The
Ignoble Path: Long Road To Secular Humanism
Zahir
Ebrahim's Letter to Muslims: Is Islam really the Last Obstruction to
World Government and Absolute Scientific Global Dictatorship?
Please
read the article “Thought
police muscle up in Britain”
by Hal G. P. Colebatch which appeared in The Australian on
April 21, 2009, in conjunction with watching these revealing videos:
- Brian Gerrish's talk “State of the Nation” from the Jan 24, 2009 Lawful Rebellion Conference ;
- Brian Gerrish's talk “Common Purpose - Exposing the Real Traitors” from the Dec 12, 2009 Wakeup Call Conference ;
And
connect with the impetus towards the introduction of Secular Humanism
as the “religion” of the New World Order!
[http://www.bbc5.tv/video/brian-gerrish-state-nation]
[http://www.bbc5.tv/video/brian-gerrish-exposing-common-purpose]
[youtube=youtube.com/watch?v=iXjEW2etAVM]
To
understand what Secular Humanism really means in practice, please
watch the cited videos. To understand its philosophical
underpinnings, please read my article “Morality derived from
the Intellect leads to Enslavement!” permanently linked to
with this photograph:
Caption:
Secular Humanism is the Moral Relativism of the New Age: Morality
derived from Intellect leads to Barbarianism and Enslavement under
the false pretense of Enlightenment!
These
documentaries reveal a concerted effort to subvert Theism, mainly
Islam and Christianity respectively. Since this letter is addressed
to Muslims, its focus is on Islam. However, a universal truth which
applies to all Theism regardless of religion, and which appears to be
a major impediment to the nihilism of the New World Order, is that
only Theism teaches man in absolute moral codes how to overcome
self-interests for higher moral cause; only Theism teaches man how to
break his bonds of servitude to fellow man. And that is why the
genuine practice of Theism and its absolute morality poses a real
impediment to Secular Humanism and World Government which depend on
moral relativism to promulgate their nihilistic agenda for the New
Age.
Moral
codes in Theism are indeed encased in the absolute semantic
strait-jacket so feared by all tyrants across space and time
and therefore, remain forever under attack and subversion. Islam,
like all Theistic religions, has already answered the question of
bondage to fellow man in showing the way to its effective severing.
It is even part of the cryptic formula, the Kalima, recited
by the adherent daily, without evidently understanding any of it:
“La ilaha ilallah” (Arabic: لا
إله إلا الله
)
– “there is no god but God”.
Islam's
clear prescription of bowing in servitude only to the One God of
Truth is completely pre-conditioned upon first breaking the
bonds of servitude to all other gods of falsehoods. A simple
substitution of “God” with “Truth”, and
“god” with “falsehoods” including the
worship of “self-interests” and “society's gods”
in the above daily declaration of faith makes the all encompassing
import of Kalima self-evident. The logic of that declaration
itself mandates this mental substitution in the proclamation of
Monotheism in order to prevent it from degenerating into an
absurdity.
Islam,
for its followers, is anything but an absurdity. And yet, their
facile understanding of it directly reduces their practice of their
lofty proclamation of Monotheism
to the absurdity of polytheism. Silence and apathy in the face of
the ubiquitous spread of oppression and falsehoods in our time, is
akin to directly bowing in servitude before the gods of tyranny.
That silence and co-option permits tyranny to spread unchecked
becoming its de facto first-cause enabler! Islam calls the
allegiance to another superpower,
or bowing in servitude before other gods and idols, polytheism.
The abode of polytheists, the Holy Qur'an oft proclaims, is Jahanam.
As
noted by Brian Gerrish in his Lawful Rebellion talk, all other
major religious and ethnic populations in the West have become so
secularized in the Western culture that only Islam today remains the
effective impediment in its path – even though it is not much
of one, as seen by the subversion of the Muslims and their religion!
I quite agree with this introduction chapter by David
Livingstone
of the book “Surrendering Islam – The subversion of
Muslim politics throughout history until the present day”:
http://surrenderingislam.com/surrendering-islam/surrendering-islam.
What
Livingstone has perhaps missed in his zeal (I haven't read his entire
book), but which does not change his point about the subversion of
Islam today made in that chapter, is that the subversion of Islam
historically was started the day of 'Fatah Mecca' (and not just by
the British creating sects through Machiavellian infiltrations). A
dispassionate non-partisan study of recorded history itself shows
that Islam was viewed differently by different peoples, many of whom
converted overnight to the new religion of Arabia after a lifetime of
opposition to it. As one critically examines the most momentous of
times in the early days of Islam in the immediate aftermath of the
death of its Prophet, even when one glosses over the first 25 years
of tumultuous ad hoc political successions and rapid expansion of
territories through their own la mission civilisatrice, the
first dynastic imperial empire was really seeded by Abu Suffian. The
mighty trader and leader of the Meccans, and the Prophet of Islam's
greatest antagonist, Abu Suffian, standing next to Ibn Abbas (the
Prophet's relative), on the mountains surrounding Mecca on the night
of 'Fatah Mecca' – following the conquest of Mecca
without bloodshed, and the Prophet's blanket proclamation of full
pardon without seeking any retribution for the ten years of imposed
military warfare by the Meccans upon the Muslims – and watching
the vast field of thousands of bonfires dotting the Muslim tents in
the valley below, realized that Islam potentially meant a lucrative
“empire”, and told Ibn Abbas so!
From
Abu Suffian, the harbinger of ill-begotten Muslim dynastic empires,
to Bernard Lewis, the harbinger of fabricated “clash of
civilizations”, spanning the gamut of those 14 centuries
and with all the Muslim empires which David Livingstone glorifyingly
mentions in-between, they all corrupted the Holy Qur'an's designated
“straight-path” of guidance in Islam, the
“sirat-e-mustaqeem” of Surah Fatiha, into
“empire” – one way or another.
