The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 230
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI both the Spiritual Head as well as Chief Administrator of the. Organization of the Ahmadiyya Community. . Thus Khilafat in Islam has been reestablished by the advent of the Promised Messiah, as prophesied by the Holy Prophet (peace be on him). Other Muslim sects around the world suffer from disunity and from lack of leadership, and are like sheep without a shepherd. . Their disunity and greed for oil wealth and material things is well illustrated by the Persian Gulf War in 1991, when many Muslim. Kings, Amirs, and political leaders collaborated with Western interests. Saudi Arabia, the keeper of the holy places of Mecca and. Medina, became a base for the American military and from there the war was launched to destroy the neighboring Islamic country of Iraq. . Thousands upon thousands of Muslims were killed. Iraq continues to be the unfair victim of the economic embargo. What have the Islamic countries done for Bosnia, where Muslims are the victims of genocide at the hands of the Serbians? Muslim countries have done nothing significant to help Bosnian Muslims to defend themselves. The. United Nations, NATO, the European community and US have provided humanitarian aid to Bosnian Muslims who are victims of. Serb aggression; but were unwilling to take any strong measures to stop this fighting and bloodshed as that required risks and sacrifices. they were unwilling to undertake. . Since the war started in Bosnia in 1992, it took three and a half years of brutal fighting, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of. Bosnian Muslims which resulted in about 250,000 deaths and two million refugees, that the world community has finally decided to do something to stop it. Finally United States asserted its leadership and. NATO forces carried out bombing of Serbian aggressors in August 1995 which resulted in Serbian willingness to political negotiations. with other parties in this conflict. . The United States has played leading role recently in encouraging all parties to stop fighting and negotiate a political settlement. It has resulted in Dayton peace agreement by all three groups of former Yugoslavia. President Clinton has decided to send 20,000 American troops to Bosnia to enforce the peace agreement, 230