Monday, February 21, 2011
Why Arab/Muslim rulers can survive for 30/41/200 years even in a changed world?
The recent Tsunami of the so-called democratic revolution spreading out from Tunisia to neighboring countries all the way from the West of Arab/Muslim World to the East of Gulf, has given no time to reflect on the deeper aspects of the entire upheaval and a question is never been posed as to why the threatened rulers lasted such an ‘un-westernized’ long rule of decades and decades.
The general assumption in western media reports projects their self-serving arguments, that it was the WEST, especially the USA that had supported the traditionally autocratic regimes, for interest of its own.
There was never an attempt to study why such long duration rule of a particular person, family or tribe had ensured a modicum of continuity and stability for the country, that could probably have provided the backdrop to a longer term development of the countries and its people, without being engaged in violent disruption of societies.
Bush would advance his idiotic theory that democratic nation do not go to war, while not only declaring his own nation as an ideal democratic nation and then unleashing wars on Iraq and Afghanistan.
If constitutional monarchies in UK, Japan, and Thailand had survived for centuries, the essential part of their democracy was the election of their executives. In nations where such constitutional arrangements existed or were introduced, an overall stability and integrity of the nation and its citizens was more or less stretched for longer duration.
Besides, in Arab and Muslim world, an underlined Quranic injunction is embedded in believing peoples’ psyche where they are called upon to ‘obey Allah, His prophet and THOSE THAT RULED OVER THEM.’
Another ayah provides for Mashwara or consultations – meaning discussions leading to consensus – and that allowed for any of the many chosen method/s of finding consensus, without resorting to ONE MAN ONE VOTE method of universal counting of heads. This has been the bedrock of Islamic affairs in Muslim societies for 14 plus centuries.
The Western demonizing of such long ruled states, though quite understandably on the grounds of mis-governance and the Imperialist West’s compulsion to changes horses, is meant to force the so-called Westernizing and Modernization of Muslim societies, is in effect a waging of a continuing WAR ON ISLAM as an old obscurantist, out of times, out of fashion life-style system, that threatens some very basic tenets of the Western thoughts on human affairs and community life.
A more sinister motive can be adduced to the US forcing changes so that all future countries must be amenable to THEIR ‘Regime Change’ tactics, without the West having to invade Muslim countries, like they did in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It is for the people of the Arab/Muslim world to recognize the forced changes inflicted on their societies and insist in organizing and managing their internal affairs, in full conformity of their ethos and their culture, no doubt nurtured for centuries through Islamic traditions.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
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