by Sujit Das
And as for those who chose a place of worship out of opposition and disbelief, and in order to cause dissent among the believers… (Q: 9.107).
Never stand (to pray) there… (Q: 9.108).
Is he who founded his building upon duty to Allah and His good pleasure better; or he who founded his building on the brink of a crumbling, overhanging precipice so that it toppled with him into the fire of hell? Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk . (Q: 9.109).
The building which they built will never cease to be a misgiving in their hearts unless their hearts be torn to pieces . (Q: 9.110).
These verses (9.107-10), when taken in true Islamic spirit, call for the destruction of rival mosques. The question is – which mosques are genuinely Islamic and which mosques are not. The irony is that there is no central authority in Islam to decide on this, so naturally it leads to confusion. Thus Sunni kills Shiaa, Shiaa kills Sunni and both these groups kill Ahmedi or Kurdish Muslims and so on.
On top of this religious chaos, a Hadith (Sunnan Abu Dawud: 3.40.4744) just added fuel to the fire. It instructed Muslims to kill anyone whoever is suspected to create disunity in Islam. This is similar to handing over a fatwa to virtually every sect of Islam. Naturally every sect of Islam is at loggerheads with each other and eliminating each other as per their belief(s) in a perfect Islamic way.
Secondly, when a Narcissist is in the position of authority, sometimes he even justifies butchering of his own people by claiming that they intended to assassinate him, devastate the economy, harm the nation or the country, etc (Vaknin, 2004). We have seen this tendency in notorious Narcissist leaders like, Saddam Hussein, Stalin and Hitler. On several occasions, Muhammad’s cruelty turned to his own people.
The Prophet said, ‘burn all those who had not left their houses for the prayer, burning them alive inside their homes. ’ (Bukhari: 1.11.626)
Therefore, the concept of “Universal brotherhood” in Islam is for name only. Muslims will never stop loving each other to death with joy in their hearts. From the very beginning of Islam, Muslims were never a unified community. They are only united in their hatred for the non-Muslims.
7.4: The Thin Boundary Line between a Terrorist Muslim and a Peaceful
Muslim
“Islam, just like the Roman God Janus, has two faces”.
Abul Kasem
“The militant Muslim is the person cutting the head of the infidel while the moderate Muslim holds the victims feet”.
Dr. M. Sabieski
In a country when Muslims are a minority they demand more and more privileges and rights for minorities from the host country. When their number grows by birth or immigration, they want to impose the Sharia rule. When they become majority, they start bringing death and destruction to the host nation and start ethnic cleansing. This is the worst type of disloyalty and hypocrisy.
Is not this the same what Muhammad did to the early Meccans? When he was weak, he brought down verses which were peaceful. He even uttered some verses which praised the pagan gods (the satanic verses) to make the Meccans happy. But when he became powerful his darker side began to emerge and the Qur’anic verses started losing their beauty. Once he conquered Mecca, he showed his true color to everyone – either convert or die by the sword.
The policy-makers often fail to see this point. They are making the same mistake what the early Meccans did. They realize the impact of radical Islam but fail to pay attention to moderate Islam. Little do they understand that the moderate Islam is much more dangerous than the radical Islam because it grows and silently kills the host. Islamic jihad has many faces. Jihad is not just slaughtering people for Islam; it is also a systematic suppression of truth and propagation of lies. If not, how can the moderate Muslims boldly assert (despite hard evidence to the contrary) that Islam is a peaceful religion?
The slogan “Islam is a peaceful religion” is about 1400 years out of date. The seed of terrorism is germinating inside every Muslim. Anyone who has put a single grain of trust on Muhammad and his Qur’an fills up his mind with unjustified hate and paranoia, and he is bound to have similar destructive ideas like his Prophet. The dark force of Muhammad’s narcissism immediately starts working in him. Several years into the war on Islamic terror, but still often we hear Islam is a religion of peace. While those so-called peaceful Muslims use this term for obvious reasons, those who know Islam use this term sarcastically. Terrorism is there in every cell of Islam. Islam cannot survive without terrorism because terrorism is the life-giving force of Islam. Those who are against terrorism have no place in Islam; they are infidels. The Muslim terrorists are not “hijacking” Islam; they are, at least in their own view, restoring it. Without terrorism Islam will suffocate and collapse. The peaceful face of Islam is the political Islam and it is the mask of violent Islam. As the Turkish Prime Minister commented, “ These descriptions are very ugly. It is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it ” (McCarthy, 2010, p. 39).
