Mouood Mouood English Edition
The hypothesis of the American cultural basis of mental illness is further supported by projections from the WHO, which are that by the year 2020 heart disease and depression will be the two most debilitating illnesses worldwide. Unlike the most debilitating diseases of the 20th century, which were caused primarily by bacteria, viruses and other organisms, the new diseases are caused by cultural behaviors.
As more people realize the debilitating effects of American culture, globalization will come to be recognized as the latest wave of Western imperialism, which has always wrought havoc, death and destruction on the peoples falling under its sway.
7- The Challenge of Islamophobia
It is no secret that the media and political establishment in North America and Europe are viciously anti-Islamic. This pervasive fear of Islam has been described as “Islamophobia” by many Muslim commentators.
While the pervasiveness of Islamophobia is unquestionable, there is much confusion in the Ummah about its root cause. Some Muslims attribute the North American and European establishment’s Islamophobia merely to lack of proper education about Islam; others insist that Islamophobia is the result of too much Jewish influence in America and Europe. How far do these theories explain the extent and intensity of Islamophobia?
Islamophobia is not limited to those who are uneducated about Islam. Most members of the establishment who are well versed in comparative religion are just as antagonistic to Islam as their less knowledgeable compatriots.
There is one factor which principally accounts for Islamophobia in North America and Europe is the corporate greed. Western power elites sees Islam as the new threat because it threatens their financial and material interests. Islam’s insistence on social justice and the implementation of the Sunnah Money (Gold Dinar and Silver Dirham) threatens the vested interests of western capitalists. Although Islam allows private ownership of businesses, the Shari’ah mandates that such ownership be managed for the public good of the stakeholders (i.e. workers and the local community). As Allah tells all the people of the earth, and not just a wealthy few, “It is He who hath created for you all things that are on earth . . . ” (the Qur’an: 2:29).
Printing of the sacrilegious and blasphemous cartoons and films insulting the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.A.) by the Western mass media is the clear example of intense Islamophobia inherent in the West.
8- Facing the Challenge of Western Hegemony
Samuel Huntington admits that one of the causes of tension in the modern world is that the West must speak for everyone, its voice having become the self-proclaimed “voice of the world community,” as in the war against Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Western challenge to other peoples to domesticate or be exterminated has historical phases, and the current phase is to promote domestication by way of dialogue and cooperation, but with the threat of extermination always implicit. Examples of this policy can be found throughout Western history in its encounters with the outside world.
The West’s drive for economic supremacy destroyed the Third World during the cold war. The cold war is over, the West’s need is to bring the Third World into the sway of the First World. In order to implement their ‘New World Order’ or ‘Utopia’ the West is now employing “dialogue or die”.
Then leads to an ‘Enlightenment’ and on into the end of the nineteenth century when a philosopher like Nietzsche, could claim that ‘God is dead!’ In a sense, they killed God – it took about a thousand years or so, but, in Western minds, astaghfirullah, they killed their deity. Deicide is one of the legacies of Western civilization.
This led to the development of exploitative and destructive relationships with nature because it was thought to be inherently evil and dirty, and at best something to be dominated and used. With this attitude, a driving force, the West developed industries, economies, and cultural practices that are completely destructive. They have forgotten survival is a partnership with the natural world. All this can be seen in the wasteful habits of use, and the culture of consumerism that emanates from America. The American legacy to the world at the end of this millennium is wanton consumerism writ large, wasteful of the environment – a form of ecocide institutionalized into the culture.
Women constitute the first wholesale victims of genocide in Western civilization. In America, they make fun of the witch-hunts, with a holiday called Halloween. But it’s not so much fun when one realizes that they murdered millions of women in Europe in this millennium. This was really the first holocaust of Western civilization. Eventually, the genocidal mentality flows out of the West with the age of expansion, and begins to engulf millions of Africans dumped overboard from slave-ships or worked to death in the colonies: another form of genocide. They needed so many Africans to work in their plantations because European conquest and disease wiped out the Indians. Such genocide continued into the twentieth century with the legacy of minorities in Europe being wiped out, which is continuing to this day. Deicide, ecocide, fratricide, and genocide committed by the materialistic and secular New World Order of Dajjal.
We can go on by talking about homicide. Since the great achievement of the West is in warfare, the culture is infused with violence, even down to an individual level. People have their own wars on the street with each other, drug wars and gang wars. Then there’s infanticide, which the Holy Qur’an forbade 1400 years ago. There’s a sex-obsessed culture in the West that makes forms of infanticide seem like a rational choice.
Look at what Pope Urban II said in his famous speech at Clairmont in 1095: the faithful Christians must ‘exterminate the vile races’ of Muslims from the face of the earth. The effort failed, but the mindset continued. And Western civilization institutionalizes this extermination by developed unprecedented war-machineries. Remember — the Chinese had gunpowder long before Europe, but they did not develop weapons of mass-destruction as developed by Western countries.
But the ethos of extermination had a catch. They could not exterminate everybody because people resisted being exterminated, and because that would leave no slaves to rule over. When extermination was not an option, the second choice was to domesticate. One of the major theological debates in Christianity, sparked by Columbus’ misadventure in the Americas, was that they debated whether the Indians are inhuman and therefore should be exterminated or human and therefore should be domesticated.
At first, domestication got intertwined with slavery. The West believed that they were helping people by enslaving them. In the time of chattel slavery, missionaries began to redefine local cultures. Later on, colonial education carried on the work of dismantling and redirecting local forms of thinking and acting, which was another form of domestication. Of course, for those who resisted domestication, there was always the option of extermination. This two-prong effort served the West for centuries.
One of the goals behind the extermination and domestication movement in the West is to liquidate people’s assets, be they cultural, land or natural resources. The assets of exterminated people could simply be confiscated, whereas domestication usually resulted in people giving away their assets. A later version of the extermination and domestication debate involved Thomas Jefferson and other framers of the US Constitution, revolving around whether the Indians were rational and therefore able to sell their land, or irrational and therefore not entitled to own land.
