It Is Twelve Years since Yasin Abu Bala and the militant Muslimeen took over our country in a brief but bloody coup that left around thirty people dead. They were subsequently ousted and pardoned, but openly used their freedom to rally moderate Muslims to their cause, build up financial links with Libya, the Sudan and Muslim activists in Britain, and smuggle “massive quantities” of arms into Trinidad.
Like Yaser Arafat and Muslims everywhere, Trinidad’s militants speak out of two sides of their mouths. While “mourning the loss of life at the WTC,” they insist that in the war the “Jewish and Christian infidels” have declared on Islam, they will win or die in the attempt. “Islam is the only medicine that can cure the world,” Umar Rajeem stated in launching a recent big recruitment drive for Jamaat al Muslimeen, Yasin Abu Bakr’s particular sect, which now numbers ten thousand throughout Trinidad.
Jamaat’s version of Islam boasts of a wave of converts since September 11. They claim that Islamic family life is very attractive to West Indians, with its emphasis on male dominance, polygamy, and highly regulated home life. Abu Bakr’s own family of three wives and fourteen children is held up as a “beautiful family model,” according to their printed propaganda.
Whatever we may think of the morals and devious piety of Islam, the fact is that it is growing in popularity, especially since September 11. The notion that Jews, supported covertly by Christians, run the world for their benefit through their financial, business and political networks is absolutely basic to the education of thousands of young Trinidadians. I know personally three Islamic schools in Port of Spain where this indoctrination is carried on. They are taught that although Hitler and Stalin were unsuccessful in destroying Judaism and Christianity sixty years ago, and the Jews were allowed to create the state of Israel, God [Allah] has promised that militant Muslims will soon succeed in establishing Sharia’ [Islamic law] throughout the world. Obviously, a head-on confrontation between our preaching of the Truth and militant Islam is inevitable. It is hard for us to accept, and it is a bit scary, but little Trinidad has become a miniature of the whole world.
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One