Mamdouh Bitar, Othman Li
It is no surprise that a totalitarian culture has spread in some societies, particularly Arab ones. This cultureis based on violence and the elimination of others, and has resulted from the residue of fanaticism, extremism, aggression, violence, terrorism, hatred, revenge, and a tendency toward exclusion. All of this has contributed to the creation and crystallization of the current Muhammadan Arab personality. All of this began before the call and much of it was transferred to religion after the call, which gave the comprehensive culture sanctity and divine legitimacy. The new religion organized the affairs of the Bedouins, whose practices were primarily limited to one thing, which was the cloud of war and how to deal with the spoils of war, especially dividing them according to established proportions that encouraged looting and piracy of the spoils of war. The new doctrine, which recommended forbidding evil, practiced evil, and set rules and regulations for dividing the spoils of war. Instead of forbidding theft, theft was legitimized. The verse said… And eat of what you have acquired, lawful and pure! The pre-Islamic era was transferred to the new faith, which means that Bedouinism was transferred to it. Bedouinism was a forced social condition imposed by the harsh nature of the desert: no water or grass, drought, and a grueling struggle to secure the necessities of life. Wars that never stopped between tribes due to competition and disputes over spoils, which rooted the spirit of revenge, conquest, murder, arrogance, violence, and racism in the Bedouin psyche. This was in addition to practicing other abominations such as polygamy and contempt for women, because they were weaker than men in terms of muscles and less capable than men of using the sword and stealing. The values of strength, domination, and gang-like Bedouin oppression prevailed. The raids stopped due to the rusting of swords, and with the cessation of raids, the revenues from war spoils stopped. In addition, there were economic factors of great importance, perhaps more important than all other factors in their impact even on Bedouinism in the first place. It is the feudalism that the raiding economy produced after the Bedouin invasion of the East and West. The raiding economy led to what was mentioned about the dominance of oppression, domination, and force, and then the right of force as opposed to the force of right. The raiding economy was implemented even after the cessation of raids, and its application was manifested in the robbery of the property of the subjugated peoples, which was practiced by workers and governors such as Khalid bin Abdullah Al-Qasri, the governor of Iraq, or Musa bin Nusayr in North Africa and Spain, and others. These practiced the most extreme and cruel forms of plunder to secure material resources and even human resources such as captives for the Caliph, which impoverished the peoples of the colonies on the one hand, and on the other hand, humiliated and subjugated them. The reasons for the defeats of the Mohammedan societies did not lie in the corruption of the civilization achieved by many other peoples, which the Bedouins refused to adopt, nor in their distancing from religion, but primarily in the economy of raids, which established a historical and social impasse and, consequently, an isolationist process that did not benefit others nor benefited from others except in material aspects such as tribute. The encounter with the peoples of the colonies was not accompanied by creative interaction, as the peoples of the colonies were more highly civilized than the peoples of the invaders, and the invaders could have learned from the peoples of the Levant, Egypt, India, the Amazigh peoples, and others. Contact with the peoples of the colonies was limited to the economy of raids, i.e. tribute and the forcible collection of tribute from others while they were subdued. In the medium and long term, these invasions, which were accomplished with amazing speed, led to the building of a gigantic empire. At the same time, they led to the rapid disintegration of that empire in various forms, including, for example, disputes within the empire and then the agricultural paralysis that struck, for example, the inhabitants of the Levant after the conquests. The Romans did the opposite for 700 years. They took care of agriculture and dug irrigation canals, including the longest canal in the world, 170 km long, in southern Syria and northern Jordan. They built and paved roads, and the traces of all that are still prominent today. There was no exhausting tribute for the people. There was a literary and artistic life and theaters, and there was thought and thinkers from the people of the Levant. There were also Caesars and jurists among them, and the Roman law in effect until now was created by Syrian jurists like Banipal and other,The Qurayshi Hijazi Caliphate can be likened to the Ottoman Sultanate, and just as the Ottoman Sultanate destroyed itself, the Hijazi Caliphate also destroyed itself at the hands of its Bedouinism and productive sterility. The invaders produced nothing but rivers of blood and a treasury full of stolen and plundered goods, which the new doctrine legislated for the means of obtaining by force, and laid down rules and regulations for dividing them between the thieves and the leaders of the thieves on the principle of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Omar Ibn Al-Khattab was like Ali Baba, and we can ask today about the source of the finances of His caliphate, wasn’t the money of his treasury from the spoils of war!! We have no knowledge of any other source. This point reminded us of one of the clowns of Salafism (Al-Huwaini), who some time ago openly promoted the carrying out of two raids annually in Europe, in imitation of Ibn Abdullah, who carried out an average of two raids annually, in order to improve the Egyptian economy. Omar Ibn Al-Khattab has died, but he is still alive and well in the person of Sheikh Al-Huwaini. Al-Huwaini did not forget Al-Asfar’s daughters, promising to kidnap some of them and explaining in detail the methods of selling them, imitating Ibn Abdullah in his encouragement of what was called jihad in the way of God. When was theft “jihad” in… For the sake of God? When did the One who is capable of everything need someone to strive in His cause