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Amil Imani
Islam is Fire
September 12, 2009
The Islamic fire, fueled by immense oil income, is raging in certain
regions of the world, smoldering in others, and is ready to ignite in
yet other parts of the world. It is imperative for the free people of
the world to abandon all illusions about Islam and put out its fire,
once and for all. Multiculturalism, live and-let live, is a delusion of
kind-hearted naďve people. Islam, as fractured as it is, is a
non-compromising mono-culture; a cruel culture of a primitive people
handed down by Muhammad some 1400 years ago.
It is true that most religions are intended to attenuate human fears.
They are based on natural fears, many of which are irrational...but
natural nonetheless. For example, many pagan religious practices were
focused on the seasonal cycles related to the harvest. Why? Because if
the harvest was poor, their entire civilization could perish, or be
weakened to the point where a neighboring tribe would kill them off.
While they misunderstood the scientific basis for weather, they created
natural (yet irrational) religious beliefs about weather and harvest. In
this sense, religions were psychologically useful and inevitable in
addressing natural conditions.
But some religions establish for themselves fears of things which do not
exist...which the religion itself invented in order to create and
perpetuate fear, and then artificially addressed it in order to
establish a political regime. The political nature of Islam transcends
personal spiritualism and becomes a cult of oppression. This is
fraud. This is evil. This is Islam.
Islam essentially invents the idea that Christians, Jews, and pagans are
abominations and offensive to Allah, and that their very existence
represents an attack upon the self-defined Islamic right to reign over
the world. Allah thus enlists Muslim believers to eradicate by force
those who offend him and by disbelieving, prevent his rule. True Muslim
believers therefore become the enforcers, hit men and mercenaries for
their god, in order to establish a global Caliphate for their parasitic
clergy. Their targets are artificially constructed adversaries.
Believers are instructed to fear the "great Satan.” and are told that if
they do not live up to Allah’s calls to Jihad, they are themselves
offensive to Allah and to their families. It’s a "you’re either for me
or against me” strategy.
Contrast this with say, Christian fears. Christians too fear offending
God, because they believe that God will judge their lives when their
bodies die. So their fears are reduced by atoning in personal alignment
with the teachings of the Bible.
So, as a political religion, Islam creates artificial fear of alien
groups, and then eliminates the fear through war and coercion. Islam
pleases Allah with brutality and Jihad. Islam seeks to instill a
political regime to enforce its provisions. When such a political
doctrine declares that "resistance is futile”, it is referring to
corporeal enforcement by people.
Personal religions acknowledge natural fears, and then use light,
wisdom, and the capacity for human nobility to eliminate them through a
positive, spiritual exercise. Other religions encourage voluntary,
personal spiritual alignment. The only "coercion” in a religion based on
personal spiritualism is the conveyance of the natural idea of a soul
and judgment. If you believe in these things, you change and atone,
perhaps out of fear. If you do not, you accuse the evangelizer of being
fraudulent...but a fraud is a demonstrable deception not an opinion, and
the one who disbelieves in a personal religion cannot prove his point of
view, so fraud is not in play as a driver of personal spiritualism. When
a personal religion declares that "resistance is futile”, it is
referring to spiritual enforcement by God.
This is the difference between day and night, between good and evil.
Islam believes in the rule of Islam, Caliphate to the Sunnis and Imamate
to the Shi’as. Hence, to Muslims, all other forms of government
represent the handiwork of the Satan and the infidels. Therefore, one
and all non-Islamic systems of government must be purified by the
Islamic fire.
Islam is and has always been political, in the form of Imamate,
Caliphate or by proxy where Islam, through religious divines, controlled
the state. Saudi Arabia, for instance, does not even have a
constitution. The Quran is the constitution. The country has a king.
Yet, the king is the supreme enforcer of the laws dictated by Islam.
Islam is so radical that even the term "radical” does not adequately
depict its true character. The founder of Islam, Muhammad, behaved in
extreme ways whenever he could. Early on, in Mecca, among his tribe of
Quraish, he was ridiculed as a crazed Poet. Ordinary residents of Mecca
scorned him in their habitual way of treating the mentally deranged.
What did Muhammad do? He personified meekness itself. He put up with
extreme indignities, did not fight back and suffered abuses.
Time was on Muhammad’s side. Before long, he attracted followers, some
of whom were men of power and influence, such as Umar, Uthman and Abu
Bakr. Then the pendulum swung. The long-suffering meek became the
tyrannical avenger. He ordered all the idols in the idolatry of Mecca
destroyed, except the one called Allah. Yet, he selected the same name
for a non-corporeal deity who commissioned him as his messenger. Then
Allah’s messenger, Muhammad, set out to systematically exterminate
people he perceived as his tormentors and enemies—Jews of Medina, among
others.
The Quran is full of black and white, right and wrong, acceptable and
unacceptable verses. Men who didn’t convert to Islam were labeled
infidels and slaughtered; their women and children were taken along with
all their belongings as booty. It was either Islam’s way or the highway.
This radicalism is very much in action today.
