Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah, r.a :The messenger of Allah,
pbuh, forbade that the graves should be plastered, or they
be used as sitting places (for the people), or a structure
should be built over them.
[Sahih Muslim Book 4, Hadith # 2116]
'Ali, r.a., said:"Shall I not send you on the same mission
as the Messenger of Allah sent me? Do not leave any raised
grave without leveling it, or any image in a house without
erasing it." (Sahih)
أَخْبَرَ¦َا
عَمْرُو
بْنُ
عَلِيٍّ،
قَالَ
حَدَّثَن¤ا
يَحْيَى،
قَالَ
حَدَّثَن¤ا
سُفْيَان¥، عَنْ
حَبِيبٍ،
عَنْ
أَبِي
وَائِلٍ،
عَنْ
أَبِي
الْهَيَّ›جِ، قَالَ
قَالَ
عَلِيٌّ
رضى الله
عنه : أَلاَ
أَبْعَثُ£َ عَلَى
مَا
بَعَثَنِ عَلَيْهِ
رَسُولُ
اللَّهِ
صلى الله
عليه وسلم
لاَ
تَدَعَنَ§ قَبْرًا
مُشْرِفً› إِلاَّ
سَوَّيْت¤هُ، وَلاَ
صُورَةً
فِي
بَيْتٍ
إِلاَّ
طَمَسْتَ§َا .
[Sunan Nasai Book 21, Hadith 2043]
Comment by Kaukab Siddiqie. Muslims should note that Shias
have massively built up the imagined graves of Ali, r.a.,
and Hussain, r.a., as part of their religion. This year Iran
sent 2 million people to Karbala. It was a massive display
of state sponsored religion in direct opposition to the
teachings of Islam.
Ali, r.a., himself taught against the building up of graves
but they disobey the one they consider the center of their
religion. [Arabic provided for our Arab readers.]
Afghanistan
According to wire services and US media, Islamic State
fighters have established themselves in several provinces
including Nangarhar and Kunar.
The US air force is trying to destroy IS bases but has not
been able to eliminate them.
Jamaat al-Muslimeen
Risky Outreach in Newark, Delaware
On November 17, at Masjid Ibraheem a 4 page Jamaat document
was given to 90
Muslims after juma' salat.
Here is an outline of the 4 pages:
ICNA-ISNA leader Siraj Wahhaj's Support for
hypocrites.
Muslim Political Prisoners in USA: Imam Jamil, Dr,
Aafia and others.
Open letter to pro-CAIR Adams Center [al-Hajj Mauri
Saalakhan.]
Hadirh on Prophet's, pbuh, love for Usman, r.a.
[Readers might remember Siraj Wahhaj gave khutba at masjid
Ibraheem a couple of weeks earlier in which he violated the
Qur'an and spoke about himself most of the time,]
Israeli Oppression.
Palestinians forced to demolish Own Homes
November 14
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian store owner was forced to
demolish his own shop in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday,
after Israel issued an order and demolition fee against the
shop under the pretext that it was built without a nearly
impossible-to-obtain building permit.
The Wadi Hilweh Information center, based in the East
Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, reported that Amin Abbasi
was told by Israel's Jerusalem Municipality two weeks ago
that if he did not demolish his shop within 30 days, crews
from the municipality would carry out the demolition and
force him to pay for the costs, which typically are
extremely high.
The center said that the shop was built two years ago.
Abbasi's demolition was the second recorded self-demolition
to take place in Silwan in 48 hours, after a Palestinian
from the neighborhood destroyed his own home on Sunday for
the same reasons, leaving his family of four homeless.
A spokesman of a Silwan-based committee formed to fight
demolitions, Fakhri Abu Diab, previously told Ma'an that all
100 residential structures in the al-Bustan area are slated
for demolition, and that the 1,570 residents of the area
have exhausted all legal options.
New Trend's Web Site Doing Quite Well,
alhamdulillah
In October 2017, our web site, newtrendmag.org received
220297 hits
with a daily average of 683 visitors.
Thank you Br. Rich. Your steady support as web master means
a lot for us.
Turkey has banned all events by lesbian, gay, bisexual,
trans and intersex rights groups in its capital city,
Ankara.
The ban has been imposed to protect "public security", the
Ankara governor's office said.
