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“This day have I perfected your
religion for you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for
you Islam as your religion.” (The Holy Qur'an, verse
fragment from Surah Al-Maeda 5:3) This verse of completion and
perfection implies that there is no room for addition or
subtraction to the religion of Islam after “This day”, or
the verse is falsified. What or when “This day” was, or
what was the significance of events transpiring on “This day”
that caused this verse to be revealed and inserted in what appears to
be a random place, as a verse fragment of 5:3, is not stated in the
Holy Qur'an. Indeed, many verses of great import are similarly
contextless, or both open-ended as well as contextless, and therefore
perennially ripe for self-interpretation. This makes possible a
multiplicity of 'kosher' misinterpretations of the religion of Islam
by the learned scholars imparting any meaning to the open-ended and
contextless verses that suit their mental genius or their
self-interest, but without altering the syntactic and overt
structural composition of the text of the Holy Qur'an. This book,
Hijacking The Holy Qur'an And Its Religion
Islam, illustrates how such plurality of interpretations
is in fact enabled by the Holy Qur'an itself – by design! This
is perhaps why the Holy Qur'an also states the following general
principle both unequivocally and categorically, leaving no room for
interpretation: “If Allah had so
willed, He would have made you a single people, but (His plan is) to
test you in what He hath given you: so strive as in a race in all
virtues. The goal of you all is to Allah; it is He that will show you
the truth of the matters in which ye dispute” (Surah
Al-Maeda 5:48) Evidently, having plurality of interpretations and
disagreements among believers was not just anticipated by the Holy
Qur'an or the categorical counsel in 5:48 would not exist, but
keeping the verses contextless and open-ended made it even easier to
disagree on their meaning. Duh! The very existence of open-endedness
and contextlessness in many rich verses of the Holy Qur'an itself
indicates that its Author designed His Message in such an abstruse
manner deliberately to enable a multiplicity of interpretations. And
He admonished the believers to not quarrel about their disagreements
amongst themselves. At the same time, to guide all believers of
different persuasions towards a pristine understanding of His
Message, the Author also enjoined the genuine seekers of its
understanding to approach the Holy Qur'an with a “cleansed
heart”. That metaphor, which occurs repeatedly in the Holy
Qur'an, can only mean to seek understanding without self-interest,
without presuppositions, without agendas, and without inclination
towards ideologies and socialized world views that instinctually
predispose one towards one interpretation or another. (Click
bookcover to download PDF,
http://tinyurl.com/Book-Hijacking-Islam-2ed-2015
)
This
book has demonstrated two principal constructs of social engineering
for making the human mind when it comes to hijacking the religion of
Islam. One witting, the other unwitting:
- (1) How Islam is deliberately distorted and resemanticised for imperial mobilization by rulers and empires.
- (2) How Islam is distorted by Muslims themselves due to the open endedness and impreciseness of some key verses of the Holy Qur'an which lends the Guidance intended to be conveyed to mankind in those verses to a plurality of interpretations, borne largely of socialized understanding, leading to multiple schools of thought and sectarian divisiveness.
Chapter
2 through Chapter 25 have painstakingly deconstructed the details of
the former, scrutinizing a wide range of templates and case studies
from both current affairs and recent history of imperial
mobilization.
Chapter
1 has painstakingly examined the latter in an extended case study
which takes up about a third of the book, Part-V of which is still
work in progress.
In
summary, chapters 2 through 25 have attempted to teach the public
mind, the mass mind and their high-falutin scholars attuned to
“United we stand” with the core narratives of power, how
to parse Machiavelli and Newspeak being used by their
rulers for extracting both their consent, and their blood tribute,
for waging total war using “Islam” as the pretext.
US President Barack Obama, speaking at the Pentagon Memorial Service
in Arlington, Virginia on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, September 11,
2012, had carefully reminded the world public once again that it is
“Islam” America is waging its lifetime of World War IV
against: “I’ve always said that our fight is with Al
Qaeda and its affiliates, not with Islam or any other religion,”.
Today, “its affiliates” include “Sunni Islam's”
new contribution to world menace, a borderless terrorist state the
likes of which has not been witnessed since the passing of the Dark
Ages and the Crusades, the “Islamic caliphate” or ISIS.
“Shia Islam” under the supreme state leadership of its
valih-e-faqih in post revolutionary Iran has of course always been
ready to offer its own blood tribute to empire's “arc of
crisis”. Its morbid record of internecine warfare surpasses all
Muslim on Muslim violence in the annals of the twentieth-century, and
now to be further surpassed in the twenty-first. For both “Islams”
carefully nurtured in the top secret military laboratories of Western
think-tanks like the Rand Corporation, blood is cheap, both theirs as
well as their enemies. These two “Islams” are being
staged into the theatre of the absurd for endlessly sustaining
“imperial mobilization” on the solid bedrock of Muslim on
Muslim violence.
