you're darn right you can't

Submitted by Mo (United Kingdom), Jan 10, 2007 at 01:53

...people in this post ...talk passionately about the total eradication of Islam. But they fail to realise what you have pointed out. During WW1 they tried to instil and to a certain extent succeeded in instilling nationalism in the hearts of the Muslims. Their quest for global domination destroyed the only remaining presentation of Islam politically. What they destroyed was merely an old government, a constitution based on an impure, adulterated version of Islamic political governance; however this move by the west served to create a greater problem, the reawakening of ideals based on pure Islam suddenly resonated in the mindset of individuals who quickly found popular support amongst the masses. People like Sayyid Qubt, Hassan Al Banna, and Moulanna Moududi just to name a few all founded global movements in re-establishing a universal political representation of Islam, namely the Khilafah.

What WW1 could not do was eliminate the blueprints of what could become in their eyes at least, a threat of their national security. The blueprint (i.e. Islam, Quran, Hadith, Scholars, learning, guidance) could not have been destroyed then, and it cannot be destroyed now.

Your point on mobilising an army alike to WW2 hold little water, firstly who would they target exactly? There is not a single political presentation of Islam that exists today. But I think it should be mentioned that all governments who professed Islam in its purest were taken down by the west, the Taliban professed it, and we know what happened to them, the Union of Islamic Courts professed it, they then were taken down through proxy war and direct military intervention, Al-Qaeda openly professes it, and so we have the "war on terror". If there is one thing the West has learnt in history is that the Europe was very nearly taken down by Islam, Vienna was under siege twice, and Spain was ruled for over 700 years by Muslims, France was nearly taken; the Berbers were stopped short 60 kilometres from Paris at the battle of the tours, Hungary, Sicily etc. have History linked to Islamic conquest. It is this fear; the West does not wish to ever repeat, so they subdue the masses of Muslims into ever having a government under Islam.

But how long can the west remain adamant, all empires in history had taken rise through thousands of years of development and advancement yet they all took mere years to collapse; they now exist in museums and books, the USA's superior influence in the world in barely 150 years old, and even then they cannot match the superiority Rome had back in those days relative to their opponents.

Americanisation, globalisation, unilateralism, westernisation all show characteristics of past ancient empires holding grip against their subjects, all failed under Islam, Islam today is more alive in the hearts of Muslim that it ever was in 600 years. What makes then so sure they can will this time round?

So I think people should stop wasting their time and energy in discussing the matter of elimination and eradication of Islam. So long as there is only one person who exists on earth who declares "I bear witness that there is no God worthy of worship but ALLAH (swt) and Muhammad (pbuh) is His Messenger, Islam will remain and you would have failed.

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