Where gallant warriors like our boys and girls cease to be in the business of body counting. Where civilians, especially children , the sick and the old, starve to death, before during and after the battle. Paradoxically it is their primary victimizer that still enjoys perfect health nourishment and power.

So, with the rest of the world we are hopefully awaiting the ‘new world order’, the main features of which I will summarize in the following five points.

First, to be a world order. In order to be a world order, it has to be laid down by the whole world, but self imposed policemanship is no good. Even if it can manipulate the united nations. When the gloved hand ascribes the movements to the glove, but not to itself, no body would be fooled.

The new world order should be offered by the world, even in this unipolar world of ours. Even with our foot on the oil pump in the Middle East. We have to heed tomorrow and let us not be the prisoners of today.

Second, it has to be based on the unity of humanity. In our Quran, God speaks

"You mankind, we have created you from a single pair of male and female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you might get to know and cherish one another, not to despise one another."

So, sharing the final ancestry of Adam and Eve, we are all practically cousins. But, do we practice it? Sometimes I wonder whether we have actually abolished slavery, or only put it into latency by legal, administrative and affirmative action.

It is only when deep in the heart, every human being is appreciated as a dear and equal brother or sister, that we know we have abolished slavery.

It is not within a nation, that slavery thrives. It thrives on the international scene. Economic aid, loans and food, are being used to break the will power of nations into political compliance. Loans and economic aid are so riddled with unfair preconditions, and high interest rates, that the debtor nations find it difficult to service the loans, let alone pay them back. It is a fact and a paradox that the more aid the Third World is given, the poorer and more miserable it becomes. In a new world order, the function of capital and the ethics of aid and trade have to be drastically reviewed.

The third point is peace. Unfortunately the fantastic leaps in scientific advancement, have so contributed to the military industry, that war in our modern time should be considered an abhorrent, unethical, and unacceptable means of conflict resolution.

It behooves humanity to invent an alternative. The United Nations would have been the proper instrument, but unfortunately it has been politicized, beyond repair. Probably the best thing and the key to this issue, is when the peace mentality prevails over the war mentality, the war mentality that sustains the war system.

Some of you might have come across the little booklet called "The Iron Mountain Report". In 1963, Washington recruited a Think Tank to discuss the implications if Peace Broke, and after two and a half years of pragmatic thinking they came to the conclusion that permanent peace is not in the best interest of the country.

To maintain the war system, they have to produce a war every now and then to justify it. This is because the Peace dividend flows naturally by gravity, from above downwards, to the poor and needy at home and abroad.

But the War dividend, miraculously flows from below upwards, to replenish the war machine, and further fatten the fat and enrich the rich.

The solution in a Democracy, is for the public to demand a peace mentality. Because it is the public who elect and select, and they have the final say.

The fourth point is Democracy. But we have to be honest to Democracy. Government of the people, by the people, for the People, conflicts with big capital and the mammoth interest groups corrupting the purity of the Democratic Process, and deflecting its’ course.

Moreover Democracy should be a matter of conviction and principle, and not just an Act to play. It is a mockery of Democracy, when the big Democracies of the world support and sustain and protect the dictators against the Democratic aspirations of their people.

It is a mockery of Democracy, when we handle it, upon the Orwellian Catechism, "They are all equal, but some are more equal than the others." Only in antithesis, "they are all equal, but some are less equal than the others."

When the Democratic process in Algiers lead to the victory of the Islamic Party over the ruling party, Democracy suddenly went sour. The Big Democracies found the ‘buts’ and ‘ifs’ and they condoned and tolerated and even praised the crackdown of the Military on the people’s free will.

What a shame for the Democracies, what a shameful stand that betrays the new face of Anti-Semitism, only in this case in the form of Anti-Islamism.

This brings me to the Fifth point, which is Religion. We all worship the same Creator, because there can not be more than one. The Creator addresses us in the Quran,

"We have honored the children of Adam," So, humanity is a bond and an honor."

Probably Jews and Christians to me, as a Muslim, are special people. We share the Abrahamic Heritage.

We read God speaking in the Quran,

"The same religion has He enjoined upon you, as the one He enjoined upon Noah, which we revealed to you, and that he enjoined upon Abraham, Moses and Jesus that you should steadfastly uphold the faith and break not your unity therein."

Conflict in the name of religion, is not of religion, but of human ignorance or malice. Just remove the political injustices, and religions would converge people, rather than diverge them.

Doctrinal differences should be acknowledged with reciprocal respect and tolerance, leaving the Judgement to the Ultimate Arbiter, our Creator, to whom we shall return one day.

The heart and the core of our religious duty is to carry out the combined trusteeship over this world with which we are entrusted, so that we establish peace on it, not only amongst ourselves, but peace with the nature around us. So that we shouldn’t kill it for short sighted considerations, of pleasure or greed. This is the real religious test, and we hope in a ‘new world order’, it wouldn’t just be one nation under God, but one humanity under God.