Muslims Against Imperialism

“I have said that peace must be based on justice, for otherwise it would mean that “peace” is maintained and established by the threat of force. Former “Israeli” Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion once said that “peace” should be imposed on the Arabs. This clearly signifies that the “peace” he wanted to impose was not a “peace” that had anything to do with justice. Not only would the terms of such a “peace” be unjust, but the only way for it to be imposed or established would paradoxically be through violent force. Consequently, any bid to enforce a settlement or impose “peace” would mean war, as we will not accept unfavorable terms foisted upon the Arab people. On our part, all we want is for the Arabs of Palestine to obtain their rights and be able to return to their land.

The Arab Nation does not have a habit of just forgetting- no one among us can just forget what has happened over the last 20 plus years, close our eyes, and agree to leave everything as it is.”

-President of the Arabs, Gamal Abdel Nasser

October 5th, 1937: A Letter of Lies, Contradictions, and Manifest Destiny

“Of course the partition of the country gives me no pleasure. But the country that they [the Peel Commission] are partitioning is not in our actual possession; it is in the possession of the Arabs and the English. What is in our actual possession is a small portion, less than what they [the Peel Commission] are suggesting as a Jewish state… But in this proposed partition we will get more than what we currently have, though of course much less than we merit and desire. The question is: would we obtain more without partition? If things were to remain as they are, would this satisfy our aspirations? What we really want is not that the land remain whole and unified. What we want is that the whole and unified land be JEWISH. A unified Eretz Israel would be no source of satisfaction for me- if it were Arab.

From our standpoint, the status quo is deadly poison. We want to change the status quo. But how can this change come about? How can this land become ours? The decisive question is: Does the establishment of a Jewish state [in only part of Palestine] advance or retard the conversion of this country into a Jewish country?

My assumption is that a Jewish state on only part of the land is not the end but the beginning.

We will admit into the state all the Jews we can. We firmly believe that we can admit more than two million. We will build a multi-faceted Jewish economy—agricultural, industrial, and maritime. We will organize an advanced defense force- a superior army which I have no doubt will be one of the best armies in the world. At that point I am confident that we would not fail in settling in the remaining parts of the country, through agreement and understanding with our Arab neighbors, or through some other means [conquering force].

Let us assume that the Negev will not be allotted to the Jewish state. In such event, the Negev will remain barren because the Arabs have neither the competence nor the capability to develop it or make it prosper. They already have an abundance of deserts but not of manpower, financial resources, or creative initiative. It is very probable that they will agree that we undertake the development of the Negev and make it prosper in return for our financial, military, organizational, or scientific assistance. It is also possible that they will not agree. People don’t always behave according to logic, common sense, or their own practical advantage… It is possible that the Arabs will follow the dictates of sterile nationalist passions and tell us: “We want neither your honey nor your sting. We’d rather that the Negev remain barren than that Jews should inhabit it.” If this occurs, we will have to talk to them in a different language—and we will have a different language—but such a language will not be ours without a state. This is so because we can no longer tolerate that vast territories capable of absorbing tens of thousands of Jews should remain vacant, and that Jews cannot return to their homeland because the Arabs prefer that the place [the Negev] remains neither ours nor theirs. We must expel Arabs and take their place. Up to now, all our aspirations have been based on an assumption—one that has been vindicated throughout our activities in the country—that there is enough room in the land for the Arabs and ourselves. But if we are compelled to use force- not in order to dispossess the Arabs of the Negev or Transjordan, but in order to guarantee our right to settle there- our force will enable us to do so.

Clearly in such event we will have to deal not only with the Arabs living in Eretz Israel, since it is very probable that Arabs from the neighboring countries will come to their aid. But our power will be greater, not only because we will be better organized and equipped, but also because behind us stands a force still greater in quantity and quality. This is the reservoir of the millions in the Diaspora. The entire younger generation of Poland, Romania, America, and other countries will rush to our aid at the outbreak of such a conflict. I pray to God that this does not happen at all. Nevertheless the Jewish state will not rely only on the Jews living in it, but on the Jewish people living in every corner of the world: the many millions who are eager and obliged [emphasis in original] to settle in Palestine… Of course it is likely that Arab adventurers and gangs will come from Syria or Iraq or other Arab countries, but these can be no match for the tens and hundreds of thousands of young Jews to whom Eretz Israel is not merely an emotional issue, but one that is in equal measure both personal and national.

For this reason I attach enormous importance to the conquest [emphasis in original] of the sea and the construction of a Jewish harbor and a Jewish fleet. The sea is the bridge between the Jews of this country and the Jewish Diaspora- the millions of Jews in different parts of the world. We must create the conditions that will enable us in times of necessity to bring into the country, in our own ships manned by our own seamen, tens of thousands of young men. Meanwhile we must prepare these young men while they are still in the Diaspora for whatever task awaits them here.”

-Zionist terrorist leader and first “Israeli” PM, David Grue

“Entering into Somalia’s sovereign water territory is against international law. This is only occurring because African nations do not possess strong or modern means of defense to push them back and assert their sovereignty. Somalis are reacting for justice and trying to defend their country against the unfair exploitation of resources, but Western countries have labelled it as “piracy”. Somalis experiencing poverty, hunger, and hopelessness feel obliged to act in such ways when African leaderships are unable to act to rectify the situation and alleviate their conditions.

Not only do the colonial powers owe us billions in reparations for the dark colonial era, but they continue to harass African nations, loot African wealth, and act care-free knowing that African nations lack the power and unity to protect their own vital interests. All African nations must also demand colonial reparations as Libya is doing. Italy will be providing 250 million dollars annually to Libya via investments for 20 years. We must act immediately and practically to implement joint African defense or foreign powers will continue to act as they please, knowing that there will be no repercussions.”

-Muammar al Qaddafi

“The Zionist Entity has no reason to consider any withdrawals or to honor any United Nations Resolutions so long as they receive the unconditional support of the United States. Today, America is “Israel”, “Israel” is America, and the British are tails of the Americans. Everytime Mr. Wilson speaks, he repeats what Johnson has already said. All of the Western nations are united in their complete partisanship towards “Israel”. They have all assumed the “Israeli” position exactly. Every Arab should know who is his enemy and who is his friend. If we do not deal with nations accordingly, the “Israelis” will be the beneficiaries of our confusion and inaction. Thus, we must declare the clear truth that the United States is an enemy of the Arabs because of its complete bias in favor of “Israel”. It is also clear that Britain is an enemy of the Arabs because she, too, is completely biased in favor of “Israel”.

We always hear the United States speaking about the “balance of power”. Their “balance” is maintaining “Israeli” military superiority. Their ‘balance’ is enabling Israel’s continued annexation of more Arab land. Their “balance” is to maintain Israel’s domination over the Arab people in the West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights, and Sinai under the racist occupation and colonization of Israel. This “balance” is for “Israel” to keep 15,000 Palestinian Arab youth captive and to kill those outside of their jails night and day under the banner of fighting ‘Palestinian resistance’ and “combating terrorism”. “Balance” to the United States of America is for “Israel” to continue striking our schools, factories, civilians, and economic establishments.

We are not fools, but peoples with over 7000 years of civilization. Indeed, we can do much, and are capable of both thinking and acting. We can expose the hypocrisy of those enemy states who support “Israel”, who simultaneously attempt to persuade us that they wish to serve our interests. Indeed not; the United States seeks only to serve “Israeli” interests, and Britain also seeks only to serve only “Israeli” and American interests.

When Eshkol and Rabin threatened Syria, nobody spoke about peace or threats to peace. Why all this uproar because of our closure of the Gulf of Aqaba? Because this is not about international law, it’s about partisan interests. The United States, Britain and the reactionaries under their thumb hate the nationalist progressive government in Syria, of course mirroring the feelings of “Israel”. When “Israel” threatened Syria, they were silent and accepted its policy. But when we exercise our legitimate rights, as we always do, they turn the world upside down and speak about threats to peace and about a crisis in the Middle East. They create these conditions and then threaten us with war.”

-President Gamal Abdel Nasser

Partial UN Address 9/22/2009

“The United Nations was formed by the nations that joined together against Germany in the Second World War. Those countries formed a body called the Security Council, made themselves the only holders of permanent membership and solely granted themselves the power of veto against all the nations of the world. Neither we, nor some 165 countries were present at that time, 60 years ago, when the United Nations was shaped by those three of four countries in an organization designed against Germany. That is a ratio of one to eight; for every nation that was present, eight were absent. They created the Charter, of which I have a copy. If one reads the Charter of the United Nations, one finds that the Preamble of the Charter differs from its Articles. How did it come into existence? All those who attended the San Francisco Conference in 1945 participated in creating the Preamble, but they left the Articles and internal rules of procedures of the so-called Security Council to ‘experts’, ‘specialists’ and ‘interested countries’- the same countries that founded the UN and made themselves the sole members of the Security Council.

The Preamble is very appealing, and no one objects to it- but all the provisions that follow it completely contradict the Preamble. We reject such provisions and will never uphold them. Their legitimacy ended with the Second World War with the defeat of Germany. The Preamble says that all nations, small or large, are equal. Are we equal when it comes to the permanent seats? No, we are not equal. Are we equal when it comes to the power of veto? No, we are not equal. The veto directly contradicts the Charter. The permanent seats directly contradict the Charter. Thus, we neither accept nor recognize the veto.

The Preamble of the Charter states that armed force shall not be used, save for the common interest of all nations. That is the Preamble to which we agreed and signed when we joined the United Nations, with the expectation that the Charter and the United Nation’s policies would reflect that. But what has happened since the establishment of United Nations? 65 wars have broken out with millions more victims than in the Second World War. Was the aggression and use of force in those 65 wars in the common interest of us all? Indeed NOT, they were in the interest of one or three or four countries, but not of all nations. We will talk about whether those wars were in the interest of one country or of all nations.

Each war of aggression waged by a single or few superpowers and members of the Security Council is a flagrant contradiction and mockery of the Charter of the United Nations that we signed. Unless all of us in this hall act in accordance with the Charter to which we agreed, we will reject it and not be afraid not to act in an undiplomatic manner to anyone. Now we are talking about the future of the United Nations. There should be no hypocrisy or diplomacy because it concerns the important and vital issue- the future of the world. It was hypocrisy for the United Nations to allow 65 wars since its establishment.

The Preamble also states that if armed force is used, it must be a United Nations force- thus, military intervention by the United Nations, with the joint agreement of a multitude of member states, not one or two or three countries using unilateral force. The declared purpose of the United Nations is to maintain international peace and security. If there is an act of aggression by one country against another, the entire United Nations should deter and stop that act. Instead, 65 wars have taken place without any United Nations action to prevent them. Eight other massive and fierce wars, whose victims number some 2 million, have been waged by Security Council Member states that enjoy veto powers. The countries that would like us believe they seek to maintain the sovereignty and independence of peoples are the ones using aggressive force against peoples. While we would like to believe that all countries desire to work for peace and security in the world and protect peoples, permanent members of the Security Council have instead resorted to aggressive wars and hostile behavior. Enjoying the veto they granted themselves as permanent members of the Security Council, they have initiated wars that have claimed millions of victims, and excused themselves of all their own violations of the Preamble and Charter.

The principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of nations is enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations. No country, therefore, has the right to interfere in the affairs of any government, be it democratic or dictatorial, socialist or capitalist, reactionary or progressive. This is the responsibility of each society; it is an internal matter for the people of the country in question. The senators of Rome once appointed Julius Caesar as their leader; he became the dictator because they believed it was good for Rome at that time. No one outside Rome could veto the appointment of Caesar as dictator, or interfere to change decision and leadership.

We joined the United Nations because we thought we were equals, only to find that one country can object to the decisions that the majority of all nations make. Who gave the permanent members their status in the Security Council? Four of them granted this status to themselves. The only country in this Assembly elected to permanent membership status in the Security Council is China. This was done democratically, but the other seats were imposed upon us undemocratically through a dictatorial procedure carried out against our will, and none of us should accept it.

The Security Council reform we need is not an increase in the number of members or permanent seats; this would worsen the situation, increase poverty, injustice and tension at the world level, as well as create further competition between numerous rival states. To use a common expression, “if you add more water, you get more mud”. Adding more superpowers to the Security Council would crush the peoples of small, vulnerable, and third world nations. These states are coming together in what has been called the “Group of 100”- in a forum that one member has called the “Forum of Small States”.

The solution is for the General Assembly to adopt a binding resolution based on the majority will of Assembly members- to close Security Council membership to the admission of further individual states and to instead make membership based on unions of states. This item is already on the agenda of the current General Assembly session presided over by Mr. Treki. Establishing Security Council membership through unions and the transference of Security Council mandates to the General Assembly should supersede all other proposals. We should focus on the achievement of democracy based on the equality of member states. Membership should be for unions, not for individual states.

In accordance with the proposal we’ve submitted to the General Assembly, there would be permanent seats on the Security Council for all unions and groups of countries. The 27 countries of the European Union should have a permanent seat on the Security Council. The countries of the African Union, Latin America, and ASEAN countries should have permanent seats. The Russian Federation and the United States of America are already permanent members of the Security Council. The Southern African Development Community (SADC), once it is fully established, should have a permanent seat. The 22 countries of the Arab League, 57 countries of the Islamic Conference, and 118 countries of the Non-Aligned Movement should have a permanent seat. Then there is the G-100; perhaps the small countries should also have a permanent seat. Countries not included in the unions that I have mentioned could perhaps be assigned a permanent seat to be occupied by them in rotation every six or twelve months.

The door to Security Council membership should be closed. This approach is a falsehood, a trick that has been exposed. The majority of Security Council Members do not even have veto powers. If we want to reform the United Nations, bringing in more nations and superpowers is not the way. The solution is to foster democracy at the level of the general congress [Jamahiriyan term] of the world, the General Assembly, to which the powers of the Security Council should be transferred. The Security Council would become merely an instrument for implementing the decisions taken by the General Assembly, making it the parliament or legislative assembly of the world. This Assembly is our democratic forum and the Security Council should be responsible before it as the legislators of all the General Assembly nations, and their resolutions should be binding.

It is said that the General Assembly should do whatever the Security Council recommends. On the contrary, the Security Council should do whatever the General Assembly decides. The real United Nations are the Assembly that includes 192 countries- not the Security Council, which includes only 15 of the member States, 5 of which have veto powers. How can we be content with global peace and security if the whole world is beholden to the whims of only five countries and their selective charter implementation?

