Ep 217. - The Genocide Must Be the Jolt That Awakens Us From This Slumber- Muhammad Jalal
The current crop of rulers that litter the Muslim world are amongst the most detestable of people. They sit silent, often proactive only in the degree to which they collude with the joint enterprise of genocide. Many of the Gulf rulers live in hedonistic metropolises, their empty lives and cities punctuated occasionally by inane regional summits – to bury their ineptitude in the pomp of ceremony. Never has the Muslim world's seats of power been occupied by such wretched leaders. If anyone were to seek a resolution from any of these regimes to save the lives of Palestinians, one would know such an endeavour would be in vain. They epitomise those characterised in the hadith: "The worst of your rulers are those whom you hate and who hate you and whom you curse and who curse you."
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the current crop of rulers that Lit to the Muslim world are amongst the most detestable
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of people they sit silent often proactive only in the degree to which they collude with the
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joint Enterprise of genocide many of the gulf rulers live in hedonistic metropolises their
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empty lives and cities punctuated occasionally by inan Regional Summits to Bar very natitude in the
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pomp of ceremony never has the Muslim world's seats of power been occupied by such wretched
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lead leaders if anyone were to seek a resolution from any of these regimes to save the lives of
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Palestinians one would know such an Endeavor would be in vain they epitomize those characterized in
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the Hadith the worst of your rulers are those whom you hate and who hate you and whom you
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curse and who curse you however in the Long View of Islamic history we have always had effective
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and ineffective rulers although much of the current crop combines ineffectiveness with supine
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servitude to Washington romanticizing history is a Fool's errand but we can learn lessons from
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individuals who reignited our energy and pumped blood back into our veins one such man is kardi
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abuad alh harwi the chief judge of Damascus this scholar had absorbed into his City the
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influx of refugees from Al kuds Jerusalem who had escaped the slaughter of the first crusade in 1099
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these Exiles were embraced by alh Hari an Afghan who in the world of Islam had found position in
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the meritocratic and Multicultural Empire now cardiel harui recognized the significance of
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the conquest of Jerusalem by the Crusaders and embarked upon a mission with firsthand testimonies
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of his Exiles to implore the khif in Bagdad to raise an army by then the complacent Empire was
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oblivious to the dangers of the Crusader ERS and their appetite for Conquest consumed by Palace
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Intrigue and infighting in August 1099 a month after besiege and Slaughter in Jerusalem he and
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his companions entered baghdad's Central mosque on a Ramadan day and began conspicuously eating dates
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soon an Angry Crowd gathered around him perturbed by The Eccentric behavior of the judge alh Hari
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responded how could it be that they could feel was so indignant at the violation of the fast whereas
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the massacres of thousands of Muslims and the destruction of the holy places of Islam met with
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their complete indifference he then moved onto the court of the Abbasid khif alaz bah whose Pastime
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included gardening and tending to his flowers bursting into the Dewan with shaved heads to
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signify mourning a few of the Court dignitaries tried to calm him but alh harui swept them aside
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with brass disdain stroe resolutely to the center of the hall and then with the Searing eloquence
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of a seasoned preacher declaiming from his Pulpit proceeded to lecture those present without regard
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to rank how dare you Slumber in the shade of complacent safety leading lives as frivolous
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as garden flowers while our brothers in Asam have no Dwelling Place save the Saddles of camels and
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the bellies of vultures blood has been spilled beautiful young girls have been shamed and must
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now hide their sweet faces in their hands shall the valorous Arabs resign themselves to insult
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and the Valiant Persians accept dishonor it was a speech that brought tears to many an eye and
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moved men's Hearts the Arab chronicler IB a later would write the entire audience broke
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out in whales and Lamentations but alh Hari had had not come to elicit sobs he responded to the
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tears of the khif and his Entourage man's meanest weapon he shouted is to shed tears when rapers
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stir the codes of war the audience was moved but in action followed alh Hari expressed his anger
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at the nonchalance with which the khif S assault on a center of Islam never have the Muslims been
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so humiliated he alari repeated never never have their lands been so savagely devastated
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it will be another 90 years before salahudin Albi reconquered Jerusalem but only after a Renaissance
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of Islamic thinking to remove the complacencies of Vieira his forebear the great sjuk nurudin
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zeni refused to smile whilst Palestine remained Under Siege fearing that Allah would punish him
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for living a life of triviality this genocide has got to be the jol that reawakens us from
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this Slumber and the inconsequential lives we have curated for ourselves
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