It is often asserted that Islam is incompatible with one or another of civilisation’s Enlightenment achievements, such as freedom, human rights, equality, democracy, Western society, individual autonomy, etc. All such claims are, of course, correct. Yet they present only a limited picture, for each of these incompatibilities represents only a particular manifestation of a far more fundamental incompatibility: that between Islam and humanity. Herein lies the fundamental contradiction of Islam.
Unfortunately for Allah’s final religion, Muslims are no more or less human than anyone else. And there’s the rub. Human needs, human desires and human passions drive human social evolution; it is the motor of history. It is what makes humans zoon politikon, political animals, as Aristotle put it, Muslims as much as anyone else.
Islam, as any other utopian ideology — the final and perfect society — presumes an end to human social evolution, and more than that, presumes itself to be that end, to be that final and perfect society. This would not be so bad if it left open the possibility of finding that it continued to evolve, after all. But this is not so.
Not only does Islam not admit any further evolution (“This day have I perfected for you your religion,” Qur’an 5:3), it is so arranged as to foreclose any possibility of such evolution. Subjugate and dominate the world “until all religion is for Allah alone,” (Qur’an 2:193) in not just an idea, it is an action. Islam is not Islam without Muslims, and Muslims have human needs, desires and passions.
For Islam to sustain itself, all human needs, desires and passions must be expunged (“There is no fun in Islam”) and replaced by one, single disembodied need-desire-passion: to please Allah. The form that this pleasing of Allah should take can be meticulously prescribed and set in stone on pain of death, thus abolishing Muslim social evolution at a stroke, later reinforced by the abolition of cause and effect from Muslim thought. Thus frozen in mediaeval barbarism, is the Muslim’s humanity; creativity and moral judgment abolished in favour of “We hear and we obey,” (Qur’an 24:51).
The fundamental contradiction of Islam is that it demands of humans, who inherently evolve, that they not evolve, and that they subsume their inherent needs, desires and passions within the purported need of an abstraction, Allah, to be pleased by them. This can be achieved either for so long as Muslims accept to live on the basis of “We hear and we obey,” which in turn, is only sustainable for as long as Islam is able to regulate and channel Muslims’ needs, desires and passions through the contrived need to please Allah, or a way is found for Muslims to not obey while seeming to obey.
Consider this chilling Qur’an verse that “scholar” Yasir Qadhi enthusiastically commends: “Allah is closer to you than your jugular vein,” (Qur’an 50:16). A Muslim should cut his own throat before displeasing Allah. This imperative was grimly captured at a thousands-strong Islamic gathering in Indonesia the other day. “Because everyone’s human, we fear illnesses, death,” said an organiser, “But there’s something more to the body, which is our soul.” He explained, “We are more afraid of Allah.” Instead of a knife, it is a virus that will cut them down, the “small soldier” of “scholar” Ustadh Baajour’s gushing admiration, dismissed by “scholar” Saajid Lipham as merely something from “the unseen world.”
Certainly, this is a case of competing fears, which we will see more of as it gradually dawns on larger proportion of 1.6 billion fatally ignorant and superstitious people that their lives truly are in danger and that they can do something about it if only they would listen to the infidel who knows what this problem is. But this does presuppose that they accept there is such a thing as a dangerous virus and that it is coming their way.
The initial response of Muslims in the Dar al-Islam is to take offence at the idea that the CoVID-19 pandemic has nothing to do with Allah, which is compounded by the suggestion that infidel science can save them and Allah cannot. It is quite clear, and their “scholars” are doing everything to ensure it remains clear, that whatever the infidels say, Allah’s will shall prevail and it is incumbent on the Muslim to observe the Islamic tenets and rituals with all the more fervour and determination. It is a simple matter of defying the ignorant infidel who seeks to trick the Muslims away from their religion. There was no dilemma here.
But the news has been relentless. In the Dar al-Harb, the virus is claiming more and more victims, so much so that, “Even Muslims are wearing masks now,” complained one New York imam. Muhammad having said that if you die of a contagion, you become a martyr and go to Heaven, and “scholars” all over the Dar al-Islam repeatedly driving this message home, does not necessarily make martyrdom the motivation for Muslims avoiding masks and continuing to congregate for prayers and attend mass gatherings. They do so because they do not want to die. The Muslim within them might yearn for Paradise, but the human within them is in no rush to get there. I dare say that to the Muslim mind, becoming a martyr in this way would be a pointless waste of a martyrdom that could otherwise have killed any number of infidels along with the martyr by more tried and tested means (“They fight in His cause, and slay and are slain,” Qur’an 9:111).
Muslims in the Dar al-Islam now accept that the disease is out there and that this is no time for bluster. But now they find themselves in a dilemma not yet of competing fears, but of competing defiances. Do they defy Islam or do they defy their own governments who seem to be equivocating between Allah and the methods of the infidels? The certainty of being Muslim before being human persists, but the certainty of the Muslim response to the crisis of a few weeks ago, while still widespread and widely entrenched, has become a little less than clear-cut.
The Dar al-Islam’s “scholars” are a breed unto themselves. Many make it onto the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) videos, a veritable treasure trove of Islamic tragicomedy. Those who hold them in reverence are of the most backward Muslims on earth and such “scholars,” even by the mediaeval standards of Islam, can be embarrassing to Muslims who have had some exposure to the modern world. It is with such “scholars” and the billion or so Muslims who hang by their every word, that Islam’s greatest peril now lies, having eclipsed the “tsunami” of apostasy that can now only increase.
