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Hajj should be the natural time to discuss the plight of the Palestinian people and find a solution to zionist-perpetrated genocide. Instead, the illegal occupiers of the Haramyn, the Banu Saud, have reduced it to an empty ritual devoid of its original purpose.

In his continuing series of articles on developments in post-Prophetic history, Abu Dharr explains how Uthman’s policy of trying to win over the affluent persons of Makkah resulted, inadvertently, in creating a wealthy class and left behind the committed Muslims.

In three days, Donald Trump plundered more wealth—$4 trillion—from the Arabian dinosaurs than any previous US president had managed in three years. The illegitimate rulers gave their wealth away to buy American protection.

Optics, not diplomacy determines relations between Trump and the Gulf rulers. Glitzy steel and glass towers, the higher the more “prestigious”, are what gives them pleasure. Forget about investment in domestic human capital, learning or scientific culture.

Donald Trump’s transactional approach to diplomacy marks a clear departure from previous US foreign policy approaches. There was not even lip-serivce to democratic values and human rights that characterized previous US encounters with dictatorial regimes. It was all about money.

That the American deep state is unhappy with Trump is not in doubt. His crude methods are exposing their dirty works that used to be done with a smile. Trump is bulldozing his way and there is speculation that the establishment might bump him off.

The dystopian system in Pakistan is best illustrated by its recent contrived spat with India. Whatever it achieved was the result of Pakistan’s airforce pilots yet credit was hogged by the army chief general Asim Munir, elevating himself to the rank of ‘field marshal’.

The mercenary nature of Muslim soldiers in the British Indian army is exposed brilliantly by the late Colonel Ghaffar Mehdi in this article written in 1972. The mercenary nature continues to this day, and shamelessly proclaimed as if it is some kind of an honour.

Assessing the resilience of the Islamic system in Iran and understanding the various political currents that operate there. That it has withstood 46 years of relentless external pressures and propaganda reflect the Islamic system’s deep roots among the people in Iran.

In their second eruption, almost 100 years after their first unsuccessful attempt at grabbing power in the Arabian Peninsula, the Bani Saud became British agents to undermine the Turks and grabbed power. Today they serve zio-imperialist interests and do so with pride.