In
today's modernity, Islam is principally subverted in the same mold by
introducing “beneficial cognitive diversity”
(sic!) into that original singular formulation of
“straight-path”. See
Islam
and Knowledge vs. Socialization
for details on how exactly it is accomplished today.
The
sophistication of Islam's subversion however that is evidently
running circles around the Muslim mind today, relies in the
employment of complex political theory called Hegelian
Dialectic:
invent two or more opposing and polarized ideologies (or lies), say
one entirely militant, and the other entirely spiritual, and get them
to clash by forcing people to choose between them while perniciously
harvesting each one in the greater service of “imperial
mobilization”. This is the underlying philosophy in the
“good Muslim” vs. “bad Muslim” dialectic, and
in Presidential statements like “either you are with us, or
you are with the terrorists”. The conflict that is
naturally seeded in any clash of the opposites is an opportunity for
birth-panging something far greater from the burnt ashes left
behind. Tortuous processes so unleashed upon the unsuspecting public
can leave so much confusion and chaos in its wake that as David Ben
Gurion had explained the purpose of seeding controlled chaos: “what
is inconceivable in normal times is possible in revolutionary times”.
And the Council on Foreign Relations proposed exactly that
same modus operandi to seed world government:
'In
short, the ‘house of world order’ will have to be built
from the bottom up, rather than from the top down. It will look like
a great ‘booming, buzzing confusion’ to use
William James’ famous description of reality, but an end run
around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will
accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.'
Watch
the fabrication of the Hegelian Dialectic of “militant
Islam”
vs. “moderate
Islam”
in the following two videos. Both are officially sponsored by the
ruling establishment of the Hectoring Hegemons. These promulgate
their respective asininity among the Muslims for a purpose so
diabolical that it can only be fully comprehended in the domains of
political theory, game theory, employing dynamic systems analysis,
and not by studying each component separately.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaiJtLrEwVU]
Caption
Video Face of “moderate Islam” featuring
Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri, the “Ambassador
of Peace”.
An even more entertaining version of Daniel Pipe's choice for
“moderate Islam” with its leader* basking
in the adulation of his prostrating
fans,
is here
(search)
This
sophisticated Machiavelli is primarily the reason most Muslims, while
knowing that there is something wrong with the 'War on Terror' in
that the way the UK-US-EU axis of evil is going about it only creates
more terror, remain perpetually confused by what is it that the West
really wants when it arbitrarily seems to support opposites
simultaneously. Inextricably caught between suicide bombers and
F-16s, and between neo-colonialism and struggle for daily bread, most
clutch at every strawman spun by any detracting snake-oil salesman in
town. Thus we see the proliferation of conspiracy theories and
plausible sounding false explanations with the concomitant
“beneficial cognitive diversity” which
these naturally engender, many of them deliberately created as red
herrings (see Anatomy
of Conspiracy Theory).
And our learned scholars, news media, politicians, et. al., have all
been so co-opted that they willingly lead the Newspeak chorus
of 'war on terror', taliban, al-qaeeda song and dance routine as the
House
Negroes
of the West. Our best minds have turned Native Informant. So
who is left to explain Realityspeak to the Muslims?
As
any knowledgeable person – who is not entirely deprived of
mental acuity to have largely become a glorified parrot of history,
often with imposing titles stamped upon his turban to lend
respectability before the masses – would straightforwardly
know, there are no empire’s in the religion of Islam itself.
Or, for that matter in any Theistic religion that is intended to be a
way of life for ordinary peoples. Only ‘religions’
of the elite have empires. Interestingly, one can trivially spot the
subversion of any religion by simply observing the stances of its
pontiffs to the powers under which they flourish. This is true of the
religion of both the Christian and Muslim peoples throughout the
ages. The subversion of Theistic theologies to support empire is
empirical.
Find
a word for “empire” for me in the Holy Qur’an as a
commandment to seek it – as distinct from finding it in the
history of the despotic Muslim rulers who did indeed build vast
dynastic empires with the help of their own doctrinal scholars, from
historians to narrators, no different than has been done since time
immemorial. There is no basis for such dynastic imperialism in the
Holy Qur’an. Indeed, Muslim civilizations, its arts, letters,
and sciences, all flourished during those first 700 years after the
Prophet of Islam. And these dominant Muslim civilizations also
defined the “modernity” of their epoch. But so have many
other civilizations of history including the present modernity of the
Americans – the Classical Greeks arguably flourished even more
than the Muslims, and for a lot longer period. But what does that
have to do with a religion? The Muslim rulers of all these Muslim
empires espoused as much moral gravitas as any other preceding or
succeeding rulers in recorded history, ancient and modern. Who can
deny that? The empirical fact that these Muslim empires were long
running family dynasties acquired by bloodshed, and often maintained
and perpetuated by the same sort of intrigues and bloodshed as
Shakespeare’s Henry the whatever, is not hidden from anyone,
except perhaps the Muslims.
Whereas,
Islam defines itself rather precisely in the Holy Qur'an, and it is
entirely about moral existence along a divinely defined path –
the “sirat-e-mustaqeem” noted in its very first
Chapter. Islam's unequivocally stated aim is to give mankind the
free-will of elevating itself to “Ashraf-ul-Makhlooq-aat”
– the best among all creations – while fully engaged in
the vicissitudes of this life as commanded in its Surah Asr.