“Islam”
never fails to deliver to empire. In yesteryear it was mainly to
leave empire alone and to not interfere with the rulers – the
“moderate Islam”, “seek Heaven Islam”. Today
it is to actively help empire promote itself as the good guys, as the
moral force in the world – the “militant Islam” and
“revolutionary Islam”. Convince people of absurdities and
you can get them acquiescing to atrocities, including offering their
own blood tributes for a parcel in Heaven. Voltaire had expressed
this Machiavellian design way back in the eighteenth century: “Those
who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Chapters 2 through 25 have tried to make the public mind become
intimately aware of the vile absurdities it has been made to accept,
and how the superlative narrative control and perception management
system of empire actually works. The system harnesses the best
talents worldwide, including from among the Muslims, our own house
niggers. The implanted false beliefs have been diabolically
augmented by real terror system manufactured by empire itself, as
propaganda alone is often insufficient as the sole prime-mover of
human motivation to lay down their lives for the cause of the
patricians, and both together have been essential in
mobilizing the public for World War IV globally. As the chapters
unravel, there is, in point of fact, no “global war on terror”
except as pretext for “imperial mobilization” to
one-world government. The plurality of “Islams” and the
plurality of “terror” and the plurality of narratives are
only its best friends. All who have participated in any aspect of
this deception, wittingly (as ideologues and mercenaries) or
unwittingly (as useful idiot and stooges), are criminals. Being a
fool, and becoming a tool in Machiavelli's hand, is also criminal.
This book has demonstrated how the mind also easily fools itself into
co-option when self-interest is at stake, and for which it seeks
justifications and excuses. “I didn't know” is the best
one ever invented! This book has endeavored to take that excuse away
for the generations growing up in our epoch!
Timeless
fables such as Nineteen eighty-four have surely captured this
tortuous and dystopic reality far more engagingly than my little
endeavor, which has humbly deconstructed the actual reality of Muslim
blood tributes to their masters with far less wit and with much
greater mental anguish. The harsh knowledge expatiated in my book,
and the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual strength it has taken
to continually endear myself to this subject for over a decade of
activism, since the day of 9/11, has not failed to extract its own
tribute!
The
most pleasure I have had is in developing Chapter 1. This book-length
treatise came about somewhat serendipitously as explained in Part-I.
The chapter has grown organically over the past four years as the
study deepened, and ripened, both in the mind and on the page. It
could perhaps be better organized and condensed if composed afresh.
In its current presentation despite its length, it is quite effective
for anyone who wants to learn the path of inquiry, as opposed to
someone who just wants to pluck the fruit. In other words, the study
teaches the thought processes necessary for rationally deciphering
and comprehending the Holy Qur'an by the logical mind. The journey
itself is the destination --- a message that has come to be lost on
the fast world. Robert Pirsig captured that journey for the modern
mind in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Chapter
1 has demonstrated before the public mind that most difficult path of
being objective about any matter that pertains to self. This
especially includes religion but is not limited to it. The French
philosopher known as Voltaire cited above, and quoted mainly by the
modern literati for his treasury of pithy wisdom which often border
on truism, such as “Man is free at the instant he wants to
be”, is a tad harder to apply when the chains of servitude
are internal. In the limit, it is a self-referential problem. Chapter
1 has provided the basic tools for a journey on that path. This
journey is the sine qua non for overcoming both self-deception and
artifacts of socialization.
Imagine
Chapter 1 as that motorcycle journey and its length would only bother
the child too much in a hurry to get home. Others, namely those who
wish to learn how to fish, it cannot but help change their outlook on
their own understanding of the religion of Islam --- a Book that
needs accurate deciphering like a cryptogram. There is only one
correct plaintext which the ciphertext carries in its secrecy
envelop. Like any cipher, it can also yield a plurality of plaintext.
But how do you separate the gibberish plaintext from the singular
correct plaintext? The problem is compounded when the deciphering
leads to multiple correct sounding plaintext which are in fact
incorrect. This is a mathematical problem which even school children
are familiar with as the simple substitution cipher which can produce
both gibberish as well as meaningful sentences when deciphered but
which are in fact not the one that was originally encrypted. In
technical terms, this is called collisions. The collision-space of
the Holy Qur'an is tremendously huge. There is no reference plaintext
available today to compare it with. Meaning, the noble Prophet of
Islam who as both its Messenger and its Exemplar, was mandated by the
verses of the Holy Qur'an to be the final arbiter among his people of
the correctly deciphered plaintext from all the other spurious
versions, has been dead for fourteen centuries. And so, today,
virtually every Muslim, scholar and laity alike, mufti and ayatollah
alike, mullah and imam alike, among all Muslim sects without
exception, gravitates to his or her own socialized version of the
plaintext. This is a statement of fact based on empiricism. It is an
observation beyond doubt. It is self-evident.
