Bismillah al-Rahman al-Raheem

Communiqué to the Ummah

The wave of protests has been intensifying across the region. After the ousting of the Tunisian and the Egyptian rulers from office and the events spreading to Yemen, Libya and Bahrain, and finally to Syria and Jordan, the winds of change are expected to reach most of the Arab region.

What is remarkable is that the Kafir America and the West who had appointed those rulers, sponsored them and protected their own interests through them for decades, now seem to support the desire of the masses to get rid of those rulers, when it was only a short while ago that the Kafir America and the West did not display animosity towards them.

Zein el-Abideen was secular and the whole of his ruling clique were Ataturk-style radical secularists. Hosni Mubarak was America’s godfather in the region. The Yemeni president was America’s right-hand man in the so-called war on terror. As for Gaddafi, he air-lifted Libya’s nuclear facilities in wooden boxes to George Bush Junior on the eve of his second presidential election so that he could prove to the American people that his “war on terror” policy had been successful. This helped Bush win his second term in office. So what is occurring and what has changed with those rulers that led America to dump their services and currently appears to be working assiduously to help the masses in getting rid of them?

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The Political Comment

The Arab League’s Secretary General arrived in the blockaded Gaza Strip on Sunday.  His widely-welcomed visit was aimed at lifting the blockade and healing the rift between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. He also stated that the Arab peace initiative would be relinquished in September if “Israel” failed to respond. The visit of Amr Moussa has come amid a flurry of international and regional reactions to the “Israeli” navy’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla. “Israel” has clearly become implicated in a fresh crisis similar to the Goldstone report; the scale of the crisis became manifest when the Americans refused to use their veto against the condemnation of “Israel” at the Security Council, though the condemnation was toned down.

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Question and Answers

Corruption and fraud are a daily occurrence in Jordan where people are enduring austere living standards. This evoked their resentment and led them to seek other ways to make ends meet; thus, smuggling, drug trafficking, bribery, theft and burglary increased. People stood up to the authorities in several areas and the more the government attempted to prevent them from resorting to illicit practices and from breaking the law, the greater their resentment and daring grew. The grandeur of the state dwindled despite frantic attempts to maintain it. This was aggravated by the king’s decision to cancel many handouts that his father used to give to tribal chieftains and some influential figures. The king talked at length about the political saloons and what goes on in terms of scorn and rumours behind which are a handful of the old political milieu that had been intimating the incompetence of the king and his lack of experience. With the king weary of America’s engrossment in finding a rival to him in the country, or to clip his authority, thus turning Jordan into a constitutional monarchy, things just went from bad to worse - people are getting poorer and more resentful of the regime, while the king is becoming paranoid with fear and obsessed with removing the obstacles facing his rule. Hence, whenever the fears of the king grow, his cronies resort to spreading the saga of the “alternative homeland” to divert people’s attention from their wretched reality and to engross them in their animosity towards one another, especially as the remnants of the narrow regional viewpoint, which is alien to awareness and to Shari’ah, lingers on.

14/02/2010

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Question and Answers

Yemen is heading towards geographic fragmentation. Saudi Arabia’s intervention in the fight against the Houthi rebels was designed to prevent the rise of a sectarian emirate alongside her borders with Yemen, due to her fears from the impact of such a development on the domestic situation, especially the eastern region of the country where many of its inhabitants embrace the Jaafari school of thought. However, Saudi Arabia is not averse to Yemen’s fragmentation on a geographic basis and she is even prepared to shore up such a move especially as a united Yemen has always been a source of anxiety for the Saudi dynasty.