Islam: religion of opposition

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Islam is a religion of opposition. It thrives on the energy that is

generated by the creation of a dualistic world. It separates mankind

into two camps, the believers and the unbelievers. The tension that is

created between these two forces is the fuel that powers the Islamic

engine. This process works in two ways. First it seeks to dehumanize

the unbelievers. It turns them into something vile in the eyes of God

and by association, in the eyes of the believers.

 

The act of dehumanization creates the groundwork for the next step in

the process of mobilizing the energy of the believers. Since Allah has

cursed the unbelievers and recommended that the believers should fight

with them all moral, ethical and humanistic barriers have been removed

from the believers in their treatment of the unbelievers. The evidence

for this is given in the following verses. These are only a part of

the references that exist in one Surah. The Quran is saturated with

these kinds of references on nearly every page.

 

[2.89] And when there came to them a Book from Allah verifying that

which they have, and aforetime they used to pray for victory against

those who disbelieve, but when there came to them (Prophet) that which

they did not recognize, they disbelieved in him; so Allah's curse is

on the unbelievers.

 

[2.90] Evil is that for which they have sold their souls-- that they

should deny what Allah has revealed, out of envy that Allah should

send down of His grace on whomsoever of His servants He pleases; so

they have made themselves deserving of wrath upon wrath, and there is

a disgraceful punishment for the unbelievers.

 

[2.98] Whoever is the enemy of Allah and His angels and His apostles

and Jibreel and Meekaeel, so surely Allah is the enemy of the

unbelievers.

 

[2.104] O you who believe! do not say Raina and say Unzurna and

listen, and for the unbelievers there is a painful chastisement.

 

[2.191] And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from

whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter,

and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with

you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the

recompense of the unbelievers.

 

[2.254] O you who believe! spend out of what We have given you before

the day comes in which there is no bargaining, neither any friendship

nor intercession, and the unbelievers-- they are the unjust.

 

Once the unbelievers have been completely dehumanized and the

believers whipped into a frenzy of hatred against them, it only

remains to harvest this fruit with a little more materialistic

motivation. The second part of Mohammed's plan is to reward his

believers with the property and lives (as slaves) of the unbelievers

and thereby move them into a joyous celebration of killing the

unbelievers and collecting booty. A people so motivated cannot get

enough of this kind of activity. On the one hand, they are made to

feel like they are accomplishing a great and moral purpose with their

lives, and on the other, all of their common cravings for wealth and

sex are satiated. Is it any wonder that the warriors of Islam were

among the most motivated in the world. Is it any wonder that today's

fundamentalists regard the days of Islamic conquest as it's greatest

era of history and long to return to it.

 

Of course Mohammed was not satisfied with the loot and power that

could be provided by a small following. He needed to build into his

system a way to continuously increase the size of his following and

keep it motivated in the direction of increasing his converts. He

shaped his laws and the Quran so that his following would always

grow. He also knew that the spiritual draw of his religion would be

limited, slow and cumbersome. Before he began the process of looting

caravans, his religious message won him a very limited supply of

followers.

 

Consequently, his demand for his converts was "submission" and not

necessarily "faith". So one finds that the Quran, along with feeding

the fires of hatred for unbelievers, always holds out the carrot of

untold rewards for those who would become believers. Depending on the

degree of skepticism or spiritualism of the potential convert, the

rewards were offered in both this life and the next. Having no real

spiritual depth or awareness, Mohammed created the best heaven that a

man of his base nature could imagine. Heaven would be the place where

a man could enjoy the company of 72 beautiful virgins in an endless

orgy.

 

This description was also an attraction to the kind of men that he

would need to accomplish his conquests. The details of a heaven that

would appeal to a woman were of far less importance to him. He knew

that if he captured the allegiance of the men, then the women would

have no choice but to go along.

 

Conclusion: Violent Islam is a totalitarian fascist political

movement disguised as so-called religion.