The restrictions came into effect on Saturday and will last
for an "indefinite" period, applying to all LGBTI film
screenings, theatres, panels and exhib
The governor's office claimed such events may cause
animosity between different groups and endanger "health and
morality", as well as the rights and freedoms of others.
It warned some groups may be provoked by LGBTI events and
take action against participants due to "certain social
sensitivities".
Unlike many Muslim countries, homosexuality is not a crime
in Turkey and numerous LGBTI associations are legally
registered with the state. But there is widespread hostility
and rights activists say LGBTI people face discrimination
and stigma.
Upcoming Event
Jamaat al-Muslimeen Shoora Coming up on December 2.
America's Muslims are facing a difficult situation. Their
major organizations are
so used to supporting the White House and the Pentagon that
they are unable to create a new narrative which would adhere
to Islamic guidelines.
Jamaat al-Muslimeen should try to achieve the following:
Express the Islamic narrative on American politics.
Motivate US Muslims to oppose Zionism, racism and
imperialism.
Find creative but non-violent ways of interpreting the
agony of the Muslim world, particularly Africa, Palestine,
Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma, Bangladesh, and
China.
Create male-female unity and equality without getting
sublimated into the culture of the kuffar or the rigidity of
Muslim conservatism.
New Trend urges readers to advise Jamaat al-Muslimeen's
shoora committee on peaceful but creative methodology to
deal with the flux of life in America.
PAKISTAN
Regime Threatening to use force against protestors who have
occupied central Islamabad.
After 14 days of rallies, protests and speeches in
Islamabad, several thousand Muslims are facing an imminent
attack by security forces.
The protestors, led by Molana Khadim Hussain Rizvi,
firebrand chief of Labbaike ya Rasool Allah are moving
against the "Ahmeddi" religion. .
They are protesting insidious attempts by the government to
legitimize the Qadiani ["Ahmeddi"] group who are considered
non-Muslims by Muslims.
The regime is very conciliatory towards the protestors but
is refusing to fire a minister who is seen as the man behind
the Qadiani move.
Khadim Hussain Rizvi
He leads a Sunni Islamic movement which till recently has
kept out of Pakistani politics. Allama Rizvi profusely
quotes Iqbal, lambasts western influences and calls for
resurgence of Islam in its purity.
Recently he urged Muslims to free Dr. AAFIA SIDDIQUI who is
in a US prison.
War News
Syria
Russia hits IS defenses in Bokamal. Heavy fighting
continues. Russia-Iran-Alawite forces massacre civilians.
Heavy Fighting around Damascus, near Aleppo and north east
of Hama.
November 15-19. Long range Russian cruise missiles and jet
bombers hit Islamic State defenses in Bokamal.
Hizb-Iranian-Shia forces then poured into Bokamal. IS
fighters withdrew from the city and then re-entered its
northern portion. In the close combat which followed, 50 IS
fighters and 31 Hizb-Iran-Shia fighters were killed.
[Heavy attacks and counter attacks are continuing.]
Tahrir al-Sham [al-Nusra, al Qaida ] is fighting Assad
regime forces north east of Hama.
East and south of Aleppo, pro-Turkish Syrian fighters are
battling Communist Kurds known as YPG SDF.
The regime is continuing bombing and shelling the suburbs of
Damascus which are still in the control of various Islamic
groups supported by local civilians. The regime [Hizb-Iran]
battled the Ahrar al-Sham Islamic group but was repulsed.
[Ahrar is also opposed to Tahrir.]
The regime has committed two more massacres with the help of
Russia and Iran. In Douma city [near Damascus] the regime
killed 20 civilians, including 5 children,
In and around Al-Atarib the regime has killed 82 civilians,
including scores of women and children.
Along the Euphrates river, in the extreme south east, the
Communist Kurds, with US air cover, advanced into Deir Ez
Zor province. In the bitter fighting which followed 11 SDF
[Kurds] and 9 IS were killed.
US air force bombed an IS ambush near Tanf [Jordan border
area] killing 20 fighters.
Somalia
November 14. A human bomber attacked a US
military convoy being protected by regime troops. According
to Garowe Online [via Middle East Monitor]. 2 soldiers were
killed and several injured. Al-Shabab says 5 US soldiers
were killed. The US troops were travelling from an air force
base in the lower Shabelle region to Mogadishu
Libya
The US carried out an air strike on IS. Details are
lacking.