All the governments of the Dar al-Islam, including the government of Iran, know by now that it is time to change gear. There is a very big difference between sheiks, mullahs and imams bellowing unshakeable faith in Allah and affirmation of Muslim superiority in blind acceptance of “whatever happens, happens,” on the one hand, and their citizens dying by the tens of millions, on the other. When you are bulldozing tens of millions of your citizens into mass graves, you are not sending tens of millions of Muslim martyrs to Paradise, you’re bulldozing tens of millions of human beings into mass graves. It is not tens of millions of Allah’s decrees taking effect, it is tens of millions of deaths that could have been avoided had you acted decisively.
As the government of a Muslim nation, whether you call yourself an Islamic Republic or not, you face the very real prospect of standing condemned in the eyes of the world of the most appalling crimes against humanity in all history, while at the same time standing condemned in the eyes of surviving Muslims of having lacked the necessary faith in Allah, thereby incurring his punishment.
Every Muslim government is in crisis. They are going to have to turn against Allah and against Muslims in order to save Muslims. And the Dar al-Islam “scholars”, unencumbered with infidel moral corruption, will do all in their power to keep the people on the side of Allah. In other words, the cosy arrangement between the ruling elites and the “scholars,” an element of the hypocrisy that keeps Muslim societies ticking over, is facing its greatest threat ever, a foreshadowing of which has been in evidence in Saudi Arabia in recent years.
The Muslim governments are going to have to act to prevent a repeat of the catastrophe in Iran. But these are not democratic societies. No one will take any initiative for fear of blame and they will procrastinate and prevaricate until events act for them or a pretext presents itself. In the meantime, the “scholars” and the one-point-something billion Muslims who all hear and obey, will act. To their mediaeval minds, it would be arrogance in the face of Allah to not congregate for jumu’ah Friday prayers. Now, more than ever, it is crucial to gather in huge crowds to show Allah just how fervently they can make du’a. With large-enough crowds and fervent-enough supplication they can earn Allah’s pleasure and he might spare them a death that has gone viral.
The Turkish government, already ensnared in several traps of its own making, needs a coronavirus crisis like it needs a hole in the head, and it has so far managed to keep attention away from its own public health situation. But the fact that its TRT propaganda outlet has so blatantly and without provocation mocked Iran for its incompetence in dealing with the crisis suggests that there is more to this action than their Sunni-Shi’a enmity and their proxy confrontation in Syria.
The failure of Muslim governments to publicly acknowledge the crisis is one response. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan implies that his government would do something, if only the West would finance their cash-strapped health services. In Pakistan it would be blasphemy to suggest that Allah cannot solve the coronavirus problem. So Imran has found a way, he thinks, of escaping blasphemy charges now and blame later, when millions of dead Pakistanis are bulldozed into mass graves: the West refused to give us money. The very culture of Islamic madness that the Pakistani state has nurtured and encouraged for decades has finally come back to haunt them.
All other Muslim governments who take any action at all, can do so only tardily, partially and for very limited periods, so they are seen to be doing something, but not so much as to provoke the anger of their Muslim populations. They might, for example, ban flights (Egypt), but then do so for only a short period, or do nothing else. They might impose quarantines (the PA), but only a few and not interfere with congregational prayer. They might close shrines (Iran), but avoid quarantines. They might shut down schools (Bangladesh), but be powerless to stop mass gatherings. And so on… while the public gatherings grow ever larger and the disease is spread ever wider.
The full complexity of the conundrum in which Muslims find themselves ensnared on account of CoVID-19 and their primitive mentality is perhaps most starkly on display in Israel, where democracy and science are in high gear to bolster the human response to the virus. Israeli authorities have mistakenly taken it for granted that “all the citizens of Israel,” bar individuals here and there, would act responsibly and comply with the government-mandated emergency measures.
Arab-Muslims within the borders of Israel, a virtual exclave of the Dar al-Islam, like all Muslims, see the response to the crisis as a matter of Allah versus the infidel. But in their case several added layers of complexity are added. The infidels in question are Jews. Additional to all the other Muslim concerns raised against infidel solutions, Israeli Muslim Arabs isolating themselves in their homes means not congregating at Al-Aqsa for jumu’ah Friday prayers, which means leaving Al-Aqsa to the Jews (never mind that the Jews are also isolating themselves in their homes). Israel’s Muslims are the glaring weak link in the country’s otherwise formidable CoVID-19 countermeasures.
The complete and utter inappropriateness of Islam even existing in the modern world will be brought home with brutal starkness should Israeli scientists be the first to produce a CoVID-19 vaccine, but find their achievement undermined by the country’s own Muslim Arab population.
Jerusalem is where Islam, in all its ossified barbaric nihilism, comes face-to-face with the very best of vibrant civilised l’chaim. It is something from which the Muslim Arab must daily avert his gaze for fear of slipping from Muslim into human, all the more so during this CoVID-19 pandemic. Israel, for its part, is still making the mistake of assuming that its Muslim Arab population will behave like Israelis and not like Muslims. It is offering all the help it can to the Palestinian Authority and its personnel, and rightly so, while taking it for granted that its own Muslim Arab population will adhere to the government’s measures just like all other Israelis. The Israeli authorities can no longer escape that this was a mistake. It can turn into grave mistake, depending on how the Government handles it from this point in.
Many Jewish Israelis smother all guardedness towards the Muslim Arabs in their midst with the mantra, “They are Israeli citizens.” Such Jews owe it to their nation to now prove the substance, if any, of that confident assertion. Of all the citizens of Israel, Muslim Arabs are the only ones making an explicit point of being Muslim as opposed to being citizens of Israel. While Israeli citizens resist the virus, Muslim Arab Israeli citizens resist Israeli citizens resisting the virus. Will such delusional Jews allow their government to take such action against the Muslim Arabs as are necessary to save the country?
