Please refer to the cover story titled “The Perplexing Silence of the Muslim World on Gaza” by Mr. Arshad Shaikh vide Issue No.25 of Radiance dated 04 October 2025.
The learned writer has analysed the failure of Muslim countries in a very lucid manner. Let me quote a few points from an article by Prof. Juned S. Ahmad, Director of Centre for the Study of Islam and Decolonization (CSID), Islamabad, Pakistan.
(1) When Muslims from Gaza to Kashmir, from Sudan to Syria, are being brutalised with impunity, and the so-called leaders of Muslim majority states are either polishing boots in Washington or mumbling their dissent into the sand.
(2) Today, the term “Muslim World” feels like a cruel joke, the geopolitical equivalent of a sticker slapped onto a broken mirror.
(3) Let us be honest. Most Muslim majority governments today are client states, marionettes in a puppet theatre directed by western powers, primarily the United States.
(4) From Riyadh to Rabat, from Islamabad to Amman, their foreign policies are either written in Washington or blessed by it.
(5) The phrase “Muslim World” implies unity – political, moral, spiritual. But what unity can there be when Muslim regimes routinely trade in their principles for arms deals and IMF loans? When loyalty to Washington counts for more than loyalty to the Ummah?
(6) The gold-plated palaces for the Gulf, the military barracks of Islamabad, the ceremonial thrones of North Africa – all pay homage to power, not principle. They genuflect before the American imperium, whispering prayers for stability while Gaza burns.
(7) One that understands that sometimes the friend is not the one who shares your name, your language, or even your religion, but the one who stands with the oppressed and speaks truth to power. Conversely, the enemy is not always the infidel, sometimes he wears a keffiyeh and speaks flawless Arabic but signs armsdeals with Zion.
(8) So, let us bury the illusion of the Muslim World with dignity. Let us write its obituary, recite its funeral prayer, and move on. Not in despair, but in defiant hope. The “Muslim World” is dead. Long live the Ummah of the oppressed, the just and the free.
Let all the justice-loving people appreciate respected Prof. Juned S. Ahmad Saab for his bold arguments and for showing to Muslim leaders their faces in the mirror.
Farooq AbdulgafarBawani
Rajkot, Gujarat,India
Gazans Still Not Getting Humanitarian Aid
Reports confirm that Hamas, the Palestinian resistance movement, is wary of the ceasefire agreement with Israel. The first phase of the agreement between Hamas and Israel took effect on Friday, October 10. The agreement allows the entry of hundreds of aid trucks into the enclave to help avert famine among the territory’s 2.4 million population. However, the Palestinian sources said on October 12 that a large number of aid trucks were not allowed into Gaza via the Kerem Shalom crossing in the south on October 11, as they remained under Israeli army control.The amount of aid reaching Palestinians so far “was within the usual rate of recent months and did not see any exceptional increase under the ceasefire agreement.”
However, a senior Hamas member, Izzat al-Rishq said that it is coordinating with other parties to ensure the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza under the ceasefire agreement.
Karim Raza
Hapur, UP