In another Islamic country, Iran, where the mullahs rule, the
constitution is squarely based on the Quran. Many laws are strictly
drawn from the Sharia. The mosque is the state and no other competing
political ideology is permitted. But marrying religion with government
is stoking fire with explosives. In free democracies, governments are
accountable to the people and serve at the people’s pleasure. In Islamic
theocracy, governments are accountable only to Allah and the people must
serve at the pleasure of the government. And one can see the result of
Islamic total or partial rule in fifty-four or so countries which rank
among the highest nations of the world on every index of misery.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Iran threw off its oppressive theocratic
rule and established a government "of the people”, with room for all
beliefs? Iran could be a powerful nation and a peaceful one, an example
for the rest of the developing world of how to thrive without Islamic
politics. However, the road to freedom is perilous. Nothing as
worthwhile as freedom can be purchased easily. But the cause is worth
it.
While I desire freedom in Iran, I am a committed anti-Islamist and
anti-communist in general. I believe communism as an expression of
materialist naturalist philosophy is atheistic, representing a desire by
man to dominate both nature and man. To me, it is Satan’s "denial”
play...that there is no God. But Satan and his minions work in multiple
theaters simultaneously. Islam is Satan’s chief "deception” play. Rather
than deny God exists, it asserts that God does in fact exist, but that
God does not desire men worship out of love or free will, but through
rote, fear, and guilt, and through the sins of pride, envy, and
chauvinism.
It is a mentality of enslavement that drives Islam..."submission” in
which man subdues other men in order to establish a kingdom of
oppression and hatred on earth. Atheism, materialism and Islam appear as
contradictions with respect to each other, but when you peel away the
veneer of their pretense, you see that their aims are the same. Fascism
is fascism.
We live in a society which worships "experts” and specialists. However,
our distorted society of "experts” has continually failed us. Almost
nothing they have told us has turned out to be true. Thus, I am a
revisionist in that I believe much of what we believe is true is utterly
false. I also believe in good and evil, a notion sadly obsolete in our
nihilistic time. I don’t think Satan is any more a metaphor than is God.
Islam is theocracy, the rule of the clerics. The authoritarianism runs
from the top to the bottom in a strict hierarchy with Allah at the top,
to his Prophet, to the Caliphs or the Imams, to the lesser men of cloth
along the chain of command. No one is allowed to contest or dispute the
word and actions of the authorities. Islam and democracy, therefore, are
inherently irreconcilable. In some Islamic circles Muslims speak of
Islamic Democracy—an oxymoron.
Jihadists are the army of Allah. The use of violence as an instrument of
policy has been and continues to be central to Islam. Muslims war under
the firmly-believed and widely-cherished set of ideas that are rabidly
militaristic. No matter which side is killed, Islam is the victor, "You
kill them, you go to paradise; you get killed, you go to paradise,” are
two examples of exhortation to jihadism and war.
To cut to the chase, we need to eliminate some disinformation and myths
about the "war on terror”:
1) We are not fighting terrorism. We are engaging in an ideological
battle between freedom, conservatism, democracy, individual rights,
capitalism, "Christian” ethics and Islamofascism, communism-socialism,
theocracy, and tyranny. There are also internationalist, dictatorial,
globalist forces that seek to use the conflict to create an
international government and a unification of all religions by the
destruction of nationalism, patriotism, individual rights and
sectarianism.
2) It is not "fanatical”, "radical”, or "extreme” Islam that we are
fighting, but normal, orthodox, canonical, typical, accepted,
traditional Islam, straight from the mouth of the Muhammad. Islam is
violent in direct proportion to its mission and scripture. The so-called
fanatics are only upholding the truth of their principles. There are
those who do not openly engage in terrorism or warfare, but are in
support of it, or are working in other ways to spread Islam by force or
fraud.
3) Islam is evil, by any accepted definition of that word, and must be
seen as such by all rational non-Islamists. There is no such thing as
"peace” in Islam except the peace that comes after a successful war
against infidels.
4) Islam can work by brute force and by the lengths to which the
believers will go to perpetuate it. Its theology and practices make it
inherently evil and dangerous to all of mankind. It has already spread
and infected the world like a cancer. How do you nuke it out of
existence? You can’t...in fact, they will nuke us first, and I guarantee
it. When this happens, all hell will break loose, and most freedoms will
be up in smoke. Ask yourself how the Palestinian problem can ever get
resolved. There are only two ways; either they are gone for good or
converted from Islam. Otherwise, the war will never end. The
Israeli-Palestinian war is not about the land, it never has been. It is
about the eradication of the Jews; right to the last one of them because
Muhammad had prescribed it and is eternal.
We must begin to declare Islam evil, not from a sectarian perspective,
but from a universal, humanist one. Every encroachment of Islam as a
religion must be rejected, harassed and discouraged by all people
everywhere. Any leftist attempts to give aid and comfort to this
religion of hate must be denounced and frustrated at every turn.
Otherwise, get used to your radioactive suit and your fallout shelter, a
standard of living—and a level of freedom of 1/10th what of
you have today.
Warning
to free men and women: remain a spectator at your own peril. It is
imperative that you
take a stand and do your part at denouncing the fraud of Islam and
do all you can to prevent the Islamic fire from devouring our civilized
democratic system.
About Amil Imani
Amil Imani is an Iranian-born American
citizen and pro-democracy activist residing in the United States
of America. Imani is a columnist, literary translator, novelist
and an essayist who has been writing and speaking out for the
struggling people of his native land, Iran. He and his family
escaped Iran after the radical Islamic revolution.
