This month, Zafar weighs in on the "ummah," the global Muslim community; why it longs to live under the numero uno law--sharia; why its unity, and therefore its strength, is imperiled not by age-old divisions within Islam, but by the infidel and his pesky "colonialism":
There is also another definition of the Ummah: that of the aggregate power of the political culture of Islam. Today this is virtually non-existent because Muslims are not in control of their destiny. At this level, we cannot speak of the Muslim Ummah per se because its power is fragmented into nation-states ruled by elites and political systems that are the product of colonialism. These systems were put in place to prevent the emergence of Islam in its natural dominant role. Their practitioners are in fact at war with their own people because the Muslim masses yearn for a system based on Islamic values, while the elites insist on perpetuating an alien system in their societies. This is evident throughout the Muslim world, whether in Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia or elsewhere. It is unrealistic to expect countries like Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, or Qatar, for instance, to help the Palestinians against Zionist oppressors when these regimes treat their own people no better, often much worse. The same holds true for other regimes in the Muslim East as well as the larger Muslim world...Far be it from me to point out that when Islam assumes "its natural dominant role," things tend to turn into a shambles such that people in lands dominated by Islam often end up fleeing to the "colonialist" West. Once there, more than a few do what they can to ensure that Islam will assume "its natural dominant role" there, so the West can become a shambles, too. (In this the West, courtesy its self-loathing dogma of multiculturalism, is eminently supine and compliant.)
Far be it from me to suggest such things because, were I to do so, it might prompt a prompt a knock on my door from Insp. Little Ricky, head of the "diversity" squad of York Region (home to Zafar's mosque).
Good thing I don't live in York Region.
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