The political class is finished. And when this reality becomes apparent is only a question of time. The more important question however, are the practical implications for us in Europe. The great comedy of political parties, representing the so called “center”, still continues. This is because of the continuing existence of the institutes of manipulative democracy (plutocracies), within the framework of the National-State. However, all thinking people properly understand is that the “show can’t go on”. This failure of the political class is giving rise to the growing popularity of two extreme opposites: ultra-right and left-radical.
Surely Europe will be one of the main victims of the collapse of capitalist system. America still has significant military strength and resulting dominance in the world. China has clear opportunities to become the world-wide economical leader of the XXI century. Even Russia has its vast natural resources, which helps sustain the country. Europe depends upon these regional-economic centers but has little to offer itself. The economic logic of Capitalism doesn’t allow Europe to develop alternative sources of energy. This, alongside a financial structure which does not encourage capital flows to foreign territories such as China with its cheapest labor resources for example, is making Europe one of the most depressive and economically stagnant zones in the world.
Depression provokes neurosis and phobias, that’s why European societies need internal enemies upon which to direct their fear. The political class of depressive nation-states also need to explain the failure of their rule to their citizens, providing an internal enemy as a scapegoat is easier than taking steps to change the situation they are in.
The real internal enemy of Europe and the real source of its civilization decline is plutocracy, a governance structure based on usury-capitalistalism. These plutocrats know that the welfare-state system created by them is not sustainable and will collapse in the future. What will they do in that case and how will they maintain power? The only possibility is to keep Europe fragmented and occupied by foreign military bases, and then to make it economic colony of the great transnational capitalist empire of future – totalitarian China. This is, of course, not at all a positive outcome for the future of Europe.
One serious factor can crash their plans. This factor is the 35 million Muslims inside the European Union. The point is not only the intolerance of Islam towards, amongst other things, homosexuality and open adultery – deviations which in many cases are the life-style choices of many members of the political class and behind-the-scene financial oligarchs. The direct threat to them is that Islam is not only an internal enemy, but has the proactive ability to pose as a working alternative to the collapsing model, based on a riba (usury) capitalism and manipulative democracy (plutocracy).
From this point of view, Muslims have to understand that the ruling elite of modern Europe, not the media manipulated masses, will not allow the evolutionary growth of Islam within society, having as a consequence, the Muslims populations in Europe becoming a demographical majority with our own healthy social and economic models.
The Political class won’t be able to reach a final solution to “the Muslim question in Europe” – as it is too helpless for such a task. Its intermediate task is to keep growing Muslim communities under the thumb of neurotic nation-states, where Muslims do not have the possibilities to take serious power. And at the same time it keeps divided Europe itself, because the main factor which prevents the consolidation of the vast potential of a United Europe are indeed, farcical nation states, existing under the control of the banking system and un-transparent esoteric clubs.
But they understand the need to solve the Muslim problem of today before it becomes a greater one in the future. The case against minarets in Switzerland or permanent discussions about national identity, integration of immigrants and compatibility of Islam and European values in the media and during election campaigns is a signal of this initiative.
For us Muslims, it is very important to be realists in this situation. Islamaphobia is spreading in Europe. Not only nationalists, but also liberals and even some leftists now have this fear. Ultra right-wing parties during last ten years have gained a lot at a national and regional level, owing to these fears.
If this crisis deepens we can not exclude the victory of nationalist parties taking power in large European countries. France and Italy are states where leaders have used heavy handed nationalist ideas to gain support.
What does the ultra right perspective mean?
First – not just immigrants, but all Muslims, including those with European citizenship, will be totally oppressed in these countries. During the last election in Spain, conservatives declared that they will prohibit the wearing of the Hijab. We also hear of plans to edit the Quran, enforce Muslims to allow homosexuality into their religion, etc. The point being that repression and assimilation will be key to weakening the social and political potential of Islam in Europe.
Second – this will be the end of a United Europe, because really the ultra-right parties are the open enemy of European Integration.
Third – the result is likely to be the emergence of neo-fascist regimes, dressed up in the ideas of democracy and European values. The likelihood of a socio-political dictatorship emerging, with the creation of apartheid i.e. the isolation of Muslim districts based upon the Israeli model in the West Bank and Gaza, is a distinct possibility.
What to do?
The first reaction of course is to resist. This will be seconded as a tendency in European society as reaction on neo-fascism.
We also see the growing anti-globalist movement and street-riots against police in many European cities as a backlash against this new totalitarianism, while they often only serve to tighten control.
Some of these movements and politicians portray friendship to Islam. So it can be tempting to join them in their struggle against racism and injustice. But the problem is that left-radicals are part of the same game, where fears of nihilistic terrorism can feed phobias in the population and therefore advance repressive state policies.
Frankly speaking, both sides – right-wings and left-wings have elements of truth in their vision, but are both at the same time affected by nihilistic philosophy (kufr) and unable to give a positive alternative for Europe. Struggle between dictatorship and nihilists is not the point of Muslim politics – our goal is one of social renewal through Islamic beliefs and practices, particularly in the area of finance, and, therefore, to establish a new and healthy society - something which the secular political parties have failed to do!