The 192 nations in the General Assembly are no different from Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park. We just speak and nobody implements our decisions. We are mere decoration, without any real substance. We are Speakers’ Corner, no more, no less. We just make our speeches and then disappear. This is who you are right now. Once the Security Council becomes only an executive body for resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and a tool to implement them, there will be no competition for membership of the Council. The Security Council should, quite simply, represent the will of all nations.

The issue is a vitally important one. The President of the Assembly, Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki, and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will produce the legal draft and set up the necessary committees to submit this proposal to a vote: from now on, the Security Council will be made up of unions of nations. This way, we will have justice and democracy, and we will no longer have a Security Council consisting of self-elected countries that possess nuclear weapons, large economies or advanced technology. That is terrorism. We cannot allow the Security Council to be a dictatorship of superpowers over the other nations of the world; that itself is terrorism. If we want a world that is united, safe and peaceful, this is what we should do. If we want to remain in a world at war, that is up to you; such is the result of this current framework. We will continue to have conflict and to fight until doomsday The Day of Judgment. All Security Council members should have the right to exercise the veto, not just the permanent 5 members, or else we should eliminate the whole concept of the veto with this new formation of the Council. This would be a real Security Council. According to the new proposals submitted to the General Assembly, the Security Council will be an executive council under the control of the General Assembly, which will have the real power and make all the rules. In this way, all countries will be on an equal footing in the Security Council just as they are in the General Assembly. In the General Assembly we are all treated equally when it comes to membership and voting, and it should be just the same in the Security Council.

Currently in the Security Council, 5 countries have a veto while another 10 countries do not have a veto; 5 countries have a permanent seat while another 10 countries do not have a permanent seat. We should not accept this, nor should we accept any resolution adopted by the Security Council in its current formation. We were under trusteeship; we were colonized; and now we are independent. We are here today to decide the future of the world in a democratic way that will maintain the peace and security of all nations, large and small, as equals. Otherwise, it is terrorism, for terrorism is not just alQaeda- there are other, older, bigger forms. We should be guided by the majority of the votes in the General Assembly alone. If the General Assembly takes a decision by voting, then its wishes should be obeyed and its decision should be enforced. No one is above the General Assembly; anyone who says he is above the Assembly should leave the United Nations and be on his own. Democracy is not for the rich or the most powerful or for those who practice terrorism. All nations should be on equal footing.

At present, the Security Council is security feudalism, political feudalism for those with permanent seats, to protect themselves and to be used against us. It should not be called the Security Council, but the Terror Council. If they have an interest to promote, an axe to grind, they respect and glorify the Charter of the United Nations. They turn to Chapter VII of the Charter and use it against poor nations. If, however, they wished to violate the Charter, they would ignore it as if it did not exist at all. If the veto of the permanent members of the Security Council is given to those who have the power, this is unacceptable terrorism and injustice.

We should not live in the shadow of this injustice and terror. Superpowers with complicated global interests use their veto to protect those interests and to terrorize and intimidate the Third World, causing it to live under the shadow of terror. From the beginning, since it was established in 1945, the Security Council has failed to provide us security. On the contrary, it has provided terror and sanctions. It is only used against us. For this reason, we will no longer be committed to implementing Security Council resolutions after this speech, on the 40th anniversary of our UN membership.

65 wars have broken out- either fighting among small countries or wars of aggression waged against us by superpowers. The Security Council, in clear violation of the Charter of the United Nations, failed to take action to stop these wars or acts of aggressions against small nations and peoples. The General Assembly will vote on a number of historic proposals. Either we act as equals or we will fragment. If we formed our own UN with an equal General Assembly, Security council, all the instruments, and with equal footing for all, the powerful permanent members would be confounded to use their own sovereign bodies to exercise their rights themselves. We would not be concerned at all with what they do in those bodies.

If they want to keep their permanent seats, that is fine; permanent seats will be of no concern to us. We shall never submit to their control or to their exercise of the veto which they granted themselves. We are not foolish to accept second-class citizenship or to be treated as outcast nations by the superpowers. We did not decide for them to act on behalf of 192 countries. You should be fully aware that we are ignoring the Security Council resolutions because those resolutions are used solely against us and not against the permanent seat-holding superpower vetoing powers.

The Security Council members have never been targeted by resolutions as they have targeted us with them. The United Nations is thus a travesty of itself. It has generated wars, violations of the sovereignty of independent states, war crimes, and genocides. All of this is in violation of the Charter. Soon no one will pay attention to the UN Security Council; each community of states has established its own. The African Union has already established its own Peace and Security Council, the European Union has one, the ASEAN countries have already established their own Security Community, and soon, Latin America and the 120 non-aligned nations will have their own Security Councils.

This means that we have already lost confidence in the UNSC, which has not provided us with security. We are not committed to obeying the rules or the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council in its present form because it is undemocratic, dictatorial and unjust. No one can force us to join the Security Council or to obey or comply with resolutions or orders given by the it in its present composition. Furthermore, there is no regard for the General Assembly, the true essence of the United Nations, but whose resolutions are non-binding. The decisions of the International Court of Justice and the international judicial body take aim only at small countries and Third World states. Powerful nations escape the notice of the Court. In the case judicial action is taken against these powerful countries, they are not pursued fully or enforced.”

-Muammar al Qaddafi, 9/22/2009

President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s speech on May 29th, 1967 to the Egyptian National Assembly, preceding the Six-Day War

“The circumstances through which we are now passing are in fact difficult ones because we are not only confronting “Israel”, but also those who created it and those who continue to support it. We are confronting “Israel” AND the West simultaneously- the same West which created “Israel”, colonized and despised us Arabs, and ignored our interests completely, before and since 1948. They’ve never any regard whatsoever for our feelings, our hopes in life, or our rights. They have no desire for partnership or listening to our positions, and the Arab Nation has been completely unable to check their course of arrogance, heedlessness, dictation, and unwavering support for the zionist entity.

Then came the events of 1956- the Suez Battle. We all know what happened in 1956. When we rose to demand our rights, Britain, France and “Israel” opposed us, and we were faced with the Tripartite Aggression. In spite of this, we resisted and proclaimed that we would fight to the last drop of our blood. Allah Gave us success and He Blessed us with victory.

Subsequently we were able to rise and to build. Now, in the eleven years since 1956, we have been restoring things to the state they were in 1956- this is from the material aspect. In my opinion the material aspect is only a small part of the equation, whereas the spiritual aspect is the great side of this issue. The spiritual aspect involves the Renaissance of the Arab Nation, the revival of the Palestinian question, and the restoration of confidence to every Arab and to every Palestinian. This is on the basis that if we were able to restore the conditions to what they were before 1956, God Will surely Help and Urge us to restore the situation to what it was in 1948.

Brothers, the revolts, upheavals and commotions which we now see taking place in every Arab country are not only because we have returned to the Gulf of Aqaba or because we rid ourselves of the United Nations Emergency Forces, but because we have restored the honor of the Arabs and renewed the hopes of the Arabs.

“Israel” used to boast a great deal; the Western Powers- headed by the United States and Britain- always looked to the Arabs with detest. They used to shrug us off as worthless and unthreatening. But now that the time has come, we must be ready for triumph and not for a recurrence of the 1948 scenario, in which we had nothing but will. As I have already said in the past, WE are the ones who will decide the time and place, we will not give them the privilege to decide. And we SHALL triumph, God Willing.

The preparations have already been made, we are now ready to confront “Israel”. They have claimed many things about the 1956 Suez War, but no one believed them after the secrets of the 1956 collusion were uncovered. Now we are ready for confrontation and to deal with the entire issue as well as the crux of the matter- the Palestinian question.

The issue now at hand is not the Gulf of Aqaba, the Straits of Tiran, nor the withdrawal of the UN Emergency Forces, but the rights of the Palestinian people. It is the aggression which took place in Palestine in 1948 with the collaboration of Britain and the United States. It is the expulsion of the Arabs from Palestine, the usurpation of their rights, and the plunder of their property. It is the disavowal of all the United Nations resolutions in favor of the Palestinian people.

The issue today is far more serious than they say. They want to confine the issue to the Straits of Tiran, the UNEF forces, and the right of passage- all to distract the world from their crimes. We demand the full rights of the Palestinian people, to his land and to his dignity. The Arabs are human beings whose rights cannot be withheld, and our people all across the Arab Nation are demanding that they be fulfilled. The “Israelis” will not provide them, and we the Arabs must establish them.

We are not afraid of the United States and its threats, of Britain and its threats, or of the entire Western world and its partiality to “Israel”. Why is the United States and Britain completely partial to the “Israelis”, with no consideration to any of the Arabs, even their clients? Because we have made them believe that we cannot distinguish between friend and foe. We must make them aware that we are cognizant of both our friends and foes, and that we will treat each accordingly.

If the United States and Britain are partial to “Israel”, we must establish that our enemy is not only “Israel” but also the United States and Britain and treat them as such. If the Western Powers disavow our rights as well as ridicule and despise us, the Arab Nation must teach them to respect us, then they will be made aware of our worth. Otherwise all our talk about Palestine, the Palestinian people, and Palestinian rights will be null and void and without consequence. We must treat enemies as enemies and friends as friends.

Yesterday I stated that the nations which champion freedom and peace have supported us. I spoke of the support given to us by India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Malaysia, the Chinese People’s Republic and the Asian and African States. After making the statement, yesterday I met the War Minister Shams Badran and learned from him what took place in Moscow. I wish to tell you today that the Soviet Union is a friendly Power which stands by us as a friend. In all our dealings with the Soviet Union- and mind you, we have been dealing with the USSR since 1955- it has not made a single request of us. The USSR has never interfered with our policy or internal affairs. This is the nature of the USSR as we have always known it. In fact, it is we who have made urgent requests of the USSR. Last year we asked for wheat and they sent it to us. When I asked for various types of arms, they delivered them to us. When I met Shams Badran yesterday, he handed me a message from Soviet Premier Kosygin stating that the USSR supported us in this battle and would not allow any power to intervene until matters were restored to what they were in 1956.

Brothers, not only must we distinguish between friend and foe, but also between friends and hypocrites. Who is making requests? Who has concealed and ulterior motives? Who is applying economic pressure? We must also recognize those who offer their friendship to us for no other reason than a desire for freedom and obtaining a just peace.

In the name of the people of the UAR, I thank the people of the USSR for their wonderful attitude, an attitude of true friendship. In my address yesterday, I stated that we adamantly rejected for the USSR or any other state to intervene because we truly want to avoid any confrontation that could lead to a world war, as we are a nation which advocates and works towards world peace. When we announced our policy of non-alignment, our chief aim was maintaining world peace.

Brothers, we will work for world peace with all the means we possess, but we will also tenaciously hold onto to our rights with all the power we have at our disposal. This is the course we have taken and the stance we have consistently stood upon. On this occasion, I address myself to our brothers in Aden and say: Although occupied with this battle, we have not forgotten you. We support you and stand alongside you. We have not forgotten the struggle of Aden and the occupied South for liberation. Aden and the occupied South must be liberated and colonialism must reach its fateful end. We are beside you, and present matters have not taken our minds from you.”

-Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of all the Arabs

“I was close to the comrades fighting the French in the Algerian Revolution. One of the brothers came to tell me that he knows the leadership of al Fateh Revolution in Libya, and said me that we should see meet them and see what they are doing. In 1969 after the Libyan al Fateh Revolution, we went to Libya and met with the Revolutionary Command Council. I was invited to have dinner with them and we talked for four hours. Interior Minister and member of the RCC, Abdul Mun’im al Houni, was appointed as the contact link to us. The Libyans told us they do not yet have any arms to provide us, but will provide us an amount of 4 million dollars. The amount was supposed to be transferred via the Arab Bank in Amman, and then began our search for arms. However, a period of time passed and the amount was not received. We were accused of being arms dealers, not fighters, so in light of this baseless accusation we told bank and accusers we didn’t want a single penny, and instructed for the bank to send the full amount back to Libya. Al Qaddafi asked the bank, “Why did you return the amount? These are not arms dealers, these are people of honor! Give them their money!”

We stood with the Al-Fateh Revolution because it stood with us and the Palestinian cause. This is why we fought to defend the Al-Fateh Revolution when Sadat attacked Libya in 1977. When the Libyan Revolution and Muammar al Qaddafi were exposed to a serious international conspiracy from the south led by America and France through Hussein Habry in Chad, we sent to Libya two thousand men for the duration of two and a half years. We were not mercenaries; but our national feeling as Palestinians is that the Libyan Revolution stands with the Palestinian cause, and with the causes of liberation all over the world.

Signs of American harassment began against the Libyan Jamahiriya over the Gulf of Sirte, military confrontation and the bombing of Libyan cities. The Libyans experienced much destruction and losses. As a display of defiance against western imperialism, Al Qaddafi sent me a plane to attend the Libyan conference of countless international left-wing, communist, and nationalist liberation movements. Al Qaddafi and the Jamahiriya supported them all, regardless of their differences. This was to show America the strength of Libyan revolutionary networks and its many allies around the world. From our Palestinian groups, to Filipino guerrillas, to African revolutionaries, and many other resistance groups. We attended the conference for two days. On the third day, al Qaddafi made a damning and threatening speech against American imperialism.

Six months before the Lockerbie plane fell, the Americans shot down an Iranian passenger plane, killing all 290 of its passengers. After the Lockerbie plane fell, the accusation was directed at us until Libya was blamed for causing the plane to crash and explode. When the press asked me, I told them that neither we nor Libya nor Iran shot down Lockerbie. The Israeli Mossad was the one who dropped it to malign us, to decrease global support for the Palestinian Intifada, and to bring negative attention to their enemies and the backers of our cause.

Every two months, Khaled Meshaal would go to the leader Muammar Qaddafi and receive support from him in the amount of three or four million dollars. On his first visit, Khaled Meshaal told me that he sat with the martyred leader Muammar Qaddafi and Qaddafi asked the office manager how much he gave the Hamas movement. He replied, “four million euros”. Al Qaddafi told him to add a 1.5 million more euros for Meshaal to deliver to Abu Jihad. Meshaal called me to say, “Come, receive your deposit.” This occurred on a number of occasions.

