distance in three hours and allowed the passengers time to fish on the way.
The closed, compounded, Pearl of Bahrain resort at the southern end of the island is home to the bankers, ministers, F1 drivers and royalty. Architecturally speaking, white concrete nuclear familied Marbella terracing, mostly empty like the towers of the half-finished Financial Harbour sitting on the reclaimed land in front of the Bab al-Bahrain.

Nusantara

Arrival in Kuala Lumpur’s airport. The acrid smog bound concretium still supports Frangi Pangi trees but it cannot be for long: fires lit by the property developers to clear the land for monoculture palm oil production beyond the Klang Valley are the given reason. Breathing is difficult. Asthma prevalent. Temperatures increasing. Rain decreasing. Riba, usury, is the real cause as it devours the hearts and lands of Nusantara. Agricultural profit must be exponential to offset the land-development loans. Youths in shorts and t-shirts followed by their wives in black bags and eye slits. Crowds of Umra travellers. In Malaysia there is a waiting time of up to 12 years to go on Hajj: deposits are made into the bank, accrue to the desired amount and then hey presto the door opens. There is of course a fast-track version for an exorbitant sum which effectively overcomes the state-bank monopoly.
The Jawi Malay written in the modified Arabic script outlawed by the British colonialists is being cautiously revived.
Then Singapore. Prohibitions rule in this fine-city: the streets are free of litter; the marble floors of the financial institutions and the pavements outside are free of chewing gum; spitting too is taboo. A sandwich board at the corner of the Muslim Heritage Quarter warns in spontaneous chalked writing of the theft of a bicycle in the area; the mega-crimes of the down-town economics hub go largely unnoticed. Enforced racial quotas ensure the housing blocks have an integrated population. Tamils, Indians, Chinese, Malay are bound in harmony by a state-taught English as their first tongue, with the mother tongue a quaint second. By tacit convention no Muslims are permitted in the air-force or navy. The first leader of this very new state saw parallels to the other very new state in the middle east, surrounded as it was by Muslim territories.
The Marina Bay Sands casino is only open to the natives on payment of a hefty supplement. To protect them from throwing themselves of the landscaped rooftop when they lose? The Chinese through trade have long since taken over this city-state, just as they have taken over Indonesia, Malaysia and many other territories of Nusantara. The Chinese Muslims of Singapore were impressed by the BBC report of the sending in of the black-hooded American-led strike force to airlift the 34 tons of Ukranian gold to Fort Knox – no bank notes for them! and hacking the central banks’ computers for computerized would not have yielded anything but electronic impulses.
Nuh Habib, the Wali around whose tomb the central highway was diverted, brought baraka by his words to the people and places he encountered. If he entered the market place, trade increased.
On to Indonesia, to Yogyakarta. During a talk at the Angkatan Madrassa in the village of Kaliurang in the foothills of the Merapi volcano the fitya-tulaab were more attentive than the Muhammadiyah University students at the conference the next day on Trade and Gold. The latter were too sophisticated for simple listening and had their smart phones to deal with in the lecture theatre.
The Malioboro mall owned jointly by the Sultan of Jogjakarta and a Chinese partner houses a darkling wood and concrete shack the width of three car-spaces in the underground car park. A reminder of the Mawlana Muhammad Ali mosque – whose founder had brought Islam to Singapore – which stood in the way of a proposed banking high rise: the land was bought by the bank and the mosque moved underground. Above, the shops and coffee houses peopled by the young credit card generation, the girls with stylishly imposing full head scarves above and tight-fitting crotch-revealing leggings beneath.
The nearby Borobudur buddhist temple complex is an important element in the establishing of Buddhism as the global religion of choice, as an appendage to capitalism which shall not cause it trouble, a passive condemnation of the arms trade without stopping its activity. Unesco is pouring huge funds into it. The prime minister came with hundreds of outriders to inaugurate a new tourist project, the quickest way to ensure the introduction of premium-quality kufr.
The adhan is still to be heard everywhere. The paper money is full of zeros: 100,000 rupiah buy a couple of coffees and a cake. Not so long ago one rupiah bought three kilos of rice. And after Suharto and the introduction of democracy, the Chinese are now close to ruling Indonesia democratically rather than by means of their de facto trading stranglehold.

The concrete barrenness of la Défense to the west of Paris is not alleviated by the symbolism of the massive geometric square with a hole in it facing the Arc de Triomphe in the distance. A fantasy of the ex-Président who attacked the Muslims on account of their multiple marriages but who himself kept a wife and discretely a mistress. It is a monument to usury, the high rise buildings spiraling upwards in tune with the numbers multiplication of the finance houses’ computers. But where are the 150,000 people who are supposed to work here and where even the 20,000 who are supposed to live here? Decreasing rents indicate the malaise of la Défense’s housing market.
Hollande has the same problem, perhaps he will build high rises.
It is almost with relief that we finally find the mosque, which is not marked on any of the detailed maps available from the information centres. A relief from the architectural tyranny, symbolism and abstract artistry of le complexe. A relief issuing from the initial sighting only however, of this construct of human proportions – down there it lay in the shadow of Société Générale’s towers, the ‘mosque’, wedged between the car park and the cemetery, a big, shabby, off-white tented affair with portakabin toilets – a completion of the symbolism. Very indéfense. We were told that the Muslims working in Société Générale had been ‘generously granted’ the space by their employees. They did not seem to be aware of the caste cannibale in whose shadow they were worshipping the Lord of the Worlds.
The Central Mosque in contrast, in the centre of Paris, is a beautiful structure of balanced proportions built in the traditional Algerian style. It is full of people – with many non-Muslim Parisians who are welcomed off the streets to get a glimpse of the Muslim salat, the inner courtyards with their gardens and the wood paneled library. The hizb of the Quran according to the recitation of warsh is recited daily after Asr. In one corner is a tea house, with adjacent garden, in which Muslims and non-Muslims mix freely, and a hammam facility.
Even the mosques of the more ‘ghetto’ like quarters of Paris around Bellevue, Barbès and Asnières are vibrant with life, overflowing at the times of the salat and full of the recitation of the Quran. Are not these Parisians with their black, brown and coffee coloured faces the real French? For beneath their colouring is the French language – often no other spoken by the young ‘immigrants’ – and language is the ultimate definition of nationality. The Algerians with their 130 years as a French Département have had time to get to know the real France, to extract the best from it, and to add the blood, sweat and tears of their experience to the reality of being French. The black Africans of West Africa still have a joie de vivre which many white French have lost to their being systematized.
One solution to the dubious high-risers and les scandales would be to recognize multiple marriages. Hardly an adventurous move for a society which within one generation has gone from a vaguely christian critique of sexuality to an active propogation of the lgbt ideology. But a head-ache surely for the first generation of death-tax officials, the avocats skilled in wills and testaments and the celibate bishops. But it would regenerate les Français, increase the population, strengthen family ties, assure the honouring of women, eliminate the hypocrisy of la maîtresse, cool the ardour of the presse jaune and build bridges between North Africa and the Arab world in general. It might unfortunately lead to an increase in Dassault’s weapons sales in the Gulf and Arabia.