Western Plots to Divide the Muslim Ummah, by Syed Ali Shahbaz

(23rd November 2012 - 12:25 a.m.)

Read this history to know what happened to Khilafat.

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Western Plots to Divide the Muslim Ummah

By: Syed Ali Shahbaz

Sykes-Picot Accord for dividing up the Arab lands of the Ottoman Empire

On May 9 in 1916 AD, the scandalous Sykes-Picot Accord was signed by representatives of Britain, France, and Russia in Paris for dividing up the Arab lands of the Ottoman Empire and limiting the Turkish possessions to Anatolia or present day Turkey. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia withdrew.

Even before the formal defeat of the Ottomans in 1917, lines were drawn on paper to share the spoils by the two principal European colonial powers. The British took control of Iraq and the Hijaz. Shaam or Greater Syria was split up into four parts, with the British taking Jordan and Palestine, and the French taking Syria and Lebanon. The main goal of this plan was to set up in Palestine, an illegal entity called Israel as a homeland for European Jews.

The Treaty of Sevres was forced upon the decaying Ottoman Empire by Britain and France

On August 10, 1920 AD, the Treaty of Sevres was forced upon the decaying Ottoman Empire by Britain and France, stripping it of 80% of its territory. The remaining European parts of the Empire were handed over to Greece and several islands to Italy, forcing hundreds of thousands of Muslims to leave

their ancestral homes and cross into the Asian parts.

At the same time, Iraq, Jordan, and Palestine were placed under British mandate, and Syria and Lebanon under French mandate, while Hijaz with its holy cities of Mecca and Medina, the resort of Ta’ef and the Red Sea ports of Jeddah and Yanbu, declared an independent kingdom under the British agent, Sherif Hussain. Armenia also got a share of Turkish territory while a part of Asia Minor was further given to Greece as Ionia. Istanbul and its surroundings were declared demilitarized, while the ancient Seljuq capital of Konya was placed under Italian zone of influence. The plan was to separate the Kurdish areas as well, but was deferred for the time being.

This harsh and humiliating treatment led to the uprising of the Turkish people, and the Turkish army soon drove away the Greek occupiers from parts of Asia Minor and the surroundings of Istanbul on the European side. This forced the western powers to draft a new treaty in 1923, which has fixed the present boundaries of modern Turkey, although in 1937, the French illegally handed over to Turkey the Syrian territories of Iskenderun and Antakya (Antioch), which Turkey calls Hatay Province, but whose sovereignty Damascus has never recognized, calling it part of Syria. Meanwhile, in 1925, the Kingdom of Hijaz was occupied by Wahhabi brigands from the Nejd with the blessings of the British who in 1932 formally installed their agent, Abdul-Aziz Aal-Saud as king of the pseudo country called Saudi Arabia. Abdel-Aziz consequently seized parts of Yemen and occupied the Shi’ite Muslim sheikhdoms of the eastern parts of the Arabian Peninsula on the oil-rich Persian Gulf coast.

French occupation of Tunisia

On May 26 in 1881, France seized Tunisia and started plundering its resources. After World War 2, while leaving this North African Muslim land, France set up a laic system, headed by Habib Bourqiba, who brutally suppressed the people and even banned office workers from performing prayers and keeping fasts. In 1987 after his death, Zain al Abidin bin Ali came to power and continued the same repressive policies, until he was overthrown on January 2011 and fled to Saudi Arabia.

Algeria under French Occupation

On September 6, 1808 AD, Algerian freedom fighter, Abdul-Qader ibn Mohi od-Din al-Hassani al-Jaza'iri, was born near Mascara in Oran. He claimed descent from Imam Hasan Mojtaba (AS), the elder grandson of Prophet Mohammad (SAWA). In 1825, he set out for the Hajj pilgrimage, with his father. In Mecca, he met and was impressed by Imam Shamil of Daghestan, the leader of the struggle against Russian expansion in the Caucasus which had recently been seized by the Czar from the Qajarid rulers of Iran.

