The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 291
The Gulf Crisis & The New World Order the very weapons manufactured by Muslims themselves against them. It is a fact that factories of such lethal weapons are functioning in Muslim countries and are being run by the Mullahs. These weapons are being 'exported' in large quantities to other countries where in tum these are used against the Muslim countries. THE OBLIGATION OF MUSLIM STATESMEN I consider that Muslim statesmen have also faltered on this point. They did not make an effort to understand the true teachings of Islam. They entrusted this duty to the Mullah of their time and remained indifferent on whatever distorted picture he presented of Islam. Yet their conscience and right thinking continued to renounce the picture painted by the Mullah. Even after knowing that the views of the Mullahs were un-Islamic, they did not have the courage to tum them down. This psychological perplexity has made the Muslim politics a "sick man". It presents a two-faced image of Islam. The politicians handed over their masses to Mullahs who possess medieval thinking. They did not seek guidance from the bright era of the Holy Propheru. Now that the politicians have delivered the masses to the Mullah with their own hands, they are now getting scared of the growing influence of the Mullah and are hesitant to confront them and tell that their goals are wrong because the politicians themselves are under the wrong impression that those laws may indeed be Islamic laws (God forbid). Therefore it is high time that Muslim states come to their senses. The Muslim world has been split apart. The world of politics is different from the theological world, and there is a collision between the two. This is the second dangerous aspect as a result of which the world of Islam is facing a danger from within. The annihilation of this danger is important and urgent. Otherwise Muslims will not be able to play any role in the carving of a New World Order. It is imperative that Muslim governments should proclaim in unequivocal terms, that any command that clashes with the injunctions of the Quranic concept of Justice will not be accepted as an Islamic command. The religious clergy should be repeatedly challenged and confronted on this issue. We declare that the Quranic concept of justice is not vague and is crystal clear. Its scope is not just national 291