The hadiths says there will be major and minor battles between muslims and the west(hadith mentions romans, in our time America is the Roman Empire), these battles are called Malhama and it takes place in Khurassan(Afghanistan), Shaam(Syria, Lebanon, Palestine) and Iraq.
The
Rum of the Quran and hadiths was what we term the Byzantine Empire. A Greek speaking, Orthodox Christian, multi-cultural Empire centred around Anatolia and mostly holding territory in the Balkans and the Middle East/North Africa and ruled by an Armenian of Parthian descent. How does this become America?
So this is real issue and it proofs the prophecies from Hadiths.
As predictions made in the 7th C, they basically say 'We will fight some battles in the most likely places in the world that these battles would happen'.
In the modern world, the main problem is that the Byzantine empire ended in the 15thC, so that seems to falsify the prophecies. Because Muslims don't want to admit this, they have to try to invent a new
Rum. Depending on who you ask this is America, the West, Europe, Italy, Christians, Orthodox Christians, Copts, Russia, white people or Turkey. The technical name for this is 'clutching at straws'.
If this was divine revelation, it would be pretty easy to say something like 'a new power from far, far away' rather than using a term that meant the byzantine Empire
We talk most of the time about isis, alqeada etc but never the root cause of these groups. That is the interference of muslim affairs by the West.
In my humble opinion if this continues, i think more moderate muslims will be forced to join such groups. These groups believes you cant simply invade Iraq, Afghanistan and throw away the regimes without opening more dangerous doors.
Also people see this as conspiracy. They wonder, why is there no such regime change in North Korea, Cambodia, Cuba, only in muslim world there is clear mendling. So this is real issue and it proofs the prophecies from Hadiths.
Anyways what is your view? Do you think interference made things worse or better?
As regards the 'root cause' of these groups, there are many. Al-Qaeda for example grew out of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (maybe
Rum again), and the Saudi decision to invite American soldiers to make bases there in the period of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
You also have to take into account the Wahabbi ideology that has been well funded by the Gulf states, the development of new hybrid ideologies by people like Sayyid Qutb which fused Islamism with Western totalitarian ideologies, the failure of the Arab nationalist movements, the failure of the Arab region to adapt to global changes and provide opportunities for their people, etc.
Regardless of whether or not Western intervention 'caused' such groups, I think that it is undeniable that it has been the most successful tool in popularising these groups. Jihadis themselves always give this as a primary causes for joining and motivating their behaviour. So the West has helped to create the conditions in which these groups are able to attract large numbers of recruits.
This is the strategy that these groups themselves follow. They desire to draw Western forces into a direct conflict, and the West has done everything that these groups most desired.
In their words:
"Almost everything [Shaykh `Abd Allāh `Azzām] said happened, as if it were a cinematic film. From this we know that understanding the abilities of the enemy and the time of his defeat only comes to us by plunging into active war with him, regardless of whether we have a rational mind or theoretical research (at hand)...
The first goal: Destroy a large part of the respect for America and spread confidence in the souls of Muslims by means of:
(1) Reveal the deceptive media to be a power without force.
(2) Force America to abandon its war against Islam by proxy and force it to attack directly so that the noble ones among the masses and a few of the noble ones among the armies of apostasy will see that their fear of deposing the regimes because America is their protector is misplaced and that when they depose the regimes, they are capable of opposing America if it interferes.
B – The second goal: Replace the human casualties sustained by the renewal movement during the past thirty years by means of the human aid that will probably come for two reasons:
(1) Being dazzled by the operations which will be undertaken in opposition to America.
(2) Anger over the obvious, direct American interference in the Islamic world, such that that anger compounds the previous anger against America's support for the Zionist entity. It also transforms the suppressed anger toward the regimes of apostasy and tyranny into a positive anger. Human aid for the renewal movement will not dry up, especially when heedless people among the masses – and they are the majority – discover the truth of the collaboration of these regimes with the enemies of the Umma to such an extent that no deceptive veil will be of use and no pretext will remain for any claimant to the Islam of these regimes and their like.
(C) – The third goal: Work to expose the weakness of America’s centralized power by pushing it to abandon the media psychological war and the war by proxy until it fights directly. As a result, the apostates among all of the sects and groups and even Americans themselves will see that the remoteness of the primary center from the peripheries is a major factor contributing to the possible outbreak of chaos and savagery....
This was the policy of battle for the pioneers: to transform societies into two opposing groups, igniting a violent battle between them whose end is either victory or martyrdom, whose emblem is either glorious war or humiliating peace. One of the two opposing groups is in Paradise and the other is in Hell: "
[Quotes taken from various pages of 'The Management of Savagery']
http://www.physics.wisc.edu/undergr...eference_chapter07/Management_of_Savagery.pdf