And furthermore, to also be equally free to go the converse route, be
the worst of all creations. The twain, Islam the religion, and
Muslims (with their concomitant histories, narratives, cultures,
civilizations, and good and evil choices throughout history which has
ultimately led us to our present), are not the same thing. Only
Bernard Lewis is confused about it. He even opens his formidable
thesis titled: “Crisis of Islam – Holy War and UnHoly
Terror”, redefining “Islam” in precisely that
way (which evidently has also confused David Livingstone like many
other Muslims):
'It
is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word
itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings, as
the equivalents both of Christianity, and Christendom. In the one
sense, it denotes a religion, as system of beliefs and worship; in
the other, the civilization that grew up and flourished under the
aegis of that religion. The word Islam thus denotes more than
fourteen centuries of history, a billion and a third people, and a
religious and cultural tradition of enormous diversity.'
(page 1, Bernard Lewis, Crisis of Islam)
See
my exact deconstruction of that Machiavellian definition of “Islam”
in Behavior
Control: Architecture of Modern Propaganda.
Suffice it to note here that the Holy Qur'an has given a very precise
meaning to the word “Islam” to exclusively designate a
divine religion, a “deen” (
الْإِسْلَامَ
دِينًا
),
and not a civilization, not a people (for which a separate word
“Muslim” is used in the Holy Qur'an), and not an empire
(for which there is no word in the Holy Qur'an):
'This
day have I perfected for you your religion and completed My favor on
you and chosen for you Islam as a religion;' ( Arabic
الْيَوْمَ
أَكْمَلْتُ
لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ
وَأَتْمَمْتُ
عَلَيْكُمْ
نِعْمَتِي
وَرَضِيتُ
لَكُمُ الْإِسْلَامَ
دِينًا ۚ Holy
Qur'an, Surah Al-Maida 5:3)
As
corrupted, subservient, powerless, and mentally colonized the two
billion Muslims are today despite our vast piety and full mosques,
and as convoluted and tortuous the understanding of Islam and what
passes as its history has become, still, according to Brian
Gerrish in his aforementioned video, Islam and Muslims are evidently
the single biggest social impediment to Secular Humanism!!
In
other words, Islam is the last wall to breach in order to usher in
the full 1984-like
Orwellian New World Order, and all the details of enslavement which
it portends, including, the elimination of religion, of family, and
the big-Brother State birthing and owning the kids and raising them
according to the new precepts of Secular Humanism. (See What’s
the truth about modern medicine?)
Hollywood
movies like Logan's
Run
and Aldous Huxley's fable A
Brave New World,
while offering fun futuristic entertainment to the masses, have also
been psychologically priming the Western public to this state of
voluntary servitude wherein, a combination of Orwellian-Huxleyan
worlds coupled with full mind-body control and total social
engineering will simply make human revolt against the communist-style
regimentation of the oligarchy as unthinkable as the revolt of sheep
against the habit of mutton eating! That phraseology is borrowed from
Bertrand Russell. Aldous Huxley had (perhaps self-servingly) observed
in his talk
at UC Berkeley in 1961, that eliciting such voluntary compliance from
the plebes has remained the focus of all social engineering
throughout the ages, “to get people actually to love
their servitude” in what could only be called the
“ultimate in malevolent revolution”:
'Today,
we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the
ultimate revolution. The final revolution where man can act directly
on the mind-body of his fellows. Well needless to say, some kind of
direct action on human mind-bodies has been going on since the
beginning of time. But this has generally been of a violent nature.
The
techniques of terrorism have been known from time immemorial and
people have employed them with more or less ingenuity, sometimes with
the utmost crudity, sometimes with a good deal of skill acquired by a
process of trial and error, finding out what the best ways of using
torture, imprisonment, constraints of various kinds.
But,
as, I think it was Mettenif, said many years ago, you can do
everything with bayonets except sit on them! If you are going to
control any population for any length of time you must have some
measure of consent. It's exceedingly difficult to see how pure
terrorism can function indefinitely. It can function for a fairly
long time, but I think sooner or later you have to bring in an
element of persuasion. An element of getting people to consent to
what is happening to them.
Well,
it seems to me that the nature of the Ultimate Revolution with which
we are now faced is precisely this:
that we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques
which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed
and presumably always will exist, to get people actually to
love their servitude!
This
is the, it seems to me, the ultimate in malevolent revolution shall
we say.' (Aldous Huxley, 1961 UC Berkeley, minutes 3:05 to
5:17, transcribed by Project Humanbeingsfirst
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/VideoTest/hux1.ram
)
What
empirically stands in the path of fully realizing that state of
affairs today?
The
1984 style thought control paradigm being enacted in the US--UK is
portentous of what's to come to all of Western civilization as a very
visible force – its signs are already visible all around us,
thus far only disguised as the “war on terror” –
see this article “War
on Terror is not about Islamofascism – get with the agenda you
people”,
for how it is perniciously making its way into the very fabric of
American and European society where the “terrorists” now
“look
Western”.
And with this Times
Square bombing plot,
I just heard Retired General Michael Hayden, the terrorist “tickling”
specialist as the former director of the CIA and now with the
Chertoff group selling all those body-scanners to the United States,
on MSNBC
describing the new Al-qaeeda threat,
and soon new laws will be enacted or enforced to deal with those.
Already we are being conditioned to obey orders by forcing us to take
our shoes off at airports, and compelling us to exhibit our
anatomical perfections to the perps manning the FAST scanners.
Hollywood entertainment in “Total
Recall”
had presaged full body scanners at airports with people going through
them without a second thought a full two decades ago. And we are
doing exactly that today. The RFID
implants
are next. Zbigniew Brzezinski, like his intellectual confrere Aldous
Huxley before him, had also predicted with matching chutzpah in his
seminal 1970 book Between Two Ages : America's Role in the
Technetronic Era, that:
'In
the technetronic society scientific and technical knowledge, in
addition to enhancing production capabilities, quickly spills over to
affect almost all aspects of life directly. Accordingly, both the
growing capacity for the instant calculation of the most complex
interactions and the increasing availability of biochemical means of
human control augment the potential scope of consciously chosen
direction, and thereby also the pressures to direct, to choose, and
to change.
