ISLAM AND MUSLIMS ARE ATTACKED ON THE PRETEXT OF FIGHTING TERRORISM: WHERE IS THE SHIELD AND GUARDIAN FOR ISLAM AND MUSLIMS?
On Sunday, 16 August 2020, the Muslims in Kenya once again woke up to the news of the abduction of, Sheikh Khalid Swaleh, Ustadh Juma Shamte and Hassan all from Markaz Noor located in Mtondia, Kilifi County. The captors are alleged to be officers from Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) who raided the premises at 1am (Daily Nation, 16/08/2020). This incident comes just 3 months after another brutal event that took place on Saturday, 30/05/2020 at Kibundani area in Kwale County, where the Muslims woke up to the news of the killing of a Muslim man, Mohamed Rahma Mapenzi (41 years old) his two children, Swalia Rahma (6 years old) and Idd Rahma (3 years old). Furthermore, his remaining family members were fatal wounded with his eight months’ pregnant wife, Mwanahalima Mwachili lost her pregnancy while she was admitted in Msambweni Hospital in critical condition (The Standard, 31/05/2020). It is our duty to be concerned with what is happening to our Muslim brothers and sisters since Allah (swt) says:
“The believers are but brothers” (Al-Hujurat: 49: 10)
First, Islam and Muslims are the scapegoat in the fight against terrorism and extremism in Kenya and beyond. As long as the state security apparatus invoke the terror ‘license’ then your goose is cooked and the so-called principle of innocent until proven guilty under a competent justice system that is above state and Western influence is a myopic fallacy!
Second, Islam and Muslims are facing perpetual evil plots from all corners of the globe by the enemies of Islam and Muslims who are determined to use all their resources to ensure that the light of Islam does not penetrate and dominate the global political and socioeconomic sphere at an ideological level. However, Allah (swt) says:
“And they are planning and Allah is planning but indeed Allah is the best planner” (Al-Anfal 8:30).
Fourth, Islam and Muslims are facing evil economic machinations to an extent that any Muslim who volunteers and commit himself/herself to acts of charity is branded as a ‘financier of terrorism
and extremism.’ Hence, he/she is economical destroyed, causing Muslims to suffer in silence due to witnessing their brothers and sisters are languishing in economic misery with no support from secular capitalist greed regimes.
Sixth, the so-called Muslim rulers and leaders both locally and internationally are nothing but just an extension of the state machinery who have sold their souls to the devil and so they conspire against the Islam and Muslims and plot together with the enemies. Therefore, they are in-charge of the extra judicial massacres committed on the Muslims by legislating anti-terrorism and anti-extremism laws. The list is endless from Pakistan, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, Egypt, Uzbekistan, Tunisia,
Russia, China (Xinjiang), Afghanistan amongst other nations.
Seventh, Islam and Muslims are choking, cannot breathe due to pain and are at crossroad after exploring all the available man-made options and failed. Some of the options include participating in secular democratic elections hoping to alleviate their situations by choosing political masqueraders who use Islamic sentiments to ascend to power but deliver nothing. Nevertheless, they turn out to be brutal perpetrators of oppression against Muslims in all spheres of life namely politically and socioeconomically. Therefore, every election cycle their hopes get dimmer! They are left with the question; what is the way out of this systemic persecution committed against them?
The radical answer to the above question is none other than embracing the call for ideological change based on
the Islamic Shari’ah whose sources are: Qur’an, Sunnah, Ijma’ of Sahaba and Qiyas. Since we are in this current state of misery by going against the Islamic Shari’ah by not implementing it. Allah (swt) says:
Instead we have embraced the man-made constitutions and laws that run our lives. We chose mankind to legislate/judge for us instead of Allah (swt) who says: وَمَنۡ أَحۡسَنُ مِنَ ٱللَّهِ حُكۡمً۬ا
“But who is better than Allah in Judgment” (Al-Ma’idah 5: 50),
(Al-An’am 6: 57),
Ali Nassoro Ali
Member of the Central Media Office