The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 106
Sixth Friday Sem1011 Nov 16, 1990 Day by day, they are going to become more manifest and are going to create a variety of threats in different regions. When great dangers are faced, and the world is divided between two large blocks, smaller dangers either disappear under the shadow of the greater dangers or get suppressed. Similar is the case of illnesses. When one is suffering a major illness, minor illnesses do not develop and the entire attention of the body is directed toward the major illness. Therefore, the dangers which have now arisen for mankind, are so widespread and so dreadful that if we do not analyze them at length and do not begin a holy-war against them, right from today, and live with the deception that we are being ushered into a cradle of peace, will be totally erroneous. In fact it will be tantamount to jumping into the fire; blind-fold! I want to put a few examples before you so that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Communities located in every country, convey these messages to the intelligentsia and try to explain to them. The members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community should exert moral pressure on them as far as possible, so that the intelligentsia would raise their voice against these dangers in their respective countries. They would thus enlighten the public in their countries and alert the masses as to the kind of dangers facing the world of today. If today, the world pays no attention to these dangers; tomorrow it might be too late! That which has come to light, quite clearly, in the Iraqi dispute is not that the whole world has become united against aggression. Rather, it is only being presented before the world in such a way, so that it would appear that as a result of peace between Soviet Union and America or as a result of the coming closer of the two blocks, the whole world is now talcing notice of such dangers and that wherever world peace is threatened the entire world will unite to face this threat. This is not at all correct. I will put before you, examples of some of the dangers which are far more dreadful than the Iraqi situation and which are facing the world. They are not only closing their eyes to these dangers but have been keeping their eyes closed for a long time. They will keep their eyes closed in future also, until such time when the selfish interest of some nations will force these nations to divert their attention to these dangers. There are nationalist and racial dangers and the dangers of the lin gu istic differences as well as of the religion and historical disputes 106