The struggle for Justice in the current Arab World Turmoil

The resolution of the Arab Problem, says a religious leader, lies in the victory of the Islamic struggle against despotic and evil regimes. This struggle must come from the people, and internally. Change must happen throughout the Arab region. The winds of change will happen sooner than expected, when true believers of Islam come to realize that political struggles are necessary to perfect their religion. 

Why is it necessary for the Muslims living in the Arab world to militate against their own state governments? And why is this struggle entirely linked with a true Islamic believer's own struggle towards perfection?

First, Muslims throughout these Arab states realize that their economy is going nowhere. While they hold the most precious commodity on earth (the black gold), economic growth and development sputters like an old engine. Most of these Arabs blame their governments, pointing out that graft and corruption and mismanagement are the root causes of their economic misery. Poverty incidences rise to monumental highs because wealth is concentrated. There is no mechanism for whatever economic gains to spillover to the lower rungs. As Arabs see wealth being enjoyed by a few in their society and scenes of misery spill over in several news reports, most realize the necessity of politically struggling towards a more equitable form of arrangement. 

With them seeing poverty unfolding right before their very eyes, Muslims from the Arab states began to realize that their rights are not being exercised in their own states. They began to feel the negative effects of being under a despotic and unchanging regime of governance.

They begin to realize that their dictators are not benign leaders, that years of neglecting the exercise of democracy have impacted on their own futures, and they also realized that graft and corruption have effectively hindered economic growth.

Graft and corruption, for an Islamic believer is shirkism, avoiding work and a sin of idolatry. Their leaders have resorted to graft for their love of things. They have abandoned their responsibilities and have gone to a sinful way.

The only way to correct things is to depose the state government. The state government has led the people towards infidelity to Islam. To correct the situation, the solution is revolution. This revolution is based on a renewal of Islamic consciousness sweeping across states and dissolving even state boundaries.