He then traveled to Syria and Iraq where he visited the graves of saints including the celebrated Spanish Muslim philosopher and Gnostic, Shaikh Mohi od-Din Ibn Arabi in Damascus and that of the Iranian Sufi Shaikh Abdul-Qader Gilani in Baghdad. On his way back to Algeria, he was impressed by the reforms carried out in Egypt by the Ottoman governor Mohammad Ali Pasha the Albanian. After five years abroad, he returned to his homeland in 1930 a few months before the Turks lost it to the French invaders. As a Sufi scholar, he now led the military struggle against France, and within two years he was made an amir by tribes fighting the French. He organized guerrilla warfare and for a decade scored many victories. He often signed tactical truces with the French, but these did not last. His failure to get support from eastern tribes, apart from the Berbers of western Kabylie led to the quelling of his uprising.

On December 21, 1847, after being denied refuge in Morocco because of French pressure, he surrendered on condition he would be allowed to go to Alexandria in Egypt or to Acre in Palestine. The French refused to honour their word and Abdul-Qader was exiled to France, where he remained under detention until October 1852, when he was released by Napoleon III on taking an oath never again to question French rule in Algeria. He briefly took up residence in Bursa in today's Turkey, before shifting in 1855 to Damascus, where he devoted himself anew to theology and philosophy. He also wrote a book on the Arabian horse. He was decorated by France and officially lauded by President Abraham Lincoln of the US for his gesture towards Christians during the struggle with the Druze.

In 1865 he was invited to Paris as the king’s special guest. Abdul-Qader who died in Damascus on 26 May 1883, and was buried near the tomb of Ibn Arabi, had unfortunately become a member of the notorious Jewish secret organization, the Freemasons.

The Anglo-Egyptian War

On July 11, 1882, the British fleet started the bombardment of the port city of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War, following a coup by Colonel Ahmed Orabi against Towfiq Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan, because of grievances over disparities in pay between Egyptian and European employees, as well as other concerns. As a nation Egypt was in limbo.

Although a province of the Ottoman Empire, the Turks neither governed nor cared for Egyptian affairs, because of their own internal decline. Consequently, Egypt had been looted and misgoverned for decades by the Khedives, who in turn were exploited by the British and the French. This naturally caused resentment among nationalist forces in Egypt, manifested by Orabi’s coup.

The British who had no right to meddle in the internal affairs of Egypt, bombarded Alexandria for three days, followed by marines occupying it. Much of the city was destroyed by fires that broke out as a result of the bombardment. The British then restored to power Khedive Towfiq, who declared Orabi a rebel. Orabi counteracted by obtaining a fatwa from the al-Azhar Shaykhs stating that Towfiq was a traitor who betrayed his religion and brought on the occupation of Egypt by a foreign nation.

Orabi ordered conscription and the British army tried to reach Cairo through Alexandria, but was stopped for five weeks at Kafr ad-Dawwar by Orabi. In August, a British army of over 40,000, commanded by Garnet Wolseley invaded the Suez Canal Zone. Orabi redeployed to defend Cairo while his main force dug in at Tel al-Kabir, north of the railway and the Sweetwater Canal, both of which linked Cairo to Ismailia on the Suez Canal.

Wolseley, on being informed of the weak defences of the Egyptians, attacked them and killed two thousand Egyptian Muslims. Orabi’s forces were routed, and British cavalry pursued them and captured Cairo, which was undefended. Khedive power was restored while the British occupied Egypt until the Anglo-Egyptian Treaties of 1922 and 1936, giving gradual control back to the corrupt and inefficient Khedives, who were finally overthrown in the 1952 revolution by Colonel Jamal Abdun-Nasser and General Mohammad Najib.

The First Balkan War

On May 30 in 1913, the First Balkan War ended with the Treaty of London, and the emergence of Albania as an independent nation. It began in October 1912, and pitted the Balkan League, made up of Serbia, Greece, Montenegro and Bulgaria, against the weakened Ottoman Empire. As a result of the war, almost all remaining European territories of the Ottoman Empire were seized by Christian powers and partitioned among themselves.

The Second Balkan war

On June 29, 1913 AD, the second Balkan war broke out against the tottering Ottoman Empire by an alliance of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Monte Negro, and Romania (all of them former Ottoman Provinces), resulting in the loss of almost 80% of the remaining Turkish territories in Europe. The Balkan wars in fact set the stage for the breakout of World War I in 1914, in which the Ottomans allied with Germany and Austria-Hungary, tried to regain their lost glory, but lost all their West Asian territories of Arabia, Syria, Palestine, and Iraq, as well, becoming confined to Anatolia or present day Turkey.

