Threats to Muslim Ummah

Threats to Muslim Ummah

• Arab Oil

• Lack of unity

• Sectarianism

• Ideological threats

• Blasphemous attacks

• US Influence and occupation

• Economic and social disaster

• Check and balance on Media

• Jihadist Militants/extremism

• Western Civilization and culture

• Killing under clash of civilization

• Indo-Israel relations, the biggest threat

• Tarnishing the Muslims and Islam’s image

• No nuclear Energy even for peaceful needs

The world of Islam today is passing through a critical period of its history. Muslims are confronted with many problems and find themselves in an indeterminate state, between aspirations and despair. Muslims, therefore, need to locate the key problems and threats that Muslim nation (Muslim Ummah) faces today and identify their duties.

Islam is facing many problems and threats and the biggest threat is tarnishing Islamic culture and civilization. Non Muslim forces are trying their best and putting all their efforts to make Muslims reluctant of their Islamic culture and in this way West is promoting their own culture, thoughts and ideas.

Ideological challengers of Islam – Marxism, communism and socialism – have been eliminated from the historical arena. They once represented major challenges to Islam in Muslim countries. Today they have been defeated by the realities in the world, and in the process, Islam has re-emerged as the dominant political force in the Muslim world. Today, the enemies of Islam and the Muslim Ummah are using two main weapons against is: threats and subversion. Sometimes they intimidate governments and intellectuals, elites, organizations and individuals with threats and shows of power; other times they subvert them with bribes and incentives.

Extremism is also a threat to Muslims as they are painting hard image of Islam ignoring completely that Islam is a religion of peace and love not killing brutally and spreading violence, due to these militants Islam is now considered a religion of violence, poverty, and uncivilized people. Another major threat is US influence and occupation as US is now enjoying super power position, so she is destroying Muslim nations and countries to get access to their resources as it happened in Iraq and Afghanistan. The main and important resource of Arab world is Oil so Arab Oil is the main reason of attraction and invasion to these countries making these countries paralyzed socially and economically. Western media is also promoting hatred against Islam and spreading wrong image of Islam among them.

Muslim countries are totally relying on their resources and not doing any remarkable in science and technology, or other manufacturing so they are lacking behind economically . Latin America and Asia have shifted away from reliance on exporting natural resources towards manufacturing and services. The Middle East, however, still depends on oil. Today, the United States imports about US$5 billion worth of manufactured goods and farm products from the twenty two members of the Arab League, Afghanistan and Iran combined. This amount is equivalent to 50% of the imports of the United States from Hong Kong alone. The combined non-oil exports of Middle Eastern and North African countries is about US$40 billion per year, which is lower than that of Finland. For all the talk of diversifying away from oil, Saudi Arabia has only two main exports: crude oil and related gas based petro-chemicals. Together, they comprise 80% of the total annual revenue of the country.

Among Muslim ummah Pakistan is only nuclear country and no other country is allowed to get nuclear energy even for peaceful needs. Most Muslim countries consider Israel the biggest threat as it is promoting violence in the region, with the passage of time Indo-Israel relations are increasing resulting a disturbing condition among Muslim countries.

The main threat which is the greatest threat to Muslims is lack of unity and division into different groups like Muslims are divided into Sunni, wahabi, Shia and further every branch is divided into more sub groups, the sad thing in this regard is that every group is enemy of other and call itself true believer while other as Kafir.When Muslims are not united how could they face the outer threats? In this situation Non believers take advantage and blasphemous attacks are done to annoy Muslims.