The EU Concept

Perhaps the EU was a political construct after all, aiming to convert Europe into one big Corporate, wherein the profits of the corporate are the only sovereign and uniting force. The European Central Bank (ECB) immorally pumped in trillions of dollars into its shareholder states, which it knew were never to be paid back, and in spite of all defaults, it vows to extend free unlimited support for all Eurozone countries involved in a sovereign state bailout through its precautionary programs.

So, was this unity a unity of hearts or was it a unity for free plunder, debt-spree and a vow to be one in spreading havoc around the world with their NATO Armies? Will the EU countries still stand together, once the banking system eventually collapses and no more easy money can be lent? Or will they revert to their barbaric past then?

It is an irony to note that the EU lacked of any subjective message whatsoever for the people it aims to unite. Apart from its Charter of Rights based on liberal ideals, that tend to liberate man from all bounds instead to binding them together, the EU has chosen a unique European Anthem for itself, based on Beethoven’s 9th Symphony made upon Friedrich Schiller’s poem ‘Ode to Joy’. Observe the content:

Joy!

Beautiful spark of the gods,

Daughter of Elysium!

In fervent rapture we enter the heavenly fire, thy sanctuary.

Your magic reunites

What fashion strictly divided,

All men will become brothers

Where your gentle wing rests.

Poetry may be difficult to interpret, but for the common sense, the simple message that comes out of these verses is of Joy over Morals; of gods over a One God; of fire over calm; and of ‘unity in diversity’ under the one slogan of ‘Joy’. This poem, in itself, poses the danger of such a spark for controversy that it is played only instrumentally in all EU occasions, and the lyrics are left out to the dark.

Can it be concluded then that Unity is not an end but a means to an end, it is a tool like the wheel and the axe, it is neutral and our usage of it will determine its goodness or its evil? If we unite in high moral, and in the highest ideal of the ‘One God’, this unity can be permanent, can harmonize humanity into one peaceful body, can marginalize the essential elements of greed and lust rooted in human nature and can make the hearts one. But if this unity is based on lust and greed, the so-called ‘Joy’, it will not be permanent nor progressive but only be destructive, however much it poses to be the opposite.

Today, when Europe deems it right to unite within and also across the Atlantic with its long departed cousins, many so-called upholders of Freedom and Self-determination from the West are enjoining/aiding potential rebellion entities from within Islamic states to fight for freedom on ethnic or sectarian basis. The aim is to balkanize the already scattered Muslim Ummah; every now and then we see such opinions published in Western newspapers as to how Afghanistan will be divided; what the new map of Pakistan would be; or how Iraq is already practically a divided state. The question is why is unity good for Europe and bad for us? Why was the idea of unity artificially injected in the European thought, and why is it forcefully siphoned out from the Muslim thought?

Why is it bad or impossible for a Muslim block such as Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kashmir to become a union of independent and interdependent states, not to become a threat to others around us, but to become allies and protectors only in the name of the ‘One God’ Who really unites us? Is that so impractical when we already stand for and stand behind each other; when already we are inseparable in geopolitical scenarios and inevitably keep on bearing each other’s plight, through the decades! Why should Iraq be balkanized, and then it would be the turn of Syria and then Jordan? Is it not just the thought, which is the easiest and the most difficult thing to change?

Why is the EU motto “United in diversity”, and why do they propagate, abet and finance every possible divide in us? Yet, at heart, we are united; we pain when our brothers in Tunis are hurt, we are agonized when a Kashmiri is abused, we protest from Morocco to Bangladesh, in the millions, under one slogan, if a word has come upon our Prophet’s respect.

Has the 21st century not seen this amazing drama of comparison – a Europe and America coming out to the streets against ‘Wall Street’ and ‘Austerity’, and a Muslim Ummah coming out for the name of its Prophet!! Some would say that the Muslims are still trapped in a backward millennium, but I would say that Europe and the West as a whole have become void of all subjectivity; being the richest people of the world, still austerity is their only issue; they have nothing left to love but the object.

Thus making obvious the approaching death of the European Union, since the only factor that had kept them together was monetary, and this factor is already dwindling.