Muammar al Qaddafi continued to face the Americans, the Israelis, and others among them, and was ultimately martyred. Muammar al Qaddafi is a dear and holy person to us, Guevara comes far after him. The whole world spoke about him, from Latin America and Africa to the ends of the world, about how he helped them to face zionism and imperialism.

Ten days before the American and French invasion of Libya, before the flights to and from Libya were stopped, we met as a front and said that Libya is exposed to danger and Muammar al Qaddafi must know that we are standing with the Jamahiriya. Our delegation went and told him that Libya may be exposed to an external invasion, so we are ready to send you one thousand fighting men to support you. He told us, “You need your men in Palestine.”

Had the conspiracy been limited to domestic agents and war via proxy, Libya could have eliminated it simply and easily. They were already en-route to accomplishing this on the ground. But when international forces of American, British, French, Italian and Qatari origin took extreme action in the form of direct intervention, invasion, and bombardment, the result changed.

Al Qaddafi was my brother and friend. Unlike Arab heads of state, who were concerned with their titles and excellencies, al Qaddafi was the only leader that I called “Brother”, and he preferred to be addressed as such. He was a modest and humble man.”

-Ahmed Jibril (Abu Jihad), Founder and Leader of the PFLP-GC

“Let the well-meaning American Jews who are conducting the sit-ins and chanting “not in our name” call for a ceasefire; this is appropriate for them, but not for supporters of the Mouqawama. Such a shortsighted and minimalistic goal is not the aim of our team which is fighting for national liberation- with grievances, demands, long-reaching vision far beyond October 2023. The resistance has no reason to cease in its rightful and righteous defense and offense against the zionist entity so long as land of the Arab Nation and Islamic sites remain occupied and the Palestinian Arab people continue to languish in camps, while the rest are terrorized and dehumanized by an illegitimate, racial supremacist, fascist entity- extending its tentacles of destruction and subversion across the Arab Nation and the world.

We are working against the interests of the resistance if we are calling for a ceasefire while they are not pursuing one. The goal of our side is “Revolution Until Victory”- not a temporary ceasefire, nor a stupid, naïve, and impossible attempt to return to the long-defunct pre-October 7th status quo, after which all demonstrations can end and we can go about our business until the next time the zionist entity decides to “mow the lawn” or carry out another Nakba/Naksa. A ceasefire is not an objective, neither is reaching one a justifiable cause of celebration or reason for us to rest. Is Palestine free? Have the material conditions of her people changed? Have the criminals been brought to justice? Have the zionists been recompensed for their destruction, murder, and displacement of a rightful people? Nay, agitation must continue so long as the miserable conditions exist for the Palestinian and Arab people and until national liberation is achieved.”

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Al Qaddafi Address on Palestine and Arab Spring Hypocrisy, 2/13/2011

“Palestinians and their supporters must capitalize on the current wave of popular mobilization. This is the most worthy cause for action, publicity, and support. If it is indeed the time of popular revolution, then the Palestinian being the most sacred and honorable of causes should be at the forefront. Soon the puppets of zionism and western imperialism in the Gulf should also be the first to witness the amassing of people against their policies.

We must create a problem so that the nations of the world will be compelled to respond, a fait accompli. We can transport Palestinian refugees from Libya, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan via caravans on land and fleets of ships at sea to reach their lost homeland. If they are unable to penetrate, they should amass at the borders and shores of occupied Palestine. Unarmed Palestinian people with olive branches, refusing to leave until something is done. A massive, popular gesture such as this cannot be ignored by the international community. This cannot be characterized as a call to war by any neutral observer, but an attempt for peace. The world will be shown undoubtedly who the ‘Israelis’ really are. It would be impossible for governments to ignore- if not on conscience, then their response will come from massive pressure within their own populace who will view the Zionist occupation and its actions to be unacceptable.

Today, there stand American military bases occupying Arab and Islamic lands, but we cannot find anyone fighting against them. We do not hear sermons in the mosques or scholars and jurisprudents calling upon the people to declare jihad and attack these bases. It is very unfortunate to say. Instead we hear the scholars and sermon-givers, namely Qaradawi, inciting ‘jihad’ and uprisings in nations that do not house any US bases, that aren’t occupied by the US, do not have any ties to the Zionist Entity, or express servitude to the interests zionism. This is extreme, criminal hypocrisy!

‘Israel’ is a colonialist phenomenon, an impermissible materiality named after an ancient peoples, created by those who bare little or no descendance from them. A nation based on establishing racial and ethnic purity is unacceptable in the 21st century. Aside from the illegitimacy of its existence, any Arab or Islamic nation to hold any form of relations with the Zionist Entity while the Palestinian people have no rights in their land and the remaining ones languish as expelled refugees with no right to return to their own land is criminal! This is heresy! This is unacceptable! They are not Arabs, nor Muslims! Cowards, vicious traitors, ignorant fools, collaborators, agents, garbage, worthless, stupid people!

Our opposition and refusal to recognize to ‘Israel’ is not based on fanaticism towards Jews. True Jews are People of the Book to Muslims. If the Jews are faithful to God, pious, peaceful, and worship Him, this would be great news for all, and we welcome all people to do the same. Believers in God are brothers; the racist entity ‘Israel’ is not in this category and we will never accept it. The Zionist Entity must be disavowed, rejected, boycotted, and blockaded. Its vessels and cargo should not be allowed to pass through the Suez Canal.

The world can be divided into two main categories- the Green and the White. The Green represent the Islamic world and our natural allies, while the White represent the United States, Europe, and their allies. The White camp has decided to erase and conquer the Green. The Green must realize that the only chance of survival is mutual defense by cementing an alliance to confront Western Imperialism. As Muslims, we cannot accept those who have occupied and invaded our lands and now those who have launched this unspeakable campaign against our Prophet and Messenger.”

Al Qaddafi’s Words on The Tunisian Uprising, Jan 17 and 23, 2011

“I begin in The Name of Allah.

The world is aware of my international position as the leader of a revolution, a supporter of national liberation, and of people’s authority. This is documented in history, along with my speeches, writings, and the Green Book. I am opposed to governments, presidents, parliaments, military dictatorships, police forces, and divisive parties. I have called for the establishment of Jamahiriyas, States of the Masses cementing the authority of the people, and for such bodies to replace the formation of Republics which have outlived their use, just as they superseded the antiquated and obsolete monarchies before them.

The first stage was that of monarchies, in which a monarch rules over the land and everything that falls on it. This has been overtaken by societal evolution; such relics belong only in museums. Following this stage was that of the Republic, in which the people elect what is effectively a monarch, an elected king to govern them. The third and final stage is the Jamahiriyan stage, in which the people govern themselves by themselves- they do not chose who rules over them. With the presence of a conscious people, it is not necessary for ‘chosen people’ to ‘represent’ or govern over them. To the question of how all men and women of age can govern themselves is the answer- to establish and participate in People’s Committees and Congresses.

Had such a direction been that of the Tunisian demonstrations- to govern themselves completely and to close their era of rule by Republic, then I would most definitely be the first to support it. The people are in the streets demanding change and freedom, but is it truly freedom that is being demanded if one president or parliament will simply be replaced by another president and parliament? Is it to remove one party for another party, not dissimilar from those they tried in the past? Is it to establish a new government, only to have to overthrow it once again? If this is the case, what legitimizes all this sacrifice? For what purpose and for the benefit of what or whom? The people will feel it necessary return to the streets yet again in a few years, to express the same dissatisfaction. This is the unfortunate reality.

Will the president of an opposition party become the president of a country, while members of another party become the ministers, and another group that raises its voice fills the ranks of representative deputies? If a system of representatives works, then why hasn’t this problem been solved without the spilling of blood? There is no question that if this was an organized effort to establish the authority of the people, Libya would have absolutely been the first and principal supporter. However, a movement without clear goals that does not result in any significant structural overhaul or establish the authority of the people is not worth the sacrifice. Bourguiba was replaced by Ben Ali in a civilized and peaceful process. If the people simply want to replace Ben Ali with another president and the ministers and parliament with new ones, then why can it not be done in a civilized manner like prior? I am against the Tunisian people sacrificing their lives for a useless end, normal people dying just to remove Zine el Abidine and to be ruled over by yet another president or parliament. Is the goal to remove Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi and install Rached Ghannouchi? If the Tunisian people sacrifice for this, they are sacrificing for the sake of an individual or a party, not for the sake of Tunisia.

This is exactly what happened in Kenya. 3000 died for Kibaki to remain the president and for Raila to become the Prime Minister. Those 3000 that died- where was the concern for them? They were quickly forgotten as soon as the power-sharing agreement between the leaders was legislated. Certainly Raila and Kibaki were not grieving, because they retained power and returned to their families. Such is not true for those orphaned children, a bereaved mother, a widowed wife, families rendered fatherless- there were three thousand cases of this sadness repeating. The struggle to establish the authority of the people and to even sacrifice your life in doing so is noble and just, but the Kenyans lost all this only to end up with the same system, same President, and a new Prime Minister who shares half of the President’s authority. The people remain in the same quagmire- still without authority, control of resources, and arms.

I have a responsibility to the Tunisian, Arab, African, and regional peoples. Our concern for Tunisia far exceeds our concern for the Gulf. Tunisia has little but the sea and Libya; our proximity makes Libya an outlet for Tunisia and vice versa. Whatever transpires in Tunisia, we are directly in the wake of its affects, as opposed to those who are distant and stand to profit off of the current situation. Those who are making inciting broadcasts from the Gulf and Europe and fanning the flames are too far to feel the heat. Those who are calling others to also self-immolate with petrol, let them first lead by example. Does wearing a cleric’s robe give you authority or would it be the first thing to catch fire? Are these people committing suicide to defend al-Quds or to attack Tel Aviv? Of course not, this is not comparable and there is no sensible reason. This is not the battle of Bizerte, there is no foreign occupation upon Tunisian land. Tunisia is a free country, long liberated from French colonialism. I have my suspicions that these demonstrations can be hijacked and taken in another direction, namely for the interests of external actors and foreign powers, unbeknownst to the people in the streets.

It is our duty to stand with the best interests of the Tunisian people, in both hardship and in ease, utilizing our experience and the measuredness gained from it. I warn the Tunisian people, to be vigilant of any party or foreign power aiming to become the benefactor of the current strife, who aim to swindle those roaming in this instable realm and to render the sacrifices of the Tunisian people null and void.

With the exception of the Destour Party, the parties vying for power in Tunisia all have strong and direct foreign affiliations. The Muslim Brotherhood, among others, would hope for Tunisia to regress and turn backwards, by undoing the gains obtained by the Tunisian women during Bourguiba’s leadership. This would undoubtedly be opposed by the majority of the population. The Destour Party was a historical movement for the liberation of Tunisia since its establishment in 1920, birthing many political and armed leaders of struggle to establish the nation. It is of a similar nature to FLN of Algeria, ANC of South Africa, the CPC of China, and to the Free Officers organizations of Libya and Egypt.

Tunisia has always trained her children, for she is a land without petroleum or gas. Thus, her children are her greatest resource. We say that Tunisian hands produce gold out of whatever they touch. The Tunisians export olive oil while we export crude oil. The economy is a leading economy on the continent, in the region, and in the whole Arab world. It has a trade surplus with France greater than a quarter billion dollars, exporting more to France than importing. The growth rate and economic prospects are positive for the future. Tunisian doctors are the best in the region, on par with French doctors; thousands of Libyans receive medical treatment there. Whether tourism, marine life, or service- they produce their livelihood with whatever means they have. Those who are spoiled by billions, making multi-billion dollar deals, and generating billions in commission- find intent to point to other Arab countries like Tunisia that do not have black gold but instead deal with olives. While these complaining countries are compromised and completely bought out from East and West, there are no radio broadcasts about their dealings, affairs and corruption. If a Tunisian were to take a bribe, it would be worth two olives or two goats in comparison to the accusing countries and their media who are drenched by gold, oil, and dollars.

It is wrong and dangerous to act recklessly and emotionally, to destroy and dismantle and then regret later. Tunisia, I’m sad to say, is entering a state of anarchy, the end of which is unknown. Tomorrow, droves of Tunisian people may enter Libya as refugees. This is why what happens in Tunisia is of great interest to us. It is being called a ‘revolution’, but I have yet to see a respectable revolution in which murderers and felons are broken free, killing others in the prison and allowed to roam free at night. Who has convinced your sons to sneak out and fooled them to think this is a worthy cause to die for? Will the loss of your sons make you a representative, deputy, or minister? Will it fix the problems of government and misrepresentation? Indeed not, these problems will remain or return, and your children cannot return. Tunisia is a nation of civilization, tourism, and culture, respected by the world. If this is truly occurring, it would be a shameful insult to the Arab peoples to call this a revolution.

If the protesters are only concerned with the corruption of elected officials, not in establishing the authority of the people and doing away with the government, then they have courts and a legal system. If they believe “representation is not deception, government deputies work and are valid”, then based on their belief they can utilize governmental structures to solve their problems. If members of parliament are corrupt, they can be tried. If the problem is with the President, ben Ali, then they can hold a referendum at any time, though he is scheduled to resign in 3 years. If any official or the President is corrupt, target them with your demonstrations and post before their offices- do not go and threaten your neighbors and shopkeepers. Prosecute anyone, but with facts and evidence, not Facebook and Youtube. The internet is like a garbage can, where anything and everything can be thrown; any drunken fool taking ecstasy can write whatever he thinks and everyone will believe it because they read it on the web. Some of those who are now shouting for the removal of Ben Ali were chanting his name before reading Wikileaks and Facebook. Wikileaks will be laughing at those of you. Perhaps we should not believe such chants of support if they can be swayed so easily, or maybe were disingenuous to begin with.

I urge the brotherly Tunisian nation to heed the advice of concerned onlookers such as myself. In the heat of a contested football match, a trained and acquainted onlooker from a slight distance can often better read the field than players on the field who can only view what is before them. What the Tunisian people are aiming to do now can easily be done without arson, vandalism, and bloodshed. Better yet, they can obtain political and economic freedom by ditching the authority of bureaucracies, government, police, and elected officials. This is the transformation that is necessary, for the Tunisian people not to find themselves or their children in the same predicament later. The energy utilized for causing commotion in the streets should instead be focused on establishing People’s Committees, People’s Conferences, and People’s Congresses, where they can sit and decide everything while drinking coffee. These bodies can call for the change or recall of any policy, position, or body at any time they please. Authority for the people, resources for the people, wealth for the people, ownership for the people, and arms for the people. This we support without hesitation, and it would be a final solution. The will of the people must not be thwarted or exploited by unlawful, antiquated authorities- rich versus poor, governor versus governed, respected nobility versus flattering subjects. We are not with superficial change promoted by silly broadcasts, clerics, or leaders with great human cost.

