The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 90
Fifth Friday Sermon Nov 9, 1990 beseech Allah to change the direction of attitude of the rest of the world. Your prayers should be two pronged: Firstly, that Allah may create intelligent leadership among the Muslims and may grant foresight and wisdom to the Muslim leaders who now exercise authority, may He bless them with the incandescence of Taqwa (righteousness) and may He help them to appraise the present predicament. The second aspect of your prayers should be that Allah may tum the tide upon those external oppressors who are causing harm or are poised to attack Islam. Also that Allah may totally nullify and frustrate all sinister designs of the enemies of Islam from within who pose themselves as Muslims. THE ARGUMENT PRESENTED AGAINST IRAQ I now place before you, briefly, the current situation. In fact I had earlier thrown light on this subject from various angles in my previous addresses. As you are well aware that the present confrontation with Iraq is based on its occupation of Kuwait. I had mentioned one or two motives behind the mobilization of all world powers against Iraq. There are very deep diabolic motives which I shall elaborate later to reveal the real hands that control the reigns of these conspiracies. Anyway, the gist of this conflict is that a Muslim country occupied an adjoining territory which it considers to be a part of its main-land which the British had severed from its parent body and then established an independent government therein. This is the claim of Iraq. In response, it is being argued that if today we allow a country to occupy a territory based on its belated historical claim, this would result in complete chaos and world peace would be seriously threatened. So we would, under no circumstances condone such vicious action. At the same time, the Western leaders are repeatedly dispelling this notion that they have a vested interest in the Oil wealth of this land. They contend that if at all they have any interest, it is the peace of the world. Further, it is totally absurd to justify the occupation of a territory merely on an historical claim; they would never allow this to materialize. 90