A Critical Analysis of 'Real Islam'. Its People ... - Bukti dan Saksi

communists possess a hatred of the capitalist West, they supported the Iranian fundamentalists in their
rage against America. Despite similarities in their methods and anti-western / anti-capitalist rhetoric, these
two competing ideologies did get along very well once their common enemy was removed. In the
aftermath of Shah’s removal from Teheran, the Mullahs and their Islamic henchmen killed nearly all
communist who helped bring them into power, right along with other infidels and intellectuals. To
Islamists in Iran, communism was simply a tool to be used to secure power. While they were being used
by Islamists, poor communists did not imagine they would be killed by their Islamic ‘comrades’.
Although most were killed, in a twist of irony a few were able to save themselves by escaping to the evil
capitalist West. Remaining and emerging thinkers and intellectuals now struggle to escape their own
homeland. [Note: Islamists are currently using liberal democrats in the same way in their efforts to bring
down conservatives acting in opposition to Islamic hegemony.]
Though they differ in their methods of control, German Nazism, Italian Fascism, Japanese
Imperialism, Stalinist/Maoist Communism, and now Islamic Fundamentalism are all cut from the same
totalitarian cloth. The Columbia Encyclopedia, 2001 Sixth Edition defines totalitarianism as follows:
"A modern autocratic government in which the state involves itself in all facets of society, including the daily
life of its citizens. A totalitarian government seeks to control not only all economic/political matters, but also
the attitudes, values, and beliefs of its population, erasing the distinction between state and society. The
citizen’s duty to the state becomes the primary concern of the community, and the goal of the state is the
replacement of existing society with a perfect society".
In Berlin in 1939, you would be hard pressed to find a German who did not sincerely believe in the
superiority of Arian genetics. The Japanese similarly all originally truly believed in the divinity of their
emperor and superior rights/standings of their native people, as did comrades following Iosif Stalin, Pol
Pot, Mao Zedong, and Genghis Khan at the peak of their influence. Another common thread in all these
theologies is the fundamental belief of the superiority of their system of living -and- their inherit right to
impose it on others by any means necessary. This thread is duplicated perfectly in the fundamental
practices and beliefs of all of Islam, moderate and extremist. Such thinking errors are rampant, and
unfortunately at this stage in cultural development, probably completely intractable.
Unlike Constitutional democracy in the US, there is no cultural or legal mandate for separation of
church and state in Islamic states, making all forms of secular democracy an alien and hostile concept to
Muslim culture and law. Women have few rights, even against their husbands, who may legally beat their
wives and concubines. Enslaving infidels and raping infidel women are also justified under Qur’anic law
(and still occur in some Muslim lands). Grotesque punishments for crimes (beheadings and such) are not
medieval holdovers; on the contrary, they will forever be part of authentic Islam as long as the Qur’an is
revered as the perfect Word of Allah. The problem is that for all its schisms, sects, and multiplicity of
voices, Islam’s (often-violent) expansionist elements are firmly rooted in its central texts. Following these
tenants strictly, Islam cannot be other than a religion of violence, and any system of governance based on
it must always be oppressive by Western standards (no principles of tolerance, no religious freedom, and
no laws protecting equality or individuality). In Islam, all aspects of personal, religious, and political life
become merged. This template has resulted in a series of various despots, and corrupt monarchies or
Mullahs, and a few Soviet-style state autocracies imposed on tribal societies in the Arab world. Any
attempt to throw off the prescribed and accepted Islamic templates are fought vigorously by Jihadists.
Beirut Lebanon was briefly a shining example of co-existence between Muslims and other ethnic groups,
and a showcase of prosperity, until the fundamentalists took control and turned it into a nightmarish
quagmire of terror and oppression. As the people slid backward in every way imaginable, affluent
educated Lebanese seemed powerless to prevent the calamity. Few dared risked life, limb, and eternal
Islamic hell to resist fundamentalist goals.
We seek out and fight terrorists, yet overall we ignore the religious infrastructure that created them.
Three and ½ years since 9/11, the theology remains largely immune from challenge because it calls itself
a religion. If Adolph Hitler had called Nazism a religion, would we have been similarly disposed and
refrained from criticizing Nazi credos? Note that in previous conflicts success meant we did not support
or excuse ‘moderate’ Nazis, Fascists, Imperialists, or Communists …all followers and supporters of the
dangerous philosophies were brought low in total war. From 1933 onward, anyone wearing a swastika