Cameron was forthright in teaching Indonesia’s 240 million population what ‘Real Islam’ was all about. Making reference to the rise of Islamic Parties in the Middle East, Post-Arab Spring he said “If Indonesia can succeed, it can lead the world in showing how democracy can offer an alternative to the dead-end choice of dictatorship or extremism,”
He said “extremists were trying to turn Islam into a ‘closed and warped ideology’, opposed to democracy.”
He went further to discuss the way forward for the Muslim world by highlighting his recent credentials in discussing Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) on Politics, State and Governance. He said
“What Indonesia shows is that in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, it is possible to reject this extremist threat and prove that democracy and Islam can flourish alongside each other.”
Whilst his scripted speeches and ability to reference Islam may startle some, it is a great show of Hypocrisy that the British Prime Minister speaks about Democracy, the dove of peace, whilst flying in with some of Britain’s leading defence manufacturers to sell some of the “best defence equipment in the world”. In a similar fashion, Cameron’s visit to Egypt straight after the Arab spring was paraded with 38 Corporate Executives, of which 8 were arms contractors.
So equating Democracy with peace and nation building is not exactly what it says on the tin label. Colonial adventures in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and decades of interference in the Middle east, supporting tyrannical regimes, co-operating fully in extraordinary rendition in secret locations across the world and manipulating British politics with cosy relations with Media Tycoons are not credentials that Cameron should be promoting or boasting about on his visits abroad as a standard for any society really.
As far as Islam and Democracy is concerned, Islam has its own unique form of governance which is meeting a growing demand for its re-implementation, across the Muslim world. This is called Khilafah, which has its own elections to select a ruler to implement Islam, which gives women a role in Political life, which integrates minorities to feel proud of their identities and puts forward a case for true economic prosperity where those with money are unable to influence Politics, laws and ownership of select resources.
The Islamic System, Khilafah, is therefore neither a Democracy or a dictatorship and Muslims worldwide refuse to get caught into the promoted international black and white Political norms as Cameron attempted to do.
David Cameron, his party, the opposition as well as the entire Capitalist system need to look at the utter Financial and Global Destruction they have bought by promoting militant ideas of democracy by the barrel of a gun, before taking the opportunity to lecture others on what their faith is all about.
Source: MajedsBlog
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