01-16-2007, 02:38 AM
Book Review in Pioneer, 15 Jan., 2007
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Ram Gopal
<b>The World Comes Under Islam, Gangadhar Nanda; Kaveri Books, Rs 400</b>
The book, The World Comes Under Islam: Transformation of Civilisations, by Gangadhar Nanda is an important reading for at least two reasons: First, it brings out that in the near future the population of Muslims in the non-Muslim world would mark a sharp increase. Second, Muslims, because of their religious compulsions, are bound to wage jihad against non-Muslims. Eventually, it would result in civilisational conflicts within non-Muslim countries as well as between Islamic and non-Islamic nations.
The author says, <b>"The first phase of Islamic renaissance began in the 1950s, after the detection of oil reserves stretched over a vast area under the whole of the Arabian peninsula.</b> Muslims own the world's largest oil wealth which has brought them prosperity and strength to fight in the name of Allah... They spend a large portion of it to feed mujahids and to spread Islam through jihad. <b>The second phase started with the Islamic revolution of Iran in 1979, when Iran threw away the monarchical regime of its king, Rezah Shah Pahalavi Arya Mehr, who was supported by the Western countries."</b>
Dealing with the US's role in preparing Muslims as jihadis in Afghanistan to subdue its arch-rival, the USSR, the author makes a novel observation: <b>"The USSR was defeated neither by Afghanistan nor by Pakistan and never by the US. It was disintegrated by itself by the upsurge of Islamic wave in its own territory. Its soldiers denied fighting against their co-religionist Afghans.</b> Now, it is the turn of the US, which is going to face the same trauma that Communist USSR faced."
<b>Britain is the country in the Christian world that breeds jihadi fighters or European Islamic militants, the author says.</b> Some 600 British Muslim nationalists have already enlisted their names in jihadi groups to voluntarily work in different parts of the world. In addition, there are about 3,000 British Muslim supporters who have joined jihad in different countries of the world.
<b>About Pakistan, the author says that the creation of an entirely new Muslim state gave the greatest impetus to global pan-Islamic movement. Few people know that it was started in West Asia in the second half of the 19th century. One of its greatest torch-bearers was Jamal al-Din Afghani, (1839-97). In his opinion, the chief enemy of Islam was Europe, especially the UK, the imperial power in India and Egypt.</b> Afghani had come to India and met Muslim leaders in Bombay, Calcutta and other places to prepare them for a global confederation of Muslim states. He was the first man to give the idea of Pakistan to Indian Muslims.
Nanda rightly says, <b>"Pakistan is the key Islamic country in the world that produces professional jihadi fighters to be deployed in different countries for the spread of Islamic terrorism.". The irony, however, is that Pakistan itself is the biggest recipient of the West's generosity.</b> Even while the US is signing civil nuclear deal with India, it is supplying sophisticated weapons to Pakistan.
<b>At many places, however, the book reads like Bhavishya Purana, a book of prophesies.</b> It predicts: The anticipated Third World War would be a global civil war, if it occurs after 2020; human beings would be used as the best weapons in this global war; Euro-America's social system and guarantee of equal or special rights to non-Christian minorities would bring them entirely under the shadow of Islam; the first decade of the 21st century would signify the division of world powers into Christianity and Islam, instead of earlier classification of "capitalism and communism"; the world population would be divided into two entities, Islamic and non-Islamic; political slogans of different political parties of different nations will rebound against the invincible wall of Islamic communalism saturating the second phase of transformation of civilisations; etc.
According to the author, if a concerted attempt is not initiated to resist the Islamist assault, no power on earth would be able to stop the process of the great transformation of civilisations into Islamic mould.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Civilisations under assault
Ram Gopal
<b>The World Comes Under Islam, Gangadhar Nanda; Kaveri Books, Rs 400</b>
The book, The World Comes Under Islam: Transformation of Civilisations, by Gangadhar Nanda is an important reading for at least two reasons: First, it brings out that in the near future the population of Muslims in the non-Muslim world would mark a sharp increase. Second, Muslims, because of their religious compulsions, are bound to wage jihad against non-Muslims. Eventually, it would result in civilisational conflicts within non-Muslim countries as well as between Islamic and non-Islamic nations.
The author says, <b>"The first phase of Islamic renaissance began in the 1950s, after the detection of oil reserves stretched over a vast area under the whole of the Arabian peninsula.</b> Muslims own the world's largest oil wealth which has brought them prosperity and strength to fight in the name of Allah... They spend a large portion of it to feed mujahids and to spread Islam through jihad. <b>The second phase started with the Islamic revolution of Iran in 1979, when Iran threw away the monarchical regime of its king, Rezah Shah Pahalavi Arya Mehr, who was supported by the Western countries."</b>
Dealing with the US's role in preparing Muslims as jihadis in Afghanistan to subdue its arch-rival, the USSR, the author makes a novel observation: <b>"The USSR was defeated neither by Afghanistan nor by Pakistan and never by the US. It was disintegrated by itself by the upsurge of Islamic wave in its own territory. Its soldiers denied fighting against their co-religionist Afghans.</b> Now, it is the turn of the US, which is going to face the same trauma that Communist USSR faced."
<b>Britain is the country in the Christian world that breeds jihadi fighters or European Islamic militants, the author says.</b> Some 600 British Muslim nationalists have already enlisted their names in jihadi groups to voluntarily work in different parts of the world. In addition, there are about 3,000 British Muslim supporters who have joined jihad in different countries of the world.
<b>About Pakistan, the author says that the creation of an entirely new Muslim state gave the greatest impetus to global pan-Islamic movement. Few people know that it was started in West Asia in the second half of the 19th century. One of its greatest torch-bearers was Jamal al-Din Afghani, (1839-97). In his opinion, the chief enemy of Islam was Europe, especially the UK, the imperial power in India and Egypt.</b> Afghani had come to India and met Muslim leaders in Bombay, Calcutta and other places to prepare them for a global confederation of Muslim states. He was the first man to give the idea of Pakistan to Indian Muslims.
Nanda rightly says, <b>"Pakistan is the key Islamic country in the world that produces professional jihadi fighters to be deployed in different countries for the spread of Islamic terrorism.". The irony, however, is that Pakistan itself is the biggest recipient of the West's generosity.</b> Even while the US is signing civil nuclear deal with India, it is supplying sophisticated weapons to Pakistan.
<b>At many places, however, the book reads like Bhavishya Purana, a book of prophesies.</b> It predicts: The anticipated Third World War would be a global civil war, if it occurs after 2020; human beings would be used as the best weapons in this global war; Euro-America's social system and guarantee of equal or special rights to non-Christian minorities would bring them entirely under the shadow of Islam; the first decade of the 21st century would signify the division of world powers into Christianity and Islam, instead of earlier classification of "capitalism and communism"; the world population would be divided into two entities, Islamic and non-Islamic; political slogans of different political parties of different nations will rebound against the invincible wall of Islamic communalism saturating the second phase of transformation of civilisations; etc.
According to the author, if a concerted attempt is not initiated to resist the Islamist assault, no power on earth would be able to stop the process of the great transformation of civilisations into Islamic mould.
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