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Islam as
Totalitarianism
The religion of Muslims reeks of undemocratic fascism; indeed,
every country run by Muslim theocrats is a totalitarian state.
Islamic law regulates every aspect of public and private life: it
does not differentiate between rituals, legal codes, ethics, and
good manners. Islam legislates everything, such as the proper use
of toothpicks, the hand with which you wipe yourself after a bowel
movement, the sexual habits of married couples, the treatment of
slaves, and wedding invitations. Religious duties, such as prayer
and pilgrimage, are made into national law; affairs of state such
as taxes and warfare are written into the Koran. From the
beginning, Mohammed was a religious leader as well as a political
force. His breathtaking victories in battle convinced the Muslims
that Allah was truly on their side. Early Muslims never suffered
the amount of persecution that ancient Christians and Jews
underwent, and so Muslims as a whole were never at the receiving
end of the corruption and cruelty inherent in a church-state
alliance. Come to think of it, many Christians have yet to learn
that lesson, despite the brutal repression of Christians at the
hands of other religious authorities.
Just as Catholicism has its doctrines of papal infallibility
(along with the various embarrassing clarifications, corrections
and outright cancellations of papal decrees over the centuries),
Islam has its own source for unarguable interpretation of the will
of God: the theologians who dedicate their lives to studying the
intricacies of Islam. When leading scholars of the various schools
of Islamic thought came to a final agreement on an issue, large or
small, that agreement was then inviolable. No further
interpretation was possible. In fact, around 1100 years ago, the
scholars decided that all the essential issues of Islamic study
had been settled once and for all. They established a kind of
agreement that no one else could possibly interpret Islamic law
differently, and that all discussion about the laws would
henceforth revolve around the explanation and application of the
law. Thus, all possible dissent or alternative interpretations
were done away with for good. In fact, the crime of heresy is
still punishable by death in Islamic nations. The Koran
specifically states:
22.9: "As for the unbelievers, for them garments of fire
shall be cut and there shall be poured over their heads boiling
water whereby whatever is in their bowels and skins shall be
dissolved and they will be punished with hooked iron rods."
47.4: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike off their
heads; then when you have made wide slaughter among them,
carefully tie up the remaining captives."
9.29,30: "Declare war upon those to whom the Scriptures
were revealed but believe neither in God nor the Last Day, and who
do not forbid that which God and His Apostles have forbidden, and
who refuse to acknowledge the true religion until they pay the
poll-tax without reservation and are totally subjugated. The Jews
claim that Ezra is a son of God, and the Christians say, 'the
Messiah is a son of God.' Those are their claims which do indeed
resemble the sayings of the Infidels of Old. May God do battle
with them! How they are deluded!"
It's not just stuffy fundamentalist overlords that interpret
the Koran so strictly. Average citizens become blind with rage
when they learn of blasphemy, heresy or progressive ideas in their
midst. For example, on May 2, 1996, women cyclists at the Chitgar
sports complex in Teheran were attacked by militant Muslims
because of the shameful display created by their bicycle-riding.
Sports officials at the scene were also assaulted and the complex
was ransacked. Scholars said that women on bicycles were
"indecent" and "provocative." Last January,
the Malaysian government ordered all supermarkets to create
separate checkouts lanes for men and women, explaining that this
would prevent excessive mingling between the sexes, an issue of
great importance to Muslims. And in Cincinnati, Ohio, Carlos
Sanders was recently convicted of instigating a riot in the
Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. Sanders asserted that
mandatory tuberculosis tests were a violation of his Muslim
beliefs, so he and his fellow Muslim prisoners killed a guard to
show that they were serious about their moral values.
The case of Carlos Sanders is a small example in Islam's long
history of using murder as a means of dealing with unbelievers, a
history it shares with Christianity. Under Muslim law, atheism is
the greatest sin of all - more heinous than murder, theft, rape or
adultery - and is therefore punishable by death. The law also
demands execution of any Muslim man or woman who decides to
convert to another religion. An Islamic scholar of the thirteenth
century states: "Whosoever turns back from his belief, openly
or secretly, take him and kill him wheresoever you find him, like
any other infidel." Non-Muslims are forbidden to express
their religious beliefs in Muslim nations, and even members of
minority Muslim sects are tortured and even executed. Shia Muslims
and members of the Ahmadiyya movement have been harassed and slain
for their beliefs by fellow Muslims. Muslim thought police
regularly detain citizens for minor infractions of Islamic law -
if the infuriated citizenry doesn't first tear the transgressor
limb from limb. Ibn Warraq cites two shocking examples of
religiously driven hysteria in Pakistan: a mob in Karachi stones
an abandoned infant to death "on the presumption that it was
illegitimate and thus could not be tolerated"; another mob
seizes a man and, without proof or trial, severs his hand simply
because a mulla (priest of Islam) told them the man was a thief.
The very concept of free individuals with the right to make
their own decisions is entirely absent from Islamic theocracies.
There is no deciding between right and wrong but rather a robotic
following of orders. Ibn Warraq quotes one Muslim thinker:
"The Western liberal emphasis upon freedom from
restraint is alien to Islam. ... Personal freedom lies in
surrendering to the Divine Will. ... It cannot be realized through
liberation from external sources of restraint ... individual
freedom ends where the freedom of the [Islamic] community begins.
... Human rights exist only in relation to [Islamic] obligations.
... Those individuals who do not accept these obligations have no
rights. ... Much of Muslim theology tends toward a totalitarian
voluntarism."
Copy And Pasted from Islamanics!
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