Islamic Egypt? You Better Believe It!

I am calling today’s post-Revolution (January 25, 2011) Egypt “Islamic” only after careful thought. It is not just my hope or prayer but the statement of a simple fact on the ground.

Make no mistake: It is always my fervent hope and my most ardent prayer that God’s world will move ever closer – by the day and by the hour and by the minute – to Allah’s chosen way of Islam.

But the reason why I am calling the present-moment Egypt Islamic is not a wish or a hope or prayer, but a hard and undeniable reality. […]

World War II: No Independence for Muslims

Much of the world was enslaved and occupied by foreign slave masters until before World War II. End of World War II brought independence to many lands and peoples of the world, including India, but not the Muslims. Muslims had to wait for decades to breathe the air of freedom in their own lands.

Many of the Muslims are fighting for their most basic human and political rights even today. The Islamic uprisings sweeping parts of the Muslim world are an attempt by Muslims to win their independence – over 65 years to the end of World War II, when everyone else got their independence.[…]