Never before in the history of Islam has it faced a danger such as this. For the first time, Muslims en masse are reclaiming their place in humanity and rejoining history. Islam has always relied on Muslims being unequivocally Muslim in clear contradistinction to the kafir, the unbeliever, treating the values and mores of the infidel with utter disgust and contempt. But history has played a trick on Islam and increasing numbers of Muslims find the values and mores of the infidels growing within their own hearts, gradually forcing out the Qur’an so firmly lodged there during their early childhood. This drama plays out as Islam struggling against Muslims and Muslims struggling against themselves. This short series explores aspects of that complex struggle. Part 1 is here and Part 2 here.
Part 3: Living
Cast your mind back to your wistful backpacking days of travel guides and folded maps and bewildering coins and phrase books. Days of visa applications and weird vaccinations, of Kodak and Fuji and sleeping bags and hiking boots, of beers and guitars on roof terraces and condoms (because you never know), of hoping you can still find something to eat after having arrived late at night and of dying for a shower and… Perhaps in your day, backpacking included time out to write postcards to friends and family, finding a post office and briefly noticing the picture on the stamp; or maybe you’ve only ever known emails and selfies and Facebook, er, “friends”? Either way, you will have noticed the large, colourful wall maps in the youth hostel receptions. The ones bristling with pinheads and bordered with little flags of the many countries from which guests have hailed. If you looked carefully, and had a modicum of geography to your credit, you will have picked out your own homeland, naturally, then gone to the other familiar ones such as the USA, Germany, the UK, Italy, Brazil, Canada, Australia (or is that New Zealand? — whatever), Israel, Japan, South Korea, and on to unfamiliar ones, such as Jamaica, the Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Uruguay. And perhaps you noticed, but did not wonder about, why there seemed to be no flags of Muslim countries anywhere around that map.
“Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humour in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.” (Ayatollah Khomeini)
The life that Allah created the Muslim for is tightly prescribed, bound by rules and duties, and mind-numbingly dull. From Muslim family to Muslim school to Muslim friends to Muslim festivals to Muslim weddings to Muslim holidays (to visit yet more Muslim family) to Muslim pilgrimage to Muslim funerals. The purpose of life is preparation for the life Hereafter: “Do you want success in this life or the next life?” — as if they’ve been there and can vouch for it.
But here’s the thing: a closer look at the daily life of Muslims reveals a fundamental contradiction right at the heart of their faith: Islam makes it impossible for Muslims to be human. That’s it.
The physical confinement of life to a Muslim-only universe — and it is a universe, the containment of all reality — is a life barricaded against a meaningless world for which there is only disdain, officially, at least. And when, in extremis, they must venture out amongst the infidel, the sullied, a personal barricade is donned in the form of a relic beard, ultra-retro couture, hijab, niqab, chador, burka, abayah or other body sheath, all-in-all, a pre-mediaeval precursor to the space suit, a life-support system for the body in a hostile environment. It seems impressive and convincing: such faith, steadfastness as would make a saint proud. And that appearance endures, must endure. The Muslim universe is the physical manifestation of the greatest and most important doctrine of being Muslim (or of “Muslimness,” as per the latest spin) — note, not of Islam, but of being Muslim — the unspoken, unwritten, unacknowledged doctrine of hypocrisy.
Only in the narrowest sense of the word can the Ayatollah Khomeini be said to have been alive. The same holds true for anyone who lives according to “no jokes, no humour, no fun and no joy,” because human passions, likes, preferences and predilections, i.e., happiness, are part of our evolutionary inheritance. Even animals, once they are sentient, have preferences that can set one specimen apart from others of its kind. Delight is an emotional force innate to us. Islam, therefore, in its jihad against enjoyment, is fundamentally anti-human, so much so that it becomes incumbent on each Muslim to enforce its anti-human prescriptions on every other Muslim.
