Believing that the huge investment of human life and tax money worth trillions of dollars in the Muslim world would bring peace and prosperity to the West is no less than living in fool’s paradise...just a matter of time for the existing investment to backfire in the worst manner we can imagine...opinion makers, who promote a war within Islam, such as Thomas Friedman and Daniel Pipes, define Islamic State as a breeding ground for the terrorists...The reality, however, is in total contrast to the description the Western public is fed with by the media on daily basis. Of course, there are some basic differences between the objectives of a state in the Western thought and Islam. Once the concept of the basics is clear, it is not difficult to do a proper risk assessment and understand requirements and outcomes of the two different governing mechanisms....important fact for the Westerners to understand from the history is that Muslim masses are not independent as yet of the colonial powers. They were freed from direct colonialism only to be indirectly ruled through puppets until this day...concept of Islamic state, which has been purposely twisted and presented in a way to avoid the emergence of an Islamic State. The fear is that such form of governance mechanism will make remote control colonialism impossible on the one hand and become a challenge to the ever-growing tyrannical form of government, say in the US, on the other.
Non-Muslims need to understand that the objective of State in Islam is not to annihilate the non-Muslim world or march on country after country to impose Islamic way of life like the U.S is doing to the Muslims...Islam has its own value-system applicable to both the rulers and the ruled..Unitarianism is the fundamental principle that explains almost every aspect of doctrinal and practical Islam....The battle cry for the Western position vis-à-vis state is “render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto God that which is God’s.”<1> Islam responds with the slogan: Din wa Dawlah (Islam is religion and State). Even if this formula is not found in the Qur’an in the exact words, the entire Qur’an revelation is integrative in that it sees Muslims as moral beings who should think and act in a theo-centric manner at all times, i.e., in their capacity as State citizens, too....much-researched question whether there exists at all a definitive Islamic theory of State.<2> German orientalists such as Gustav von Grunebaum<3> and Tilman Nagel<4> tend to affirm. In fact, the Qur’an does not refer to a State in the contemporary sense at all. Rather it assumes a moral community, the Islamic Ummah, which guarantees the right physical and spiritual environment for the successful implementation of its principles and norms.
Al-Mawardi maintains that the establishment of Islamic State is a religious obligation, because its main object is the defence of the Faith and the preservation of order through the implementation of Revealed Law. He is of the view that a secular state is based on the principles derived through human reasoning, and therefore it promotes only the material advancement...misconception of unaccountability of the ruler under an Islamic system is a reality in the US today. It is known as the separation of powers..under the US concept of state accomplishes several things. First, we see that it is a continuation of checks....as the national government was purposely made inefficient, it would leave private power or the power of business or corporate elites untouched....under an Islamic form of governance it is the right of the common people to censure the head of the State and all other officials....In an Islamic State, a priestly class exercising unchecked domination and enforcing laws of its own making in the name of God is satanic rather than Divine....exposed to absolutism for the first time...one does not find as much oppressive governments as we witness today under the “democracy” of Musharraf and Mubarak....have actually become democracy of the elite or the junta in service of the powers that keep them alive....
A state based on the principles of Islam can never be a threat to non-Muslims or interests of non-Islamic states....Instead of wasting innocent lives on both sides of the divide and instead of wasting trillions of dollars of the tax-payers money...first step in this regards is ceasing external support to illegitimate rulers and other opportunists — both at Mulla and moderate extreme — who fool the West in the first place....
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