The Series "The Caliphate and the Imamate in Islamic Thought"
By the Writer and Thinker Thaer Salama – Abu Malik
Episode Seventy-Eight: The Secular State Dies of Capitalist Stroke – Part 1
Thus, the secular state is far from considering the values by which society is supposed to measure its convictions, and far from establishing an ideology aimed at controlling the legislative process, or enacting laws to regulate people's behavior, telling them: Adultery is forbidden and drugs are forbidden! Secularism does not care about regulating people's behavior. If a capitalist can "make a fortune" from the drug trade, such as cannabis, he will find the laws in the state at his disposal, making its use legal, and then begin to amass astronomical fortunes!
Secularism has succumbed to the logic of power, and the most prominent thing in society was the power and influence of the capitalist, so he reformulated the thought, standards, and convictions of society to revolve around goods and services, to develop capital, and made the broad sector of society workers who live to work, and wait for the weekend to fall victim to the pleasure sector, from drinking in bars to cinemas to sports clubs, so the human being was emptied of any attempt to explore the depths of the universe and know the secret of existence, and he no longer had any interest in searching for the truth, and the state has become very intrusive in spying on people, to know their natures, desires, and ambitions, so it spied on them through communication devices and the Internet, and electronic communication programs, and used that information for advertising and publicity, and to influence the voter during the election period, that voter who was once called: (citizen), and became called: "taxpayer", and after necessity was the mother of invention, invention became the father, mother, and sister of necessity!
Society has turned into consumption, spending, and pleasures, and thus secularism, which separated ethics, religion, and all values from people's lives, did not care to be the daughter and sister of capitalism, as for the values upon which the French Revolution was based, such as liberty, fraternity, and equality, and as for the values upon which the American Revolution was based, which aimed to guarantee the rights of individuals to life and property, and to freedom of worship and expression, in addition to equality of all before the law, and separation of religion from the state, which were derived from the theories of the English philosophers: John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Edward Coke, and the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, then came the Bill of Rights, which states: The state has no right to search the papers or properties of (citizens) and has no right to take individuals' real estate without acceptable compensation from (citizens). In the event of a crime, the criminal has the right to be brought to trial quickly, and he has the right to know the crime he committed or the violation he committed, and he has the right to meet the witnesses who testify against him and hear their statements, and he has the right to obtain witnesses for his benefit and he has the right to appoint a judicial council to defend him!,
These values can be divided into two categories: unimportant and important!
As for the unimportant category, the state does not care whether you had potatoes for dinner or lentils for breakfast, whether you spent the night in a nightclub or on television, as long as what you are doing is trivial and unimportant, so let the state have values to apply to you, if you steal and you are a family man, then imprisonment, and harsher punishment, but if major companies cheat the tax system, legalize their business and make it legally sound, and evade paying taxes on the trillions they deposit in Irish banks, this is not called theft, and none of the laws that are theorized as the values upon which America was founded apply to it.
But if what you are doing is important, for example, a group of blacks try to obtain their rights, and they form groups with goals, then the state will not deal with them according to those values and standards!
However, many of these rights and values have been overtaken by actual practices. The state spies on people in all forms of espionage to the point that there is no longer any privacy, and secret evidence laws have been enacted under which the accused is imprisoned without knowing the reason for his imprisonment, his charge, or being brought before the judiciary, or defended on the pretext that the evidence of his crime is secret and revealing it will harm national security,
Therefore, secularism has truly died of capitalist stroke! Just as its sister democracy died of a liberal stroke!