Afghanistan
Regime Forces Suffering Catalcysmic Losses
On November 18, in Farah province, 6 regime
police officers were killed and 8 wounded in a Taliban
attack.
Associated Press is reporting from SIGAR, a watchdog group,
that the US-installed Kabul regime has suffered "shockingly
high" casualties during 2017.
The toll is even higher than the 6800 troops and police
killed in 2016. Taliban too have suffered hundreds of
casualties.
Iraq
ISIS reconstituting Itself. Series of Attacks across
Iraq
On November 18, a large Shia force captured a small border
town near the Syrian border. The regime broadcast it as a
great victory.
However more worrisome for the regime is the series of small
IS attacks across the country. IS is on the offensive while
the regime is on the defensive.
On a daily basis, November 13 to 19, IS carried out bomb
attacks in various parts of Baghdad causing a few casualties
every time.
On November 17, IS carried out an attack in eastern Diyala
province. The regime says the attack was repulse but gave no
details.
In Mosul the same day, in the countryside, IS attacked
regime supporters killing several.
The regime has handed over several hundred Russian Muslim
women to the Russian regime. They had come from Russia to
help the Islamic State but fell into Shia hands when the
regime captured Mosul.
News Within the U.S. & Canada
Women are standing up for Roy Moore
By Bob Fredericks [NY Post]
November 18, 2017 | 12:10am
A group of women staged a rally Friday in support of
beleaguered Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore —
with one comparing the accused sex harasser to America's
founders.
"He is the closest thing to a Founding Father that we have
seen in our lifetimes," longtime Moore family friend
Jennifer Case gushed at the Women for Roy Moore rally
outside Alabama's state capital in Montgomery.
Moore, she added, was "a man who is beyond reproach."
Another woman called Moore, 70, the biggest defender of
freedom since John Quincy Adams, the sixth US president,
while others praised him as a shining example of a
conservative Christian.
"I do not recognize the Roy Moore that these ladies are
describing," said Ann Eubank, a conservative activist and
co-chair of the Rainy Day Patriots Tea Party group, speaking
of the nine women who have accused Moore of improprieties.
"He's been tried and convicted by the mainstream media."
Kayla Moore, the candidate's wife, again stood by her man,
calling him a devoted Christian who would not quit the
race.
"I have been married to my husband for over 32 years," said
Kayla Moore, 56, sporting a pair of silver cross earrings as
supporters cheered. "He was a graduate of West Point and
served our country in Vietnam and he has always been an
officer and a gentleman. He is a loving father and a
grandfather. Most important, he is a Christian."
Kayla had announced the rally on her Facebook page in a post
that spelled "sexual" as the more prudish "s*xual."
The post encouraged backers to "join women from the state of
Alabama who know Judge Roy Moore and have the courage to
stand with him and his family against salacious accusations
of s*xual misconduct."
At the rally, Kayla also attacked the media, slamming The
Washington Post for reporting that a woman accused Moore of
sexual assault when she was 14 and he was 32.
GUIDANCE
Warning.from Sis. Yasmin.
Do you Stop Speaking to your brother/sister for more than
three days? It's a Sin!
Assalaamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuhu.
The Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)
quoted ALLAH {Azza Wa Jall } as saying...
' My Love is obliged to those who Love each other
for My sake...
who Sit with each other
for My sake...
who Visit each other
for My sake...
and who Give to each other generously
for My sake'...{!}
[Source:- Al-Muwattah, Volume 51~ Hadith # 15.]
The Prophet Muhammad
(Peace be upon him) said:
' It is not permissible for a man to be estranged from a
believer for more than three {3} days...
If three days have passed, then he should go and give
'Salams' to him...
if he returns the 'Salam'...
then both of them will have share in the reward,
and if he does not respond then the one who gave the
'Salam' will be absolved of the sin of estrangement.'
[Source : 'Bukhari' in al-Adab al-Mufrad. ]
~My 'Salaams' to All~
Courtesy: Sis Yasmin
"All that is on earth will Perish. But will abide
{Forever}
the Face of thy Lord, full of Majesty, Bounty and
Honour"
{'Quran'- Surah Al-Rahman-55.26-27 }
"My Lord! truly, I'm in need of whatever good that You
bestow on me!"
