Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Salafi Crescent: The Threat of Wahhabi Revival, The End Times Prophecy of the Sufyani, and the 2012 Countdown to the Return of Imam Mahdi al Hujjah min Al-e Muhammad (sawaws)


Salafi Crescent: The Threat of Wahhabi Revival, The End Times Prophecy of the Sufyani, and the 2012 Countdown to the Return of Imam Mahdi al Hujjah min Al-e Muhammad (sawaws)

Kenneth Kamran Toloui

Jakarta, Indonesia

Keywords: Salafi, Wahhabi, Al-Qaeda, Nasibi, Sufyani, Dajjal, Anti-Christ, Arab Spring, Islamic Awakening, Shia Crescent, Shia Revival, Yamani, Mahdi, Mayan Calendar, 2012, 1433/1434



The confluence of  recent political events across the greater Middle East and North Africa, along with an Anglo-American/Zionist hegemonic policy of “divide and conquer” making for strange bedfellows, have given rise to a nascent Salafi Crescent[1], embodied and  prophesied in the figure of the Sufyani, foretold in Shi’a and Sunni prophetic traditions alike. The dream of the “Arab Spring”, or “Islamic Awakening”, which began in Tunisia in late 2010, resulted in revolutions in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen in 2011, and has manifested in various forms throughout the Arab and Islamic world, even reaching Europe and North America, will in 2012 give rise to a nightmare of apocalyptic proportions, an unprecedented bloodbath along sectarian lines resulting from the power vacuums it has produced. Israeli and Western pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran, the last true holdout to unipolar global dominance, has resulted in a cynical policy of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”, with Shi’a once again playing the bogeyman in mainstream media discourse, and unholy alliances being formed by European (post)colonial powers with al-Qaeda and its Wahhabi/Salafi allies throughout the world. This marriage of convenience will beget a demon spawn, a mass murderer to whom Abu Musab al Zarqawi of Al Qaeda in Iraq will pale in comparison. The riwayat, or prophetic traditions, that have been passed down by the Ahlul Bayt (as), the Pure Family of the Prophet Muhammad (sawaws), give us a glimpse of the doomsday scenario horrors that lie ahead, and we can in effect from them produce a timeline or countdown for 2012, one which coincides with the end date of the Mayan Calendar.

The Sufyani in both Shi’a and Sunni hadith is a dictator who will emerge in Sham, modern-day Syria. After emerging victorious in a three-sided civil war, the Sufyani will target the Shi’a of the region, with genocidal consequences. The scene has already been set: the Western powers have called for regime change in Syria, and a global jihad against the Assad government has been announced, with arms and fighters pouring in from throughout the world. Once the government of Bashar al-Assad has fallen, these takfiri jihadis will set their sights on the Shi’a of the region, be they Alawite (Alawi), Twelver (Ithna ‘Ashari), or Fiver (Zaidi/Houthi). This worldwide attack on Syria, with the Zionist entity playing a prominent role behind the scenes, will create two “revolutionary” anti-Assad factions, one explicitly pro-Western and pro-Israel, and one nominally Muslim, but dominated by the cultish sect of Salafism/Wahhabism/al Qaeda, who will do much of the dirty work for their Western puppet-masters. In time, this Frankenstein’s monster gone amuck, the Salafi faction of the Syrian civil war, will produce the Sufyani, who will attack a third faction, the defenders or remnants of the current Assad government, and possibly their Shi’a allies from Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