Reliance
on these new techniques of calculation and communication enhances the
social importance of human intelligence and the immediate relevance
of learning. The need to integrate social change is heightened by the
increased ability to decipher the patterns of change; this in turn
increases the significance of basic assumptions concerning the nature
of man and the desirability of one or another form of social
organization. Science thereby intensifies rather than diminishes the
relevance of values, but it demands that they be cast in terms that
go beyond the more crude ideologies of the industrial age.'
(page 10)
This
re-casting of values that “go
beyond the more crude ideologies of the industrial age” with
“biochemical means of human control [which] augment the
potential scope of consciously chosen direction,” is
the incontrovertible flag of scientific totalitarianism we see
rapidly being unfurled today. While much less biochemical in its
present state of deployment than in Aldous Huxley's narrative (but
not for the want of it, for example see RFID
Implants),
it is no less coercive than in George Orwell's narrative. Brzezinski
went on to prognosticate the “trend” in his book,
and mind you with a foresight so uncannily accurate that he could
only have been sitting at the same oligarchic dinner tables when the
future that is already here today, was being planned into existence:
'In
the technetronic society the trend seems to be toward aggregating the
individual support of millions of unorganized citizens, who are
easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities, and
effectively exploiting the latest communication techniques to
manipulate emotions and control reason.
Reliance
on television—and hence the tendency to replace language with
imagery, which is international rather than national, and to include
war coverage or scenes of hunger in places as distant as, for
example, India—creates a somewhat more cosmopolitan, though
highly impressionistic, involvement in global affairs.' (page
11)
'Life
seems to lack cohesion as environment rapidly alters and human beings
become increasingly manipulable and malleable. Everything seems more
transitory and temporary: external reality more fluid than solid, the
human being more synthetic than authentic. Even our senses perceive
an entirely novel “reality”—one of our own making
but nevertheless, in terms of our sensations, quite “real.”
More
important, there is already widespread concern about the possibility
of biological and chemical tampering with what has until now been
considered the immutable essence of man. Human conduct, some argue,
can be predetermined and subjected to deliberate control. Man is
increasingly acquiring the capacity to determine the sex of his
children, to affect through drugs the extent of their intelligence,
and to modify and control their personalities. Speaking of a future
at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control
asserted, “I foresee the time when we shall have the means and
therefore, inevitably, the temptation to manipulate the behaviour and
intellectual functioning of all the people through environmental and
biochemical manipulation of the brain.”' (page 12)
'Another
threat, less overt but no less basic, confronts liberal democracy.
More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the
gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a
society would be dominated by an elite whose claim to political power
would rest on allegedly superior scientific know-how.
Unhindered
by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not
hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern
techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under
close surveillance and control.' (page 97)
Zbigniew
Brzezinski's elite have already embarked on achieving their political
end “by using the latest modern techniques for influencing
public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and
control” as witnessed today. The culmination of this path
of engineered social control, the “tampering with what has
until now been considered the immutable essence of man” –
a tortuous combination of Orwellian and Brave New World in which
“Human conduct [is] predetermined and subjected to
deliberate control” – will hit the West the hardest.
They were the most used to living in free societies, and thus, by the
necessity of management of the masses by the controlling oligarchy,
had been given the illusions of freedom more than us in the East
where we were long conditioned to god, kings, and dictators. As
Goethe had observed: “None are more hopelessly enslaved than
those who falsely believe they are free”. I do believe that
mentally, as colonized the East has been physically, it is has been
far freer than the West. In the East, we don't trust our elite, nor
our government. In the West, most even refuse to believe that there
is even an elite which runs their elected governments, and the vast
majority “United We Stand” as is evident from 911.
The
Orwellian-Huxleyan social engineering presently in the works takes
away even those freedoms and those illusions – because, the
West is headed towards full-spectrum dominance, but not just of the
world, but of its peoples. I.e., totalitarianism the likes of which
have not been seen in history. The East is not targeted for such
mind-controlled totalitarianism, because, for one thing it is
difficult to implement. We are too backwards as a scientifically
controlled modernity. But not to fear, we are a direct target of
population reduction and all the rest of Malthusian crap. See my
deconstruction of NSSM-200,
and Bertrand Russell's “Impact
of Science on Society”.
But, as is the truism of life, we all have to go some day of course.
So, arguably, at least let's live with a mind that isn't enslaved,
even though the body may be in chains and under the constant threat
of physical “shock and awe” from both the pirate suicide
bombers working for the emperor as patsies, and the emperor's drones
once again bringing us the white man's burden, its renewed la
mission civilisatrice.
The
only place left today to seek to make a home to raise one's family,
appears to be back in the East – yes, where we are under
constant “shock and awe”. The psychological attacks and
sophisticated social engineering transpiring in the West, coupled
with its scientific modernity, make surviving outside the “matrix”
of thought control a rather challenging if not outright impossible
task in the West. Crazy, isn't it? But crazy or not, choosing lesser
of two evils has become part of the calculus of life's decision
making – whatever the decision. Only fools and ignoramuses will
ignore these parameters though – for ignorance is surely bliss.
Taking the “blue
pill”
does have its rewards.
This
potential obstruction to the elite's religion of Secular Humanism
for their world government posed by Islam as a Theistic religion, and
by ordinary practicing Muslims just living their ordinary family
lives, is an entirely different and orthogonal dimension from the
hectoring hegemons' harnessing of “militant
Islam”
and “moderate
Islam”
described above.
