Foreign Correspondence

[Amaunet]

Secular society is the worst possible thing because it leads to individualism, liberalism, and relativism, precisely those traits that may promote dissent and turn people away from the particular agenda of a given government.

Thus governments as well as the neocons that control this administration promote religion as absolutely essential in order to impose their program upon the masses.

If a particular religion is not conducive to the needs of the state and cannot for whatever reason be neatly dispatched the seeds of a state inspired evolution are planted.

I give you two examples of this trend.




Report Says China Endangers Future Of Tibetan Buddhism

POSTED: 8:00 am EDT August 16, 2004

LHASA, Tibet -- One of the authors of a new report says Tibetan Buddhism "is under more threat in its homeland than ever before."

The report by the International Campaign for Tibet says communist China limits the number of monks, restricts religious teaching and requires monks to attend political classes and denounce the leader of their faith, the Dalai Lama.

Buddhism is part of nearly every aspect of daily life for Tibetans. China views that devotion to the religion and the Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in India, as a threat to its supremacy.

Monks are under pressure to endorse a boy chosen by Beijing as the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, the second-most important figure in Tibetan Buddhism. Another boy, chosen by the Dalai Lama, was taken into custody by China after his identity was revealed and hasn't been seen since.

http://www.wxii12.com/news/3655971/detail.html



Surrogate instead of Islam


Jadidism, a reform movement in school education, emerged in the second half of the 19th century among the Turkic nations of the Russian empire. The movement started from the introduction of the so-called sound method of learning instead of letter-and-syllable method in Muslim religious schools (mektebas and madrasahs). The word 'Jadidism' comes from Arab 'Usul-i-Jadid', which means 'the new method'.

They started calling the movement 'Jadidism' in contrast to Kadimism ('kadim' meaning 'old'). In 1880 Jadidism became a social and political movement. Jadids started criticizing the followers of traditional Islam. They were calling them fanatics and were advancing the slogans for the so-called religious reform.

Starting in 1920s the Jadids fell back into the shadow and did not show any activity, and the movement turned into one of the sects of Muslims speaking Turkic languages in the Russian empire. This sect was secretly patronized by the Czar’s secret police, and then by the Bolshevik regime.

The situation has changed in the recent years. And it is because it has now been adopted by the Russian government, or rather by its local representatives in the form of pro-Russian political elites in Turkic-speaking republics.

Thus, in Tatarstan Jadidism is being promoted at the level of President Shaimiyev. New apologists of the once reformatory movement in school education have turned it into some new religious surrogate, which according to them is supposed to reform Islam (God forbid…!)… no more no less.

Adviser of President of Tatarstan, someone named Hakimov, has become a missionary of this new religious sect. The documents, which allegedly confirm that Tatars have been trying to reform Islam (God forbid…!) for some time now, are now being dragged out of the dusty archives. Even the new 'Mecca' has been found. The ancient capital of Bulgarians (on the Volga River) has been determined to become the new 'holy site'. What kind of Shirq (blasphemy) one has to reach to rubberstamp new holy sites? Actually, I don’t think this word is familiar to the authors of the 'reforms' anyway.

The essence and the fundamental principle must be searched in any actions. Mass media are presenting Jadidism as something reformatory, which is supposed to make Tatars a part of the 'European civilization'. A priori the claim is being made that Islam is obsolete and requires reforms. It means that the claim is actually being made that Allah, the Creator of all existing things, did not figure the situation all the way through and overlooked a few things, and now Hakimov is offering to correct God (God forbid…!) «in accordance with the modern times».

Apologists of Jadidism are also explaining their ideas claiming that fundamental Islam is too hard to understand for «our Christian Orthodox neighbors», for example. Or for the atheists.

It is hard for those, especially for the ones in power, to understand that there is some other religion and that there are some other rules, traditions and principles of life: that not everyone considers it quite right to be kissing the hand of the Orthodox Archbishop appointed by the FSB/KGB to be the head of the congregation.

Apparently, the central government, as well as the local pseudo-national puppet elite, needs to have 'its own' religion to secure themselves and their seats against unnecessary activities of the people, who are focusing their eyes on the true religion more and more. So, one may assume that Jadidism in Tatarstan will start being spread at high speed.

Although, Jadidism, just as any other surrogate pseudo-ideas, is unlikely to find any considerable number of followers among the faithful Muslims. Right now the people’s yearning for primary sources is greater than ever before, -- for what has been in the fundamental foundations of the Faith.

Fattah of Tatarstan, Kazan, Tatarstan.

For Kavkaz-Center

2004-08-18 00:52:03
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