{'Quran' Surat Al Qasas 28 A # 24}
Contribution from a Reader
A Sneak Attack on Free Speech.
By David Merlin
Published: 2017-11-10
A crafty attempt to make criticism of Israel "hate speech"
subject to anti-discrimination laws is moving through
Congress in the guise of the Anti-Semitism Awareness
Act.
The Rabid Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal
Center testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, Nov.
7, 2017 on how criticism of Israel should be banned.
The Rabid Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal
Center testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, Nov.
7, 2017 on how criticism of Israel should be banned.
It started when the ADL and other extremist Jewish groups
filed Title VI complaints on behalf of Jewish students who
said they faced "anti-Semitic harassment and discrimination"
because of their support for Israel.
The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act will codify the State
Department's new and greatly expanded definition of
anti-Semitism and, per se, classify a long list of
criticisms of Israel as violations of Title VI of the 1964
Civil Rights Act, all in the name of fighting anti-Semitic
harassment.
https://www.state.gov/s/rga/resources/267538.htm
The expanded definition under the Civil Rights Act would
allow anyone who believes there has been an act of
"harassment" to file a complaint under Title VI. The person
or organization filing the complaint need not be a victim of
the alleged discrimination but may complain on behalf of
another person or group. So, as an example, if you say
"Israel is acting like the Nazis when it shoots Palestinian
school children" you are guilty of a violation of Title VI
and anyone can file a complain against you.
The new definition also includes as "anti-Semitic" the claim
that Israel as a state, invented or exaggerated the
Holocaust.
The sponsors of the bill are Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) and Sen.
Tim Scott (R-SC). A version has already passed in the Senate
by unanimous consent.
The only thing to do now is to write to your Congress
person, politely asking them to oppose this dangerous
legislation.
[Courtesy CODOH. Committee for Open Debate on the
Holocaust.]
Viewpoint
The Rohingya Genocide:
Why is Independent Arakan So Crucial?
The genocidal cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims -the
stipulated key objective of the Myanmar government, has
received a huge success. No other Army in the world could
cause such a quick and massive eviction of the centuries-old
settled people on earth. The Army could cleanse more than
six hundred thousand people from their own homes in less
than three weeks. They could also evict more than another
four hundred thousand people in previous years. The Army
have burnt about half of the Muslim villages in Arakan and
made them completely empty for government take-over. The
government needs such empty lands for building two deep sea
ports: one for China and another for India. India needs that
port to connect its eastern seven provinces. China needs
that port to get quick access to outside markets from its
southern part. This is why, both China and India have huge
vested interest to support the ongoing ethnic cleansing in
Arakan. Both China and India consider such cleansing of the
Muslims population quite essential for safe passage of their
trucks, buses, oil pipeline and cargo ships. In the
beautiful sea shore of Arakan, the government also need huge
area of Muslim-free land for building Army barracks,
government offices, residential blocks for the Buddhist
mainlanders and special economic zones for the foreign
investors. Now, the ultranationalist ruling elite, the
racist Army and the Muslim bashing Buddhist monks have
enough reasons to celebrate such a spectacular success in
ethnic cleansing.
The Myanmar Army could attain such a huge success only by
committing horrific war crimes against the unarmed local
civilians. Although the Rohingya Muslims are denied even the
survival right in Myanmar, the Army enjoy unfettered liberty
to commit even the worst form of war crimes. Because of such
liberty in genocide, the genocidal crimes like mass killing,
mass rape, mass eviction, mass torture, burning down of
villages and other devices of ethnic cleansing could operate
openly not for months or years, but for decades. The UN
offices, the foreign embassies, and the human rights
organisations that are stationed in Myanmar were fully aware
of that. But their policy of silence, inaction and even
appeasement give ample evidence that the Muslims life seldom
matter to them. This is why, the Myanmar government and its
Army didn't face any condemnation for such a worst genocide
on earth -neither from the UN Security Council, nor from any
world power. On the contrary, the Myanmar government
receives full support cum endorsement from countries like
China, Russia, India and Japan. The countries like Pakistan
and Saudi Arabia also maintain tongue-tied silence. Pakistan
sells fighter planes and other weapons to Myanmar and Saudi
Arabia takes its oil pipe lines to China. This shows how the
economic interest overwrites basic morality, humanity and
the survival rights of the defenceless people. It also
exposes how badly the world is hostage to the worst form of
economic cum political animals.
