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Islam and the West 1 - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief Islam and the West 1 2021-06-21 323 Views Islam , Islam vs West , Colonization Allah (SWT) has assured us in the Qur’an that He is the best Protector, the best Guardian and the most Merciful of all merciful (1). Islam is under siege in the contemporary world. Siege is a war tactic, an offence and an attack. In the repertoire of war, both as strategy and tactics, to be under siege is to be hemmed in.

It connotes a situation whereby the enemy has surrounded the frontiers, the access has been blocked and there is no coming in and no going out. It is meant to snuff out the enemy unless he (the General) or they (the city and its people and all) are ready to surrender. It is either they are enslaved or in most cases, they are eliminated. In the alternative, they have to fight back. It is a dire situation! Apparently, a formidable force hems in the besieged. In most cases, it is not a single enemy.

Enemies come together in their various forms. Different armies or their states conspire to see the end of a common enemy, to neutralize its forces, to remove or reduce the menace, that it has constituted to them. Conspiracy, therefore, is a strategy, a preconceived plan to execute on the terrain, as tactics on grounds, in the execution of the war.

So, if the battlefield manifests the siege, which is the tactics, the war headquarters of the besieging army/armies conceive the plan, the conspiracy, which is the strategy. And in the Clausewitzian tradition, “the battle… the bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy’s forces, is the firstborn son of war”.

(2) The war itself, in Clausewitz’s own phrase, “is politics through other means”.(3) This incursion into strategic analysis is to accentuate the gravity of the problem at hand. If we can agree that Islam is under siege, then we will have to agree that we are in a war situation. And if there is a conspiracy, it means we are not talking about a single enemy but about many. And their method must be manifold.

The question that follows is who are the enemies, the West, who conspire, to do what, against Islam? What threats does Islam constitute to what interest or interests (of theirs) to warrant this gang up? What are the methods used in this conspiracy and how do they execute the plan? What are the implications of the siege? Is Islam in a position to lift the siege?