The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 40
Second Friday Semwn Aug 17, 1990 POLITICS DEVOID OF JUSTICE AND PIETY Contemporary politics has become vitiated. It is devoid of justice and the spirit of righteousness. Those among the Muslim states who claim moral superiority, in the name of Islam, are themselves not loyally attached to the Islamic moral principles. Their loyalty is not with the lofty Islamic principles of justice but, instead, with their petty self-interests. It is for this reason that we observe inconsistent and self-contradictory behaviour on the part of the Muslim world. With the single exception of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, the rest of the Muslim sects have parochially aligned themselves with one Islamic country or another, for their show of support; although the spirit of righteousness would dictate that they should have been loyal to none other than the Islamic values. If one has the true love of Islam, then one must show loyalty to the demands placed by Islam and the Holy Quran, as well as the requirements laid down by the moral precept of the Holy Prophet of Islam. In the light of these pre requisites, when we scrutinize the contemporary politics, of Muslims as well as of non-Muslims, we find that in either case, it is not predicated upon the moral precept of the Holy Prophet of Islam. The non-Muslim nations are busy making tall claims in the name of justice, as if they have been appointed the sole custodians of justice in the world, and that justice would become extinct but for the might of these nations. On the other hand, Muslim countries are making tall claims in the name of Islam; but when you hold these claims - being made on either side - up for scrutiny, you discover that these are equally devoid of the elements of justice that are laid down by the Holy Quran. IRAQI OCCUPATION OF KUWAIT: REACTION AND DREADFUL DANGERS I would now like to speak, with reference to the current situation in the Gulf. Iraq, due to some grievance it had nursed, attacked a small neighbouring state and, before the world could take note of it, secured its total occupation. This caused a sudden commotion in the whole world, and those who would normally remain unmoved in the face of similar events, nor would they become perturbed and rush to offer any extraordinary help, their sympathies for Kuwait have acquired such dimensions and the intensity of their consternation is so intense that the like of it may not be found in recent history. I do not 40