Libya: The Vultures Have Landed

Tuesday, 04 October 2011 23:43

Shorty after the fall of Tripoli, British and French Prime Ministers David Cameron and Nickolas Sarkozy made a congratulatory visit to the people of Libya. It's striking that nearly 100 years after the British and French met and drafted the Sykes-Picot treaty which carved up the Muslim lands from the waning Uthmani Khilafah, these same actors took such a forceful and noticeable posture in Libya. The French president emphasized that there was "no hidden agenda" in the European air campaign against Qaddafi, countering criticism that participating nations may be seeking oil deals and other contracts in the new Libya. "This was a just cause," Sarkozy said. Aiding Muslims against a tyrant dictator is a just cause indeed, but it is one that should have been shouldered by the Muslim armies of Egypt, Algeria, Sudan, Turkey, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. But since the Muslim governments failed to assist their brothers yet again, the Western powers used this "just cause" to interfere in another Muslim country yet again.

If saving oppressed people from a brutal regime is such a "just cause" according to the West, then why is NATO allowing Bashar al-Assad to pummel peaceful protestors in Syria? Why is it allowing the Israelis to expand new housing projects in the West Bank? Why does it not interfere in Yemen or Saudi Arabia or even Bahrain? Instead of supporting a "just cause", the reality is that just as in 1916, the world powers of today are vying to re-shape the globe. And just as they did before, their actions are centered on the Muslim world.

To put their actions in context, it's important to remember that the Europeans are facing the worst financial crisis in their history; not only affecting Greece and Spain, but threatening to ensnare strong economies like Italy, France, Britain and even Germany. To this end, the International Monetary Fund recently issued a report stating that the world economy is even more fragile now than it was at the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008 with the European debt crisis and continued American economic problems potentially dragging the world into a second recession. So they've turned their attention to the Muslim world, seeking strong economic deals from their agents and puppets. Just as the British and French capitalized on the nationalistic divisions which were sparked in the Uthmani Khilafah, Cameron and Sarkozy know full well that the tribal divisions in Libya and differences between the Libyan rebels will eventually play themselves out, allowing them to redraw the political landscape of the Muslim world by ushering in a new wave of puppet rulers. They know that times of strife are ideal for redrawing the map. The Western powers capitalized on the sectarian strife in Iraq and are benefitting from the ethnic tensions in Afghanistan today.

Sometimes the past in an indicator of the future, so it can be comfortably said that the Europeans will play an even greater role in Libya, capitalizing on the chaos they've created. But what's different today than in 1916 when the British and French redrew the map of the Muslim world is that the Muslims now are grabbing hold of the pen of their destiny. And they are, in resounding numbers, asserting their desire for a Muslim world unified by Islam and governed by Shariah. This factor of the Ummah rising to uproot these regimes is a factor that will be the undoing of the Western plans for the region.