Unhitching Muslims from the social evolution of humanity, as Islam has done, does not, of course, mean that Muslims magically cease to be human. Their needs, desires and passions do not disappear just because they’ve been commanded to no longer have them. Muslims are commanded to “Fight against those who… forbid not that which Allah hath forbidden,” (Qur’an 9:29). For fourteen hundred years, Muslims have accommodated their very human needs, desires and passions through an elaborate system of hypocrisy, of looking the other way, of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and of never talking about it. It is a system of intricate norms and protocols, understood by all but acknowledged by none, that allows the Muslim to address his needs, desires and passions, and, away from prying eyes, to be human. Muslim hypocrisy is covert latitude given by all to all so they can function day to day, so society can function. It is the invisible mortar that allows Islamic society to be a society. The alternative is ISIS.
Any society constructed and run strictly according to the Qur’an and the hadith, i.e., without the necessary hypocrisy to get around what Allah has forbidden, will inevitably self-destruct through dysfunctional chaos, whether it takes four years, as in the case of ISIS, or forty years, as in the case of Iran (the latter’s relative longevity coming down, in part, to the extent to which the Qur’an and the hadith are not adhered to, and in part through the self-serving interest of some Western governments).
It is not just that Islam is incompatible with Western society; it is incompatible with all society, including Islamic society, for the simple reason that all societies are composed of humans, and Islam requires humans to be what humans are not. For Muslims, response to the coronavirus is either appropriate for Muslims (consistent with Islam) or inappropriate for Muslims (consistent with humanity). A great many Muslims will remain consistent with Islam, and risk ceasing to be human altogether, i.e., dying, rather than saving their human selves and risk ceasing to be Muslim, i.e., sinning, blaspheming, or even apostatising.
The Muslim’s CoVID-19 conundrum comes at a time when Islam is under siege both from critics and from apostates. It remains an open question how many Muslims in the Dar al-Islam will prefer dead Muslim over living human. One might justifiably guess that the numbers will not be insubstantial; although indications are that the choice is an increasingly fraught one. The coronavirus has forced the contradiction between Islam and humanity into the open. It is the ultimate irony that the epicentre of this rupture should be the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Wellington says
Fine essay by Pandavar. So much truth in it.
Michael Copeland says
Hear hear.
mortimer says
Anjuli Pandavar has written a particularly fine philosophical paper on the contradiction between Islam and humanism.
Islam arose at the end of antiquity, but Islam is in fact a philosophical throw-back to the Bronze Age.
Islam is pre-literate, pre-rational and pre-psychological. A Muslim has to put his mind and conscience to sleep to remain a Muslim. This process of putting the mind and conscience to sleep is called ‘TAQLID’ in Islam … it means the ‘blind following’ of one’s spiritual guide … the mullahs. Muslims build a switch into their lives so that they may switch off any thought that challenges Islam. This is no longer possible.
Muslims are surrounded by challenges to Islam’s ideas coming from all sides … from science, philosophy, from the university, from politicians and from police. They can no longer shut the world out as Muslims did in the past.
Muslims can no longer run and hide themselves from the political, intellectual, ethical, historical and philosophical challenges to their Bronze-Age Death Cult.
Muslims will increasingly have to read and consider arguments against Islam like the one above. Because the above paper is correct, Muslims will realize their only option is to lie about Islam’s contradictions.
somehistory says
In your use of the word “humanism,” this fact also includes others, including Christians. Christians are not “humanists” either, as we look to our God for solutions and answers. Unlike what was written in this article about moslims, Christians don’t forget that we are also humans, a part of humanity.
Westman says
It must be difficult to be Allah’s Slave when you can see through your cell phone into other societies and realize your society will always be lagging because it contains too many programmed religious zombies whose lives are like spinning wheels that never touch the ground.
gravenimage says
Somehistory, the original Humanists were almost all devout Christians. These terms are not contradictory.
somehistory says
gravenimage
I disagree. The word “humanism” is defined as people who do not put their trust in a Divine Being, but rely on human thinking, reasoning, etc. for living, solving problems, making decisions, etc. and believing that ‘goodness’ is inherent in man just because he is a human.
As for “devout Christians,” that is a term I leave to Jesus Christ and His Heavenly Father. They are the only Ones Who decide just who are “devout Christians,” and who only claim to be.
The rest of us…humans all…can only see what “appears to the eyes,” and whether one has the “fine fruit” that Christ described. God “sees the heart, even to the kidneys” and knows for certain what He sees there, whether good or bad.
Christians are told to seek God’s face, to search for God, and to ask for “wisdom, understanding, discernment,” and to use God’s Word as a “lamp to (our) foot and a light to (our) roadway.” We do not rely on our own “understanding” or our own human reasoning when we trust in our Creator.
Eve wanted to “be like God, knowing good and bad,” as satan promised her if she ate the fruit that God has said not to eat on pain of death. That is why we need to seek God’s guidance as our Creator Who knows what is best for us, always.
gravenimage says
Somehistory–with all respect–Humanism does not necessarily entail the rejection of God and religion. It is often more about embracing the ability to reason and to care for one’s fellow man–both of which may well be seen as endowments from the Creator.
Few Christians today reject reason and the mind.
somehistory says
g,
You have your own personal ideas. As does everyone. However, if you look up the definition of humanism, you will see that what I wrote is according to the usual meaning of the word.
If one cannot use the “usual” definition of a word, or depend on such when another makes use of a term, then understanding of another person will be lost.
And a whole heck of a lot of people who don’t understand the Bible nor it’s commands and principles, call themselves Christian. God and His Son decide who fit this, not any human.
The Book of Proverbs says to humans, “Do not lean upon your own understanding, but in all your ways take notice of Him and He will lead your path straight.”
Yes, God gave man a brain to think and reason and to see good and do it. But, afterward, man fell from his perfect condition and it became ever harder to live up to even the idea of making good decisions. The more we rely on God and less on ourselves, the better.
gravenimage says
+1
Cece says
Right that is why Christians /well, Catholics have confession, repentance, forgiveness of sins. We understand that we are human, weak, fallible, we are sinners. And the liturgy is considered the ‘living’ word of God. It is alive and we strive to understand it in our human (weak, fallible form); we strive to do better. Understanding that perfection is in heaven, not on earth.