“The believers, men and women, are Auliya’ (helpers, supporters, friends, protectors) of one another, they enjoin (on the people) Al-Ma’ruf (…all that Islam orders one to do), and forbid (people) from Al-Munkar (…all that Islam has forbidden)” (Qur’an 9:71*). This police-state verse is further codified and operationalised in Shari’a. Reliance of the Traveller devotes an entire book to [Imaam Ghazali’s] Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong. While verse 3:104 seems to make such policing a communal, rather than personal obligation, “And let there be [arising] from you a nation inviting to [all that is] good, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and those will be the successful,” Muhammad quickly steps in to clarify Allah’s perfect words: “Whoever of you sees something wrong, let him change it with his hand. If unable to, then let him change it with his tongue. If unable, then with his heart. And that is the weakest degree of faith,” (Sahih Muslim, Book 1:79). In other words, violence is the first resort in keeping your fellow Muslim in line, and minding your own business is “the weakest degree of faith.” Islam’s co-option and usurpation of the Muslim’s humanity and innate ethics is well illustrated in this opinion on Nawawi 34 (the same hadith, Sahih Muslim, Book 1:79).
When conversing with infidels, all Muslims talk the rules of Islam as if they practise them (here I am not even referring to those who demand time off work to pray, or who pray in the street or in airplane aisles, as if praying is something they do five times a day without fail). Amongst themselves, Muslims pretend the rules of Islam are second nature to them: “absent-mindedly” fingering worry-beads while chanting “la-illaha-illallah, la-illaha-illallah…” just loud enough for others to hear; quoting Hadiths at every opportunity; excessively long invocations of the name of Allah before doing the simplest things; energetically proclaiming approval or disapproval of whatever is Islamically allowed or disallowed. Such animation, note, pertains to observance and transgression in the abstract, and not when it involves a friend, an acquaintance, or someone in authority over them (although Allah has a strong injunction against such loyalty to anyone other than himself and, of course, his prophet). Every Muslim knows that every Muslim does wrong, but every Muslim pretends that every Muslim does right.
This universal hypocrisy makes it possible for someone to be both a Muslim and more-or-less humanly alive at the same time. It is an expediency that has stood the test of time and afforded Muslim societies sustainability within a framework of obedience, hierarchy and social relations of personal dependence. Within that system, Muslims do more or less anything they want, so long as they exercise discretion and never talk about it. Things can unravel pretty rapidly if the code of hypocrisy is breached, as in, for example, when a young woman is suspected of impropriety, something that, by its nature, cannot be concealed for very long. Then everyone will “protest too much,” and the Shari’a stipulation that a parent may kill such a child without blame is vehemently insisted on, especially by closest family. It will be a lucky woman indeed who escapes with her life, mostly the ones who live in the accursed West, where Muslims are haunted by the prospect of their daughters becoming “too Westernised.”
The Western Muslim ghettos face a far more sustained, full-frontal assault from the conspicuous and celebrated pursuit of happiness beyond its barricades. On a daily basis, the ghetto’s inhabitants must on so many levels engage with a world quite the antithesis of “no jokes, no humour, no fun and no joy,” and from which they must return in the evening to the yoke and stranglehold of the perfect religion. At any moment, an unsuspecting parent can discover that its sweet child, who’s been doing all the right for 18, 19, 20 years, has actually been doing wrong for the last two or three or four years (which is fine so long as it’s discreet, nobody mentions it, and it’s a son and not a daughter), except that the wrong increasingly includes the one wrong that no hypocrisy can cover for: “I don’t believe in Allah.”
The very hypocrisy that for 1400 years has shielded the humanity of Muslims from the inhumanity, or more precisely, anti-humanity, of Islam, is now coming home to roost. Whereas the pursuit of human pleasures and interest have, until the twentieth century, generally been confined to what was attainable within the limits of Muslim societies**, such pursuit now aspires to what is globally attainable from societies of free peoples. What is globally attainable far exceeds what is available in the Islamic world, even if surreptitiously acquired. And it is Islam that took it upon itself to invade the world of the free peoples, certain that it could not but prevail. It yet might, but that is by no means assured.
The destabilisation of the centuries-long hypocrisy does not always work in favour of the Muslim’s humanity. It can also work against it, as when a “moderate” Muslim one fine evening clearly sees that, “Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. …There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious,” and decides serious means doing what Allah expects of every Muslim and so that night, after Isha’a, he finally stays behind in the mosque after the congregation has left. Perhaps tonight, perhaps another night, he will learn how to get to Syria. Either way, the hypocrisy that provided the ummah with a workable equilibrium for so long has become critically unstable.