The only difference between a peaceful Muslim and a terrorist Muslim is that the terrorists are openly in action and they are not at all shy to make their agenda known to the non-Muslims, whereas the peaceful Muslims are silently in action and hypocrite. In the wake of two London bombing, one of the most radical Islamic groups in Britain, al-Ghurabaa stated (Dawkins, 2006, p. 307), “ Any Muslim that denies that terror is a part of Islam is kafir (nonbeliever)”. And a similar statement from Zakir Naik (Al-Kindy, 2005, p. 86; Downing, 2009, p. 354) is, “Every Muslim should be a terrorist”. Islam and terrorism are blood brothers.
The so-called peaceful Muslims are very calculative, and proceed sophistically. They give long speeches on human rights and democratic values and sing the peaceful verses of Qur’an but once Islam becomes powerful they will start singing another tune. The fundamental concepts of human rights, developed in the West with the help of John Locke and other enlightenment thinkers, have not had any impact on Islam even to this day. Hard-line Muslims have openly admitted this fact. In January 1985, Saeed Raja’i-Khorasani, the permanent delegate to the United Nations from the Islamic Republic of Iran, declared, “The very concept of human rights is ‘a Judeo-Christian invention’ and inadmissible in Islam.” (Spencer, 2002, p. 104). The so-called peaceful Muslims would not hesitate to implement Jyzia tax on Christians and Jews, and slit the throats of Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, ex-Muslims, atheists and agnostics according to the Sharia law. Deep down, every “believer” is potentially the judge and executioner of every “nonbeliever”. After all, both the terrorists and the peaceful Muslims are working for the same cause – to dominate the world in the name of Islam.
Since the noblest goal of a Muslim is to assist Islam rule the world, these moderate Muslims shamelessly lie about Islam to deceive the infidels. As Imam Ghazali says (cited Shienbaum & Hasan, 2006, p. 63), “ Speaking is a means to achieve objectives. If a praiseworthy aim is attainable through both telling the truth and lying, it is unlawful to accomplish through lying because there is no need for it. When it is possible to achieve such an aim by lying but not by telling the truth, it is permissible to lie if attaining the goal is permissible. ” The peaceful Muslims and the terrorist Muslims are two sides of the same coin.
For a peaceful Muslim, it is very easy to become a terrorist. Hate for the non-Muslims is the basic tenet of Islam and violence is the conclusion. As Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali, a hard-line Islamic Iranian Judge (Peterson, 2002, p. 201) openly declared, “ Those who are against killing have no place in Islam. Our Prophet killed with his own blessed hands. Our Imam Ali killed more than seven hundred on a single day. If the survival of the faith requires the shedding of blood, we are there to perform our duty ”. So when a so-called peaceful Muslim emerges as a terrorist, it does not involve a discrete choice to change status. A terrorist is lurking inside every Muslim waiting for a chance to come out. One such example (Martin, 2010, p. 195); Qur’an says, “ When the sacred months have passed, slay the idolat
ers wherever ye find them…” (Q: 9.5). A son of Pakistani businessman was inspired by this verse and took an oath, “ I state in the presence of God that I will slaughter the infidels my entire life. May God give me strength in fulfilling this oath”.
Islamic terrorism is a complex phenomenon; hence, the personalities of the terrorists change from person to person. It would be useless to attribute a simple and global characteristic to all of them. In Islam, terrorists can assume many different roles – only a few will actually fire the weapon or detonate the bomb or become a human bomber. The “personality” of a Muslim politician, or a Mullah, or a financier of Islamic terrorism, or an illiterate Muslim woman who gives birth to a dozen kids because a large family pleases Allah, or the simple pious bearded Muslim who pays regular Zakat to the mosque, is different from that of an administrator, or strategist, or an assassin, or a suicide bomber. This is the essence of jihad that had been widely discussed in Islamic books on religious laws. Though some systematic differences might be discerned between those who engage in terrorism and those who do not; deep down, they have identical psychological set up. As Taylor and Quayle, the two well known researchers of the present age religious terrorism, commented (1994, p. 197), “ The active terrorist is not discernibly different in psychological terms from the non-terrorist; in psychological terms, there are no special qualities that characterize the terrorist ”. Who can deny that the clerics and the militant community leaders are elected by these moderate Muslims?
