Reproducing Western popular culture in the native tongue of Muslim lands: the latest style of importing corrosive capitalist liberal ideas to the region II

Reproducing Western popular culture in the native tongue of Muslim lands: the latest style of importing corrosive capitalist liberal ideas to the region II

 

Yoni Cohen, senior vice president for development and sales at 20th Century Fox commented on 'Glee', one of the top-rated shows in the U.S which, like 'Big Brother', could prove problematic in some markets as the show has openly gay actors and discusses pregnancy in unmarried teenagers, he says. "We try very hard not to let other cultures dictate.....and we'd rather not do a show in the end if it steps beyond an adaptation and into a reinvention."

The moral lines have been clearly drawn by the original programme owners. There is absolutely no willingness to remove the western cultural perspective in order to secure any Islamic value system, one has to now wonder why our own Muslim leaders do not share this great determination to secure the Quran and Sunnah as a measure for life and progress for our men, women and youth. The answer is simple; our own governments have a lot of financial and political interests in allowing this cultural invasion to spread further into our lands. They themselves exist to serve and obey their Western masters and are employed by them as tools for indirect colonialism. With new and evermore subtle and sophisticated styles available, Muslims are more likely to be duped into watching and allowing their families to watch programming that is not so obviously different to their own lifestyles and in doing so, they would have fallen into the media trap that is being so carefully tailor made for them. After all, if a housewife is too busy being 'Desperate' for an unattainable life based on false principles that have no basis in reality and has her energy directed into destroying the happiness of herself and her fellow citizens, then where would she get the time for political activism against the very regime that is the real source of her oppression and misery.

In the absence of a sincere leadership that rules from Islam and that serves the interests of the Muslims, our Islamic Lands are wide open for this cultural attack. Indeed they are being invited into the lands and are being welcomed in the warmest of manners by the very leaderships that should be protecting us from their harmful influence. The Islamic State (Khilafah) existed in the past and served as the correct guardian for the Muslims not accepting any form of colonialism (direct or indirect) as it acted independently and purely for the protection and promotion of the Islamic thoughts and systems. In its draft constitution of a future Islamic Sate the political party Hizb ut Tahrir, who's objective is to re-establish this Khilafah , has outlined a number of constitutional points that give some indication as to how these news styles should be dealt with:

Article 161

The use of foreign capital and its investment within the State is forbidden. It is also prohibited to grant franchises to foreigners.

Article 165

The Islamic creed constitutes the basis upon which the education policy is built. The syllabi and methods of teaching are designed to prevent a departure from this basis.

Article 166

The purpose of education is to form the Islamic personality in thought and behaviour. Therefore, all subjects in the curriculum must be chosen on this basis.

Article 167

The goal of education is to produce the Islamic personality and to provide people with the knowledge connected with life's affairs. Teaching methods are established to achieve this goal; any method that leads to other than this goal is prevented.

With regards the superiority of the Islamic thought over the non-Islamic thought, there is no room for cultural relativism as Allah سبحانه وتعالى says in the Qur'an:

بَلْ نَقْذِفُ بِالْحَقِّ عَلَى الْبَاطِلِ فَيَدْمَغُهُ فَإِذَا هُوَ زَاهِقٌ

"Rather We hurl the truth against falsehood and it cuts right through it and it vanishes clean away!" [Surah Anbiya, 21:18]

And when dealing with those that are the enemies of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and the fact that our leaders give them control over the media in our lands, we should bear in mind that Allaah سبحانه وتعالى warns us.

وَدُّوا لَوْ تَكْفُرُونَ كَمَا كَفَرُوا فَتَكُونُونَ سَوَاءً

"They would like you to be kafir as they are kafir so that you will all be the same." [Surah Nisa, 4:89]

In light of these principles the laws relating to how the media supports or works against these constitutional points and evidences would be regulated by an Islamic State and it is the absence of this comprehensive Islamic System that leaves the minds and indeed homes of the ummah exposed to all manner of sick and depraved viewpoints that work against the progress of Muslims, both socially and at a personal level. The solution to counteracting this new media style is to account our leaders for permitting that which is impermissible and harms our interests as well as working to resume the Islamic way of life in calling for no other system except the Khilafah, as prescribed by Allah سبحانه وتعالى and His Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم.

The Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم said;

''The one who removes his hand from obedience he will meet Allah without a proof for himself' and Whosoever dies without a bay'ah (pledge of allegiance to a Khaleefah) on his neck dies the death of Jahiliyyah.'' [Muslim]