This is the mantra that the crusaders have taken up as the permission to go to the holy lands In Palestine and murder thousands upon thousands there and on the road. Back then wars were fought under the disguise and collaboration of corrupt religious leaders who pretend to get their orders directly from God, or who spread lies that they have a mandate from God to kill people. Back then people fought believing that they were insuring their place in heaven. Other types of wars didn’t involve religion as much but had involved race as a major factor, or to despise a certain type of people just because they might have another shade of skin color or even just another language. In reality though, it was just for power and money, and those who did the actual fighting were better dead anyways. Then with the dawn of the twentieth century, humanity witnessed another reason for killing, this time it had nothing to do with God, this time it was about ideologies. Except here in the warm waters of the Arabian Gulf, we still fight for race and religion; why? Because "Deus Vult" of course.
Admittedly we did get some stints and hints of Arab nationalism movements in the area and even some communist influence here and there, but on the major part it was failed attempts in the six GCC countries. Nowadays we have reverted back to what seems like a religious struggle once again. I have to admit though that one big catalyst to this religious struggle is the so called Islamic revolution in Iran, which if you would notice hasn't finished "revolting" since 1978; I wonder why. Lines were drawn again dividing religious beliefs and creed, which have halted so much progress in this particular region. Ever since, we have gone from developing nations to nations locked together in a state of cold war. What's more is that within these GCC nations we have seen more and more divisions of religion take place. So in a nutshell we have went from developing countries to countries struggling from religious zeal. You might notice that I dedicate a fair amount of time to criticizing religious leaders, and that does not come out of nowhere, to be honest with you all I have found out that most of the blame should be placed on religious leaders who have pretended to be politicians in our society, although I do believe that religious leaders could be politicians only if they start to accept that religion is a private matter and that the people are not just a bunch of ignorant sinners who need spiritual guidance when all they want is food in their stomachs. All of those against my point of view can only look to our greatest teacher, the Prophet (PBUH) and tell me the shape of his government when he ruled Medina or when he eventually united the Arabian Peninsula. He has never proclaimed himself king and he sure never held elections to the office of God's prophet nor did he have a Soviet style "Politburo". He did though rule and die in Medina while so many Jews were freely practicing their own religion. So now tell me again, you think those religious leaders you love so much are better than the Prophet? Ask yourselves another simple question; why do they mostly preach fear of the other? Be it another religion or another sect or even just another language. It's simple really; "Fear" has always been the door that religious leaders use to accept them as the ultimate authority.
On the other hand there are many religious leaders who I have only the utmost respect reserved to them. Simply because they have understood what this religion is talking about, and that the people need more than spiritual guidance for them to survive. People need jobs, education, security, health and much more which is no less important than spiritual guidance. But these other ignorant clerics of hate foolishly think so much of themselves that they actually believe that they can achieve what the Prophet and his companions could not achieve.
One thing for sure is that when politicians try to meddle with religion and/or money they become corrupt. One last thing that has made me laugh so much is when the Grand Ayatollah in Iran commended the Egyptian revolution and has claimed it to be influenced by the Islamic revolution in Iran. I tell you dude that the Egyptians have risen up because they want to live, not because they want to know where the Qibla is.
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