SKA says
Another brilliant essay by Anjuli Pandavar.
paul bain says
I thoroughly agree,a very good read. Written with Honesty.
eduardo odraude says
A very graceful, insightful essay by Anjuli Pandavar. And I like that first name. If I ever have a daughter, I might call her Anjuli. Then she can also be called Anna or Julie or variants of those.
Rarely says
I suppose that the same conundrum would exist for a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
Wellington says
Erroneous comparison, Rarely. And for many, many reasons.
gravenimage says
Rarely, I have my issues with Christian Scientists–but they are not apt to harm anyone but themselves, and then only by omission. Would that this were true of Muslims.
Michael Copeland says
“We hear and we obey”, Koran 24:51.
There is no leeway:
“For things which have been stipulated in the texts of Islam, the Ummah possesses no power except to acknowledge and obey….”
Fatwa by Dr. Salah al Sawy,
Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America
(Group of Lawyers for Imposing Sharia in America).
“Submission” is given as the meaning of “Islam”. It is code for Control.
mortimer says
I hear Islam, I analyze it, I judge it, I reject it as the incoherent babblings of the criminally insane Mohammed.
Mohammed was the Hannibal Lector of the 7th century.
Michael Copeland says
“Just the rantings of a schizophrenic”
Sebastian Faulks on the Koran
Jocelynn Cordes says
How can Muslims, serious about the implementation of Sharia, study American jurisprudence and still remain attached to their barbarous cult?
Bill says
That’s just it, they don’t study US jurisprudence. They think it is inferior to sharia and therefore pay it no mind. Only by trapping them in their theology can you get on to start to think. In my experience, as soon as they see you have trapped them in their own theology, they stop thinking and run away and deny what you say.
RichardL says
Believing means doubting and hoping. The problem islam has that it demands no doubt of allah’s existence and replaces hope with fear. This goes totally against every human’s nature and the result is a wretched existence that every Muslim passes onto every other Muslim. A pact of wretched fear of allah.
ntesdorf says
Many thanks to Anjuli Panavar for a very thorough and clear analysis of the conflict between islam and fundamental characteristics of Mankind. It is very enlightening.
Terry Gain says
I like to think of it as the conflict between Islam and Reason.
gravenimage says
+1
Anjuli Pandavar says
TG, I would say you are correct, but only partially so.
If you reduce the problem to a conflict between Islam and reason, you are making the same mistake as Sam Harris, and to a lesser extent, Richard Dawkins, who reduce the human experience to a court case or a laboratory experiment. This is what makes them so predictable and, quite frankly, boring, as opposed to, say, the late Christopher Hitchens, who understood that the problem of Islam was not about either reason or evidence, but about the experience of being human, of which reason is only a part, albeit a crucially important part.
Sure, Islam does address itself to cognition in that it demands blind belief, but it also addresses itself to judgement in that it demands unquestioning obedience. It addresses itself to emotions by hogging all love for Allah and his messenger. It addresses itself to ethics by ordering Muslims to be good to all Muslims and bad to all non-Muslims. It addresses itself to aesthetics by forbidding anything that gives delight independently of devotion to Allah and his messenger, and by taking all decisions of personal taste away from Muslims, etc. It is way more than just Islam versus reason. This much Hitchens understood.
Terry Gain says
Thanks for the feedback Anjuli but I think (to extent I am able) that blind faith and obedience requires an absence of reason supported by what seems like an infinite capacity to lie and self delude. It seems to me that Muslims deal with the inevitable cognitive dissonance of a god who commands that they kill innocent people wth rage and by resorting to violence.
Perhaps I need to think more about what you have said, but this is my opinion for now.
eduardo odraude says
There have also been two very different conceptions of “reason.” Sometimes all that is meant by that word is something like the abstract ratiocination of the intellect. But the word “reason” has also been used to indicate something very different, namely Imagination or Logos. Something like that was the case with the early Christians, who adopted the Greek Logos to name the Christian God. But one need not be a Christian to see that there are two sides of the human mind: two sides that have been called, by some, reason and intellect. Reason is radiant, creative, alive, it is equivalent to imagination, metamorphosis, transformation, death and rebirth. It involves the whole human being: will, feeling, and thinking. Whereas “intellect” is a word that at times has been used to designate a shadow of reason. Intellect is to reason as moon is to sun. Intellect does not create new ideas so much as logically arrange already formed ideas. Or if intellect does create new ideas, it tends in the process to divest them of the mobile spiritual life from which they were created. Intellect tends to see only matter in the world, as intellect’s concepts are most of all suited to the perception of matter and indeed tend to blind the mind to anything else. Something like these distinctions were made by Coleridge, or by Rudolf Steiner, though less crudely than I am making them.
Anjuli Pandavar says
Thank you, Eduardo. That helps me clarify my own thoughts. If TG will allow, then I will think of “reason” (as he uses it) in the sense of “intellect”, in which case I agree with him fully.
Lory says
Thank-you Anjuli Pandavar for such an inciseful written depiction of the impossibility of Islam successfully co-existing in the modern world, Western or anywhere AND the impending (let us hope) mass exodus, mass “apostasy” that one can only pray will come, for the betterment of the “still thinking” beleaguered followers of Islam as well as the deaf and dumb.
