• There are today more than fifty Muslim states, all claiming to have Islam as their religion and basic source of identity. All these nation states are constantly in a process of building and rebuilding in hopes of achieving the goals of development set by the West. These very goals are contradictory to the religion many have declared they have adopted as their state religion.

Indonesia's anti-graft agency on March 16 named a prominent Islamist politician backing President Joko Widodo's re-election campaign as a suspect in a bribery case. The United Development Party (PPP) chairman Muhammad Romahurmuziy (Romi) had allegedly accepted bribes to get two people high ranking jobs at the religious affairs ministry.

On Friday March 15th, world media outlets reported on a mass shooting and murder of Muslim men praying in two mosques in New Zealand. 49 sincere Muslims attending the Friday prayer duties were shot and killed, with many more injured in the aftermath.

Only to start with as a short reminder of what Islam’s main pillars in prevention of poverty are: -      Islam has regulated the issue of ownership in a very clear and efficient way. Every individual is permitted to gain and to possess private property on everything that is not public or not state property, through the ways that Islam has made permissible (work, trade, inheritance, gifts, etc.), i.e. except steeling,…