Whatever the case may be...

Whatever the case may be, it is imperative that the Islamic movement should observe peace between the different groups of the movement and if dictatorship should gain power over the movement then there will be no peace, for peace is bred from equal power bases. If dictatorship were to gain po wer it would not change and the movement would not be able to change it. Then this group would act despotically with the finances, the rep utation of the mo vement and with the will of the mo vement.

We have seen how easy it was for colonialism to take the reins of power from the dictators because the public was taken out of the equation and the power was present in four, five or ten people only. However, if the movement had been a popular movement then colonialism would not have been able to take the reins of power from the people. It is then imperative that the movement observe the following two points.

First, the movement should comprise of different branches, equally balanced powers, and different groups each with their own currents and trends even though the framework is one, which is the popular Islamic movement. It is only natural that people's tastes are different and each person should be allowed to propose his own opinion in a climate of complete freedom be that in speech, writing, in gatherings or on travels.

Every person should work according to his own opinion as we see in action amongst religious jurists. Their framework is the Qur'an and the Sunnah, consensus and intellect but they still differ in the particularities in all the areas of jurisprudence. This is the case for doctors, engineers, and astronomers in the gatherings of the free or semi- free nations. Seco ndly, the movement should also hold free elections annually or biennially.

The mark o f free elections is a complete change fro m top to bottom not fraudulent elections as in some nations, parties and organisations where the leaders do not change and only a few things change as a tactic. Another mark of fair elections is that the number of votes ranges from small to large like 51% or 55% or 60%. As for forged elections like those of the Ba'thists or the Nationalists we see 99% of the votes going to the former president and 1% going to his opponent or even less.

This is no thing but fraud, lies, and does nothing but compound the dictatorship. A p olitical scientist has laid do wn two criteria for assessing whether a country is free or not.