It is not only in the Western Muslim ghettos that the barricades have been breached. Ever since the arrival of satellite television, and much more so the Internet, the unspoken social contract of hypocrisy has come under severe strain. The Muslim world does not enjoy the identity-reinforcing advantages of geographic segregation into Muslim ghettos. The Islamic world’s barricades, such as they are, are diffuse, and as such dissolved rather than breached. Here, unlike in the West, there is no “diversity” mediation, where the fiction of Muslim piety is maintained for jihad purposes, as a device for milking jizya from the multicultural cow. In the Dar al-Islam, it is Muslim-as-human against Muslim-as-adherent-of-Islam in its pure form. It is all or nothing. By the time the dam bursts, the Muslim is far more likely not only done with Islam, but done with religion altogether. The Western Muslim reinforces fake Islam while the Eastern Muslim erodes real Islam.
While it is pretty obvious that there is no such thing as “moderate Islam,” it is harder to see that there is also no such thing as a “moderate Muslim.” Various formulations exist, but one of the most damaging to clarity was conceived by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who invented the tripartite classification of Muslims into “Mecca Muslims,” “Medina Muslims,” and “Modifying Muslims.” This formulation did understanding a disservice (clumsy alliteration aside). Muslims who are not strict followers of the Qur’an and the Sunnah are not followers of the Qur’an and the Sunnah at all. It is not as if they’ve studied the verses of the Qur’an and reviewed the words and deeds of Muhammad and decided, I’ll have this verse and this hadith, they’re cute. I like that. But that one and the other over there, they turn my stomach. I’ll just give them a miss. There are no Muslims who decide to sift out the Meccan verses from the Medinan verses (a few verses are even uncertain as to their provenance) and resolve to lead their lives according to one or the other. While Muhammad’s “revelations” prior to the hijra might collectively have been referred to as “The Recitation,” while the expanding canon post-hijra might have been referred to as “The Book,” the singular nature of the revelations (as yet uncodified) is confirmed by the doctrine of abrogation, for which there would have been no need, had the Meccan verses constituted an earlier “version” of the Qur’an, rather than being integral to the canon as a whole.
The point here is that apart from the Ayatollahs, the Sheikhs and the caliphate-junkies of this world, few Muslims actually take their guidance from Islamic scripture. This does not mean that Muslims do not read the Qur’an; many do, but most cannot, even if they think it the right thing to do (their children read it in madrassa, that sort of makes up for their not reading it themselves). But those who do read the Qur’an, read it not for guidance, as a Christian might read the Bible; they read it to recite. The good lies in making the sounds that correspond to the symbols on the page, most of which is not understood at all. So much for Allah’s perfect choice of language. But it makes them feel they’re not going adrift as they live out their human passions, preferences, comforts and predilections to the extent that they can socially get away with, in other words, to the extent that the system of hypocrisy will bear. Certainly, the prohibitions and restrictions they observe derive from the sacred texts, but this is via longstanding social convention (hence the many local variations), rather than because they’ve read them in those texts themselves.
This is not to suggest that all Muslims are constantly torn between being human and being Muslim and would jump at the chance to break another chain. As discussed in Part 2, fear plays a central role in why Muslims indulge in hypocrisy, rather than simply walk away from Islam. It is the fear of doing something wrong that motivates many of the truly pathetic enquiries made to the ulema for fatwa determinations, such as whether a desperately ill wife may be given this, that or the other specialist medical treatment that will cure her. The fact that these so-called “scholars” don’t know the first thing about medicine cuts no ice; they know the Qur’an, and the Qur’an knows everything. It is truly heart-rending to read page after page of a fatwa website and observe the pathos and tragedy that is the tortured Muslim soul. Thankfully, they are a relatively shrinking constituency. Muslims want to get on with their lives just like everybody else. Everybody else, though, does not have Islam holding them back and compelling them to live a lie. Given the widespread exposure of the bankruptcy and barbarism of Islam, to increasing numbers of Muslims hypocrisy will no longer do. Only Ayatollahs, Sheikhs and the likes of ISIS, on the one hand, and apostates, on the other, avoid hypocrisy, each in their own devastatingly different way.
Hypocrisy is the mortar that holds Muslim societies together, not the Muhabarat, not the mutawa, and most certainly not piety. The powerful echelons maintain the same fraud, but generally have nothing to fear from those lower down the social hierarchy. They have both the means and the opportunity to commit every wrong in the book, and they do. Egypt’s King Farouk’s transgressions — and they were spectacular — unfortunately, became public knowledge, necessitating every Egyptian to howl his indignation at the Heavens, so much so that the former King’s dead body was refused repatriation, in defiance of his will stipulating his burial in Al Rifa’i Mosque in Cairo.
