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**Transcript Organization** --- **(0:10 - 1:19)** Today's talk, stroke discussion, inshallah, is going to be on the American campaign to suppress Islam. You know, if you look at the recent events that are occurring in the Muslim world, stuff that we've just been talking about in regards to what happened in Tunisia, what happened in Egypt, the fact that Ben Ali was chased out of Tunisia and Mubarak stood down from Egypt yesterday, some people, some Muslims, may think that, well, this is actually, this calls to the end of American influence in those countries, because it's very clear that, and it's not hidden that these guys, these dictators, Ben Ali and Mubarak, these guys were American puppets, this is very clear. So some people may be rejoicing that, you know, we've kicked out these guys, hence we've kicked out any external interference in our countries, and we've kicked out any American influence. --- **(1:19 - 2:13)** But the question you've got to ask yourself is that, do you really think that the U.S. would ideally sit by and watch these events occur without actually having a hand in it or without actually having a plan ready in regards to what's going to happen, and to secure its interests? If you, you know, even the Kuffar themselves, they claim that the last quarter of the 20th century was known as the Islamic resurgence. So these people are acknowledging this fact, and with Egypt, everyone knows that for years, many years, people have been talking about, if there's a fair election in Egypt, then the Muslim Brotherhood will win. So it's been very clear that in Egypt there's this element of the so-called Islamists taking power. --- **(2:13 - 4:27)** So knowing all this, do you think that, you know, America would be just sitting there not being involved? And the fact that the army has come out and said that, you know, in a sense it will remain, you know, the ties it has with Israel will remain, do you think this will happen without America having any sort of involvement? Of course, it won't. America is an ideological nation, which thinks not a year ahead, not 10 years ahead, 50 years ahead, 100 years ahead, it's an ideological nation, yeah? It has a plan A, plan B, plan C, it has people working around the clock, looking at the affairs of these nations, and basically, you know, having political analysis and so on. So for America to make out now that in a sense it had nothing to do with what happened in Egypt and Tunisia, and the fact that you've even got people like Nasrullah from Hezbollah, I'm running a little bit, you know, who came out and said that America's not involved, you know, the Ayatollah Harmony, I think it is, that's his name, he came out and said it was praising this, and people around the world have been praising it from these so-called Muslim fanatics, which gives the indication that what actually happened had nothing to do with America, but, you know, this is not true. So I think to understand America's involvement and America's plans for the region, you have to look a bit further back than what's occurred in the last couple of weeks, and inshallah, one of our plans is today to discuss this, and inshallah give you some sort of framework of understanding what America's plan is for Islam and the Muslims, and generally the world, and then how, when these incidents and these events occur, how you can analyse this and form an opinion which is going to be correct on events that are occurring now, and even events inshallah that will occur in the future. --- **(4:29 - 5:46)** So to give you a bit of background, I think it's worth mentioning in regards to the end of the Cold War. The Cold War, as you guys must have heard before, was between the United States and the capitalist West, between them and between the Soviet Union. The West, they adopted the ideology of capitalism, and the East, i.e. the Soviet Union, they adopted the ideology of capitalism. Now this war, sorry, communism, this war between these two sides, there was never any direct conflict in regards to where there was an all-out war between America and the Soviet Union. There were a few wars, there were like proxy wars, like what happened in Vietnam, what happened in Afghanistan, but this was mainly a battle, and hence why it was called the Cold War. You can ask questions. Okay, that was a bit impractical, I was going to ask you. I hope everyone else ate. This wasn't a war like on a military level, it was a war of ideas and a war of ideologies and civilisations. --- **(5:49 - 7:44)** The outcome was that the Soviet Union collapsed and communism came to an end. And the reason why we say communism came to an end, it wasn't purely to do with the fact that the Soviet Union fragmented and basically became different nations. It was to do with the fact that the people who adopted this ideology of communism, they actually apostatised, they gave up this ideology and they became capitalists. So the ideology that they had before, which was communism, after seeing capitalism and after seeing what it gave to humankind, they personally felt that this was better than what they had. So they became capitalists and the Cold War ended. And when the Cold War ended, in 1991, President Bush, Sr., he made a declaration that this was a new world order. And it was a new world order because there was now only one superpower which remained in this world, and the fact that now this was going to be the ideology, which was capitalism, which was now going to spread throughout the world and be adopted by all humans. And this led to a Japanese philosopher called Fukuyama and he called this the end of history. But it's very important to understand this point about the end of the Cold War. Communism failed not because of the Soviet Union collapsing. It failed because the people became capitalists. --- **(7:45 - 11:16)** Now in the same way you look at the Muslims. The Muslims, as we know, we are the state from the 7th century up until 1924. But if we were to say that if the state is destroyed, then the ideology fails and the people become something else, this would be incorrect because the state was destroyed in 1924. But the important thing is that the people who adopted this belief of Islam, i.e. the Muslims, they remained Muslim and they didn't reject Islam, the same way the communists did. So even though the Muslims had rulers ruling them who were puppets of the West, who was forcing down ideas which were alien to Islam, the Muslims, they remained a part of, you know, they didn't reject Islam, they kept the idea of