Damascus occupied by the British troops

On September 3, 1918 AD, the historical and ancient Islamic city, Damascus, was occupied by the British troops, following the end of World War I as part of the European plot to destroy the Ottoman Empire. Britain, along with France occupied most of the West Asian Arab territories of the Turkish sultans. Syria and Damascus were eventually handed over to France by the British.

The last Ottoman caliph, Abdul Majid II

On July 24, 1944 AD, the last Ottoman caliph, Abdul Majid II, died in his exile in Paris, France at the age of 76, twenty years after the caliphate was abolished by Mustafa Kemal Ata Turk, thus ending the caliphate of the Turks that Sultan Selim I had forcefully acquired in 1517 from the Abbasid puppet

caliph in Cairo, on his conquest of Mamluk Egypt, following a fatwa issued by court mullahs that non Arabs could also become caliphs.

The caliphate or political rule of the Islamic state had begun in Medina immediately after the passing away of Prophet Mohammad (SAWA) when some of his companions held the scandalous assembly of Saqifa Bani Sa’dah, where after fistfights Omar Ibn Khattab grabbed the hand of a surprised Abu Bakr and declared him caliph. Thereafter, except for a brief four-and-a-half year period when the Prophet’s rightful heir, the divinely-decreed vicegerent of Ghadeer-Khom, Imam Ali ibn Abi Taleb (AS) took charge of the political rule of the Islamic realm, those who masqueraded as caliphs included former idol-worshippers, hypocrites, drunkards, mass murderers, adulterers, cardinal sinners, and even atheists.

Abdul-Majid, who was buried in Medina, had been caliph for less than two years and never had any political power. In 1918, when his cousin Vahideddin Mohammad VI became Sultan, he was named Crown Prince, and on 1st November, 1922 with the abolishment of the Sultanate, he was elected caliph by the Turkish National Assembly on 19 November 1922, before being stripped of his position and expelled from Turkey on 3 March 1924. He married his children into the ruling families of other countries, but they also were not destined to rule. Hi daughter from his third marriage, Princess Khadija Khairiyya Ayesha Durr-e Shahwar was married in 1931 to the Prince of Berar Azam Jah, the son of Asef Jah VII Osman Ali Khan, the Ruler of Hyderabad Deccan in India, who lost his throne in 1948.

His granddaughter, Fatema Nazlishah Sultan (daughter of his eldest son Prince Omar Farouq and maternal granddaughter of last Ottoman Sultan Mohammad VI) was married to Prince Mohammad Abdul-Moneim, son of Egypt's last Khedive, Abbas Hilmi II, who briefly served as head of regency council for Egypt’s deposed king, Farouq’s enthroned infant son, Fouad, before the end of monarchy.

The Uprising of people of Iraq against the British occupiers in 1920

On June 30, 1920, the people of Iraq staged their uprising against the British occupiers, under the leadership of Ayatollah Mirza Mohammad Taqi Shirazi. The British after initial defeats resorted to treachery by martyring Ayatollah Shirazi through poisoning and exiling Shaikh Kashef al-Gheta to Iran. They

then deprived the Shi'ite Muslim majority of Iraq of representative rule, by installing in Baghdad an imported king – Faisal, the son of the British agent, Sherif Hussain of Hejaz.

Thomas Edward Lawrence known as "Lawrence of Arabia"

On May 19 in 1935 AD, the British politician and intelligence operative, Thomas Edward Lawrence, died in a driving accident at the age of 47 years. Born out of wedlock to a baron, and known as "Lawrence of Arabia", he was a notorious spy whose job was to befriend, deceive and destroy Muslim rulers in Arabia. During the years 1910-to-1914, under guise as a member of an archeological delegation to Iraq, Syria, and Palestine, he sowed the seeds of seditions among the Arabs and Turks as part of the British policy to disintegrate the Ottoman Empire.

It was through his efforts that the artificial country called Jordan was created for Abdullah, the son of the British agent, Sharif Hussain of Hejaz; while another son, Faisal, was first made king of Syria, and four months later when driven out from Damascus, was installed as king of Iraq in order to crush the aspirations of the Shi'ite Muslim majority. Next, when Sharif Hussain was driven out from the Hijaz by the Wahhabi desert brigand of Najd, Abdul-Aziz Aal-e Saud, another artificial state called Saudi Arabia was created, on condition that no objection would be raised to the British plan to create for European Zionists an illegal entity called Israel in Palestine. Lawrence has referred to part of these plots during World War I in his book titled: “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”.