On your way to check out from the youth hostel, perhaps you decided to quickly peruse the bookshelves for anything interesting that previous guests have left for others to help themselves to. You will have seen an eclectic mix of university textbooks and fiction, and perhaps even recognised the odd novel in another language. There would have been books in English, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Mandarin, Thai, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew, Norwegian and so many more, but nothing in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Dari, Indonesian or Malay. You might’ve wondered why books in these languages get snapped up so quickly, or why books in these languages are not left behind, or whether speakers of these languages ever carry along anything to read on their character-building world adventures. …and finally back in reception, you notice that the missing flags correspond to the missing languages.
Notes
* Verse 9:71, along with verses 2:2, 5:3 and 6:115, amongst others, vindicate ISIS and at the same time make Islamic reform impossible. All it takes is one Muslim and it will only be a matter of time before the world again faces the calamitous decline it faces today, as it had many times in the past. In other words, the only way to reform Islam is for Muslims to cease being Muslims and to seize their humanity instead and live it to the full in open pursuit of happiness, not the depraved happiness of Allah’s Jannah, but the delightful and fulfilling happiness of humankind. All the energy that so-called moderate Muslims and Muslim reformers expend on hypocrisy and denial could be much more constructively applied if they were able to be honest. But they cannot be honest. So they do not leave Islam nor free their brethren from its yoke, but instead double down and reinforce the barricade, and continue to sing the praises of the book of which there is no doubt, until, should that day ever come, the call of their own humanity can bear no more.
** An exception to this will have been the choices and opportunities that became available to the Muslim elites during colonialism.
Kalit says
Disagree with the thesis since virtually all Muslims I know appear to move towards greater religious fidelity over time, even ones that were highly educated and very intelligent sceptics for decades. And their disdain for Kuffars, whom they increasingly perceive as oppressors of Muslims, intensifies with the rediscovery of their faith.
Only when the US pulls the rug from under the keepers of the holy places and allows democracy to implant in the Middle East will change begin because secular nationalism in the region was destroyed by conservatives in alliance with Western powers!
CogitoErgoSum says
The U.S. pulled the rug from under the Shah of Iran in 1979 so democracy could implant itself there. That turned out pretty well, didn’t it?
Trick_or_Treat says
The Shah was another corrupt, autocratic, and nepotistic club boy, and yet another ‘useful idiot’ as far as western foreign policy went in general (and I’m not all that convinced that it was actually the US’s desire to actually see him gone right at that particular time, but it was the tide of the times there that you couldn’t really swim against, and I think old Reza had himself and his attitude to blame for a lot of it) but, as you said, just look at how that turned out – a bit like that old song of THE WHO, but with a twist, “Meet The New Boss – Even Worse Than The Old Boss!”.
I remember being in transit on Terhan in 1962, even though I was quite young at the time, I felt the underlying resentment to anyone ‘western’ looking was quite palpable even back then, if looks were daggers, you could feel the cold steel pointy pricks.
LB says
I agree with your disagreement of the thesis above for the same reasons. But I don’t agree with your “implanting democracy in the Middle East” statement precisely for those same reasons. As you said, no matter how educated or well-situated they are, muslims will always despise infidels and want to see them all killed, enslaved or converted to islam, as per the quranic mandate.
Democracy is both a liberal and a Western (read: infidel) concept– two things muslims hate with a passion–which is why it can never work in muslim majority countries. You can clearly see an example of this in Afghanistan. How many years, money and lives were invested in USA’s longest attempt at establishing a democracy? And what is the result? Why, the exact same as all previous attempts at installing democracy in muslim countries: an utter failure leading to further destabilization of the region.
From this we can conclude that as long as islam is firmly lodged into the core of a country, there can never be democracy within it. A good example of this is Turkey which is the only muslim country to achieve true democracy, but only by Ataturk’s relentless struggle to uproot islam from almost all aspects of government and daily life. And now with muslim wannabe caliph Erdogan at the helm, Turkey has receded back to the 7th century and became almost indistinguishable from the rest of Middle Eastern muslim shitholes.
