Zahir Ebrahim | Project
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The religion of Islam since its
inception had been hijacked into an absolutist system for the
exercise of imperial power by Muslim rulers. Anyone on the throne or
the pulpit could interpret the verses of the Holy Qur'an any which
way they liked, simply by making recourse to outside narratives
written by their own favored scribes. By thus fixing the values of
the Indeterminates in the Holy Qur'an to suit narrow
self-interests, it was easy to hijack Islam to motivate the public to
accept Muslim empires in the name of Islam. Fanning the flames of
gratuitous interpretations by overzealous scholars, and fixing these
Indeterminates
throughout the ages with partisan and imperial narratives, reinforced
different socialized interpretations among the masses of the same
common text of the Holy Qur'an. It made divide et impera
(divide and rule) in every generation even simpler. Not just for
outside invaders, but for Muslim rulers themselves who reigned in
dynastic empires for centuries at end. Social Darwinians, despots and
democratic ones alike, don't rule by themselves or in vacuum. They
always have a willing and compliant public behind them. And hijacked
Islam has furnished as fertile a ground for invoking divine
privileges upon the public mind as Christianity.
How is one to prevent the
hijacking of the Holy Qur'an from a self-serving understanding for
oneself due to the inevitable socialization and perception biases,
before one can even begin to interdict the pious pulpits and
superpower think-tanks hijacking Islam for imperial mobilization?
Hegemony, they say, is as old as
mankind. As Aldous Huxley and Zbigniew Brzezinski both fleshed out in
their respective dystopic visions of society Plato's ageless dilemma
of power always perversely controlling the public mind if it can get
away with it, getting mankind to love its own servitude has been the
goal of every ruling class from time immemorial. Can it be
effectively resisted by the public? Or, is mankind doomed to the
perpetual battle of Darwinian primacy until the Last Days?
The book whose free Internet
Edition cover appears below, Hijacking The Holy Qur'an And Its
Religion Islam – Muslims and Imperial Mobilization, 2015
Revised Second Edition, abbreviated to Hijacking Holy Qur'an And
Islam, scrutinizes that question from a unique angle – the
intersection of religion of Islam and political science. This book is
a macro case study in social engineering, of why is the Holy Qur'an
and its singular religion named Islam, so easy to misinterpret for
self-interests, and consequently so easy to hijack for “imperial
mobilization”. This book is not about faith, or on
proselytizing Islam, but about understanding the mechanics of ruling
power, and how it makes the public mind today to achieve global
primacy using “Islam” as the bogeyman.
Comments and critical reviews
welcome: humanbeingsfirst@gmail.com
Thank you.
September 11, 2015
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