Before
hearing Brian Gerrish's evidence last year and reflecting upon the
matter ever since, I did not really believe Islam, the last of the
great Theistic religions, to be anything other than a diabolical
instrument of hegemony in the minds of hectoring hegemons in the pre
and post 9/11 world – just like Communism of the USSR was
before it was dismantled. Something they brilliantly subverted to
create a boogieman for seeding “doctrinal motivation,
intellectual commitment, and patriotic gratification”
in order to sustain “Imperial mobilization”
on Zbigniew Brzezinski's Grand
Chessboard.
But something they had only utter contempt for.
Evidently,
they also find Islam to be a genuine impediment to achieving their
ultimate agenda of Secular Humanism. An impediment reaching outside
of their direct ability to eliminate or even control. An empire in
its own statecraft of hegemony never holds
genuine impediments to its primacy ever in contempt. Rather, it
always deals with them as a real enemy to subdue and dominate with
“military-style objectivity” and “avoidance
of preconceived value assumptions”. That amoral
phraseology is from the Report
from Iron Mountain.
The myriad Pentagon and think-tank documents such as the Joint
Vision 2020
and PNAC
which blithely strategize for “full
spectrum dominance”, afford a glimpse into that primacy
mindset.
Incredible!
Muslims today, despite our pathetic servile condition slaving under
the yoke of both mental and physical colonization, still potentially
have something that is perceived as a real obstruction by the
hectoring hegemons in their nihilist calculus of world government.
That
alone is an excitement I cannot contain! I have something they can't
control nor take away from me if I don't let them. Indeed, the pithy
Surah Al-Asr of Islam, is perhaps the most potent
political-spiritual weapon system in the Muslim possession if we can
only learn to use it effectively. It can straightforwardly achieve
what Etienne de La Boétie could not bring about in his “The
Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude”!
Islam's
prescription to end man's voluntary servitude to tyranny, one which
escaped Etienne de La Boétie's commonsensical Discourse, is
Jihad-un-nafs. Contrary to what many are led to believe
as just an “inner struggle” with no outward
manifestation, its true import is nothing less than revolutionary.
Jihad-un-nafs principally directs us in our inner struggles to break
our bonds of servitude to fellow man, to overcome our fears, apathy,
and silence. It is the reservoir from which saying 'No' to the
banality of evil springs from. Jihad-un-nafs enables us to
deny our own petty as well as existential self-interests when they
conflict with morality and 'higher purpose'. For, it is only
self-interests that trump morality which co-opt us and perpetually
enslave us to any tyrant. Once such inner-struggle is underway, when
fears and allegiances to falsehoods start melting away, when
determination sets in which no denigrating labels may circumvent,
when the fear of the loss of paycheck or confinement to state
hospitality centers can no longer preempt moral stance, then, and
only then, doors automatically open up, feet automatically start
marching in the streets, mouths automatically come un-stitched, and
in the limit, one fearlessly stands-up before the D9-Caterpillar
bulldozer like Rachel Corrie, and before the armies of tyrants like
David before Goliath, Hussein before Yazeed, Rosa Parks before KKK,
Viva Palestina before Israel, …. As the late George Bernard
Shaw had wisely observed: “We are made wise not by the
recollections of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
That responsibility becomes easier to shoulder when our
self-interests can no longer trump our moral callings.
Pious
peoples continually ask me what can they do as the justification for
their silence and apathy. As consummate victims of the banality of
evil, evidently they are so saddled with self-interests that they
either pretend to not see the clear path as they rather stay busy in
their various ritual acts of seeking Heaven instead of
stand-up to wrong-doings, or, suffer from a myopia characteristic of
self-absorption and/or indoctrination. Well, Heaven, if there
is one in the future, is surely denied to those who help create hell
on earth today – for, evil only flourishes when
well-intentioned people remain silent spectators and do nothing to
stop it. Often times they even directly collaborate in it as part of
their daily grind, collectively culminating in horrendous evils –
the banality of evil! Jewish scholar Hannah
Arendt
had already explored that aspect of it in copious detail in the
context of the Third Reich in 1963. Just two score years later, I too
had dwelled upon it in my very first piece of public
writing
in the context of the Fourth one. For our purposes here however,
let's briefly examine this idea of apathy logically within the
Theistic beliefs of the Muslims themselves. I have examined
indoctrination and the reigning twisted epistemology which blinds one
to it elsewhere.
Do
pious Muslims filling their mosques in relative comforts while
humanity everywhere is oppressed at the altar of the lusts of the
Hectoring Hegemons, think that Jahanam will be the abode of
only the few tyrants and their soldiers of fame and fortune who
directly inflicted the evils? That their own souls are spotless since
they stayed busy in ritual piety waiting for Allah?
خودي
کا سر نہاں لا
الہ الا اللہ
خودي
ہے تيغ، فساں
لا الہ الا اللہ
Khudi
ka sirr-e-nihaaN La ilaha il Allah
khudi
hai tegh-e-fasaaN La ilaha il Allah
The
secret of the Self is hid, In words "No god but He alone".
The
Self is just a dull-edged sword, "No god but He," the
grinding stone.
يہ
دور اپنے براہيم
کي تلاش ميں ہے
صنم
کدہ ہے جہاں،
لا الہ الا اللہ
Yeh
daur apne 'Braaheem ki talaash mein hai
Sanam-kadah
hai jahaaN La ilaha il Allah
An
Abraham by the age is sought To break the idols of this Hall:
The
avowal of God's Oneness can Make all these idols headlong fall.
