With Syria
and its descent into barbarism we come to the final integer in the great
sum of reckoning that announces itself as the end of an age.
The great humanist society that not only defined
itself as a world destiny but insisted it had finished with all previous
social models, as a result of two skyscrapers being destroyed by two
planes used as weapons, completely imploded. It imploded morally and
financially. As it spiralled into unpayable interest on its trillions of
numerical debt it, in its terror, rescinded its two hundred years of
hard won freedoms. With the markets dominated by a roulette of numbers
so too governance was controlled by the numbers game of demographics.
Bernard Shaw defined it as ‘anybody chosen by everybody.’ In the end it
was rule from below, Darwin was denied in the face of the evolutionary
evidence. Breeding was for horses and dogs, humans had settled for the
lottery of the mongrels.
The great humanist society that had dismissed all
societies and their social modes as primitive or irrational now
floundered, victim of an oligarchic class that had captured the world
market system with a numbers currency heading for infinity with compound
interest, the clean ‘scientific’ word for the usury condemned by the
three great monotheistic religions, themselves now anaesthetised with
‘tolerance’.
Social energy and the intellectual dynamic had moved
from West to East. The American continent was already half conquered by
its ancient people as they swept unstoppably northwards. The future of
the planet was now located, if there was to be a survival of the
species, in anywhere east of Istanbul.
The old society – Washington, London, Frankfurt,
Paris – lay exhausted, morally bankrupt, trapped in the psychosis of
insisting money was numbers on scraps of paper, and in the final mental
breakdown, numbers flashing between computer terminals.
Mired in the swamps of finance the institutions and
the leadership of the ‘world community’ proved utterly helpless to come
to the aid of a whole nation as its tiny minority community ruthlessly
shot, killed, tortured and burned the passive helpless and unarmed
majority.
Verbal protests, every day more empty, echoed over
the daily iPhone and internet footage of the seemingly endless
slaughter. In Syria the whole ‘world‐system’ as market, as society, as
culture, came to an end.
Silent Israel, yes, but also silent Turkey. Silent
Europe and silent ‘democracy’. Most terrible of all, however, was not
the expected impotence of the ‘world’ – no, the worst thing of all was
the behaviour of the victims. Unarmed, waving banners begging for help,
they marched to their doom, machine‐gunned in their hundreds. Human
lemmings, over the cliff.
Machiavelli had warned: “I say again to you that without force cities do not save themselves.”
Numbed into silence about their own situation,
paralysed by the forceful media screaming warnings that it must not
degenerate into ‘sectarian’ violence – the Syrians did not even grasp
their own geopolitical position between Lebanon and Iran.
Of course there is no sectarian issue. Shi‘ism is not
a sect of Islam, even if at first it appeared to be. It in turn had
evolved through being designed as a separate religion, dependent on
cursing the first Muslim community, on the practice of open lying and
pretence of their true position (taqi’a), and bizarrely on mass
self‐flagellation. After the Iranian Shi‘a state was founded the small
sect of so‐called Alawites in Syria were declared by fatwa from Teheran
to be full Shi‘a.
The Ikhwan al‐Muslimeen are caught in a double bind.
Through one of their founding fathers, Jamalad‐din al‐Afghani, who was
in fact al‐ Irani, they have long bought into the legend of Shi‘ism as a
‘sect’, yet when they confided in London to the Iranians their
intention to rise against Assad in Homs, they sealed the fate of over
20,000 Muslim men, women and children, who were promptly massacred by
Assad’s Shi‘a police and army. Hence the problem facing the Arab League
and an Ankara regime seriously infiltrated by old Ikhwanis.
The Ikhwanis, the ‘Islamism’ so loved of the European
media, seek to regain all their lost ground in Egypt, where they
slavishly stand behind the military, and in Tunisia where dinosauric
political ‘Islamic’ figures now posture. Libya is a land of grimly
silent – for forty years – Ikhwanis. Thus Syria stands not at the
threshold of freedom but at a move from a secular dictatorship, in fact
Shi‘a, to a political version that in itself is a by‐product of that
same Shi‘ism (Afghani, Rashid Reda, Abdu).
We insist – Islam is not a political movement, but it IS a market movement.
To move from politics to markets under Islamic
rulings, that means to move NOT out of dictatorship into a capitalist
enslavement like that of Europe and its eurozone politics, but rather to
face a post‐political future free of Assad/Ikhwan dualism.
In that sense a genuine war of liberation must break
free of all ideologies, Shi‘a and pseudo‐Muslim Ikhwanism. The young
Syrians have to wage an unstructured, ruthless, painful struggle, just
to break free.
The Syrians must rely on the fitra of a new
generation. They will find Islam – it has been abolished since the
financial transaction of usuryfinance led it into this historical trap.
Start again. Make it new.
Do not get killed in the Ghandiesque folly of the streets.
Withdraw.
Plot. Plan. Act. Take Bay’at among yourselves.
Strike. They have the
weapons – and their fear.
You have no fear. You have the future.
You
will recover your lost Islamic heritage.
Allah is your support. Victory
is for Him.
(By Shaykh Dr.Abdal Qadir as-Sufi)