Val says
Great analysis of the workings of the Muslim mind. But you miss the most obvious and deeper truth of it. Only a hopeless mind could worship a god who’s message is murder, rape, and robbery. If a messenger brings this message, then you know it is from Satan/Shiva posing as god.
gravenimage says
Hindus are not out slaughtering unbelievers.
eduardo odraude says
You miss the fact that most Muslims are raised Muslim from birth, and you miss also that if you yourself had been born into a Muslim family then you, despite your own supposedly not “hopeless” mind, would now almost certainly be worshipping Allah. You also miss the fact that many Muslims don’t know that much about their own religion, have had relatively little opportunity to question what has been told them from the cradle, and that what they have been taught about other religions is often false. As for Satan, I’m not sure you would know when he has you by the collar and puts words into your mouth.
eduardo odraude says
My 7:31 am comment is to Val.
I’ll add to gravenimage’s comment, too. Unlike Islam, Hinduism is not a totalitarian system. Hinduism securely coexists with liberal democracy. One need not be a Hindu, but merely a bit educated, to know that Hinduism has produced tremendous works of world literature (Mahabharata and Ramayana, for example).
Rueben_Singh says
Shiva??? Seriously, what do you know about Indian religious beliefs.
Do you get you’re information from Indianna Jones and the Temple of Doom?
gravenimage says
Islam Comes Face-to-Face with Its Own Fundamental Contradiction
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Excellent piece from Anjuli Pandavar. Thank you.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
“This day have I perfected for you your religion,” Qur’an 5:3
“This day”? What day was that? Please give the date (Gregorian calendar, please) on which Allah gave us
https://quran.com/5/3
How much time did Allah need to come up with the perfect religion? I thought Allah had the superpower that he can create something immediately, merely by thinking it. Was I wrong?
Anjuli Pandavar says
Whatever day that was, it was *before* the perfect religion was further perfected with surah 9 and then later again with surah 110, at least, that’s according to the Egyptian islamic authorities, who are essentially saying that Qur’an 5:3 is a lie. And it is impossible to attribute this lie to anyone but Allah (you can’t pin this one on Satan, sorry). But those with a burning desire to save Allah’s credibility may wish to follow the infidel Theodor Nöldeke, who places 5:3 at the end of the Qur’an, which, although it mitigates the problem, does not take it away, for within surah 5, *after* verse 3, there follows another 117 verses further perfecting the perfect religion declared in 5:3.
Terry Gain says
Anjuli. Your patience is admirable.
Quazgaa says
Miss Pandavar, you say:
And it is impossible to attribute this lie to anyone but Allah (you can’t pin this one on Satan, sorry).
Isn’t allah “the best of the deceivers”?
And as it happens, isn’t Satan a longstanding veteran in the same kind of business?
So (gasp) could it be that allah and satan may be the same?
Thank you and be safe.
FYI says
That day:the day “allah” the champion deceiver{koran 3:54}{or the MSP,muhammed’s Sock puppet}thought he was God…
I’ll bet it wasn’t Saturday{Jewish Shabbat}
I’ll bet it wasn’t Sunday{Christian Day of worship}
allah doesn’t like infidels,especially JEWS.
Jews and Christians are “the WORST of created beings ” koran 98:6 says allah:
A peculiar statement for allah to make given that in the Gospel{which he claims he wrote and gave to Jesus koran 5:46..which is awkward as the Gospel came AFTER the time of Jesus…}and which he confirms as TRUE{koran 3;3}it is revealed that Jesus is Jewish and the Jews ARE the Chosen People.
“We Jews know whom we worship because It is from the Jews that Salvation comes”
John 4 v 22{Jesus Christ}
Now, don’t you think if allah was the actual Biblical God,YHWH the God of Moses, that allah would know about Jesus being JEWISH and the JEWS being given Chosen People status?
And yet allah CURSES the Jews koran 2:65{“Apes to be despised and hated”,koran 9:30
{But of course we know allah is not the Biblical God,but al lah the one shinned,TWO RIGHT HANDED ARAB god of islam}
That ‘day’ must have been the day allah/MSP thought he was God.
The day allah “forgot” about the Golden Rule,the Holy Spirit of wisdom,the importance of getting folk to OBEY the Commandments.
The day of allah the Champion Deceiver k3:54.
The day of his “perfect religion with its “perfect” book and “perfect” prophet muhammed{PBUH,(the actual Gift of) Prophecy Be Unknown to Him},”perfect” in the sense the numbers 7,11 and 13 are all obviously “perfect” squares.
It must have been Friday,the day of islamic “prayer” and false piety.
The day for the beast…sorry ” the best..community that hath been raised up for mankind” koran 3:110
somehistory says
The most interesting point, imo, is the information regarding the feelings of the Jews in Israel toward the “moslim arab” citizen of Israel.
With moslims, there is never the idea of ‘belonging’ to a particular culture or society as is true for most other people. Many claim to be “moslim Americans,” but use this as a means to gain power, not from a sense of belonging.
Christians feel a kinship, a brotherhood, with all other Christians no matter the country of origin, but still recognize the feeling of ‘home’ that comes from the place of birth. This does not appear to be the case with moslims. And this fact does not seem to be recognized by the Israelis who are Jews.
Cece says
One point the author of this article makes is the hypocrisy of having to exist side-by-side in the modern world with Islam. I was in Paris in the mid-1970’s for a year and was friends with a Lebanese student. She kept two apartments. 1 for herself so she could come and go and 1 to essentially for the family to show that she was toeing the line. Also, the Saudis would come into Paris, drink, gamble, be at nightclubs, eat whatever they want, buy fabulously expensive clothes, hang out with their friends both male and female, then on the planes home they would re-conform to the strict interpretation of dress and behavior. It was like putting on a costume. And this was before the wahhabism escaped everywhere and made everyone miserable.