کيا
ہے تو نے متاع
غرور کا سودا
فريب
سود و زياں ،
لا الہ الا اللہ
Kiya
hai tu ne mataa'-e-gharoor ka sauda
fareb-e-sood-o-ziyaaN
! La ilaha il Allah
A
bargain you have struck for goods Of life, a step, that smacks
conceit,
All
save the Call "No god but He" Is merely fraught with fraud
and deceit.
يہ
مال و دولت دنيا،
يہ رشتہ و پيوند
بتان
وہم و گماں، لا
الہ الا اللہ
Yeh
maal o dawlat-e-dunya, yeh ristha o paivand
butaan-e-vehm-o-gumaaN!
La ilaha il Allah
The
worldly wealth and riches too, Ties of blood and friends a dream
The
idols wrought by doubts untrue, All save God's Oneness empty seem.
خرد
ہوئي ہے زمان
و مکاں کي زناري
نہ
ہے زماں نہ مکاں،
لا الہ الا اللہ
Khird
huwee hai zamaan o makaan ki zunaari
na
hai zamaaN, na makaaN! La ilaha il Allah
The
mind has worn the holy thread Of Time and Space like pagans all
Though
Time and Space both illusive "No god but He" is true
withal.
يہ
نغمہ فصل گل و
لالہ کا نہيں
پابند
بہار
ہو کہ خزاں، لا
الہ الا اللہ
Yeh
naghma fasl-e-gul o laaleh ka nahin paband
bahaar
ho ke khizaaN, La ilaha il Allah
These
melodious songs are not confined To Time when rose and tulip bloom
Whatever
the season of year be "No god but He" must ring till doom.
اگرچہ
بت ہيں جماعت
کي آستينوں ميں
مجھے
ہے حکم اذاں،
لا الہ الا اللہ
Agarche
buth hain jama'at ki aasteenoN mein
mujhe
hai hukm-e-azaaN, La ilaha il Allah
Many
idols are still concealed' In their sleeves by the Faithful Fold,
I
am ordained by Mighty God To raise the call and be much bold.
Translated
by: Syed Akbar Ali Shah (listen)
If
it is true that tyrants flourish only with the assistance of the
majority who silently comply, and empiricism and history both lend
substantial evidence to this view (Etienne de La Boétie almost
500 years ago gave a compelling description of it in his Discourse
cited above), then, it logically follows that the first-cause
enablers of tyranny and its spread throughout the lands is the
silently spectating apathy of the peoples! Those who enable crimes
are no less culpable than those who commit crimes.
The
inescapable logic of this condemns the first-causers to be the
backbone fuel of the very inferno they so wish to escape with their
obsession with ritual piety while Creation burns. If the god whom
pious Muslims worship is a rational god, then this must be true –
for, only in courageously rising to break the bonds of servitude to
fellow man is Islam's “Ashraf-ul-Makhlooq-aat”
birth-panged into existence. If however, their god is irrational, as
many learned scholars proclaim when they attribute arbitrariness to
god's justice due to its self-proclaimed omnipotence, then is such a
god anything more than Zeus, the anthropomorphic god of ancient
Greece? Why fall in prostration to Zeus 5 times each day?
Even
Nuremberg, as fallible as that Military Tribunal was in its
administration of 'victor's justice', focussed on the first-cause
(self-servingly) ignoring the Allied bombings of civilian population
centers and dropping of atomic bombs. Nuremberg called the Nazi
aggression the first-cause of war, “the supreme
international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it
contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
When
the first-cause is always held more culpable even in our fallible
courts on earth, do Muslims think that in the Court of the Most
Just the first-cause enablers will get a free-ride?
Many
thinking Muslims presume that the god they worship is absolute in its
Justice. Otherwise, they feel that the whole notion of
Accountability on the Day of Judgment in the Hereafter
becomes meaningless gibberish, devoid of substance. Indeed, were that
not the case, God's Justice would be reduced to the whimsical moral
relativism that is already being thrust upon us in these times as
propositioned by a US Supreme Court Justice:
'Nothing
is more certain in modern society than the principle that there are
no absolutes, that a name, a phrases, a standard has meaning only
when associated with the considerations which give birth to
nomenclature. To those who would paralyze our Government in the face
of impending threat by encasing it in a semantic strait-jacket, we
must reply that all concepts are relative.' Justice
Vinson, U.S. Supreme Court,
1951
Moral
codes in Theism are indeed encased in the absolute semantic
strait-jacket so feared by all tyrants across space and time
and therefore, remain forever under attack and subversion. Islam,
like all Theistic religions, has already answered the question of
bondage to fellow man in showing the way to its effective severing.
It is even part of the cryptic formula, the Kalima, recited by
the adherent daily, without evidently understanding any of it: “La
ilaha ilallah” (Arabic: لا
إله إلا الله
)
– “there is no god but God”.
Islam's
clear prescription of bowing in servitude only to the One God of
Truth is completely pre-conditioned upon first breaking the
bonds of servitude to all other gods of falsehoods. A simple
substitution of “God” with “Truth”, and “god”
with “falsehoods” including the worship of
“self-interests” and “society's gods”, in the
above daily declaration of faith makes the all encompassing import of
Kalima self-evident. The logic of that declaration itself
mandates this mental substitution in the proclamation of Monotheism
in order to prevent it from degenerating into an absurdity. The Holy
Qur'an admonishes not to make a mockery of its teaching:
'That
this is indeed a Qur'an Most Honourable, In a Book well-guarded,
Which none shall touch but those who are clean: A Revelation from
the Lord of the Worlds. Is it such a Message that ye would hold
in light esteem?' Holy Qur'an, Surah Al-Waqia, 56:77-81
And
the Holy Qur'an unequivocally equates lies and falsehoods before
which one bows, in fear or in expectations, with false gods –
as commonsense would dictate:
'Is
it a falsehood – gods beside Allah – that ye desire?'