In reality, peaceful Islam does not exist. “Al Islam huwa al hall” (Islam is the solution) is not a slogan raised by Muslim terrorists only but by all the Muslims (Phares, 2005, p. 251). The nouns “terrorist” or “terrorists” do not necessarily refer to everyone within a terrorist organization. In an army not everyone carries a gun. There are many non-fighting members, e.g., accountants, cooks, fund-raisers, logistics specialists, medical doctors, nurses or recruiters – who may play only a passive support role. But all of them have the same ultimate goal, i.e., to defeat the enemy. Similarly, there are many ways to support jihad, besides personal violence. The peaceful Muslim we know is commanded to give money to Islamic charities and the charities give the money to the actual fighters. They are playing this passive support role and the ultimate goal is to conquer the world for Islam.
7.5: Conclusion
“Minarets are our bayonets
Domes are our helmets
Mosques are our barracks
Believers are our soldiers”.
A Ziya Gokalp poem (Coughlin, 2006, p. 195)
“Educating the children to Jihad and to hatred of the Jews, the Christians, and the infidels is what is needed now”.
Sermon of Sheikh Muhammad Saleh al-Munajjid in Al-Daman, Saudi Arabia
“ The history of Islam, for instance, tells us that Islam needs blood to thrive. Human blood is the life-line of Islam, violence its hallmark, and hate its foundation … As a car needs gasoline to run, so does Islam need human blood just to run its own course, set by Muhammad, its Prophet” .
Abul Kasem
“ Whenever one looks along the perimeter of Islam, Muslims have problem living peacefully with their neighbors. Islam’s borders are bloody, and so are its innards. ”
Samuel Huntington (1996, pp. 256, 258)
Islamic terrorists have a very self-contradictory outlook. They ridicule Western culture as false, meaningless, dangerous, corrupt common values, and rotten social values; but at the same time they devote their entire life to the elimination and pulverization of this “insignificant” entity. To justify this self-contradiction, the Islamic terrorists cast themselves as an altruistic savior of the Muslim Ummah “endangered” by the enemies. Sometimes they are driven by messianic delusions. They are always self-appointed and self-proclaimed, rarely elected. However, this is another self-contradiction. They accuse the western nations of being a failed civilization interfering ignorantly and sacrilegiously in the affairs of Islam and exporting this contagious failure to Islamic societies by “infecting” them with the virus of its own terminal decline. Paradoxically, the same Muslim fanatics who believe that the West is dying also decry its overwhelming military, technological, and financial superiority.
Militant Islam is not a cancerous mutation of the “true” and “peaceful” Islam. It is the purest expression of its nature as an imperialistic religion which demands unmitigated obedience from its followers and regards all non-Muslims as both inferior and avowed enemies. In Islamic faith there is nothing to pervert. It is simply “bloodshed in the name of God”. This murderous cult lacks objective justification and does not have any demonstrable standard to pervert.
Practically every “lunacy”, every hypocrisy, and every terrorist act of Muslims can be explained from the point of view of Muhammad’s narcissism. The sadistic cruel nature of Prophet Muhammad is reflected in the behavior of the Islamic terrorists. Muhammad’s entire prophetic life was based on victimizing innocents. He was a criminal of worst type humanity had ever seen. Today’s Muslim terrorists are not doing anything new what their Prophet had not done fourteen centuries ago. Every Muslim is carrying the personal flag of Muhammad. It is like the invasion of the body snatchers as we see in horror movies and Muslims are not even aware of it. Muhammad affected his victims by infiltrating their psyches and by penetrating their defenses. Like a fatal virus, the evil curse of Muhammad established a new genetic strain within the Muslims which generates obedience and reverence and awakens a profound feeling of awe that manifests itself both as fear and as being strongly attracted towards Muhammad’s cult. Now the evil spirit of Muhammad echoes through them, talks through them, walks through them, hates through them as if Muslims do not have a mind of their own to think rationally, sanely or sensibly. This is the origin of the mysterious dark force as if Muhammad took rebirth in every Muslim to finish his unfinished job – to conquer the world – the ultimate dream of a seventh century malignant Narcissist.