Unlike the nonviolent model of revolution in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen, which notably targeted Western-backed puppet dictators (and effectively toppled the Western or American Bloc, if a comparison is to be made  between the Arab Spring and the 1968 Prague Spring, and the later post-Communist collapse of the Eastern or Soviet Bloc), the Syrian “revolution” has been explicitly armed and violent (the level of pacifism of Gene Sharp and George Soros inspired and/or funded movements seems to correspond to the needs of the elite attempting to sway and steer the masses, though at least initially in Tunisia and Egypt the popular uprisings appears to have been spontaneous). In this respect the Syrian situation has more closely resembled the Libyan civil war and revolution, which ultimately resulted in Western NATO (and Qatari) military intervention. But unlike Libya, direct Western military involvement  in Syria seems less likely, for a number of reasons. Syria has some support  from Russia and China, both permanent veto-wielding members of the United Nations Security Council. There is burnout from the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Central Africa… Barack Obama’s endless military adventurism and interventionism. Adding to that list a protracted and convoluted Syrian war will not help United States President Obama to get the support of anti-militarist elements of his own Democratic Party or isolationists from the swing vote in the upcoming US presidential elections in November. The headache of clan warfare resulting from NATO bombing in Libya is nothing compared to the predictable disaster that will result from the Balkanization of multi-denominational, multi-faith, and multi-ethnic Syria, which consists of a majority of Sunni Arabs, and a roughly 12% minority of Allawite Shi’a holding control through the Assad family and his Ba’ath Party allies, as well as significantly large minorities of (mostly Sunni) Kurds, Turkmens, and Cicassians, (mostly Christian) Armenians and Assyrians, (Sevener Shi’a) Ismailis, and Druze. The West itself is ambivalent about the nature of the Syrian “resistance”, and aware of the potential dangers of a power vacuum resulting from the removal of Assad, to whom in their eyes could apply the proverb, “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t”. Representative of this Western ambivalence are the words of United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who claimed the US would not arm the Syrian opposition because that would entail arming elements whose loyalties are unclear, and since Al-Qaeda and HAMAS support the  Syrian opposition. "Are we supporting Al-Qaeda in Syria?” she asked rhetorically.[2] But a deeper analysis will reveal that the answer is not a simple negative, but that in fact the US and Britain have supported and have had an on-and-off relationship with Al-Qaeda and its predecessor, the Wahhabi movement, from their beginnings through to the present.

The Al-Qaeda network origins lay in the jihad which brought foreign fighters to the struggle against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, but more specifically that network was  formalized, funded, and trained by the CIA (the word “al Qaeda” being Arabic for “the base”, referring to the database of Western intelligence operatives and assets in the area). The Western/Al-Qaeda alliance ostensibly received a setback in the attacks of September 11th, 2001, but in reality America has had close ties with al Qaeda from its inception through to the present, and in fact the Wahhabi philosophy on which it is based has been supported by the British Empire since the time of its founder, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahab. Wahhabis were backed by the likes of Lawrence of Arabia as a means of weakening the Ottoman Empire and the last vestiges of the (Sunni) Caliphate, later by British and American oil corporations who created a new state, “Saudi Arabia”, a neologism named after the family with whom they traded oil, and to the present day by MI6 as a part of the “Great Game” being played out by the United Kingdom’s spies in Central Asia and beyond. Asking the question “cui bono” with regard to the World Trade Center attacks and other purported or actual Al-Qaeda activities often yields the response: the powers that be, namely the Anglo-American elite and their Zionist partners. False flag operations are part and parcel of Mossad’s daily operations, whose motto is after all: “By Way of Deception, Thou Shalt do War”. An example: the first and only “Al-Qaeda” cell found in Palestine turned out to be composed of Israelis. This is consistent with a pattern of Al-Qaeda activity beneficial to the Zionists. While Al-Qaeda has always paid lip service to the liberation of al-Quds (Jerusalem) and the Palestinian cause, in practice they have never struck Israeli targets. In Palestine, the activities of Salafi militants seemed to consist mainly of fighting with HAMAS, and kidnapping and killing Westerner supporters of the Palestinian people. While occasionally on-the-ground opposition to American imperialist wars, particularly in Afghanistan and Iraq, has been carried out by local elements who have acted either under the banner of Al-Qaeda or in a manner loosely affiliated with it, the majority of the activities of “Al-Qaeda” has been campaigns of bombings of mosques, markets, schools and other soft targets via homicide or suicide bomber (though the latter is sometimes in fact an unwilling or unknowing participant on whom an explosive device is planted), killing and maiming innocent civilians, often Shi’a or non-Wahhabi Sunnis, with a huge Muslim death toll resulting. This is consistent with a hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (sawaws), as recorded in Sahih Bukhari 9:527 and 8:184, regarding a satanic sect which shall emerge from the capital of modern-day Saudi Arabia, who “will kill the Muslims and leave the idolators”.