(Arabic: أَئِفْكًا
ءَالِهَةً دُونَ
ٱللَّهِ تُرِيدُونَ
Holy
Qur'an, Surah As-Saffat 37:86)
Islam,
for its followers, is anything but an absurdity. They'd sooner die
than mock their religion. And yet, their facile understanding of it
directly reduces their practice of their lofty proclamation of
Monotheism to the absurdity of polytheism. Silence and apathy
in the face of the ubiquitous spread of oppression and falsehoods in
our time, is akin to directly bowing in servitude before the gods of
tyranny. That silence and co-option permits tyranny to spread
unchecked becoming its de facto first-cause enabler! Islam calls the
allegiance to another superpower, or bowing in servitude
before other gods, polytheism.
The abode of polytheists, the Holy Qur'an oft proclaims, is Jahanam
(the metaphorical abode in the
Hereafter where
accounts are to be settled for creating, aiding and abetting, the
hell on earth). Q.E.D.
The
invitation to break bondage to all false gods and idols is the first
Abrahamic creed of Islam. Without it, there is no Islam – only
hypocritical pretensions. This Qur'anic similitude was well
understood by previous generations of Muslims. This is even evidenced
in the twentieth century poet-philosopher of Muslims, Muhammad
Iqbal's attempts at transforming the Muslim umma from the
shackles of ubiquitous colonialism and servitude (see poem in the
sidebar).
But
Muslims in our present age of Jahiliya have been deftly
indoctrinated into believing that polytheism is only about
worshiping the stone statues like the ones which inhabited the
Kaaba before the advent of Islam and its latter day variants,
both physical and abstract, seen among peoples of many faiths. Such
as, the Holy Trinity of the Christians (the Father, the Son, the Holy
Ghost), and the physical representations of the many gods of the
Hindus!
While
loudly decrying those gods of others, Muslims daily reaffirm their
own allegiance to all the false gods of pelf and power to advance
their petty livelihood and ephemeral station!
All
those signature prostrations on the prayer-mat and the
circumambulations around the Kaaba leaving their indelible
mark of piety on the forehead of silence to the hell on earth, may
yet turn out to be the key evidence for the eternal purgatory of Hell
for polytheism in the Hereafter. For Islam to make any
rational sense at all, that is the only logic of justice which falls
out. And that logic has been reaffirmed in Surah Al-Asr of the Holy
Qur'an, in the second most misunderstood formulaic daily rehearsal by
Muslims: “Wa ta wa so bil haq” (Arabic
103:3 وَتَوَاصَوۡا
بِالۡحَقِّ
)
– “and those who strive for haq” (see
exposition of Surah
Al-Asr).
What
is “haq” but another synonym for truth, justice –
the exact antithesis of silent collaboration with tyranny? 2 + 2
still equals only 4, even when the pious might insist upon 5!
It
is surely the most ironical of empirical paradoxes that it is not the
theists by and large, but the moral atheists who have courageously
risen to shoulder that “responsibility for our future”!
See Islam
and Knowledge vs. Socialization
for why, contrary to popular belief, even the atheist is not without
an inner moral compass (see Bertrand Russell's formulation
cited therein). Perhaps the pious living for the Hereafter in
obliviousness to the tyranny around them, might strive to learn from
the godless to value the here and the now more than Hereafter;
to endeavor to make the present less hellish in order to avoid it in
the Hereafter; to be more concerned with affairs of the here
than of the Hereafter; and in doing so perhaps come to learn
the real intent of Theism – “Wa
ta wa so bil haq” – from these moral
atheists!
It
would be a well-deserved divine irony if moral atheists who stood by
their fellow man without fear of hell or favor of heaven, come to
constitute the largest citizenry of any Heaven if God does
turn out to exist! They will end up with the last laugh in either
case! That’s all I can say to the pious silent bystanders of
modernity prostrating daily in ritual prayers. Poet Iqbal said it a
bit more delicately:
جو
ميں سر بسجدہ
ہوا کبھي تو
زميں سے آنے
لگي صدا
تیرا
دل تو ہے صنم
آشنا، تجھے کيا
ملے گا نماز
ميں
Jo
Mein Sar-ba-sajada Hova Kabhi, To Zameen Se Aane Lagi Sada
Tera
Dil To Hai Sanam Aashana, Tujhe Kya Milega Namaaz Mein
'Ever
I bowed my head in prostration, there arose hue and cry from the
ground:
Thy
heart is enamoured by idols, what shalt thou find in prayers?'
(Kalaam-e-Iqbal,
Bang-e-Dara listen)
East
or West, theist or atheist, being aware of the real challenges for
those who choose to not merely exist in a dream-state, I believe,
will prepare one to meet them more effectively. Self awareness
however is the key to the awareness of reality. As Edward Bernays
stated it bluntly in the opening passage of his book titled
Propaganda:
“We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed,
our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.”
The videos cited at the top of this letter empirically show that a
formidable totalitarian system is being engineered even as we speak,
and we are being convinced to accept it. Why are they succeeding? How
are they able to control our perceptions? I am afraid that most
Muslims remain unaware of all this concerted social engineering as
many continue to sing the empire's
'War on Terror' song
against the Islamofascists. Soon, Muslims might be surprised to find
their own religion banned in the West and their very identity as
Muslim being associated with “terrorism”. In a generation
or two, there won't be any overt Muslims. A far cry?
'Hussain
immigrated to the United States in 2003 and said his children had
once even asked if they could change their names due to the image of
their homeland in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks.'