TL;DR: As long as islam exists, there can never be world peace.
Kalit says
It occurs to me that under current legal and administrative practices such an article and associated discussion would prompt sanctions for Islamophobia in the U.K. and similar views have been ruled illegal by EU courts. Islam has arrived and conquered.
Angemon says
Real life Jorge de Burgos…
FYI says
“Go to hell khomeini!
And I thought I was a miserable old sod.
Even my buddy Mr Scrooge had a change of heart.
I may have stolen christmas but I realized it was wrong:
of course there must be fun and joy”
The Grinch
Mount Crumpit
c/o Whoville Baptist Church
Trick_or_Treat says
“And I thought I was a miserable old sod”
I used to be an ‘angry young man’, but now I’m just a ‘cranky old bastard’! ?
Kurt says
No fun in Islam? Mohamed had a lot of fun with all those wives.
Kalit says
And Emperor Akbar had 5,000 in his little harem!
Trick_or_Treat says
….geez, my eyes are watering, I hope he had plenty of vaseline or KY jelly!
(I’d better go to bed, sarcasm and satire button stuck in ON position tonight)
gravenimage says
He had these poor women drowned in the Bosphorus whenever he grew tired of them. This went on for centuries.
Walter Sieruk says
About this tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran which has the official title of “The Islamic Republic of Iran” and also about the chief and head Imam, Ayatollah Khomeini, who had a strong hand in establishing this so called “Republic “ The very actual essence of that Islamic tyranny ,Ayatollah Khomeini had made in known that “The Islamic Republic of Iran would be Islamic and nothing but .He declared ‘What the nation wants is an Islamic Republic . Not just a Republic, not a democratic Republic, not a democratic Islamic Republic. Do not use the word “democratic” to describe it. That is the Western style. ‘” [1]
Furthermore,the actual word “Republic” has on origin the Latin meaning “Of the people” With the mullahs ayatollahs in so much power and even influencing the parliament of this Islamic regime is tyranny is hardly a real republic
.Moreover, the ruthless gang of thugs who are the stooges of those Muslim clerics, called the “Revolutionary Guards,” those Islamic State “police” come down hard on the human rights and freedoms of the Iranian people. Therefore the people do have the right to overthrow a tyranny. This reality had even been expressed and described by men of great intelligence .For example the philosopher .John Locke. This is wisdom that mullahs and other villains in power in that Islamic tyranny don’t want the Iranian people to know about or understand.
Walter Sieruk says
The brutal oppressive tyranny of that “Mullah regime” has no limits. As a former Muslim revealed an important reality when he wrote “The Islamic republic of Iran exists and operates as what every fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by sharia …”
He further exposes that “What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premise; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1]
Furthermore, in the book entitled HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD, by , the Christian scholar, William Wagner ,on page 208 the reader is informed that “The creation of the Islamic republic in Iran has had the effect that many from that country have become disillusioned with Islam and are looking to leave Iran. ” This is a point worth pondering.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 347.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s important to reiterate that that Islamic dictatorship of Iran it has its origin in the deception of the Iranian people. For This Islamic regime was based in the foundation of false and empty promises. As well as lying words. After the fiendish Muslim clerics obtained total power in Iran they showed their true colors by having their Islamic state police who are called the “Revolutionary Guards truest the people on Iran in many heinously brutal and ruthless ways. As, for example, their brutal, callous misogyny against both girls and women. This statement is explained, in some detail, by the following. This tyrannical Islamic regime in Iran that so falsely and inappropriately has the word “republic” in its title. It should be made known that this called the “Iranian Revolution” turned out to be a hoax. Ayatollah Khomeini before achieving power in Iran in his lying and deceptions presented himself to the Iranian people as if he was someone who would be in power would give freedom to the people of Iran with any tyranny. The reality turned out to be just the opposite. As explained by a former Muslim as well as a man who took part in this Islamic “revolution “ ,who is now a Christian informs the reader of his book that “Prior to the Revolution no one ever imagined that other political parties would be suppressed under the rule of Ayatollah Khomeini. He had promised that all groups would have freedom to run their own campaigns after the Revolution. He even stated that governing system would be based on the decision of the people via a referendum. He never spoke of a system that would be governed by Islam. He even made clear that mullahs would not take part in any political activities, and that they would only be allowed to teach spirituality… Immediately after the Revolution, mullahs rushed into government offices to occupy the most important political l positions, making it difficult for the interim secular government to function … The mullah’s occupation of position was exactly the opposite to what the Ayatollah Khomeini had promised before the Revolution.”. [1] In other words, the insincere, disingenuous and outright lying Ayatollah Khomeini made many bogus promise he really had no intention of keeping. His lying deception worked, for he achieved great power in Iran.