With remarkable detail, the Wahhabi menace was foreseen by the Prophet Muhammad (sawaws) 14 centuries ago. There are several hadith from Ahlus Sunnah in which the Prophet warns that in the future out of the region of the Najd, there will emerge shayatin (devils), who will have the outward piety of Muslims, engaging in the riyaa’ of excessive ostentatious praying and fasting, but who are in fact Munafiqun (hypocrites), who “will go out of the religion [of Islam] as an arrow darts through the game’s body” (Sahih Bukhari, Book 84, Hadith 67). The region of the Najd is the location of present-day Riyadh, the birth-place of the Wahhabi movement, and its center up until today. The present day Saudi government remains a puppet of the British and Americans, with King Abdullah preferring to collude with the Israelis rather see the Iranians support resistance against his and other regional dictatorships. His status as lackey of the American imperialists allows his government to remain seemingly impervious to criticism and the Islamic Awakening happening all around him. In fact with the backing of the US, Saudi Arabia sent 2000 troops to Bahrain to kill Shi’a and burn mosques (along with the copies of the Qur’an in them), and fire on hospitals and elementary schools. This a repeat of its 2009-2010 war, with the aid of US airstrikes, on the Shi’a of Northern Yemen, who are mostly ethnic Houthis and members of the Fiver (Zaidi) school of Shi’ism, though some appear to have become Ithna ‘Asheri. Within the Saudi kingdom itself, demonstrations and calls for an Islamic Awakening in predominantly Shi’a centers like Qatif have been murderously repressed, with American and British blessing. Wahhabism, the official state sect of Saudi Arabia, underlies its neo-colonial foreign policy, as well its domestic policy toward the Shi’a, whom Allah (swt) has not coincidentally placed in the oil-rich Eastern Province of Ash-Sharqiyah. Wahhabism is also the ideology of Al-Qaeda, which while it has on occasion criticized the current Saudi regime, in particular for allowing the presence of American military bases, has nonetheless had unofficial backing and funding from the Saudi elite up to the level of its king. The Bin Laden family, for example, have built much of Saudi Arabia, and have close personal and business ties with the family of US Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.


To be continued insha’Allah


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[1] King Abdullah II of Jordan in December 2004 referred to the geographical swathe in the Middle East with a Shi’a majority, plurality, and/or central government as a “Shi’a Crescent”, which he claimed was a threat to the region due to the new balance of power between Sunni and Shi’a communities brought about by the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and subsequent overthrow of Saddam Hussein. My title is a play on that phrase, but whereas the “Shi’a Crescent” proved to be a sectarian ploy for (increased) US backing of Sunni Arab dictatorships, I maintain that the Salafi Crescent is a very real and emerging threat to worldwide peace, one endangering the lives of all, Sunni and Shi’a, Muslim and Non-Muslim. See Ehsan Ahrari, “The Real Challenge From the ‘Shia Crescent’”, 25 July 2006, viewed on 14 March 2012, http://www.antiwar.com/orig/ahrari.php?articleid=9398 .See also Vali Nasr 2006, The Shia Revival, New York: W.W. Norton, and 2009, Fateful Crescent, later renamed Forces of Fortune, New York: Free Press, for a Council of Foreign Relations endorsed agenda of secularizing the Middle East through the banal commodification of capital.

 


[2] Ali Rizk, “Possible Disassociation from Syria”, viewed 14 March 2012 on Hezbollah website, http://www.english.moqawama.org/essaydetails.php?eid=16767&cid=269