Chapter 8: The Legacy of Muhammad
“ Have we not seen that millions of people, misguided by their irrational passions, can believe in ideas which are not less delusional and irrational than the products of a single individual? ”
Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Muslims adore Muhammad like a slave adores his Master for the fear of punishment. One poet (cited Noor Allah Marqadah, 2010) was not shy about it.
Muhammad Ki Ghulami Hay Sanad Azaad Honay Ki.
Khuda Kay Daman-e-Tauheed Mein Abaad Honay Ki.
Muhammad Ki Muhabbat Deen-e-Haq Ki Shart-e-Awwal Hay.
Agar Is Mein Ho Khami Tow Sab Kuch Na Mukammal Hay.
(Slavery of Muhammad is the guarantee of forgiveness of Allah. It is the only way to get to the divine light. True love with Muhammad is the first condition of true Islam. If there is any doubt in it, nothing is complete or acceptable to Allah.)
Muhammad resides deep inside of the heart of every Muslim. No wonder, praising him is an integral part of their daily prayers. By judging him a mercy and by praising him in the daily prayers, every Muslim automatically becomes a victim of his narcissistic force. This is the legacy of Muhammad. The ghost of Muhammad haunts the Muslims every moment. Like aliens snatch the bodies of the victims; Muhammad had invaded and modified the minds of Muslims and brought them to his bubble universe to serve him. This way, when the Muslims adopt Muhammad’s way of thinking, all the seven deadly sins of a Narcissist start blooming in them. As Sina (2008, pp. 59, 60) commented, “ The personality disorder of one man has been bequeathed like an inheritance upon his followers, where one man’s psychosis, spectacular in its depth of self-absorption, has been spreading to millions of his followers, rendering them, in the same way, self-absorbed, irrational, and dangerous ”. By this logic, Islam is the mental illness of the Muslims.
8.1: No Other Religion except Islam Promotes Narcissism
All the world religions, except Islam, traditionally put a brake on narcissistic behaviors. Some of them directly reduce narcissism or rel
ated concepts; like, pride, hostility and selfishness, and teach us that the society is something which is larger than the self. The core message is that each of us should live according to certain rules that apply to everyone, and the value of a community of fellow believers. The individualistic (also narcissistic) motto “Do what is right for you” does not fit very well with the same-for-everyone rules and beliefs of most religions. But in Islam, the God is full of pride, the Prophet was perverted, the book is full of hate; hence the religion is bound to promote narcissism.
In Christianity; the Gospels are full of verses that praise the humble and meek, and chastise the proud. A verse on Proverbs (15.26) says, “The Lord will destroy the house of the proud.” A sermon on the mount advises that “ Blessed [are] the meek: for they shall inherit the earth” (Matthew: 5.6). Christianity also emphasizes on forgiveness (especially for one’s enemies) and humility which is just opposite of narcissism. “Turning the other cheek” is definitely not a narcissistic act. Christianity also teaches that you should treat others as you would like to be treated is another dictum counter to narcissistic ethos.
Eastern religions, as example, Hinduism, focus directly on egoism as a source of suffering. In Hindu theology, the saint is considered one who has completely annihilated his ego. Hindu seers had encouraged humankind to shun egoism and to focus on the development of a virtuous and good mind called Sumati. There are many Vedic prayers that invoke the noble and upright mind (Badlani, 2008, p. 85). In Hindu Katha Upanishad there is a story, according to which the knowledge about the secrets of immortal soul is more valuable than the material goods and social status. Buddhism, which was a mutation of Hinduism, takes the Hindu wisdom a step further. Zen (a school of Mahayana Buddhism) has several stories describing the negative consequences of narcissism. As example (Twenge & Campbell, 2010, p. 246); the Prime Minister of Tang Dynasty once asked a Zen master, “What is egoism according to Buddhism?” The master shot back in a harsh tone, “What kind of stupid question is that!?” Insulted, the Prime Minister became angry. The master then smiled and said, “THIS, your Excellency, is egoism.”