Summary
In the The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement, the earlier invasion of Palestine whose defeat under Salah ed-Din al-Ayyubi is the testimony of history for the present struggle, and whose after-effects — Ideological invasion by orientalists and missionaries, and the imperialist invasion that followed — paved the way for the loss of Palestine (The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement, lines 212-224, 412-428).
Details
- The Crusaders came with their armies, bringing their creed and carrying their Cross, and defeated the Moslems for a while; the Moslems retrieved the land only when they stood under their religious banner, united their word and fought for almost twenty years under Salah ed-Din al-Ayyubi, at the end of which the Crusaders were defeated and Palestine was liberated (Article Thirty-Four, lines 412-422).
- The Covenant views seriously the defeat of the Crusaders at Salah ed-Din’s hands alongside the defeat of the Tatars at Ein Galot; the present Zionist onslaught was preceded by Crusading raids from the West and Tatar raids from the East, and can be confronted and defeated as they were (Article Thirty-Five, lines 424-428).
- Ideological invasion by orientalists and missionaries infiltrated the region following the defeat of the Crusaders at Salah el-Din’s hands, upsetting thoughts, disfiguring heritage and violating ideals so that invasion with soldiers could follow: Allenby on entering Jerusalem, “Only now have the Crusades ended”, and General Guru at Salah el-Din’s grave, “We have returned, O Salah el-Din” (Article Fifteen, lines 212-224).
- The PLO’s adoption of the secular state is traced to the ideological confusion arising from that same ideological invasion, which fell on the Arab world since the defeat of the Crusaders (Article Twenty-Seven, lines 326-344); the Islamic nations are called to mobilize for the decisive battle of liberation just as they did when they vanquished the Crusaders and the Tatars (unnumbered section E, lines 356-362).
Related pages
The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Salah ed-Din al-Ayyubi, Ideological invasion, Jihad