Islamism..and the danger of religious parties

Islamism..and the danger of religious parties

Religious and sectarian parties are an abnormal situation that is inconsistent with the nature of the basic formation of the national state. Perhaps the reason lies in the constitutions that grant the right to accept the formation of parties with ideological references that have defects, or even imbalances, from which anti-state ideas infiltrate societies with their institutions, whether civil or military. The state cannot be in harmony with its opposites in terms of thought and direction, as all the references of the religious parties are unanimously agreed on the necessity of reviving the Khilafah state, and in general, they always promote Islamic unity in their fawning before the ruling regimes. A thing and its opposite do not coexist rationally as well as legally, so how can those who call for the revival of the united state be a helper and a lifter in the national state? The contradiction and in the language of the clergy (hypocrisy) the Arab countries paid the price for many of their capabilities, and even squandered their political, economic and social gains when those parties attempted to monopolize political power. What happened in the so-called “Arab Spring” clearly expresses what Arab societies have lost and paid a heavy price for. Radical currents are extremist, sectarian currents, and are even more extreme.

These currents believe that they possess divine authority, and from that authority they divide people between good people who accept their approach and behavior, and evil ones who cling to the implementation of reason and the arbitration of logic in the management of the state and life. Religious ideology, and terrorizing societies with divine torment in the event that those societies depart from the religious legislation and the opinions they impose have in fact shackled the Arab mind, and turned societies into a herd that walks behind radical currents.

Acknowledgment that Arab societies have succumbed to intellectual terrorism and have become morally threatened under the pressure of the dominance of the unilateral discourse, which considered that departing from the authority of the clergy is open disbelief and the lowest degree of heresy within the determinants that ensured the Islamic currents hold on to the destinies of societies. Homeland under loose slogans do not make sense.

The homeland is for all, provided that the homeland is the constitution that grants equality and social justice to all members of that homeland, without instruments of sacred innocence for one group at the expense of another. They will invoke repeated pretexts to justify their opinions and ideas, but the truth remains in what the years of their dominance documented in their books, publications, and even in cassette tapes that formed in a historical era the media authority from which the currents infiltrated and succeeded in the influence that still exists. All calls to renew religious discourse and review Islamic heritage books will not stop. Its place and will remain just frequent invitations in conferences and events. But it will not be achieved as long as these currents possess political power and parties that hinder the practical transition of the process of bringing about a radical change in Islamic thought. It is farcical for these extremist forces to control political life, and therefore the processes of transferring power, and even the establishment of power, so that religious references coincide and determine paths instead of being determined by the election boxes. Here, one of the turbaned people is not slandered. Rather, he looks at the results of the decade of chaos in 2011 and until now in every country where the constitution still grants turbans the right to form political parties. Evidence says that there are countries that are governed by the party’s weapons and others by the weapons of the state militias of a non-Arab state. Religious and sectarian parties are a danger that many Arab countries coexist with.

As the suffering increases and the failure rates rise, the measurement indicators say that there are failed countries and other countries that fail more. So, the time has come to resolve this issue by containing the national constitutions as determinants for the inauguration of political parties by not granting groups with religious reference licenses that grant them tampering with peoples.

* Yemeni writer