The
singular lesson to learn from this book, if there is any lesson to
learn at all, is that the latter aspect, the socialized religion of
Islam as opposed to its singular plaintext understanding, is what
principally enables the hijacking of the religion of Islam by empire.
This too is an empirical fact. Only its public recognition is
woefully absent. And that too is principally due to the willful
social engineering of the pulpits by rulers from the very early
spread of Islam to ensure that the Muslim public mind continues to
misperceive the religion of Islam, continues to not obstruct and not
interfere with the designs of the rulers who make their own heaven on
earth while encouraging the public to seek their heaven elsewhere.
This book has unraveled how that travesty transpires ab initio, from
first principles, directly from the verses of the Holy Qur'an.
This
scrutiny without prejudice, and akin to solving any technical or
intellectual problem in engineering and science by first perceptively
understanding the problem domain, has automatically pointed the way
forward to its rectification. Though the engineered Solution
Space
identified in Chapter
I Part-3 Section V
appears very simple in its presentation, its implication can be far
reaching. That is due to both its philosophical elegance as well as
its practicability.
The
solution, unsurprisingly, falls out of the Holy Qur'an itself. It is
not my invention even though the abstractions used to explain it are.
Even that I don't know how these occurred to me --- I think my formal
education in computer science and mathematics as well as my
engineering craft as systems architect building real world systems,
must have helped in compartmentalizing the problem as explained in
Part-II. My natural resistance to narrative control, and fascination
with detective stories of Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's
Hercule Poirot since childhood, must have provided the necessary
skepticism. But ultimately, as a Muslim, I do feel that there is a
Power greater than me... and, not all mysteries can be explained in a
lifetime. This book being one of them. Before 9/11, I could not even
imagine I'd write a book of resistance, or stand up to liars and the
deception of rulers, or fight back. I do not know or understand the
source of that fighting spirit, but it is the same spirit which
endears me to this intellectual labor of love.
The
proposed solution space is simple enough an intellectual exercise
that even a high school student can undertake it on her own. It will
surely transform her. From classrooms in Sunday schools to pulpits
pursuing the inquiry at their appropriate levels of introduction and
audience acumen with even a modicum of seriousness will surely
transform society.
It
is not that we do not now understand how to begin rectifying the
noise and distortions accumulated over fourteen centuries of imperial
mobilizations and self-serving incestuous self-reinforcements. The
impediment is that no pulpit and no ruler has the will to alter the
existing paradigms of power due to their own narrow self-interests.
Status quo confers power and authority upon them. Which pulpit and
which pope would like to admit to their flock that much of what they
believe actually comes from pages outside the Holy Qur'an written by
ordinary people just like them? If these scribes of history are
presumed to be super pious and super holy men then so what? They are
still not named as authors to go to in the Holy Qur'an to
understand the Holy Qur'an! The paradoxes examined in the study are
shocking enough by themselves even for the learned mind. Imagine the
cognitive dissonance in the public mind! It will take a great deal of
wise social annealing to not create public discontent and it is not
readily apparent what altruistic forces of truth and integrity exist
in any society today to deal with it.
Consequently,
as a first baby step, it is really up to individual people, ordinary
people, to take up that gauntlet of examination on their own. They
will receive no help from their pulpit, from their ullamas, any time
soon. Just the act of their asking that question and persistently
seeking answers in any kind of voice will easily get them ostracized
from their community. Anyone bold enough to undertake it in any
country flying the flag of Islam can see themselves permanently
retired, early.
All
these sectarian constructs that encourage “following”
their respective popes lest the laity might sin if he uses his own
head, are the first real impediment to this transformation. I do not
foresee it happening voluntarily or naturally. The forces of social
engineering in every society will always prevent it. To overcome this
behavior control that remains anchored in narrative and thought
control, will require an equally powerful and opposite force which
can liberate Muslims from their pulpits. These revered pulpits of
“Islam”, irrespective of their particular parochial
school of thought and flavor of sect and dogma, remain as bound in
shackles put on their ethos by the venerated scribes of history as in
earlier generations. That is the best case scenario, when the pulpit
is only beholden to its own socialized ethos and no Machiavellian
forces are controlling it. The more real situation is that empire
will always stand in the way of any real transformation. Principal
rulers and their power-brokers will continue to purchase and define
pulpits, scholarship, communication systems, education systems,
political systems, and also surrogate rulers and vassals.
Top
down transformation is virtually impossible in the reality of
Machiavellian power today and its infinite ability to preempt,
corrupt, and co-opt. Serendipity of course can always strike early –
but one can hardly bank on it!
