The event of the Georgian Programme, or rather, its result, the situation, has proved to be one of the pivotal tremors which indicate a profound tectonic shift of the continental plates. The landscape is irrevocably altered. As a result of the incursion into Georgia and that tiny country’s political response, everything has changed. The very foundation of what they might grandly call their political philosophy, and everyone else their imperialist agenda, has collapsed in ruin – I mean the American doctrine of ‘The War on Terror’. That is the radical shift but from it others, too, can be discerned. The myth of an objective media has been simply blown away. The foundational viewpoint was that the Cold War was won by the illiterate American leader (‘Mr Gorbachev, tear down that wall!’) triumphing over the Evil Empire. Both the American appraisal of the enemy and the claim to victory over them have been engulfed by the tsunami that has been caused by this shift in the world situation.
“Georgia on My Mind” by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi
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Abdassamad Clarke is from Ulster and was formally educated at Edinburgh University in Mathematics and Physics. He accepted Islam at the hands of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi in 1973, and, at his suggestion, studied Arabic and tajwid and other Islamic sciences in Cairo for a period. In the 80s he was secretary to the imam of the Dublin Mosque, and in the early 90s one of the imams khatib of the Norwich Mosque, and again from 2002-2016. He has translated, edited and typeset a number of classical texts. He currently resides with his wife in Denmark and occasionally teaches there. 14 May, 2023 0:03 View more posts