Peace Be Unto Those Who Follow Right Guidance.
In my previous post, COMMENT: The Trickey of Tripoli, I mounted an Islamic counter-Racist critique of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid's attempt to pre-emptively de-legitimise the possibility of 'Holy War' (actually, jihad or liberation struggle) in the Philippines by issuing a statement that conflict with the Americans was forbidden. Abdul Hamid did this at the request of Oscar Straus, then US ambassador to Turkey, in a show of good will towards and friendly relations with the American government once he was given assurances by the US that the religious rights of the 'Mohammedans' (sic) would be protected under American rule.
"I say and I say it again, you've been had. You've been took. You've been hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray, run amok." (Malcolm X)
Perhaps the piano-playing, opera-loving sufi Sultan was unaware that US imperialism, colonialism and Racism (White Supremacy) were imcompatible with Islam (sic).
But what is Hamza Yusuf's excuse? "Is it coz I's WHITE?"
Any non-white victim of Racism (White Supremacy) who thinks that Yusuf's endorsement of Abdul Hamid's position is in recognition of the latter's commitment to universalism is, IMHO, out of his or her mind. This is because the historical record readily establishes that the US ambassador's appeal to Article 21 of a treaty between Tripoli and the United States was nothing more than a deceit, a con, a trick since US President William McKinley's invading AmeriKKKan forces were committed to the "civilising mission" of Racism (White Supremacy). In this regard, I should like to point interested readers to the following four-part work by Nathan Gilbert Quimpo:
Colonial Name, Colonial Mentality and Ethnocentrism - Part 1
Colonial Name, Colonial Mentality and Ethnocentrism - Part 2
Colonial Name, Colonial Mentality and Ethnocentrism - Part 3
Colonial Name, Colonial Mentality and Ethnocentrism - Part 4
Part 3 makes particularly important reading for the Muslim counter-Racist and should put to rest any delusions concerning the enlightened [=en-whiten-ed] nature of US imperialism vis-a-vis Spanish colonialism.
In this light, and as a Muslim counter-Racist, one has to regard Shaykh Hamza Yusuf with suspicion. (For an Islamic defence of this position, the interested reader is referred to my earlier blog articles, "PROJECT: Identifying The Muslim Race Traitors (if any)", "Why Every White Muslim Must Be a Race Traitor" and "Yvonne Ridley: A Jane Brown?".)
Peace