The
headline screaming in today's
Dawn,
May 07, 2010, is even more revealing, even if perhaps mainly as
Mighty
Wurlitzer's
psyop to get others to follow suit:
'Pakistanis
pose as Indians after NY bomb scare: NEW YORK: Pakistani
merchants and job seekers in the United States, still reeling from
economic hardship since the Sept. 11 attacks of 2001, are posing as
Indians to avoid discrimination in the wake of the Times Square bomb
attempt.'
The
systematic demonization of Islam and Muslims is being conducted not
merely by the vile ignoramuses and the agents provocateurs in burning
the Holy Qur'an (see Hijacking
the word 'Islam' for Mantra Creation
), but officially by the State itself as evidenced in what the FBI is
teaching its agents even in the tenth year of 9/11 ( see WIRED:
FBI
Teaches Agents 'Mainstream' Muslims Are 'Violent, Radical' and
7th-Century Simpletons July and September 2011
). Mother Jones magazine September/October
2011 issue
reports that the FBI has built a massive network of spies to prevent
another domestic attack (sic!), “The bureau now maintains a
roster of 15,000 spies, some paid as much as $100,000 per case, many
of them tasked with infiltrating Muslim communities in the United
States.” Teamed up with the University of
California-Berkeley's Investigative Reporting Program, the author of
that report gallantly asked – perhaps to add a measure of
chutzpah after carefully omitting to challenge the core-axiom of the
State that 9/11 was the work of Muslim terrorists – “But
are they busting terrorist plots—or leading them?”
That
Machiavellian trend of calculated lying by way of omissions in
respectful looking reportage, backed by academic prestige which
retain the core presuppositions of empire necessary to craft the
Hegelian
Dialectic
of Dissent,
is ubiquitous. It was brazenly apparent in
the May 2011 CAIR report which was co-sponsored by the University of
California-Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender (see CAIR
Documenting Islamophobia on the rise in the USA – Calling CAIR
to Account for its Omissions By Zahir Ebrahim
). It was also evident in the followup August 2011 report by a
private Washington think-tank called American Progress, gallantly
titled “Fear, Inc.” (see Zahir
Ebrahim's response to Fear, Inc. The Roots of the Islamophobia
Network in America
). Both of these reports respectably documented the rise of
Islamophobia in America. But they also egregiously failed to examine
its root cause and motivation in the geopolitical
context of the 'War on Terror'.
The
concept that this synthetic war on terror was being used as the
pretext for ushering in one-world government is completely absent in
these (yawn) narratives! Perhaps these brilliant pundits
are poorly read only in certain impermissible scholarship. Or, the
more likely, the most respectable looking academic scholarship and
award-winning journalists are being engaged by the Mighty Wurlitzer
to convey both the empire's opprobrium of
“Militant Islam”, as well as what's permissible dissent.
Notice how – by retaining the notion of “Militant Islam”
in the guise of critiquing the reactionary excesses of the sole
superpower in response to 9/11. That is the standard line of
acceptable dissent. (See Zahir
Ebrahim's Response to Chris Hedges' amalgam of half-truths 'A Decade
After 9/11: We Are What We Loathe'
)
Caption
As reported by Wired on September 14, 2011, an FBI training
presentation titled “Militancy Considerations” measures
the relationship between piety and violence among the texts of the
three Abrahamic faiths [ the god's chosen people obviously coming
out on top!!! ] As time goes on, the followers of the Torah and
the Bible move from “violent” to “non-violent.”
Not so for devotees of the Koran, whose “moderating process has
not happened.” The line representing violent behavior from
devout Muslims flatlines and continues outward, from 610 A.D. to
2010. In other words, religious Muslims have been and always will be
agents of aggression. Watch FBI
Presentation Video
artfully Hijacking
Islam.
It's
a pretty slick game of full spectrum assault on all human senses,
cognitive as well as subliminal. Hollywood
has already interjected that thought of banning the Qur'an into
Western consciousness in the movie “V
for Vendetta”.
Soon – that demand might actually be heard on mainstream
television in the many choruses of the Mighty Wurlitzer. It ought not
to surprise anyone if Muslim faces are presented as Hegelian
counterpoint, demanding a “moderate” Islam instead of
banning the Qur'an outright! (See Hijacking
the word 'Islam' for Mantra Creation).
Muslims have plenty of House Niggers and cultivated agents and assets
in the West who will be harvested for this purpose. (See FAQ:
What is an Intellectual Negro)
Such a demand simply cannot be plausibly made, or effectively
implemented, in the East! Judging from the riots that break out on
the “mere” cartooning of the Prophet of Islam – O
yes, we are surely slated for population reduction, the “useless
eaters” of humanity, while we apathetically wait for
Allah to change our condition:
'For
his sake there are angels following one another, before him and
behind him, who guard him by Allah's commandment; surely Allah
does not change the condition of a people until they change their own
condition; and when Allah intends evil to a people, there is no
averting it, and besides Him they have no protector.' (Holy Qur’an,
Surah Al-Ra'd, 13:11)
Evidently,
the God of the Muslims says different from what a lot of Muslims have
been led to believe (vicariously) that
Allah chala raha hai (God is running the world). If someone
were to ask me, I'd suggest that obsessive immoral devils are running
the world. Because, Allah has unequivocally proffered
all human beings to stand up to these devils; to not wait for Allah
to change their condition; to manage their own affairs
with “Wa ta wa
so bil haq” and with patience if their life is
not to be a total loss despite all its material as well as spiritual
advancement (see my examination
of my understanding of Surah Al-Asr).
– End
Letter –
Date
of Letter: Friday, May 07, 2010
Endnote:
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most villainous Trojan Horses among us –– empowering the
individual with knowledge and understanding is its only antidote.
Thank you.
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