The Letter
Dear Friends:
Asalaamu
alaikum. I have sent this "report" to every Sufi group I could
locate in Britain, Australia and North America. As you continue to
read, you will understand why I have chosen to remain anonymous.
If
tasawwuf in the west is going to retain its
independence, it will have to sever ties with the national governments
and globalist organizations that are presently exercising control over
it, groups whose influence is deeper and more widespread than many
suspect. The goal of these forces
is to groom Sufism as an alternative to "fundamentalist" Wahhabi/Salafi
Islam, an alternative that will hopefully be more passive to control by
the West and/or the Globalists. Certain Sufis may naively think that
there is nothing wrong with playing this role; after all, haven't they
been oppressed by these fundamentalist/Islamicists? And aren't they now
collecting powerful allies at last? Success! It is unfortunately the
case, however, that certain Islamicist groups are also being supported
by the West and the Globalists; their support and funding of Sufism is
more-of-less open (except for their CIA contacts and things of that
nature), their support for Islamicist groups clandestine. It is common
knowledge, however, that the CIA all but founded the Taliban, that the
bin Laden family had/has cordial relations with the Bush
family—ex-president Bush also being past head of the CIA—and that the
major "ally" of the U.S. in the Muslim world, Saudi Arabia, is also the
stronghold of the Wahhabis. Those western military forces presently
fighting al-Qaida and the Taliban may know—or their leaders may
know—that they can't "win". But they also know that they can create
chaos and accelerate the dissolution of traditional dar al-Islam;
perhaps that is their real goal.
Why
would the powers that be support both sides? Easy: the powers that be always attempt to control both sides so they can "play
both sides against the middle", the middle in this case being
traditional Sufism and traditional Islam. The West and the Globalists
are dedicated to busting dar al-Islam, both by military force and by
cultural/spiritual infiltration. They want to destroy Islam as a
religion because it is one of the main obstacles to their plans for a
One World Government. And they have realized that the best way to do
this is to separate batin and zahir
and set them at war. The more violent the Islamicist terrorists become,
the more vulnerable the Sufis become to co-optation and control by
those forces who oppose the Islamicists on one level, attempt to
control them on another level, and are actually behind some of them on
a third. The co-optation of tasawwuf, the spiritual
heart of Islam, by these forces leaves the remaining zahiri
Islam just that much more vulnerable to radicalization; if hearts are
veiled from true remembrance of God, all that people can see any more
is al-dunya, the world of politics and its
"imperatives".
The
following "items" are in no way an exhaustive report on the co-optation
of Sufism, just a guide to what is clearly visible on the internet, to
a mountain of evidence that demonstrates beyond the shadow of a doubt
just how far the powers that be have gone in controlling tasawwuf
and using it for their own ends.
But
who exactly are these "powers that be"? The best book I or my
colleagues have found to answer this question is The
Committee of 300 by Dr. John Coleman, late of British Intelligence (http://www.coleman300.com/).
The Committee, which has been in operation for the past 150 years,
is the closest thing that yet exists to a global "shadow-government",
based in the English-speaking world but exercising its influence on a
much wider scale. Dr. Coleman lists its members; some you have likely
heard of, many you have not. I have no independent way of verifying Dr.
Coleman's assertions, which seem at least to be well researched—but
when I ran down the list of "organizations directly controlled by the
Committee of 300" (italicized and underlined below) and searched them
on the internet, over 1 in 4 of them proved to be involved in some way
with Sufism! And that's just the information that's publicly available!
The
matter is put succinctly on the website of the Council for Foreign
Relations—which, though it appears to disagree with the policy of the
western powers to groom Sufism as the spearhead of anti-Islamicist
"moderate" Islam, treats this policy as common knowledge. Here is the
summary of the article in question as it appears on the website:
Author: Ali Eteraz
June 2009
Why
are U.S. think tanks pushing for state-sponsored Islam in Pakistan?
Once certain
ideas go mainstream, it often takes a pretty big flop to disprove them.
The United States was supposed to be hailed as the liberator of Iraq,
just as it was going to be easy to turn Afghanistan into a democracy.
Well now, according to commentators from the BBC to the Economist to the Boston Globe,
Sufism, being defined as Islam's moderate or mystical side, is
apparently just the thing we need to deal with violent Muslim
extremists. Sufis are the best allies to the West, these authors say;
support them, and countries as diverse as Pakistan and Somalia could
turn around.