There is no Power except from Allah. Allah Guides all creation. I will continue to maintain my absolute frankness among the Arab masses. In its current trajectory, the Tunisian uprising will not yield anything better than what they currently have. Zine el Abidine ben Ali will be better than whoever follows him. I haven’t received any money, honor, glory, or anything to make this statement. It is the simple truth. The losses that are occurring and have yet to occur- are they worth the outcome? Death is a finality, there is no return from it in this world, for you or your children; life must be spent on that which is worthy.

Peace Be Upon Tunisia.”

“Beyond Lula’s Keffiyeh: More Than What Meets The Eye

In 2002, it was reported that the Libyan Jamahiriya provided a generous $1 million USD contribution to the presidential campaign of Brazilian candidate Lula da Silva. Highly publicized among our circles are photos of Lula pictured donning the Palestinian keffiyeh and headlines of Lula proclaiming his commitment to ‘a free and sovereign Palestinian state’- to the delight of the vast Arab/Palestinian community in Brazil along with supporters of Palestine across the world. Prior to his election, many from the old Brazilian rightist camp attempted to ‘smear’ Lula by the launching of headlines branding him the ‘Brazilian Hugo Chavez’. Leading a party with such a name as ‘Worker’s Party’, one would assume that these statements and comparisons must carry some weight. In light of this current crisis, confusion has overcome many comrades following the very public endorsements of Lula coming from neoliberal imperialists and zionists such as Biden, Obomber, sHitlery, Blinken’s US State Department, and even Bono. Let us then take look beyond the keffiyeh-optics to analyze the nature and policies of Lula’s presidencies and his ‘Worker’s Party’, considering the lens of the current intra-capitalist rivalry occurring globally.

In 2003, anti-neoliberal leftists from across Latin America and the world celebrated Lula’s election victory, owed to his personality and populist leftist campaign rhetoric. Lula’s image was a sharp contrast against the backdrop of Brazil’s traumatic history of military dictatorship and slow reform, appealing to the Brazilian masses. His supporters included the grassroots left and many classic Latin-American anti-imperialists. Initially, the West, IMF, Open Societies, and the US State Department held reservations regarding the outcome of the Brazilian elections, expressing wariness of a Lula victory due to his union history and limited fraternization with a persona non-grata or two. These forces hoped for more constitutional reform (removal of hindering clauses to their financial interests) and privatization, the latter of which seemed unlikely following Lula’s campaign. However, much to their relief, Lula proved to be a center-left social democrat at best. Soon, the centers of global finance capital and western neoliberalism would also celebrate Lula’s presidency, to the chagrin of the grassroots leftists who campaigned for him (others closed their eyes and silently ignored all indications). The new president stacked his cabinet with neoliberal capitalists with direct ties to Wall Street- most notably his appointment of Henrique Meirelles, former CEO/President of FleetBoston- to head Brazil’s Central Bank. Brazil’s two largest creditors were CitiBank and FleetBoston, with the latter directly having ‘their man’ at the helm of Brazil’s banking/economic policy. Lula’s Vice President, Gerardo Alckmin, is a hardcore neoliberal capitalist keen on privatization. During each Lula term, Brazil directly heeded the IMF’s recommendations, and Lula’s social programs directly followed the outlines provided by the World Bank for ‘cost-effective poverty alleviation’- resulting in high praise for Lula’s leadership and from both entities. The World Bank commended his ‘responsible policies’ while Kohler of the IMF stated that he was ‘deeply impressed and enthusiastic’ about Lula, who was following the ‘right direction’.

Lula’s party, allies, and proteges have had slightly differing policies, some resulting in falling out of favor either with him or his international allies. Dilma Rousseff, former Marxist and since protege of Lula, largely maintained the same policies for which her mentor was heartily commended by global financial institutions- that was until she sacked international-capitalist sweetheart and neoliberal Henrique Meirelles from his leading position at Brazil’s Central Bank. Her impeachment trial was launched soon after, centering around the ‘Fiscal Responsibility Law’, which the IMF ironically applauded Lula for adhering to. Lula, who worked with Meirelles for years, even advised Rousseff to place Meirelles as the Finance Minister instead of sidelining him in order to protect her from impeachment. Perhaps some of her guerrilla history inclined her to act more firmly than her middle-of-the-road mentor. Wall Street was not at all satisfied with the removal of their ‘market-friendly’ operative in Meirelles and disapproved of Rousseff’s new appointments. There was no shortage of individuals abroad and within the Brazilian establishment, banking, and industry to ensure any such policies by Rousseff would not continue; these personalities, if they didn’t play a role in it themselves, certainly did not express any objections to her impeachment.

The return of ‘Amazon defender’, Marina Silva, to Lula’s government is also interesting. The two have made up after a fallout during his first presidency due to his recanting on Amazon preservation promises, heeding agribusiness pressures to allow commercialization of parts of the Amazon. Lula argued that the purpose was to meet China’s immense demand for soy, but Marina viewed it as betrayal. Nonetheless, she is now reunited with Lula, in his attempt to create a big-tent anti-Bolsonaro front. In his most recent cabinet, Lula has chosen a number of ‘civil society’ ‘intellectuals’ tied to the pro-regime change Open Society Foundation of George Soros, a perfect (natural) addition to his neoliberal capitalist fleet with social-democratic tendencies and ‘leftist’ makeup.

Lula self identifies as a ‘negotiator’ and ‘a champion of dialogue’, shunning idealism and juxtaposing himself against polarizing ‘ideologues’. Lula believes he can simultaneously be ‘partners’ of both Iran and Israel, of Netanyahu and Ahmadinejad, and support ‘Palestinian sovereignty and freedom’ whilst being a ‘friend of Israel’. Such a stance effectively renders Lula a two-state solution supporting liberal-zionist who is only critical of certain zionist policies or their manners without denouncing the evil colonial occupation- an unacceptable racist entity from its roots. This was symbolized by his cordial visits with the occupiers of Palestine, speech before the Knesset, fraternal embraces with both Peres and Netanyahu, and maintenance of Brazil’s status as the 5th largest importer of ‘Israeli’ armaments in the world. Furthermore, the Brazilian state has served as an ‘Israeli’ conduit to establish arms deals with other nations on the South American continent, a precedent maintained by Lula’s administrations, which have maintained good relations with the ‘Israeli’ lobby in Brazil. The only speed-bump in the Israeli-Brazilian relationship was Lula’s last-minute recognition of Palestine (post-1967 Naksa borders) as a state during his previous tenure. Nonetheless, he remains committed to the status quo by endorsing the impossible ‘solution’ of obtaining ‘peace’ between two incomparable, incongruent, inseparable ‘states’.

Following the US-led regime change operation against Haiti’s popular and democratically elected leader, Jean Aristide, Lula da Silva received accolades from Crusader George Bush for leading the UN ‘Blue Helmet’ ‘Peacekeeping Mission’ in Haiti and sending the largest military contingent of any UN member state. This barbaric neocolonial ‘Blue Helmet’ occupation of Haiti continued for 13 years until 2017, during which time they were operated with excessive force, unjustifiable brutality, and summary executions to cement the post-regime change order and wretched state of affairs in Haiti. Additionally, the Blue Helmets were responsible for the breakout of cholera in Haiti following the catastrophic earthquake (the Caribbean had zero cholera issues prior), and did nothing to combat it. Utilizing Haiti as a training ground for urban warfare, Lula’s government and the armed forces have since utilized the tactical knowledge and ‘lessons’ from in Haiti to launch multiple military operations in the poor favelas of Rio de Janeiro (police and military have assassinated thousands of people in the favelas), the majority of whose residents share the same African origins as the Haitians that were brutalized by the Brazilian-led ‘Blue Helmets’. The unelected ‘Core Group’- made up of Americans, Canadians, individuals from the EU, and Brazilians- continue to control Haitian policy in chauvinistic colonial fashion, continuing the multi-century long punishment for Haiti’s groundbreaking anti-colonial revolution.

Barack Obomber himself was not shy to express his outright love for Lula before, during, and after his presidency, calling him the most popular leader in the world. Lula has also expressed his admiration for US leader Joe Biden, calling him ‘a breath of fresh air for democracy’. Exposed Euro-Maidan conspirator and warhawk Victoria Nuland visited Brazil soon after the 2022 elections, and called upon Brazilians to trust the results which resulted in Lula’s victory. Her associates and the CIA endorsed the Oracle company’s (Oracle was a CIA project) electronic voting system and dismissed Bolsonaro’s suspicions of electoral fraud. Aside from World Bank, IMF, and Open Societies ties, Lula’s initiative to restore ties with the EU following Brazil’s isolation during Bolsonaro’s reign held top priority. With the loss of Trump in 2020, Bolsonaro was left with little more than Orban and Netanyahu as like-minded allies. Additionally, Lula rekindled the Norway-Germany Amazon fund, and was open to the idea of EU/UN/International ‘protection’ or sovereignty over the Amazon. It is difficult to conjecture now what exactly that would entail, but one thing for certain is the neoliberal pseudo-environmentalist oligarchs were fawning upon the very mention of this idea.

How does one explain the bone between neoliberals and leaders like Bolsonaro? Why is there friction between the archetypal anti-communist, pro-western, military strongman and those who once backed their ilk against the ‘Red Menace’? Soros’ Open Societies Foundation is not at all a fan of Bolsonaro or those like him (at least since the 21st century, possibly since end of Cold War), and support for Bolsonaro among the US establishment (government, intelligence, and Wall Street) is greatly overshadowed by that for Lula. Beyond people like Trump and Musk who hardly represent the leading trends in Washington, there are no significant agencies or policymakers that favor Bolsonaro over Lula. Part of the equation is the negative optics rough-edged military leaders like Bolsonaro give to global capitalism. He is somewhat a relic of the Cold War- a tool against socialism and communism, but a liability and eyesore now. However, the major point of divergence is Bolsonaro’s ‘nationalist’ outlook, versus the Open Societies and WEF’s ‘supra-nationalist’ or globalist outlook. Those nations led by centralized national leadership are ‘at risk’ of pursuing national or personal interests that may be incongruent with global initiatives, causing inefficiency of action, disunited approaches, risk of conflict, and possible unpredictability. The US State Department and these two conglomerates have now been preferring a strong ‘civil society’- NGOs, and decentralized bureaucracies under their patronage, pursuing the same international agendas on social issues, climate, tech integration, and global policy. The idea is that this will result in more uniform and effective global action, minimizing conflict, and cementing a polished/refined/efficient international neoliberal order. In this ‘refinement’ process, Bolsonaro and others of the sort are now liabilities, to be blacklisted as ‘authoritarians’ and phased out/cut off/superseded. His refusal to follow corolla why-rus international protocols cemented the idea of ‘nationalist’ insubordination to global agendas.

This trend of now weeding out fallen-from-favor capitalist, pro-Western leaders reflects an arrogance on behalf of imperialism, suggesting the belief that the current unipolar world order is so stable and uncontested that ideological foes or strategic rivals no longer constitute a threat, and instead pressure can be applied on imperfect allies within their own camp.

With the post-Ukraine breakup of the once-tender relationship between Russia/Putin and Schwab/WEF, Brazil’s landmass and immense human resources appear to be the perfect replacement. Putin was fast tracking many big tech/AI integration projects in Moscow under the direction of the World Economic Forum, with hopes to compete with and possibly surpass the West in this field, with the naive and misplaced hope of finally obtaining Western respect, acceptance, and peer-status. After having lost their investment and an eager participant in the Russian Federation, the WEF views Brazil as an ever-so attractive bounce-back opportunity. Their slogans of ‘sustainability’, ‘democracy’, ‘poverty eradication’, ‘technological advancement’, ‘inclusivity’, and the rest perfectly go hand-in-hand with the rhetoric and outlook of Lula’s government, ‘civil society’, and Soros’ Open Societies Foundation. Unwitting anti-imperial leftists don’t realize that Lula’s reputation for alleviating poverty comes not from the Brazilian working class or socialists, but from PR done by OSF, WEF, World Bank, and people like Obomber who have sung high praises for him.

Bolsonaro was imperialism’s perfect goon, but for the 20th century. Post 4th Industrial Revolution, the bill has changed and Bolsonaro simply doesn’t fit it any longer. Strongman despots for imperialism are out of fashion, while ‘civil society’ supporting democrats are totally ‘in’. To ‘Israel’, Bolsonaro is just a single, distant personality- he doesn’t represent any specific strategic value; there is nothing Lula can or will do to jeopardize ‘Israeli’ interests either, as economic cooperation and mass purchases of ‘Israeli’ armaments will continue unhindered. Ultimately, neither of the two currents in Brazil’s political equation is at all concerned with the interests of the working class. Between an evangelical zionist militaryman and a democratic sweetheart of neoliberal capitalism, there is no people’s solution or option for Brazilian independence. Through the haze of this social stratification and polarization, the masses are being distracted from pursuing a truly independent, socialist future; instead, they become unwitting victims of sloganeering from two parties within this intra-capitalist rilvary- both attempting to convince them that they’ve the best interests of Brazil’s people at heart.”

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Teacher Malcolm’s tribute to Gamal Abdel Nasser, Mawlid 1964

“I am proud and thankful to Allah for blessing me to be a Muslim. Ever since I first heard about Islam and accepted it as my religion, Allah has blessed me in many ways, and given me friends from all walks of life. I am honored to address you on the birthday of our Great Prophet of Islam: Sayyidna Muhammad, صلى الله عليه وسلم. Since becoming a Muslim, I have traveled much throughout the world, to many lands and places, but I have never entered a Muslim country and felt like I was a stranger. I have found nothing but love, friendship, hospitality and true brotherhood wherever I have gone among Muslims, because Islam is the religion of true brotherhood, a religion in which Allah has made all who accept Him look upon all of people as our fellow-humans.

