A Witness from Within the International Order Testified that It Is a Great Lie
(Translated)

Al-Rayah Newspaper - Issue 585 - 04/02/2026

By: Ustadh Asad Mansour

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledged the lies upon which the international order established by America and from which his country benefited is based. He called on middle-power states to unite, because it is no longer possible that there is “living within a lie.” This came in a historic speech delivered on 21/1/2026, carrying his views and sharp criticisms during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

What provoked Carney was Trump’s threat to invade Canada and annex it to the United States, whilst Trump also issued a statement that “Canada lives because of the United States” the day after Carney’s speech. Otherwise, Carney was not provoked by what America has done throughout its dark history, nor by what it did in Afghanistan — killing, wounding, and displacing millions and destroying the country for twenty years under the banner of the international order, and the application of international law — crimes in which Carney’s country participated alongside America as a member of the crusader NATO alliance, nor was Carney provoked by what America did in Iraq, Somalia, and many countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Instead, Carney admitted his country’s participation with America, which led the international order, saying, “So, we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works.” This is because the knife held by America, and the hand of Canada that supported it, has now reached Canada’s own neck through Trump’s statements and threats; otherwise, the bargain would have remained effective. Carney also acknowledged that his country followed America because it benefited from American hegemony over the world, saying: “American hegemony, in particular, helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.” All of this was in the interest of America and its allies, including Canada, at the expense of weak states.

At the same time, Carney admits their hypocrisy in rhetoric related to freedom, human rights, and helping peoples, while reality exposes them namely, their crushing of human dignity and rights and the plundering of peoples’ wealth. Canada is a member of the colonialist G-7 (Group of Seven), which discusses global financial and political issues to impose its decisions on other countries.

These are capitalist thieves: when they disagree, they expose one another, not because they are truthful, or care about weak states. Carney then turned toward middle-power states and called on them to unite to help him against America, which threatens his country, saying: “the middle powers must act together, because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu.” that is, America will devour them.

Carney confirmed that his country participated in oppressing peoples, when he acknowledged the falsity and corruption of the international order in which it took part, saying, “We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And we knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.”

When the accused is a weak country or a Muslim country, international law is applied with severity, as it was applied to Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, and others.

This international order was established by America after the Second World War and shaped through the United Nations, its Security Council, and numerous international organizations across all fields in order to dominate the world, impose its authority, and plunder its wealth. It appears that America now wants to reshape the order so that it alone dominates, turning participating states into followers of its decisions, obliged to implement them and provide services to America. For this reason, it established the Board of Peacefor Gaza, and began working to make it an international board under its presidency, without granting any veto power, as an alternative to the UN Security Council, where five major powers possess veto rights, so that no decision can be taken against them, and America cannot pass any decision without their approval.

Carney admitted that the international order is based on false rules, but the falsehood is not partial, as he claimed. In fact, it is total and foundational. It was devised by European Christian states in 1648 at the Peace of Westphalia to regulate relations among themselves and to stand against the Islamic State. They created an international family to apply the international law they had formulated. However, it collapsed with the First World War. It was then re-established with the founding of the League of Nations in 1919, which itself collapsed after little more than a decade, as powerful states violated international law and occupied other countries until the outbreak of the Second World War. After the war, America and Britain announced the establishment of the United Nations and, within it, the UN Security Council, to apply international law upon defeated and weak states.

For a long time, pragmatists, and those bewitched by the West in Muslim lands, were deceived by it, repeating the refrain of the international order, the international community, and international law. They hastened to refer to it, hoping it will do justice to their causes or return to them an occupied piece of Palestine, or establish for them a Palestinian state, even if only in name! Meanwhile, the Jewish entity paid no heed to any of this, and rebelled against the order with American support, carrying out genocide in Gaza, and implementing a policy of starvation while Canada supported it with weapons and money.

This international order is now staggering; its corruption and falsehood have been exposed. Many states complain of its injustice and arbitrariness, as it allows the powerful to dominate and crush the weak. It appears that those who built the international order have begun to demolish it with their own hands. If their structure collapses, it is glad tidings for all humanity to be rid of this great lie and its evils.

How accurate and farsighted was Hizb ut Tahrir’s vision when it explained in its book “Political Concepts” that among the causes of the world’s misery is the so-called international law, which should not exist, because it is the command of a ruler, and thus necessitates a global authority to enforce it upon others according to its interests, and similarly is the so-called international family, whose foundations are false and whose rules are spurious; and the bloc of major powers, which poses a danger to peace and to other states. The book clarified that work must be undertaken to remove these causes, so that happiness may be achieved for the world, and it outlined a roadmap with precision and clarity. It also made clear that there is no state qualified to lead the world and deliver it from these evils because all states are entangled in them.

There is no alternative but the Khilafah Rashidah (Rightly-Guided Caliphate) to rescue the world from this misery, and from that great lie and its evils. Its ideology is sound. When it ruled the world for thirteen centuries, it worked to liberate peoples from oppression and misery, established justice, preserved human dignity, granted rights, and secured needs. It neither colonialized any country nor plundered any land’s wealth. Instead, it safeguarded every land. Therefore, good deeds to establish is right, and supporting those who work for it is also right, even for non-Muslims because it will deliver them from those evildoers who deem that might is right, whilst the weak are obliged to submit and yield to the strong. Evil indeed is their judgment!