Two breeds of Arabs  

It is interesting to note the difference in the approach adopted by the Meccan and the Medina Arabs towards Muhammad. The Arabs of Mecca had known him since his birth and had gone through the thirteen years of his prophetic claims, which they had already rejected steadfastly. They called him anything from a liar to a mad man to a poet but never called him a prophet. They heard the verses he produced to support his claim and they said we produced better verses to refute his claims! They heard the Quranic stories and said they had heard this before! Muhammad was getting with them nowhere.  

On the other hand, the Arabs of Medina believed Muhammad without asking any questions and without even seeing the man or hearing the Quran! Only a few of their tribesmen met Muhammad during their Hajj to Mecca and the rest just followed. They gave Muhammad more than he could dream of. They allowed him and his group in their city and provided them with food, shelter and protection which he dearly needed. Now look at how Muhammad returned this favour: he took over the city from them and made it a rule that none of AlAnsar will ever rule the Islamic state as long as a Qurayshi is still in existence! Muhammad knew only too well that those Ansars are too stupid to be trusted as rulers.  

Muhajeroon and Ansar -1400 years later!   

The Muslim Brotherhood movement, which is the mother of most of the current Islamic movements, has been around for about eighty years. It started in Islamic countries among its Sunni Muslim population, but was largely rejected by people and governments alike. Even during the stage when it was supported by the west in the 1950s and 1960s it made no impact on ordinary Muslims. Hizbul Tahrir was the second Islamic movement to appear in the Middle East and started soon after the Second World War with almost no successes at all. Its members, like those of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, were living in the Middle East like outcasts. The rejection of these Islamists was mainly from the very Muslims who found more appeal in other national movements of the time.  

The current Islamic movements started in its own Mecca and among its own population, but for decades failed to make any real progress. Just like Muhammad failed in his own Mecca !  

These current Islamists turned their eyes to the west which they saw as the new Ansars. And they were not disappointed. The western civilization has a built-in structural fault called Political Correctness which aims to make stupidity, not common sense prevail. The west received these Islamists (some actually call themselves al Muhajeroon!) with open arms and provided them with food, shelter and protection which they badly needed to propagate their religion, just like the Ansar of Medina did to Muhammad and his companions!  

These new Muhajeroon despise the west (the new Ansar) just like Muhammad did to his own Ansar! Today’s Islamists are only interested in making use of the benefit system and civil liberty laws available in the west under the protection of political correctness. Under such protection, they plan to use to their advantage, all the facilities available in the west to propagate the real Medina Islam, including their  plans of  ghazwas—just  like Muhammad did in Medina .  

Even though they are yet to be powerful to make any dent in the western civilisation, these Islamists audaciously make it clear they want to take over the city, under the protection of the politically correct western Ansars! Just like Muhammad did.

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Mumin Saleh’s e-mail address is [email protected]

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