Now, it is obvious that the Myanmar Army's huge success in
meeting its war objective has left no political, social,
educational, economic, and not even any survival space for
the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Therefore, for saving life,
they are left with no other option but to make desperate
move to a safe haven in Bangladesh. For such a move, the
hardships are huge; sometimes unbearable. In Arakan, there
exists no road or boat route to make the journey easier. The
old, the sick, the children, and the disabled had to travel
hundreds of mile on bare foot through slippery mud of the
paddy fields to reach the Bangladesh border. Many pregnant
women gave birth to their baby on the way; and again they
had to walk a long way. They even use flimsy raft made of
plastic cans to cross a big river like Naf at the border. In
such desperate moves, hundreds of men, women and children
are already drowned. But the world leaders opted only to be
the silent observers of the crime scene. So the genocide
continues.
The pathology of genocide
Genocidal cleansing of a population never happens with the
brutality of any man-eating animals. It is the premeditated
war crime of the humans who proved again and again far
beastlier than any wild animal. This is the work of the
people who can build gas chambers, drop nuclear bombs, and
can turn cities and villages into rubbles. They are the
people who live with virulent political ideologies that want
to expand their imperialistic dominance over others.
Colonialism, imperialism, racism, fascism, ethnic cleansing,
World Wars, gas chambers and war of occupation are the few
historical facets of such ideological extremism cum
terrorism. Terrorising people with nuclear bombs, chemical
bombs, cluster bombs, missiles, and drones is their usual
tool of domination over others.
The followers of these virulent ideological extremism
quickly and very easily turn into the worst form of
genocidal war criminals. Hence catalogue of their crimes is
huge. Because of such war criminals, more than 75 million
people had to die in two World Wars, and more than a hundred
thousand people were burnt to death in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. And in recent years, because of them, horrendous
era of deaths and destruction landed on Gaza, Afghanistan,
Chechnya, Iraq, Syria, and now in Yemen. Because of them,
more than three hundred thousand Syrians had to die and more
than 6 million Syrians had to leave their homes. And
millions of Palestinians have to live in camps for more than
65 years. Because of the same war criminals, cities like
Gaza in Palestine, Grozny in Chechnya, Mosul, Ramadi,
Tikrit, and Fallujah in Iraq, and Raqqa, Homs, Hama, Deira
Zur and many other cities in Syria have been flattened to
the ground.
The Myanmar government and its Army have taken the same
route of terrible genocidal crimes. The ongoing non-stop war
crimes in Iraq and Syria by the US and Russian Air Forces
and the anti-Muslim rhetoric of the US President Doland
Trump and killing of Muslims in Kashmir by the Indian Prime
Minister Norendro Modi have heavily encouraged the Burmese
war criminals to add more ferocity and atrocities to their
ongoing campaign of genocidal cleansing. Therefore, killing,
gang rape, torture, and setting fire to the Muslim
properties and eviction of the Rohingya Muslims from their
homes could be deployed as the war tactics against the
civilians. Adolf Hitler wasn't the lone criminal to commit
all the genocidal crimes; millions of the Germans and
non-Germans also joined as the partner in his war crime.
Likewise, the Burmese Army are not alone. Aung Sun Suu Kyi
and her party "League for Democracy", the whole civil and
political institutions of Myanmar, the Buddhist monks and
the Myanmar media are directly and indirectly are the part
of the same war crimes. They have also international
partners; China, India, and Russia stand firmly behind these
killers, rapists and arsonists. Because of their political
sponsorship, these worst war criminals couldn't be condemned
in any international forum including the UN Security
Council, let alone stopping them. As a result, awful
miseries of the "most persecuted minorities on earth"
continue unabated.
Crime always breeds other crimes; sometimes it becomes more
robust and horrendous than the original crime. This has
exactly happened in Myanmar. The crime of the Myanmar
government against the Rohingya Muslims started with the
annulment of their citizenship in 1982. But such a crime of
inhuman and unprecedented cancellation of the birth right of
a people didn't end there. It proved to be the beginning of
a bigger crime. The crime has become terribly genocidal.
