The scholars were not wrong, at least not entirely. In other regions the kuffar were not able to dominate except after the Muslims purchased modern weapons systems, and more specifically through the debt that accrued as a result.
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Purchasing weapons, and especially military-industrial complexes, from the kuffar strengthens them as much as or more than it strengthens us.
Even without this weaponry, they would never be able to control Muslim countries without widespread assent from the Muslims.
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Even without this weaponry, they would never be able to control Muslim countries without widespread assent from the Muslims.
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To see this reality, consider the level of hostility and boycotts that the general public in the West has manifested toward Russia as a result of the invasion of Ukraine. This is not even direct aggression toward them, but rather an ideological cousin.
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The Muslim ummah, generally speaking, is still incapable of manifesting even a fraction of this hostility toward the kuffar of the West although what they have done to our lands from the East to the West is much worse actually than the war in Ukraine.
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This is because our minds are shaped by the ideologies and beliefs of the kuffar more than the Quran and sunnah, causing our enemies to dominate the psychological landscape.
In other words, we believe that we derive benefit from them, when in truth every piece of...
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In other words, we believe that we derive benefit from them, when in truth every piece of...
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...machinery, every factory, every bit of healthcare, every welfare check, and every minute in their school and university systems is pure spiritual poison ripping through our religion like a starving dog tearing apart meat.
If the Muslims collectively fought them with...
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If the Muslims collectively fought them with...
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...one tenth of the effort and resolve that they fight us, it would not be enough to win, but it would make it absolutely untenable for them to occupy and economically drain our lands in the way they presently do.
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