Islam, they adopted the Aqidah Islam and they remained Muslims. But, you know, even though, like I said, the West have had their rulers, puppets ruling the Muslims, for America and this new world order, it isn't enough just so that the nations, the leaders, the governments, they are implementing capitalism. For it to actually, for capitalism to win worldwide, what it requires is for every single person to become capitalist, to adopt this ideology, to adopt the notion of freedom, democracy and these ideas. --- **(11:17 - 12:20)** So if you look in the Muslim world, even though you had these rulers who some were even implementing a distorted form of capitalism, the people remained as they are up until today. And that's why, you know, at least once or twice over the past couple of weeks, where people are talking about the gap, the massive gap between the people and the governments in the Muslim world. Because you can see that, because what the governments are trying to implement isn't what the people want to live by. Hence why the governments are doing their thing and the people are doing their thing and there's not really a cohesion between them. But for America, what it requires is for all the world to accept its ideology. And for this mission of the capitalist to actually be successful, the only place in the world where it finds any sort of resistance is in the Muslim world. --- **(12:21 - 13:13)** And, you know, even countries you'll say, well, is that true? You've got China and you've got Vietnam and these sort of countries. But in reality, these countries may claim to be communist, but their policies and the way they are conducting their affairs isn't on the lines of communism. They are, the same way what you'll have is you'll have like a distorted form of capitalism that the Muslims might implement. This is in a sense a distorted form of communism that these guys implement, when in reality it's not communism. So even the Chinese in the future, maybe they'll become capitalists. But even if they never, you know, if there's ever a conflict between America and China, normally it's on, you know, they talk about to do with the arms race and in regards to maybe technology and who's going to be superior. --- **(13:14 - 14:56)** But they don't really talk of it in the same way that you used to talk about the battle between America and Russia or Soviet Union, because that was more of an ideological battle. When they talk about problems with China, they don't really talk about it on an ideological level. They may make reference to it, but it's never that blatant that, yeah, they're communists and that's why we don't agree with them. But the only place that America really finds any resistance is actually in the Muslim world. And the reason why is because the Ummah hasn't adopted its ideals, its values. And this is the problem we see. And this is why, inshallah, what I'm going to talk about, that this is where the problem lies because if they were to adopt it, then the same way the communists, they couldn't adopt capitalism because they adopted an ideology and then for them to adopt another ideology, they would have had to discard the previous one. So for the Muslims who have an ideology, if they were to adopt another ideology, then they would have to cease to become Muslim and that's not happened. But that's what the plan is. --- **(14:56 - 19:19)** So I just want to talk about in regards to the issue between Islam and capitalism. And the main thing to talk about here in regards to the contradiction between the two is purely to do with the aqidah. Instead of even going into any laws and stuff like that, the aqidah is at a level where both aqidahs contradict each other. The Islamic aqidah, we know, is the fact that belief in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the tenets of iman, belief in halal and haram and so on and so on. So as Muslims we believe that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he is the legislator, he is the one sovereign and basically all good and bad is from him and these sort of things. And he is the one who has rights to legislate and so on. --- **(19:20 - 19:19)** And if you look at secularism, there is the fact that, I will cut this, there is that man may have a religion, he may not have a religion, that's entirely up to him. But in regards to his daily activity, he has nothing to do with God and nothing to do with life. So if he wants to be a Hindu, if he wants to be a Jew, if he wants to be whatever, he can do. He can even be a Muslim. But if it comes down to his personal worship, it's not a problem. But when it comes down to actually going out and dealing with transactions and referring back to this deen, then that's a problem. --- **(19:20 - 20:00)** So in regards to the battle between Islam and capitalism, that is the main problem here, is to do with the beliefs, which is the most fundamental thing. So there is no way at all of one making any sort of concessions to the other, because there are two extremes. And over the past 25, well I'll say since the 50s, the West has realised that the Ummah is actually starting to revive. And the Ummah is starting to wake up. It's starting to link now its aqeedah to do with its day-to-day life. It's been through these ideas of Arabism, of Arab socialism, of nationalism and these Jahiliyyah concepts, and slowly it's realising that in fact these are not satisfying us. --- **(20:01 - 20:50)** These are not giving us the correct answers to do with our life. And people are starting to wake up. And this is a massive problem for the Kuffar. This is a huge problem. Because if the Muslim Ummah starts to remember the heights that it was at, and remembers that there was a time for maybe more than a thousand years where the Ummah, the Islamic State, was untouchable. You talk about Romans, you talk about Persians, forget these. The Islamic State was untouchable. It surpassed everyone in every field that you could think of. So maybe the West is thinking, well maybe if the Ummah remembers this, and they remember how they reached the gates of Vienna, and how the West used to go to the Muslims to learn. --- **(20:51 - 21:30)** If they remember this, then our interests are at risk. Because if they regroup, and the Islamic State is re-established, then last time they were stopped at the gates of Vienna, but this time, who's going to be able to stop them? So they're going to be thinking these sort of things. So at this moment in time, they're working hard not to just contain this threat, but in fact they're working to destroy Islam. --- **End of Section**