From the book, Introduction to the Tafseer of the Quran, by the Ameer of Hizb ut Tahrir, the eminent jurist and statesman, Ata Bin Khalil Abu Al-Rashtah:

The current war in Ukraine has trigged a pandora’s box of new set of complexities and crisis across the globe where the war does not seem to end anytime soon. Most wars through history had major impacts on shaping the post-war period. It goes without question that the Russo-Ukraine war would be no different where the war’s end will leave behind a memorable effect on the current global geopolitical setting…

The Westphalian system of the 17th century coupled with colonization of the British in the 18th century gave birth to the idea of Nation states and Nationalism. This idea entails the loyalty to the country where one is born and the consideration of its culture as the superior culture. It calls for the attachment to all that is related to the land in which one is born.

In Afghanistan, America became entrapped and tried many strategies and options to pull out from Afghanistan right after 2006. The position of America has slipped from being a superpower to simply one of the many powers with unsustainable baggage of Military expeditions. A report on ‘Global Landscape 2020’ is a document, written in the year 2003, which highlighted various future ‘Relative Certainties’. One of them being: “Political Islam shall remain…