Terry Gain says
14 centuries have proven that Islam cannot coexist peacefully with the rest of mankind and its inferior ideologies which refuse to submit to Allah. I have therefore chosen sides. I hope Muslims cling to the religion which makes them the best of peoples so long as they believe in and obey Allah. He will save them from this American disease. May they never doubt Allah during this pandemic attack.
tgusa says
Just as there is no fun in islam and no variation allowed from what is, at the moment, established cult doctrine, there can never be a face to face with its own fundamental contradictions. No one can pin established cult doctrine down as it is always changing in order to conform to the situation at the moment or to threats that they perceive at any given time. These guys are the ultimate flip-floppers. One could never know nor predict what they will come up with tomorrow.
Terry Gain says
I disagree. The doctrine of Islam is immutable. It cannot be changed without insulting Allah. In this beautiful explanation of Islam Anjuli Pandavar explains that the obligation is to listen and obey, so evolution is impossible.
In order to coexist with the the rest of the world Muslims do what they do best. They lie to non-believers. They are easily the worlds most accomplished propagandist.
And in order to coexist with their own human nature they engage in conduct which is a inconsistent with the doctrine they lie to themselves and engage in unapproved conduct in covertly.
And anyone who points out these contradictions is immediately dismissed as a bigot and Islamophobe. It’s a brilliant strategy for an irrational ideology. The strategy causes most people to stand down and avert their eyes to the reality of Islam whether through fear of being physically harmed, ostracized or the destruction of one’s reputation.There are certain things one should not do in polite company.
COVID-19 cannot be intimidated and I believe therefore that this is an enemy that Islam does not know how to defend against. Every cloud has a silver lining.
Since the primary beneficiaries of the demise of Islam would be Muslims themselves all of us should not fear speaking the truth about this hateful, Irrational and incompatible ideology. So-called Islamophobia is Muslimophilia.
Robert Spencer is his generation’s Winston Churchill. I praise him for publicizing the response of Islam to the COVID-19 pandemic.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Terry.
Reziac says
There they have the ultimate example in Mohammad, who flipflopped his Words from Allah whenever it was convenient.
OREN WYSOCKI says
I wonder about muslim abilities to live in denial. You say the pakistani’s will avoid blame by claiming that millions died because the west refused to give them money. How stupid is that? Why isn’t islam able to make its own money, and its own vaccines and breathing machines? Those are questions that have been ignored for years. I suppose eventually there must be A big enough insult to muslims, their leaders, and their nations, to make them reconsider.
But perhaps that will only come through shame that the world is talking about them. Which runs into the other fanatics, the left who cover up for the muslims in order to not be accused of islamophobia, despite millions of non muslims fleeing the middle east, and now the muslim parts of Africa as well. What about their tolerance for stupidity, denial and injustice? Perhaps the white left needs right wingers to insult them before they acknowledge any arguments that exist against them. Which would be unfortunate, because the right wing media is about as effective criticizing the left and islam as A soldier going into battle with A wet noodle for A weapon.
Ironic that there exists A power strong enough to kill potentially millions of muslims, which is vastly more than the numbers currently being reported, but apparently no power that gets criticism of islam out of the corner of the internet it is trapped in, ignored by the entire left and the overwhelming majority of the right.
Perhaps support for censorship over free speech is on the brink in America, but if the left were bleeding in agony, on the brink of praying for A dictator to kill their enemies, then it seems we would be making progress. They would know our points, and they would be tormented by them. I do doubt that white feminists haven’t lost some of their convictions after hearing the horror stories about treatment of women under islam. The number of true believers may have been reduced, but I don’t think they were as big A part of the opposition to progress, truth and justice I once thought they were. Fear, sticking with popular opinion, lies and support of censorship seem to make up far more of the glue that keeps us trapped under tyranny and death.
Still, if you go to A community discussion on crime, they will call you A racist if you demand to talk about islam or blacks. All of life in Africa is horrible. I am not sure that millions of deaths in the muslim world will get passed the censors. No way do the people in charge not know what promotes effective change. Or moderate, or minor change.
Fantastic that you have pointed out A difference between Israeli muslims and Israeli Jews. It sounds like it will make itself clear, and once again I hope it gets past the censors to the mainstream to be discussed.
Excellent article. In G-d I trust.
Jewcat says
We hear and we obey. Sounds like the Daleks from Dr Who and the Daleks were on a mission to destroy too.
BegrensEuropa! says
This is the best short Islam 101 I have read since my critical awareness of the islamic problem was raised by 9/11, now almost 20 years ago (Sorry Robert, and all those other heroes). The fundamental contradiction of Islam is that it demands humans, a product and embodiment of evolution, to evolving and bring the living world to standstill by mirroring an absolute abstraction, Allah, in fact a dead god from the moment of its conception. Only an Indian, which I presume Anjuli Pandavar to be, could have written it. I suppose the ideal of absolute nothingness could work in the case individual mystics, but its transformation to a societal ideal for global conquest is a total disaster. It explains the blatant hypocrisy of the adherents of islam and their defenders, most ly on the left. “It is not just that Islam is incompatible with Western society; it is incompatible with all society, including Islamic society, for the simple reason that all societies are composed of humans, and Islam requires humans to be what humans are not. …. It remains an open question how many Muslims in the Dar al-Islam will prefer dead Muslim over living human.”
mortimer says
Islam is incompatible with modern, biological science.
gravenimage says
True, Mortimer. Islam is also incompatible with all human decency. It was a horror long before modern science was developed.
Reziac says
” I dare say that to the Muslim mind, becoming a martyr in this way would be a pointless waste of a martyrdom that could otherwise have killed any number of infidels along with the martyr by more tried and tested means (“They fight in His cause, and slay and are slain,” Qur’an 9:111).”
Don’t be so sure… I’d bet the fanatics are considering how best to get infected, then spread it among the kafir. This saves them the bother and expense of a suicide attack, and they no doubt figure they’ll recover (being beloved of Allah) and will live to kill another day.
Hence now we must be even more vigilant against Muslim would-be migrants, for many will be doing so under doubly false pretenses.
