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The Last WordBeginning at the time of Renaissance, the gradual ascendancy of Christian Europe over the Islamicworld has played a spoiler in Allah’s stratagem of Jihad for establishing an imperial Islamic state on a globalscale for blessing all humankind with His perfected final creed of Islam. Europe, indeed, played spoiler toAllah’s mission thrice: first at the Battle of Tours (732) and twice at the Gates of Vienna against the Ottomans(1527 & 1683). Europe dealt even a bigger blow to Allah’s divine mission by capturing most of the lands,which Muslims had captured through resplendent Jihad over the centuries. In places like Turkey and Iran,where Europeans did not or could not capture power directly, they made the rulers of those countries theirsurrogate.The usurpation of Islamic imperialism by later European imperialism dealt a severe blow to theGodly profession of Jihad in more ways than one. The European imperialists did not only terminate Islamicpolitical domination and further expansion, they almost completely wiped out the vital Jihadi professions:forced conversions as well as enslavement, slave-trade and sex-slavery. Jihad, the central creed of Islam, to agreat extent, was dead. When the European imperialists eventually withdrew, a good part of the landpreviously captured by the heroism and blood of Allah’s anointed Jihadis came under the control of theinfidels: India being a prime example. This was a great loss for Islam.However, the designs of almighty Allah could hardly be kept under control or abolished by somemortal earthly powers. Allah’s anointed ones kept aloft the zeal of Jihad against European occupiers until theywithdraw in the twentieth century. But those former imperialists have created other kinds of stratagems andregimes, such as international law, human rights, abolition of slavery and many such things—all hamperingthe implementation of the ideals of Jihad for the fast progress of Islam. In the nineteenth and early twentiethcentury, the Europeans also opened doors to many Muslim students, often from elite families, to theiruniversities for gaining knowledge. It was a good thing, if they learned the sciences and crafts of creatingpowerful weapons to confront Western powers. But most often, they came back indoctrinated with un-Islamicideas—secularism, human rights, feminism and many such things that contravene the central doctrines ofJihad. Iran and Turkey, the two biggest Muslim powers, became the slaves of those non-Islamic foreign ideasand embraced secularism, wholly abandoning the divine profession of Jihad.But Allah is the greatest plotter says the Quran; He has the power and craft of undoing all humanstratagems to flounder His mission. ‘Surely they (infidels) will make a scheme. And I (too) will make ascheme,’ says Allah [Quran 86:15–16]. ‘In all things the master-planning is Allah’s,’ warns the Quran tothose, who devise plots against Him [Quran 13:42]. The West-infatuated regime of Iran has been ousted bythe great Ayatollahs. The Kemalist secularists in Turkey are on their way to be ousted soon. Jihad has beenactive in Iran in full measure over the last three decades, while it is slowly taking hold in Turkey.In the subcontinent, the Jihadi zeal of its sizeable Muslim population, effectively suppressed by theBritish for so long, were let loose in the course of the Partition (1946–48). A few million Hindus and Sikhswere converted to Islam on the pain of death, and tens of thousands of their young women were enslaved andcarried away. Even today, the same practice continues in one form or another. In Pakistan for example,hundreds of Hindus, Sikhs and Christians are forcibly converted to Islam and dozens of their young girls areenslaved through kidnapping every year. If they offer resistance, they are driven out through violent outburstsor other forms of social compulsions, causing their rapid decline in number. These oppressive measures are inforce in countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, and in almost every Islamic country.As to slavery, it has been noted that slavery is alive and well in Saudi Arabia in one form or another.Slavery is widespread in Mauritania, while there has been a revival of it in Sudan since the mid-1980s afterthe Islamists took control of the country. Islamic imperialism is also being expanded in various ways: throughthe creation of new Muslim states, Kosovo for example. Similar expansion is likely to follow in Kashmir,Mindanao and Southern Thailand amongst other places. The doctrine of Jihad, with its integral components—270