Now, the cruellest crimes like mass killing, gang rape,
arson, torture and mass eviction of the innocent people from
their own home have turned horribly wild. And, for
continuation of such pure evil, the Myanmar Army has planted
land mines along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border to kill the
innocent returning refugees. The world leaders too, are
showing their own crime. They are overwhelmed by the
criminal silence.
The western leaders think that keeping silence or a blind
eye on Myanmar government's atrocities is necessary to help
Aung Sun Suu Kyi's newly elected government to get strength.
They think that this way they are strengthening democracy in
Myanmar. In reality, they are doing the opposite. In fact,
their policy has helped aggravate the ongoing genocide. They
have also failed to understand Aung Sun Suu Kyi's
partnership in the crime. Aung Sun Suu Kyi, in her solo
visit to Rakhine state, couldn't call these horrendous crime
more than a quarrel between the local Muslim and Buddhist
communities. Such a statement indeed gives a clear account
of her own moral problem. By giving such a statement, she
tried to hide the horrific crime of the Army and stood as a
false witness to the world. Hence, her role didn't look
different than a self-assigned collaborator to the Army. And
to play the role of a collaborator to the crime, she
continues to deny all the visible brutal atrocities of the
Army. She even called the rape of the Rohingya women as
fake.
The pretext of genocide
Like any crime, the genocidal crime in Arakan also started
with a mammoth lie. To fit into the strategy of genocidal
ethnic cleansing, the Myanmar government has fabricated the
whole history of Rohingya Muslims. Colossal lies are now the
main staple of their story. They hide the fact that the
history of Arakan as well as the history of the Rohingya
Muslims didn't start with the military rule in Myanmar, nor
with the country's independence in 1948. There exists a long
and huge Islamic legacy in the whole region. Because of its
long coastal borders, the state of Arakan, like Chittagong
of Bangladesh, was an important hub for the Arab traders and
the Islamic missionaries for more than a thousand years.
Before the initiation of current ethnic cleansing, the
Rohingya Muslims were in majority. They also hide the fact
that prior to the Burmese invasion in eighteenth century,
the forefathers of these Rohingya Muslims had a Muslim
sultanate there. The state even extended to the
south-eastern part of Bangladesh. In fifteenth and sixteenth
century AD, the Bengali language got a huge boost in the
royal palaces of Arakan. Most of the noted medieval Bengali
poets were related to the court. They do not tell the truth
that in the whole history of Arakan, even in the history of
Myanmar, there doesn't exist a single mention that the
Rohingya Muslims were the foreign intruders. On the
contrary, the Burmese Buddhists -known as the Rakhine
minority in Arakan, are the immigrants from the central
Buddhist heart land.
The whole pretext of the ongoing genocide against the
Rohingya Muslims is based on motivated false propaganda.
They ignore the annals of history that raising borders or
barrier on ethnic line is a very recent phenomenon. Such
barrier didn't exist in South Asia even 100 years ago.
Therefore, a man from Yangon in Myanmar could easily travel
to Peshawar in Pakistan or Dhaka in Bangladesh without any
hindrance; and could build a house or open a business there.
It was also true for a man making journey in the opposite
direction to Myanmar. Hence, one can easily find ethnic,
linguistic or religious linkage or continuity spread all
over the south Asian countries. And Myanmar is not an
exception. Bangladesh itself is a multi-ethnic and
multi-religious country with millions of people having
ethnic and religious linkage with the people of various
states of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, central Asia,
Arab, Turkey and Myanmar. Hence, one can easily discover
trans-border ethnic, linguistic or religious continuity
spread over Bangladesh and its neighbours. Such linkage is
also true for the people living in Myanmar. It is a process
of slow social diffusion that takes place through ages. It
is indeed the part of the human history that caused such a
social mix-up of people of different race, language and
religions through centuries. Only the people with extreme
racism and pathological hatred against people of other
religion or race can deny such natural sociological process.
Awfully, the ultranationalist civil and military elite of
Myanmar show the visible symptoms of such moral disease.
Otherwise, how can they use the ethnic or religious linkage
to commit crimes like "push-in", forced eviction or genocide
against the Rohingya Muslim? True pathology of genocide in
Myanmar indeed lies here in this moral disease.
