Prison: Criminals find affirmation in Allah
Likewise, while religion has always attracted people in prison, it has
usually been as a route to finding peace with their inner demons and
society as a whole. Not so in Islam, where criminals find a ready excuse
to continue to hate and lash out at society, now reduced to “infidel”
status in their newly religious minds. Jihadists in non-Muslim countries
have developed a unique mix of religion, crime and terrorism. For
instance, all the jihadists linked to the
Madrid
train bombings were also petty criminals involved in the local drug trade.
Recruiting hardcore criminals will assure that the inherent violence in
Islam continues to express itself. At the mere hint of backlash, Muslims
craving validity will continue to appeal to gullible Western liberals and
leftists with cries of “stereotype.” Their inverted sense of
victimhood strikes similar tones in Nazi Germany, where banners demanded,
“Beware of the Jewish warmonger.” One wonders if Islam is a similar
case of group psychosis, with dashes of angst, delusions of grandeur and
paranoia, all simply looking for a scapegoat to attack.
Islam as Arab supremacism
Earlier, it was stated that many peoples have suffered under Arab
imperialism. This is not a misuse of Arab for Muslim. Stated simply, Islam
is an Arab supremacist ideology. Arabic is the language of God, said
Muhammad. He claimed that Arab customs are superior to others. Arab law,
or sharia, is superior. Arab economics is superior. Arab esthetics and art
are superior. Arab marriage is superior. Arab dress is superior. Arab
hygiene is superior. Arab monotheism is superior. Arab eating practices
are superior. In short, Arabs are superior. Yes, not all Arabs are Muslim.
Christian Arabs predate Islam by hundreds of years, for instance. But Arab
Muslims view them as fossils slated for conversion, death, or temporary
source of revenue through jizyah—an extra tax placed on non-Muslims,
called “dhimmis,” in Islamic society. Arab Muslims in
Palestine
even have an _expression for what’s waiting for their Christian
brethren, as well as Jews: “First the Saturday people, than the Sunday
people.”
Seek and Destroy: Jihadists and non-Muslim
cultures
Feelings of superiority are hardly unique to Arabs. But as genocidal
imperialists, Arabs have gone beyond personal opinion, and forced their
culture on much of humanity. Millions of non-Arabs have had their cultures
eradicated by jihadist conquerors over the ages. Most of these non-Arabs
are so thoroughly Arabized that that they don’t even realize what is
gone, or care. Across conquered land are defaced statues, in keeping with
Mohammed’s esthetics. A shocking example of this occurred only
recently—the total destruction by the Taliban of the ancient massive
statue of Buddha in
Bamiyan
,
Afghanistan
, completing the work previous Muslims had begun.
Muslims may immediately respond that Europeans did much the same. The
Crusades and the age of colonialism are obvious examples. Yet the
Crusades, besides being 800 years ago—an absurdly long time in the past
to argue over essentially medieval war crimes—were actually in principle
an attempt to reclaim Christian holy centers lost to jihadist conquests.
Jerusalem
is not even mentioned in the Koran, but is in the center of events in the
Bible. The Crusades often degenerated into treasure hunting by European
mercenaries hardly familiar with their own faith. Atrocities were
committed by all sides, yet the Crusader’s basic desire to live
contrasts starkly with today’s jihadist, well-schooled in Koran, whose
basic desire is to die in “martyrdom operations.” Chief Palestinian
Authority cleric Mufti Sheikh Ikrimeh Sabri stated such: "We tell
them, in as much as you love life, the Muslim loves death and
martyrdom." The love of death is a common theme of Muslim clerics and
stems directly from the Battle of Qadisiyya in the year 636, when the
Persians were told the same by Arab invaders.
The truth about colonialism
Colonialism was also not the result of religion, but of economics and
advancements in technology. The effects of colonialism are a mixed bag
that included atrocities, but bringing advanced technology to less
developed cultures was virtually inevitable. Only a dunce would expect
that hunter gatherer, or even medieval, cultures could go on as they had
done for eons while energetic, advanced trading civilizations carefully
avoided them. The better aspects of colonialism carefully recorded the
histories and languages of many of these cultures for the first time in
history. Some colonial powers faster than others recognized the
distinctiveness of non-Western people and helped them preserve their
customs. Christianity was imposed on some people, while on other
people—Muslims and Hindus especially—it was not. The Victorian British
in fact paid for the renovation of the Taj Mahal in
India
, a Muslim mausoleum, for instance. But even where Christianity was
imposed, it was more a matter of politics, not a “jihad,” and was done
a magnitude or two less violently than jihadists are called to do.
Finally, in all modern predominately Christian countries, faith is a
matter of choice, as it implied by the word faith. One can freely leave
Christianity and become a Buddhist, for example. As well, aside from a
belief in the Christ, Christians are free to retain their native customs.
Not so in Islamic countries, where a death sentence, official in some
states, de facto in others, awaits a Muslim who proclaims allegiance to
another religion, and the adoption of Arab customs is de rigor for
Muslims.
Muslim choice: Death or submission
A Muslim asks, didn’t Christianity, mentioned here because of its
predominant position in the West, spread by conversion, often by coercion?
Yes, and so did Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism and nearly every religion at
one point or another over the long passage of time. This is sometime a
human trait that is not an essential component of those faiths, unlike
Islam, which explicitly demands jihadists wage violent campaigns against
“infidels” in lands outside Islam they even refer to as Dar al Harb—House
of War.
Islam: Putting the total in totalitarianism
Another stark difference is that Islam goes far beyond the merely
spiritual, and into the political and cultural. Indeed, Islam explicitly
invades nearly every aspect of living, down to how one should sleep. The
Muslim supremacist mindset completely denigrates the traditions of other
cultures. Disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, archeology and
history outside of Islam are seen as pointless endeavors; hence so little
work comes from Muslims in these fields. What little there is tends to be
about Muslims. This attitude affects other fields as well, resulting in
such realities as tiny
Israel
printing far more book titles than the entire Arab world, and
India
soaring past
Pakistan
in productivity.
Islam's idea of multiculturalism
Cultures that conflict with Islam are always at risk. Latin and
African dance, German Oktoberfest, American Indian spiritualism, Chinese
ancestor veneration— all would end under an Islamic state. It is not an
exaggeration to say that the devote Muslim is simply an automaton to put
Mohammad’s teaching into motion. Even the much mentioned “Islamic
Golden Age” is much ado about nothing; a construct of “the other,”
created by Western leftists to disparage their own culture rather than
genuinely promote Islam. Its description usually includes a gratuitous
reference of Europe being “illiterate” at the time, neglecting to
mention that it was the Dark Ages, after all, as though
Greece
and
Rome
never existed. Why much ado about nothing? For various reasons, some
Muslim rulers are more rigid than others. Stalin was bloodier than
Brezhnev, as well. In truth, the age was simply a time shortly after
Muslim conquest when Christians and Jews were still an indispensable
component of the cultures they created. Pragmatic Muslim rulers recognized
this, so chose to tax them as dhimmis and channel their much-needed talent
rather than force immediate conversion or exile. Muslim rulers viewed
these older monotheists as slightly above pagans, the later of whom
demanded immediate death or conversion. Think Hitler’s attitude to Slavs
compared to Jews, and one gets the picture. As the previous cultures wore
down under Islamic governance, their civilizational competencies
dissolved. Even nominal Muslims who flourished in the dhimmi culture of
creativity disappeared when Islam finally succeeded in dominating the mind
of citizens as well as the body.
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