The
insurmountability of the problem is perhaps why the mind so easily
inclines towards the superstitions of the Last Days. The 1.6 to 2
billion Muslims are not unique in that respect. We have a vastly
superior precedent set for us by the 3 billion Christians also
waiting for their particular flavor of the Last Days. The Jews are in
a similar boat, awaiting their own savior. This has become a
self-fulfilling prophecy in every Abrahamic generation from time
immemorial since the rulers also prefer that the masses continue
their Waiting for Allah!
Short
of a benign superpower driving transformation for the welfare of
humanity, it may happen organically only in a new society, in new
generations, and new civilizations coming to Islam, or on another
planet when man reaches there, whence the guidance of the religion of
Islam will surely spread primarily from the text of the Holy Qur'an,
and not from books of narratives and histories penned by the hand of
the holy man which have become their own religion.
As
the final thought before closing, it bears restating that this is not
a book of faith. It is a work of intellect by an ordinary student of
truth searching for truth in all matters with the few neurons that he
has been gifted with. All matters are related, and interlinked, and
never merely the sum of its components. The whole is often greater
than the sum of its parts. Understanding the making of the human mind
takes insight into that greater whole some of which takes more than
just the five quantitative senses to perceive. It is the distinction
in the famous Western fable of Star Trek between Mr. Spock and
Captain Kirk. It is perhaps apropos to revisit the insightful
observation of physicist Max Planck quoted in the opening chapter of
this book:
“Modern
physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be
discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each
part by itself, since such a method often implies the loss of
important properties of the system. We must keep our attention fixed
on the whole and on the interconnection between the parts. ... The
same is true of our intellectual life. It is impossible to make a
clear cut between science, religion and art. The whole is
never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.”
As
one of my youngsters once put it to me after carefully scrutinizing
all the evidence I had put before my children on a case that I had
been working on, in paraphrase: “you asserted that if I
followed the trail of evidence you are presenting, I'd reach the
exact same conclusion as you. But I don't.” I responded,
rather taken aback since we were role playing a hypothetical court
room scenario and I had specifically asked that my entire analysis be
judged solely on the evidence before them and not on their own
knowledge or beliefs about it; it was my way of sanity-checking the
completeness of the evidence for a report I had written and I thought
I had presented my entire case with Mr. Spock's pristine logic: what
if future history, meaning, future confessions, revelations from
declassified state secrets as Zbigniew Brzezinski's on how he caused
the Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan in 1979, or under victor's
justice as was administered to the leaders of Nazi Germany at
Nuremberg in 1946, etceteras, bears out the whole truth that the
evidence already before the public today reveals to me? My
youngster's prompt reply, and I quote it from memory almost verbatim
for I have never forgotten it: “then I will think that you
had remarkable insight into the matter.”
So
much for compartmentalizing any matter into logic vs intuition.
Knowing for oneself and proving to others are entirely different
things. Even in science. We can see that in Global Warming for
instance, or how the WTC towers, especially building 7, could
collapse or decimate into dust so catastrophically. Which is why this
book is only the intellectual journey in a domain where intuition and
insight based on what has gone before are most crucial in averting
the same history from transpiring again. This book is neither the
first word on the subject of understanding the whole, nor certainly
the last. Only accept from this humble endeavor what you cannot
refute. I quoted the mind of Socrates using the words of an English
playwright* at the very beginning of this book in the Preface, and I
would like to also bid the reader adieu with the same invitation:
‘Agree
with me if I seem to you to speak the truth; or, if not, withstand me
might and main that I may not deceive you as well as myself in my
desire, and like the bee leave my sting in you before I die. And now
let us proceed.’
Thank
you.
Zahir
Ebrahim
California,
United States of America
April
17, 2015
Footnote
* Classicist Edith Hamilton, via historian Eustace Mullins' The World
Order, Foreword, 1985
About
The Author
Please
be advised that the author is not a scholar of Islam.
The
author, an ordinary justice activist, formerly an ordinary engineer
in Silicon Valley, California (see engineering patents at
http://tinyurl.com/zahir-patents
), founded Project Humanbeingsfirst.org in the aftermath of 9/11. He
was, mercifully, most imperfectly educated in the United States of
America despite attending its elite schools on both coasts. This
might perhaps explain how he could escape the fate of
“likkha-parrha-jahils” (educated morons) mass produced in
its technetronic
society with all his neurons still intact and still firing on all
cylinders. He is inspired by plain ordinary people rising to
extraordinary challenges of their time more than by privileged and
gifted people achieving extraordinary things. He chose his byline to
reflect that motivation: The Plebeian Antidote to Hectoring
Hegemons. Bio at
http://zahirebrahim.org.
Email: humanbeingsfirst@gmail.com.
Verbatim reproduction license for all his work at
http://humanbeingsfirst.org/#Copyright.
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