One of the greatest blessings a man can have is a true friend, a true brother. As Muslims, we want for our brothers the same things that we want for ourselves. The well-being of our brother becomes our well-being. His happiness is our happiness. His pain and sorrow become our pain and our sorrow.

In my humble opinion, President Gamal Abdel Nasser reflects an excellent example of the type of unselfish fighting-spirit needed by sincere Muslims. His concept of Islam doesn’t stop him from being a militant leader in the struggle against oppression. He has dedicated all his time and energy to restore freedom and human dignity- not only to the people of the United Arab Republic, but to all struggling Arabs, Africans and others- Muslims as well as non-Muslims everywhere on this earth.

The President’s concept of Islam forces him to fight for the liberation of all oppressed people, whether they are Muslims or otherwise, because Islam teaches us that all of humanity has One Creator- Allah Almighty- and all of humanity has the same God-given right to freedom, justice, equality.”

-Teacher Malcolm X

“The United Nations is being used as a tool of world imperialism to further its hidden aims and designs. This is the imperialism that wants to destroy the nationalist government of Patrice Lumumba. ONUC (United Nations Operation in the Congo) betrayed its principles on human rights, it betrayed and disavowed the U.N. itself. I hold the imperialist states and the U.N. Secretariat responsible. If the U.N. Secretariat submits to imperialism, imperialism will become the driving power of the U.N., ultimately resulting in the downfall of this organization.”

“In our part of the world, the United Nations abandoned its own charter and abandoned the responsibility it had to the rights of the Palestinian people. Has time solved the problem? Has it made the Palestinians forget their land, their country, and their homes? Did the Arab peoples forget the tragedy of one Arab people from among them? Did they forget that the colonial powers were mandated by the League of Nations to protect the Palestinians? The same actors of colonialism not only broke this responsibility, but they plotted and promised a nation to some people other than its owners and inhabitants. Since when can the colonialist own the countries of others? Since when can he nullify a people’s ownership of their own nation, dispossess a whole people of their nation, and grant it to whomever else he wishes?

Brothers and friends, it is historically inaccurate to claim that imperialism is surrendering in Africa or at the verge of surrender. In reality, it continues to display its ugly brutality, with the murder of Patrice Lumumba- leader of the Congolese freedom struggle. His blood will forever stain the banner of the United Nations.

Colonialism would like to repeat the Israeli crimes with similar crimes designed to rule and divide the world [reference to Katanga secession led by imperialist asset Moise Tshombe]. The struggle against imperialism is a struggle for the land and the mines of Africa, for indeed national wealth is a pillar of the national flag. African independence is not about raising a flag or banner while leaving the land and mines in the hands of imperialism.

Is racial discrimination not one of the many disguises of colonialism? Is segregating people according to their color not an attempt to isolate them from power and from obtaining services and wages?”

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“A wave of revolutionary fervor rippled through the Global South following Egypt’s resistance during the Tripartite Aggression of the Suez Crisis of 1956. However, Abdel Nasser and Egypt’s support for anti-colonial struggles was NOT just limited to inspiration. The United Arab Republic, just like the Libyan Jamahiriya, contributed manpower, finances, training, refuge, information, and resources to the righteous causes of liberation across the world. The extreme enmity of the French colonizers towards Abdel Nasser and the United Arab Republic was a result of the unwavering and complete support the UAR provided to the Algerian Revolution led by the FLN. Egypt was a patron to the anti-colonial, anti-apartheid struggles of Africa and an ally to the leading African, Asian, and Latin American revolutionary states.

Prior to the assassination of PM Patrice Lumumba, the martyred revolutionary requested President Abdel Nasser to look after his family and children in his absence from this realm. The wife and children of Patrice Lumumba lived happily in Zamalek for over 3 decades- safe from Belgian, French, and American terror, assassination attempts, and the death squads under their command.

The United Arab Republic was also home to members of the Nkrumah family, including President Kwame Nkrumah’s son, Gamal Nkrumah, who was named after the great Arab leader. Gamal Nkrumah wrote for al Ahram newspaper in Cairo for 15 years. In Egypt, he was in the company of many African-American expats (mostly of pan-Africanist persuasion) also living in Cairo. Among them were members of the family of W.E.B Dubois, renowned poet Maya Angelou, and independent sons of Elijah Muhammad. Many of them were journalists in the English language ‘Egyptian Gazette’. Teacher Malcolm, who also wrote for the ‘Egyptian Gazette’ met many of these people when he visited Cairo and they learned from each other. These African American expats were also introduced to the anti-colonial African revolutionaries of the ANC, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and Kenya who were either frequenting Cairo or temporarily residing there. The UAR even provided support to the Iranian opposition against the Shah, corresponding with leftists, nationalists, and Islamic leaders- some of whom became leading figures of the 1979 Revolution.

Cairo became the revolutionary ‘Capital of the Third World’ (along with Algiers) with its own, highly active chapter of the Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization. Revolution and socialism were on the tips of everyone’s tongues in the Global South, and the revolutionary leadership in Egypt was one of the prime catalysts of this phenomenon. Egypt held many of its own little ‘Bandung Conferences’. The AAPSO was the organization which welcomed our Teacher Malcolm as a guest of honor to its conferences, and gathered Muslim youth from all across the world against zionism, colonization, apartheid, and in support of the Afro-American cause for human rights.”

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“The Truth about Hamas, “Israel”, and Bibi’s Failure at Gymnastics

The history of Muslim Brotherhood collaboration with imperialism and its rejection of militant resistance against the Zionist Entity is not a concealed one. Opposed to the United Arab Republic led by President Nasser and the other socialist pan-Arabist states, the Brotherhood branch operating in Gaza maintained this shameful policy both before and after the zionist usurpation of Gaza in 1967. Perhaps not to the same degree- but not dissimilar from forces of takfiri destruction today- the Muslim Brotherhood prioritized fighting those it classified as “deviants” and “secularists” over resisting the forces of colonization, occupation, and imperialism (if at all). Subsequently, the Zionist occupation not only provided permits for their mosques and institutions in Occupied Palestine, but they also provided them with grants to conduct their operations. The organization’s nonviolence towards “Israel” and [occasionally violent] opposition to the Zionist Entity’s greatest threats and foes proved the Muslim Brotherhood of Gaza to be a perfect partner against both the radical Arab Republics and the Palestinian groups making up the PLO.

The role of the Brotherhood outfits in Palestine was limited to social, academic, and charity spheres. They lacked any sort of national or political program aside from opposing the policies and ideologies of the Arab Republics and the parties within the PLO. Due to their opposition to armed struggle against zionism, the Palestinian Brotherhood did not possess anywhere near the popularity or political support of the parties within the PLO and remained a fringe, sidelined group operating mainly as a dawa and civil society organization. However, as the War in Lebanon raged on and with the intifada approaching, both leaders and members of the group found it increasingly impossible to remain nonconfrontational with the “Israeli” aggressors who brutally occupied them, as per the Brotherhood’s official policy. Thus, Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah (Islamic Resistance Group), or Hamas was formed by now-former members of the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood, granting them freedom from the policy constraints of the multinational organization.

Hamas did in fact form from the same mosques and institutions permitted and supported by the zionist occupiers. But the very formation of Hamas was a repudiation of the Brotherhood’s position of non-aggression towards “Israel” and the policies that resulted in zionist tolerance and promotion of the group. Hamas, after its founding and participation in the intifada, was never supported by the zionist entity. Just a few short years before the creation of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was arrested by the Zionist Entity in 1984 for gathering weapons, but was released the very next year in a legendary prisoner swap coordinated by the PFLP-GC’s Ahmed Jibril (freeing 1500+ Palestinians for a few “Israeli” soldiers). When questioned about the intended use of these weapons, the Sheikh allegedly responded that both occupying aggressors and rival Palestinian groups were potential targets. As a result, the “Israelis” didn’t focus very much on the group after its founding in 1987, as Hamas members at the time were largely involved in countering other Palestinian groups and in policing behavior in the streets. However, Arafat’s overtures and Hamas’ opposition to them would later change the “Israeli” policy [or lack thereof] of indifference.

Arafat’s history of angering the vanguard Palestinian fronts within the PLO culminated in his 1988 statement accepting the existence of “two states”- “the Palestine state and the Jewish state of Israel”, in open contradiction with the PLO’s charter. To the principled Palestinian fronts in the PLO, to Hamas, and the PIJ, this (and Oslo which set this position into stone) was obviously far worse than his previous offenses of fraternization/collaboration with the pro-Western Arab states and the blacklisted Camp David regime in Egypt. Hamas gained much popular support and ceased to be a group on the Palestinian periphery for its prominent participation in the first intifada and principled rejection of Arafat’s capitulative overtures. Catapulted to second only to Fatah in political prominence, Hamas joined the Syria-based APF (Alliance of Palestinian Forces), whose formation was a denunciation of the PLO and a declaration that the Oslo Accords were non-binding/null because the hollowed PLO did not represent the Palestinian people. Arafat was able to capture some defectors from a number of parties to his non-militant side, and the PLO-Islamic dichotomy flipped upside down on the “Israelis”. The new tolerable partners were Arafat and his allies, who not only promised non-militancy with “Israel”, but engaged in “security coordination” with the Zionist Entity to suppress and imprison resistant forces intent on sabotaging the new “peace” (including Hamas members and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin himself). On the other end, the new Islamic Palestinian movement in Hamas aligned with the “from the river to the sea” and “revolution until victory” position of the old vanguard nationalist and socialist Palestinian fronts.

More recently, some quotes over the last few years from Netanyahu have been circling about in which he celebrates the flow of Qatari money to Hamas in an alleged effort to undermine the PA. The reasons for these sentiments are manifold and reveal a complex, duplicitous agenda.

-Firstly, one must recognize the submissive nature of the collaborationist PA has no affect on the historic zionist aims to conquer all of Palestine and beyond, and to establish exclusive Jewish sovereignty over all territories interpreted to be part of “Greater Israel”- including the PA-administered nugget territories in the West Bank. The PA was simply a placeholder and a tool to pacify and demilitarize the West Bank, so as to ripen it for complete envelopment and conquest in the future.

-The official positions of much of the international community, including the US, EU, China, and Russia, voice support for some form of a two-state solution. The PA’s position is also in alignment with the “international community”. Furthermore, its security coordination with “Israel”, amenability to “negotiations”, and further concessions for the sake of recognition make it impossible for anyone to paint the PA as a “bad actor” or one that is disinterested in “peace”. Thus, whether they know it or not, the collaborationist PA’s existence ans international alignment with its two-state solution aims represent a troublesome obstruction to the zionist project of conquering the West Bank and beyond.

-The “Israelis” have been increasingly abandoning their deceitful dual-rhetoric and lip-service to the two-state [dis]solution, which was always but a temporary ploy to facilitate their long-planned conquering and expansion.

-The successful operations of the Lion’s Den resistance across the cities and villages of Palestine showcased the PA’s failure to serve its purpose in the eyes of “Israel”. The decades of PA policing in the West Bank and enforcing on behalf of the Zionist Entity against militant resistance proved fruitless and extremely porous.

-On the other side of the equation, the purpose of “Israel” allowing and promoting Qatari non-military aid to be funneled to Gaza was similar in intent to the US proposal for Qatar to host Hamas’ political leadership in 2011- to moderate the group, seduce them with much-needed aid, and to dissuade them from ending extended state of ceasefire/truce/hudna (opposed by PIJ) with a wide-reaching resistance campaign.

-The “Israeli” public disavowal, cold-shouldering, sidelining, and ignoring their former PA partners was to quietly and gradually swallow PA-administered territories. Simultaneously, Hamas was presented by the “Israelis” to the propagandized world masses as a bad-faith, non-negotiable boogeyman representing Palestinian non-commitment to “peace”- “peace” the “Israelis” never believed in themselves.

-After numerous flare-up confrontations between the Resistance in Gaza and the Zionist Entity and signs of reconciliation with Syria, Hamas-Qatar relationship hit a near-breaking point in early 2020, with threats to expel Hamas and cut off its funding. After things cooled down, the aid continued with hopes to achieve its purpose of maintaining the status-quo.

What was the result of all these games? Ultimately, Netanyahu’s complex schemes were a failure all across the board- both the West Bank and Gaza. The Lion’s Den proved that PA security coordination with “Israel” failed to destroy and pacify resistance in the West Bank, which is FAR from fit-for-conquering. Meanwhile, the PA faces extinction and unprecedented popular sentiments of its illegitimacy/inadequacy- its only chance for survival being radicalization and reconciliation with Hamas and the resistance forces in Gaza. On the other front, al Aqsa Flood proved to the Zionist Entity and the reactionary collaborators that Hamas was NOT getting complacent, but was long-planning a great resistance operation to be conducted in collaboration with the other principled fronts of Palestinian resistance.

Hamas is a Palestinian creation, NOT an “Israeli” one. The PA, birthed after the wicked forced “marriage” at Oslo between rapist and victim, is faced with a choice between certain death or executing retribution for the sin of its own creation. Reality differs from Ron Paul and Mehdi Hasan’s soundbites, which helped popularize the false cliché that Hamas was created by “Israel”.”

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“If “Ceasefire Now”, then what next? What does a post-ceasefire world look like? The response will likely be silence. And that may be exactly what they hope for- “silence”.

Such an obscene amount of unbridled butchery concentrated in such a short span of time, whilst nothing unfamiliar to any generation of Palestinians, was enough to stir even the deepest of daydreamers, induce responses from those in life-long political-comas, and resuscitate the spiritually-dead (due to ceaseless online transmission). But 3 months is a helluva long time to stay awake, especially after years of slumber or decades of vegetativeness.

Some of us happen to be insomniacs. We will not be satiated by a single dose of melatonin. And Palestinians, who have never even known sleep, do not desire a nap on a pile of rocks or a single night of “sleep” on a bed of hot coals. Martyrdom or victory has always been the mantra; aiming for anything less has amounted to nothing but disgraceful surrender and regression, plunging backward every struggle in history that took this path.

Yasser Arafat’s ghost would be the first to tell you that. What was the outcome of the First Intifada? Surely much was to be gained by the valiant sacrifices of the Palestinian Arab masses. So what did it accomplish? No one will ever know, because Abu Ammar entered the room starting with an already compromised position with and left it with an even more pitiful standing- signing away any of the possible gains of the intifada, his dignity, and the tactical/legal standing of the Palestinian struggle. There was no “Peace of the Brave” like the Syrians talked about. It was a “surrender of the stupid”. Almost too stupid to be genuine. Arafat had to circumvent the many Steadfast parties and members of the PNC, once again splitting the PLO, to sign Oslo Surrender Accords.