British invasion of Iraq in 1941

On May 2 in 1941, Britain again invaded Iraq to oust the nationalist government of Prime Minister Rashid Aali al-Gilani who had staged a coup to end British influence by removing from power Abdullah bin Ali, the regent of the 6-year old king, Faisal II, whose grandfather Faisal I of Hijaz was installed as king in 1921 by London against the wishes of the Iraqi people, after crushing the popular uprising of 1920 led by Ayatollah Shaikh Kashef al-Gheta and Ayatollah Mirza Mohammad Taqi Shirazi.

London feared that Gilani might take control of the oil industry from Britain,

in view of his links to Germany and the Axis powers. The war ended on May 29 when Gilani fled to Iran and an armistice was signed on May 31. Gilani, a Sunni Muslim and descendant of Baghdad’s prominent Sufi of Iranian origin, Sheikh Abdul-Qader Gilani, could not stay long in Iran and fled to Germany when the British dethroned their agent Reza Khan Pahlavi for his pro-German views and exiled him to the island of Mauritius, and then installed his 21 year old son Mohammad Reza on the Peacock Throne.

Imposed Treaty of Ta'ef

On May 20 in 1934, the one-sided Treaty of Ta'ef was imposed upon Imam Yahya of Yemen by Abdul-Aziz Aal-e Saud, ruler of the British created state called Saudi Arabia, according to which the regions of Najran, Jeezan, and Asir were occupied for a period of 40 years. In the 1990s, Yemen demanded the return of these vast territories, but with American backing Saudi Arabia has refused to return them in violation of the Treaty of Ta'ef.

Earlier Abdul-Aziz had seized the Hijaz and after violent massacres in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, and the port city of Jeddah, including sacrilege of the holy shrines in Jannat al-Baqie and Jannat al-Mu’alla. The Saudis are also in occupation of the oil-rich eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf against the wishes of the local people, and are refusing to withdraw as per the terms of a separate treaty.

The illegitimate birth of the Zionist entity called Israel

On May 14 in 1948 AD, the most scandalous event of the 20th century occurred with the illegitimate birth in Palestine of the Zionist entity called Israel. Prior to seizing power, the illegal Zionist migrants of Europe had resorted to all sorts of racist and terrorist acts against the sons of the soil, and with British connivance drove into exile some 700,000 Palestinian Muslims and Christians on this day.

Since then, the Zionist entity has imposed several wars on Arab states and seized their territory, in addition to terrorizing Palestinians and denying them their birthrights. With the help of the US, Britain, France and certain other countries, Israel has acquired a nuclear arsenal of around 400 atomic warheads, and indulges in almost daily threats of attacking the Islamic

Republic of Iran. Today, Palestinians and Muslims throughout the world hold rallies to show their determination for liberation of their homeland from the clutches of the European Jews and the eventual end of Israel.

Occupation of Qarabagh by Armenia

On May 9, in 1992 AD, Armenia invaded the Caucasus Republic of Azerbaijan and occupied Qarabagh region and the Armenian troops occupied 20% of Azeri soil. Despite the ceasefire between the two countries as of 1993, this part of the Azerbaijan Republic is still under Armenian military occupation.

Massacre of Muslims in Nigeria

On May 2 in 2004 AD, the infamous Yelwa massacre occurred in Nigeria when the Christians brutally massacred over 630 Muslim nomads including women, children and old men. The Christians surrounded Yelwa town, and according to Human Rights Watch, over the next two days 660 Muslims were massacred, including the patients in the Al-Amin clinic. Twelve mosques and 300 houses went up in flames. Young girls were marched to a nearby Christian town and forced to eat pork and drink alcohol. Many were raped, and 50 were brutally killed.

Occupation of Malaysia by British

On June 10, 1790 AD, British troops attacked and occupied Malaya from the Netherlands. Upon the infiltration of Britain, the Dutch troops were forced to retreat from Malaya and even parts of Indonesia. In 1824, British sovereignty was firmly established in what is now Malaysia, while Indonesia remained a colony of the Netherlands called Dutch East Indies. These two European powers wantonly looted the wealth of these two Muslim lands. Malaysia gained independence from British rule in 1956 while Indonesia gained independence in 1957.

