Then this Muslim claims that 1400 years ago girls
matured faster and a 9 years old child was as mature as a 21 year old
woman of today. This is of course an obvious fallacy. There is no
need to disprove this because this is an outright lie and ridiculous.
There is no scientific evidence whatsoever that a 9 years old child 1400
years ago was any different from a 9 year old child today. He wants us
to accept a ludicrous lie with no evidence only because he has run out
of excuses. We know that Aisha used to play with her dolls, her friends
used to come to play with her and Muhammad sat and played with them too.
One hadith says that dolls are prohibited in Islam but Muhammad let
Aisha to play with them because she was a little girl. In another hadith
Aisha said that nothing surprised her more than when Muhammad entered
her on the same forenoon that she was taken to his house. The poor girl
did not know what sex is yet and this fiend did not wait until evening.
So clearly she was not a mature woman at the age of nine. This fallacy
is preposterous.
The entire arguments of Muslims consist of logical
fallacies. Since they can’t consider the possibility that Muhammad was
an impostor, they engage in all sorts of fallacies to defend him. This
is a psychological problem not an intellectual one. This Muslim is not
an educated person, even though he has immigrated to the
USA
, it is clear that he is an ignorant man. But we have had letters from
very educated Muslims, scholars, scientists, doctors, nuclear
physicists and university professors, who used the same logical
fallacies because they can’t accept the possibility that Muhammad was
not a prophet and they have been conned.
In psychology this is called cognitive dissonance.
Cognitive dissonance is the discomfort felt when facing a discrepancy
between what one already knows or believes to be true and new
information or interpretation that contradicts that belief. It therefore
occurs when one has to accommodate new ideas.
The bigger is our commitment to a certain idea, the
stronger will be our resistance to accepting ideas that contradict our
previously known and accepted belief. The Psychologist Carl Rogers recognized that accommodation is more difficult than
Assimilation. And
—counter-intuitively, perhaps—if
learning something has been difficult, uncomfortable, or even
humiliating enough, people are less likely to concede that the
content of what has been learned is useless, pointless or valueless. To
do so would be to admit that one has been "had", or
"conned".
Cognitive dissonance was first investigated by Leon Festinger
and associates, arising out of a participant observation study of
a cult which believed that the earth was going to be destroyed by a
flood, and what happened to its members — particularly the really
committed ones who had given up their homes and jobs to work for the
cult — when the flood did not happen. While fringe members were more
inclined to recognize that they had made fools of themselves and to
"put it down to experience", committed members were more
likely to re-interpret the evidence to show that they were right all
along (the earth was not destroyed because of the faithfulness of the
cult members).
This explains why Muslims accuse the apostates of
not having been true Muslims in the first place. They are actually
right. Those who are devout Muslims are so brainwashed that they can’t
rid themselves of it. The pain of awakening and the pang of humiliation
for realizing that one has been duped all his life are so intense that
one resists seeing the truth, wants to fight it and even kill those who
try to burst his bubble. It is much more comfortable, easier and safer
to enter into denial than face the harsh and cold truth that one has
been coned.
The bigger is the deception, the greater is the pain of awakening
and the fiercer the believer will fight to keep his belief intact. This
explains why it is easier for people of other religions to leave their
faith than it is for Muslims. It also explains why Muslims are so
offended if their faith is criticized and why they are so violent
towards those who carp their faith.
When I found the truth I could not pick at someone
else or kill anyone because I had found it on my own. Nonetheless it
took me nearly two years before I admit that I had been coned and
Muhammad was nothing but a psychopath criminal no better than Hitler,
Jim Jones or Charles Manson.
This Muslim ends his letter by saying: “Islam
is a religion of peace” while his first email to me was a death
threat. Muslims do not see the contradiction in their words and their
actions. To them it perfectly makes sense to claim that Islam is a
religion of peace while murdering innocent people and wreaking havoc
with terrorism.
To understand the Muslim mind we must study
narcissism. "All cruelty
springs from weakness", said the Roman
philosopher Lucius
Annaeus Seneca
(ca. 4 BC–AD 65). Muslims genuinely think that Islam is
perfect, divine, incomparable, and as the followers of such an
unrivalled truth, they are entitled to be respected, admired and enjoy privileges
that are not available to others. They have a pervasive feeling of
grandiosity and self-importance. This is actually a defense mechanism,
behind which they hide their intense sense of inferiority and lack of
self esteem. They lack empathy, often appearing boastful and
pretentious, whilst correspondingly underestimate and devalue the
achievements and accomplishments of others. Only Islam is good; all
other cultures and religions are jaheliyah
(ignorance) and taghoti (satanic), according to them. With such
an inflated ego, narcissists can’t take criticism. They easily lose
their temper and resort to violence if criticized or rejected.
I publish the emails that
Muslims send to me, not just to provide a humorous section in this
site but also to give the readers an insight into the mind of the
Muslims. They often complain that by criticizing Islam, it is as if I am
insulting them and attacking their persons. That is because they have
lost their selfhood and now they cling to Islam for their identity.
No other religious person feels so vulnerable if his faith is
slighted. That is because no other religion devalues its followers to
such an extent deindividualizes them and destroys their selfhood like
Islam does.
Islam does not make people spiritual. It make them
co-dependent in relation to Muhammad and narcissists vis-à-vis others.
You can’t be spiritual if you are a co-dependant and a narcissist. Far
from being spiritual, Muslims are the most perverted, corrupt, violent,
dishonest, wicked, vile, base, contemptible, depraved, foul, ignoble,
immoral, mean, miserable, noxious, wretched and sinful people of the
world. This, even they acknowledge; although they foolishly think that
they are in this mess because they do not follow the Quran properly.
They are poisoned by Islam and they think to recover they have to ingest
more of the same poison.