new globalised scenario?

in the wake of london's bombings and the excellent ensuing discussion on meher's blog i thought i'd add my two cents to the debate.we live in tumultous times.not that any other era was not but its become a bit scarier now.9/11 changed the world.like the end of the cold war this was a turning point in current affairs.who did 9/11 and why ill come to later.as many who have commented on meher's blog have said the seeds were sown during the afghan jihad.i'd say the seeds were drawn in the late 19th/early 20th century.barring iran and a few others the entire muslim world as we now know it was colonised by the europeans.for muslims it would take almost two cernturies of repressing colonial rule before they would start to emerge from their deep slumber.in our own homeland we first had sir syed and iqbal on one side and maududi on the other.sir syed and iqbal preached the progressive message.maududi in essence said this was Allah's punishment for us since we had gone astray from the true path.iqbal and sir syed implored muslims to seek knowledge just as the Quran and prophet had ordered.maududi and his like scorned mordern subjects and philosophy.in other parts especially in egypt there was this progressive scholar Hassan Al BAnna(correct me if i have the name wrong).he went abroad to seek higher education from paris and then later on america.this is sometime around WWI.however what he saw instead of enlightening him infuriated him.he didnt see the scientific progress or economic progress of the west.all he saw was vice and debauchery.gambling,drinking and prostitution etc.he came back convinved that the westerners were the disciples of satan.hence was born the muslim brotherhood.his student was a fellow named syed qutb.this guy would be the one along with maududi who would form the basis of fundamentalists islam's ideology.and guess who's osama bin laden's hero and inspiration?syed Qutb who else.qutb basically passed fatwas that there were no innocents amongst the non-muslims.that this jihad took precedence over all the other definations of jihad.obviously jihad being killing and driving off all non-muslims from muslim lands.but why would it take so many years for qutb's message to find resonance amongst the muslims.well for starters majority of the movements that won freedom for their countries were secular and socialist in nature.secondly people were taken in by the charisma of leaders such as nasser,soekarno and later on bhutto.the second last nail in the coffin for moderate muslim societies was the overwhelming failure on the part of the above mentioned leaders to deliever.nasser and bhutto failed misreably.in fact the arabs were so inept that they were totally humiliated by israel time and again.hence the anger on the street and in some drawing rooms started to grow.during this time the funda menatlist who were constantly gaining ground hated the godless state of soviet union more then amreeka.america was hated because of itrs blind support for israel but not as much as the soviet union which was seen as busy spreading its godless message across the wmuslim world.anyway the final nail in the coffin was the afghan war.america seeking to gain revenge funded and trained thousands of jihadis and the rest is history.one thing that our jihadis concluded in the aftermath was that they were invincible.if they could defeat the worlds mightiest army surely they could defeat the iundians in kashmir,israelis in palestine and one day overthrow all the american backed dictatorships in their home countries.it was God's will.i dont how they totally ignored the fact that it was US arms that finally changed the tide of the war in afghanistan.it was the introduction of the stinger missiles that saved the mujahideen.and it was america who provided the stingers.the jihad in kashmir totally destroyed the case of kashmiris in the international arena and india went on to commit the absolute worst human rights atrocities in kashmir not that our brave mujahids were far behind in this department either.

9/11 owes a great deal to american policies.yet 9/11 is not justified.in fact 9/11 has brought america even deeper into our lives and societies.america in its post cold war euphoria totally forgot bt the creature it had begotten in afghanistan.in todays context its unexplainable why they would do such a thing but then it made perfect sense.with the war over and the soviet union crumbling there job was done.they left it to us pakistanis to clean up the mess.unfortunatly the mess had spilled over into our country.uff the policies we had during the 90's drive me insane.what the hell were we thinking promoting jihad and entities like taliban.we are as much to blame for 9/11 as anyone else.and in many ways im glad musharaf did what he did immeadiatly after 9/11.my only regret being we should have done it ourselves much before 9/11.

now post 9/11 the status quo was unacceptable.we see people talking about oic reform,un reform, democracy etc etc and all of this is good and welcome.the reason why i supported the iraq war was two fold.if america succeeded then maybe democracy and reform would have initiated in the middle east.if it failed then america would have had to leave the region to a great extent and would probably not go on any more adventures anytime soon.so far its mixed.middle eastern countries are starting to reform and open up.lebanon just pushed the syrians out.egypt is having elections in which hosni mubarik will have to face challengers.kuwait had introduced democracy and even saudi arabia has has local body elections.however on the negative side and this is bigger than the positives,iraq is proving to be al qaedas biggest recruiting tool.future generation of suicide bombers are being produced.and it is safe to say now that at least the americans wont be invading in these parts anytime soon.so where do we go from here?
OIC will not be credible anytime soon.do we keep on moving towards the clash of civilisations which we'll surely lose cos we r just not strong enough or do we become players and stakeholders in the shrinking globalised world?as societies we need to look inwards and ask ourselves a few basic questions.one is islam going to be represented by the fire breathing mullahs and secondly how is it that islamic law has not evolved since abu hanifa's time?infact weve gone further back and extreme with mr. wahab(founder of wahabiism) and syed qutb and co.do we really need to fight and destroy every non-muslim society?we need to stop blaming everyone and his uncle for our ills.we need to stop living in the past remembering how glorious we were.we need to stop being so fatalistic.we need to grow,we need to prosper and we can do all of that only if we ourselves want to do it.no one is going to hand it to us on a silver platter.there are no free lunches.
for starters if we really want america to leave iraq soon then we muslim countries need to step up to the plate cos unfortunatly the iraqi security infrastructure is no match for zarqawi and his fellow thugs.so if we dont want a repeat of afghanistan during the 90's we need to come up with a credible peace keeping force that can replace the amreekans and the brits.the iraqis deserve a secure freedom plus all of us will be better off for it.a stable iraq means among other things lower oil prices.
sorry for the long length.