Sarawak under British Occupation

On September 24, 1841 AD, the Sultan of Brunei was forced to cede Sarawak

on the large Borneo Island to the British invaders, who installed a certain James Brooke as the White Rajah, and whose descendants ruled this land till 1945 when Britain took direct control of Sarawak, a few years before the independence of Malaysia. Sarawak is now a province of Malaysia.

The Dutch East India Company in Indonesia

On July 30, 1602 AD, the Dutch by setting up a trade post in Sumatra started their political influence in Indonesia, under the name of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). In 1800 VOC was formally dissolved because of bankruptcy and the government of the Netherlands established the Dutch East Indies as a nationalized colony. For most of the colonial period, Dutch control over the archipelago was tenuous outside of coastal strongholds.

Only in the early 20th century did Dutch dominance extend to what was to become Indonesia's current boundaries. The country, which is made up of over 17,500 islands and a predominantly Muslim population, was occupied by Japan during World War 2. In 1849, Indonesia declared its independence under the leadership of Ahmad Sukarno by thwarting Dutch efforts to re-establish colonial hegemony.

A sacrilegious bomb attacks carried out at the holy shrine of al-Askariyayn in Samarra

June 13, 2007, at around 9 a.m. local time, a sacrilegious bomb attack was carried out by agents of Global Arrogance at the holy shrine of al-Askariyayn at Samarra, resulting in the destruction of the two ten-story high gold-plated minarets, flanking the earlier destroyed golden dome. This was the second bombing of the holy shrine of Imam Ali al-Hadi (AS) and Imam Hassan al-Askari (AS) – respectively the 10th and 11th Infallible Successors of Prophet Mohammad (SAWA). The first sacrilegious bomb attack had occurred on 22 February 2006, destroying the shrine’s magnificent golden dome. The holy shrine is now under construction on a grand scale.

Genocide of Muslims of the city of Srebrenica (Bosnia)

On July 11, 1995 AD, during the Bosnian War, more than 8,000 Muslims of

the city of Srebrenica were slaughtered by the Serbs. This crime against humanity was the biggest massacre in Europe since World War II. Although the UN Security Council had declared Srebrenica a safe haven in 1993 and its forces were stationed in this city, the Serb militias occupied the city and cold-bloodedly slaughtered the people. At the site of carnage, the Dutch peacekeeping forces stationed in the region took no measures to save the lives of the Muslim civilians.

The indifference of European states toward this human catastrophe was questionable. All the three fact-finding committees, formed after the end of the Bosnian War held the European Union and the United Nations responsible for the massacre of Muslims in Srebrenica.

Russia declares Georgia as its protectorate

On July 21, 1783 AD, the Russians taking advantage of the weakness of Iran flexed their military muscles in the Caucasus by declaring Georgia as their protectorate. The Georgians, which for over two millenniums were part of the Persian Empire, were banned from maintaining direct relations with either Iran or the Ottoman Turks.

France invades Tunisia

On July 22, 1961 AD, France landed 7,000 troops on Bizerte, in Northeast Tunisia, following the blockade of this port city by the Tunisian army and navy, after the French refused to evacuate it. Due to Bizerte's strategic location on the Mediterranean Sea, France had kept its control even after granting independence to Tunisia in 1956. The 3-day battle resulted in over 700 dead and 1,300 wounded. The French finally left Bizerte on 15 October 1963.

The Mandate of the League of Nations

On July 24, 1921 AD, The League of Nations arbitrarily handed over to Britain the mandate to govern the former Ottoman Provinces of Palestine, Iraq, and Transjordan, while France was given control of Syria and Lebanon, as per the plan drawn to traumatize the fate of Muslim lands after World War 1 and to

finally implant in the region the illegal Zionist entity called Israel.

Tataristan under Russian Occupation

On October 2, 1552, Kazan, the capital of Tataristan, was occupied after a siege by Russia's Ivan the Terrible, who massacred as many as 110,000 Muslims, and forcibly converted to Christianity several of them, after destroying mosques or turning them into churches. The fall of Tataristan was the culmination of almost a century of sea-saw struggle for domination of the region by the Muslims and Russians. The Tartar Khan Yadegar Mohammad was captured by the Russians.

By 1593, all mosques in the area were destroyed and Russia forbade the construction of new mosques, a prohibition that was not lifted until the 18th century. Today Tataristan is an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation and the overwhelming majority of its people are Muslims.