The Sufi
theory has a lot of variations, but at its core, it's pretty simple:
Violent Muslim extremism, rather than having material and political
bases, is caused by certain belligerent readings of Islam usually
associated with Salafism, a movement that attempts to resurrect the
Islam of the prophet Mohammed's time, and Wahhabism, a similarly
conservative branch. If Muslims can be indoctrinated with another,
softer, interpretation of Islam, then the militants, insurgents, and
guerrilla fighters will melt away. http://www.cfr.org/publication/19959/fp.html
Some
of you have not even suspected that you are vulnerable to such forces.
Others are uneasy, but unsure as to how they might find out more. Still
others know quite well already. And Allah most certainly knows, and has
known, from all eternity. He will be the final judge, and no human
being or jinn can avoid being brought before his Bench at the end of
time, or simply at the end of his or her short life. If only we truly
feared Allah! If we did, then the fear of al-dunya,
which is always hidden under some sort of glamour or blandishment or
bribe, would have no power over us.
The
following findings are simply the product of two or three days in the
internet. I simple googled Dr. Coleman's list of organizations plus the
word "sufi", and noted the first one or two entries that confirmed my
suspicions; in some cases the entries contained new research leads, but
I didn't follow them up in any great depth: the globalists are so
confident of success in their attempt to co-opt Sufism, and have
already been so successful, that they hardly bother to hide their
plans. The URLs below ought to give anyone interested in such
information many leads for future research. Some of these connections
may be harmless, or relatively so, and in many cases the Sufis involved
undoubtedly entered into them innocently enough. Others show an
undisguised will on the part of the western powers and the globalists
to co-opt tasawwuf; they are as follows
[List and URL's available upon request.]
Some
of you may feel that to refuse to take sides against the Islamicists,
no matter who one must ally with to do so, is to lend them support:
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend". However, the actual situation may
be more on the order of "The enemy of my enemy is also the friend of my
enemy, and therefore both my friend and my enemy at the same time".
Some groups may be in a sufficiently desperate situation that they must
accept any help that offers itself, no matter what strings may be
attached. But any Sufi tariqa that can maintain true
independence from political influence of any kind—which is still more
or less possible in the west—should, in my opinion, not throw this
opportunity away while it still exists.
In
conclusion, I would advise:
1)
Never accept funding or patronage from a group, foundation, or
interfaith organization whose background you have not thoroughly
researched—and even then be wary. Be especially wary of any group that
approaches you.
2)
Be extremely wary of the interfaith movement; it is one of the main
vectors of globalist control over the world's religions. (For an
exhaustive analysis of this from the Christian perspective see False Dawn: The United Religions Initiative, Globalism and
the Quest for a One-World Religion by Lee Penn; http://www.leepenn.info/FalseDawn.html)
Many local interfaith groups are sincere, but often they have never
thought to question the motives and hidden agendas of the groups and
foundations who support them. And if our central duty is to remember
God, why do we need to spend a lot of our precious spiritual attention
dialoguing with people from other religions? We certainly ought to
familiarize ourselves with the basic tenets of the other religions, but
beyond that, why dialogue? In specific instances, when difficult
community relations are involved, or when a pressing need appears to
diffuse potential interfaith violence, such dialogue may have a place.
But if we are reasonably sure that no-one from the other religions in
our community plans to bomb our mosques and dergahs and zawiyas, just
as we have no plans to bomb their churches or synagogues, or even to
speak disparagingly of them either in public or behind their back, then
let us turn our attention to Allah and how he is dealing with us in our own lives, and forget useless
dialogues that at best are a waste of time, and at worst may be
preparing the groundwork for the syncretic One World Religion that the
globalists ultimately wish to impose on all of us, which will without a
doubt be the religion of al-dajjal.
3) Beware of the
desire that "Sufism take its place on the public stage." Beware
especially of public demonstrations of any kind, especially if they are
organized by groups you don't know! Don't militantly demonstrate for
peace—BE peace. Realize the nafs al-mut'ma'inna. And be willing—not just willing, I would say,
but eager—to embrace anonymity, marginalization,
irrelevance—irrelevance to anything but the eternal destiny of your
soul, and the souls of your brothers and sisters. It is through this
alone that you will serve Islam and humanity, more deeply than you can
possibly know before the Day of Resurrection. According to the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be
upon him, "Islam began in exile and will end in exile; blessed are
those who are in exile!"
Yours
Truly,