What are the takeaways from history?

-Coming to the table with an already compromised solution asking for anything less than your DUE right is not even in the recipe book of disasters. It’s in the colonial manual for territorial and mental conquest.

-A solution for Palestine is a solution that has EVERY consideration for the occupied, displaced, refugees, martyrs, and their grieving families- and NO consideration for the ‘political sensibilities’ or interests of members of the international community. It is not their plight, nor is their existence at stake, neither is it their prerogative to have a say in the solution.

-Pleading and appealing is a defeatist and historically defeated stance. Especially worth of scorn is groveling before the very creators, enablers, and allies of the enemy- as if after 80 years of equipping the enemy with the “finest” equipment to kill, plunder, subdue, and surveil, they will spawn a moral consciousness to betray their investments, partners, history, and nature.

-Nothing has been accomplished by aiming for anything less than “martyrdom or victory”, “homeland or nothing”. No liberation movement can identify as one without affirming these two battle cries.

This is not my personal lesson to anyone- it is the lesson of all the Steadfast Fronts of Palestinian resistance, who are showing the world the path to liberation with every bullet and rocket fired at the illegal terrorist supremacist entity.

If you refuse any of these points, then you are not a supporter of Palestine but a supporter of “Shut up already, I would like to sleep in, grab some Starbucks, go for brunch, and not feel guilty anymore.” You are just like the tired and irritated members of the ‘international community, who say “Just accept some terms, any terms damnit, so we can shove this back under the bed and go about our business, thank you.”

If that is your position, then you shouldn’t have bothered troubling yourself calling for anything at all. Save your voice and your tweet characters. No point in skipping brunch just to call for Palestinian capitulation (the same thing the “international community” is calling for) or to impose your historically-ignorant and defeatist stances upon the resilient and optimistic Palestinian, Arab, and Islamic masses.

Who came up with the chant and political aim of “ceasefire now”? Certainly not the Palestinian leadership in Gaza, Beirut, or Damascus. As supporters of Palestine, we cannot ideologically wander about or arrogantly/ignorantly come up with our own demands and slogans, and then have the gall to project them upon the Palestinian movement. All agency belongs to the Palestinian, Arab, and Islamic resistance. It is their struggle first, then it is ours as anti-zionists, anti-imperialists, or whatever else we may be. They possess the knowledge, experience, and authority over their movement. We must demand and work towards exactly what the Palestinian liberation movement needs of us (not what we want of them), lest we disorganize and derail great concerted revolutionary efforts.”

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إلى الأمام

والكفاح مستمر

“Al Qaddafi & the Jamahiriya: Faithful Muslim & Revolutionary Muslim Nation

Alongside unmatched revolutionary credentials against zionism, imperialism, and reactionism are the numerous forgotten and concealed Islamic contributions of the Libyan Jamahiriya and of al Qaddafi, Leader of al Fateh Revolution. No matter, the luminescence of truth is visible through and above the smog of slander and treachery. Hafidh ul Quran, Shaheed Muammar al Qaddafi.

-Libya’s World Islamic Call Society built more than 533 masajid across the various continents of this earth, including the largest masjid in East Africa (Kampala, Uganda).

-Around the world, the Libyan Jamahiriya constructed over 467 schools dedicated to the memorization and study of the Holy Quran.

-The Jamahiriya hosted the largest annual Quranic excellence summit in the world, known as the “al Fateh Quran Competition”, or the “Libyan International Holy Quran Recitation and Memorization Competition”. 1st prize-100,000 Libyan Dinar, 2nd- 80,000, 3rd- 40,000; to reward, award, and inspire the Islamic youth and Muslims at large to study and perfect the Quranic arts.

– Libya, despite her small population, is said to be home of 1 million Huffadh of the Holy Quran.

-The Libyan Jamahiriya commissioned the publishing and distribution of more than 120 million copies of the Holy Quran around the earth.

-By the Grace of Allah, more than 5,545 people and 11 heads of state accepted Islam following the dawah addresses of Muammar al Qaddafi and repeated the kalimah shahadah after him.

-By the Grace of Allah, through the efforts of the Libyan World Islamic Call Society, more than 300,000 people accepted the religion of Islam.

-Since 1974, the Islamic Call College in Tripoli has graduated over 7000 students originating from 92 different countries, all free of charge (both secular and religious education, childhood to PhD were free in the Jamahiriya).

-The WICS awarded hundreds of Muslim reverts gratis trips to Libya, free Islamic literature, the option to pursue Islamic studies there (education free of charge Libya), as well as all expenses paid Hajj and Umrah pilgrimage.

-The Libyan Jamahiriya provided free Hajj to Muslims from over 60 countries.

-Muammar al Qaddafi himself memorized the Holy Quran as a young boy in several recitations, most notably in Qalun, in which he led the people of many African and Islamic nations in congregational prayer (including 1 million Nigerians at once).

-Martyr Al Qaddafi and the Qaddadfa tribe trace their lineage and descent directly to the pure House and Family of the Prophet Muhammad through Martyr of all Martyrs, Master Imam Hussein.

-Al Qaddafi is the only international figure/national represenative to halt an emergency diplomatic meeting and leave dignitaries sitting alone awaiting his return, to offer the mandatory Islamic prayer at its allotted time (USSR 1978).

-Al Qaddafi personally invited the leaders of the Soviet Union to the religion of Islam and gifted them copies of the Quran with his own hands.

-At the exhortation of Muammar al Qaddafi, the people of the Jamahiriya put into the effect the recognition of every Hafidh of the Holy Quran as the academic/official equivalent of a holder of a bachelor’s degree.

-The Jamahiriya effectively reintroduced Islam and Arabic into Malta, built the first masjid of this time period in Malta (Mariam al Batool Masjid) along with an Islamic school, and incorporated Arabic into its curriculum for the first time since Reconquest attempted to erase Islam and Arab history from the island.

-The WICS also built Islamic centers in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, contributed 5 million GBP to the Muslim College in London, partially funded the Central Mosque in London, and supported many African American Muslim organizations stateside.

-Al Fateh Revolution September 1, 1969 removed from Libyan-Islamic sacred soil all brothels, bars, and indecent/obscene establishments insulting the nation’s decency and Islamic character- activities enjoyed by the Italian colonizing invaders and left unhindered by the ‘Senussi’ comprador monarchy of King Idris.

-Al Fateh Revolution removed all colonial Italian and English names and signs, ensured all original Arab names were restored, that new Arab and Islamic names replace foreign ones, and that all official symbols/markers were in the Arabic language and script.

-Libya opened her doors to film producer Mustapha Akkad to produce the ‘The Message, the story of Islam’, on Libyan soil after the Saudis pressured Moroccans to halt filming and for other nations to rescind financial support for the film, which authentically portrayed our Great Messenger to the world. The remainder of the picture was filmed in Libya and remaining expenses covered.

-Libya also completely funded Mustapha Akkad’s picture ‘Lion of the Desert’, depicting the life and liberation struggle of Libyan Mujahid and Shaheed, Sidi Omar al Mukhtar. Libyan soldiers even played all the combat/army roles in the biopic.

-The World Islamic Call Society engaged not only in dawa invitation to non-Muslims, but was also instrumental in working to foster interfaith relations/dialogue between Muslims and the various great, respected, and peaceful religious communities of the world.

-Al Qaddafi campaigned endlessly for the end of religious discrimination, second-class treatment of Muslim and non-Muslim minorities, and for equal political rights of all citizens and residents.

-Al Qaddafi refused to recognize the split of Islam into Sunni and Shia camps, or the false assertion that the Sunnis are represented by the Arabs and Shias represented by Persians, reminding the masses of North Africa’s Fatimid history and the origins of al Azhar University (Lady Fatima alZahraa).

-The WICS employed over 2000 Islamic Studies and Arabic teachers, operating in 36 nations across the world.

-‘Islamic convoys’ were sent by the WICS to African nations in need of food, garments, clothing, medicine, and other forms of relief aid.

-During the sacred month of Ramadan, the Libyan WICS sent volunteers, Quran reciters, and Islamic scholars to nations in need, serving iftar to break the fasts of Muslims, offering spiritual guidance, and leading Taraweeh prayers into the depth of the night.

-The Libyan WICS funded Islamic radio stations in Togo, Benin, Chad, Cameroon, Mali and in South Africa.

-The WICS not only built masajid, but also homes, clinics, and schools for the African continent, complimenting the liberation and development policies of the Jamahiriya.

-Mosque Maryam in Chicago, headquarters of the Nation of Islam in the US, was built with a interest-free loan of $3 million USD in 1972 from the Libyan Jamahiriya. The Jamahiriya supplied over $8 million USD in similar loans to the NOI to fund its programs, including those that paid for legal defense for African American political prisoners.”

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“If our love, the Prophet Muhammad Peace be Upon him, came amongst us to remind us of his advices [regarding sedition and blind/hidden banners], there would be some people who would tell him that he is a supporter of the regime or a preacher of evil. I do not convey anything to you but the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger. These are the accusations they hurl against me for relaying to you the sayings and teachings of our Prophet.”

“We are not of those who blind ourselves to wrongs. We inform our brothers and leaders of their faults. However, these faults do not justify us to be blind to the filthy, covert plots planned by the enemies of Allah and His Faith in this whole world.

These wrongs- however large they may be- can never be sufficient to cause you to reject this conspiracy- a conspiracy which I have not found an equal to in the whole world or in Islamic history.”

“They continued to spread gossip and fake claims. “You are pro-government!”, they said. I told them, “This is far more dangerous than you understand. It is much bigger than supporting a regime, criticizing it, or supporting it. It is a matter of the destiny and future of our country and about sedition. If the gates are broken, they can never be shut again. The road will be crumbled so badly that it will never again be traveled as it used to.” Today you know that I am a man who has a grave fear for the future of our sacred homeland.”

“In the beginning, many of us imagined that the crisis may be relieved soon, but it became more difficult. We found it this is a global war waged by the Europeans and Americans against Syria on behalf of the unholy Judeo-‘Christian’ alliance. These are not Christians, but ‘Christians’ who await their one-eyed anti-Christ as their savior. This global war recruits supporters from their allied countries, our neighbors, and from distant regions; not a single army, but many mass armies of global mercenaries- members of which have existing, lengthy criminal records. It is that organization created by America that calls itself al-Qaeda that we are speaking of.”

-Sheikh of the Levant, Sheikh Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti

“During PLO’s peace talks, whole villages in Lebanon and Palestine were attacked and tens of children were killed. In the case that a single Israeli soldier was killed during any negotiations, the whole of the western media would proclaim that talks have broken down and failed. Were they mice that the Israelis killed?! Is our blood water and the blood of the Yahood plasma?!

The children of Iraq, Libya, Palestine, and Lebanon are but rats to the world. Our people are test subjects, lab rats. When they sanctioned Iraq, they observed how long it takes for an Arab to die from hunger. When they bombarded Iraq from the sky, they tested weapons on our people. Any experiment in mind? Go try it on the children of Iraq [they say].

Western Europeans and the Yahood are the children of Adam while we are the children of rodents. They say that Allah only revealed to the Children of Israel but never once spoke to the Arabs. They are the chosen people of God while we’re animals. Forget about a seat in the Security Council, we’re relegated to the animal kingdom.

-Muammar al Qaddafi

“While we were setting the terms for the British military withdrawal from Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood was secretly holding meetings with officials in the British Embassy, outlining their ability to launch a coup against Egyptian Revolution.

When the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood was asked about his stance on the 1956 Suez Crisis following its nationalization and the Tripartite Aggression against Egypt, he responded, “We are a wide, international front. Perhaps the war in the canal comes for your benefit here in Egypt, while we think it is beneficial to fight elsewhere, in another country.

Such a group does not represent the interests or the sentiments of the people of this nation.

Back in 1953, we made a sincere effort to cooperate with the Muslim Brotherhood, with hopes that this conciliatory, open-handed approach would encourage its leadership to inspire members and followers to take a peaceful and reasonable path. I met with the General guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, and he issued some demands.

First, he demanded that I mandate upon every woman walking in the streets of Egypt to wear the Tarha. This is a matter to be decided within each person’s own household. I asked how this could be possible, to which he responded “It is your responsibility as the ruler.” I replied, “Sir, you have a daughter attending Medical School- she is not wearing the Tarha. If it is not possible for you to compel one young woman to wear the Tarha, your own daughter at that, how do you expect me to veil 10 million women in this country by myself?”

Then, the second demand he told me was that women must be forbidden from employment. Why are some women forced to go astray? They do so because of poverty and desperate needs. We all know such heartbreaking stories of women whose sons, brothers, husbands, or relatives are sick and as a result do not have money, forcing them to sell their bodies. Indeed, work is a protection for women, while banning a woman from working in fact endangers her. Women are liberated by the right to seek employment, achieve, produce, and cooperate to society alongside men.

They continued down their list, including the closure of cinemas, theaters, etcetera. Basically ‘darkness’- that’s what they want [laughter]. Ultimately, these peacemaking efforts failed. They began a propaganda campaign against us under the guise of religion and ordered sedition. On October, 26, 1954, they shot at me in Alexandria [on the occasion of celebrating British military withdrawal from Egypt], leading to the arrest and trial of terrorist members belonging to the organization.

It is not about the assassination of Gamal Abdel Nasser. If Abdel Nasser were to be assassinated, a thousand people similar to Gamal Abdel Nasser would emerge. But we can never accept that our people be assassinated.

In 1964, before the constitution, we released them all from prison, and a law was issued to return every one of them to his former place of employment with the same position and salary. In 1965, we uncovered yet another conspiracy of the Muslim Brotherhood; an underground system of assassination, vandalism, and destruction plans.

We examined the cases of those who participated in these secret organizations and they will be judged in court. Among them are those who were already forgiven and released in 1964, some of them were the leaders and organizers of these new conspiracies. They will most certainly be imprisoned. Following that, the rest of the Muslim Brotherhood members will be released; we will give them yet another chance. If anyone from among them commits similar illegal actions again, he will be surely arrested and we will ensure that he does not leave prison again.