So, we Muslims have a real potential to establish what I call the third force – a new social dynamic within Europe, which can become an alternative to future neurotic xenophobia and nihilistic collapse.
This force will have nothing to do within the current theatre of politics, as there is no effective political space left in Europe. It will instead operate as a burgeoning social network of young people. As long as the political process continues to exist primarily within the framework of national party systems, the EU will remain a helpless bureaucratic superstructure, denying 35 million Muslims its voice in Europe.
In all debates about the future of the EU, the main problem is that there is no real all-European force which is not just a conglomerate of national parties.
In this situation only Muslims can establish alternative social models within the European space. And the key to it is the model of real money and trade free of usury, another words, Islamic trade.
In the current state of capitalist collapse, money remains the core political question of our time. If we have a monetary system, based on the usury banknotes, printed by central banking mafias, it creates a political reality which naturally devolves into neo-fascist dictatorship, as intelligent people must be forced to accept this deception.
That’s why the model of bimetallism + fullus is not only a monetary, but also a clear social and political alternative.
The aspect of the fullus (printed currency, issued by government or social organizations but not private banks) in this situation is not less important than golden dinars and silver dirhams. Why?
The political and social point of fullus is that not only state central banks but everybody can create instruments of transaction, which can be freely used as “money” by any consenting trader.
Of course skeptics will argue that nobody will need such empty money, so this is only an anarchist utopia. We will agree that in some point it is anarchist idea, but not utopian. It can be developed practically on the social modus of anarcho-syndicalism, combined with the concept of industrial money, such as the ideas developed by serious economists like J.M. Keynes and L. Larus.
The point of this idea is creating an alternative to the idea that the ‘real economy’ is dependent of money without intrinsic value, as liberal monetarists declare. In opposition to that theory, a real economy can produce the quantity of money that it really needs, according to the needs of industry and trade, but not the banks.
The weakness of the Keynesian concept is that the State has to decide how much money the real economy needs. The alternative is the bimetallic-fullus-model, combined with anarcho-syndicalism, which is organic to the Islamic model of guilds.
To put guilds into a contemporary perspective, branch-cooperation unions and also industrial-trading cooperatives can meet their needs objectively and thus produce the real money needed, which will make an effective payment instrument. The same can be said on a local level with municipal communities.
This is our idea for thinkers amongst the left, as well as libertarians. We advocate a concept of free people and communities who can not only choose but even produce their own money, which requires from the society strong syndicalist (guild) self-organization.
But we also have a point for thinkers amongst the right. This is the bi-metallic Islamic currency model of gold and silver, with copper or other less valuable materials serving as fullus. Two “right-wings” aspects of that model are:
- Independence from the political power of money-creators, which implies the restoration of Sovereignty;
- Stability and security for businesses and society from inflation and the weaknesses of the free markets – economical oppression of financial capital and monopolies.
So, we can and must combine in our model aspects of the right- and left-wing discourses. But we also should break with the useless confrontation between nationalism of right-wings and internationalism of left-wings.
Old nationalism is the death for Europe. But dogmatic internationalism is also an enslaving and abstract idea, which makes no sense.
Only we, Muslims, today in Europe have idea of the Umma and it is internationalist and nationalist in same time. Internationalist because of the gathering of people of different races and cultures. But nationalist because it creates new social-political unity without destroying ethnical differences.
This is what modern Europe needs, from large nations to stateless groupings, native Europeans and also immigrants, who fear cultural assimilation.
What is important is that politically we, the European Muslims, declare ourselves not only as communities within nation-states, which we are, but as a United Muslim Community of United Europe, which creates new social space and also new political structures (Amirates).
In that case European Muslims can become the core of a future European Nation (not a State!). This requires from us to present our social ideas and models in a language understandable to all.
We don’t need and of course, can’t hide our Islam, but we need to speak with people in their own language, as our Prophet, peace be upon him, advised. Therefore, I think that we need to be more active and find common ground amongst the left-wing and with right-wing groups. With internationalists about the bankruptcy of national-states and the dangers of xenophobia. With nationalists about the European Nation as the only credible geopolitical alternative to Chinese and American hegemony.
We need strong allies in Europe to develop these ideas, making at least contact with absolutely different and even incompatible forces and to make ourselves mediators between them. Of course this is possible by Muslims who are deeply involved in European Civilization and culture, who are able also to be mediators between various indigenous peoples of Europe and those immigrants, who now feel themselves Europeans.
Muslims today with the guidance of our blessed Mujaddid Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi (Dr.Ian Dallas) have the potential to create a real Third Force in Europe – a first all-European social movement. We need to transform Europe in a direction which is important to Islam and in that case we’ll become the leaders of a renewed Europe. Otherwise there is no future for Europe in general, and European Muslims in particular.
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