Because of extreme form of hatred against the Muslims, the
Myanmar government, the Buddhist monks and the
ultra-nationalist political elites want to roll back the
whole march of the history in Arakan. They want to give a
fabricated narrative to the Rohingya issue with their sick
ultranationalist motive. For that, not only they invent new
lies, but also commit inexcusable crimes. They want to
destroy all elements of Islamic history, legacies, icons and
the Muslim institutions in Arakan. They want to give Arakan
a new identity. They want to make it a land exclusively for
the Buddhist Rakhine tribe. Therefore, genocidal cleansing
of the Rohingya Muslims is so fundamental to their political
objective. To start the process more decisively, they needed
to put a new name for the old state of Arakan. Therefore,
they named it as the Rakhine state after the name of the
minority Buddhist Rakhine tribe. Now, the next step is the
full Bhuddhistisation of Muslim Arakan. To attain that goal,
they deem it necessary to have a genocidal cleansing of the
Rohingya Muslims. This is why, along with dismantling the
mosques and the Islamic schools in Arakan, ethnic cleansing
of the Rohingya Muslims became the central piece of their
military operation.
The incurable incompatibility & the liberation from
captivity
Any political, social or economic problem can be amicably
solved through negotiation. But what is happening in Myanmar
is an awful moral problem; it is filled with extreme
anti-Muslim hatred. Such a moral disease of the
ultranationalist Buddhist extremists is incurable; no amount
of talk around a negotiation table can't cure it. Such moral
disease has caused incurable incompatibility between two
communities. Because of such moral disease, they think of a
Rohingya woman only as a suitable object of gang rape. They
consider a Rohingya Muslim of any age or any sex a target of
butchering, throwing to fire or forced eviction to
Bangladesh. Moreover, the Myanmar Government, the Army, the
political elite and the Buddhist monks have shown no sign of
moral health that can recognise even horrific crime like
murder, arson and rape as crime, let alone condemn it. Even
Aung Sun Suu Kyi didn't prove different. This is why, she
could describe genocidal cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim as
a quarrel between two communities. And crime of rape
appeared to her as fake rape. Hence, how a Rohingya Muslim
can feel secure in their midst in Myanmar.
Moreover, the Myanmar government, the Army, the Buddhist
monks and the nationalist Buddhist politicians have made it
clear that they do not want the Rohingya Muslims back in
their midst. It implies that they could also understand the
issue of incurable incompatibility between two communities.
The Rohingya Muslims too, are not ignorant of the issue
either. Hence, they also do not want any Burmese Buddhists
as a neighbour in Arakan. Wolf and hen can't live peacefully
in the same premise. In such a situation, politics of
reconciliation doesn't work. Then, separation is the only
option. Hundreds of independent states have been created on
earth because of such mutual incompatibility. Hence, like
many other states in Asia, Africa and Europe, there needs
another independent state in the land of Arakan. The Myanmar
Army, the Buddhist monks and the ultranationalist politician
can't blame others for dividing the country. By their own
policy of genocidal ethnic cleansing, they have indeed made
the necessary ground work for such a division by their own
hand.
The regional and the international leaders must understand
such basic and the unavoidable consequences of a genocidal
war. Now, an independent state of Arakan for the Rohingya
Muslims is the only way forward. If the Myanmar government
is compelled by the international pressure to take them
back, there remains little emotional, conceptual and
ideological element left in the Rohingya Muslims to accept
such an option. It is indeed tantamount to returning back to
the same social, political and emotional captivity and
humiliation that forced them to become the refugees. They
will rather prefer to die in the relief camps in Bangladesh
than surrender to such subjugation. The time of political
reconciliation with the Buddhist ultranationalists has
indeed elapsed long ago. Genocidal war of ethnic cleansing
kills such a possibility very badly and quickly.
If the international community fails to understand the
socio-political outcome of genocide and do not create a
Kosovo like safe haven for the Rohingya Muslims, the
consequence will be earth-shaking. The Rohingya Muslims will
take their destiny in their own hand. Definitely, they will
not spend generation after generation in the relief camps in
Bangladesh, rather will make war for an independent Arakan
themselves. In such a situation, all the civilised countries
of the world will feel bound morally, ethically and
constitutionally to support these worst victims of the
genocide to establish their safe haven. The people of East
Timor and South Sudan didn't face such ethnic cleansing.
Still, they received lot of support from many countries.
