It has been two weeks since the fall of Ramadi after attacks and retreats that lasted for months which increased in intensity in the last two weeks before its fall. In addition a few days ago Tadmur in Syria fell and after that Sirte in Libya. It seems that the fall of towns into the hands of the Tanzheem (ISIS) will continue in more than one country and all of this is happening under a huge presence of American war planes that fly through the Iraqi sky on a daily basis and the Syrian regime’s planes that control and dominate over the skies of Syria.

The year 711 AH saw the arrival of a young man named Tariq bin Ziyad on the shores of Iberia and what started the expansion of Islam into Europe. 7 years was all it took for the Muslims to take over Iberia, or al-Andalus as it was now called. The people of this land embraced Islam in the thousands, and the establishment of Islam created a society which was envied by the rest of Europe. Contained within it was a harmonious society where Christians, Jews and Muslims lived alongside each other and where minorities were free to practice their faith

The greatest affliction that can happen to free lands is to fall under the clutches of a tyrannical occupier who usurps its lands, contravenes its sanctities and then treats it with the treatment of a master to his slave. So this occupier enforces its viewpoint in life and then makes it the basis for the application of systems and laws that are contrary to the belief of these lands. Iraq is an example of such a land where disbelieving (Kaffir) America attacked it utilising every means of brutality and destruction. It broke up its institutions, disbanded its army and left it to be a source of plunder for anyone to do as they wish with.

“The Kurds fight ferociously for Kurdistan. The Shiites have been fighting doggedly for their people. The Sunnis of the Islamic State are killing and dying for their cause. But nobody is willing to fight for Iraq. The problem really is not that Iraq’s army has collapsed. It’s that Iraq has collapsed…Iraq today no longer exists. In 2008, 80 percent of those polled said they were “Iraqi above all.” Today that number is 40 percent.”-- Fareed Zakaria