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Obama’s campaign into power was unique. He was able to recruit more first time voters (millions) than ever before. Obama proved that a grass root movement can change the political landscape. He was spontaneous, well calculated and above all the people's champ. Obama rallied people online, offline and was inline with some of the poorest to wealthiest middle class citizens. This attracted unprecedented amounts of investment. He sold a powerful vision of hope for change even though he greatly lacked substance.

Just over 365 days into his presidency and Obama is nothing more than a broken man. He lost a huge democrat strong hold to a republican. He was muscled after several weeks by his generals to send a further 30,000 troops into Afghanistan to continue the reckless onslaught. The occupation of Iraq remains far from over contrary to his campaign promise. His healthcare bill is in tatters. The powerful Wall Street clique cornered him when he attempted to regulate the financial sector. He began tough talk against the illegal settlement expansion in Palestine but was quickly muzzled into place by the powerful Zionist lobbies and a few days later his Whitehouse started churning out the opposite message. Guantanamo bay remains open despite his iconic signing pose to close it during the first days in office. He categorically refused to pursue torturers amidst the ranks of the CIA even though he drummed up the central role of human rights in his administration. In summary, Obama represents systematic failure.

One crucial lesson is that Obama swept in with a powerful "outside in" strategy to do the unthinkable, but ended up relying on the people inside and turned his back completely on his real powerbase. The only thing his supporters received was the odd email and not even regular blog updates. He mobilised a huge force only to leave them at home disgruntled. He has no public rallying agenda anymore and allows others to call the shots. Political survival is his insincere game. He's detached from the grass root movement where his strength once lay. A lobby group worth trillions in terms of capital and millions in terms of manpower. As one analyst put it Obama is a "perception manager, not a street fighter. For many he's a big disappointment". Who could have stopped him if he was willing to throw his gloves off, get dirty, rally his troops, campaign to push changes in the Whitehouse street by street with millions standing behind him and giving corrupt politicians a run for their money? But clearly this isn’t befitting of such self-centred individuals!   

While the fraud of Wall Street is now all apparent, the fraud of people's hope by Obama remains to be unravelled. Obama's  dream of bipartisan and united nation has become an abomination of the same old business as usual. This is the same delusion that has mesmerised Muslim organisations across the UK. If they're back rubbing with the right Politicians and sipping tea with the right contacts or government funding is being thrown their way, they'll influence change to support plight of Muslims. The ground reality is one of systematic failure and decadence. They expect success to manifest from Whitehall rather than themselves or their own actions. These people are doomed to completely fail and they represent nothing more than their own narrow aspirations, for truly this was not the way of change for the Prophet (SAW), nor his way to prompt Islam using a top down strategy.  

The Islamic model of organisation is one of participative meritocracy and grass root activism. There are no sham elections or aspirations for power. At the same time there’s no dictatorship or a lack of free thinking. There’s no desire to be loved by the powers that be or accepted by powerful elements. We must say and do as we have been commanded! We must be willing to keep our feet on the ground, get our hands dirty and take our "outside in strategy" inside every home. We must be willing to change our Ummah and positively influence public perception of Muslims at large one street at a time, one person at a time for the pleasure of The Almighty.

Mahmoud Muhammad

Editors note: The original ISocNews mailshot went out with the article title of "Obamas nation: An abomination." This was an unfortunate case of miscommunication and was never the intended title of the article. We apologise for any confusion caused as the title should have been the one used on this article.

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