Rezali Mehil says
Salaam all
May Allah SWT keep all believers safe in these testing times, for these times have more than one enemy…the Wuhan Virus and also very dangerous the writings of the kaffir.
Anjuli Pandavar. has been waiting a life time , for a set of circumstances , for an opportunity to write the “perfect” essay that sticks it to the Muslim like she has always wanted…she could not believe her “luck”!
Her pen ink oozess with effortless ease for the things that she has always wanted to write, the thing she has prayed for lifetime to happen. Her Hindoo-ist hate is shining through , she should be thoroughly ashamed of her self for writing this dreadfui piece.
But she won’t …in her writing …you can “feel” 1st her opening smirk, then turning out to a full blown mouth wide open uncontrolled laughter exposing her dreadful crooked teeth with each dental filled back ones on show.
Anyone near would have had to back off with her stale breath of tamacoo whilst trying to join in with the laughter. There would have been a roomful of demented laughter and used this piece for their laughing classes. ha hah hahah haha …etc.
Her fat fingers typing furiously , the keyboard propped by her fat belly with her fav song “aaj chaand fir nika-laa” blaring in the background… I mean she feels that this is what she was born for … you know her purpose in life has been given to her on a plate by her gods.
In challenging Allah SWT she is doing a gross dis-service to 1.5 billion Muslims…. even thought not allowed I will pray for … for that is the type of humanitarian I am.
More Later ….
Rezali
FYI says
Speaking of gods….
Your muslim ARAB god al lah{TWUNT} the champion deceiver {k3:54}
allah even gets the name of God wrong{it is YHWH not al lah}This is revealed in the Bible a book “allah” claims he wrote and confirms as TRUE {koran 3:3}
allah’s “perfect” book MISSED the Golden Rule{defined as being the “meaning of the Law of Moses and the prophets”Matthew 7 v12},violates both of the Chief Commandments of God{#1 Deut 6:4-9,#2 Lev 19:18}and gives permission to break every one of the Exodus 20 laws{see for yourself;look at the Laws of God and see how allah gives freedom to break them}
allah clearly is NOT the Biblical God.
allah is NOT the God of Moses.
allh is the god of the ARABs.
The supremely primitive, cognitively-dissonant,brainwashed islamic mind is just not capable of understanding such Wisdom or Logic.
There are two logical possibilities:
1]allah is the SAME as the Biblical God
OR
2]allah is NOT THE SAME as the Biblical God{= a different god}
Now ,if allah was the SAME as the Biblical God..
1]The Golden Rule would be in islam{It is MISSING}
2]The LAW given to Moses would be the same:allah would insist on muslims obeying the Exodus 20 Decalogue.In fact he gives permission to violate them.
Freedom to murder koran 2:191,steal koran 48:20 etc.This defeats the whole purpose of the laws given in the Torah{ a book remember,that allah confirms as being TRUE k3:3}
3}The 2 Chief Commandments would be satisfied in islam:they are NOT satisfied in islam and thus islam violates..
“the WHOLE LAW of Moses and the teachings of all the prophets”
{Matthew 22 v 40}
law#1 LOVE GOD: is violated since allah gives freedom to violate the Exodus 20 laws{law #1 insists that the commandments be obeyed as a show of LOVE for God:Giving freedom to break them and thus sin against God is what allah does in his koran}
law#2 LOVE OTHERS: is impossible due to islam’s apartheid system of classifying infidels as inferior and “the WORST of created beings” koran 98:6,the Doctrine of HATE{al walaa wal baraa} and koran 5:51 allah tells muslims NOT to be friends with Jews and Christians.In islam non-muslims are not seen as equal to muslims are made in the spiritual image of god.
The koran CURSES Jews and Christians koran 9:30.You cannot “love thy neighbor” in islam if your neighbor is an infidel.This violates Lev19:18!
islam violates the ENTIRE Judeo-Christian Biblical Commandment System of the 2 chief laws and the Exodus 20 Decalogue.That is some achievement for a god who admits to being a CHAMPION DECEIVER yet who wants to appear to be the same as the Biblical God!
So logically we see that allah{ or the modern equivalent of baal} is the diabolus simius Dei,a DIFFERENT god and a false one{who even admits to being a champion at deception}
allah is NOT the God of Moses.
So your ARAB god allah MISSED the Golden Rule,permits the violation of the Exodus 20 laws,contradicts and violates both of the 2 chief commandments,gets Christian Theology wrong{koran 5:116:mary is not part of the Trinity},ignores and denies the Holy Spirit{the source of prophecy and authentic scripture}:yet ALL these things are in the Bible a book allah says is TRUE and which he tells muslims to consult koran 10:94.
And none of these things have EVER been changed.They exist in ANY Bible from ANY time including the time the koran was written{remember allah says any Bible at that time was TRUE k3:3}
Obviously allah is NOT the Biblical God but a counterfeit Arab god.
Your “prophet” muhammed admitted to being a false prophet{“I have fabricated things against God and imputed to him things he has not said “al tabari 6:111},does not even satisfy the koran’s own criterion of who had the right to be a prophet{membership of The Children of Israel koran 45:16;Perfect mo was not Jewish}and as a mass murderer of Jews{Abu Dawud 4390} was if anything an ENEMY of the real God of Israel YHWH which explains why muhammed was MURDERED by an enslaved Jewish woman:because he was a FALSE prophet{Deut 18:20}
allah did not give his muslims reason,logic or wisdom.The islamic mind is so primitive,so deficient in reasoning faculties that it cannot figure it out{or rather it is,prefers not to see the errors ,in the koran,muhammed,allah and islam.
Your god “allah”:
“There is no god “allah”:that’s just muhammed’s sock puppet”
Your god,your ‘holy’ prophet,your ‘holy’ koran are all demonstrably FALSE.