But, the suffering of Rohingya Muslims has crossed all
limits of imagination. So, the support for the Rohingya
Muslims will massive. Since Islam makes it a religious
obligation to help such victims, it will work as immense
magnets to attract people from all over the Muslim World to
their help.
It is also true that geographically Arakan is larger than
more than 10 per cent member states of the UN. Its
population is larger than Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Vatican,
Luxemburg, and many more countries. Because of its huge
off-shore gas and oil reserve, it has the economic worth to
become another oil reach country. However, ideological,
spiritual, cultural, political and educational reasons for
an Independent Arakan is much more crucial than any economic
reason. For the same reason, the Bosnia and the Kosovan
Muslims had to fight for independence from Serbian rule. For
the same reason, the Kashmiri Muslims have taken the path of
independence from India. For the Rohingya Muslims, there
exist no different route either. Therefore, forcing the
Rohingya Muslims against their wish to live under the
Myanmar rule would be another crime in the annals of human
history. Can any people with minimum self-esteem opt for
that?
Independent Arakan: the only way-forward
The psychic trauma of a genocidal war is huge. It never
heals. In the fields of politics, social cohesion, religious
tolerance and state building, it is more disruptive than any
volcanic eruption or any violent political revolution.
Genocidal massacre, gang rape and the whole sale destruction
of a community make people with various ethnic, linguistic
and religious dissimilarities fully incompatible. It kills
all opportunities of political reconciliation to make them
reunite within the existing geopolitical premise. Then, a
new geopolitical map to accommodate the dislocated people
becomes an urgent necessity. This is why, a genocidal war
immensely differ from a non-genocidal common war. This is
why, India's all efforts are failing in Kashmir to keep the
Kashmiri Muslims within Hindu-dominated India. For the same
reason, the Jews had to make mass-scale migration from the
genocidal continent of Europe. If Hitler had been the sole
perpetrator to run the gas chamber, it would have been
easily resolved. But, he had millions of German and
non-German war criminals with the same ideological venom in
their mind. So, the Jews felt fully incompatible in their
midst. And now, the products of the European genocide are
volcanizing the whole geopolitics of the Middle East. On a
similar backdrop of genocide and with the similar sense of
incompatibility, the Bosnian and the Kosovan Muslims had to
establish independent state separated from the genocidal
Serbians. Now, the Rohingya Muslims too, are forced to take
the similar political roadmap. Because, their
incompatibility with the Muslim bashing Burmese Buddhists is
huge and incurable. The mater of security is the most
important issue in selecting a place of living and
socialising. How can a Rohingya Muslim think of living
amidst rapists, killers and arsonists? Even if they manage
somehow to physically survive
in Buddhist Myanmar, how can they ensure that their children
will grow up as true Muslim there?
A genocidal crime always causes incurable scars in the
psyche of the victims. It reminds every day and night the
painful sharp memory of being humiliated, gang raped and
brutally tortured. Such pain survives till death. Not only
it shapes peoples' perception on life, faith, philosophy and
politics, but also shakes the geopolitical map of the
region. Therefore, the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya
Muslims will not end in refugee camps of Cox's Bazar in
Bangladesh; it will also impact the political philosophy,
ideology and map of the region. No amount of political
negotiation, relief goods, shelters and health care would
remove the ugly experience from their traumatised psyche.
How a Rohingya woman and her family can ever forgive and
forget the pain of being raped by the Burmese sex predators.
These worst war criminals must be punished in the
International Criminal Court. Moderation, accommodation, and
pacification with these genocidal extremists will be
considered by any morally sound man or woman as another
despicable crime. This is why, a genocidal crime always
generate long war. Unfortunately, instead of bringing the
criminals to the justice, the UN bosses and the other world
leaders are rubbing shoulders with these genocidal
extremists. They are also trying to make their crimes
palatable to the victims. They are applying only a policy of
palliation towards the Rohingya Muslims. Hence, providing
tents, relief goods, some health care and finally
negotiating to send them back to Myanmar appear the only
roadmap of the UN and other leading countries. The same plan
of palliation was applied in 1978, 1991-92, 2012, 2013 and
2015, but didn't work to cure the original disease. The
crisis can only be solved by establishing an Independent
Arakan. All other steps will only help continue the crisis.
16/11/2017
