Where do the troubles of the Islamic world come from - from friends or enemies?
Author: Dzhambulat Sardalov, an expert on religion and terrorism (Chechnya), especially for "Sangar"
Touching are the conversations among my co-religionists, whose thoughts are occupied by a web of ideas woven in their heads, inspired by conspiracy ideas and a tendency of a special nature - the mythologization of religious consciousness.
For them, everyone is to blame, both Russians and Jews, if they believed in the existence of aliens, they would also fall "under the distribution". Thank God they don't, so the citizens of Mulder and Scully can live in peace in the movies.
Thank God, there are also educated people who think higher than the height of the jar for ablution. Their weighty word, as always, destroys the impressive hummocks of the consciousness of the ignorant. Unfortunately, there are not many of them, otherwise, such cancers as al-Qaeda, the Taliban, ISIS, and other radicals would not have had any success in the Ummah. The Ummah is deeply mired in internal conflicts, which undoubtedly brings only weakness and joy to the external enemy in the face of the West.
Of course, the West is pursuing its own policy in its own interests on Muslim territory. But this cannot be an excuse for the, to put it mildly, sad spectacle that is taking place in the Islamic world. First of all, what the world sees is not the enlightened and gifted with bright intellectual qualities image of a modern Muslim. But the image of a killer and a savage.
Forming this image, the authors of Western propaganda do not particularly bother themselves. After all, it was not they who, for example, ate the liver of a murdered soldier of Assad's army... Like, it will be the same with all the "enemies of Allah"! Or burn, crush prisoners with tanks, violence against civilians ... is this all our Sharia? No, but these are satanic tricks of all inveterate radicals speaking in the name of Islam.
I will express my personal opinion that Muslims, for the most part, suffered from the so-called "friends". Under different slogans, even before the arrival of enemies from foreign lands, they chopped off each other's heads with great daring, looking for "enemies of Allah" in the Umma. Who attacked Caliph Ali bin Abu Talib, delighted with paradise? Not hafiz ibn Muljam? And who grabbed Uthman ibn Affan by the beard, who was reading Sura al-Baqar, was it not Muhammad, the son of Abu Bakr? How could children be cut out of the wombs of their mothers, being convinced that something pleasing was being done - this is from the vile deeds of the Kharijites in the time of Ali bin Abu Talib...
The source of mutual impatience is precisely from there, when after the departure of the Best of people - Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), who warned of troubles, people became witnesses of shameful events. Power stupefies the weak with faith. Subsequent events showed that the Ummah does not need enemies: they themselves will cope with tons of mutual accusations of godlessness (takfir). Often all this is a banal background - power and control over the masses. And here religion, as one of the most effective tools of influence.
The subsequent crusades of Europe transformed into colonialism as a response to the fragmentation and mutual hostility in the Umma. Statements about Islamic unity remained a dead weight in the religious literature of their predecessors.
Our religion calls for perfection, spiritual and technological. The age-long lag in development was due to the decline of the socio-political system. Dragging in the tail of Western civilization, the Islamic world acquired all the serious illnesses of a spiritual and material nature. An exception, perhaps, is Malaysia, which managed to somehow get out of the swamp of corruption. Of course, it cannot be defeated, but it is quite possible to rein it in.
In the meantime, among some of the townsfolk, everyone around is to blame, there is no life from infidels. Although, why "blame the mirror, if the face is crooked" ... Since they are so great and strong in spirit, why does a certain part of the Ummah so easily succumb to the tricks of the Western world? In any state, society has and will have enemies (and if not, then they will be invented), the strength of which is determined by the ability to resist and self-preservation. This is something we don't notice much in the Islamic world...