The latest WikiLeaks show Arab rulers have a slavish relationship with the US government and is further proof of the widening gulf between the rulers and the public.
The leaks show some of the views Arab rulers expressed to US diplomats
• King Abdallah of Saudi Arabia confesses his closeness to George Bush and Bush’s father and tells White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan it is “critically important” for the new president to restore America’s credibility. Unlike the public, it seems the King believes US involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and the wider region has been nothing but good! The King said “We (the U.S. and Saudi Arabia) spilled blood together” in Kuwait and Iraq, the King continued, and Saudi Arabia valued this tremendously. Friendship can be a difficult issue that requires work, Abdullah said, but the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have done it for 70 years over three generations. “Our disagreements don’t cut to the bone,”
• The president of Yemen, Ali Abdallah Saleh, allows the US to bomb and kill his own citizens but is afraid of a hostile public’s backlash so claims that such bombings were by Yemeni forces. He told General Patraeus: “We’ll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours.”
• Most Arab leaders want the US to tackle Iran, even to wage a war against it but evidently do not say so publicly for fear of Arab public opinion and reaction. On the other hand, the public in Iran and across the Muslim world see Israel as the rogue entity which needs to be confronted militarily.
For most Muslims, these views are actually not surprising. After all, these leaders have long been seen as sell outs. If not for their slavish support, it would be impossible for western governments to have military bases in our lands or to maintain their military, economic, and political subjugation of the Muslim lands. These leaks are just additional proof of the weak and fearful Arab leaders who are dependent on US protection and who are so out of step with the views of the public.
It is no wonder that the public increasingly clamour for a strong and sincere Islamic leadership, the Khilafah state, which will once again harness the vast resources, unify this ummah, rule by the Islamic shariah, establish justice and end the domination of the Muslim lands by foreign powers.
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“For Allah is One full of strength, able to enforce His Will.”
[Translation of meaning Al-Mujadilah 58:21]
Taji Mustafa
Media Representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain
O Allah the most merciful, please gather around our traitor rulers and punish them the way you did to A’ad and Thamud etc. This Ummah knows that we did not do well to ask your help while we lived through colonialist’s enslavement and we did not call upon you enough but were guided to your enemies by our traitor rulers.
“The rulers are of the people” – not always the case as we knew because of theses were agents for the colonialist powers from their actions, the suffering they put the ummah in as well as selling resourses for peanuts and also not implementing Islam and now wilileaks has told us what we already knew.
During the Battle of Badr, one of the unbelievers taken prisoner by the Muslims was Abu Azzah, a poet who often attacked Islam and the Prophet(saw). When the Prophet(saw) decided that the prisoners could be freed in return for ransom, Abu Azzah spoke to the Prophet(saw) and appealed to him to grant his release without a ransom, because he was poor and had a family to support. The Prophet(saw) granted his request after the man pledged that he would never criticize the Prophet or attack Islam. However, soon after he was granted his freedom, Abu Azzah reverted to insulting the Prophet(saw) and satirizing Islam in his poetry. Some time later, he was again taken prisoner by the Muslims. Again he appealed to the Prophet(saw) for his release, protesting that he had a poor family to support. In reply to his appeals, the Prophet made this statement: “A believer is not bitten from the same hole twice.”
So arise Oh muslims be not of those who are bitten from the same hole twice rather be of those who work to remove these rulers who have dug this hole to continously bite the muslims with.
Work the establish the Khilafa which will give us the sincere leadership we yearn and WILL INSHALLAH return to us, our dignity.
Indeed when Allah wills.
They have taken others as their auliya than Allah (swt) as their guardians…in whose guidance they follow taghoot; trust them for protection to prolong their hold on to the realm for little longer.
They will not be able to deny any of misdeeds, hide in disguise from the torment of Allah in the hereafter only to find powerless to change the condition in which they are placed.
The leaks did not show the arab leaders urging the US to bomb izrail.
When we question why US isnt kicked out of pakistan, some analysts claim muslim leaders are under some kind of threat from the US, and that is why they cant do that, and instead walk a fine line balancing act…….
Is that to please us, or the US ?
This sounds like excuses to me, but if its true, what exactly is the threat ? Also i want to know about kayani, i get mixed info about him, is he pro us or anti us/ pro pakistan ?
Also believe muslims have to fight for their rights, Khilafah is our right.
These leaks should be distributed to the ummah everywhere ensuring that our message is stamped home and that never again can the excuses of those who support the Saudi and other regimes can ever open their mouths
Aselamu aleikum;
please brothers don’t follow your emotions, when you say some thing about islam please make your at most effort to follow the quran and the sunnah.
which place in the quran and the sunna mention of fighting muslim rulers.
unless they ordered you in clear disbelief. it is obvious that the Saudi government has done and still doing so many mistakes but still it is supporting the muslim ulema,and supporting islam, and encouraging muslims to live an islamic life style. those westerns be it individually, ingroup or at government level are trying to disturb the peace of the gulf Arabs and make them like the other countries which are full of conflicts. wiki leaks will not bring peace by revelealing those informations rather it will bring to much conflicts and violence pls Muslim Ummah don’t be fool, concentrate on islamic knowledge, how many of those of you who wrote these comments, follow the religion islam. Allah will help the muslim Ummah if we truelly follow him. before critisizing others look in to your selves. and speak what you know for sure.
by the way i am from Ethiopia