Furthermore, of the many heinously evils outcome s of that Islamic “revolution” is the extremely cruel, brutal and demonic misogyny of this hideous Islamic regime. Not only against women but even young girls. As explained by a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who defected to the West and how now lives in America his book also informs the reader about the malicious and murderous affront girls in Iran’s Evin prison which reads that those in power ,the “paraded teenage girls in front in front of me as they led them to their deaths. These girls were barely out of their childhood, barely old enough to think of themselves, much less form thoughts against the state. They knew nothing about the machinations of politics. They were innocent in every sense of the word and certainty innocent of trumped –up charges that led to their imprisonment. Yet they suffered fates too brutal for even the most vicious criminal. ..Their few remaining moments of life had been filled with the level of abuse that few can imagine…The author further states “They tortured and killed young girls, in God’s name and before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.” [2] This is as malice -filled and viciously wicked as can possibly be. This, very much, reflects the wisdom found in POOR RICHARDS’ ALMANAC in which Benjamin Franklin printed “Those who are feared are also hated.”
[1] ISLAM THE HOUSE I LEFT BEHIND by Daniel Shayesteh . Pages 90, 91
[2] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.
Carol the 1st says
Some muslims seem to have malice pouring out not only from their eyes but from every pore of their being as well. It makes you wonder if they have the “religion” they deserve – tailor made for them by their idol big Moe.
Walter Sieruk says
Trump administration has said that it aims to reduce those exports to zero.” For that Islamic tyranny is hostile against the United States, , the State of Israel and many other nations and the people who are citizens of those countries.
As for those current economic sanctions that are being held against that Islamic tyranny of Iran Is very good and appropriate. This Islamic rough state of Iran inappropriately it has the word “Republic” in its title. America’s National Security Adviser, John Bolton, had said that goal of the sanctions is not to make a “regime chance” but to cause charge for the better in the actions and polices by the heads of state in Iran . For those mullahs and the others in power in Iran are so thoroughly deceitful, demonic, wicked, vicious and cruel that they will not change their malicious ways. As explain in the Bible “What is crooked cannot be straightened; which is lacking cannot be counted.” Ecclesiastes 1:15. [N.I.V.] Indeed, Those malice -filled and hateful Muslim clerics who have much power in Iran along with the other Islamic stooges who rule Iran “cannot be counted” to make any chances for the better . The ayatollahs and mullahs in their likeminded Muslim partners in total governmental control of Iran are very anti- female m as in extremely misogynistic and oppressive ruthless to both girls and woman as well as all of the Iranian people who are trapped in forced to existed in this diabolical Islamic regime.
As it is written in Proverbs 15:15. “All the days of the oppressed are wretched.” Likewise, Ecclesiastes 4:1 reads “ I saw the tears of the oppressed – and they have no comforter; power was in the side of the oppressors …” Furthermore ,Proverbs 28:15 very well describes such wicked characters who rule Iran as president Rouhani and ayatollah Khamenei . For it reads “Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.” Furthermore, such a vicious mindset of heinous arrogance of Rouhani, Khamenei and the other hateful and spiteful Islamic clerics in this “mullah regime” of Iran is reflected in the words from the Bible describing tyrannical villains in power of an oppressive regime. For Psalm 73:6—9 read “Therefore pride is their necklace:: they clothe themselves with violence. From their callous hearts comes iniquity; their evil ;their evil imaginations have no limits. They scoff and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression. Their mouths lay claim to heaven, and their tongues take possession of the earth.”
Walter Sieruk says
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are rightly and justly classified as a Terrorist organization.
