[Sliliashdes]

@mh16388
a2b : Both a and b are locations.

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US is a country that makes a lot of noise about democracy and transparency, international law and human rights.

In view of that they can not attack any random country at their wish.
Because everybody will point out to them the fallacy of their actions with respect to their their philosophy of justice.
So what do they do?
Every country they take action against they cook up some excuse.
Example? O Saddam Husain is making WMDs so let us nip him in the bud.
And this is only one example.
Every society has got inner disagreements and you can inject little bit of money into one of the many groups and it will end up doing some thing stupid.
Then others will legitimately call for US help.
And US will generously come to their help.
This Keynesian technique is quite common in legal circles so please do not think of it as a far fetched figment of imagination.
And CIA is all about this type of things only.
I had seen a few years ago a paragraph of CIA website that they do take operations in foreign countries.

So now let us see the situation just after 9/11.
Irrespective of the fact whether OBL did it or not we has the following situation - US wants to take action against him.

Now you can not invade a sovereign country to tackle a single person, however dangerous in their own words.
So what do you do? You create a big enemy, in the minds of the people, so that people find massive military action justifiable.

No conspiracy theory here - just plain strategy. And did this strategy work?
Yes, like a charm. Even Aiman Al-Jawahiri and other started talking about Al-Qaeda.
And after that you do not need any strategy - the script writes itself.

My point is that it will be very foolish for us Muslims to accept that there was any organized group called Al-Qaeda for there was none to begin with. We should resist the temptation to use this term - even if it makes it easy to talk about the recent events of history. The reason is simple we have much more to loose as compared to the linguistic ease that a new technical term provides us. It is like this - you seek Allah (SWT)'s forgiveness when you repeat some one else's dubious statement.

So since there is a visible tussle between Islam and Muslims on one hand and the most powerful forces of the times ( and they too exist because Allah (SWT) has permitted them) on the other hand we should be utmost careful about helping our detractors.

I hope this clarifies the matter.

If yes then can we turn back to the topic - how to assert that Islam is legitimate?

My simple suggestion is that we start uttering this statement to any and every western person as well as the Macaulian brothers and sisters amongst us who try to fit Islam in western scheme of things. No, no Islam has not such purpose. Islam is the Deen of Allah (SWT) and it stands on its own with out any crutches.