The state of the Muslim world leads very little comfort for those of us who are trying to improve the lot of the oppressed and destitute throughout the Muslim world. The drums of war against Iran are starting to beat and with every day they get louder.

Muslims in the west still haven’t focused their energy, time and money to ensure that any foreign policy debate on whether Iran is an opposed to UK interests, or Israel’s and where the two nations (Israel and UK’s) interest depart. And even adding to the debate ‘can a Middle Eastern nation be critical of Israel without it being considered harmful to British or Western interests?’

No, Western Muslims have not made that case, but before we do, let us recognise Iran for what it is. In this time with Iran being surrounded in both Afghanistan and Iraq with American Armies, Republican and Democratic Presidential candidates tripping over themselves to talk about pre-emptive strikes Iran starts the mass deportation of Afghan refugees! Surely a case of ‘how not to win the moral high ground’.

The political argument from Iran is unsophisticated and easily destroyed, they are increasingly seeing the Afghans as a nuisance and a potential “fifth column” in case of a war. So to avoid confusion, ‘kick them out of Iran’ and send them to a border town and let them rot. The case of unprotected children some as young as 12, young girls forcibly removed without their families or belongings, Husbands and wives left with nothing are herded into quiet desert border-crossing and given, by the UN, the sum of $6 and a phone call.

Well if the Iranians didn’t want a nuisance, an uneducated mass of refugees, they had 20 years to provide education and help those refugees integrate. The result would have been a loyal and grateful community that would never consider itself other then part of Iran’s multicultural tapestry. The Afghan community that could have helped protect Iran and rebuild Afghanistan. Instead Iran chose to keep the refugees and then treat them with disdain.

Hardly humane, definitely not Islamic and definitely not worthy of the name ‘Islamic Republic’ of Iran. The British, French, US and every other Western non-Muslim nation treats refugees, regardless of their government’s ‘War on Terror’, with more compassion and humanity than any Muslim country has in the past 200 years.

For Britain to forcibly remove a 12 year old and leave the boy at a border outpost would be unimaginable, both libertarians, the left, the centre right, majority of the media and the public would not stand for it, and no British government would do it.

Yet Iran without a single dissenting voice, perpetrate against fellow Muslims, the worst kind of inhuman treatment and not one senior Islamic scholar, not one newspaper, or minister condemn it. It is not an Islamic Republic, it is another Middle Eastern tyranny, a banana republic, which has left Islam and its guiding principle and turned the Allah’s beautiful religion into bigotry worthy of the Saudis or Zionists. The difference between the Muslims of today and Zionists of today is that Zionists welcome the Jewish Diaspora in to Israel and these so called Iranian Muslim leaders treat humans like an effluent to flush away without any compassion or even an after thought.

The Afghans like the Palestinians and Kurds have had a difficult history, destined to be the play-things of the great powers. Born into the wrong region to powerless and helpless people they are treated worse by Muslims who should protect them, than the Crusading western armies that Muslims now fear and revile. The paradox cannot be lost on anyone who looks.

If Iran expects the Muslim constituencies in the West to rally around and try to stop it being bombed ‘into the dark ages’ it has an obligation to behave as truly Islamic state and drag itself out of the primitive mindset that puts no value on human lives and even less on the lives of Afghans. The Afghans have a right to live with dignity and safety and Iran and Pakistan have an obligation to provide that.

MPACUK will work to ensure that Zionists in the UK do not provoke a war with Iran but will never turn a blind eye to Iran’s unacceptable behaviour. Iran has an option either to reflect and hold the principles of Islam high or face a grim, friendless future where war is inevitable. Like the loud by ultimately failed attempts to stop the invasion of Iraq or the impotent Muslim voice to defend Palestine the Muslims will be in even less willing to activate for the sake of another barbaric regime. Islamic Republic of Iran, the joke’s on us.

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