For example a teenage girl in Iran was talking to her boyfriend on the phone and then the Revolutionary Guard walked over to her and shot her dead. They did that wicked and malicious thing to her because she was talking to her boyfriend and they also didn’t like her clothing. [1]
That was a clear cut case of murder and vicious Islamic madness by Iran’s Islamic state “ police”, who call themselves the “Revolutionary Guards”, they got away with their hideous and malice –filled evil because the mullahs as well as other villains in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili page 240
gravenimage says
The Muslim’s Inner Struggles (Part 3)
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Yes, Muslims have more freedom in the West. But–unlike the brave and principled Anjuli Pandavar–few of them actually leave Islam, and do little to take a stand against its aggressive attempts at conquering us. How many Muslims will actually stand with us against Jihad and Shari’ah–and how many in the end will stand with their more pious coreligionists, even if they feel a bit sad about it?
Savvy Kafir says
Agreed. The devout Muslims will always outnumber the apostates, even in the West.
Articles like this one are dangerous, as they give infidels a (false) reason for hope — making them believe that even if Muslims are allowed to remain in the West, if may turn out OK due to mass apostasy. It won’t play out that way. The True Believers will bully and cow and out-breed the apostates, and we will pay the price, by having our societies become Islamized.
The fate of the civilized Western world is far too important for us to take this very bad gamble. Muslims need to go! All of them. That is the only way our free, enlightened societies will remain free & enlightened. Anything else is a pipe dream.
gravenimage says
All too true in most cases, Savvy Kafir.
Carol the 1st says
A wholesale picking off of the mullahs and the Al Azhar spiritual geniuses comes to mind as does the story about gangster plans in the 60’s to put an end to Robert Kennedy and his efforts against them. They decided upon his brother, the President, instead:
“Kennedy’s not going to make it to the ((1964)) election — he’s going to … “You know what they say in Sicily: if you want to kill a dog, you don’t cut off the tail, you cut off the head. … “
Kalit says
All very well, but the survival of the monstrosity has long been underwritten by the Anglo Americans and now the idiot son-in-law’s tottering hotel business has evidently been rescued by the son ruling the devil’s den! You indeed have to cut off the head and then its venal branches must be unceremoniously dismantled, e.g its Deoband Nazi school in India. Cannot be done by sending boy scouts and will require 5 divisions of Gurkha soldiers to be rotated around the bastions of terror sponsorship.
gravenimage says
Actually, President Trump has taken a far firmer stand against Islam and its depredations than any other Western leader.
Anjuli Pandavar says
Savvy Kafir, “Articles like this one are dangerous, as they give infidels a (false) reason for hope.”
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Are we meant to understand that you would have apostasy from Islam declared forbidden knowledge? Are not similar claims made that articles criticising Islam are dangerous, as they “play into the hands of the far-right”? Both cases fall foul of the error of conflating truth with misuse or abuse of truth. While there is no truth that cannot be wrongly taken up, maliciously or otherwise, this cannot be a justification for prioritising ignorance.
Every tyrant, every abuser, every oppressor, every lier, every cheat, every obfuscater, every censor has his list of “articles that are dangerous.” They also have lists of “people who are dangerous” and “ideas that are dangerous.” The history of iniquity is littered with the tragic outcomes of that approach.
Surely, the more sensible approach is to tell the truth, and then to deal with those who would misuse or abuse it. Far better be it for infidels to know that Islam is being assailed also from within and learn to make realistic appraisals of what we face, even how we might more effectively prosecute our counter-jihad in light of what we now know about apostasy, than to see infidels as line-of-least-resistance opportunists, many of whom, granted, are precisely that. I dare say that those who might be inclined to draw the false hope you highlight would be disinclined to confront Islam in the first place.
Knowledge is power. This dictum is especially true when dealing with a religion and a people whose interactions with the infidel are mediated through taqiyya, tawriya, kitman and muruna. Let us not do our enemy’s work for it. Let us inform ourselves and all those we care about, so we can make decisions based on thorough understanding, rather than convenient half-truths.
Savvy Kafir says
I’m not saying that apostasy from Islam should be “forbidden knowledge”. I’m just saying we should be realistic. And the truth is that devout Muslims will always outnumber and out-maneuver apostates in the West. For one thing, they tend to have lots of children, who they raise to be True Believers. For another, devout Muslims are pouring into the West from around the world; but apostates from Islam — not so much. And many slack-ass, moderate Muslims suddenly decide to take their religion more seriously, for various reasons; that trend alone may very well cancel out the apostasy.