This is fair, and we’ve had enough. We cannot risk the gains achieved by our Revolution over the last 13 years. The courts have established the the Muslim Brotherhood, with its leaders living abroad, is but a movement that works to benefit the reactionaries and imperialists, by whom they are funded. They work for the Baghdad Pact reactionaries and for al Saud, as agents-for-hire. They work for whomever compensates best. We have the evidence. The Egyptian people do not accept the Ikhwan’s deception, nor their exploitation of religion for politics and for profit. They act not as ‘Muslims’, nor as ‘brothers’. They have declared takfir on those outside of their exclusive group and proclaimed all others to be in ‘jahiliyya’. They are a malevolent group.”

-President Gamal Abdel Nasser

“After attending an OAU African Summit, Teacher Malcolm left feeling unsatiated with the careful, tiptoeing criticisms of US domestic policy by some African officials (with obvious exceptions). The mildly dissatisfied response following his diplomatic outreach and education efforts would immediately be reversed after his experience in Egypt.

Organized by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, the Abu Bakr Siddiq Youth Camp in Alexandria gathered politically conscious Muslim youth (male and female) from all across Africa and Asia. Upon Malcolm’s arrival, the youthful attendees lined up to individually greet and welcome Malcolm. Not only did they express mutual solidarity for third world national liberation movements, but they also made dedicated “speeches of welcome and support for the Afro-American struggle” as Malcolm penned in his own letters and personal journal.

This was very similar to Malcolm’s jubilant reception at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria earlier that year, and their bestowing upon him the adoring title “Omowale”, or “the returning son”.

“I was not only shocked, but nervous and frightened. It was so exciting, so unexpected by me, such an honor, I hardly knew what to say or how to react.”

The meeting was opened by the recitation of the Quran, followed by addresses of young people from the UAR, to Uganda, to the Philippines- explaining the struggles within their nations and extending support to their neighbors and distant comrades struggling in America.

“This affair impressed me even more than my trip to Mecca: youth from everywhere, face of every complexion, representing every race and every culture- all shouting the glory of Islam, filled with a militant revolutionary spirit and zeal.”

Teacher Malcolm then spoke to the young audience about the importance of producing action. He was refreshed to hear the youths’ sentiments, “stripped of the ‘diplomacy’ I had heard at the Summit”. Egypt’s Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, chaired by Muhammad Taufik Oweida, then proceeded to provide over 20 scholarships to members of Malcolm X’s Muslim Mosque for study at al-Azhar University, free of charge.

Purposefully hidden from the public eye are Teacher Malcolm’s reflections of his experiences in revolutionary African/Arab states, while his travels in Saudi-occupied Arabia are over-reported and misrepresented. The international Malcolm is intentionally omitted or brushed over by publicized works (such as those by Alex Haley and Manning Marable) and popular discourse among Muslims and non-Muslims alike, that paint him to be a liberal integrationist or even an ‘Islamist’.

Malcolm’s socialist inclinations, his veneration of both pan-Arab and pan-African revolutionaries, as well as third world communist revolutionaries are vastly unknown to the world while mainstream pundits utilize a select portion of his post-Hajj reflections alone define him. These realities shake the comfortably ignorant world views of many self-proclaimed admirers of Shaheed Hajj Malik Shabazz.”

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“May Allah grant President Gamal Abdel Nasser a long life and good health, for he has a tremendous task ahead of him with his desire to revolutionize and modernize the thinking of the Arab World, the African World, and the Muslim World […] The Western Imperialists and Zionists fear him for his work to unite and strengthen those encompassed within these ‘Three Circles’ under socialism.”

-Shaheed, Teacher Malcolm X

“The goal we seek is to abolish colonization and all forms of exploitation. Along comes someone who grew a beard and tells you that socialism is kufr. Fine then, tell me why is it kufr?

The worker who spends his sweat to produce, whose blood is spilled- socialism provides him his rights.

The farmer- socialism provides him what is his right.

Opportunities- socialism provides every person an opportunity to work and earn.

Medicine- socialism provides treatment and cure to everyone.

Feudalism- socialism abolishes feudal exploitation, transforming a society of owners and slaves into a society of free people. Socialism abolishes feudal bondage.

What is socialism? Socialism means providing every child of Adam his humanity and his rights in his life.

What is socialism? Socialism means every person working to create a just and dear society.

There are those families you know about in which one member takes 170 million riyaal, another 50 million riyaal, and they store it in banks outside of the country.

What is socialism? Socialism is to fight and abolish poverty. Socialism takes the unlawful, unearned wealth of the rich and gives it to the deserving, [poor] working people who earned it. This is what they call kufr (blasphemy, disbelief). Because they are the people of [unearned] wealth and riches!

The one who says that socialism is against religion is the one who became rich from gathering the looted money of the nation for himself and his family dynasty. Will this man implement socialism by spending his unlawful piles of looted money on the people? Is he stupid? He believes he comes from a special family, a family of elites and masters while the rest of the people are their slaves. Is this what Islam is?

Does Islam say that there can be an elite special family dominating over the people and enslaving them? Does Islam allow a family to come to a nation and to rule it by feudalism? Does Islam allow them to gain all the money from feudal exploitation? Does Islam allow for all the wealth to go to the ruling family while the remaining people cannot find anything to eat?

Whoever says socialism is kufr while they were silent about this feudal theft is trying to deceive the people and make a mockery of the masses. They want the people to say: “You are the leader of the faithful believers! Your beard is long, you loot our wealth, we salute you and allow you to do so! All because your beard is long, so whatever you are doing can be deemed Islamically acceptable.”

But I know, the masses of this country will never say that. They will never accept this. They will pluck the phony beards off all the reactionaries’ faces. This is a reality of life- they may be able to fool the people for 10 or 20 years. But can you mislead and trick them forever? When they say that socialism is kufr- are the people ignorant fools? You must have heard on your transistor radio- “socialism is about equal opportunities. Socialism is equality without any princes, without highnesses, without majesties, without excellencies”, and without precedence to anyone, be they clean shaven or be they bearded.

How can socialism be against Islam? Those of you who wear beards to exploit the religion- do you believe the people to be dumb, that they can deceived by your words?

The exploitation, business, and profiteering from religion could be used in the past, but today the world has changed. It is understood by the people what they are trying to do with religion.

The Deen (religion) is well understood now. The Deen is equality, the Deen is justice, and the Deen is to give the rightful wealth of a Muslim to the Muslim. The Deen is not taking the wealth of Muslims and giving it to one person or family or any beneficiaries. The Deen establishes social justice.

The one who wants to implement Islam should spend his money on the needs of his Muslim brothers. The money of the Muslims should be spent on and among the Muslims.

One will say, “Yes, that is Islam!” Then I would tell him, “Well, you have become a socialist! You support establishing equality among the people and believe in societal justice!”

The one who wants to implement Islam will not divide the masses into families and the people, into lords or masters and the people. This is the real blasphemy, the blasphemy of the reactionaries. The reactionaries who exploit religion to make money from robbing the masses without a second thought.”

President Gamal Abdel Nasser

“Muhammad Ali, The United Arab Republic, and The Vietnam Draft Case

Here is a candid photo of the freshly-crowned Heavyweight Champion of the World, Muhammad Ali, during his visit to Egypt on his 1964 tour of African and Arab nations. After meeting with the Egyptian Boxing Federation, the Champ was intent to meet President Gamal Abdel Nasser- a mutual sentiment. Following his time in Cairo, Ali visited Alexandria, Port Said, Aswan, the Great Pyramids of Giza, and ancient monuments in Luxor.

“I only read about these monuments, but I didn’t expect that they are that big and marvelous.”

Upon his arrival to Cairo, Muhammad was completely surrounded by a sea of loving Egyptians welcoming their brother and sporting hero. It had only been a few months since he announced his conversion to Islam and even less time since he was given the name Muhammad Ali (it was initially changed to Cassius X). Meanwhile, the US Embassy in Cairo, carried out a crafty plot to ruin this tour and to destroy his popularity among the Egyptian masses. Not long after Ali landed in Cairo, the US Embassy disseminated pamphlets in Arabic denouncing the Nation of Islam as heretics and attacking its leadership. Regardless of the malicious and subversive American attempts to illicit a negative reaction among the Egyptian populace to the independent-minded World Champion, Muhammad Ali received the same outpour of love and warmth from the Egyptians wherever he traveled.

During his legal fight against the boxing authorities, athletic commissions, and the US Draft Board, Muhammad Ali received critical support from the United Arab Republic that has been both forgotten by the world and hidden from the public eye. For his Conscientious Objection to the imperialist assault on Vietnam, Ali’s championship belt was stripped, his boxing license revoked, and his passport voided- preventing the Champion from practicing his trade and making a living, at home or abroad. On top of supporting his family, the rightful holder of the heavyweight crown was burdened by legal fees and paying alimony for a previous, short-lived marriage. Apart from his Conscientious Objection to the imperialist aggression against Vietnam on moral and religious grounds, an integral part of Muhammad’s legal defense was his status as a minister in the Nation of Islam. Priests, ministers, and other religious figures were legally excluded from draft eligibility. Ali’s position as a minister dismissed by the (majority) pro-war American officials and pundits as an after-the-fact cover up to escape the draft. However, coming to the aid of their friend and brother battling the US government, Muhammad Taufik Oweida (UAR minister of Awqaf and leading member of the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs in Cairo) corroborated that the young Champion was in fact officially recognized as a minister in the Nation of Islam by the SCIA in Cairo.

This was a critical point of support for the Champion’s legal battle against the converging interests set on destroying his future. President Gamal Abdel Nasser and the United Arab Republic once again proved themselves to be resolute supporters of justice across the world.”

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“Malcolm X: Nationalism and Islam versus “Islamism”

It is not uncommon to see “Islamists” today claiming Malcolm as their own. Throughout his travels across the world to fight for [Afro-Asian] liberation and to build a united front against zionism/imperialism, our Teacher was also on a quest to find spiritual truth. On this journey, el Hajj Malik el Shabazz was approached, courted, and befriended by many individuals (like Ahmed Osman). Some of those with “Islamist” inclinations included including Mahmoud Shawarbi, Azzam Pasha, Saudi’s Muslim World League in Makkah, and even King Faisal. All corresponded with Malcolm, cognizant of his stature and influence as a revolutionary leader with global outreach.

The money-drenched Saudi monarchy operated the MWL as an “Islamic Dawa and Charity” initiative, its underpinnings rooted in the “Arab Cold War” between the United Arab Republic and the Saudi monarchy. The MWL was formed to counter the United Arab Republic’s Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs in Cairo and Al-Azhar, which were overseen by the Egyptian/UAR leadership at the time. While the MWL propagated Salafi beliefs, the UAR’s dawa and charity organizations promoted a very different Islamic perspective. This Sufi Islamic perspective also had revolutionary political undertones, echoing anti-colonial fervor and the message of establishing a just society on the basis of equality. The Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs emphasized the idea of equality in Islam and the natural symbiosis between Islamic teachings and socialism, designed to liberate and and uplift the downtrodden masses from feudal destitution and colonial bondage. This greatly differed from the socially regressive message of the MWL and its overtly anti-socialist, anti-[Arab] Nationalist, counterrevolutionary political message.

During the tour upon which Malcolm performed the Hajj, our Teacher visited with numerous leaders and African and Asian heads of state to promote his two organizations- the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) and Muslim Mosque Inc. After touring Hejaz, Malcolm met with King Faisal and the Muslim World League, from whom he received grants for Muslim Mosque Inc. This meeting was popularized later in history due to an existing photo of Malcolm in the company of the monarch.

However, hidden from common knowledge is the fact that Egypt provided the largest grants to BOTH of Malcolm’s organizations, only to be relayed by Malcolm’s close associate(s) in the OAAU. They stated that the most generous person to Malcolm’s organizations and his cause was none other than President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Moreover, Egypt provided dozens of al-Azhar Islamic scholarships to the congregants of Malcolm’s Muslim Mosque to obtain a greater understanding of their faith. There exist no surfaced photos of Malcolm’s multiple meetings with President Gamal Abdel Nasser due to the security risks and diplomatic threats involved with such meetings. As articulated by Malcolm himself, President Abdel Nasser was a man our Teacher deeply respected and likened himself to.

“Just as it’s possible for a great man, whom I greatly respect, Ben Bella, to be a Muslim and still be a nationalist, and another one whom I greatly respect, Gamal Nasser, to be a Muslim and still be a nationalist, and Sukarno, of Indonesia, to be a Muslim and still be a nationalist- it was nationalism that enabled them to gain freedom for their people. I’m still a Muslim but I’m also a nationalist- meaning that my political philosophy is black nationalism, my economic philosophy is black nationalism, my social philosophy is black nationalism.”

While in the US, Europe, Sudan, and Beirut, Mahmoud Shawarbi and Malik Badri tried to turn Malcolm towards Said Ramadan and the Brotherhood. Sudanese Sheikh Ahmad Hassoun was assigned by Muhammed Suroor Sabban (KSA Minister of Finance with Sudanese origins) to be a religious mentor for Malcolm during his travels in Arabia. Hassoun was then sent by the MWL to teach Islam in Harlem, Malcolm’s city of residence (due to his fluency in English). He was a more moderate figure than others associated with the MWL, hailing from Sudan and being a normal speaker at the Great Mosque in Makkah. Malcolm respected him deeply and learned much from him about Islam, just as he did from Ahmed Osman. Regardless of the political direction of the Brotherhood [sympathizers or supporters] and the MWL, Malcolm remained distinctly separate from their political ideologies, only absorbing from them applicable Islamic knowledge. He maintained full commitment to black nationalism politically while remaining devout Muslim spiritually- opposed to the idea of imposing one over the other or improperly mixing the two. Both existed symbiotically.

“I am still a Muslim. That is, my religion is still Islam. I still believe that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah. That just happens to be my personal religion, but in the capacity that I’m functioning in today, I have no intention to mix my religion, with the problems of 22 million black people in this country.”

“What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. You don’t catch hell because you’re a Baptist, and you don’t catch hell because you’re a Methodist. You don’t catch hell because you’re a Democrat or a Republican, you don’t catch hell because you’re a Mason or an Elk, and you sure don’t catch hell because you’re an American; because if you were an American, you wouldn’t catch hell. You catch hell because you’re a black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason.”

