- Tuesday, 20 January 2015 00:00
- Written by Patrick Dele Cole
WHAT kind of Islamic State would be
established in Syria, Iraq, and Nigeria – if we take the pretension of the
radicalized Islamists seriously?
Moslems go about
announcing that their states are Islamic. No other nation declares itself
Christian or indeed described them as a Christian State with the exception of
the Papacy. (Israel declares itself a Jewish State, which maybe one of the
reasons peace is elusive). Other nations – Brazil, Chile, the U.S.,
Canada, Australia, etc – have never described their countries as Christian
States. They are fundamentally secular states, as we declared in our own
constitution. The oath the President and the Governors swear to is that
of a secular state. When Presidents and Governors swear to a secular
state, any deviation from this ought to be an impeachable offence. The
Government must withdraw from State sponsored religions as the unwise support
of sponsoring pilgrimages to Rome, Lourdes, Mecca and Jerusalem.
Performing pilgrimages is a personal effort to worship God or Allah as one
wishes. The Ijaws worship Akaso, a woman, a goddess. I think it would be
ridiculous to ask for Government support to worship Akaso or Ikenga, or Shango
or Ogun or Orunmila. Moslems must themselves lead the fight against
extremism. No one else can. That extremism and fanaticism give them a bad
name; not Mr. Cole’s inability to understand the fundamentals of Islamic
doctrine.
Some Moslems claiming a
long-term view and strategy – the growing number of Moslems in the World – have
led to the belief that Islam is destined eventually to rule the world.
There are extant maps of the future of the world and Islam showing Islam being
practised in every country North of the equator in Africa; Islam is supposed to
conquer the rest of the Middle East, including India, Philippines, the Koreas,
large chunks of China and throughout Polynesia; of course Indonesia, Fiji. These
Islamic visionaries see an end of India and even China; the new world Islamic
map includes all of the Slavic countries – Serbia, Slovakia, Bosnia, nearly all
of Russia with the exception of Moscow and Leningrad. These maps are supported
by suspect statistics of the growth of Islam based on birthrates, wealth, etc;
and its eventual world conquest. I think it is superfluous even to
comment on such lunacy and idiocy.
ISIS the other day
killed 125 women who said they would not marry radicalized Islamists. The list
goes on, one atrocity piled on another by Moslems, in the name of Islam,
against other people indiscriminately. I would expect all decent people to
condemn unreservedly these atrocities. It has nothing to do with what I
understand in Islam. It has everything to do with denying common humanity and
human rights. Wherever these are trammeled, everyone should be outraged. Islam
or Christianity can never provide a cover for such bestiality.
For the record, let me repeat my
view that Tony Blair and George Bush, Obama, Cameron and Holland should be
brought before the World Court for war crimes against Iraq and Afghanistan and
against Libya. I have also suggested that such a court should be able to impose
punitive damages against aggressor nations who go to war merely because they
have the capabilities. The war against Iraq was presumably because Iraq had
weapons of mass destruction. It had none. Hans Blitz, the UN envoy,
sent to check this could find none. The war against Libya was unjustified
by any measure of international law – the consequences were foreseeable. Obama,
Cameron, Holland bear a heavy responsibility in removing Ghaddafi admitted to
be a dictator. But to do so on the flimsy grounds pronounced – a war of
liberation and democracy by Eastern Libyan forces – were bunkum. The
place had been left to ruin by the West and they bear a responsibility for it.
What ISIS is now doing
is compounding an already complicated situation bringing in the toxic
concoction of radical Islamism to an issue dying and ripe for political
solution. The proponents of Islam have a fundamental problem of rethinking a
credible and lasting solution.
The Amercians will leave, so
will the rest of the West. What is the political solution? What will
Moslems do? The evidence is pessimistic.
• Concluded
• Dr. Cole (OFR), a former Nigeria’s
Ambassador,
wrote from Lagos.
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