The non-Muslims of the West need to be formulating effective strategies & tactics for de-Islamizing their countries, before it’s too late. And planting the false hope of mass apostasy is not helpful.
gravenimage says
Anjuli, I am *thrilled* to see Muslims leave Islam. I know that you did this yourself, and greatly admire your principles and courage in doing so.
I do think that if we assume that all Muslims are apt to become apostates upon coming to the West, though, that this *is* dangerous, and is another form of denial. (I’m not saying that this is your point in the above article, but I *have* heard this from others).
TKF says
Upon rational examination, the 7th century desert ramblings of a more than likely, straight up CRAZY person (even by 7th century standards the prophet was considered an A-list loony-bird), the whole sham-circus of Islam collapses like a Florida sinkhole. Islam is a medieval Arab ideology designed to impose mass conformity and the idea that misery is transcendent and spiritual. Ultimately Islam aspires to micromanage the lives of every single human-being on the planet Earth in the name of their bloodthirsty Allah and his ultra violent, psychotic, the madman known to history as Mohammad. Islam calls it submission, I call it what it is…..SLAVERY. Those are the two choices, submit or resist. There is no third choice. If what’s left of the free world and Western Civilization doesn’t grow a spine real quick….we better be prepared to get our faces in the dirt and our asses in the air. Linkum!
Trick_or_Treat says
Sorry, NEVER!
And, as long as my bum hole points to the ground here, I’m also determined to refuse to give assent to the antiChrist, or willingly receive his f**king micro chip, or mark, or whatever it’s going to be – and God grant me (and all of us) the steel resolve to stand resolutely firm in that to the very end, if it has to come to that. Amen.
Wellington says
Islam is so effed up.
If one proceeds from this premise, most everything else about Mohammedanism will begin to make sense.
If one does not proceed from this premise, good luck putting a square into a circle.
Westman says
That screwed-up religion cheats Muslims in this life and the hereafter. Islam’s carnal heaven holds no freedom for women and offers extreme, boring, satiation for males. No intelligent man, after 60 years of earth’s experience, would consider Jannah to be a desired experience. Muhammad made it up to get young men to die for him in battle; never realizing that men in the future would live twice as long.
I’m not waiting for a Flash Mob of Muslims to sing ,”Ode To Joy”. I will be continuing to celebrate life that has been inspiring, fruitful, and largely, happy. We’ll raise one, sit back, and be happy, Wellington.
gravenimage says
🙂
John McKenna says
The greatest ally the oppressive moslem regimes have (politically and theologically) is the Liberal Leftism that has taken over the institutions of the West. Having ditched the Judeo Christian worldview and invented a misnomer called relativism. Misnomer in the sense that they apply censorship in line with their own ideology, so deny the precept they claim adherence to when justifying their actions. If this wasn’t the case Khomeinis ‘Little Green Book’ “would be encouraged reading as to illustrate the dark forces one is dealing with when confronted by Islam. There are many others, indeed many within the Quran. However Khomeini is interesting in a contemporary sense, as these same leftists want us to yoke the West as equals to the perverse regime in Iran that sees him as their Spiritual and Political mentor. The Left has an interest of course in supporting Islam as the enemy of my enemy. Indeed a leader of the Socialist Workers Party said this quite recently.
Battle says
Anjuli Pandavar is correct. Islam Moslem “can not be human”
As commentators have repeatedly shown, As a whole group Moslems refuse to follow commandment to love God. So no love of God. As a whole group Moslems refuse to follow the commandment to love thy neighbor. So no love of neighbor.
Islam Moslem “can not be human.”
Battle says
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women. Blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
Kerry Wade says
Very good article and analysis, need time and reflection to do it justice. Islam is anti-human there is no doubt in my mind about that.
Carol the 1st says
Islam is an aggrandizing weed that sprang out of a barren sandscape. Unfrightened and uncoerced humanity has a virtual obligation to stomp it out. Read the reports from Raymond Ibrahim to see the supremely evil cocksure misery and havoc it perpetually inflicts upon decent humans.
Everyone here comprehends that Islam is anti-human but Anjuli’s sharing of her observations helps further our insight into run of the mill muslims.
Kerry Wade says
Thanks for that! You are right.
eduardo odraude says
Brave Christians make converts in the core of the Islamic world in this video.
(Despite the note at the beginning of the video, the video does not show any violence.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndf8RqgNVEY