The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 327
The Gulf Crisis & The New World Order is no possibility for these nations to live with honour and dignity, holding their heads high, while remaining affiliated with this United Nations. One solution is, that as, just after the First World War, the "League of Nations" came into being in 1919, then after the Second World War in 1945, the "United Nations" was set up, therefore, after this tragic o ne-sided war, a new "United Nations of the Third world" must be established to include only the poor and the powerless countries. The non-ali gn ed movement, which had been started earlier, has become outdated and meaningless now. It has no lifeblood left in it. Now a new movement must be started in which India, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq, etc. can play a very important role, but they will have to eliminate the religious prejudices from these discussions. MUSLIMS AND NON MUSLIMS PITCHED AGAINST EACH OTHER For this reason, another advice is that although the Muslim countries should maintain relations of love and affection between themselves and fulfil the responsibilities that fall upon them consequent to those brotherly relationships, yet they should not set the Muslim and the Non Muslim elements against each other. If this polarization c ontinues, i. e. the pitching of Muslims and Non Muslims against each other, then even if by the word "Non Muslim" you only meant to refer to the Western powers, even then, all the nations will be alarmed and will feel threatened because Japan, Korea, Vietnam, India, which are all great Non M uslim powers, will think that this alarming message is meant for them also. So this policy of setting the Muslims against the Non Muslims is a suicidal policy born out of i gn orance because nothing shall be achieved as a result; instead, they will lose even the little that they currently have. Thus, unity amongst the Third world countries cannot be established unless and until we act on the Quranic teaching of:. ,, " -f, •. . -r�� ••-:. :q ,, •, l\ _I. , \". \Jii (S. . ,-. ,� I. ) �. , "cooperation with each other for the doing of good and righteous things". In this command, there is no mention of religious differences. On the basis of this teaching, one can cooperate with a Polytheist, with a Jew, with a Christian or with an Atheist. There is no mention of religion here. Goodness and righteousness is the only yardstick for 327