The evidence is quite clear:but muslims choose to deny this because the koran and islam gives them the freedom to be evil and dishonest.
Quazgaa says
..the short version of it being:
There is no god but mohammed, and allah is his messenger.
Tell a muslim that, watch him blow a gasket.
Be safe.
Quazgaa says
Uh, also, what is a TWUNT?
Terry Gain says
Don’t bother with More Later. You wrote seven full paragraphs but not one word which cast doubt on anything which Anjuli wrote. Are you a very poor writer or did you have very poor material to work with?
gravenimage says
+1
schwami says
Anjuli isn’t a Sanatan Hindu name. She is an ex-Muslim, I guess. Most of the current generation of hindus don’t know their own religion. You can’t expect them to know Islam in such details.
In my part of India, the secular hindus bow before Allah as well. They would say we believe in all – just like Gandhi.
Hinduist – no. Here, 99% hindus just don’t bother about who is hindu or muslim, but earn, spend, sleep. Only ones whose houses were burnt by muslim radicals or if they disrespected hindu women.
Quazgaa says
Not allowed to yet pray for Anjuli Pandavar?
Gee, Rezali, you just stopped being muslim, right there.
gravenimage says
The vile Rezali Mehil wrote:
Salaam all
May Allah SWT keep all believers safe in these testing times, for these times have more than one enemy…the Wuhan Virus and also very dangerous the writings of the kaffir.
…………………….
“Allah” doesn’t seem to be doing a very good job of keeping Rezali Mehil’s fellow Shia safe in Iran–I wonder why that is?
And note that Rezali Mehil, as a good Muslim, considers all logical writing to be an enemy of her ugly and irrational creed.
More:
Anjuli Pandavar. has been waiting a life time , for a set of circumstances , for an opportunity to write the “perfect” essay that sticks it to the Muslim like she has always wanted…she could not believe her “luck”!
…………………….
Ms. Pandavar’s writing reflects her own fine reasoning and understanding of her own experiences–her writing this was not luck. How inane.
More:
Her pen ink oozess with effortless ease for the things that she has always wanted to write, the thing she has prayed for lifetime to happen. Her Hindoo-ist hate is shining through , she should be thoroughly ashamed of her self for writing this dreadfui piece.
…………………….
Talk about projection! Rezali Mehil has lauded the kidnapping and rape of Hindus–including her own poor aunt by her appalling Muslim uncle–and has recently said that Pakistan has the right to enslave Hindus, and that they should not be allowed to flee to India excepting that Indians compensate Pakistan for their loss of these slaves’ labor.
She is the one who hates and believes she has the right to exploit Hindus.
Why should Ms. Pandavar be ashamed for telling the truth? Note that Rezali Mehil is unable to note a single thing that Ms. Pandavar has gotten wrong–because there is nothing she can cite.
More:
But she won’t …in her writing …you can “feel” 1st her opening smirk, then turning out to a full blown mouth wide open uncontrolled laughter exposing her dreadful crooked teeth with each dental filled back ones on show.
Anyone near would have had to back off with her stale breath of tamacoo whilst trying to join in with the laughter. There would have been a roomful of demented laughter and used this piece for their laughing classes. ha hah hahah haha …etc.
Her fat fingers typing furiously , the keyboard propped by her fat belly with her fav song “aaj chaand fir nika-laa” blaring in the background… I mean she feels that this is what she was born for … you know her purpose in life has been given to her on a plate by her gods.
…………………….
Just bizarre stuff.
In reality, Anjuli Pandavar was raised Muslim and is now Atheist. She is not Hindu at all–but the hate-filled Rezali Mehil assumes that she is, along with all her other grotesque fantasies.
More:
In challenging Allah SWT she is doing a gross dis-service to 1.5 billion Muslims…. even thought not allowed I will pray for … for that is the type of humanitarian I am.
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How is telling the truth about Islam doing a disservice to Muslims? What Rezali Mehil means is that Ms. Pandavar should shut up, lest Muslims violently compel her to do so.
Note that Rezali Mehisl doesn’t say what she is praying *for*–this is likely more a curse than a prayer as we would use the term.
More Later ….
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The usual threat.
dusty says
After 14 centuries of ignorance fed by islam I don’t believe the vast majority of muslims will ever reflect on their internal contradictions nor ever change.It is simply not possible for them to grasp their cultural and moral inferiority in any meaningful way. Rezali post above merely confirms this complete lack of reality that is indoctrinated into them by this creed.
Claire Potter says
Buddha preached peace. Christ preached peace. Socrates preached peace. Islam preaches war. Peace only comes when everyone converts to Islam.
Jitendra Desai says
In that case all those 57 Muslim majority countries should be living peacefully.Muslims living as minorities in Asia, Europe and elsewhere are living more peacefully than in those so called Islamic republics
TKF says
Fascinating piece. This line says it all….”It is not just that Islam is incompatible with Western society; it is incompatible with all society.” And that is the main problem with Islam in a nutshell. An inhuman religion meant for humans cannot be sustained, except through force.
Jitendra Desai says
Muslim societies are being herded in to ghettos by their religious leaders.By 2050 or so they will become new untouchables of human society.
TruthWFree says
I keep coming back to the fact that Islam is out of step with God’s creation and human needs. So who is this allah god of Islam? My Christian God is a God of love and wants us to “love one another” while this allah god wants his followers to fight and kill those who do nor believe in him (if you believe Muhammad’s unwitnessed revelations did come from his allah god). Because of the disruption and one human against another as long as Islam exists, I can come to no other conclusion that the allah god of Islam is Satan.
Govind says
Excellent article, their blind belief will kill them.
They have only them selves to blame, and quite frankly they will continue to carry on in this same fashion everywhere and every time. They follow an insane religion. That’s what’s made them a real threat to good sane people all over the world.