When Teacher Malcolm was asked about his acceptance of grants from Saudi’s MWL grants to his newly formed Muslim Mosque Inc., he explained his “strategy”. This consisted of a formal, cordial approach to the conservative state to secure funding for his own organization without any intention of toeing the MWL line. With Muslim Mosque Inc, Malcolm was conscious that Islam’s eternal universality was to be applied specially to each respective historical/geographical context. He cleverly planned to utilize the MWL’s financial means to develop his organization with intent to collaborate with none other than their rivals- “the more progressive Islamic forces in Cairo”. Politically and spiritually, Teacher Malcolm said that “Cairo is where my heart is”.

“I am hoping that you understand my strategy in cementing good relations with them [the MWL]. My heart is in Cairo and I believe the most progressive forces in the Muslim world are in Cairo. I think that I can be more helpful and of more value to the progressive forces in Cairo by solidifying myself also with the more moderate or conservative forces [in the MWL] that are headquartered in Mecca.”

It is important to note that both of Teacher Malcolm’s organizations were still in their infancy when they were orphaned by his martyrdom. It is possible to say that his clear partisanship towards revolutionary Cairo and the “Arab Cold War” would have strained his relations with the MWL, associated with counterrevolutionary Riyadh.

Let us not allow others to hijack and exploit the legacy of our brilliant Teacher. They do so with limited, superficial knowledge of Malcolm. It is as clear as day- El Hajj Malik el Shabazz was a pan-Africanist, black nationalist, supporter of third world revolution, and a Muslim. He was not an Ikhwani or “Islamist”, while he may have known/met/corresponded with a few individuals with such tendencies. Neither did he ever become a pacifist or liberal, he was always a revolutionary. Our teacher did not make hidden his admiration for Abdel Nasser, Ben Bella, Sukarno, Ahmed Sekou Toure, and even Mao Zedong- individuals defamed and cursed by those who call themselves “Islamists”.”

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“It’s an honor to be here in Cairo. This is my third time here; each time I come, I feel as if I am at home. The people of Egypt have shown me true brotherhood- I am humbled by your hospitality, warmth, and unequaled friendliness.

I want to say to the people of Egypt once again that Your President is My President. President Nasser is fearless in the face of great powers and possesses a far-seeing vision for Asia and Africa. Under his leadership, Egypt has maintained an uncompromising stance on the side of freedom. The United Arab Republic is a supporter of freedom everywhere, in Egypt and outside Egypt. African Freedom Fighters and those across the planet are thankful to your President for his commitment to their struggles against colonialism, imperialism, and zionism.

President Gamal Nasser brought freedom to Egypt by expelling all foreign occupiers, by returning the Suez to its rightful Arab-African owners, and he gave pride to all of Africa and Asia when Egypt defeated the foreign invaders. The Algerians, South Africans, Angolans, Cameroonians, Congolese, and many others are thankful for the immense support, inspiration, and the Egyptian commitment to fighting imperialism.

Your President and My President- President Gamal Abdel Nasser- is a good man, a good leader, and a good Muslim. It is always my pleasure and honor to meet and exchange ideas with him. May Allah bless him.”

-Malcolm X in Cairo

Martyred Syrian Sheikh al-Bouti on Pseudo Jihad, and Dangerous “Islamist” Political Discourse

“Muslim identity politicians have now-

1. Normalized the notion that the Syrian Arab Republic is a greater threat to the “ummah” than Israel

2. That China is a genocidal state comparable to Nazi Germany and immeasurably worse than the US and Israel in terms of human rights abuses

3. That Qatar and Turkey are “anti-zionists” and leaders of the ummah (delusion)

There are countless legitimate criticisms of China today. But for Xinjiang to be one of them, one must either support career-warhawk neocons, their Uighur NGO assets, and/or sympathize with AlQaeda and the ‘Turkestan Islamic Party’. Within Uighur separatist political discourse, there is no third option, regardless of what one would like to imagine.

Horror stories with catchy headlines extract the necessary emotional responses from politically illiterate Muslims; their belief in the political innocence of ALL Muslims in ALL conflicts while possessing scarce prior knowledge makes them the ripe, low-hanging political idiots of US foreign policy.

Muslims formulate political opinions based on forwarded whatsapp messages, headlines, catchphrases, tabloid-esque gossip, weak conspiracies, or moral judgments (x person/government/country is good/bad) they’ve heard from an elder or from the pulpit.

From Nayirah’s graphic lies about alleged Iraqi Army atrocities in Kuwait, to Muslim Brotherhood members complaining that they couldn’t even smile or play soccer in the streets because of “the regime”, to the angelizing/complete victimization of Bosnians-

western Muslims gasp, clutch their pearls, parrot basic talking points of war propagandists, and hurl their plentiful funds to these causes while believing they are doing a service to the ummah.

Martyred Sheikh Muhammad al-Bouti of Syria spoke of this since 1996, likely as a direct response to the wars in the Balkans. He warned of an expansive scheme to hijack the word “jihad”, to self-declare “jihad” without religious authority, to misuse the word to cause instability, death and destruction, and to fight idiotically for the benefit of others while causing detriment to yourself.

These pseudo “jihads” do not benefit anyone but those who believe your blood to be worth less than a grain of sand to a Bedouin.”

“Remember these faces of treason.

Mohamed Amekraz, Youth Secretary of the Moroccan PJD (“Islamist” Conservative party), gained his pro-Palestinian brownie points (in typical Erdoganist fashion) while giving an interview to the pan-Arabist Lebanese channel, Al Mayadeen. His impassioned statement vocalized the *proclaimed* “commitment” of his party to stance of Morocco’s youth in supporting human rights in Palestine.

The very next day, upon the flick of a switch, Amekraz was endorsing normalization *overnight*, displaying symbols of the now consummated, long-running Morocco-Israel affair. Amekraz and the PYD endorsed the position of the Moroccan monarchy on both the Sahara and the Palestinian cause. The “Islamist” PJD went on to freeze the membership of any party dissidents who refused to comply with party leadership’s decisions on either matter.

When prodded at by journalists, Amekraz dodged their questions and was unable to provide a coherent response. He made vague references to “putting the nation first” and superficially mentioned the “importance of the Sahara issue”.

The Brotherhood, its allies, benefactors, and satellites all see it fit to abandon Palestine, reject causes of defense/liberation, and remain compliant with zionist monarchies… instead, they turn their guns to anti-zionist Arab states. The “Islamist” PJD and the monarchy they profess loyalty to are both advocates and assets of colonialism.

Everywhere you go in the Arab world, the brotherhood outfits discreetly or openly endorse normalization; many have even played leading roles in this pursuit of shame, from Ghannouchi of Ennahda to Morsi of Egypt and the Gulf proxies of Islah in Yemen. All one has to do is look beyond the rhetoric of their rallies and recruitment propaganda.

Amekraz and the PJD, like broken timepieces, did however get one thing right- that the Western Sahara and Palestine are both of the same nature. They are both occupied by barbaric, illegitimate, reactionary, zionist entities opposed to the very heartbeat and yearnings of the Arab Nation- schemes with which the PJD/brotherhood are complicit.

Morocco belongs not to Mohammed al-Saadees or his family- it belongs to the sons of the soil and those who honor the departed martyrs of revolution like Mehdi Ben Barka (a friend and ally of both Malcolm X and Che Guevara). For those who have been asleep for the last 60 years, the Moroccan monarchy had its handlers in French intelligence, CIA, and Israeli Mossad to assassinate Ben Barka, who fled abroad to protect his family. The pursuit and assassination of this pro-Palestinian patriot and supporter of Abdel Nasser is all the proof one needs to recognize the illegitimacy of the Moroccan monarchy. This wretched government has directly conspired with the enemies of the Arab Nation at least since 1967, when it bugged the hotel of the Arab Conference, leaking Arab war plans to the Israeli Mossad.

Normalization is a meaningless token, collaboration and friendship between the zionist entity and the [anti]-Arab monarchies is as old as time. Abdel Nasser told you 70 years ago of these colonial agents and reactionaries, you have no excuse to be ignorant today.”

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“”No regression and no ikhwan! No profiteering in religion! No reactionaries and no ikhwan!”, chanted the Egyptian audience during President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s national address about the Muslim Brotherhood.

Why is it that we do not see “Islamic” political parties organizing for the rights of the poor, against money lenders, against banking practices, against the traitorous compradors, and against exploitative feudal collaborators? Indeed, the landowners, collaborators, and money-lenders have been the financial backers of such clerics and “Islamic” organizations. They dare not speak against their own benefactors.

While decrying western culture on one hand, on the other hand these “religious” parties condemn national liberation movements for reclaiming industries (by nationalization) controlled by foreign powers and their comprador assets. On issues such as women’s rights, dress codes, blasphemy laws, or the status of religious minorities, these “religious” parties are the first to express ferocious dissent. When it comes to the God-given human rights of farmers, villagers, and laborers (most of whom are devout and pious), their rage is nowhere to be found.

Who has historically controlled the awqaf (religious endowments)? Who has always funded the construction of mosques and religious institutions? None but the landowning elites, the same class entrenched in usury, treason, and [moral] decadence. This is why President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the awqaf and equally applied land redistribution programs to all land, including those connected to the waqf fund. For this, he is faulted by the Muslim Brotherhood and many clerics. Did he cut off religious endowments? Of course not! Then why was Abdel Nasser demonized for this?

What did Nasser do besides transfer control of the waqf funds from the pro-western feudalists to the popular, legitimate national leadership? Did he disenfranchise worshippers or students of sacred knowledge? Absolutely not! In fact, Abdel Nasser expanded al-Azhar’s curriculum, opened admission to women, and has a host of accomplishments for Islam. So who at all was disenfranchised by this move, save for the Egyptian elites?

This is clear proof that the “religious” parties provide their rank-in-file followers with false narratives and half-baked, inconsistent religious justifications for the sole purpose of protecting the privileges of the ruling elites. The Muslim world is permeated with the infectious political propaganda of the Brotherhood (and their paymasters in the Gulf/West) against President Gamal Abdel Nasser, veiled as religious arguments. Resultingly, normal people unwittingly become parrots of imperialism while [ironically] believing they are acting in service of their own faith.

-While Egypt was attacked by the British, French, and Israelis during the Tripartite Aggression of the Suez Crisis, the Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood stated that it was not in their interests to partake in this conflict to defend the homeland.

-While the Revolutionary Egyptian leadership was establishing terms for the British departure from Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood was secretly meeting with officials in the British Embassy, boasting of their ability to launch a counter-coup against the revolution.

-When the Egyptian Revolution nationalized industries and enacted land reform directly in the interests of landless Egyptians (most of whom were pious Muslims), Muslim Brotherhood clerics and pundits lashed out against this “theft” and denounced it as un-Islamic. This was supplemented by Radio Makkah broadcasts, bin Baz declaring socialism to be kufr, and issuing a fatwa that Abdel Nasser was a kafir.

-When it came to negotiating with the popular Egyptian leadership, the first (boldly-stated) demand of the Brotherhood was to mandate the Tarha (full veil) upon all Egyptian women. Along with this demand came the request to forbid all women from working. After these demands and ultimatums were refused by the Revolutionary Egyptian leadership, the Brotherhood resorted to terrorism, vandalism, and assassination.

-While the Tripartite Aggression was raging against the people of Egypt, the Brotherhood ramped up their subversive acts (assassination, vandalism, terrorism) against the Egyptian state. While the people of Egypt and their army were facing a mortal threat from the colonial/zionist archenemies of the Arab nation, the Brotherhood sent a clear message to the world about their true nature, intents, and the identities of their foreign backers.

-While Egypt was fighting a war to support the rising Arab nation of Yemen against the Saudis, other reactionary monarchies, the Mossad, and colonial powers- the Brotherhood condemned Abdel Nasser and called for a renewed domestic war against the United Arab Republic. As Abdel Nasser said, the Brotherhood were the clear and witting mercenaries of the Baghdad Pact reactionaries and imperialists.

Where were the Brotherhood’s ultimatums and demands when the corrupt leeches and colonial assets hoarded all of Egypt’s wealth? Where was their ferocity when Egypt was being attacked by the most inhumane and deprave of colonizers?

When it comes to defending one’s own national sovereignty, the “religious” parties are weak, vague, and treacherous. When it comes to foolishly trivial pursuits to interfere into affairs of the house, the Brotherhood comes lunging in. When it comes to protecting the interests of the elites, opposing progress, and fighting “jihad” against progressive anti-zionist, anti-colonial states, they show their teeth.

When the CIA’s blood-lusting goons in the Indonesian police, street gangs, and in Suharto’s army came for the PKI (Muslim communists, biggest communist party in the world outside USSR and Red China) and Sukarno supporters, they massacred whole villages and families of *alleged* PKI affiliates in an island to island genocide of millions. How was this genocide from aircraft, helicopters, gunships, and on foot possible? It was legitimized through fatawa passed by “scholars”, stating that the “blood of communists was worth no more than the blood of chickens”. Where in all the books of Islam did they extract these rulings from? They based their fatawa on fictional events that never occurred, engrained into people’s minds by Suharto’s routinely televised, graphic, overdramatized propaganda film. While takfiri clerics condemn accuse individuals and whole sects of bid’ah (innovation), are they not themselves innovators? Are they not sinfully attributing their own political agendas to the religion of Islam? Is it not even more heinous that they are using Islam to benefit the tyrants of this earth? How can the Muslim world not be incensed by the grotesque murder of Muslim peasants and villagers endorsed by none other than self-proclaimed clerics and representatives of Islam?

Abdel Nasser asked: are the feudalists not the ones mistreating and stealing from Muslims- the very people the Brotherhood claims to represent? Did the land and wealth of Egypt all belong to 20 elite families who occasionally wrote checks to build mosques or does it belong to all the sons of the soil? How is socialism “kufr” when it ensures societal wellness by spending upon the needs of the people and providing them their rights? Are these policies and principles anti-Islamic in their essence?

Beloved Prophet Muhammad (sAaws) uplifted, taught, and united the poor, maltreated women, and slaves against the backwardness of the Meccan elites. The “Islamic” parties act against their own Muslim brothers, sisters, and compatriots who are poor and abandoned while standing in unison with corrupt feudalist traitors, reactionary monarchies, and the intelligence agencies of colonial powers.”

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